Talk:Q41421

Aliases

Hello Bossanoven,
I have noticed that you added again the aliases The Black Cat, Captain Marvel, Superman, Batman, Money and G.O.A.T.
What are the authoritative sources supporting these aliases?
Regards --NicoScribe (talk) 06:15, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Basketball-Reference.com. - Bossanoven (talk) 06:20, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Bossanoven. What are the sources for Captain Marvel and Batman? --NicoScribe (talk) 06:46, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

@NicoScribe: - They are documented in newspapers and film. - Bossanoven (talk) 23:12, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

@Bossanoven: I am not sure that these newspapers and films fulfill the criteria of the section Wikidata:Verifiability#Authoritative sources. I think that is why several users (@Njohnson7, Bovlb, 2601:647:4c02:5890:c954:e2dd:a886:81fd, Chetankale1978, and I) have removed these rare aliases. --NicoScribe (talk) 06:19, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

I will just notify here that I'm against the listing of "vaca sagrada" (in English, "sacred cow") in Spanish as a nickname for Michael Jordan as well. At first I thought it was vandalism, but now I see that @Bossanoven: is actually listing it as a valid alias, despite how rare and almost ridiculous it sounds. Because apparently some random Miami Heat Spanish radio play-by-play announcer in 1997 gave him that nickname. I can assure, as a Spanish native speaker, that nobody calls him like that and you won't find any other source than that simple article from the 90s. But well, as a Wikipedia admin, I'll just make sure that the Spanish Wikipedia doesn't use these aliases, as I can see how loose the criteria for selecting them is here. I'll ping @NicoScribe: too, as he started the thread. Regards, --Pólux (talk) 03:12, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

@Pólux: As I understand, nicknames are a bit of a foreign concept in the Spanish language (although there appear to be many documented cases of Spanish nicknames), but the point here is that there is documented proof of this nickname. It was used by Spanish speakers in the United States for a time, apparently. It might at least be remembered by some. How can you speak for the entire Spanish-speaking world? I don't think there's any notability criteria for a nickname. - Bossanoven (talk) 21:13, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Height and weight

I've checked the player's height and weight against all of the books and translated it into data. - Bossanoven (talk) 18:45, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Body fat percentage

Michael Jordan's body fat percentage in the mid-late 1980s was 3-4%. Could we incorporate this into the article somehow? - 2600:1702:31B0:9CE0:ECEA:3708:9D9E:33FB 02:50, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Nicknames

@Ymblanter: could you please restore the nicknames? Why were they removed? - 2600:1702:31B0:9CE0:722A:D5FF:FE5F:7FD2 19:50, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Please get consensus first to add them. What it was added looked more like vandalism.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:56, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

There is no vandalism; they are established, documented nicknames. - 2600:1702:31B0:9CE0:722A:D5FF:FE5F:7FD2 20:11, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Hi I'd like to add this nickname: https://web.archive.org/web/19961027114016/http://www.nba.com:80/finals96/suntimes/

There's several unsourced nicknames. And then there's some who's probably only been used a few times by sports journalists using eloquence as an art form. I'd like to remove many of these names! --Orland (talk) 07:39, 10 March 2021 (UTC)