Talk:Anže Kopitar

message: What about the exactly date of birth as anywhere else? AN 04:46, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of birth 

message: Has anyone noticed that no one has been able to verify whether or not this so-called "Anze" graffiti actually exists anywhere? The photos posted on the web that I've seen claim that they are real, but no one ever gives an exact location of where the photograph was taken.
I suspect that the photographs are phony, unless someone can provide verifiable proof of their legitimacy. After all, if Kopitar had _THAT_ big a following, this so-called graffiti would be more widespread and someone would have verified its authenticity by now.
Of course, I may have missed somethinig. If anyone has verified the authenticity of the graffiti, my apologies.  However, to date, I have seen no such verification. And if no verification exists, the photo of the so-called graffiti in this article should be removed. Gmatsuda 08:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No one has responded to my statement above about the dubious origins of the Kopitar graffiti, giving me more reason to suspect that it's phony. Should the Kopitar graffiti photos and mention of its existence be removed from the article? At this point, I vote yes. The only way it should be part of the article is its existence can be verified. Gmatsuda 08:36, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I say delete it. If anywhere, it belongs among an article discussing the variants of André the Giant Has a Posse. ccwaters 15:50, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Will do shortly! Gmatsuda 22:03, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kopitar Graffiti 

message: One of the things that needs to be done to begin the process of expanding this article and improving it is to remove the trivia section and integrate whatever is appropriate from it into the main portion of the article. Trivia sections are generally not acceptable on Wikipedia (see the Wikipedia Manual of Style:Trivia). -- Gmatsuda (talk) 20:53, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  To Do 

message: Kopitar might be the first or the second Slovenian to play in the NHL. Someone added the claim that he was the second, behind a goalie who played for the NY Rangers, but did not provide a verifiable citation. Since the lead paragraph states that he was the first and cites a reliable source, I removed the claim that he was the second to play in the NHL.
That claim may be correct; and the article from NHL.com may be reporting incorrect information. However, it is the most reliable information we have at the moment, and the stuff on NHL.com tends to be accurate. So, I think we need to leave it at Kopitar being the first until we have at least two reliable sources that contradict that. -- Gmatsuda (talk) 08:34, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There have been several Slovenes to play in the NHL, among them Joe Cerne, Greg Kužnik, Matt Stajan, Ed Kastelic. --Eleassar my talk 18:13, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Kopitar is the first Slovenia-born (ok, tehnicaly it was still SFR Yugoslavia but you know what I mean) and Slovenia national ice hockey team player to have played in an NHL game. Jan Muršak became second on 28 December, 2010. Goalkeeper Tone Gale, for whom many Slovenian media claims that is the first, played only one exhibition match for an NHL team (Chicago Blackhawks in 1967 if I am not mistaken) but never during regular season though. Players like Stajan, Kastelic etc. that played in the NHL were all born and raised in North America and their only connection to Slovenia is their ancestry (but then again most of the people in Canada/USA have an European ancestry) and were not Slovenian players. Allthough, Matt Stajan does hold a dual citizenship of Canada and Slovenia and did expressed his desire to play for the Slovenia men's national ice hockey team, but that is unlikely as the IIHF rules state that he would have first had to play/live in Slovenia for at least three years before he could change national team alligiance (he has represented Canada on WJC in 2003). OK, and there is also Greg Kuznik who played one game in the NHL and later went to play in Europe and is the current member of Slovene hockey club HDD Olimpija Ljubljana and recently he has received a Slovenian passport so he will most likely play for Slovenia national ice hockey team during the 2011 IIHF World Championship.Ratipok (talk) 22:13, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  First or second Slovenian in the NHL?

message: Bourdon... 24.87.56.142 (talk) 04:31, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Draft Controversy 

message: About 60% of Slovenians are Roman Catholic, so I was curious to know what religion, if any, Anze Kopitar belongs to? Garagehero (talk) 08:44, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There are 57,4% of Roman Catholics only on paper (the census was a decade ago and today this number probably consists for ALL religions combined). Slovenia has one of the highest irreligious populations in the World and the number is gradually geting higher all the time. Concerning Jesnice (Kopitar's birh town), they also have significant populations of Easter Orthodox and Islam (2nd most after capital city of Ljubljana) although those religions are from peaple with mostly Southern Slavic ancestry that lives there. My guess would be that Kopitar doesnt belong to any religion, which is common for young people in the country.Ratipok (talk) 11:16, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

text: Who cares what his religion or non-religion is?  I wish we would eliminate all reference to religion on BLP's unless it's super relevant.  The Pope being Catholic would be obvious, but that's where it's super relevant.  OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 03:59, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What religion, if any, does he belong to?