User talk:Mattythewhite
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Hi, Mattythewhite. I'm just posting to let you know that List of Premier League winning players – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for December 30. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 22:29, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).
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- Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
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Technical news
- Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
- An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.
Kobbie Mainoo's Height
Hi, i corrected the height of Kobbie Mainoo recently, most sources have this wrongly down as 175cm, when in fact is more 183-184cm. There are several stories confirming this and a video of a presenter asking him about EAFC football game mistaking his height, they do a live measurement on this show, Cole Palmer taking the measurement and clarifying this. So please update his measurement to the correct measurement as it seems most computer games and websites are basing their work off of his wikipedia info.
Here are a few links to back this up:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/kobbie-mainoo-height-england-manutd-33028129
https://www.instagram.com/utddistrict_/p/C61xioUsD9O/?hl=en-gb
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/28488069/kobbie-mainoo-palmer-denzel-england-euros-tall/
Still not quite right but closer than 175cm :) https://www.ea.com/fi/games/ea-sports-fc/ratings/player-ratings/kobbie-mainoo/269136
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOtqZewbQXM
https://www.fifacm.com/player/269136/kobbie-mainoo
https://www.sofascore.com/player/kobbie-mainoo/1142175
https://cmtracker.net/players/269136/kobbie-mainoo?db=675eb043b9b8f33cbe52dd99&srsltid=AfmBOoq9oWsgbVlQnDtAeRada75nTtJGa9aoHOs0FJS4nk5vUkQSmeps 83.100.183.251 (talk) 14:57, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
IPA
Hello Mattythewhite, Why did you revert the IPA in the football player's articles? --BigBullfrog (talk) 17:58, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- @BigBullfrog: I've only removed them when they've been unsourced. Mattythewhite (talk) 13:42, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- Unlike English, languages like German, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Portuguese have very consistent spelling-to-pronunciation rules. Therefore, when transcribing names from these languages using IPA, one only needs to follow the MOS:PRON and Help:IPA (H:IPA-DE, H:IPA-FR, H:IPA-NL, etc.). According to the conventions of Wikipedia, IPA transcriptions for these languages do not need sources unless they are strange or exotic (e.g. Mbappé). So, the IPA for Benjamin Pavard and Stefan de Vrij is correct. These pronunciations do have sources (e.g. interview videos), but it's not necessary to add them in articles. --BigBullfrog (talk) 15:04, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- @BigBullfrog: Sounds fair, thanks. Mattythewhite (talk) 16:29, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- Unlike English, languages like German, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Portuguese have very consistent spelling-to-pronunciation rules. Therefore, when transcribing names from these languages using IPA, one only needs to follow the MOS:PRON and Help:IPA (H:IPA-DE, H:IPA-FR, H:IPA-NL, etc.). According to the conventions of Wikipedia, IPA transcriptions for these languages do not need sources unless they are strange or exotic (e.g. Mbappé). So, the IPA for Benjamin Pavard and Stefan de Vrij is correct. These pronunciations do have sources (e.g. interview videos), but it's not necessary to add them in articles. --BigBullfrog (talk) 15:04, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
"Scores and results list…"
Hi Matty. In international goals tables, why are you removing the full stop from the sentence "Scores and results list Templatonia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Template goal"? As far as I can tell, it's a complete sentence with a subject, a verb and an object and per MOS:CAPFRAG should go with a full stop. Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 11:11, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Robby.is.on: Maybe, but the way it's worded doesn't feel to me like a properly constructed sentence you'd find in regular prose. If I were to word it like a standalone sentence it would be something like "The scores and results columns list Templatonia's goal tally first, while the score column indicates the score after each Template goal". Mattythewhite (talk) 16:57, 23 December 2024 (UTC)