Talk:Football/Archive 6

message: A wikiportal (Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Association football) has been started by Johan Elisson. -- Phoenix2 21:12, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Portal

message: I just ran a google query on "Ameriball". None of the hits returned in the first 2 pages pointed to this sport.
I think that qualifies as "nobody refers to it that way".
--Sebastian Kessel Talk 18:05, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ameriball 

message: The convention decided that, in the US game, four touchdowns would be worth one goal; in the event of a tied score, a goal converted from a touchdown would take precedence over four touch-downs. Clarify by what converted means... -Iopq 11:56, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing 

message: I don't know why, but this article seems to be underseige by vandals atm. Every day I check my watchlist someone is reverting vandalism. What's going on? Does this article need to be protected for a few days? Jooler 23:32, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's just people surfing in, a sign that the page is being visited a lot compared to other pages. I have wondered if there is anywhere that we can see the number of visitors to specific Wikipedia articles, but I haven't been able to find such a resource. Grant65 (Talk) 03:02, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: vandalism

message: A query regarding the most recent edit: is it really the case that the word "footy" is commonly used in the USA to mean only Australian rules? And not other codes? Grant65 | Talk 11:08, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think so. "Footy" isn't used at all, at least not where I live. I would not think that someone was talking about Aussie rules if they said "footy". --71.225.229.151 17:56, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Footy" in the USA

message: Football incorporates an enormous number of sports, which can be extremely confusing due to the country where the word is used. In the US, it refers to American football; in Europe and South America it refers to soccer; in Australia it refers to Australian rules football. I think the content should be merged into different articles, and the page should be deleted and replaced with a disambiguation. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 01:59, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There are already large articles for each of the major codes of football, each of which contain the detailed information for that sport. This article deals with the development of football codes in general, and includes a note pointing readers to the disambig-of-sorts at the end of the article. It's clunky, but it seems to work well enough. Cheers, --Daveb 02:04, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

text: I wouldn't split it. Sebastian Kessel Talk 03:00, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No way. Among other things, the article is about the shared history of the many different kinds of football. It reduces the "confusion" by pointing out the many different codes to which the name football applies. Followers of particular codes may be uncomfortable with this, but the games are all related and descended from "common ancestors". Grant65 | Talk 07:39, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As the others have implied, the reasons given for splitting it are actually reasons not to do so. I will remove the notice. 62.31.55.223 08:35, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split up the article