User talk:Bosilkof

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Hi Bosilkof Can you correct the number of matches for the national team in the Wesoree soccer player Jeremy Docu category to 14? I want to, but I can't. There is a lot of evidence that the player has still played in 14 games!! The wrong part now is that in 2022, this player only played 2 games as the Belgian national team, but it was incorrectly marked as 16 games. The rationale for this is https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/79259/Jeremy_Doku.html

https://www.transfermarkt.com/jeremy-doku/nationalmannschaft/spieler/486049

I would really appreciate it if you could refer to these two sites and correct them. Etaeta123567 (talk) 18:01, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

fixed! cheers for the heads up;) Bosilkof (talk) 18:08, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

October 2023[edit]

Hi Bosilkof! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of Jérémy Doku several times. The impulse to undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure you're aware that the edit warring policy disallows repeated reversions even if they are justifiable.

All editors are expected to discuss content disputes on article talk pages to try to reach consensus. If you are unable to agree at Talk:Jérémy Doku, please use one of the dispute resolution options to seek input from others. Using this approach instead of reverting can help you avoid getting drawn into an edit war. Thank you. TornadoLGS (talk) 15:38, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I don't understand why the person who constantly deletes the part in the introduction isn't warned for repeated reversions, even though his argument for deleting the part which is anything but controversial and clearly backed up by citations is ridiculous. The person says Jeremy Doku is not high profile enough and only high profile players get more info in the introduction: neither of these is true, Doku was bought for 65 million euros by the champion of Europe and playing regularly (and excellently) for them, and secondly, many players have these description, for example Bukayo Saka's page. I just cant understand, the person who deletes that part constantly complains about the sources, but the information in the sources is completely straightforward, none of that is disputable and confirms the statement. I can't contact the person because its an unregistered user and doesn't have a talk page, but I am increasingly frustrated at his actions to remove content because of his own personal opinion about the player and make the page worse and less informative. Bosilkof (talk) 23:00, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Bosilkof. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Jérémy Doku, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Bbb23 (talk) 14:45, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have no relationship with the player except for being a fan. Bosilkof (talk) 17:56, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's the only article you edit, and your edits are often not constructive.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:19, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

First of all I have edited other players' articles, but only minor details, as all my other favorite players already had nice pages. Jeremy didn't so a few months ago I set out to make a proper page for him the way I believe he deserves. Hes my favorite player and I believed in him for years so when he finally made it at Manchester City I felt like my effort was rewarded. Also the more I developed his page the more I wanted to do it well so of course its my "pet project". Accusing someone that he must have a conflict of interest just because hes dedicated to something is really low. Do you do this for all the people who edit mostly the page of their favorite players? And what edits are "often not constructive" can you please tell me? Literally nothing I added is false or badly written or meaningless. Bosilkof (talk) 22:17, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Its funny how nobody touched the page when he was at Rennes, and now suddenly people are deleting information left and right just because they can, and somehow I am the one who is not being constructive and must have some kind of conflict of interest. Seriously, ridiculous. Maybe instead of me you should police the people who just come in and decide to delete to delete whatever they don't like. Ask them if they have any conflict of interest. smh. Bosilkof (talk) 22:25, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Purpose of Wikipedia[edit]

The purpose of Wikipedia is to create a high-quality, free-content encyclopedia in an atmosphere of camaraderie and mutual respect among contributors. Contributors whose actions are detrimental to that goal may be asked to refrain from them, even when these actions are undertaken in good faith; and good faith actions, where disruptive, may still be subject to sanctions.

I'm not sure if User:Bosilkof quite understands why we're here, so I thought I'd give Bosilkof a chance to 1) actually contribute meaningfully on Wikipedia, or 2) expect getting blocked soon. I've spent the past half hour reading all their contributions and by my reading, to date, Bosilkof has not been helpful in the arena of "high-quality" or "camaraderie and mutual respect." I see a lot of Bosilkof pushing puffy prose and uncited trivia into pages. I DON'T see Bosilkof engaging meaningfully on page talk about these issues, but I DO see block-worthy editwarring. I DO see an attempt to get help here so I'm on their talk page to move that demonstrated willingness to talk forward. At this point, I'm asking Bosilkof to take all disagreement to Talk:Désiré Doué and Talk:Jérémy Doku. Continued edit warring on these pagespaces will be subject to sanctions. BusterD (talk) 18:35, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You have zero shame. To come here and tell me that what I do here is "push puffy prose and uncited trivia" and then have the courtesy to talk about camaraderie and mutual respect? Seriously, how dare you. I compiled 99 percent of Doku's page and made it a detailed and comprehensive source of information with abundance of citations, something I am extremely proud of. What is the puffy prose? Where is the uncited trivia? And then, another user (ItsKesha) repeatedly visits the page and removes contributions that I made just based on their own whims and arbitrary perceptions about what is important, with no respect or willingness to understand the rationale of those information being there in the first place. And you don't go his page to reprimand him about not seeing him engage meaningfully on page talk, insult him about his contributions, or threaten to block him, no of course not. Hes the good guy, the ultimate arbiter making decisions on what deserves to stay and what deserves to be cut, because of what exactly? He has superior knowledge or status here? It doesn't matter that I wrote extensive explanations why his cuts have been reverted. It doesn't matter that I wrote on his talk page to ask him why he keeps doing that, to which of course he didn't bother to reply. You don't warn him for editwarring, but me instead, who made this page what it is: a great source that was cited in many outlets when Doku made the transfer to Manchester City in August. Are you aware how disrespectful it is to just come in and just delete someone's hard work and effort with justification like "nobody cares about this"? Block me for all I care, and honestly I would remove everything I contributed to Jeremy Doku's page, then you and the user who removes everything not by their liking would be happy. But it would be unfair to the player himself. fyi, the first message posted on my talk page here is by user Etaeta123567 who politely asked to update the statistics on Jeremy Doku's page. I was grateful to do it and thanked him for the heads up. Thats the atmosphere of camaraderie and mutual respect. Not you, not ItsKesha, and not the other guy above who accused me of conflict of interest (???) because I was apparently editing only Doku's page (not true). And now that I am also editing Desire Doue's page, you complain about that too? What disagreement is there about Doue's page now? Or its also "puffy prose and uncited trivia"? Disgraceful. Bosilkof (talk) 23:24, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Was the other user (ItsKesha) sanctioned for editwarring? Yeah, thought so. Apparently I was the only one, editwarring with myself. Bosilkof (talk) 15:24, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

November 2023[edit]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 72 hours for edit warring, as you did at Jérémy Doku. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. BusterD (talk) 23:28, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]