Talk:Mikel John Obi

message: At the start of the article Mikel John Obi is described as an attacking midfielder.  Recently for Chelsea he has played in a more defensive role sometimes in the place of Makelele so perhaps the start should be edited? 82.152.206.182 20:51, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Position In The Team

message: Why does the picture currently up have mikel in a man u shirt? Surely one in a chelsea or nigeria shirt would be much more appropriate. --alexdeangelis86 21:19, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: removed
"The whole case is viewed by many to be an utter scandal and a disgrace to the english game with yet again "Chelski's" millions winning at the end of the day. I think we are all still looking forward to see the impact this much hyped 19 year old can have on the English Premier League and hope that a saga such as this does not re-occur in the future."
as this is not encylopedic Steve-Ho 22:21, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That was added by an anon shortly before you removed it. This article has received numerous similar POV edits in the months since I created it, hopefully it will settle down a bit now the saga has been resolved. Rje 01:24, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: The article, as it stands, is quite poorly referenced, having no sources listed for the controversy section, where it's most required. While the information may be correct and covered in news reports, it's important that the sources are listed here, as uncited claims may be removed. Serious claims without references will be removed immediately, as per WP:BLP. I will try and match some of the claims to specific news reports, but if anyone else can do the same and/or find more sources, that would be great. Regards, MartinRe 09:18, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've matched some claims to news reports, but the article still needs a lot more work, as what's written in the article doesn't also match 100% the news reports I've found. For example, The newsnight interview/transcript simply mentioned being pressured by "some people", so I removed the specific people mentioned in the article, but other than that the majority of my recent updates have been simply adding references. Regards, MartinRe 17:15, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: Recently, he has requested to be called Mikel John Obi, so his article should probably reflect this choice. Granted, the media uses John Obi Mikel, so we would need a redirect.--mpbx 04:51, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Found it, although it is a little hidden. I am going to move the article to reflect the change, it seems various media outlets are doing the same. It wouldn't surprise me though if this just becomes a rehash of the George Finidi/Finidi George thing. Rje 23:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I have now moved the page, it occurs to me that he will probably still be referred to as "Mikel" by commentators so I have not bothered changing anything to "Obi" in the article until he actually plays for Chelsea and we find out. Rje 00:02, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Whoever keeps changing it to 2 goals, stop. It's only for the premiership which is 22 games and 0 goals, and in all competitions it'd be 35 games and 2 goals - but it specifically states for the DOMESTIC LEAGUE ONLY. 
Master Chief(no account yet ;))
: Yes, that's correct, and there is a question I have about his stats box - it says for 07-08 he played in 4 Other matches: apart from the Community Shield, what are these Other matches?? If no one provides an adequate answer I will change his stats back, because I am pretty sure that he did not play for Other matches and score one goal... ??? Rusty8 (talk) 18:09, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Games and Goals 

message: why do people change this as his position when this is always where he plays?
I believe this is better to describe him as he is a defensive midfield player. 
such in the same way Deco is listed as an Attacking midfielder. XTomScottx (talk) 00:17, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Because he can - and sometimes does - play in several different midfield positions, so it is more accurate to simply refer to him as a midfielder. – PeeJay 00:21, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defensive midfielder 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Mikel John Obi's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "stats":
From Cesc Fàbregas: Francesc Fabregas history, ESPNsoccernet, accessed 18 December 2007.
From Chelsea F.C.: For the appearance and goalscoring records of all Chelsea players, see 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 21:35, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Mikel John Obi]] 

message: Club Career: Already then Obi stud out to all the scouts - I'm guessing this should be "stood".109.155.249.27 (talk) 20:20, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Skier Dude (talk) 06:19, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Stud? 

message: Mikel was part of the team that won the 2014-2015 Capitol one cup, so I need to add that to his honors.
68.13.116.120 (talk) 08:05, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 2 March 2015 

message: Mikel scored a rare goal for Chelsea when he found the back of the net against PSG last Wednesday.
Sripad13 (talk) 04:54, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: as you have not requested a specific change in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".More importantly, you have not cited reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 08:38, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 22 February 2016 

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message: "On January" = "In January" 2605:E000:9149:8300:2927:3271:8497:2E22 (talk) 21:46, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: in the most recent revert.  –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 00:46, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 15 January 2019 

message: Mikel John Obi upon winning the 2013 AFCON was conferred with the national honor as Member Order of Niger alongside other members of the team.
Please kindly include that in the profile.
Thanks Empowerment007 (talk) 17:00, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mikel National Honor 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. The bulk of the article still needs updating, and maybe a small explanation of the name situation somewhere in the article is due as well. (closed by non-admin page mover) Lennart97 (talk) 11:47, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: John Obi Mikel →  – This article was moved from 'Mikel John Obi' to 'John Obi Mikel' in August 2013 following a discussion at #Requested move.
However I've just come across this and this from 2016 which confirm the player wants to be called 'Mikel John Obi' and that that is his legal name (it explains the reason why he was known by other variations of the name, which were/are a mistake). The media also uses this name, see e.g. this. Regarding Google, I get 2.36 million for 'John Obi Mikel' and 2.47 million for 'Mikel John Obi'.
In this situation I don't think some sources using the 'wrong' name is good enough, especially as they aren't even consistent - see this from yesterday which calls him 'John Mikel Obi'. Pretty sure historically I also saw variations like 'Obi John Mikel' etc.! So, I say we go with the OFFICIALNAME which the individual themselves has confirmed, which might also actually be the COMMONNAME. GiantSnowman 11:19, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

text: Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page moves. GiantSnowman 11:20, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 3 July 2021