Talk:List of football referees

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Contents 1 Improve this article 2 Adding Years 3 Disambiguation 4 Richard Main? 4.1 Similarly, Nafan Pierce. 5 England Wales - Howard King

[edit] Improve this article

Anyone have an idea on how to improve this article? It would be nice to say which referees are current FIFA refs, and which are retired. The information for current referees is available on the FIFA website http://fifa.com/en/regulations/referees/index.html . If you have any ideas please let me know. Being an avid referee myself, I hope to contribute to Wikipedia's content on this topic. Canuck89 04:30, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adding Years

If anyone adds a name to this list, please also include the years in which the referee was designated FIFA (international), by placing the years in parenthesis after the name. Canuck89 19:53, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation

I have gone through the article and fixed links so that they do not go to inappropriate places. When you add a name, please make sure that your link to "Bob Smith" actually goes to an article on Bob Smith the referee, and make it "Bob Smith (referee)" if not. In a few cases the article pointed to was for a player, and I was uncertain whether they might have become referees - Gustavo Méndez of Uruguay, for instance. I differentiated the two, just in case they aren't the same person. --Brianyoumans 06:55, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Richard Main?

Hi. Who is Richard Main (inserted here by anon IP). If anyone can tell me something that Google or Windows Live searches can't, I'll leave the name there. Otherwise, and considering it is currently a redlink anyway, I will remove after a period of time. Thanks. Refsworldlee^(chew-fat)(eds) 20:46, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

No response - removed after 24 hours as non-notable. Refsworldlee^(chew-fat)(eds) 22:33, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Similarly, Nafan Pierce.

Russian referee? I think not. Removed. Refsworldlee^(chew-fat)(eds) 23:05, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] England Wales - Howard King

I'm currently working on a Newcastle United website and I have this chap listed as ref'ing the match with Swindon Town 18-Sep-1993, so assume he should also be listed as a Premier League ref, if my information is accurate. 81.6.231.241 21:47, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi. If that's the case, feel free to add "Premier League (year)-(year)" to his current stats at List of football referees (Wales section). However, you would need to know his start and end dates for that purpose (usually added by someone with Rothmans Year Books and suchlike - I don't have any myself). Thanks. Ref ^(chew)(do) 01:25, 20 July 2007 (UTC)