Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby league

[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

For a list of recently created or unassessed rugby league articles, see:New Articles.

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):

• Adelaide Rams is now a good article.
• Cumberland (rugby league team) is now a good article.
• Karmichael Hunt is now a featured article.
• Each of the 27 Origin contest years now has its own article.
• All 100 NSWRL/NRL seasons to date each have their own article - 1908 through 2007. Thks to Mdmanser, SBC89 & early work by Jeff79, CEP78.
• Parramatta Eels is now a good article.

[edit] Discussion Forum

This is now archived, please discuss anything on this talk page.

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.

Archived discussions are:

• Times Digital Archive 2006
• Current NRL spoilers
• Players infobox
• Project goals needed
• Cowboys article problem
• People attacking Cowboys article
• Club colours
• Fair Use of Player Images
• Putting up weekly run on sides on team articles

[edit] Featured material

Featured articles

The 3 following league-related articles are Featured articles:

• Karmichael Hunt
• Sydney Roosters
• Valley Parade

Featured lists

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

• List of National Rugby League golden point games

Good Articles (including A-class)

The 9 following league-related articles are Good articles:

• Adelaide Rams
• Brisbane Broncos
• Cumberland
• KC Stadium
• Melbourne Storm
• Parramatta Eels
• Ray Lindwall
• Rugby league in England
• South Sydney Rabbitohs

[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
	FA		1	1	1	1	4
	GA		5	1		3	9
	B	10	16	27	7		60
	Start	10	79	388	490	65	1032
	Stub	3	5	195	1321	702	2226
	Assessed	23	106	612	1819	771	3331
	Unassessed			1		8	9
	Total	23	106	613	1819	779	3340

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.

• See Requested Articles List

• See To Do List

[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.

Team jerseys

A full list of every NSWRL/ARL/SL/NRL teams' home jerseys (as well as occasional away and heritage jerseys) can be viewed here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Rugby_league/Team jerseys. Shouldn't be overly used in namespace, maybe on team pages and history pages.

[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.

• POds
  • Updating Rugby league
  • Updating Playing rugby league
  • Creating Rugby league abroad
  • Creating Rugby culture
• Dan
  • Updating/tidying User:Danmiles/Sandbox/Rugby league State of Origin results and statistics
• Sticks66
  • Created Grand Final Sections for all NSWRL/NRL Season Articles Assistance still welcomed to finesse. Link shows status all sub-sections 1908 to 2006! Some player christian names & many team line ups and match reports still needed.
    .

[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] News for specific nations

[edit] Resources