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Matt, I appreciate your tidying up instincts, but must note that the sense you have condensed to a dab pointer has now been lost. Adversary speaks only of crypto usage, not computer security usage. As I review this in my mind, I don't think I've ever heard adversary used in computer security -- it's almost always attacker (or cracker, or hacker amongst the psuedo informed and law enforcement types). Although I do recall one use of 'enemy' (spoken, so I can't testify as to uc or lc).

I think this change has lost information for our Reader. ww 19:30, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

The information can be found at the Adversary page, which the disambiguation header links to. — Matt 16:52, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Football context

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I don't think attacker and striker are synonyms, as this article implies. Attacking midfielders and wingers might also be classed as attackers (as might a marauding defender in a particular situation). Forward is closer in meaning, but still not perfect. Dave.Dunford 17:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Scoring Table

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Is it really relevant to have this table in this article, which is about forwards in general, and not merely association football attackers? It's not sourced, and a non–registered user keeps changing the formatting so that it doesn't conform to wiki standards, and I don't think it's relevant; if anything it could be added to the article on strikers with 500 or more goals. I removed it but my edit was reverted. Could the page be protected? Thanks, Messirulez (talk) 23:37, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]