Talk:Port Adelaide Football Club/Archive 1

message: Just to start, I have no affiliation any side in the AFL so this is a NPOV. The two articles Port Adelaide Magpies Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club are in conflict about the Port Adelaide "Power"'s entry in to the AFL 
: From the Magpies article and in 1995 an organisation separate legally from the existing one but intended to carry on the old club's heritage and culture, the current Port Adelaide Football Club, was incorporated to further the bid. It was successful in time for the 1997] season. The SANFL club changed its official name to the present Port Adelaide Magpies Football Club, and continued to take part in the state league, winning two premierships in the late 1990s without success since.
: From this The Port Adelaide Football Club played its last season in the SANFL in 1996. In 1997 it joined the AFL. The first club from another league to join the VFL/AFL since 1925.
I really have no motivation to sort out the conflict, just thought I'd highlight it. Also, i'll have to second the writing, recent edits are definatly not NPOV and if you're just hacking between work commitments perhaps save up the edits and spell/grammer/wiki them in one hit? Oliyoung 23:36, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This still needs citations if you are making statements of fact (also, please add four ~ after your message to sign it) Oliyoung 02:29, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Continued Troubles

message: I've spent half an hour starting on clean up on this, fixing the english, wikifying the relevant details and marking sections needing verification, but it needs some serious work as a wikipedia article.  04:37, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Still needs work, maybe there's scope to merge Port Adelaide Magpies and this into one article, if the differentiation between the Magpies and the Power can be explained well enough? 02:44, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean Up 

message: I'm busy turning The Invincibles into a dab page at the moment. In researching it, I read here and here  that the 1914 Port Adelaide football team were know as "The Invincibles", but it's not mentioned in this article. Should I link here from my dab page? I think I should do so if and only if the name is significant enough to be mentioned in this article.
Stephen Turner (Talk) 11:03, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Invincibles? 

message: [[We have a situation where an edit is being made claiming the PAFC is still in the SANFL. The club in the SANFL is the Port Adelaide Magpies Football Club. The same Editor is also trying to revise the name of the Port Adelaide Football Club and shore up a perspective by claiming the PAFC is actually  "Port Power Football Club" This is incorrect, there has never been a Port Power Football Club or as also has suggested a "Port Adelaide Power Football Club"  When the PAFC left the SANFL it had to change its nickname from the Magpies to avoid a clash with Collingwood. It chose  Port Power .
The club then found that public perception and mischevious revisionists were claming that this was the name of the club "hence the misguided revision here ", The club changed the nickname to Power to try and rectify the ignorance in the community, the Club was still called the Port Adelaide Football Club.
The PAFC has "est 1870" inside its foyer. Referance has been made to "in our short history", this is purely in relation to the time period the club has been in the AFL. The PAFC was est in 1870.
Its AFL history is short as it entered the competiton in 1997.
I am glad I could clear this up.]]
When you are stating 'facts' as above, its best to cite them.  The club origionally had 'est 1997' it was changed after some time in late 2000.  The Port Magpies in the SANFL claim the history -please check their website.  The AFL port adelaide power club does infact not, they will not correspond to confirm their history.  It is not in their interests to be linked to the port magpies with its smaller supporter base.  
Hope that clears it up for you.
:From the offical Port Adelaide Magpies Football Club Website (thats the one in the SANFL if you didnt know) "In 1997 the Port Adelaide Football Club joined the Australian Football League, in many ways the crowning achievement of more than 100 years of unrivalled success. It maintained its presence in the SANFL through the formation of the Port Adelaide Magpies Football Club, who share the records and history from 1870 to 1996" - http://www.portmagpies.com.au/about.php 
:That makes it clear that both share their histories, both founded in 1870. Hope that clears it up for you. CtrlDPredator 17:31, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The PAFC is not the PAMFC 

message: This section is currently a bit of a mess - boxes aren't displaying correctly in either firefox or IE, and the season 2007 clash is not present. Someone with the expertise needs to fix this section.
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I think you have mixed up "port adelaide power" with the port adelaide magpies, remove the history of the magpies, because that isnt the powers history
:There is no 'Port Adelaide Power", only "Port Adelaide" (now in AFL) and "Port Adelaide Magpies" (in SANFL). Read through the talk page, it has already been covered. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CtrlDPredator (talk • contribs) 06:14, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Club Jumpers 

message: Since when have the Power been around in 1877, ive checked all the books and there was no mention of the Power, 
Further, why do they claim they are the magpies, which is the origionaal club, did the magpies move to the AFL, or was a new team made to join the afl?
e made his debut in 2002 in the AFL. He has been a steady contributor across the forward line for the Powe
thats a player article, it says he plays for this "power" team you claim doesnt exist, im pretty sure they do...
SAFTAG 12:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History