Talk:The Gabba

message: Brisbane Cricket Ground, which is sometimes referred to as The Gabba Shouldn't that be the other way 'round? Does anyone really refer to it as the former? --Paul 17:53, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree with changing.  Wisden's www.cricinfo.com  refers to it as the Brisbane Cricket Ground. It's wrong to say that it's _always_ called the Gabba - I heard it referred to the long name on ABC radio today. See also , , . The 'Gabba is a nickname. The common name and official name is Brisbane Cricket Ground. And note that of you are going to call it the Gabba, it should strictly be wtitten as "The 'Gabba" with a leading apostrophe as it's a shortening of Woolloongabba as stated above. -- Ian ≡ talk 13:45, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

text: I'm wondering if it shouldn't be The 'Gabba (with the apostrophe) as it's short for Woolloongabba.--Jeff79 (talk) 07:39, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: User:Jguk has placed a link to the cricket portal at the top of this page.  Despite the Gabba's official name, the BCG is a multi-purpose facility and it's beyond reasonable argument that its primary tenant is now the Australian Football League club Brisbane Lions.  I've no objection to a link to the portal on this page but surely a See also link is a more appropriate way of notifying people of this portal?  The link at the top is more of an advertising banner and is not really in the spirit of Wikipedia's objective of creating an encyclopaedia. --The Brain of Morbius 23:29, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: mmmm Only the cricket portal exists of those you list as of date. However, I see it could get confusing or silly in the future. I don't object to the bit about the cricket portal was to lose its bolding and italics and go under a "see also" section - I'll make the change myself. Kind regards, jguk 06:54, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that, that's much better.  Yes, only the cricket portal currently exist but there's every likelihood that an AFL, rugby and rugby league one will be created in the future--The Brain of Morbius 23:31, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertising of [[Portal:Cricket|Cricket portal]] 

message: I'm fairly sure a recent Twenty/20 international broke the ground record, not sure, though.
:The Twenty/20 match holds the record for the ground in its current configuration. The number of patrons has actually been reduced since the middle of last century, so that record can never be broken... unless further development takes place, of course.--dan, dan and dan 21:25, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rugby League crowd record? 

message: It seems that after discussion and consensus someone with administrative powers moved the article, which means that the move was an official decision and it would be futile to protest it. But now that the official name of the grounds has been determined to be "The Gabba" we must use the official name throughout the article. I have just made some changes to make the article seem a little more uniform and professional, and the old name (a nickname I guess it is) of "brisbane cricket ground) has been added in brackets in the info box as that seemed to be by far the most appropriate place for it. There are also 331 pages that redirect here (with at least 331 redirects as each page contains at least one link) from the old Brisbane Cricket Ground article. Whoever requested the move or did the move seems to have neglected to fix this redirects, so if anyone wants to do their job for them be my guessed. Because of the large volume of articles that linked to Brisbane Cricket Ground I would suggest making a bot to do the work for them (I would do it myself but I do not know anything about bots, so that is that). JayKeaton (talk) 10:25, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A good point has been made above regarding the inclusion of an apostrophe in 'Gabba as it is an abbreviation of a longer word. This needs to be fixed.--Jeff79 (talk) 04:13, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really, as it's just a colloquialism (which has gained higher currency than officialdom) Doesn't really need to conform to language rules.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.223.90 (talk) 08:29, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well I disagree. The word "Gabba" didn't come into existence all on its own. It exists because the word "Wollongabba" came first and was later abbreviated. Pretty simple stuff. This happens a lot in English. And the grammatical rule in English is to have an apostrophe, whether you like it or not.--Jeff79 (talk) 08:26, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Look at it like Albert -> Bert. A self contained name based on another.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.113.234.155 (talk) 04:05, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Uniform naming

message: When did the construction begin? 2001:8003:64A0:2001:E1D3:ED49:A82:E50E (talk) 20:27, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Gabba 

message: What year were the light towers installed at the Gabba 2001:8003:27E6:1501:7D95:865F:CFDF:C380 (talk) 09:03, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Light towers