Talk:World Soccer (magazine)

message: Cruyff was voted second. and why are players like okocha and rensenbrink not on it? how can Ladislao Kubala be voted best player of FC Barcelona in the 20th century, but still be behind kocsis etc?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.204.59.126 (talk) 22:24, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Demurral

message: You need to get the complete list
1952 Puskas
1953 Puskas
1954 Di Stefano
1956 Di Stefano
1957 Di Stefano
1962 Garrincha
1965 Eusebio
1966 Eusebio
1978 Kempes
They are listed in wikipedia articles of these same players. It is necessary to do a research, in most cases it's probable the missing World Player of the Year are similar to the French football balloon d'or, start looking for more information about those players. Did Pele ever got the World Soccer Player of the year? It isnt listed in his article in wikipedia. What about Cruyff? And Beckenbauer?
There was no World Soccer player of the year before 1982. The ones that appear in those articles are wrong. The award was only introduced in 1982. Comme (talk) 13:02, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: World Soccer Player of the Year before 1982

message: The numbering of "The 100 Greatest Players Of The 20th Century" is incorrect. However, I don't know how to correct it. Anyone could help? Salt 04:06, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: why is maradona first according to the surce Pele is first  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.108.39.147 (talk) 06:21, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

text: Can anyone provide a full citation for the "100 Greatest Players"? Thanks. --Jameboy (talk) 19:30, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Numbering system

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:WorldSoccer logo.jpg

message: I'm from the german wikipedia and I want to write thist articel in german. Last time the list of the 100 greatest players of the 20th century often had changed. Is this the real list? Is there a source for the list? On http://www.worldsoccer.com/ I hadn't found anything. 79.192.251.127 (talk) 10:52, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The 100 Greatest Players of the 20th Century

message: On December 10, 2009, Ronaldinho was voted World Soccer's Player of the Decade. Based on the votes cast by readers in the 10 annual votes between 2000 and 2009, the Brazilian – who was our(World Soccer Magazine) World Player of the Year in 2004 and 2005 – is the outstanding performer of the past 10 years.
Below is the total points gathered.
1 Ronaldinho 781
2 Lionel Messi 759
3 Cristiano Ronaldo 708
4 Thierry Henry 619
5 Kaka 567
6 Fabio Cannavaro 401
7 Pavel Nedved 394
8 Michael Owen 330
9 Luis Figo 290
10 Zinedine Zidane 270
11 Raul 261
12 Ronaldo 260
13 Andriy Shevchenko 230
14 Andres Iniesta 215
15 Michael Ballack 180
16 Xavi 163
17 Rivaldo 150
18 Fernando Torres 149
19= Samuel Eto'o 146
19= Frank Lampard 146
21 Steven Gerrard 134
  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pslik (talk • contribs) 03:16, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  World Player of The Decade. 

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thread_title: Pending changes

message: This page seems to be continually vandalised by either Cristiano Ronaldo fans or Lionel Messi fans to make it appear that their favourite has the most awards.  I tried to ask for this page to be semi-protected so that unconfirmed users can't just vandalise it easily but as I had fixed the past vandalism and it is not happening on a daily basis they wouldn't protect it. I've just fixed the vandalism again but it is a pain having to undo although these fake edits.  Can anyone else help get this page protected?Sudiani (talk) 17:55, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: please can you add the pending changes back to this page again? During the 6 months it was in place, the vandalism stopped significantly and was easy to fix but since it expired 3 weeks ago, we are now getting more regular vandalism of the page again which, for me, is a pain to fix. Is there a way to make the pending changes feature permanent for IP users? Sudiani (talk) 20:43, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Can you take a look at the recent IP edit (from Jan 28)? I'm not sure whether it's good or not. At the moment I'm not sure PC protection is needed, but I'm still monitoring things and am willing to reconsider. — Wug·a·po·des​ 01:58, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  All seven of those IP edits are vandalism and need to be reverted. As were the other 3 since the protection came off (which have been reverted). As were almost all of the IP changes during the protection period. At least with the protection, they were easy to revert and the protection reduced the amount of vandalism. Sudiani (talk) 19:16, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Pending-changes protected indefinitely.  Thanks, that info helps a lot! I've add pending changes indefinitely, but if IP edits are mostly vandalism it might be more effective to semi-protect. Let me know if things get worse, and thanks for your work maintaining this article! — Wug·a·po·des​ 20:10, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Much appreciated. Sudiani (talk) 20:24, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Persistent vandalism 

message: Unless World Soccer's "Player of the Year" awards are widely recognized (i.e. covered in other press outlets) and considered a significant achievement (similar to Time's "Person of the Year" recognition, etc.), I don't see that their inclusion here meets the notability criteria. World Soccer as a magazine no doubt meets notability standards; I'm just not sure we should be dedicating 80% of the article to these awards. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 11:01, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently, no on chooses to dispute this. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 00:24, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, i missed this proposal when it was first floated. Yes, they are widely regarded, see e.g here, here and here. Applying WP:BRD... Crowsus (talk) 01:17, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:   Thanks for the feedback. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 11:17, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for quickly reverting. I agree that this is an important part of the magazine for almost 40 years and is useful information and is notable, both for the players and public, and think the sources you shared support this.Sudiani (talk) 17:26, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awards section 

message: As a pending changes reviewer, I reverted this edit because I was unsure why those numbers were added. If, as I suspect, they were meant to signify the total times a player won this award, the table should be consistent and have these numbers added for any player that won more than one. A separate column might also work for this purpose. Picking out just 2 players and adding their totals to their names doesn't work, but I appreciate the sentiment and I don't necessarily think it was a bad idea. Just the execution was fumbled. Wes sideman (talk) 17:28, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numbers added to table