Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rugby league/Archive 1

message: I think that maybe we're limiting ourselves a bit here. Maybe we should go for a Rugby Football, wikiproject instead? As there has been a lot of confusion over similar naming conventions between rugby league and rugby union and there's also some fixing up or reordering possibly required at touch_football. So, I propose we form a coalition to present a consistent nature across all rugby football related articles.
:I would tend to disagree; I have no interest in rugby union, and don't want to write about things I'm not intereseted in. Grinner 09:53, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't have a big interest in RU either, but we do share our history with it. So people researching rugby league history, shall undoubtedly be looking into what RU is and its history. Thus if we are wanting to make the rugby league information more... structured and easy to find, we also have a responsibility to make sure that all the rugby related pages are consistent. If the project was to go that way, not everyone involved would have to be editing the RU pages. The main idea behind this is just to get a set of people to agree on some rules or guidelines for rugby related pages. Thus those who know rugby league can enforce the guidelines on the league pages and those who know union can do the same on the union pages. Also, when I say enforce, I was looking for a much gentler word. POds 02:03, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK i'll forget about this until there is a Rugby union project. Then the two projects may wish to standardise their practices (article structures, categories sturctures etc) to provide a more consistint wiki experience. I hope this is eventually the case. Come to think of it, its probably a better way to go about it! POds 13:39, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion of Scope

message: There is at present no article on Rugby league in Papua New Guinea despite it being much more deserving of an article than say Argentina. I take it that this omission is accidental? When I get chance I'll create the barebones of an article but to be honest I know virtually nothing about Papuan RL.GordyB 09:09, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yer it was, but it is known. I figured someone would create it soon enough :). This issue was raised a few weeks ago on a forum. I've been promoting our efforts a little bit. Hopfuly we'll start to see something come of that. On another topic, I'm in correspondance with several russians at the moment, one of which is coached by Edgar Tatourian, who is mentioned on the Russian page for starting rugby league in that area. The other is Edgars son :) So i'm really excited about the information i'll be able to get from these people. Hopfuly i can convince them to also help edit the articles :). POds 06:45, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Papua New Guinea

message: Hi, POds and others, I have started a proper WikiProject on Rugby (both forms). You may consider joining and listing your name on the "Focus on League" section. Thanks DaGizza Chat (c) 04:25, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps what should happen is that Wikiproject Rugby help define templates,manual of style,category structure and other standards. That is with the aim of creating a consistint feel accross both codes. This should also related to WikiProject Sport and their style of manual and other standards. Then the WikiProject Rugby league, which it will very soon become official, can be made a sister project and will make sure all members enforce the standards proposed by WikiProject Rugby. I think we should keep the projects separate and the editors seperate because there has been several people who in the union crowd who don't like what we're doing. Also, I suggested a while ago that this particular "small" project we have got should start to widen its scope to things like touch rugby and rugby union but many disagreed with that idea. Tell me what you think. POds 11:40, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea. I believe the best purpose for WikiProject Rugby is just as what you said (templates, categories, manual of style etc. also early history before the codes were really separated) Information regarding the players, clubs, competitions/series and national teams should be organised under the separate League and Union projects (I'm planning to begin the Union soon). Also there are many players that have switched codes, another overlap which can be handled by the parent project. Hopefully this should work! DaGizza Chat (c) 11:39, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Fantastic, good to see we agree on this. BTW I later realised, after writing the above, there is no WikiProject Sport. Ok, a rough Aim of WikiProject Rugby seems to be, to define ways of doing things for articles, templates, categories and any other wikiitems that shall be adopted and enforced by child projects, such as this one with the aim of creating a pool of consistent and attractive articles that are easy to find and read. Ok, i think we need to think of writing up a manual of style. Or first, how we're going to organise it. IRC, MSN, Email? We're probably going to need something live, so IRC or IM is the way to go. For anyone with firefox, chatzilla makes a nice yet very simple IRC client. POds 13:23, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby|WikiProject Rugby]]

message: Thanks. I do go for the Broncs for what it is worth. :-)--dan, dan and dan 02:41, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Haha, fantastic, thanx to whoever did that, great job! POds 04:49, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Participants 

message: After browsing around Wikipedia sports pages for the last week or so, I've noticed that some are very consistent in style with each other if they're from the same category. The category that strikes me most is the Football (soccer) pages, especially those relating to the World Cup.
I'm most willing to start summaries on each NRL/ARL/NSWRL season sometime soon, and I was wondering whether we should adopt some sort of colour scheme for tables and template boxes at the foot of each page. Any suggestions?
mdmanser 14:05, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes this is planned. The Rugby league WikiProject will work with the Rugby WikiProject in defining these, so as to have a consistent feel with Rugby football and union related articles. I'm on a little wikiholiday right now, being christmass and all and i'm sure a lot of people are. I plan to be back in the next day or two. We'll sort something out then. I suppose we'll try and borrow a lot of the structure from those football articles to start with and define our own colours? But the standards will be defined in WikiProject Rugby's manual of style of which we will conform too. 61.68.27.137 aka POds 01:51, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Since we're looking into that, are we also going to put in Squad lists for teams? I vaguely recall several Football team pages listing current players at the bottom of the articles. Even if these take the form of bulleted lists, since very few players seem to have Wikipedia pages of their own?User:DAAdshead 10:21, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Having viewed the page for Les Catalans and been very impressed (sad, really!) with the Squad List, I have pinched the idea and added one on for  Salford. I do think this is a pretty clear way of adding the squad list - maybe we should pick a standard, and maybe this should be it (otherwise I'll have to do it all over again!!!!!)DAAdshead 16:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style and Structure 

message: Why did the Kangaroos logo get deleted but not the others? And for that matter, why wasn't it considered fair use like the other logos?--dan, dan and dan 06:08, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's probably true to say that using the logos on the project page to illustrate our team loyalyites isn't fair use, so I think they probably all should go. Grinner 15:53, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logos 

message: I'm currently drawing up tables and creating pages for each of the NRL seasons. Perhaps we could make some sort of standard for season summaries, and push an article towards featured article status. If anyone has any suggestions or would like to help out, feel free to do so.
Photos would be greatly appreciated too.
mdmanser 13:20, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you do, try and use the current way of "providing the standard" by using the Manual of Style (MoS). That is, there is a section on the main page where the MoS has entries for specific articles. One exists for the Rugby league in Nation articles. POds 17:49, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  National Rugby League articles 

message: I have created a talk page template:
A lot of projects have them. If we started to place them on RL related pages then hopefully other uses will take note of the project. It is also suggested here, to, advertise. Of course, this version is just what I came up with. Its just standard text and a rotated/cropped image that is free-use on the main RL page.
Thoughts?
Forever young 09:01, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that's brilliant, and doesn't even need any changing. Where abouts do we put these templates though? On talk pages or on the top of articles?
mdmanser 11:27, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Great! You put  at the top of a talk page. I guess if no one has any objections we can go through with it. Forever young 11:42, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This was one of the first things I was going to do when making the project official, but i guess i got tied up. This is a great idea and a must have. With out it, many people wouldn't even know of the project. Fantastic work guys!!! POds 17:51, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well I guess thats a green light. I'll start promoting. :) Forever young 08:21, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Template suggestion

message: I've been in correspondance with former SARL (South African Rugby League) board member and current RLI (Rugby League Ireland) chairmen, concerning the SARL in the 1990s. I've added copies of the emails to the resources section so that they may act as references or sources of information. I'm hoping that by publishing them in this way, I avoid the "original research" problem of editing articles. That is, wikipedia forbids original research in articles. By publishing them, and working from them, it is hoped that the actual article would be deemed not original because the article shall be derived from anothers work (the sources i've just mentioned). Would this be correct? I have my doubts. Is it something to worry about anyway? POds 17:34, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Resources

message: There is currently a problem concerning the name of all individual European Championships.
User:Sam Vimes pointed out that it's confusing because it's actually not mentioned anywhere in the article that it's about rugby league, and because there would have been other European Championships in 1935 (Latvia won the 1935 Eurobasket, for example, while Karl Wazulek won the 1935 European speed skating championships and Rudolf Caracciola the 1935 auto racing championships)
I created most of them in my first days on Wikipedia, so there are those problems. Any suggestions?
Forever young 00:29, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As I pointed it out, I'd better suggest some alternative, too. My thought is: <year> European Rugby League Championships, and then <year> European Nations Cup of rugby league from whenever it changed its name. Sam Vimes 10:20, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds right to me. Forever young 14:27, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll just go ahead and do it, then. Sam Vimes 07:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming issues with [[Rugby League European Nations Cup|European Championships]]

message: Personally I think it would be great if a philanthropic French speaker could provide more details on Rugby League in France. In particular, finding stadiums, crowd figures, top players apart from Aubert Puig. It would be great because France is considered one of the four League nations though I know it has declined considerably in the past thirty years.
Licinius
:First thing's first - I'm assuming you mean "Rugby League" in France :) But the "Rugby" is excusable, since the name for Rugby League is literally "Rugby 13" (Rugby Treize, or Rugby à Treize)
:I have been semi-fluent in French for some time, despite a little bit of rustiness I'm sure I could do something to help out there. ie. any articles you want looked at/translated, etc. Gonzerelli 07:50, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think French wiki is anywhere near as developed as English wiki. The French page on their own national team is simply a translation of the English one.GordyB 10:39, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rugby in France 

message: There seems to be a clampdown on Wikipedia:Fair use which is causing much discussion at Wikipedia talk:Fair use. For example, the image I used to illustrate the Steele Retchless article is supposed to be replaced with a free image. Not sure that is actually possible so am disputing the situation in the image discussion page . Anyone else facing similar issues with replaceable fair use tagging and what action have they taken ? Jbuzza 19:42, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair Use of Player Images

message: We have 2 articles on the same thing, and there's a lot of conflicting information. Could someone who knows the background behind the medal check both articles at Dally M. Medal and Dally M Medal and work out which version is correct? Perhaps the articles be merged into one as well. Cheers, User:Mdmanser 05:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The one without the period (Dally M Medal) is more correct than the other one. The one with the period could well be deleted. Gonzerelli 17:24, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dally M. Medal 

message: The WP:RL has some formatting areas, which is not my strength at Wikipedia. Someone may consider fixing it. GizzaChat © 00:29, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What area's in particular? POds 11:23, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project Page Mess 

message: I have to admit, I'm not at all crazy about this.
Seriously, from the NRL page, we've previously linked (simply enough) to pages detailing the (pre-1998) history of the NRL, with the NRL's own history covered in its page, and appropriate historical references already being made.
What do you think? I seriously think the recent changes to the NRL page can go jump. Gonzerelli 15:12, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The references to Super League arn't very relevant, but perhaps this points to a template listing all the rugby league competitions around the world? I.e. There are more than just Super league and the NRL. Perhaps we could list the major competitions from countries such as Ireland,Lebanon,NZ,France,PNG,Fiji etc and keep that on every page so people looking at the NRL or Super League can look at other nations equivalent competitions. Or we could just remove the links to Super league. POds 08:59, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NSWRL and SL history on NRL page...

message: User:Bradley1956 has added too much information to the article in an "unwikipedia" style. There are a lot of suspicious images and the page is 176 kilobytes long! Most of the information may be even be copyright infringement. Something needs to be done. GizzaChat © 09:18, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Had a shot at tidying that page up. There is still plenty to be done, though.--dan, dan and dan 02:23, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that. It is still pretty bad though. GizzaChat © 06:43, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[North Queensland Cowboys]] 

message: Maybe we could have a page for top flight competitions (SL and NRL), lower grade comps (NL1, NL2, etc) and international competition. Thoughts?--dan, dan and dan 11:04, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rugby League in 2006 

message: ;Calls for Researchers
For the month of April, we can access The Times Digital Archive. And there are absolutely TONES of rugby league gems of historical significance. I have found reports on:
* The first meetings of the Yorkshire rugby union on the matters of professionalism
* A report of the formation of the Northern Union and proposed rules such as the removal of the line out, reduction from 15 to 13 players and the introduction of the ROUND ball.
* The first french representative team on english soil.
* The first amature rugby league match in the south of england.
* Many more of historical significance.
I urge everyone, to get on to this archive and search. Most of all, search for what you want. There are many thousands of reports on results.
What i have failed to find is:
* The naming of the Northern Union to the Rugby Football League
* Mentions of the banning of the French Rugby League
* Formation of the Australian and New Zealand Rugby Unions or any other rugby unions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by POds (talk • contribs) 22:54, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Times Digital Archive 2006 

message: User:Bradley1956 has been creating problems with this article. The article is too large, and mainly paraphrases information (at too much length) from the Cowboys website. The problem is that any attempt to fix the problem, or leave a tag to fix the problem, are immediately undone. Furthermore, this user has vandalised the discussion page for the article (by removing any comments that are negative towards it) and other pages (such as the Broncos one, where he removed a large section of text for no reason).
Do anybody have an idea for a course of action? I have recently left a warning tag re: vandalism on his/her discussion page.--dan, dan and dan 12:04, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Be careful, this guy has done a lot of work. Try to talk to him about it before any changes hav been made. When someone has put work into creating a page of this size, you should talk before you change anything. POds 05:57, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  North Queensland Cowboys article problem 

message: It appears that some people in the Wiki Project group are stuck on setting out ways of interfering with other peoples articles. The idea of being a wiki project helper is to expand on rugby league articles not have them deleted or removed. 
Why is it such a crime to expand club pages to be informative? The Cowboys article for instance has history that expands over 12 years. Why is it such a criminal act to express that and show it?. I have even received congrats for my extensive work on this site and support from other wiki members that more people like myself should be involved in the helping of expanding other club pages.
If people would leave the Cowboys article page alone then I would have enough time on my plate to address other wiki project issues. 
I would hate to see anyone else be targeted like I have been. You spend time and effort working night and day to expand and inform then have some wally want it removed or tampered with. INFOMRATION is the key to the future. If we dont record history then who will?. 
Long live rugby league. Long live the memory of what happened in the past so that other people can look back on what was history and understand what rugby league was like in the past. Especially the younger generation coming through who did not witness Seuper League or werent around in the "Simply the Best" era.[[Bradley1956 13:01, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  attacking North Queensland Cowboys article 

message: I've recently updated the NRL page with a blue theme for tables, and I'm thinking of doing the same with the templates Template:Rugby league player infobox and Template:Rugby_league_player_infobox2. The hex colour ive used is #C1D8FF which is slightly different to the one you might see on FIFA World Cup quite a lot. I think we should try and make an effort to have some consistency in rugby league articles in general from now on as well. Any thoughts? --mdmanser 01:38, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colour Scheme 

message: I'll start creating the Broncos player profiles, I think I've done all of the Cowboys player profiles, if I haven't could someone inform me? JRA WestyQld2 02:11, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Players

message: The page can't be classified as OR because it is all statistics. But it seems POV towards NRL supporters implying AFL is more popular. I think the page was created by a strong AFL supporter. Anyway, I thought that I would need some comments from others, whether or not this page is POV. Another point that should be mentioned is that why is there a comparison just between those two football code leagues? GizzaChat © 08:48, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're the one with a chip on your shoulder Westy. If you look at Mike2680's Contributions (the one who created the article), you'll see he is not biased towards NRL or AFL in any way. By the way, AFL is not a sport. I don't understand where you get that idea from. But I agree with you on the addition of A-League crowds as well - and move the article to 2006 Australian football crowds or something similar. Rogerthat Talk 10:42, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[2006_AFL_and_NRL_crowds]] 

message: Once this team comes to an end, who will all you British supporters be going for in Rugby League? Rogerthat Talk 10:42, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland? JRA WestyQld2 13:03, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Since the vast majority of rugby league fans in Britain are English, the answer is fairly clear. The trouble is that most English people have some Celtic ancestry and the other three teams are likely to have English born and bred players (Carney aside). League is very much in its infancy in the Celtic countries and they are very unlikely to produce many international quality players, especially as union pays more. If Britain had been the dominant force in rugby league, we could cope but as it is we struggle to compete with Australia and this will make things worse.GordyB 21:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll be supporting England.Tiburon 05:21, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I will support all the home nations equally.  I feel let down by the RFL's decision.  Yorkshire Phoenix (talk • contribs) 14:12, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great Britain League Team 

message: Certain editors are trying to move the article on the Tri Nations rugby union series to Tri Nations in lieu of the current disambiguation page.  I've been opposing this (see Talk:Tri Nations as well) but only discovered there was a RL project today.  Yorkshire Phoenix (talk • contribs) 14:41, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Talk:Rugby Union Tri Nations#Requested move]] 

message: I've added the WikiProject Rugby league category to this template so that all tagged pages appear in the recent changes list.  The only thing is: because the talk pages are tagged, not the articles themselves, the effect isn't as useful as it might have been.  Does anyone know how to categorise a template stored on talk pages that will list the assciated article in the specified category, rather than the talk page itself?  Yorkshire Phoenix (talk • contribs) 14:04, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Given the number of edits that some of the articles get, I think that is impractical.GordyB 14:32, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Is this not the raison d'être of the recent changes link, or have I missed something?  Yorkshire Phoenix (talk • contribs) 14:47, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Some pages e.g. the main rugby league page often gets changed several times in one day. I've got over three hundred pages on my watchlist. There could be hundreds of pages with the wikiproject tag, we'd be swamped in data. The link to the talk page means that we will now be able to keep up to date with any major changes and was worth installing. I suspect Wikipedia have deliberately made it so you cannot link the article.GordyB 14:52, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I'll leave it as it stands then, so long as you think it's worthwhile.  Yorkshire Phoenix (talk • contribs) 14:57, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template:WikiProject Rugby league|class=|importance=]] 

message: I just added this infobox for future use for players and coaches. It's pretty much been ripped straight from the Football one, but nevertheless, it seems pretty comprehensive yet concise at the same time. I've added it to a few players so far and it looks great. What does everyone else think of it so far?
--mdmanser 10:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:Infobox rugby league biography 

message: Hi all, another editor and I have a difference of opinion on something on the Canterbury Bulldogs introduction so I set up a vote to see what others thought. Cheers Cas Liber 06:17, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vote on Bulldogs introduction 

message: I've been looking for an explanation as to why we use those silly diagonal icons for the teams colours but have been unable to find one. In my view, the Australian Football League uses much better icons for its team colours and I would suggest the rugby league teams adopt something similar. Below are my suggestions. I'd be interested to hear anyone else's views.
Team               	Current colours	My suggestion
Brisbane           	               	16px
Canberra           	               	16px
Canterbury         	               	16px
Cronulla           	               	16px
Gold Coast         	               	16px
Manly              	               	16px
Melbourne          	               	16px
Newcastle          	               	16px
NZ Warriors        	               	16px
North Queensland   	               	16px
Parramatta         	               	16px
Penrith            	               	16px
St George Illawarra	               	16px
South Sydney       	               	16px
Sydney City        	               	16px
Wests Tigers       	               	16px
Bradford           	               	16px
Castleford         	               	16px
Catalans           	               	16px
Harlequins         	               	16px
Huddersfield       	               	16px
Hull               	               	16px
Leeds              	               	16px
Salford            	               	16px
St Helens          	               	16px
Wakefield          	               	16px
Warrington         	               	16px
Wigan              	               	16px
Crico 02:16, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The AFL pictures are blatantly breaching copyright in most instances. For instance, the Carlton design is basically a copy of the logo. The only reason why I diagree with your proposal is because your designs are based upon current jersey designs. The current colour pictures used are universal for the entire history of each of club (with one or two exceptions). Also, when I created the current colour designs my main intention was to have consistency between clubs. I don't think the system can work if we do it any differently. --mdmanser 02:34, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree with your copyright point, particularly referring to Port Adelaide, etc but it isn't most instances. There is no way that the icons for clubs with stripes, hoops or sashes have copyright issues and they are the majority. What I like about them is they are instantly recognisable as relating to the clubs. The diagonal RL icons are less obvious. In some case such as the Cowboys, the dominant colour on the jersey is barely noticeable on the icon because lesser colours are given greater prominence. I also respect your point about consistency through history, but feel it has been done in an inconsistent way, choosing the original Penrith colours but the most recent Warriors colours. My feeling is, if colours change over time, the most recent colours are appropriate. Finally, I'm not planning to change the colours on the main RL pages without consensus from other contributors but I have used my style jerseys on the Illawarra Rugby League page and may do likewise on other CRL pages when I get around to it. Crico 02:56, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree, current colours are retarded, should be updated, and visibily connected to current NRL jersey Joelclintonfan 13:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The colours look fine to me, the only thing I'd change was to design the template so that the middle colour/stripe is half the size it is now. I think that the centre third on the 3 stripes template is too big and when the middle colour is white it almost always takes the attention away from the other two colours, which in most cases are actually the main colours. Bongomanrae 15:04, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Club colours

message: Any chance of someone from the project having a look at Gareth Dean (of Wales and the Celtic Crusaders). It's a stubby article which could do with some TLC and references. Currently 'd, so don't leave it too long please. The only kind of footy I know anything about is played with a round ball. Angus McLellan  (Talk) 22:16, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Gareth Dean

message: Beginning cross-post.
:See Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team#Stablepedia. If you wish to comment, please comment there. ★MESSEDROCKER★ 02:54, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stablepedia 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards