Talk:Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)/Archive 1

message: Will anyone mind if a disambiguation note is placed for the other two, Cristiano Ronaldo and Ronaldinho? This single name titles are really polluting the namespace... --Shallot 18:34, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: I found this sentence confusing: Later in 1999, he was joined by one of Italy's greatest World Cup goal-scorers and former Juventus striker, Christian Vieri, whom broke "Il Phenomenon's" world record transfer.
First, who is "Il Phenomenon"?  Is it Ronaldo himself?  The article doesn't make this clear.
Second, as someone who is not a football fan, I don't know what is meant by "world record transfer".  Transfer of what?
Could someone knowledgeable fill in the missing information?  Thanks!  —Triskaideka 19:52, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problematic sentence 

message: To the user who inserted the "there's a rumour he's bisexual" line, um, good on you for coming up with unique info for the entry, I guess.  But I don't think an encyclopœdia is the right place to say "there is a rumour that ..." if we can possibly avoid it.  Does anyone have a credible cite? --MarkGallagher 01:29, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bisexual 

message: Just a curiosity: Ronaldo is, in fact, known as Ronaldinho back in Brazil. And Ronaldinho is known as Ronaldinho Gaúcho. --Pinnecco 10:15, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ronaldinho 

message: What's the source of this statement in the article: "During World Cup '94, he was given the name "Ronaldinho", to distinguish him from Ronaldão in the squad."?  As far as I know he was known as "Ronaldo" during 1994 FIFA World Cup, and the Brazil World Cup 94 squad doesn't have another player with a similar name.  --Pkchan 05:59, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There was really a defender called Ronaldo as well, but he didn't played any match. Brazilian press (mostly TV Globo I would say), gave them the nick names Ronaldinho and Ronaldão (Big Ronaldo and Little Ronaldo, or Ronaldo the Great, Ronaldo the Small). I don't believe the nickname Ronaldinho ever caught outside Brazil. --Abu Badali 15:21, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The official squad lists in 1994 listed the two as Ronaldão (the defender) and Ronaldo (our buck-toothed friend).  It is at least partly a myth that Brazilians call Ronaldo 'Ronaldinho', his shirt name is always RONALDO for and in Brazil, and Ronaldinho Gaúcho's is always RONALDINHO.  They don't change their names willy-and-indeed-nilly, see the two Gilberto's in the 2006 squad. Mjefm 18:42, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ronaldinho at World Cup 94 

message: I'm not English, but isn't this offending language?
:Be bold and just delete such nonsense. Poulsen 23:40, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "He is currently screwing a supermodel." 

message: "He is said to be the second most known person in the world after George W. Bush."
This is quite a startling assertion. Who says this? I've left it in and added a  template for the moment. --Sam Blanning (formerly Malthusian) (talk) 10:05, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All those (unsourced) bold and/or POV statements should just be removed I think. If the person who wrote it had it from a source, it would have been easy to just slap on a url, but as there's no url present, it's most probably not true. Poulsen 12:32, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced bold statement 

message: Ronaldo → Ronaldo (disambiguation) and Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima → Ronaldo - This was recently moved (26 March) without prior poll. Ronaldo Luis is by far the most famous Ronaldo. … --josh (talk) 22:35, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
* Support josh (talk) 22:50, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Done. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 13:34, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested Move

message: :Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
* Support josh (talk) 22:50, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 13:34, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey