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Good articleWilt Chamberlain has been listed as one of the Sports and recreation good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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Semi-protected edit request on 12 October 2023

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107.19.24.253 (talk) 21:44, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]


Wilts Weight is around 300 pounds. He said this himself

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Pinchme123 (talk) 04:09, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I recall Wilt being listed at 290 in his last years with LA, though he may have weighed more. Not too long after retiring, he was on some TV show and when asked "what are you up to?" he replied, "about 345". But in his early years, he didn't weigh nearly that much. Maybe 250 as a rookie, 275 mid-career, listed weights.2600:6C50:800:2787:9C01:F4F1:E4BB:5DCE (talk) 18:27, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 23 January 2024

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Period should go inside the quotation mark in below:

Change: According to former teammate Billy Cunningham, "The NBA Guide reads like Wilt's personal diary".

To: According to former teammate Billy Cunningham, "The NBA Guide reads like Wilt's personal diary." 2601:189:4102:2920:6C00:D411:896F:8354 (talk) 03:18, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: Per MOS:LOGICAL, Wikipedia usues logical quotations, placing punctuation outside the quote.—Bagumba (talk) 04:54, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You don't understand logical quotation rules. Pursuant to them, periods only go outside quotations if such would be "logical". (Get it?). 76er great Billy Cunningham's statement about Chamberlain "logically" ends in a period, and, therefore, the period should "logically" be inside the quotation mark. 2601:189:4102:2920:6C00:D411:896F:8354 (talk) 01:58, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done per MOS:LQ. I checked the source, and the passage there is As former teammate Billy Cunningham once said, “The NBA Guide reads like Wilt’s personal diary.”C.Fred (talk) 02:06, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Burial details

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He remains were cremated, and the ashes were given to family members. https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chamberlain-wilton-norman , https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6886/wilt-chamberlain J. C. Kaelin (talk) 06:45, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 27 September 2024

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change "ability to leap from the foul line" to "ability to dunk from the foul line" TheRealDerek (talk) 06:19, 27 September 2024 (UTC)  DoneMyasuda (talk) 12:05, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]