Canwe get some third and forth opinions on this please. Myself and Gibson Flying V have been having a dispute over the appropriate headings on player articles. He has changed several articles from what I thought was a standard Early years, Playing career, Representative career structure to a more hierarchical structure that has Biography as a top level, with a second level as Professional playing career and then third level headings for each club the player has been at. In particular I find the heading of "biography" in a players biography to be redundant but I'm not too fussed either way about combining the club and rep sections. I have had a look at existing player biographies and our only current Good article is Sam Tomkins which has the "early life-club career-rep career" breakdown. Out of our B grade articles Puig Aubert, Sean Long, Shaun Ainscough and Andrew Johns also have this general format while Jamie Lyon and Anthony Minichiello use the "Biography" heading. Obviously in an ideal world all our biographies will follow a standard format, which is why I bought the discussion here. Anyone have any preferences? Mattlore (talk) 10:23, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
Came across a number of articles such as the one above. Technically they pass the NSPORTS guidelines, but is there really any value in keeping any of these permastubs? With so little information about these players (with even the first names being missing) surely WP:GNG should take precedence? J Mo 101 (talk) 22:01, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Does anyone have an opinion on the recent changes to a few articles (Corey Parker (rugby league), David Mead (rugby league)) by Oki choki? Doesn't appear to meet the MOS [1], but I guess it is handy. Doctorhawkes (talk) 01:45, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
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There's currently a discussion regarding this template going on here. Obviously it primarily affects rugby union articles, but the template is also used for a few rugby league players who've featured in both codes of the sport, so it might be of interest to a few people. J Mo 101 (talk) 20:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
I've made a community reassessment for the article above due to dead links, empty/unsourced sections and WP:NPOV. I already nominated this about a month ago but no one replied to the issues. You can see it here. FairyTailRocks 11:29, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
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There are about 20 rugby league player article titles which include the word circa. As WP:MOS prefers "c." and because "c." is much more common in article titles, would there be any objection if I change the rugby league player article titles from names such as Stanley Smith (rugby league born circa-1910) to Stanley Smith (rugby league born c. 1910)? I'll take care of any double redirects which come about and fix the templates which refer to these players. Thanks, SchreiberBike talk 21:14, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
Having trouble with someone who has had this article deleted once and is trying to do it again. The article is being deleted as "an eminently non-notable football ground". From a rugby league point of view, it is the home stadium of one of only five semi-pro rugby league teams in the South of England. (See Iffley_Road_rugby_football_ground. Please vote.GordyB (talk) 20:06, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Greetings! I have nominated one of your articles for a GA reassessment, mostly because of dead links and original research last March 2014. I posted here a couple of months ago but nothing happened. It would be great if you post your opinion in the reassessment discussion so that we can reach a consensus if this is worth keeping. Also, I'm calling out the main editors who promoted this article so that they can adress the issues. Thanks! FairyTailRocks 11:42, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
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Someone has nominated Gateshead Thunder for deletion. I'm a bit out of touch with how wikipedia procedures/policies operate these days, hopefully someone more currently involved can join in. I would have thought the club is clearly "notable". If not then all C1 clubs will end up being deleted. Grinner (talk) 17:09, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
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Is there a reason that appearing in the Championship is considered sufficient to satisfy WP:RLN? While I don't doubt there are some notable players at that level, it certainly isn't a "fully professional" competition. J Mo 101 (talk) 22:01, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Just trying to get the situation previously raised at Talk:Bradford_Bulls#Duplicated_navboxes.3F sorted out: Bradford Bulls Millenium Masters and Bradford Bulls Bull Masters were both created by User:DynamoDegsy and both are unsourced. Would their creator, or someone familiar enough with the subject, kindly assist us on making a decision as to whether we get rid of none, one or both of them?--Gibson Flying V (talk) 01:15, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
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I noticed that J Mo 101 had removed the 'Great Britain national rugby league team players' category, and infobox fields from the; Harry Archer, Billy Banks, and Jack Bartholomew articles. I believe for example, the corresponding 'New Zealand national rugby league team players' category includes both Test match and non-Test match players. I was wondering whether all players should actually be included in the category, or whether there should be a sub-category named, e.g. 'Great Britain national rugby league team test players'?
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Working on Jim Fallon's article (having struggled to find it!), I noticed Rugby converts, Rugby code converts, Rugby league converts, and Rugby union converts are all redlinks. I also haven't found a relevant Category. Do we have any relevant bluelinks, like list articles? --Dweller (talk) 11:08, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi guys, apologies if I have not adhered to standard naming conventions, but we have two players called 'Bill Schultz' - articles located at Bill Schultz (Australian rugby league player) and Bill Schultz (New Zealand rugby league player), with Bill Schultz (rugby league) as a redirect to the Bill Schultz disambiguation page. Feel free to correct me! GiantSnowman 18:26, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
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