User talk:Seany91/Archives/2023/November

November Articles for creation backlog drive

Hello Seany91:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 1000 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

U.S. Women's team edits.

@Seany91 Please see the template's recent call up sections. You will see on the fourth example an annotation for retirement and it is after the last call up and not the player's name. WP Football works to standardize articles in the realm of football/soccer. The U.S. Women's page should align with other national teams that are maintained on Wikipedia. Secondly the comment about Julie Ertz makes no sense. Yes she retired from soccer, as Meagan Rapinoe will do after the NPSL finals, but that means she retired from the national team also. Not sure why you wouldn't annotate it since it falls into the 12 month period that recent call-ups is annotating. Demt1298 (talk) 15:15, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Re: Rapinoe – fine, even though it makes no sense (and the idea that all articles must standardize is ludicrous, especially given the task force's well-documented bias against women's soccer, but that's not the conversation here).

Re: Ertz – the idea behind the RET tag is to denote players who are still actively playing but have chosen to retire from international play/national team only. Ertz has retired from playing, so the RET tag is by definition redundant. There's actually plenty of precedent for this. (e.g., Rapinoe is still actively playing in club soccer, therefore RET tag applies.) Seany91 (talk) 15:21, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

@Seany91 RE: Rapinoe - concur that there is well documented bias, hence why standardization is important. You can't argue something is wrong if it is done the same way form men and women. That removes the bias - hence the equal pay dispute within U.S. Soccer.

Re: Ertz - Please show me where the RET tag is to denote players who are still actively playing and have chosen to retire from national play/team only. I would like to see the precedent.Demt1298 (talk) 16:08, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

2024 NWSL Draft revert

I'm curious why you reverted my reversion/fix of your edit, since after the reversion you then made essentially the same edit that the reversion did.

The copy/paste of the "Future Trades" section from the 2023 Draft was mostly repeating the already existing "Trades" section in the 2024 draft page and then added broken citations, so I removed it. You then went back to your version with the aforementioned issues to then just remove the issues again? I'm just confused and trying to understand what I may have missed there. Christiangamer7 (talk) 20:34, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi! If you go through what's in 2024 NWSL Draft#Trades and read closely, you'll see that the trades and the references cited don't match at all (i.e., the source referenced for a trade actually refers to another trade). This is because MeaandGeorgie is notorious for messing up these info when they create a page. If I have more time, I'd go back to 2023 NWSL Draft#Future draft trades to see the correct version, before MeaandGeorgie messed them all up when creating the 2024 page. But I don't now, so that's why. I discussed this in Talk:2024 NWSL Draft also. Seany91 (talk) 20:38, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

I'd understand if your edit was different to what I did, and righted the wrongs of the various citations. But it was left as it started, which is why I was confused.

In any case, I did start slowly but surely going through and adding proper citations, so I'll look to continue to do that in the coming days. Christiangamer7 (talk) 20:45, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

What I was trying to do was to simply copy over the correct ones from the 2023 page, but I didn't realize they had already done that + included incorrect info. Anyway, appreciate your edits, I'm honestly not sure if I want to deal with MeaandGeorgie again, so maybe I'll just stay out of this one. Seany91 (talk) 21:16, 22 November 2023 (UTC)