Talk:Australian Football League season 2006

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As this article gets bigger we'll have to separate it Round by Round I think. Rogerthat Talk 06:41, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Structure

For those expressing concerns on the structure of this article and the fact that it may become too large, I suggest following the lead of the Frizzell County Championship Division One in 2005 - the article for Div. 1 County Cricket in 2005. Rogerthat Talk 12:37, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I disagree strongly with that style of article. It is packed full of emotive language that runs contrary to the fundamental Wikipedia principle of NPOV. There is no place for commentary in an encyclopedia article. The article would be just as informative as it is now, as well as adhering to NPOV, if we removed the commentary and instead linked to a news article that discussed the game. That would also have the added bonus of not being horribly bloated. Remy B 10:39, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
To be completely honest, there won't be any space for a paragraph to each game. I think a simple "Team X 14 9 93 defeated Team Y 13 10 88." GizzaChat © 12:02, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I am keen to get the formatting for this article down pat rather quickly once the season has started and we have content to work with. This is what I propose:

  • Renaming the article to 2006 Australian Football League season, to be consistent with most season articles on Wikipedia (eg. 2006 NFL season, 2004-05 NBA season, 2005-06 Indian cricket season, 2006 Commonwealth Games, etc.).
  • Majorly cutting down the Pre-season news section (if leaving it in at all), as most of it is fluff, and most of it is unsourced.
  • A section for each round containing:
    • A table of the 8 games, including scores, venue, crowd size, major goal kickers, link to AFL.com.au report.
    • Basic information on injuries, and reports (including verdicts when available).
    • Major events of the week following the round (like controversies, coach sackings, etc).
    • Maybe an at-this-round ladder table to the right-hand side, with small text to keep it unobstrusive.
  • A finals section, although we can think about that later when September comes around.

What are others thoughts? Remy B 15:52, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to see the article keep in trend with the other seasons. Have a link to Draft results pre-season grand final result, afl grand final result, a full premiership ladder and the medal winners. If we do what Remy B suggests we have to do it to the rest of the season articles which will be a REAL pain finding out what incidents happened in week 12 of the 1901 season, for example. Normy 09:35, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm certainly not suggesting we have to use this structure at the same depth for all the other seasons. I dont agree at all with having less information in this article for the sake of the fact that it is difficult to find similar information for a season over 100 years ago. For example, the article for the year 2005 is quite large, but I hardly think Wikipedia's editors should cut it down to a couple of lines because it is a real pain to find such depth of information on the year 1005. Regardless, I think the incidents section would be fairly minor, and the results of the round's games would be the primary content, and those results could easily be written for any of the previous VFL/AFL seasons. Remy B 13:07, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I have moved the pre-season news into its own article (just like there are articles for final series', NAB cups, and drafts). Personally I think the pre-season news content is mostly non-notable and needs a lot of sources, but I also dont want to delete it without giving other editors a chance to fix it up, so moving it to its own article seemed like a good idea. I have also started the table structure for the rounds, and it would be great to get some feedback on them, so we can get it right as soon as possible, because once the season is well underway it will be a lot more annoying trying to change it rather than now. Once we are overall quite happy with the format of the article it would be good to use it as a template of sorts for previous year's seasons. Remy B 13:46, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article naming convention

I have organised a vote of sorts for the naming convention of AFL season articles. If anyone is interested in participating, go to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject AFL#AFL season article naming convention. Cheers. Remy B 13:00, 16 April 2006 (UTC)