Talk:Olli Harder

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The purpose of the lead is to summarise the article, and so removing all but one of the teams he's managed does not adequately summarise the article, whereas the longer version complies with MOS:LEADLENGTH. Also, {{U|Seany91}}, how is listing the teams and places that he's worked at all promotional/soapboxy? It's all well sourced factual information, and removing chunks of it and then adding citation needed tags (after you've removed the citations) is not helpful. Joseph2302 (talk) 08:48, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

: I made substantial edits to improve the article by summarizing and deleting fluff, which Joseph2302 reverted and misconstrued as removal of content. There seems to be several issues Joseph2302 is objecting to, so let's look at them one by one:
First, Joseph2302 objected to deleting one sentence from the lede. I don't have strong feelings either way; removed it originally as it either duplicates information in infobox (Klepp IL) or includes information considered not notable enough for the infobox (so why would you have it in the lede, where it is supposed to summarize the most important information about the subject?). Joseph2302's stance seems to be that because the article has a certain length, the lede must be of a certain length even if it contains fluff or non-notable information, which seems misguided especially considering that MOS:LEADLENGTH is "a general guideline - not absolute rule." But whatever, no strong feelings there.
Second, I summarized non-notable information and removed fluff from the career section. Note that in my edit, I did not remove essential information about the subject's career (i.e., that he had coached in these specific countries), but rather summarized them. Do we really think having coached Wilton Blue Under-11s, for example, is notable? That's akin to an inexperienced person stuffing their CV with short internships to make themselves look more notable and experienced on paper, i.e., WP:SOAP.
Finally, I removed New Zealand from the opening sentence because the subject has dual nationalities (New Zealand and Germany). Since the subject never appeared for a senior international team, on WP there's long-standing consensus that we omit nationality and avoid any hyphenated nationality adjective in the opening sentence in lede. Note that I did not dispute that for tables, lists, etc., where a flag icon is used, the New Zealand flag should be used based on FIFA nationality rules.
At the end of the day, style can be subjective and I see that Joseph2302, despite reverting twice, has now made small changes here and there to address some of the issues I brought up, which is how collaborative editing on WP is supposed to go (though I could've done without the mass complaints). I do feel that Joseph2302 mischaracterized my edits, perhaps in part due to their feeling of WP:OWN of this article, but again - whatever, no harm done. Seany91 (talk) 13:00, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

::Sorry I completely disagree with [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olli_Harder&diff=next&oldid=1086939187&diffmode=source this edit], there is literally no benefit to it? You have completely misunderstood SOAP. GiantSnowman 20:49, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

:::I'm in agreement with Joseph and Snowman, I think you are misinterpreting SOAP and the information was fine as it was.— NZFC^(talk)(cont) 22:00, 12 May 2022 (UTC)