Bagumba

Happy Holidays

Hello Bagumba: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 20:51, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

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Vanished user question

What does it mean when a username contains "Vanished user"? ReallyAmazingDude13 (talk) 22:44, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @ReallyAmazingDude13: The information at WP:VANISHED might answer that question. Left guide (talk) 00:35, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Dick Van Arsdale

On 21 December 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Dick Van Arsdale, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 01:53, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Rickey Henderson

On 23 December 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Rickey Henderson, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. The Kip ^(contribs) 16:28, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Walter Payton

Props to whoever added this file to Payton's page. Thanks to that, now we can't have any picture of his face... Nevermind the fact that that image is also in the body, someone thought it was a good idea to crop it and add a close up in the infobox. I guess I could always draw a sketch of him in Microsoft Paint ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 15:39, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@WikiOriginal-9: Interesting, apparently this was the NFC image used before. You'd think an argument could be made about needing to identify their face. Good luck. Happy Holidays. —Bagumba (talk) 16:14, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@WikiOriginal-9: Another option is to find a newspaper picture from 1977 or before that doesn't have a copyright notice (most dont) and use c:Template:PD-US-no notice. —Bagumba (talk) 16:23, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

Hello Bagumba: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Left guide (talk) 21:59, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

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Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

Hello Bagumba, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2025. Happy editing, Abishe (talk) 22:15, 24 December 2024 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Abishe (talk) 22:15, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

All the best

Have a Merry, B. Enjoy your holiday season, you and yours. I appreciate all that you do. Best regards, John. Bringingthewood (talk) 02:38, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Circle of Stalking

I assume you were stalking Left guide and not me? I don't think you've stalked me before? lol ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 14:15, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

@WikiOriginal-9: Among the last of the "former Americans" among former All-Americans. —Bagumba (talk) 14:46, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Oh cool. Nice work. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 14:49, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Wes Martin

"is an American professional football player who is an offensive guard" Is that what we're doing? The "is" makes it sound like he is a free agent. The free agent wording was depreciated so we don't have to keep updating it. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 05:59, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

@WikiOriginal-9: I'm partial to NBA proj convention of "who last played for XYZ". But he is a FA if he's unsigned, no? At some point, he'll be "former". —Bagumba (talk) 06:07, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

Yes, he will be former eventually but the point of removing free agent is that we don't have to update it later. For example, if Wes Martin just stayed at "American professional football guard" forever, that wouldn't even be technically wrong. Readers don't notice whether it says former or not. If it explicity says "free agent" when he hasn't played in years though, then readers actually do notice that.

This IP is up to some hardcore vandalism by the way. They keep adding "he spent the summer of 2017 living in Eritrea" to a ton of articles, lol. I reverted everything. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 06:26, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

@WikiOriginal-9... the point of removing free agent is that we don't have to update it later: I don't see that as an argument at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Football League/Archive 20 § Listing NFL players as "former", when it was decided to ax FA. —Bagumba (talk) 07:32, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

I'll assume your warning did the trick for the IP. —Bagumba (talk) 07:33, 30 December 2024 (UTC)