Talk:Wales national rugby union team

message: "The Welsh supporters have a reputation for being amongst the most fanatical in the rugby union world, making the Millennium Stadium, the team's home ground, a particularly intimidating place."
The above is a matter of opinion....The millennium stadium isn't in the least bit intimidating - especially if you've ever been to an English sports stadium, where fans like to boo the opposing team.  I've therefore removed it.Trystan Morris-Davies 15:53, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Older entries

message: I think :Image:Wru logo.jpg should be used instead of :Image:Wru logo.png, which was swapped around recently. The current version, which is a little transparent, is not really used anywhere else, notably the WRU website...Cvene64 12:31, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: Is there any purpose in using the flag to note that the players in the squad are Welsh? If we want to be pedantic then surely the flags of England, New Zealand and Australia would be better for Charvis, Parker an Cockbain, but if we are saying that those three are Welsh by virtue of them being in the Wales squad, the flags are redundant are they not? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Blogdroed (talk • contribs) 16:09, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, there's no point using flags for players in national squads.GordyB 17:33, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That template is supposed to be for club/provinces. Using it on a national team is pretty pointless. Would be better to follow the All Blacks, Irish and English pages, which use a different style. Cvene64 01:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Flags

message: There is a lack of photos in Wikipedia Commons... So if you're a welsh contributor or if you see some Wales national rugby union team's match, please take some photos and the rights to put them in Commons to better Welsh footballer articles and Wales national rugby union team's article... thanks a lot and good work... Many pleasure... Specially for the period 1920-1990 Ddfree 09:45, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: More images

message: Nobody wants (or is able) to better this article in order to make a featured article...
* The article in french language is now nominated for a featured article ( « Article de qualité » )
* ... And it should be easier if the english article is better... And it is easier to better english article with the help of french model... in order to better rugby union in Wikipedia... Ddfree 09:45, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wales national rugby union team]] [[:fr:Équipe du pays de Galles de rugby à XV|(version française)]]

message: I come from Wales and I want to know what this buisiness of Australia winning the Grand Slam in the Five Nations Tournament is about. As far as I know, the Five Nations were Wales, England, Scotland, Ireland and France. Please tell me if I'm wrong!!! jojo 15:37, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you've mis-read the paragraph. Australia won the grand slam on their tour of the UK and Ireland, i.e. they beat England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland in the same tour. - PeeJay 16:12, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Australia winning the Grand Slam?

message: Removed again. The reason being that it doesn't fit. If you are prepared to do the immense amount of work that would make it work properly then go ahead but otherwise don't add it please. Currently it is not a succession box at all because it has not been added to England or France.GordyB 10:33, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you want to add it, the succession box is, I think, as below. The full details are on the England/France/Ireland/Scotland pages, but as smaller versions have previously been removed from this page, I will leave it up to others to add. KeithW (talk) 16:37, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Succesion box

message: A discussion has been started about the breadth and formatting of succession boxes for national rugby union teams at WikiProject Rugby union. Please see the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rugby union#Succession boxes. - Shudde talk 22:34, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Succession box discussion

message: I don't think a comprehensive list of coaches is needed at all. The head coach is listed, who cares who the physiotherapist and nutritionist are? Let us put it this way, would they warrant there own article on wikipedia? My guess is no. Gatland is the head coach, and there are no co-coaches appointments. I have removed this for now, certainly at the FAC there was no complaint's that the misc staff were not included, and it's the same at the other national teams that have passed through an FAC. - Shudde talk 01:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: Can someone update the new page with Wales's new strip? I would myself but i dont know how!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Welshguyowen (talk • contribs) 11:45, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Strip

message: Why is 1982 selected as the end point? My ancient BBC video The Crowning Years covers the period 1969-79. A book on the subject defines the golden age as 1968-80. 1982 does seem too late - in 1980 and 1981, Welsh performances in the Five Nations were mediocre and England and France (respectively) won the Grand Slam. Pondle (talk) 17:33, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well... the book in question was published in 1980, so they probably wouldn't have risked guessing any further ahead, but I'd agree, 1969-1980 is a fine period. I would keep 1980 as it was the centenary year of the WRU, so although Wales weren't that successful it was a period of celebration for Welsh rugby (and a fitting point for the era to end). FruitMonkey (talk) 18:25, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: OK I will make a few amendments to that section shortly, if no-one else objects. Pondle (talk) 22:39, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: A 'golden age' ending in 1982?

message: Titles should always be capitalised in including the first and last word no matter the length, minor words should be lower case but all other words in a titles should be uppercase (captialised), see: Collins Cobuild English Usage Helping Learners with Real English 1999. Ieuan Sant (talk) 12:05, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Non Standard Usage in the Title of This Article - Wales national rugby union team

message: *I was looking at scheduling this for today's featured article for February, but the quality of the article is lacking. There are numerous unreferenced statements, and the last updated information appears to be from 2012. This article needs some serious work, or it may lose its featured status. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:12, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Featured status

message: Hello! For all those interested in improving content relating to Welsh Rugby there will be a Rugby World Cup Edit-a-thon at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on September 7th. Please spread the word, and sign up hereJason.nlw (talk) 13:23, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Welsh Rugby Edit-a-thon 

message: I have split off the material from the "Revival (2004–present)" section: History of the Wales national rugby union team (2004–present). I've done this because that section was regularly getting material added to it, and often it was adding undue weight to more recent results (a case of recentism). If superfluous material is added to the history section, would any watchers of this talk page please move the material to the new article, and keep the subsection a brief summary of results since 2005. Thanks. -- Shudde talk 00:35, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting off some of the history section to [[History of the Wales national rugby union team (2004–present)]] 

message: This article was promoted way back in November 2007. Things have changed since then, and the quality of the article has regressed. I've been going through and polishing it up to try and get it to a state where it can be proudly featured on the main page. This is ongoing, but at the moment I'm focused on getting all the references up to scratch. I've been copy editing as I go, but there is still work to be done. I've been trying to ensure that all the web-based references are reliable, and to replace those that may go dead. Other than that the notable players sections probably needs to be copy-edited as well, as it's size has increased since 2007. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Shudde talk 00:22, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article status 

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message: It wasn't official, but would it still be considered okay to mention the fact that they were number one? Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections says that occassional exceptions can apply to sources that may otherwise be considered trivia.  source is  here--114.23.252.56 (talk) 02:36, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia? 

message: In the ‘Overall’ section are two tables: “Men's World Rugby Rankings”, and overall scores against all opponents. If the browser window isn’t very wide, these two tables bump up against each other. At least one table should be moved. My preference, but not strongly held, is that the scores table should be at the start of the ‘History’ section. can anybody else see a better place for it? JDAWiseman (talk) 11:27, 26 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table placement