Talk:List of Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees

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I've put the legends into a table to enable the recording of their career highlights alongside their names. I am thinking that we can't do the same for everyone because it would become enormous. Perhaps the player inductees be structure within two columns (like the rest of the inductees), enabling a brief mention of their more important career highlights next to their names, e.g. three premierships, two brownlow medals, etc. I envisage that the career highlights for the legends would have a bit more in the way of details (thinking out aloud here), like games played and coached, premierships, club B&Fs, brownlows, state games, post playing careers, e.g. media roles, etc. I'll do a couple of the players I am familiar with, and we'll see how it looks. ρ¡ρρµ δ→θ∑ - (waarom? jus'b'coz!) 02:22, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I think we should keep it fairly basic considering we have links to player profiles which go into detail (well, we at least have links to all the Legends). Maybe keep it to best and fairests, premierships, brownlows, games and goals. Coaching details should only be reserved for those inducted as Coaches. Rogerthat ^Talk 06:28, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

What needs to be on this page is the clues for a reader to decide which names to click through to the full article. To me, this would be name, years active, and clubs played for. Since teams win premierships (not players), it does not seem important to list on this page the premierships etc won, and B&F award years just aren't important enough for the list. --Scott Davis ^Talk 15:33, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Scott, is your proposal for the non-Legend inductees, or for all inductees? While I am slowly forming the opinion that we need to follow the more minimalist line (as you have proposed), I am still wondering whether the Legends deserve to be somehow set apart from the rest - even if it is only in the way of formatting with maybe an additional detail or two. Of course, it may be that such a distinction is not warranted in an encyclopedia, a view that I would not oppose. ρ¡ρρµ δ→θ∑ - (waarom? jus'b'coz!) 04:14, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I was thinking about the rest. For the legends, I'd add the citation on their award or something - I'd guess there's one or two sentences that describes why they're a legend. This is a list of detail articles, I'd answer differently if we weren't going to have (eventually) articles for each of the people themselves. As a comparison, Order of Australia lists the knights and officials, and only has categories for officers, members and medal recipients. --Scott Davis ^Talk 05:31, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Adding the citation of the award for the legends is a pretty good idea and an objective way of adding the necessary detail. This brings me to another matter, I have dozens of books on aussie rules, but do you think I can find one that mentions the Hall of Fame more than in passing? Where do we find these citations? Will they be on the web site? I'm having trouble finding much more info, it would be good to flesh out what we have there currently. ρ¡ρρµ δ→θ∑ - (waarom? jus'b'coz!) 06:41, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Try here: http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=halloffame . They are career summaries and a few sentences summarry of the career highlights. I notice some of them are not yet included. As it's a cut'n'paste I'll put them in now.