Talk:List of international goals scored by Clint Dempsey

Latest comment: 6 years ago by SounderBruce in topic Revert
Featured listList of international goals scored by Clint Dempsey is a featured list, which means it has been identified as one of the best lists produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
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January 13, 2016Articles for deletionSpeedily kept
March 27, 2016Articles for deletionDeleted
September 17, 2017Featured list candidatePromoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 15, 2017.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Clint Dempsey (pictured) has 57 international goals, ranking third among active male footballers behind Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi?
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Hi SounderBruce, would you mind explaining why you feel the changes I made in this edit are "unnecessary"? The work parameter is outdated, and references that are newspapers should, logically, use the newspaper parameter. Why should columns with numerical values be left aligned and not centre aligned? And long-standing convention is to not wikilink to countries. I appreciate the work you must have done to get this to FL status, but that doesn't mean that other editors' amendments can't be valid. Thanks, Mattythewhite (talk) 00:04, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Mattythewhite: Not all of these are newspapers, and links to online publications (including websites and e-magazines) should be retained (at least on first use). Using the work parameter also gives the article a consistent keyword for when in-text searches are needed. I'll remove the piped links that, while not linking to the country, makes it seem like the country is being linked to. I'll also restore your table formatting, seeing as it's cleaner than the wikicode I cloned this from. SounderBruce 01:59, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply