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It's still "Discretionary sanctions" to me, damnit! (alerts)
Honestly, please just assume that if a topic I'm editing in is contentious, I'm aware of it. I've browsed the backend of Wiki long enough.

Thanks

for your edit on Montoya's page. The way that the Mb2347 guy abbreviates team names drives me nuts. Electricmemory (talk) 04:47, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WP:NAMB

Hi, thank you for your contributions. I note your recent reverts at Bubba Wallace.

Note that, per WP:NAMB, It is usually preferable not to have a hatnote when the name of the article is not ambiguous.

In the case of Bubba Wallace, there is no ambiguity, since there are no other Bubba Wallaces on Wikipedia. The redirect Darrell Wallace Jr., as you pointed out, is also unambiguous, since Darrell Wallace is not a Jr.

Therefore, there is no realistic way that somebody seeking Darrell Wallace would end up at Bubba Wallace; the hatnote is unnecessary. 162 etc. (talk) 04:01, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@162 etc.: Someone searching for "Darrell Wallace" on any major search engine is going to get results for the racing driver and not the CFL player. One must add "CFL" or "football" to a search in order to find the CFL player. It is odd that Wikipedia does not reflect this.

Darrell Wallace should likely be moved to Darrell Wallace (football) (or whatever the exact naming convention is for American CFL players) because by no means is "Darrell Wallace" an unambiguous term. It should either also redirect to Bubba Wallace or serve as a DAB page for the two articles. ―"Ghost of Dan Gurney" _(hihi) 04:22, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No objection to starting an RM at Darrell Wallace, although I don't believe the NASCAR driver is very well known by this name.

Currently, however, the hatnote at Bubba Wallace is unjustified. 162 etc. (talk) 05:17, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@162 etc. Bubba was somewhat well known as "Darrell Wallace" with and without the "Jr" suffix for some time following his debut. I'm inclined to agree with the Ghost. Electricmemory (talk) 06:32, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Right, and the hatnote at Darrell Wallace addresses that potential ambiguity. What I'm objecting to here is the hatnote at Bubba Wallace - in what scenario does somebody seeking the football player arrive at this article? 162 etc. (talk) 07:15, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A scenario in which someone has clicked on the first result, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubba_Wallace, after having done a search on Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, etc., for "Darrell Wallace" ―"Ghost of Dan Gurney" _(hihi) 09:54, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WP:NAMB asks us to consider "a reader who is following links within Wikipedia". 162 etc. (talk) 17:04, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Then this is a case where common sense > P&Gs and therefore WP:IAR is valid. ―"Ghost of Dan Gurney" _(hihi) 20:21, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Talk:Darrell Wallace

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Darrell Wallace. 162 etc. (talk) 21:18, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

merging xfinity and truck races

hi ghost! i see that we're starting to go to a normal "(series) at (track)" instead of going by the title sponsors, i also merged the 2 nashville races together, as one hasnt been edited on in nearly 3 years, but im starting to go do a process of merging/defaulting the names of the races. 45BearsFan (talk) 02:29, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator noticeboard alert

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.-[1]Hiya2025 (talk) 00:55, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stating for the record for anyone seeing this in the future that this "issue" here was that I called Rebel News (a far-right outlet) "clowns" and a "donation grift farce". ―"Ghost of Dan Gurney" _(hihi) 03:28, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]