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[edit] Archives

[edit] Proposal to expand WikiProject A-League

[edit] Spiel

In starting this project, one thing I didn't realise at the time was the relatively poor coverage of football in Australia before/outside the A-League. User:Blackmissionary mentioned a while ago that it would be good if WP:A-L was to include the NSL, and I would like to expand this idea to the whole of football in Australia. Whilst the same aim would be achieved by simply starting a new project, I think that ultimately a large proportion of people who would contribute to a new project would be the same as the current members of WP:A-L. It would also save the hassle of spreading discussion that apply to both projects so that all members could have their say. Everything currently included in WP:A-L would be included in the new project, and those members who wish to continue focusing solely on A-League articles could easily do so. Please note that the "Australia" reference is 100% not against any New Zealand Knights, Football Kingz, etc information being involved in the project – but tacking "and some New Zealand stuff" on the end of the project name would be a bit messy. I have created a more formal proposed project page here, and if the members here choose to support this idea, I will add it to the project proposals list. – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 08:27, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Poll

[edit] Support

  1. Support SupportAlbinoMonkey (Talk) 08:27, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
  2. Rebecca 01:11, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
  3. Daniel.Bryant 01:15, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
  4. cj | talk 15:57, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
  5. Chuq 23:18, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
  6. Dibo 04:21, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
  7. Blackmissionary 00:04, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
  8. Kingutd 05:24, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  9. Mattythewhite 06:55, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  10. Hack 07:30, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  11. Tiefighter 10:16, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  12. Rakuten06 11:50, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  13. Fedgin 11:14, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
  14. Rossoneri3 (talk contribs) Rossoneri3 01:25, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
  15. Boltonfan22 04:51, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oppose

[edit] Neutral

[edit] Comments

  • Love the picture! Daniel.Bryant 01:16, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
  • I think WikiProject Australian football (soccer) would be a better name for the expanded project (it's less cumbersome).--cj | talk 15:57, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
    • yeh I thought the same thing, but had a feeling AFL fans would not be too happy with us using "Australian football". I'll ask over at WikiProject AFL. – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 01:32, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
      • I was thinking Wikipedia:WikiProject football (soccer) in Australia. Daniel.Bryant 01:46, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
        • Well yeh that's what it stands as at the moment, but I agree with cj in that (1) it is a bit cumbersome, and (2) saying 'football in Australia' slightly implies we would be ignoring overseas Australian players. I guess we'll have to have another poll if this goes ahead. – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 01:51, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
          • Well, my actual preference is for WP:WPJ Australian soccer, but I didn't dare suggest that first off in this forum ;).--cj | talk 03:09, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
            • WikiProject World Game :-) -- Chuq 04:56, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
              • Wikiproject World Game in Australia :D Daniel.Bryant 05:16, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
      • Oh great I've caused more trouble than I solved. :D WikiProject Football (soccer) in Australia it is, unless there are any really serious objections. I'll stick it on the proposed projects list once ten people have supported or a week has passed (general guideline is at least six for a wikiproject I think, which we've got now). – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 06:33, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
        • I think WikiProject Australian football (soccer) is best, simple and uniform. The picture is awesome, bit of oldschool! Thanks AlbinoMonkey for remembering my idea and making it better! :) Blackmissionary 01:05, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
          • OK looks like we will need a poll of some kind after all. Tomorrow marks a week since I put this up, so I'll send out messages to those who haven't put in a vote for the project change, put it up on project proposals, then probably get the wheels rolling on the weekend. Cheers. – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 05:53, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Sorry been away for the weekend, and a bit bogged down with work for the next few days. Will get to it within the week, hopefully. – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 11:20, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Final steps being put in motion now. Please vote in the poll below also – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 04:02, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name choice

Seems a name is not immediately obvious, so just sign under which one you think is best (add another if you wish; add your name to more than one if you want). Give it about a week.

[edit] WikiProject Football (soccer) in Australia

  1. AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 04:02, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  2. Hack 04:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  3. Blackmissionary 07:12, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  4. Chuq 08:01, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  5. Daniel.Bryant 23:55, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  6. Fedgin 11:13, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
  7. Rakuten06 12:12, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
  8. Rossoneri3 Rossoneri3 01:26, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
  9. Boltonfan22 03:26, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Australian football (soccer)

  1. Kingutd 05:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Soccer in Australia

[edit] WikiProject Australian soccer

  1. --cj | talk 08:54, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Football (soccer) in Australia templates

I have created three four templates, in the format as per the WP Football template standard:

{{AUS fb general}} {{AUS fb natteams}} {{AUS fb A-League}} {{AUS fb states}}

This are shown in use together with {{fb start}} and {{fb end}} here:

Football in Australia
v  d  e

Governing body: Football Federation Australia | Former: Soccer Australia

National league: A-League | Former: National Soccer League

National football teams of Australia
v  d  e

Senior: Men's (Socceroos)

Seasons: 2006 | 2007

 Women's (Maltildas)

Youth: Men's U23 (Olyroos) | Men's U20 (Young Socceroos)
Women's U20 (Young Matildas) | Men's U17 (Joeys)

Hyundai A-League
v  d  e

List of A-League champions | A-League all-time records

Seasons: 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08

Teams:  Adelaide United | Central Coast Mariners
Melbourne Victory | Newcastle Jets | Perth Glory
Queensland Roar | Sydney FC | Wellington Phoenix

Former team: New Zealand Knights

Football by state
v  d  e
State Governing body Leagues
ACT Capital Football New South Wales Premier League
NSW Football NSW
Northern NSW Football NBN State Football League
Vic Football Federation Victoria Victorian Premier League (Div 1)
Qld Football Queensland Brisbane Premier League (Div 1)
WA Football West Western Australia State League
SA Football Federation of South Australia South Australia Super League
Tas Football Federation Tasmania Tasmanian championship
NT Football Federation Northern Territory -

Of course it is possible to create more templates like this, for example on A-League you can see two of them in use with a third fb template. If people like them, I expect they will be added to relevant articles, ie. A-League related articles (seasons, clubs, etc) will have {{AUS fb general}} and {{AUS fb A-League}}; state governing bodies and leagues will have {{AUS fb general}} and {{AUS fb states}}. Football (soccer) in Australia will probably be the only article to have all three four.

I'm guessing {{AUS fb A-League}} will replace {{A-League teamlist}}, if there aren't any disagreements. -- Chuq 08:00, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

  • Two disagreements, The a-league clubs names are not in alphabetical order and the young matildas are not in national teams.

Boltonfan22 07:34, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

    • And mens U23 should have Olyroos next to them. Boltonfan22 07:37, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Should there be an entry for Northern New South Wales under leagues and state governing bodies? They are separate from Soccer NSW and are a constituent federation of the FFA...--Hack 08:41, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Fixed, fixed, fixed and fixed :P Anything else? I noticed the templates were tested on some other pages but were removed afterwards. Is it because (in the above example) the CCM template didn't fit? Do people agree with modifying the club templates to this format? -- Chuq 11:46, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
  • When i was testing the templates, I noticed the "disagreements" and i thought i better get them fixed before i placed the templates back on the CCM pages. The CCM template was fine. Boltonfan22 06:38, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
No problem. I think the general one should be split off into a "general" (FFA, SA, A-L, NSL links) and a "national teams" one. All Australian football articles should have {{AUS fb general}}, but articles on state football, state gov bodies, and state leagues do not need links to the Olyroos, Young Matildas, Joeys etc. -- Chuq 01:26, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Done - what do people think? It would be feasible to also create one for each state, and one for each A-League team. I don't think this would be excess - because most articles would only have 2 or 3. For example:
In these examples:
  • {{AUS fb state Vic}} would have the same links as the "Vic" row of {{AUS fb states}}, plus links to the VPL and VSLD1 teams.
  • {{AUS fb A-League CCM}} would link to the existing team-by-season articles, as well as the stadium, coach, captain (and maybe the rest of the squad, is this over the top?). Such a template could also be placed on, say, Lawrie McKinna (coach) or Noel Spencer (captain), although there aren't any other football templates (of the same style) on those pages. -- Chuq 01:44, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
The CC Mariners page already has the squad list and year by year templates (as do most teams) so maybe we could just join them together and make them the same colour and size etc. That may be easier. Boltonfan22 02:53, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, I haven't included the squad yet, but check out the Central Coast Mariners page to see how it looks. -- Chuq 06:14, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I like it! Daniel.Bryant 12:22, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I think {{AUS fb A-League CCM}} should be yellow. but the rest is great. Good work Chuq Boltonfan22 23:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Delete old templates?

Glad to see the templates are popular :) The colours look great too. Are people OK with me deleting {{QRSeasonTemplate}} and so on, since they aren't in use anymore? -- Chuq 23:26, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Yep. Consider them tagged as {{db-author}}, as I'm the creater and sole editor of them :D. For ease of deletion, the links down the side of User:Daniel.Bryant/A-LeagueSeasonTemplate are to the templates. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant T · C ] 05:50, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
I made sure there were no transclusions, and had them deleted. Daniel.Bryant T · C ] 08:16, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move to Wikipedia:WikiProject Football (soccer) in Australia

I've made the first steps on the expansion to WP:Football in Aus, the new project page is linked above. I'm currently working on the assessment and improving the A-League player project, it would be great if anyone could help with the following:

  • Populating the related pages list (nb generally don't list redirect pages - the idea of the list is to watch related changes to actual articles)
  • Creating a to-do list, and adding a few tasks to the open tasks template.
  • Creating a templates list of all templates related to the project.
  • Creating an awards list of all awards related to the project.
  • Find some way of archiving WikiProject A-League within the new project. See this for a list of this project's subpages (ignore the ones related to the player project... I'm redoing it a bit).
  • Create redirects from here to the new project, also go through what links here and make relevant changes.
  • Generally tidy up the new main page.
  • Create a userbox for participants?
  • Anything else you can think of...

It's a long list at the moment, any help or ideas would be much appreciated. Cheers – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 06:50, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Publicity

I think people should attempt to publicise the project on some forums and the like. I've already done The World Game Forum and the Victory forum. Blackmissionary 22:38, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Confirmation of nationalities

I'm about 90% sure I got them all right, however a number of the coaches had me diving around for refs, or in one case guessing. Anyways, can someone just double-check that all the nationalities are right for the captains and coaches in the following, please:-

Central Coast Mariners
v  d  e

Home: Bluetongue Central Coast StadiumGosford, New South Wales

Coach: Flag of Australia Lawrie McKinna | Captain: Flag of Australia Alex Wilkinson

Seasons: 2005-06 | 2006-07

Adelaide United
v  d  e

Home: Hindmarsh StadiumAdelaideSouth Australia

Coach: Flag of Australia Aurelio Vidmar | Captain: Flag of Australia Angelo Costanzo

Seasons: 2003-04 (NSL) | 2005-06 | 2006-07

Sydney FC
v  d  e

Home: Aussie StadiumSydney, New South Wales

Coach: Flag of Australia Branko Culina | Captain: Flag of Australia Mark Rudan

Seasons: 2005-06 | 2006-07

New Zealand Knights
v  d  e

Home: North Harbour StadiumAucklandNew Zealand

Coach: Ricki Herbert (interim)Captain: Flag of England Darren Bazeley

Seasons: 2005-06 | 2006-07

Newcastle Jets
v  d  e

Home: EnergyAustralia StadiumNewcastleNew South Wales

Coach: Flag of Australia Gary van Egmond | Captain: Flag of Australia Paul Okon

Seasons: 2005-06 | 2006-07

Melbourne Victory
v  d  e

Home: Telstra DomeMelbourneVictoria

Coach: Flag of Australia Ernie Merrick | Captain: Flag of Australia Kevin Muscat

Seasons: 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08

Perth Glory
v  d  e

Home: Members Equity StadiumPerthWestern Australia

Coach: Flag of England Ron Smith | Captain: Flag of Australia Jamie Harnwell

Seasons: 2005-06 | 2006-07

Queensland Roar
v  d  e

Home: Suncorp StadiumBrisbane, Queensland

Coach: Flag of Australia Frank Farina  Captain: Flag of Scotland Stuart McLaren

Seasons: 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08

Cheers, Daniel.Bryant T · C ] 05:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

they're all right... which one did you guess? – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 10:58, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

I quickly did up a userbox for this project, at User:Blackmissionary/FSIA. If people like it, someone more knowledgable can clean it up a little and add a category or whatever. Or If someone can make a better one, that'd be good too. Blackmissionary 23:10, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Season article naming

I've been meaning to suggest that the season articles be renamed to take the capital "S" out of season. I just hadn't got round to it because it wasn't that urgent :P Now that I've actually got around to it, are there any other changes to the naming format that people want to suggest? -- Chuq 05:45, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Move and leave redir, then fix all the templates. Daniel.Bryant T · C ] 21:11, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anon user changing details

Does anyone know if this changes by User:155.143.126.14 are legit or not? Is there a good, updated external source we can check them against?-- Chuq 05:41, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't know but people who are deleting the height and years technical stuff ( m and –), (Socceroo and User:155.143.126.14) off player templates are really annoying me. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Infobox_Football_biography there still needed Boltonfan22 09:33, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adelaide United infobox question

In pages such as John Kosmina and Richie Alagich the NSL and A League spent years spent at Adelaide United are separated, and i was wondering if this was part of a style guide, or just a someone's personal whim? I can't see why personally, seeing as it's the same team. Any objections if i fix these up? Blackmissionary 08:23, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

They are the same club. Merge, I reckon. Daniel.Bryant T · C ] 08:32, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Although they are technically two distinct organisations the public perception is that they are the same club...--Hack 08:46, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

How are they different organisations? Is this the Matt Carroll-esque 'every team is 2 years old' theory, or something else? Blackmissionary 08:51, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

My understanding is that the first organisation was wound up after the end of the NSL and the second was started at the time of their bidding for a place in the A-League. I will look into the details...--Hack 02:19, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough, i won't alter the relevant sections until further info comes up, however my preference is to treat them as the same club. Blackmissionary 03:30, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

I'd personally prefer that for the purposes of player details that they were counted as the same club. An example would be Perth Glory who for business purposes are a different organisation to that which existed under the NSL. But for all intents and purposes it is the same football team. Similarly in an English context when Millwall (or any number of other clubs) became a PLC it did not mean the history of the club stopped...--Hack 07:34, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Although slightly different, it'd be like considering two organisations "different" because they were bought out by someone else. Daniel.Bryant T · C ] 08:05, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Queensland Roar / Queensland Lions

Given all of this, are Queensland Roar and Brisbane Lions/Hollandia the same club?--Hack 01:42, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Do Queensland Roar/Lions still operate senior teams in the Brisbane state leagues? If not, then i would consider them the same club, but if there can be found some evidence that it is a complete break from the previous incarnation(s), then we should follow that stance. Blackmissionary 02:04, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Qld Lions don't have a team in the senior comp any more. They still operate as a licenced club (ie gaming and entertainment) under that name, as well as a number of junior and women's teams. The Roar operate as Queensland Roar FC, but with essentially the same board composition... --Hack 02:28, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

And they wear the Dutch orange and Bleiberg was coach at Lions as well. I lean heavily to continuity on this one, unless someone calls up the Roar office and asks a few board members and finds out otherwise lol. It all sounds a bit like the way South Melbourne FC is a subsidiary of sorts of the South Melbourne Hellas Soccer Club, but still considered the same club, which is perhaps an indication of how we should treat the continuity issue. Blackmissionary 04:40, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

So the history of Hollandia/Lions would be put into the Roar article?--Hack 04:43, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I would vote yes. Based as i said, on no senior men's team competing in the Brisbane leagues after the Roar's entry into the A League, similar financial backer in the Queensland Lions club, similar personnel at coaching, and perhaps at board level, and usage of Dutch orange when the obvious choice was for at least some maroon, using 'Roar' as a nickname, links from the qldlions site to Queensland Roar site. But let's see what some other people think as well. Blackmissionary 05:03, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adelaide Sharks

This page currently redirects to the Adelaide 36ers page. There was an AFD where the consensus was that it links to the 36ers. Is there something we can do as the Adelaide Sharks as an NSL team are far more notable than a potential name for a basketball team. --Hack 03:11, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

I've deleted the redirect - replacing bodgy redirects with more notable articles really isn't much of an issue. Feel free to write a proper article. Rebecca 03:35, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm doing the article now. It'll be a basic thing at first, just for a presence at least, and to add relevant redirects. Blackmissionary 03:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Article is at West Adelaide Soccer Club. Redirects from West Adelaide Hellas, Adelaide Sharks and West Adelaide SC are online, (thanks to Hack for the last one, even though it was created as an ultra stub) and hopefully i can get round to cleaning it up a little in the not too distant future. Blackmissionary 04:27, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
I am trying to find out if there is some sort of link between the Sharks and Adelaide Olympic. Also the Olympic website suggests they were formed 2000 but wikipedia says 1978. A touch confusing.--Hack 06:21, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Hmmm, it appears from this Ozfootball page that they were founded in 1978 (and other articles have them playing in the SA leagues in the 1990's at least from a quick glance), so i would say from the info at hand, and from some anecdotal evidence, that ex-West Adelaide fans, following the demise of their club, jumped on the Olympic bandwagon, and there or may not have been a formal merger. We'll have to keep looking for a little while longer for the answer. Blackmissionary 06:33, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

From this link "West Adelaide went into liquidation and are gone, but their juniors merged with Olympians in the local league and are now called Adelaide Olympic. They have been successful being promoted to the premier league after 1 season (going unbeaten), and just recently lost in the premier league grand final in extra time." Hopefully that clears it up a little. Blackmissionary 06:45, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Central Coast Mariners FC...

...is the current football (soccer) collab. of the week. Daniel.Bryant T · C ] 05:43, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Fantastic - I think we should use this opportunity to get it 100% and then use its format as a basis for the other A-League teams. -- Chuq 11:54, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Did we get anything done during this week. Basically only the 2 usuals added any info to the page (and i only added season-specific info). No one from Wikiproject Football did anything to the page. What did we get out of this collabortion besides some referencing.Boltonfan22 03:22, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

A grand total of 0. I did the referencing, got some pictures with permission (that took all week), and rearranged some stuff. I must say, it was a giant flop. Daniel.Bryant T · C ] 03:24, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More templates

Have a look at Football (soccer) in Victoria, you will see I have created another template for Victoria at {{AUS fb state Vic}} This includes links to FFV, VPL (& teams) and VSLD1 (& teams). Note it doesn't include Melbourne Victory as (AFAIK) MV doesn't come under FFV at all. If people like it I can do similar things for other states. -- Chuq 11:54, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Looks great, We can also add these to the governing body pages which have the old template on them.Boltonfan22 06:11, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Yeah, like them, especially the way in the Vic one where the leagues and teams are all there in one place. Blackmissionary 06:14, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] National Soccer League history section rewrite

I've done a substantial rewrite of the NSL article's history section. All interested parties are invited to make commments, suggestions etc. on that article's talk page, cheers Blackmissionary 00:37, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Good stuff. "One Fantastic Goal" is the only book that covers NSL history that I own at the moment, but I hope to find a few things in the near future. This article should be one of our top priorities IMO. – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 13:06, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 FIFA World Cup controversies

Given the Socceroos' large part in this article (v Japan; v Croatia; v Italy all mentioned), I feel that it call fall under this Wikiproject's scope. Thoughts? Daniel.Bryant T · C ] 05:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Addendum: v Brazil also has a section. Daniel.Bryant T · C ] 05:38, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
agreed, definetily part this project's scope. Blackmissionary 06:07, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blue and white brigade and Australian Ultras

Are supporters groups worthy of an article in their own right? It seems that most football 'ultra' groups do not have their own page. This page is up for deletion so I was wondering what others thought about it... Hack 06:20, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Nope. Merge them into the #Supporters section of the team's article, and redirect. Similar thing happened with the Marinators and the CCMFC article. Daniel.Bryant T · C ] 06:32, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Seconded Blackmissionary 08:41, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Further to this all, it seems the Australian section of the Ultras page keeps getting vandalised - a number of people seem to be continually adding and deleting groups. Might be something to look out for... --Hack 08:22, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Footballer nationalities

Can someone run thru and check the contribs from this IP (Special:Contributions/144.132.5.112) - as I noted on User talk:144.132.5.112, nationalities aren't determined from where a player was born. I've reverted the change of Wayne O'Sullivan (an Irish international) to being a Cypriot, and I'd like someone to run thru and check the others - the edits from the 15th and 17th of this month specifically. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant T · C ] 11:06, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

So we are going by the national team they play for, or the nationality/nationalities they are? Either way this is a pretty controversial issue.Hack 09:20, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

If they have represented a country, then that country is their nationality. If they haven't, it's based on their passport ownership and heritage, which isn't all that easy to work out sometimes. Daniel.Bryant T · C ] 09:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
On the basis of passport ownership Adrian Caceres, for example, would be Australian, English and Argentine. Also here's a whole bunch of Brazilian and Argentine players that have European passports to allow them to play in Europe. But in the end I agree that your criteria would make most sense... Hack 10:28, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 499 national team caps

The FFA has released a list of every player to appear for the senior mens' national team (there's 499 at the moment). Obviously there is not going to be a huge amount of info out there for a lot of the players, but there are a few notable names which are red links or stubs at the moment, so if you are looking for something to do, have a browse through this list and see if there are any you want to have a crack at. I hope to put all the names on the related pages list in the near future so we can see what's missing. Cheers. – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 13:11, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Football in Australia - naming conventions

I would like to invite all interested editors to have a read of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Football in Australia) and offer improvements or suggestions on the talk page. Please do not comment about it on this page - I am hoping to centralise discussion in one place! -- Chuq 10:31, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] More on templates..

Going on from the discussion half way up the page, I have created state focused templates such as {{AUS fb state Vic}} and {{AUS fb state Tas}}:

Victorian Premier League
Altona Magic | Australian Institute of Sport | Essendon Royals | Fawkner Blues | Green Gully Cavaliers | Heidelberg United | Kingston City FC | Melbourne Knights | Oakleigh Cannons | Preston Lions FC | Richmond SC | South Melbourne FC | Springvale White Eagles | Sunshine George Cross FC | Western Suburbs SC | Whittlesea Zebras

Victorian State League Division 1
Bentleigh Greens | Brunswick City | Cranbourne Comets | Dandenong Thunder | Frankston Pines | Langwarrin | North Coburg United | North Geelong Warriors | Port Melbourne Sharks | St. Albans Saints | Southern Stars | Westgate SC

Southern Premier League
Glenorchy Knights | Kingborough Lions | South Hobart | University | Clarence United | New Town Eagles | Hobart Zebras | Hobart Olympic | Metro Claremont | Taroona |

Northern Premier League
Somerset | Launceston City | Burnie United | Western Knights | Northern Rangers | Riverside Olympic | Devenport City | Ulverstone | Launceston

Defunct: Tasmanian Championship

The templates are designed to be hierarchical - top-most one (usually {{AUS fb general}}) is the most general, the bottom one (usually the club or state template) being the most specific. I've noticed {{AUS fb states}} ...

Football by state
v  d  e
State Governing body Leagues
ACT Capital Football New South Wales Premier League
NSW Football NSW
Northern NSW Football NBN State Football League
Vic Football Federation Victoria Victorian Premier League (Div 1)
Qld Football Queensland Brisbane Premier League (Div 1)
WA Football West Western Australia State League
SA Football Federation of South Australia South Australia Super League
Tas Football Federation Tasmania Tasmanian championship
NT Football Federation Northern Territory -

... has been moved to the bottom of the templates on some articles, probably because it is big, bulky, and mostly not relevant to the state article (full of other states' governing bodies and leagues) - which is a fair reason. I suggest that once the other individual state templates are created, we can replace the {{AUS fb states}} template with something smaller such as:

Football in Australia by state
v  d  e
ACT NSW Vic Qld WA SA Tas NT

.. and put it back above the state-specific template. Make sense? -- Chuq 02:17, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Seems fine to me. Daniel.Bryant T · C ] 02:37, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NSL template

For perusal: {{AUS fb NSL}}

National Soccer League
v  d  e

List of NSL champions | NSL all-time records

Seasons: ... | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04

Teams:  A.P.I.A. Leichhardt | Adelaide City | Adelaide United | Blacktown City | Brisbane City SC | Brisbane Lions SC | Brisbane Strikers | Brunswick Juventus | Canberra City SC | Canberra Cosmos | Canterbury-Marrickville | Carlton S.C.  | Collingwood Warriors | Eastern Pride | Footscray JUST | Green Gully | Heidelberg United | Inter Monaro | Marconi Stallions | Melbourne Knights | Mooroolbark SC | Football Kingz | Newcastle Breakers | Newcastle KB United | Newcastle Rosebud United | Newcastle United | Northern Spirit | Parramatta Eagles | Parramatta Power | Penrith City SC | Perth Glory | Preston Lions FC | South Melbourne | St George Saints | Sunshine George Cross | Sydney City | Sydney Olympic | Sydney United | West Adelaide | Western Suburbs | Wollongong Macedonia | Wollongong Wolves 

  • I'll wait until some season articles are actually written before adding them all
  • I've only listed teams from the final season
  • Since the AU, PG, NUJ and FK links point to the A-League AU, PG, NUJ and NZK articles; we should make sure those articles include details of the NSL era.
  • I suggest the red-linked articles are actually written before we use the template anywhere.

-- Chuq 03:41, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Good work. Some questions though. Is the listing of teams only for the last season for demonstration purposes? For the season articles, where in the A-League version match reports are linked to official sites, how are we going to do the same thing? Just link to OzFootball? Agree with your final point though, but are you talking only about the records and list of champions, or everything including clubs not done yet? Blackmissionary 05:53, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm opening up suggestions to others on how we include the other teams - the box would be huge if we listed them all! I guess OzFootball is the closest to an official source that we have at the moment. IMO only the records, champions, and maybe the last 2-3 seasons should be written before implementing the template (or we can comment out those rows until they exist.) -- Chuq 06:29, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Hmm, fitting in all the teams neatly would be in the realms of the periodic table, not sure how to do it! But for list of champions, do we need a separate page? The A-League article has a link which leads to a section within the NSL article, and for what it's worth, i think that's good enough. Blackmissionary 09:35, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Perth Kangaroos and Darwin Cubs

These clubs never played in Australian national or state leagues, so how we do categorise in them in the project's related pages section? Blackmissionary 04:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

also Australian Cup. Blackmissionary 08:50, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jack Reilly article

I need some help from any experienced wikipedians here, as i'm not sure how to go about this. The Jack Reilly page has recently had another article inserted within it (on an american artist of the same name). Attempts to get the responsible editor to make a new, seperate page have failed (i think they are new, and haven't looked at the article talk page, or just ignored it), so could someone who knows how to sort this stuff out do just that? Blackmissionary 08:03, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I got this one covered. Normy132 08:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I think i've got most of the links sorted/fixed as well. Blackmissionary 03:39, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:23, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Supporters Groups of Perth Glory

Somebody has deleted the supporters section of the Perth Glory page. I intended restoring but was just hoping to see what others thought of this first. It is being suggested that the fan groups are not notable. If this was some sort of consensus we should then be deleting reference in the Melbourne Victory page to such non-notable fans as the BWB and the Cove from the Sydney FC page.Hack 04:26, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

In line with this discussion i think it's ok to restore it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Blackmissionary (talkcontribs) 09:23, 16 January 2007 (UTC).
Also the WP:Football club MOS lists the Supporters section in it - though Perth's (and other A-League ones) could do with a bit of a cleanup IMO. – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 12:20, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A-League 2007-08

Hey. I was just looking at this article and it says that there will be eight clubs in the competition for the season. If the New Zealand Knights have been discarded from the competition, shouldn't the number be seven clubs or an undecided number of clubs? Normy132 10:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

As it is, there are still eight licenses and it appears quite likely that another New Zealand-based franchise will replace the Knights ([1]). I'd leave it at eight until they confirm that it won't be. – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 11:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hyuk-Su Seo / Seo Hyuk-Su

At the moment, there are two articles about this player. As I understand it (I'm no expert), Chinese and Korean names, though spoken as "<Given name> <Surname>" (Hyuk-Su Seo, Ji-Sung Park, Shengqing Qu) are supposed to be written "<Surname> <Given name>". In the A-League we have articles on Gao Leilei (<Surname> <Given name>), Zhang Yuning (<Sn> <Gn>), Qu Shengqing (<Sn> <Gn>), Zhang Xiaobin (<Sn> <Gn>), Tae-Yong Shin (<Gn> <Sn>) and then both versions for the Seo article. Unless anyone has any objections, when I get the chance I'll merge/redirect the Shin and Seo articles to their 'proper' places; just thought I'd mention this for the future. {{Chinese name}} or {{Korean name}} should also be placed at the top of the relevant articles. For the recently-recruited Knights player, I think his surname is Li and given name Yan, but I'm not completely sure (there is no article on him yet). – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 12:08, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2007-08 season.

For teams who are out of the finals (like CCM, PG etc) should we add the 2007-08 season pages now or wait for the end of the Grand Final? Boltonfan22 03:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

A point that does need to be clarified is how the ACL is classified to a season. I am proposing (and have already done with Sydney FC) that the ACL is part of the same "season" of the A-League competition preceeding it. So that for article naming purposes:
Essentially the new "year" starts about June with the A-League competitions. Unless there's significant concerns for an alternative, I say continue with this structure. Tomperc 02:37, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
IMO The details shouldn't be included in the season - they shuold have their own. The ACL comps have their own articles. I do recognise a need to link them though. The obvious way would be to link the ACL seasons with the regular season in which entry to it was "won". A-League 2005-06 -> AFC Champions League 2007. -- Chuq 03:52, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
The best solution seems to be that each article 'refers' to the ACL comp, and then directs readers to the main article for details, particularly as it can relate to many seasons. So for the 2007 ACL, 05-06 would refer to qualification, 06-07 team articles would refer to teams continuing preparations, and should any Aussies get past the group stage, the 07-08 year would refer to the competition continuing (since quarter-finals are in September 07). Tomperc 02:18, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Miscellaneous

Just a couple of things to bring to people's attention. People should take care with how they link to Peter Wilson's article as Peter Wilson (footballer) leads to an aussie rules player, whereas Peter Wilson (Australian soccer) is the correct one. Also i have created a redirect for Olyroos, use it or ignore it at your pleasure. Hooray for me. Blackmissionary 05:47, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Canberra football

New articles have been created for Football (soccer) in the Australian Capital Territory and Canberra City SC and a major expansion of Canberra Cosmos has been done - ready for review and inputs. Tomperc 04:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

There has been a partial merger of Capital Football into Football (soccer) in the Australian Capital Territory, keeping two articles. Capital Football remains to refer to the organisation alone. The competitions are now included in the ACT article. Tomperc 02:42, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Football in NSW

i have created the article Football (soccer) in New South Wales single-handely from scratch so i was looking for some reviews, input, critisicm, etc. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Santiago26 (talkcontribs) 10:00, 10 February 2007 (UTC).

Hey sorry it's taken so long for someone to reply, but firstly I'd say thanks a heap for creating this article to start with; it was definitely a big gap missing in the project. I have a couple of suggestions: at the moment, the article is made up largely of small lists of competitions and clubs etc. It would be nice if this was changed more into sentence form describing the way the hierarchies work. Secondly, I think a history section is a must. The first organised match of football in Australia was played in Sydney, and many clubs from the Hunter/Newcastle region are some of the oldest in Australia. Finally, an overview of participation would be great. I can't find it at the moment, but there was a government study a few years ago with full stats for a whole heap of sports, and there is also the (annual?) Sweeney sports report which looks into interest/participation etc. – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 13:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Just wanted to agree with Albinomonkey - thanks for that! Do you know much about Northern NSW Soccer / Northern NSW Football Federation? That is one of the more confusing things to me - why there are two federations for the state. IMO this shuold be explained in the article as well! -- Chuq 12:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the input, ill get too it. On the Northern NSW fed. i believe they coordinate all football activities int their region incl.a Premier League + Youth rep. leagues due to the impossible distances those in that region would have to make to play in the rep. leagues of SoccerNSW. i will cjheck this out further. i propose a new article on Northern NSW Fed + anoither article on Football (soccer) in Northern NSW. do you agree/disagree {Santiago26 23:44, 2 March 2007 (UTC)}

There is already an article Northern New South Wales Football. I think Football (soccer) in New South Wales should be about exactly that - all football activities over the whole state, both NNSWF and SNSW. By the way, I have created a new template:
Southern:
Football NSW
Northern:
Northern NSW Football

New South Wales Premier League
A.P.I.A. Leichhardt Tigers | Bankstown City Lions | Blacktown City Demons | Manly United FC | Marconi Stallions | Penrith Nepean | Sutherland Sharks | Sydney Olympic FC | Sydney United | Wollongong Wolves

NSW Winter Super League
NSW State League Div 1

NBN State Football League
Adamstown Rosebuds | Azzurri FC | Broadmeadow Magic | Edgeworth Eagles | Hamilton Olympic | Lake Macquarie Roosters | Phoenix Rangers | South Cardiff | Toronto Awaba | Weston Workers Bears FC

.. for all NSW related football articles. -- Chuq 04:11, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


Hey sorry for the late reply been bogged down with schoolwork lately... I like the template - it was exactly what i was thinking... its how it should be. i will start incl. some of the northern nsw stuff into the football (soccer) in NSW article soon... I hope!

[edit] Team locator map

I'd appreciate it if people could give me their opinions on which of these maps look best? User:Chuq/Sandbox/Sports_maps -- Chuq 00:06, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I like II. Daniel Bryant 06:52, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
I like I. One problem New Zealand team is in Wellington now.Boltonfan22 06:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
The current one in use at A-League#Clubs is kind of a combination of those two - and the Wellington one isn't a problem, as the coloured icons can be relocated by changing co-ordinates. -- Chuq 09:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FAC FSIA's first ever FA!

As a FYI given we don't have a table like WP:WPF listing going-ons with articles, the Central Coast Mariners FC article is currently a featured candidate. You can view the current status of the nomination, and leave comments, at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Central Coast Mariners FC. Cheers, Daniel Bryant 06:52, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Promoted! :) Daniel Bryant 22:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
As you can see from my recent contribs, I haven't had much time to work on things recently but I've been lurking and had to extend my congratulations to Daniel and everyone else who worked on this article. Hopefully it is the first of many. Well in. – AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 08:32, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Congratulations on achieving Featured Article Status. Blackmissionary 09:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Creation of WikiProject Football task forces

A proposal to reorganise all football related projects has been made here. Input from members of this project is wanted. – Elisson • T • C • 20:22, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] National Youth League

I can't seem to be able to find anything on the former National Youth League. Should this be a discrete article or part of the NSL page?--Hack 03:32, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Tough one. Probably a separate article, but it is a very hard topic to find info on i think. Even OzFootball doesn't seem to have much on it. Blackmissionary 05:17, 4 April 2007 (UTC)