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If you update the club stats/goals in a football player's infobox (as you did with Adam Boyd), please could you also update the pcupdate parameter - simply replace the existing timestamp with five tildes (~). Otherwise the "last updated" date will be misleading. I've updated the Adam Boyd page now: it said it was last updated in July but it now shows the correct timestamp. Cheers. --Jameboy 12:56, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, as already written by other editors above, when you update the stats in football players' infoboxes please remember that you should also update the |pcupdate=
(or |club-update=
) parameter. This shows when the stats were last updated and prevents editors from accidentally updating the stats again. Thank you. --Jaellee (talk) 22:11, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm Mattythewhite. Welcome to Wikipedia! I just wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions were not quite right. When updating statistics within the infobox of a footballer, please make sure you update the timestamp at the same time, so that both readers and fellow editors know when the information was last updated.
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When updating footballers' stats, please remember to also update the "stats correct as at" timestamp (the "club_update" parameter). This edit left the article saying that Nouble had played nine league games for Torquay as at 4 April, which isn't true.... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:39, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Please note that we only include domestic league games in the infobox - so no Cup or Continental matches etc. Please also ensure that when you update the stats you also update the date, using ~~~~~. If you have any questions please ask. GiantSnowman 21:33, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
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As has been asked countless times above, can you please try and remember to also update the time stamp when you update a player's stats, as did not occur here -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:38, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
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I can see that you have been asked many many times already to also update the timestamp when you update players' stats, and yet you are still making edits like this one, which left the article saying that Graham had played five games for Orient as at 16 August, which clearly isn't correct as Orient hadn't even played five games this season as at that date. Can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE try and remember to also update the date? Given how many times you have been asked and not taken note, you may be at risk of a block in future if this sort of editing continues....... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 06:55, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
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