# Talk:2022 FIFA World Cup

Hi! We've previously removed these sections because FIFA haven't made such announcements on newer tournaments. Should we really be making unofficial rankings based on an article by the Sporting News? Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 16:08, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

No Tvx1 10:06, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

@Marco Carrasco: Regarding this edit, where you toned down the wording "based on source", where exactly does the source say that it took Messi the World Cup victory to only become regarded as "one of the greatest" players of all time? He very much was already seen as one of the greatest, and indeed by quite a few as the single greatest, and the World Cup was the only accolade he was missing. The text is quite long and I wasn't able to read it all, but I did see the following posted about him: "a man with no boxes left to tick in his career, a player who can rightly claim his place in the argument as the best of all time". This certainly does not justify the change, even if milder statements also exist in the publication. --Theurgist (talk) 17:59, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Absolutely correct. Those who changed it and kept it that way for quite some time had an oblique agenda. Wikipedia should not operate that way. If the credible sources state that he needed it to become "the" greatest, not merely "one of the" greatest - which credible sources establish that he was regarded as such since at least 2010-2011, it's highly manipulative to pervert the language of the 2022-2023 sources which are very clear in stating that they are talking about him now being regarded as "the" greatest, not "one of the". If anything it's almost Orwellian to try distort sources and language in such a way. Wikipedia must not be abused by those with a hidden agenda. The sources are very clear stating that it is about him being regarded as "the" greatest. 165.140.231.11 (talk) 22:35, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Should we add the final stadings like what we did in this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup#Final_standings 2A02:587:6D15:9300:FD4F:4F7E:8118:F80C (talk) 14:14, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

 Not done for now I think it's a good idea but we should wait until after the tournament to add one. Adeletron 3030 (talk • edits) 15:26, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
Ok then! :) 2A02:587:6D15:9300:DC93:5FED:E732:4E84 (talk) 16:50, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Strong football culture is a subjective criticism and should not be included. Hosts such as Canada and South Africa also had weak football cultures 199.119.233.155 (talk) 10:33, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit semi-protected}} template. The statements regarding that seem well sourced and not unduely covered.  If there are particular things you think are incorrect, unsourced, or things that need to be added for balance, please reply back with a source to support those. meamemg (talk) 14:22, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

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The sentences in this section are similar to the ones on Adidas Al Rihla. Because there was a {{Use British English}} maintenance tag, I knew which spelling of colour to use on this article, so I changed the American spellings to British spellings. However, on Adidas Al Rihla, the sentences use inconsistent U.S. and UK spellings, and there’s no English spelling maintenance tag (or editnotice saying which English spelling to use), so I don’t know which English spelling to use on that article. For more information, see the article’s talk page, my nomination, and the WikiProject Football talk page. 2600 etc (talk) 19:14, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

We usually use either WP:RETAIN or whatever the article is most close to (an American topic would use AmEng, etc). For this article, unless there is a specific reason to use one or the other, I'd be likely to check the original creation and see what they use. If there really is no preferred one, just choose one. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 00:27, 3 November 2025 (UTC)