Talk:Melbourne Rectangular Stadium

message: The article claims the stadium can be expanded to hold 50,000 people.  The only articles I can find that mention 50,000 are ones saying major events where 50,000 people are expected will be moved to the Telstra Dome.  Please provide a citation for this claim.
Mikel Ward (talk) 02:16, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There are loads of articles out there on the foundations that will allow for future expansion to 50,000. Have added just one. Alexsanderson83 (talk) 08:42, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The stadium cannot be expanded to 50,000 temporarily. Rather it is designed so that in the future it can be permanently expanded to 50,000 should this be required. 121.213.160.122 (talk) 05:26, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Claimed 50,000 capacity

message: Where are all these nicknames coming from? none of them are referenced, so i'm not sure why they're still there. Chumchum14 (talk) 05:36, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you even read the reference?  Former Melbourne Storm CEO Brian Waldron clearly stated that "The Thunderdome" is the nickname the Storm will be using for the stadium.  It doesn't matter if you personally don't like it - if one of the stadium's tenants wants to refer to the venue by a certain name, it's more than fair to have it listed here.  sempiternal (talk) 12:21, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: A nickname doesn't come into existence because a CEO officially decrees it to be so. That would make it Storms official name for the stadium. A nickname is something that grows out of public and media popularity, such as Jeff's Shed. It's not a nickname until there's a reference elsewhere for it, not just in a Strom CEO press release.And the way you have put it in as the heading on the Infobox makes it look like the official name. That is simply wrong. Stop trying to dominate this article with Storm marketing hype.  HiLo48 (talk) 21:14, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: How exactly am I trying to "dominate" the article?  The Storm is a tenant of this stadium and if they're going to use a nickname to refer to their home - just like "The Graveyard" - it should at least be mentioned here.  If I replaced Melbourne Rectangular Stadium with "The Thunderdome" then you would have a point - but I entered the name in the nickname field, which to me, is perfectly reasonable.  It's fairly standard on stadium pages.  If Victory, Heart or the Rebels come up with a name they want to use, go ahead and add them.  I won't bother adding "The Thunderdome" again because I can tell that you'll just keep on removing it.  sempiternal (talk) 02:43, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I stand by my point that a nickname cannot be simply something decreed by the CEO of a commercial entity before anyone has even been inside the place. And, it may be a problem with the infobox template, but when it was there your nickname became the name above the photograph, looking much more than a nickname. HiLo48 (talk) 03:19, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

text: Some good observations there Paul, and I agree that having separate sections for the different stakeholders makes sense. Your hierarchical suggestion for that structure sounds good too. Given the enthusiasm of earlier editors for telling us of nicknames, we may have to do something about the stadium template. It takes the nickname and makes it look like almost a subheading of the article with its font size and placement. Multiple nicknames may create a mess there. I'm not skilled at template behaviour. You? Others? HiLo48 (talk) 20:08, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Nicknames

message: "the common feature of German stadia in which the stand behind each/one goal is constructed with the option of having standing room during Association Football matches and normal seating for other events such as rugby league" – How many German stadia are actually used for Rugby League? (No need to be too accurate – just round it to the nearest 10.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.35.135.136 (talk) 05:06, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: German Stadia

message: Without any discussion at all, user HorseloverFat has moved this article to this new name. This move does not match the situation with Melbourne's other specially built, newer, commercially named stadium - Etihad Stadium. It is known in Wikipedia by its original, non-commercial name, Docklands, with a redirect from Etihad. Both Etihad and AAMI are obviously temporary, commercial names. Firstly, I don't believe such renames should occur without discussion (a lot of this has happened with this article), and secondly, I don't believe Wikipedia should be supporting commercial causes in this way. 
Can the move be reverted until some sensible, independent discussion has taken place? (I don't know how to revert a move.)
HiLo48 (talk) 17:06, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Football Park, York Park and Lang Park are some other examples where the generic name is preferred over the corporate name. I am not sure myself what I prefer. I know I am not as concerned about "supporting commercial causes" as about the temporary nature of these names. Certainly some discussion is warranted and so the article has been subsequently moved back. -- Mattinbgn\talk 19:56, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: To be clear, I don't have a problem with anyone's conduct to date. It is the standard bold, revert, discuss cycle in operation. -- Mattinbgn\talk 05:02, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) has strong policy against using commercial names for stadiums (stadia?). This means that they will use something different from AAMI Park. As the ABC is a major broadcaster and televiser of sport in Australia, it will be interesting, and relevant to Wikipedia, to see what name they settle on. I believe the ABC decision will be a good one on which to base the name of this article. HiLo48 (talk) 06:22, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to AAMI Park 

message: I took a photo at the recent Melbourne Storm members' open day, but haven't been able to successfully insert the image. I was thinking it would be a good for the capacity section as its a wide angle shot of the eastern stand. If someone who knows what they're doing could have a go, that'd be great. The image is in the commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E_stand_MRS.JPG
Thanks. Comes.amanuensis (talk) 01:02, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: a local name for AAMi Park that seems to be coming about, should we make a reference to that here?--121.219.13.87 (talk) 04:39, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "Witchetty Grub" 

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message: I'm not making another move request considering my previous one just closed a few days ago. But I really do not think the arguments for keeping this page at it's current name are very strong.
A lot of editors have brought up that consensus has been keep stadium names at their non-commercially branded ones. However, as others have stated WP:CONLEVEL says that local consensus does not override official sitewide policy. And official sitewide policy is to use the WP:COMMONNAME.
Another argument is that 'Melbourne Rectangular Stadium' is the common name, but that's simply not true. It doesn't matter if that's the name most of your sources use; a quick Google search shows that 'AAMI Park' is overwhelmingly the common name. Seriously, hardly any news article refer to it as Melbourne Rectangular Stadium.
The third argument I saw was that editors simply don't like using branded names. And, well, tough luck, lol. Your personal feelings on the stadium's name are completely irrelevant to this discussion. WP:IDONTLIKEIT is not a valid reason to oppose a name change. Loytra (talk) 07:29, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, as you and others have pointed out, Wikipedia policy allows you to trample over a decade and half of consensus, so why not go ahead and do it?Local Potentate (talk) 12:27, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  AAMI Park