Talk:Rugby league in England

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[edit] Interest in sport in Britain

Continuing on from the discussion on the popularity of sports in Australia, here's a bit on the same in England. A MORI poll in December 2003 asked "Which of these sports would you say you are interested in?". The sports in order were: football (soccer), rugby union, swimming, snooker, tennis, athletics, motor racing, cricket, gym, golf, rugby league and boxing. The MORI article that these statistics come from is about how England's victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup effected Union's popularity, so the results are influenced by current events. There are more statistics in another MORI article from 2003. This is the best I've been able to do in my short search. --ThirdEdition 03:20, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Feel free to fix these articles if you find things that appear to be wrong. Then, as you've done here, if you feel its neccessary, explain why you made the changes. We're not the wikipedia overlords, we're pretty good about letting people make changes to all these articles ;) After all, the more correct they are, they more man kind will benefit from them. And i dont know about anyone else, but thats why i create and edit articles. POds 03:49, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Wow :) I love your work! I was looking for several hours on british government websites for some useful statistics but could not find shit! Thanx heaps ThirdEdition! POds 03:42, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Photo

I respect the fact that the picture used on the rugby league in england thread demonstrates two clubs form outside the UK heartlands but surely it would be better to get a shot from a game without the empty stands?

[edit] "Merseyside", Cheshire and "Cumbria"?!

I'm not going to get into the debate of "historical" or "Real" or "Traditional" versus "administrative" counties but as far as I'm concerned Warrington and Widnes are in Lancashire as is St Helens (why do you think they all played in the Lancs cup) and as for "Cumbria", well I'd prefer Cumberland (Think sausages!) However, seeing as "county councils" have come and gone over the past three decades, wouldn't it be better to put "Yorkshire and the north-west" ?

I'm not particularly impressed with your "derbies" section either, I mean "Cheshire" derby? "Calder" derby? "Humberside" urghhh! derby? Ad nauseum.

The Lancs cup did not take teams just from Lancashire, Cumbrian teams also entered. Widnes is in the traditional count of Lancashire but you are wrong about Warrington, it is split down the middle between Lancs and Cheshire. Cumbria also predates 'Cumberland' by centuries. County councils still exist. People use the terms Cheshire / Calder / Humberside derbies albeit not very often, if you can find a better term then add it but please don't delete terms which are in use.GordyB 21:22, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Good Article

Things you may wish to improve:

  • The computer games needs to be either linked to a main article, or have info about the game
  • As with Rugby League nine

Over all article is structured well, above could be improved as could a couple of other parts of the article. I will put it on hold for you. So you can make the improvements.  ¢нαzα93  08:19, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

User:Chaza93/Hold

Personally, I don't think this currently is GA material, although I am not a GA reviewer, I do do rugby league peer review. I have put it up for peer review and will give a thourogh review of the article. (See the link on the WikiProject RUgby league template to see the review). SpecialWindler talk 11:12, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

I've added the link here for my convenience Wikipedia:WikiProject_Rugby_league/Peer_review/Rugby_league_in_England.GordyB 14:46, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA Review

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  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS):
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    a (fair representation): b (all significant views):
  5. It is stable.
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I think that it is very well written and all problems fixed PASS