Talk:AFL

message: This page should be locked to prevent anonymous IP addresses from Australia (or perhaps anyone else) from putting Australian Football first on the list. It breaks convention of either listing the order alphabetically, or overall relevance to the most English speakers worldwide (as mentioned in paragraphs above), and knowing how rabid Australian Football fans are (especially in Melbourne and in their media), they think that Australian Football is the only sport that exists and do anything they can to put down other sports, including on Web sites such as this one, as their forum to overstate their importance. -Carpet Crawler 2009 (talk) 14:22, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I chose the alpha order simply because it's the most intuitive, and any one can reored the list without having to read the talk page first. However, if we want to do it another way, we need to reach a clear consensus here first. I'd recommend taking the top 4 organizations  as discussed above, and listing them first by alpha order. Then we can list the remainder in the correct groups. - BilCat (talk) 18:28, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

text: Note that having the top items first is a format used on other DAB pages (though I cna't remeber which at the moment). I assume that style is allowed by the MOS, but MOS changes at times without warning! - BilCat (talk) 18:33, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

text: I found the guidelines at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Order of entries: "The primary topic should be placed at the top. In unusual cases, several of the most common meanings may be placed at the top, with other meanings below." I think this qualifies as an unusual case! Therefore, I am going to be bold, and place the top 4 pages, as discussed above, at the top of the page, in alphabetical order. - BilCat (talk) 02:18, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: List order

message: On the disambiguation page, the entry for the Australian Football League explains the League as: "the premier Australian football league". It should be reworded to "the premier Australian Rules Football league". Generally, when 'Football' is used, it is in reference to association football (soccer), where this entry is about an Australian Rules Football league. People visiting this page may confuse the listing for a soccer league in Australia. Changing the description to "the premier Australian Rules Football league" will ensure there is no confusion.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.30.185.44 (talk) 08:57, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issue with wording of "premier Australian Football League" 

message: I would argue that the Australian Football League is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for "AFL". A google search for "AFL" has mainly Australian Football League related hits as the top hits. Any opinions? - Yellow Dingo (talk) 07:23, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Deciding Primary Topic is more that just the search engine test. Comparing the traffic statistics,, I would argue against it. Based on the last 365 days, I do not see a relative statistical significance. Arena Football League recorded a daily average of 1099,  and Australian Football League at 1161. -- a difference of less than 100 hits per day. A fairer comparison is examining the last 90 days, when neither the Arena league nor the Australian league held any matches (both were in the "off-season", when there is no official competition and thus not really prone to traffic spikes like the mass interest every late September/early October when the AFL Grand Final is being played): again. I do not see much statistical significance Furthermore, the American Football League page tends to generate its own annual large traffic spike in late January/early February during the Super Bowl (due to the historical connections). In fact, the American Football League article tends to generate higher traffic than the Australian Football League page from November through February when American football is in-season and Australian football is off-season. For the above reasons, I cannot agree that there should be a primary topic. Zzyzx11 (talk) 18:54, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Primary topic? 

message: Ok, so looking at the history of this talk page, I am aware this has been a controversial topic. So before I start to explain my point of view, I would like to say that yes, I do live in Victoria, and I do follow the Australian Football League. 
First of all, the argument that it's only popular in Victoria is not true. It is massive in South Austraia, Western Australia, Tasmania and is growing in NSW/QLD/ACT. While there are certainly parts of Australia that prefer Rugby, Australian Football is not too far behind.
Second, the Arena Football League and American Football League are both defunct. While I am not making the argument that they aren't relevant, because there are certainly times and places where they are, it isn't as relevant today as the other AFLs. 
Now that I have expressed my opinion, I am going to back it up with some evidence. Looking at page views for this year, the Australian Football League is ahead of the other topics in every measure. (I am aware the grand final is in a few days, but the statistic is the same throughout the year.) Looking at WikiNav we can see the same statistic. I also has a lot more links to the page than the other articles.
Now, I acknowledge that most people will be against a redirect. So, instead of that, why not make it the primary topic? Of course, there will still be people who are unhappy. So why can't we at least put it as the primary topic along with American Federation of Labor, Arena Football League and American Football League.
As mentioned above, I am from Victoria, so I am almost definitely a bit biased. So if anyone has other opinions, I would encourage you to share them below. Thanks! echidnaLives (talk) 03:44, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australian Football League - Primary Topic 

message: Should this disambiguation:
# Become a redirect to Australian Football League
# Make the Australian Football League the primary topic
# Make multiple pages the primary topics
# Leave it as it is?
echidnaLives - talk - edits 11:18, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Posted notice to talk pages of Australian Football League, Arena Football League, American Football League, American Federation of Labor and WikiProject Disambiguation. echidnaLives - talk - edits 11:28, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

text: Option 4, no PRIMARY. Ortizesp (talk) 17:11, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: (Withdrawn) RfC: Australian Football League as primary topic or redirect