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— Photographs will improve an article
— Possibly a section on the work of the club outside of the first team

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2 Clohessy
3 Latest addition
4 News and Pictures
5 Former players who became managers
6 Paul Haylock
7 Club colours?
8 A note on British English
9 Fixtures and Appearances by season
10 WikiProject Kent

[edit] Comments

First off, major props to those who are creating the individual articles for the players, they look awesome. I realise there's only a couple of us editing this one regularly, but I think this too is becoming a fine article. The only real thing I see left to seriously tidy up at the moment is the remaining 74-95 section- I'd previously left this as I reckon there must be someone here who was there for at least some of it (unfortunately before my time) and could give a better starting point to edit from. While the rest of the history is pretty easy to research, I'm not sure I could give the rivalry with Swindon etc. it's due importance, since the sources I'd been using tend to become more emotive and less based on the facts. If nothing's forthcoming, then I will have a crack at it, but I would ask anyone in the know to take a look at that section. Up the Gills. --Lawlore 19:03, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clohessy

To be honest, I think that this bit:

Defender Sean Clohessy who came through the Gills' youth ranks this season and made 20 first team appearances has been awarded his first professional contract which keeps him at the club for the next 3 years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gillingham/4973710.stm

is not especially notable within the overall history of the club itself, although obviosuly it does belong on Sean's own page when that is created.... ChrisTheDude 08:17, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

I did wonder why that kept being put back in. I've taken it out again until there's some justification as to why it deserves to be there. --Lawlore 14:19, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Maybe the user who keeps putting it in *is* Sean Clohessy :-) ChrisTheDude 14:21, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I though Clohessy came through the youth ranks of Arsenal who released him and we snapped him up, albeit not on a pro contract at first. GillsMan 10:52, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Latest addition

Apart from the fact that the latest section added is a straight lift from the BBC News website and therefore copy-vio, do we really need to have *every* new news story about the club added to an article on its history? This is an encyclopedia, not a place to find the latest news and rumours..... ChrisTheDude 13:30, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I'd be with you there Chris. I think the Gills page has evolved into a tidy little page, and probably about right for a club of our, dare I say, humble stature, but the 2005-6 section will soon need thinning out, as it passes into history, and not daily bulletins more suited to Gillsconnect, Gills365 or the official site making it even more disproportionate to the rest of our history. Kevin McE 19:29, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I give up, I can't be bothered editing out minor contract signing "news" every time someone puts it back in..... :-P ChrisTheDude 11:29, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] News and Pictures

I don't want to get into edit wars, and I assume that most of us posting here are Gills fans, but I do think that we need to be careful to respect wikipedia's identity as an encyclopedia, not a bulletin board. What we add should increase people's knowledge of GFC with a long historical perspective: what is recent news does not belong here simply because it is news (players signed/released merit changes to the squad list, not the history of the club). I agree that our Wembley appearances were so historical to merit a photo (have the copyright issues been addressed?), but if there is more than one, then they cannot line up with the appropriate text. For this reason I would propose that only one of the pictures be retained, and I would suggest that the picture from the back of the stands makes it very difficult for anyone to identify it as having anything to do with the Gills. Kevin McE 12:59, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Ok, Kev, point well made! remove it.

cheers. Glad to have resolved sensibly.

[edit] Former players who became managers

I have removed Adrian Pennock from the list and changed the heading so as to only include players who have gone on to manage in the Football League, as otherwise we'd need to include all the other ex-Gills who have become non-league managers eg Russell Musker, Jason Lillis, Peter Beadle, Robin Trott, Alan Walker, Bob Taylor, Steve Lovell, etc etc etc, and the list would get very big and silly.... ChrisTheDude 11:03, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paul Haylock

I've put up an article for Paul Haylock. Does anyone have any info from his time with Gillingham that they could add to it? If so, please do.....thanks! User:Demonicanglian 12:10, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Club colours?

"In 1913 the club changed its name to Gillingham Football Club and dropped its black and white kit in favour of red and blue shirts emblazoned with the borough's coat of arms"

Although I've been involved in editing the older history of the club, I must admit I've never heard that. While it's more than possible that it's true, would anyone be able to provide a source (be it online or offline) to verify it, if only to satisfy my curiosity? Thanks. --Lawlore 17:34, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

This site shows the first kit used under the Gillingham name as being red and blue..... ChrisTheDude 06:53, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Cool, thanks for that, I've learned something today. Guess if Scally had tried to change the shirts to red and blue rather than white a few seasons back, he'd have had a case... --Lawlore 15:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A note on British English

British English should be used for articles on Britain related topics. Likewise, American English should be used on articles pertaining to American topics. For a clearer example, please visit this sub-section on the differences between their usage. However, is" works better than "are" with the term club as it is a singular and not a plural noun. (Compare with the word team which is a plural noun) --S iva1979^{Talk to me} 16:17, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Please view my response with regards to this here. --S iva1979^{Talk to me} 06:43, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fixtures and Appearances by season

I know that there are some issues with the football league fixtures being copyrighted, but would it be possible to replicate the fixture/appearances tables in the match programmes for each past season (historical archive)?

To be honest I think that would be much too in-depth for the scope of Wikipedia - no other club has anything like it, as far as I know. It would most likely end up being deleted under WP:NOT. Something along the lines of this would be OK though.... ChrisTheDude 16:26, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Kent

discussion moved from template

Expand article with more information on highlights/lows of a seaon

This seems to me to be an invitation to WP:Recentism: to give highs and lows of every season for the last 114 years is neither possible nor desirable in terms of length of the article, and to only give it for recent years is to give disproportionate priority to the recent history. Kevin McE 18:53, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I accept the problems and think the article covers "highs and lows" of an era rather than a year. - Olive Oil -_ŢάĽɮ - 19:15, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

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