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For Sharpe's trash-talking, see the Sports Illustrated article that Rick O'Reilly wrote about him when he was on the Broncos. I'll dig through my back issues soon and try to find it.155.68.67.14517:58, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Seeing as the entire last page of edits to this article consist solely of IP Vandalism and the subsequent reverts, I'm going to make a request to get this page SemiProtected pursuant toWP:RPP andWP:SILVERLOCK. Let's see if that doesn't calm things down, at least for a while. --DoriftuSpeak Up.04:46, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
-This entire article just needs to be locked. There are no details on the subject's career time-line, but a ton of uncited 'memorable quotes.' Someone is just vandalizing this article.— Precedingunsigned comment added by98.231.117.36 (talk)10:55, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
These excerpts don't have citations and therefore seem to be the opinion of whoever is editing the article:"where he is known for his garbled speech" Intro. 1st paragraph.
"On retirement he is considered to be one of the greatest tight ends ever." Intro. 2nd paragraph.
The history ofShannon Sharpe ishere. It shows that many IPs have edit warred to include "Goad" which appears to have been added first on13 March 2021. One IP (67.58.241.92 (talk·contribs)) has added the name several times without discussion. They have provided the following sources in edit summaries. I have added an explanation of why these are not satisfactory.
imdb.com is a user-generated site presumably copied by peliplat.
pulse.ng has an article about two Nigerians with an incidental mention of Sharpe—they would have copied the name from somewhere.
sportskeeda.com is dated August 2021. At that timeShannon Sharpe included "Goad" and the sportskeeda story includes some minor background probably provided by reading Wikipedia. The only mention of "Goad" at sportskeeda is "Considering his full name is Shannon Goad Sharpe, one could say he was living up to his middle name." In other words, the purpose of adding the name is to attack the person.
Anyone adding the name without first gaining a clear consensus here (possibly with anWP:RFC) will be blocked since it is extremely likely that the attempts areWP:BLP violations.Johnuniq (talk)07:03, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@General Ization andTropicalkitty: Thanks for your reverts of the recent edits by139.182.28.12. In case you were not aware, I am drawing your attention to the above as I'm pretty sure that "Goad" is a hoax intended to attack Sharpe and all the claimed sources with that name have either had the name added by random internet users or have copied it from Wikipedia during the time that the IPs were successful in including the joke here.Johnuniq (talk)06:39, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"Goad" is not a hoax. There is a sincere contention, given numerous sources and a marginal consensus, that this is Sharpe's middle. It is not meant as vandalism.139.182.28.34 (talk)00:38, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
What is your response to the comments at the WikiProject link in the first paragraph above? Apart from a bunch of bombed unreliable sources, what reason do you have to believe that Sharpe has that unlikely name?Johnuniq (talk)02:34, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Are you able to view the history of the article (click "history" at the top ofShannon Sharpe)? If you experiment a bit you can see who made what changes. Undo any changes that are wrong. Or, post here with the time and date of the last good version and a brief explanation of what is wrong so I can fix it.Johnuniq (talk)06:56, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Please remove the culturally offensive and completely irrelevant rant about Shannon Sharpe's grammar, suggestion of speech impediment and rumors of any mass concerns in regards to intellectual capacity as a public speaker.Camorgan3 (talk)20:00, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Done... I think that would have been fine if it was cited because it was phrased neutrally, but as it was uncited and this is BLP I removed it.SomeoneDreaming (talk)23:35, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Source Request. Can you put Tom Brady being then better Shannon Sharpe comment by Skip?
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Remove " After the 1997 season[13] championship – his first – he appeared on General Mills' Wheaties boxes with four other Broncos." from Professional career section.