Talk:Jerry West

message: Removing this: "In 1980, the Lakers won the NBA Championship led by Magic Johnson, who became the first and only rookie to be named the NBA Finals MVP."
Doesn't seem to have anything to do with Jerry West.
65.88.178.10 20:41, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Magic Johnson

message: In his book Mr. Clutch  West reports his name as "Jerry Alan West".  I imagine that if his name were Jerome he'd be the first to know about it.  
RandyBeegle 05:45, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: According to the following link, he retired because he could not recover from an abdominal strain. Right/wrong? Should this be added to his page?
--Halmass (talk) 13:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Retirement

message: After a big big rewrite, this article is a current good article candidate, see this link. Copyediting and constructive criticism are appreciated. —Onomatopoeia (talk) 23:38, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: GAC

message: ...from one of yesterday afternoon's episodes of the new Trivial Pursuit: I find it hard to believe the NBA used an actual player—this very guy—in their logo! --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 04:56, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I learned something new 

message: After the successful GA push, this article is currently going into peer review. Click this link to enter the peer review page. Additional input is always welcomed! —Onomatopoeia (talk) 20:11, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review 

message: I added a link to West's college statistics to the article.  I realize that the link provided to basketball-reference.com has college stats, but the stats at WVUstats.com include single game highs in college and awards and honors not listed at basketball-reference.  I also figured that if someone was interested enough in Jerry West's college career, they might be interested in WVU basketball stats in general.  So I hope that at least one person finds that link useful.--RandyBeegle (talk) 03:27, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: College Stats

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with File:NBA Logo.svg

message: Egad...too many statistics.  The article goes on and on and on.  This is supposed to be a biography, not a play by play synopsis of every basketball game Jerry West ever played, and certainly not every blasted shot he took.  Throw out 30-40% of the statistical stuff, and clean up the play by play action.  Also, the pictures????  Boring.  Unless they relate to something specific within the article, they do not belong.  It's a good article, sure,  but it needs drastic editing.  For example, count the number of times the word but is used (or yet, or however).  The sentence structure is overly long, complex, and goes on and on and on.  By the time, a reader gets to the halfway point, the poor reader is exhausted with sentences that say something like: well, Jerry missed 30.5 fouls from the free throw line, but his overall scoring for that half was 16.7 assists and 69 points; yet, when he tried to pull himself together (as the champion, NBA, small forward that he was, from years gone by); and in the second half, when he stepped to the free throw line, his average got even worse (45 missed fouls???) (and 16 were even 3-point conversions!!!!!); nevertheless, (or should we say, however) as the game came to a thundering close, Jerry West, Mr. MVP for the day, scored the final basket with a mid-court SLAM, making Air Jordan's similar feats from yesteryear look almost elementary.  JiggleJog (talk) 16:43, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too much 

message: There is a discrepancy here.  This article states that West logged a 'quadruple double' (double digits in 4 of the following in one game: points, steals, assists, rebounds, or blocked shots), but in the citation (NBA.com) it states:
only four players have officially recorded a quadruple-double in National Basketball Association (NBA) history. The first American male player above the high school level to officially record a quadruple-double was Nate Thurmond, who achieved this feat in 1974 while playing for the NBA's Chicago Bulls.
It doesn't say whether he was one of those players, but he retired in 1974, so unless he did it in his final year of play (and the two first quad-doubles took place in the same year, which you'd think the NBA.com article would mention), this seems erroneous.  At very least, the citation doesn't contain the info stated.  Skabbonica (talk) 13:51, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The article states (correctly) that West's quadruple double is unofficial, so there is no conflict.  Note that any quadruple-double occurring prior to the 1973-74 season is unofficial as steals and blocked-shots were not "officially" recorded until that season. — Myasuda (talk) 14:07, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Quadruple Double 

message: The article has been pretty vague on the topic of the logo, as far as it is concerned. If West actually is the face of the logo, then there should be proper information on it. If possible, it would be better if the actual picture that inspired the logo also was included.
On the other hand, if the logo story is an urban myth, as is suggested in one of the other talk threads, it should be clarified as to what the myth actually is, and who said what.
The logo, as a whole, generates enough interest and deserves a full explanation, if not an article by itself, IMHO.
TheOriginalSoni (talk) 18:07, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The logo 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Please add NBA career statistics. Nintendoswitchfan (talk) 07:21, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  NBA Career Statistics 

message: There is no summary by Bagumba for this edit. Why was the reversion made? Yet someone else wrote only a few hours before on a related article (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mariano_Rivera&diff=next&oldid=1024521223, also most recently edited by Bagumba) "Now it reads like Trump is the highest civilian award in the US". Lacking any other rationale, this is on odd statement as well as an odd reason for a reversion. The added context was historically accurate (ie. noting the president at the time the award was made). Why would you remove that accurate context Bagumba? Please explain.— Preceding unsigned comment added by GeorgeSchiro (talk • contribs) 16:33, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe you are referring to this edit, in which I left the edit summary of "details in body". Trump is mentioned in the body. Per MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE:  The most important fact is West receiving the award, not who bestowed it, and the details remain in the body. For the record, the inclusion of the president was reverted in other articles as well, suggesting there is not an obvious consensus for this in the infobox.—Bagumba (talk) 06:41, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trump Historical Context Removed