Talk:List of stadiums in England

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If this page is going to include rugby, cricket, athletics stadiums etc. as well as football, I don't think it needs to list all the stadiums on List of English football stadiums by capacity - a lower limit of say 15,000 capacity might be about right. Also, I don't think it's that useful to combine current and future stadiums into one table, especially since some of the future stadiums are just ideas at this stage, and may never happen. The two Liverpool football stadiums in particular have been in development hell for years. — sjorford++ 11:41, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name

If, as it says in the article "The criteria for entering this list is the ability for a game of football to be played on the pitch." the name should reflect this. Either that or it should include all stadia. Nuttah68 15:20, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

No I think this article should just be about stadiums in general, not just football ones. The football-specific list should be kept separate. Qwghlm 17:26, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Improvements to this list

I've made a start on the top of the list; ideally I would like the entire list to look like the over 40,000 section but that will take a little time. :) There are a lot of other ways this article could be improved:

• Making sure all major sports stadiums are included, not just football.
• Setting some sort of minimum capacity for inclusion on the list; how does 10,000 sound?
• Removing stadiums that are planned and putting them into a separate section.

Any comments? Qwghlm 18:02, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Planned stadiums should definitely be put in a different section, and they should only be included in that if they are actually under construction to avoid crystal-balling e.g. Everton are merely "investigating the possibility" of a move, and that 55,000 figure relates to a plan abandoned in 2003. Oldelpaso 22:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've moved them out. Any thoughts on my suggestion to enforce a 10,000 minimum. It seems a sensible cutoff point as there are hundreds of stadiums between 3,000 and 10,000 and it would make maintaining this list very hard, as it is. Qwghlm 11:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

10,000 seems sensible, but I'm not sure, mainly because I'm having trouble estimating how many facilities over 3,000 exist in England. The football list contains 151, plus all major cricket grounds, the first couple of tiers of each rugby code, several athletics tracks, maybe some speedway? Does a Velodrome count as a stadium? Perhaps a 10,000 limit, and change the title to something like "List of sports facilities in England" to encompass both indoor and outdoor sports? Oldelpaso 19:11, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreed - though I would use "sports venues", which is the Wikipedia standard. Qwghlm 23:34, 12 December 2006 (UTC)