Talk:Rugby World Cup

Other info/views

Do you think we should include other information such as those that criticize the World Cup? For example, people recognize how big the event it, but it has turned everything in between it into "friendlies", and everything now is "in preparation for the next world cup". People have also become upset at what has happened to some competitions, in particular, next years Super 14. Also, some people say that it has devalued the 3N, etc etc...I know that there are policies on original research/point-of-view neutrality, but is this type of thing significant/relevent enough to be included somewhere??

Webb Ellis trophy

I originally posted this at William Webb Ellis Cup, but I guess it would be just a relevent here. Anyone, both this article and the sub-trophy article say that "International Rugby Board" is engraved on the trophy. But I dont see how this can be, as the trophy came about in the 80s, and there was no "International Rugby Board", but instead, the "International Rugby FOOTBALL Board", with the name change apparently coming about in the late 90s...so whats the deal with the engravings??

The trophy is currently kept in the Museum of Rugby, London.

I thought that the real trophy was on tour in france? And I was under the impression that the real cup is kept at the IRB hq?

Featured article review

Letting people know this article has been nominated for featured article review by another editor. Feel free to help improve the article and address the stated issues that I have pasted below here for convenience. CUA 27 (talk) 20:53, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article review/Rugby World Cup/archive1

I am nominating this featured article for review because it has unsourced text and tables scattered throughout, areas which have not been kept up to date, and short paragraphs and proseline in several sections. I also have concerns about the depth of coverage, the article is quite short and some subsections are tables without any explanatory or contextual text. CMD (talk) 14:12, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

CMD -- I can work on improving the article. I'll start with the easy stuff. Please identify the sections you think are the worst offendors for WP:Proseline? If you do that, I will get to work on revising. CUA 27 (talk) 21:02, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

The worst offender is the Professional era subsection. The structure of going by tournament is understandable, but the current section is "In YEAR event" or "The YEAR event" for the start of every paragraph. Some of the entries are also quite short too. Perhaps these tournaments were relatively unremarkable on the grand scale of history, but if so why mention the results at all? There is a separate section for results later. CMD (talk) 03:35, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Perhaps correct and update the Records and Statistics section where it claims the total number of Red Cards received at the Rugby World Cup tournaments is 16 when in fact the current total number is 25 red cards as cited above by another editor and listed on List of Rugby World Cup red cards wiki article. Also it would be ideal if the missing statistics as requested above by another editor were included in this article 37.18.134.184 (talk) 15:13, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 October 2021

On the Records and Statistics section the total number of red cards issued at Rugby World Cup tournaments is incorrectly listed as 16 red Cards. Change 16 to 25 total Red cards issued in Rugby World Cup tournaments as is evidence on List of Rugby World Cup red cards wiki article with the appropriate citations. 37.18.134.184 (talk) 10:05, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

 Done Updated as per the other wiki article. The sentence was linked to a source from 7 years ago, if there is an updated source someone can put it there, otherwise I believe the linked wiki article will suffice. I Am Chaos (talk) 23:48, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Tournament tables

I'm starting a discussion here with User:MarioBayo and any other interested editors re how much information and details to include in tournament tables. I think the tables have the right amount of detail and don't need more. Especially considering that most people viewing wikipedia articles are using their phone, which is a small screen. CUA 27 (talk) 23:36, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30th June 2022

In the opening paragraph describing the Webb Ellis cup, it says that William Webb Ellis picked up the ball during a “football game”. To a casual reader this may be confusing as they may not know what part of the work Webb Ellis is from and could assume it is Gridiron, Aussie Rules, Gaelic or other types of sports known as “Football” I think it would be better to change it to “association football” to avoid any confusion. 51.198.13.245 (talk) 22:44, 30 June 2022 (UTC)