Talk:Franck Ribéry

message: It has been reported on German TV that the injury is not achilles tendon related, but rather a broken bone in the lower leg (Crus). Where is the achilles tendon thing taken from?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.54.213.239 (talk) 20:54, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Injury at EURO2008 

message: Riber was not on loan to Galatasaray, as this article states. He was under contract with them, and suddenly packed his bags for Marseille in June 2005 without informing the Galatasaray management.  He then claimed Gala had not paid his wages for 3 months, therefore his contract was void. Galatasaray strongly denied this claim -- they accused him of simply leaving for a better deal, breaking his contract, and accused OM of poaching their player.  The matter was sent to FIFA for arbitration, and I'm not sure of the outcome (as of June '06).  I think this issue deserves some mention here. 74.64.37.91 12:42, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: so we'll say that ribery asserts that the team didn't pay him . Bona Fides 21:15, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Galatasaray controversy 

message: ribery seems to have some sort of facial injury
can someone add it to the article? thanx
202.37.167.1 15:29, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I read that he went through a windscreen in a car accident when he was younger. I can't find a reputable source to verify it so I won't add anything in the article just yet. Diddy Didds 23:15, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: His facial scars are the result of a car accident as a child.  Galatasaray fans nicknamed him "Scarface". 74.64.37.91 12:01, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  facial injury 

message: If he just scored his first international against Spain on june 27th, why does it state that he has 3 goals in 6 games for France? Should it not be 1 goal in six games? Xioyux 03:59, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: National team goals

message: As of today (May 27, 2007) the Wikipedia entry shows Franck Ribery as a Bayern Munich player. This is based on speculation and not fact. It has been reported in the European sports press, who are not held to any journalistic standards. This is the quote all the papers and this listing refers to:  
"French midfielder Franck Ribery will join Bayern Munich this summer, a source close to the club revealed on Friday . . ."
Two key points here:
1) This unattributed quote says he 'will' sign, not that he 'has' signed- an enourmous difference
2) 'A source close to the club' is meaningless if he is unnamed and not speaking officially on behalf of the club
This fact could be confirmed by the time I post this, but the point is Wikipedia entries should only state verifiable fact and not media speculation.
: Coming news that he's signed for Bayern. the transfer fee is suppose to be €250 000.   CHANDLER    12:29, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It has been official for the Olympique de Marseille since 7 June 2007. But the transfer fee is around 25 M€ --Dionysostom 15:36, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verifiable? 

message: This article was automatically  assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 03:21, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: These three different German links are reporting a transfer fee of 25 Mio, not 26 Mio €:
http://www.kicker.de/fussball/bundesliga/startseite/artikel/366649/ http://www.transfermarkt.de/de/spieler/22068/spieler/transferdaten.html 
http://www.focus.de/sport/fussball/bundesliga1/tid-7060/fc-bayern_aid_69146.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.245.192.31 (talk) 05:37, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transfer Fee 

message: According to WP:BLP:
Category tags regarding religious beliefs and sexual preference should not be used unless two criteria are met:
* The subject publicly self-identifies with the belief or preference in question;
* The subject's beliefs or sexual preferences are relevant to the subject's notable activities or public life, according to reliable published sources.
Criteria 1 is met by the fact that he told the age "Islam is my source of strength either in or outside the playground,". Criteria 2 is met by the age and an article in a Lebanese Newspaper talking about French conversions to Islam. It is quite relevant.Pectoretalk 18:53, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Conversion

message: I think someone's edited this as a joke, but I don't know if it was totally made up from scratch or whether they edited an existing paragraph. Either way, it shouldn't still be on there.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.107.148.230 (talk) 12:02, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This vandalism has been removed. --Jaellee (talk) 17:39, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Final Paragraph of Club Career

message: why is it not mentioned?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.151.48.139 (talk) 12:02, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  2010  Zahia Dehar scandal? 

message: Per the discussion at WT:FOOTY, it appears that there is strong support for removal of this category from the biography. I attempted to do so and was reverted by an anon user. If anyone objects to the removal of the category, please explain why here or at the Football Wikiproject talk page. Thank you. Jogurney (talk) 15:53, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Concensus to remove [[:Category:French Muslims]]

message: But its not this name... In deed, Franck Bilal Yusuf Mohammed Ribéry, its a muslmim name, not a civil name !!! You can read in this ID Franck Ribery, not Franck Bilal Yusuf Mohammed Ribéry. Your name its not your nickname no ?!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eljulii (talk • contribs) 09:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Its logic he must have changed his name after he converted to Islam. Haider67 (talk) 17:00, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  He certainly may have. Why does his nation, club and almost all media still refer to him using his pre-Islamic name? Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:14, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Franck Bilal Yusuf Mohammed Ribéry

message: Can somebody please enter his assists in career statistics? Some other players are less succesfull assisters, but they have assists in their career statistics on wikipedia (for example Kaka, Higuain, Cristiano Ronaldo etc.)...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.200.65.19 (talk) 21:02, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. — Joao10Siamun (talk) 12:58, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Career Statistics 

message: http://www.webislam.com/noticias/53753-frank_bilal_ribery_se_muestra_orgulloso_de_sus_creencias.html
It seems that he has officially/legally changed his name to Bilal Yusuf Mohammed. Obviously we wouldn't start using that as his name WP:COMMON, but I think we should do what happened with Cat Stevens. Thoughts? Leaf Green Warrior (talk) 11:07, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: He hasn't officially/legally changed his name. He simply adopted the name as his Islamic name, similarly to Éric Abidal, who also adopted Bilal as his Islamic name. It is also mentioned in the Personal life section that he converted to Islam and, subsequently, adopted Bilal Yusuf Mohammed as his Islamic name, so no need to put it in the lede because Franck Ribéry is known as Franck Ribéry professionally (by his club, footballing organization, etc.,) and in the media. — JSRant Away 18:44, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Again. Please stop adding it as an "also known as" name in the lede. It's enough to have it listed in the personal life section. It's not like having a stage name.--Walter Görlitz (talk) 15:29, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

text:  I should elaborate on my reasoning. It's a different matter for these Islamic news/fan sites, whose job it is to promote the religion, to state that this is the Islamic name that he's adopted, and for more recognized sources to regularly refer to him as such. The current list of mentions are not enough for inclusion in the lede. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 15:48, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/why-france-cant-face-its-new-national-hero-1988021.html there is a reference to his new name (Bilal Yusuf Mohammed) in the independent (reputable UK newspaper). I will be seeking further action if this is not added back in. Leaf Green Warrior (talk) 16:40, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

text: In reference to the above comment: if Eric Abidal has adopted an Islamic name, why isn't it mentioned in his article? – PeeJay 17:43, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Please do seek further action. I would love input from the wider community as to this situation. As it stands we have a few passing references to his Islamic name when his faith is mentioned, but not in reference to is on-field actions. If he were an imam, it would make perfect sense to list it. If that was the subject's primary purpose in life, it would be listed. However :WP:COMMONNAME would argue against its use in the lede since and certainly if you were intending on moving it to the adopted (not legally applied) name. If he were to have discarded his secular name, then I would certainly agree with inclusion until such time as the media referred to him exclusively by the name. For instance, the article you povided isn't sub-titled "Bilal Yusuf Mohammed is the focus of his country's World Cup hopes" but rather "Franck Ribéry is the focus of his country's World Cup hopes." And the article itself refers to him as "Franck Bilal Yusuf Mohammed Ribéry", which in itself can be proven completely wrong. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 18:53, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  It shouldn't be mentioned in the lede - WP:UNDUE - but certainly in a 'Personal life' section. GiantSnowman 19:39, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Leaf Green Warrior also used :Nicolas Anelka as an example of why this should be used. That was added here. Removing based on this discussion. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:19, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  So his name is actually Bilal..? 

message: Hello. I'd agree that a plain web page is preferable to a PDF, assuming that both pages do the job equally well. The PDF has a list of players with their full names. However, the FIFA stats pages don't list players with their full names: see e.g. David Beckham, whose full name is David Robert Joseph Beckham, or Sidney Govou, whose full name is Sidney Rodrigue Noukpo Govou. So I'll restore the PDF ref. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 08:28, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Not quite the same situation here, but fine. Walter Görlitz (talk) 13:30, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Franck Ribéry full name 

message: To explain it clearly: The award Footballer of the Year () in Germany is determined by a poll of German football journalists from the Association of German Sports Journalists (Verband der Deutschen Sportjournalisten) and the publication kicker. The result is usually published in August. Ribéry has won this award in 2008, but not (yet) in 2013, because there was no poll yet. 
As this source clearly states, he has already won a poll where his fellow professionals (i.e. Bundesliga players) voted. Please don't confuse the two polls. --Jaellee (talk) 16:21, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Footballer of the Year in Germany 

message: I'd say the France one is in far higher quality and there's no sun glare on the picture either which you get on the 2013 Bayern one. And hey, it's only a year, he hasn't changed that much! The Madras (talk) 21:47, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say we generally take the newer image and the one of him on the French national team makes him look like an angry thug. :File:Franck Ribéry 20120611.jpg or :File:Franck Ribéry 2013.JPG What do other editors think? Walter Görlitz (talk) 22:42, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox image 

message: Apparently, "". I don't recall that I tried anything in August 2013 and apparently since the image has been there for more than six months, there was some sort of consensus. What image should be used, this scowling image, this one that has sun in Ribéry's face or a different image? Walter Görlitz (talk) 22:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

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