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Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 1 1 4
Good article GA 5 1 3 9
B 10 16 27 7 60
Start 10 79 388 491 65 1033
Stub 3 5 195 1323 702 2228
Assessed 23 106 612 1822 771 3334
Unassessed 1 8 9
Total 23 106 613 1822 779 3343
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to rugby league. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you have a passion for rugby league and wish to make Wikipedia the world's foremost reference on rugby league like the rest of our participants then add your name to the list below. Then read the section below labelled How to help or inquire on our talk page. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices. You may sign up for the project on the Participants list, and add your name here and here if rugby league is your favourite sport.

We are in search of graphic artists for rugby league diagrams. Also any images of professional leagues would be very helpful.

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[edit] Scope

The aim of the project is to create a pool of consistent and attractive articles that are easy to find and read, which can be achieved by maintaining and creating:

  • the rugby league category and sub-category structures
  • templates, infoboxes and other tools to help wikipedia display and make better use of content
  • articles related to rugby league
  • Portal:Rugby League and Current sports events up-to-date for international matches and provincial competitions.
  • Recent deaths and Current sports events up to date when notable rugby league players pass on. (As usually there are newspaper obituaries written when a person dies, it is also an opportunity to write up and improve the Wikipedia article on that player.)
  • Coordinate efforts and peer review articles
  • Expand the biographies on every man who has played a Test for the four main nations (Australia, England, France and New Zealand) as well as Great Britain.
  • Increase the number of well written rugby league related articles
  • Expand and improve other rugby league related articles


[edit] Recently updated articles and News

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby league/News

The following rugby league-related articles have been recently updated or created (note: this is not a complete list, just a list of articles which WP:RL participants wish to bring to the attention of other participants):


[edit] Discussion Forum

This area is designated for team members to bring up topics of discussion. Generally, any issues, potential problems, areas where things can be done better, article quality issues, bright ideas or anything else that which helps us move toward our goals.

For a list of the most recently edited discussions (most up to date discussions) see Recent changes.

[edit] Featured material

Featured articles

The 1 following league-related article is a Featured article:

Featured lists

The 1 following league-related article is a Featured list:

Good Articles (including A-class)

The 7 following league-related articles are Good articles:


[edit] Assessment

The Assessment Department rates an articles' importance to the project as well as it's quality. Here is a summary of currently assessed material:

Rugby league
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 1 1 4
Good article GA 5 1 3 9
B 10 16 27 7 60
Start 10 79 388 491 65 1033
Stub 3 5 195 1323 702 2228
Assessed 23 106 612 1822 771 3334
Unassessed 1 8 9
Total 23 106 613 1822 779 3343

Check regularly on the unassessed list of articles and rate their importance and quality.


[edit] Peer review

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process. You can submit an article for peer review or assist in reviewing articles here.

[edit] Participants

Project participants are listed at the participants list. Feel free to add your name and the teams you support.

[edit] Project Members

Cap User Status Favourite Team Representative Team
4 Tim Fellows (talk · contribs) Semi-active Sheffield Eagles Great Britain
5 Tiburon (talk · contribs) Semi-active , England
6 DaGizza (talk · contribs) Semi-active Penrith Panthers New Zealand
7 Mdmanser (talk · contribs) Active Sydney Roosters New South Wales
10 GordyB (talk · contribs) Active Whitehaven RLFC Great Britain
18 Ianblair23 (talk · contribs) Semi-active Parramatta Eels Australia
28 Pcpp (talk · contribs) Semi-active Brisbane Broncos
36 Sattlersjaw (talk · contribs) Semi-active South Sydney Rabbitohs Australia
37 Sss333(2) (talk · contribs) Semi-active Canberra Raiders
39 Sticks66 (talk · contribs) Active St. George Illawarra Dragons New South Wales
40 SpecialWindler (talk · contribs) Semi-active Brisbane Broncos Queensland
42 Casliber (talk · contribs) Semi-active Canterbury Bulldogs Australia
45 bongomanrae (talk · contribs) Active Brisbane Broncos Australia
48 Londo06 (talk · contribs) Active Harlequins RL Great Britain
51 bradgraham (talk · contribs) Active Canterbury Bulldogs Australia
55 Hectic18 (talk · contribs) Semi-active Canterbury Bulldogs Australia
58 Jeff79 (talk · contribs) Active Brisbane Broncos
59 Ka5hmir (talk · contribs) Semi-active St. George Illawarra Dragons New South Wales
60 Florrie (talk · contribs) Active Wests Tigers, Penrith Panthers New South Wales
61 Boylo (talk · contribs) Semi-active Brisbane Broncos Queensland Maroons
62 Mattlore (talk · contribs) Semi-active
63 Rugbyhelp (talk · contribs) Active
64 HarrisonB (talk · contribs) Semi-active St George Illawarra Dragons New South Wales
65 Alexsanderson83 (talk · contribs) Not-active Brisbane Broncos Queensland
66 thirdayparadise (talk · contribs) Semi-active Sydney Roosters Australia
67 SquarePeg (talk · contribs) Semi-active
68 Timmy888 (talk · contribs) Semi-active Gold Coast Titans Queensland
69 Damanmundine1 (talk · contribs) Semi-active Brisbane Broncos Queensland
70 Roosterrulez (talk · contribs) Semi-active
71 paulytlws (talk · contribs) Semi-active St George Illawarra Dragons
72 MadBullsFan (talk · contribs) Semi-active Bradford Bulls Great Britain
73 Grizzlybear82 (talk · contribs) Active Bulldogs Great Britain
74 Willie mason (talk · contribs) Semi-active Bulldogs
75 ParraFan (talk · contribs)- Semi-active Parramatta Eels New South Wales
76 Ticklemygrits (talk · contribs) Semi-active Manly Warringah Sea Eagles New South Wales
77 Museumofinanity (talk · contribs) Active St George Illawarra Dragons
Melbourne Storm
New South Wales
78 redfiona99 (talk · contribs) Semi-active St. Helens RFC Great Britain
79 Bigda (talk · contribs) Semi-active Hull RLFC Great Britain
80 Thatsgold (talk · contribs) Semi-active St George Illawarra Dragons New South Wales
81 BETHANEE (talk · contribs) Semi-active Castleford Tigers Great Britain
82 Poiuytre (talk · contribs) Active Great Britain
83 Parra-Power (talk · contribs) Active Parramatta Eels New South Wales
84 Tricolours (talk · contribs) Semi-active Sydney Roosters New South Wales
84 William.hall15 (talk · contribs) Active Parramatta Eels New South Wales
85 CorleoneSerpicoMontana (talk · contribs) Active St. Helens RFC Great Britain
86 Granite Snake (talk · contribs) Semi-active Wigan Warriors Great Britain
87 Devasaint (talk · contribs) Semi-active St. Helens RFC Great Britain
88 Cavendish1873 (talk · contribs) Semi-active Salford City reds Great Britain
89 Dean B (talk · contribs) Active New Zealand Warriors New Zealand
90 Smiley21 (talk · contribs) Semi-active Brisbane Broncos Queensland
91 Nasica (talk · contribs) Semi-active Canterbury Bulldogs Wests Tigers New South Wales
92 Andy4226uk (talk · contribs) Semi-active Bradford Bulls Great Britain
93 ssiww (talk · contribs) Active North Queensland Cowboys Queensland
94 Yorkshirian (talk · contribs) Semi-active Hull FC Great Britain
95 mjelski (talk · contribs) Semi-active Leeds Rhinos Great Britain
96 Gialloneri (talk · contribs) Semi-active Illawarra Steelers New South Wales
97 Shirt58 (talk · contribs) Semi-active South Sydney Rabbitohs Queensland
98 JoelUK (talk · contribs) Semi-active England
If you would like to join, or if your name was removed from the list please see the participants list.

[edit] How to help

  • Create — The most important thing is information first. If an article has not been written on a topic which has much available information, then write it.
  • Clean up — Many articles, especially when they are first written, can be messy, incomprehensive and even incorrect. You can help by tidying up such articles with respect to what is correct and the wikiproject's guidelines on formatting articles.
  • Feature status — Bringing an article to feature status is an advanced job possibly not suited to a novice wikipedian or novice writer. This requires turning a good article into an article of outstanding excellence.

The above also applies to templates, categories and other wiki items that make finding rugby league information easier.

You can find articles that you like to edit by browsing the rugby league category.

[edit]

Assess all unassessed articles

[edit] Templates, Images and Team Colours

Templates

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby league/Templates for all rugby league templates, as well as infoboxes.

Images

All rugby league related images, with sub-categories for more accurate sorting can be browsed at: Category:Rugby league images

Team Colours

A full list of every teams' colours can be viewed here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Rugby_league/Team Colours. Mainly to be used in lists.

[edit] Sandboxed Articles

Members are encouraged to make good use of a sandbox, preferably as user sub pages, when making large editions to pages or creating new pages. If your currently working on some articles, give the rest of the projects members a sneak peak here.

[edit] Manual of Style (MoS)

This and more should be edited into the up & coming WikiProject Rugby manual of style

Certain groups of rugby league pages should have a certain structure. These are:

  • Rugby league in Nation articles
  • National rugby league team articles

[edit] Naming Conventions

Rugby league shall be written in lower case, such as rugby league, except when starting a sentence, such as in this one. Also the use of the more official traditional term rugby league football is acceptable, as well as references to footballers, football etc.. Terms involving football, such as football coach, should be amended to rugby league football coach unless the meaning is entirely unambiguous. i.e. to call the game football in New South Wales and Queensland articles is acceptable but if there is any ambiguity involving rlf and soccer, rugby union or Aussie Rules than the the specific term "rugby league football" should be used.

See the Rugby league discussion page for more information.

Also see wikipedia naming conventions, for naming articles.

[edit] Summarise and link

Particularly when writing history of rugby league, be careful not to duplicate information. The standard way to deal with possibly duplicate information is to keep one major source of that information and wherever else it is useful, summarise and link to it, in the following manner.

  1. Place the link under the heading of the section you are writing and before any text.
  2. Type refering link in italics, as follows, Main Article: Link to article
  3. If necessary or relevant, also link to a specific section in the article

You can see an example here.

However, it may be that yours is a complicated subject and for the reader to get the whole picture with as little reading as possible, it is recommended you write light paragraphs that link to the relevant articles in the text. The history section in the rugby league article is the perfect example of this.

[edit] Glossary

I find my self starting to use special terms to refer to things on wikipedia. If you do too, add them here so you can use them in discourse. This may facilitate or hamper communication. I guess we'll find out.

WP-item

This term has be coined as a catch-all phrase for 'things' defineable through wikipedia such as articles, templates, categories, infoboxes etc. Pronounced wikipedia item or wiki item?

MoS

Manual of Style

[edit] Resources

History and Statistics

Associations

Online News Resources

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