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Your definition of "pertinent" is what I have a problem with. Although Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopaedia, and therefore is not bound by the restrictions of limited space, it is also not an indiscriminate collection of information. I appreciate that the stats table you refer to is not a "long and sprawling list of statistics", but just because the NFL records a statistic, that doesn't mean we have to include it on Wikipedia. The stats you added to the Super Bowl XLVIII article don't seem to be as essential as the others in the table. I'm happy to listen to other voices on the matter, though, and if a consensus emerges that those stats should be included, then of course they should; I just don't believe they should according to Wikipedia policy. – PeeJay 09:22, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
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Quite a while ago you added references to Spizer, 2004 on The Beatles page. It was tagged recently because it didn't have the full citation. I found another Spizer, 2004 on Introducing..._The_Beatles for "The Beatles Are Coming! The Birth of Beatlemania in America" and copied that across. Could you confirm that is correct citation?
Pretty sure it is correct, but I don't have it...
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Sorry I do not have any of the references to Spizer. Mine are to the Wallgren book.
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Thank you for the work in updating the appearances for schools across multiple named rounds of the NCAA tournament under NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament bids by school. It provides both a better idea of a team's history than just the year the last made it that far, and more recently, the ability to see how the rank compared to other schools when sorted respectively. I appreciate your efforts and hope others do as well. 99.127.236.195 (talk) 10:08, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
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