Talk:August 2005 in sports

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"This is supposed to record a CURRENT sport/event, NOT to speculate. If there are followup repercussions or developments then let's make it into an article."

He did jump. The police said he jumped. His friends said he jumped. It's not speculation, it is fact.

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[edit] Drawing a line

When Current sports events was first created, we used it to generally list items of international interest – international country and club football matches, world championships, Olympics, etc. Nowadays we seem to be listing purely national results (English domestic cricket results, English Premiership, Spanish La Liga, NBA basketball, MLB). Should we be doing this? Where do we draw the line? -- Arwel 17:38, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

I dunno. It seems really no different than what Current events seems to becoming. I'm actually rather fond of it, though. RADICALBENDER★ 05:09, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

Personally, I tend not to add domestic cricket results (I do add internationals when I remember) - I find them too unimportant for this page (if every sport did this, we'd be looking at a 200K page every month) I won't delete them either, though. As long as the page doesn't get too huge, I wouldn't bother too much, but at some point I think we're going to have to make a notability decision for what fits here and what should go on a local current events page. Sam Vimes 17:23, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm the person mainly responsible for adding the English domestic cricket results. If there is a consensus for including only international results here then I will stop doing so. However, I think it's worth noting that there are lots of domestic competitions with international audiences and significance -- the NFL and the English cricket competitions are examples of such -- and I don't think it's harmful to include these and similar events where a case for international notability can be made. (Also, by the way, the English cricket season finishes on September 25, after which nothing more until next April!) --Ngb 19:27, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

If only "international" sporting events were to be included, no American sports would be included, except when the Blue Jays or Raptors were involved. A game between the Bears and Packers is probably of interest to far more people than a UEFA Cup match between a Faroese team and an Icelandic one. (Which reminds me, shouldn't soccer scores be under "Football (soccer)" :]) Mwalcoff 01:40, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

I say if it is a generally-recognized sport (even if it is confined to two contries like Aussie rules footy and rugby league, it should still be all right) then anything goes. --J L C Leung 12:04, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm quite looking forward to the Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi, South African, Zimbabwean, West Indian, New Zealand and Australian seasons though, jguk 20:34, 21 August 2005 (UTC)