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Cricket - Second most popular

Cricket is the second most popular sport on earth. I even sourced it - heres some more http://www.sportingo.com/All-Sports/a9188_Revealed-ten-most-popular-sports-world-no-prizes-guessing-whats-No http://www.sportingo.com/cricket/a9200_basis-loaded-can-cricket-become-new-baseball-usa http://www.sportingo.com/Cricket/a8919_Could-cricket-overtake-football-as-worlds-leading-sport

there you go- i dont see all the fuss, + i sourced it? so why do you keep cutting out my edit? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashwinosoft (talk • contribs) 23:32, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

cricket project

Hello Guy0307! I noticed that you contribute to cricket related articles. We are a "WikiProject" aiming to expand, improve and organise information better in articles related to the sport of cricket. We would like to invite you to join us. If you would like to help but don't know what to do, please see our project page or inquire on our talk page. You may sign up for the project on our members list. Happy editing!

--THUGCHILDz 01:26, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

how about 1992 Cricket World Cup?--THUGCHILDz 18:53, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

yeah whatever you want to do is fine.--THUGCHILDz 20:36, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Re your comment on Timeshift's page

Clarification for later readers - the content we're discussing was not authored by anybody involved in this discussion. Orderinchaos 12:34, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

(Posted it there, but as it's to you as well...) The section Timeshift removed from the federal election talk page was a partisan rant which I'm not even absolutely sure the News Ltd moderators would have published in a "Have Your Say" section on their website, and utterly violated WP:BLP policies (which I might note is all but a mandate from Jimbo himself to shoot on sight). In case there is any doubt, I've placed the standard talk header on it. Orderinchaos 09:26, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Essentially the situation is we're a top 10 site now and as such have some social and public responsibilities. If we allow people to post defamatory statements and extremist political propaganda on talk pages or in article space, we are not meeting those responsibilities. WP:NOT and WP:BLP are probably the best documents to read. (There must, however, be a careful protection of free speech and questions about alternate points of view on controversial subjects - there are some discussions which, although unsavoury, do not cross any lines and are necessary in order to develop articles and resolve disputes over content and achieve consensus). Orderinchaos 12:32, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

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national sport

Hey Pio's at it again. And I don't want this to be an edit war. Anyways about all of his edits are rather disruptive plus I don't want to break 3rr so, can you do me a favor by reverting his edit, which could be called vandalism actually.--THUGCHILDz 20:42, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Edit warring at National sport

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Kind regards,
AGK (talk) 13:37, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Guy0307, we can stop edit warring in this article but I restore my version because not only Australia has 3 most popular sports. Lay off my user page!!!!--PIO (talk) 15:24, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
If you vandalize Misplaced Pages again, as you did to User:PIO, you will be blocked from editing. The Evil Spartan (talk) 08:43, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Confused

You are confused because in those links, inserted in my talk, are citated various sports and not only soccer. I think so: it's impossible assert a sport certainly most popular because it's impossible verify stats. Popularity of a game has 4 data:

1. amateur players
2. registered players in national federations
3. attendance in venues
4. audience by television

but it's scientifically impossible settle how many are amateur players and audience by television!!!! If we consider sport as pastime we can consider card games and how many are amateur poker players? How many are amateur fishers? How many are amateur cue sports players? How many are participants of footing in parks? Every kind of answer is impossible!!!!--PIO (talk) 16:54, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Block warning

Hi. Your recent contributions have been nothing but chat as of late. Please understand that Misplaced Pages is not a social networking site. If you are here to contribute to the writing of this encyclopedia, please do so; otherwise, please do not edit at all, or you will be blocked. The Evil Spartan (talk) 17:10, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

February 2008

Hi, the recent edit you made to National sport has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. —αἰτίας •discussion• 00:57, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

soccer

hey you have been adding a lot of countries to the soccer list and changing the descriptions saying soccer is the most popular in those countries. And there's nothing wrong with that and I am not disputing soccer being the most popular sport in the world. However, before you change info's and the list can you please back them up with sources because being the most popular sport in the world doesn't necessarily mean it's the most popular sport in most of the countries and it doesn't have to be. So before you change it please back them up with sources.--THUGCHILDz 05:55, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

That's fine but see wikipedia articles aren't always reliable. So if those articles have sources please add them to the national sport article otherwise try to find reliable sources to back them up. Thanks.--THUGCHILDz 06:01, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Mediation Closed

After trying at this for over a month, I am of the opinion that we have exhausted all possible options. Every conceivable wording has been put forward, and still there is dissent over which version should be used on the various pages. Therefore, I am declaring this mediation at an impasse and have closed it. Parties should continue to discuss it and may seek out other forms of dispute resolution. I would advise all parties involved to remain civil and to follow proper policies in handling the matter further. Thank you. MBisanz 05:41, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

March 2008

Hi, I got your message. The warning was in response to this edit, which I do consider to be vandalism, because it replaced a user page with nonsense. I also noticed that you have received warnings for vandalism in the past; maybe you should review WP:VAN. How about a compromise: you agree not to edit anyone's user page in this fashion any more, and I'll remove the message. Leave me a message on my talk page if you have any questions or want to discuss anything. Peace, delldot talk 09:59, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh, sorry for the duplicate warning, I should have checked better to make sure I wasn't doing that. Thanks for agreeing not to do it again, duly removed. Sorry about that. Happy editing. Peace, delldot talk 06:35, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

User:PIO/Jxy

I have blanked and protected User:Jxy's talk page to prevent further edit warring. Please remember Misplaced Pages:Deny recognition and that he couldn't edit beyond that talk page, and therefore it really didn't matter what he put on it. Thanks. MBisanz 06:55, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Raptors captains

I've provided a few sources on the talk page of the template, but not all of them are acceptable. Blackjays1 (talk) 03:07, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

HP template

My reasoning is that Hagrid is way much more important than Ginny because he has direct involvement in the plot of most of the books, which cannot be said about Ginny. Ginny is first trully important in Half-blood Prince. Even Draco is more prominent than Ginny, having involvement in Voldemort and Dumbledore's deaths. Ginny is only important because she is Harry's love interest, and because of her participation in some battles. About Hagrid and Sirius, I am not sure who is more important, the two characters are pivotal in the series, with Sirius having a book for himself (PoA), but Hagrid appears more in the series, he is one of the most developed characters and he appeared in all seven books playing an important role. --Lord Opeth (talk) 05:44, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Are you sure that Ginny is mentioned more than Draco and Hagrid in the final two books? Remember all the plot situation about Draco's task (killing Dumbledore), which caught Harry's attention for so long in the sixth book, maybe as much as Ginny. Hagrid also took considerable part at the beginning and the end of the final book. Even Draco had more appearances than Ginny in the final book: at the beginning, in Harry's visions, in Malfoy Manor, and in the Battle of Hogwarts, with the revelation that he was also a master of the Elder Wand. And we cannot forget the first books, in which Ginny had barely a little involvement in the Chamber of Secrets (but also Hagrid and Draco had), and no more until the battle at the department of mysteries. Both Hagrid and Malfoy had more plot involvement and appearances than Ginny during the series. --Lord Opeth (talk) 17:45, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't think that kissing Harry in the Burrow was really an important involvement. And you are only talking about one book, in the series as a whole Hagrid has both more importance and appearances than Ginny. --Lord Opeth (talk) 23:28, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

PIO

Hi Guy, thanks for the message. Yep, PIO and LEO are definitely the same person, as were User:Jxy and User:Agazio, plus anyone who signs with just a name from a 151.67 or 151.70 IP, such as this where he calls himself 'Nemo'. The two active socks he's using at present are User:Ciolone and of course, as you said, User:Luigi 28. Best, AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 13:19, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

re:non free use question

Hi Guy, how's things? To answer your question, I'd have a look at Misplaced Pages:Software_screenshots#Copyright_issues, and at the fair use rationales given at screenshot images such as and .
I see you've already posted your question at Misplaced Pages:Media copyright questions so you should get an answer there if there are any problems. Best, AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 06:28, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

What's going on

I responded to your query. --Jenny 10:15, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Is my image free?

I think I've added the correct fair use rationale now. Thanks for the help :-) All Grown Up Whovian 11:13, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: My edits to Darfur

That was not intended to happen, but instead of going to AVI please give me a warning. Also, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Gogo_Dodo#RE:_Darfur

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject National Basketball Association/Los Angeles Lakers task force invite

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Closed MedCab request

I've closed Misplaced Pages:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-07-25 Negev Bedouins. There was no real attempt to discuss the issues on the talk page or work out a consensus with the other editors. Please try talking out the issues to reach an agreement with other editors before pursuing other dispute resolution options. Vassyana (talk) 20:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Bardcom userpage

Thanks for dealing with that. --HighKing (talk) 11:23, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Your request for rollback

After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback can be used to revert vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback may be removed at any time.

If you no longer want rollback, then contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some information on how to use rollback, you can view this page. I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, just leave me a message if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Happy editing! —αἰτίας •discussion• 16:50, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

ar wiki

Hi, can take a look to Talk:Arabic Misplaced Pages? about it's restrictions. regards. --Riyadi.asmawi (talk) 13:23, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Message

You have new message here, thanks! --虞海 (Yú Hǎi) (talk) 09:59, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Re Miscellany for deletion/User:Apovolot

Your opinion to Delete was seem to be based just on the license related statement - please be aware that I am willing to adjust the license related statement on that page in accordance with whatever this discussion outcome will prescribe it to be to comply with the spirit of the Misplaced Pages. I am hoping that this my pledge might change your opinion from delete to keep. Apovolot (talk) 00:03, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Denver Jade Fowler

Hi. I didn't mean to steam roll you on your CSD. I just volunteered to help the author with the article, and tried to do a lightning quick cleanup to keep it from being deleted a second time. I hope you didn't mind too much. Best regards. --OliverTwisted (Talk) 08:49, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Flagged Revs

Hi,

I noticed you voted oppose in the flag revs straw pole and would like to ask if you would mind adding User:Promethean/No to your user or talk page to make your position clear to people who visit your page :) - Thanks to Neurolysis for the template   «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l»  (talk) 06:58, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Redirect

I have deleted the redirect John Beck (scammer) as a WP:BLP violation. There is no verifiable source for the labelling of that person as a "scammer". Do you have one? Carlossuarez46 (talk) 20:39, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

I wasn't sure whether you had, and on BLP issues its usually safer to just delete them rather than just repeat what some detractor says even if we can find someone reliable who says it. Carry on your good work. :-) Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:31, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

flagged revision

what precisely is a flagged revision? i've seen the phrase a couple of times but took no notice, but now i see someone is threatening to leave over it, i'm more curious, and seem to be unable to find a basic description of what it is or how it affects wikipedia. would you care to explain? Timeshift (talk) 21:32, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Nonsense?

Why would you call this nonsense? It was technically clumsily written, but it's obviously not nonsense. Please use some common sense in these matters. Michael Hardy (talk) 07:30, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Rick Neigher

Rubbish!! The first line says EXACTLY why he's notable. Maybe it is a csd, but NOT for that reason. Pdfpdf (talk) 11:33, 7 February 2009 (UTC)