Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rugby union/Archive 2

message: Please vote for me!--HamedogTalk|@ 11:09, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:RfA]] 

message: Anyone wishing to vote for Frank Hadden for collaboration of the fortnight please do so here. These collaborations seem to last much longer then a fortnight and aren't getting the suppose they probably need. Although maybe in the case of NA4 thats because there isn't that much info around on it? Anyway please vote or add a nomination. - Shudda talk 03:13, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaboration of the fortnight 

message: Hey, I've submitted the Crusaders article for GAGood Article]] status. Please comment and/or help fix up as per suggestions. Any help is greatly appreciated! - Shudda talk 05:55, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Crusaders]] article up for Good Article nomination 

message: Template: has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Bob 16:40, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  TfD nomination of Template:{{ucfirst:Infobox allblack}} 

message: Template: has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Bob 16:40, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  TfD nomination of Template:{{ucfirst:Infobox Rugby Player}} 

message: Hey, I've redone the main project page here. It's pretty much identical except that each section is a separate page thats collated onto the main project page. So it's kinda modular. The reason I think this would be an improvement over the existing format is that it'll allow it to be more easily updated (kept up to date). For example the news section and a to do list. Hamedog has had a look at it and thinks it's great (thought I'd get his opinion first as he created the current project page). Any comments? Suggestions? Should it replace the current page? - Shudda talk 23:00, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project page 

message: WikiProject Rugby union's collaboration of the fortnight is now Frank Hadden. Please get editing! - Shudda talk 23:00, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaboration of the fortnight 

message: I've moved what I feel to be now redundant talk to the archive page. You can view it by clicking
on the archive link at the top of the page. If you think something should not have been moved from this page just add it back in.10:47, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Archive

message: I've submitted All Blacks article for a peer-review, please go to WP:PR and leave comments if people suggest improvements. This is important if we want to get this article to FA status. - Shudda talk 01:51, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[All Blacks]] Peer review

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: See Talk:Chiefs (Super rugby franchise)--HamedogTalk|@ 03:21, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested Move 

message: Currently there are no separate articles for the Leinster, Ulster, Connacht and Munster teams; rather, each team is included on the article for the relevant branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union (ie Leinster Rugby, Ulster Rugby, Connacht Rugby and Munster Rugby. Would it be neater to move the team information into separate articles? --Kwekubo 15:52, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not a member of the project but, as per my comment on Northern Irish Wikis' notice board, I agree that this seems the logical thing to do. --Mal 03:52, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles for Irish provincial teams

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 

message: I have left Wikipedia for an undecided time. I am now at Opencycle if any of you wish to join.--HamedogTalk|@ 18:44, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goodbye 

message: I have created an announcement template: 
It is displayed on the main project page, please add it to your user pages to keep up with news of the project, as well as tasks. Please add to and maintain the template as well. - Shudda talk 22:11, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Announcement template 

message: To my knowledge this seems to identical to the Nations Cup (only with a different team line-up). As far as I can tell the tournament as described on this page was never played and I will put it up for deletion unless anybody knows better.GordyB 17:34, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Merge then Redirect to Nations Cup. --Bob 07:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: THere's nothing on the Rainbow cup page that would really improve the Nations Cup article. I've put it up for deletion. GordyB 21:04, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Rainbow Cup]]

message: Should all the union and federation articles be renamed to their English translations? Such as the FFR becomes the French Rugby Federation or similar? I ask as naming conventions currently specify that a title be in English if a translation exists. The FFF is already in English. Opinions? --Bob 07:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Even more bizarrely, the article I wrote on the Romanian Rugby Foundation was moved to the Romanian equivalent title even though the RRF only use the Romanian name in Romania and are registered with the IRB under their English name.GordyB 23:18, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming Conventions

message: I have submitted All Blacks for FAC. You can read comments (and respond to them) here. - Shudda talk 10:13, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  All Blacks submitted for FAC 

message: A peer review department has been created. People can have a look here. It's an alternative to using the generic peer review process. Am hoping that RU contributors will be able to regularly have a look at the page and offer advice regarding an article. Please visit the page and add it to your watchlist. Thanks. - Shudda talk 22:49, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review department 

message: Brian O'Driscoll is the new collaboration of the fortnight. Get editing! - Shudda talk 21:52, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Collaboration of the Fortnight

message: Just realised that we probably require an article describing what a Test match is in rugby union.  Comments? --Bob 17:53, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Test match

message: Just a note to say congratulations to all those who contributed to getting All Blacks to FA standard. Especially those who have worked on it since it went to FAC. Thanks for all your help! - Shudda talk 21:22, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Congratulations 

message: Talk:Hurricanes (Super rugby franchise) - please voice opinions on whether or not a move of the Hurricanes article to simply Hurricanes is a good idea.--HamedogTalk|@ 06:56, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hurricanes Move 

message: I dunno about you guys, but I have been thinking for sometime; one of us should make the two millionth article on en wikipedia. So it the next couple of months, rather than creating articles, store them in word or notepad and wait until the counter is around 1,999,000. That last thousand is going to go fast so we need to start emailing each other articles. This way people don't have to get up at 2 am or something - someone else in another time zone can do it by opening up several tabs on firefox.
Why should we do this? Get publicity, attract more editors and get a free featured article - heaps of people will edit it in it's first week.
Summary of what to do:
*Store articles for future in notepad or word.
*Watch the article counter
*Send articles to other WP:RU members
*Open 10 or so firefox tabs and click save all at once.
*Try and hit 2,000,000.
What do you guys think?--HamedogTalk|@ 13:43, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It may be worth a shot, there are plenty of requested articles on the open tasks template. - Shudda talk 05:39, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  two millionth Wikipedia article 

message: Hi, I've requested a peer review for Crusaders. Could everyone please take a look and help out? I'm trying to get the article up to Featured Article standard, and would like any feedback I can get. You can add any comments here. Thanks a lot! - Shudda talk 03:25, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crusaders peer review 

message: I've uploaded pictures from the Heineken Cup match between Biarritz Olympique and Border Reivers from December 17, 2006. You can see some of them on the BO, Reivers, and H-Cup pages. Kal 00:24, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice work. They look great. Cvene64 04:09, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  H-Cup 2006-07 pics 

message: You may have noticed I added a few articles to the list of requested articles. I hope it's not too many, but there's a few players on there, like Darren Daniel and Morgan Stoddart, who I believe really deserve their own articles given the season they're having so far PeeJay 00:35, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No thats fine! The announcements template is for anyone to edit. You may want to add any articles you want created to Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby union/Requests as well. The announcement template only has a few of the requested articles, the main requests page has many more. - Shudda talk 00:43, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested Articles 

message: I have added some information (2 sections) to the six nations article, and believe that, even before that, it is enough for GA status. However, my knoowledge of past Rugby is a little patchy, and names of most record holders escape me. Please can somebody clean the record section up, so it will be worthy of GA status. Cheers. к1иgf1$н£я5ω1fт 19:36, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It needs more history and other updates. A section on 'Culture' or something is needed as well. Cvene64 03:29, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I recommend finding some more references as well. - Shudda talk 23:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  6 Nations GA nomination 

message: We should make this the next collab, it is so short for a Tier 1 team. It really really needs work. Cvene64 03:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would support it's nomination. - Shudda talk 04:36, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's difficult to find much on the internet about Italian rugby, much of the history section is a translation of the Italian wiki page.GordyB 15:50, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah that is true. But we can look at results etc and at least expand the history section. We can start a section on home grounds; what stadia is used, what is used during the 6N, what of the future etc. We write about their RWC efforts, maybe create a section on their colours/etc. We need to put in a current squad as well. There is heaps we can work on to improve it. Cvene64 02:04, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Italy national rugby union team|Italy]]

message: I was thinking that perhaps we should start including  in rugby union bios that we create. Comments? --Bob 20:29, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{tl|Persondata}} 

message: Just created a new template for use on Union/Federation articles. I have implemented it on French Rugby Federation as an example. Any suggestions as to stuff missed, or can I start adding this across the board? --Bob 02:23, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks good. - Shudda talk 02:33, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is now on all tier 1 and tier 2 unions --Bob 00:05, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: {{tl|National rugby union}}

message: I have just noticed that some templates for international teams use their national flag () whereas some use the rugby boards logo (). Which is preferable, and surely all should match? Cheers к1иgf1$н£я5ω1fт 16:44, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't think of another case where using the national flag would cause trouble. There are some teams e.g. Lions and Pacifika that don't represent a single state but we've never needed a flag or icon to represent them.GordyB15:54, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Template Query

message: Hey, does anyone think we should nominate All Blacks for the main page? I'm not exactly sure how its done or how its decided whether it should be featured? Can anyone help? - Shudda talk 00:56, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  All Blacks on main page 

message: I have nominated Crusaders (rugby) for Featured Article status. Please leave a comments on the article on the comments page here. Any assistance replying to peoples comments, or fixing problems would be greatly appreciated. It would be nice to get another FA for the project. - Shudda talk 04:03, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article just got promoted. Thanks to those of you who provided feedback and assisted getting it to FA standard. The project now has three FA's, which is great! - Shudda talk 01:49, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomination of Crusaders for FA 

message: Hey, there seem to be a lot of biography articles that do not use the  template. I think the template does very well and should be included in any biographies about rugby players (either code). Could people please start adding articles to the Project To Do list? Maybe we can get an improvement drive going to try and incorporate  all the rugby union biographies? I don't mind setting this up, but would like to know if it'll have any support first. - Shudda talk 21:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Bob has a good idea in that maybe we could include  as well.See Wikipedia:Persondata. - Shudda talk 22:58, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll try and get some done also. It makes the pages look a lot better imo. Goldman07 12:41, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rugger template 

message: :FYI I created the page for Tony Marsh, please feel free to check the spelling (which might be pretty bad) and to edit if needed. Cheers. Saebhiar Adishatz 11:11, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tony Marsh