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	Thank you for your outstanding work on the 2017-18 FA Cup qualifying rounds page - it does not go unnoticed! M00036 (talk) 12:13, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

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October 2018

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did on Glenn Hoddle. This violates Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Mattythewhite (talk) 15:47, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

I got the information from Carl Hoddle's Wiki page and that wasn't unsourced, I suggest you delete that as well.

I seem to remember you did the same with Danny Philliskirk when I updated his Senior Career details by adding AFC Fylde, this is still missing from his page today, he actually scored again for them today.

If you're not happy them block me, I'm sure I won't lose any sleep.

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Blackpool FC Responce

Hello. I'm writing in response to the message you left on my talk page a few days ago about the changes made to Blackpool F.C. What I want to say is that I do not feel I have butchered the page at all. The reason why i got rid of large chunks from the page is that the article was very bloated and cluttered with information which I do not think was necessary for the page. The sections on players that played for international teams for example was very bloated and took up far too much space on the page, there is a reason why no other football pages do this. Other areas like the book and DVD section at the bottom and the excessive information about the supporters fall into the same trap of interesting but not at all needed.

Perhaps I did make too many changes large at once, but I generally feel that the article is much better now than it was before. If that amount of information was added to another bigger team it likely would be shrunk down as well. If you disagree then fair enough, but I'm just here to explain why I did this.

Hope this answers your question. Segavisions1991 (talk) 17:20, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: 2019–20 FA Vase (June 10)

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Drafts Reply

The primary difference between the articles is that one is about events that have yet to occur (see WP:CRYSTALBALL), which as you point out you've only been able to find a single source, whilst the other covers events that have occurred. As I have only been involved in the assessment of the drafts I can only make observations about the other articles but I would assume that, if they have been assessed by other editors, they have determined that whilst no sources have been identified that there are sources available (i.e. results of each of the individual rounds) and as such the article is likely to be considered notable. I hope that answers your query. Dan arndt (talk) 02:02, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

• Last seasons pages were created around the same time last year and without references with one of those pages (2018-19 FA Trophy) still having no references, so why where they allowed to be displayed but not now?

As I previously stated it was probably because one was about events that had already occurred and the other was about events that may occur in the future. You might want to raise this with the editor who moved the article from the main space to a draft. Dan arndt (talk) 05:25, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

• You're missing my point, the page I mentioned that had no references is one that was created in June last year and was updated gradually over the football season (9 months) and not once did this page have any references for whole season and was never moved to draft yet you do for 3 pages which do have a reference.

The next time there should be an update on those 3 pages is when the draw at the beginning of July and it's quite a big update for each page, so why should I or someone else waste my/their time and effort in updating the page when the pages might not be published?

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Re: Undoing Changes

Well, yes, if you're adding incorrect information to multiple articles then there is bound to be differences across them. You're adding good info, but saying someone moved directly between two clubs, when they were released by the first club, is patently incorrect. - NewTestLeper79 talk 12:07, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

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I checked a few, mostly lower-league, clubs (since they usually seem to confirm squad numbers later than the PL). Mansfield's players without numbers yet are listed alphabetically, as are Crystal Palace. If there's no established guideline, alphabetical makes eminently more sense to me than by position since it's quicker to find a player if listed by last name. - 18:10, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

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Blackpool F.C. squad

What errors would they be? GiantSnowman 17:26, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

I reverted non-constructive edits, to restore the squad list to the proper format. If players inadvertently got deleted then apologies. GiantSnowman 06:38, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

No, your edit was clearly against standard practice. GiantSnowman 07:48, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

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