Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby union

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Rugby union. 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 union and wish to make Wikipedia the world's foremost reference on rugby union like the rest of our participants then add your name to the list below. Then read the section below labelled How to help.

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Aim

To create a pool of consistent and attractive articles that are easy to find and read

Scope

This project shall create and maintain;

• the Rugby union category and sub-category structures
• templates, infoboxes and other tools to help wikipedias display and make better use of content
• articles related to rugby union

Parentage

This project is a child of WikiProject Rugby. WikiProject Rugby union adopts the WikiProject Rugby's manual of style as its own.

The manual of style shall determine only structure and style of WP-items.

What is Structure?

Structure relates to layout of an article, template or other item. It relates to the use of bullet points, indenting, tables and other layout issues and when and where these are appropriate.

What is Style?

Style relates to the colours used, and styles of text such as italics and bold and where and when it is correct to use. Style may also relate to other items which are not easily defined or agreed upon by wikipedian as it is seen in the wikipedia manual of style.

Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject Rugby
• WikiProject Rugby league

Participants

If you wish to become a member, simply add yourself to the bottom of the list of names by editing this page.

Cap	Username	Team (Club)	Team (Nation)
1.	DaGizza (talk · contribs)	File:NSWWaratahsLogo.jpg NSW Waratahs	knowledgeable of File:Wallabies logo.jpg Australia support File:Alblak.JPG New Zealand
2.	Mdmanser (talk · contribs)	File:NSWWaratahsLogo.jpg NSW Waratahs	File:Wallabies logo.jpg Australia
3.	GordyB (talk · contribs)	File:Leeds tykes.PNG Leeds Tykes	File:England Rugby.JPG England
4.	GringoInChile (talk · contribs)	File:CanterburyCrusadersLogo.jpg Canterbury Crusaders	File:Alblak.JPG New Zealand
5.	Forever young (talk · contribs)		File:England Rugby.JPG England
6.	Stormie (talk · contribs)	File:SydneyUniversityCrest.png Sydney University File:OtagoHighlandersLogo.jpg Highlanders	File:Alblak.JPG New Zealand
7.	Saint-djc (talk · contribs)	File:Northampton saints logo.PNG Northampton Saints	File:England Rugby.JPG England
8.	Nelson50 (talk · contribs)	File:Munster-rugby-logo.png Munster	File:Irfu logo.png Ireland
9.	Stabilo_boss (talk · contribs)	File:Leinster-rugby-logo.png Leinster also support File:Munster-rugby-logo.png Munster in the Heineken Cup.	File:Irfu logo.png Ireland
10.	Rowlan (talk · contribs)	File:Ulster logo.gif Ulster Rugby File:Logo sfcasg.GIF Stade Français File:Stlbombersrugbylogo.jpg St. Louis Bombers - this is the club I play for	File:Irfu logo.png Ireland British and Irish Lions File:Usarugby-logo.jpg USA
11.	Rhion (talk · contribs)	File:Llanelli-scarlets-badge.jpg Llanelli Scarlets	File:Welshrugby.png Wales
12.	Hamedog (talk · contribs)	File:CanterburyCrusadersLogo.jpg Crusaders	File:Alblak.JPG New Zealand
13.	UrquartXV (talk · contribs)		File:England Rugby.JPG England Rugby Hierarchy definition This section shall be defined when relationships among other Wikiprojects have been brought forth. Goals To make Wikipedia the world's foremost reference on rugby union in terms of both quantity and, most of all, quality. Article creation To make finding related articles easier. To raise articles to feature article status. These perhaps could go on to be sister or child projects. Until there are more members of the rugby union wikiproject, this is not feasible. They may for now be classified as sub projects or unofficial projects. This means they may or may not define their own manual of style and structure for their related articles. If applicable please see related sub project pages. 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 union information easier. You can find articles that you like to edit by browsing the rugby union category. News Major changes to the history section of Fiji national rugby union team.GordyB 10:38, 1 February 2006 (UTC) For some reason the USA, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa Union pages have an automatic redirect to their respective national team pages. This is very annoying as it prevents the creation of separate articles on their governing bodies. Does anybody know how this can be fixed or why it is happening?GordyB 15:39, 30 January 2006 (UTC) The redirect can be removed but then it leaves a blank article like this. I have done this with Fiji but I think someone will revert the redirect if it stays too long without any content. I don't think we should remove the redirects until with have material to put in its place.GringoInChile 17:16, 30 January 2006 (UTC) It takes no time at all to make a stub.GordyB 21:31, 30 January 2006 (UTC) I've worked out how to do it. Thanks. I'll replace the redirects with decent stubs. I've already done the Fiji Rugby Union.GordyB 22:17, 30 January 2006 (UTC) I started the template Template:National_rugby_team. Feel free to edit it and so on. Forever young 10:30, 27 January 2006 (UTC) - copied from talk page. British and Irish Lions - continues to be a problem due to persistant politicisation by people who do not even like rugby union.GordyB 17:25, 7 January 2006 (UTC) Seems to have died down.GordyB 10:42, 27 January 2006 (UTC) History section added to All Blacks.GordyB 13:24, 24 January 2006 (UTC) Have applied the Template:Rugby_Team_infobox to Leinster Rugby, Munster Rugby and Connacht Rugby. Will add to Ulster when I can. General strategy and discussion forums /General /Strategy Templates Infoboxes {{Infobox_esl_club }} - Used on Super 14, will have to be sorted out {{Rugby Team infobox}} - used on some Irish provinces already. Designed for ERC teams. {{National_rugby_team}}. We need a Infobox for international players; something along the lines of what they have for cricket: Template:Infobox Cricketer. I'm happy to work on this and I'll see if I can have something ready this weekend.--GringoInChile 13:22, 24 January 2006 (UTC) Just made one Template:Infobox Rugby Player --HamedogTalk|@ 12:41, 2 February 2006 (UTC) Region Templates {{SANZAR links}} {{Italian_Rugby_links}} {{Eng rugby prem}} {{French_Rugby_links}} {{Rugby Wales links}} {{Scot_rugby_prem}} {{Pacific rugby union links}} Note: None for Pacific teams (added GordyB 21:49, 7 January 2006 (UTC)), Ireland and Europe as a whole There is one for European club competitions as a whole {{Rugby European Rugby Cup links}}. It could be expanded to include links to the 6N and national teams in a similar way to SANZAR links.GordyB 17:18, 7 January 2006 (UTC) Stub templates {{RugbyUnion-stub}} User Page Templates {{User WikiProject Rugby union}} Resources To be added 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. Manual of Style This and more should be edited into the up & coming WikiProject Rugby manual of style Naming Conventions Rugby union shall be written in lower case, such as rugby union, except when starting a sentence, such as in this one. See the Rugby union discussion page for more information. Also see wikipedia naming conventions, for naming articles. Can I add a plea here not to use 'rugby' to mean 'rugby union'. I know that in many countries rugby=rugby union and if league exists then it is called 'league' and almost never refered to as 'rugby'. However this is not universal and in some parts of the world e.g. much of Yorkshire, Lancashire amd Cumbria rugby almost always means 'rugby league'. I have tried to go through both sets of articles 'correcting' this usage. This is very much a bone of contention among English league fans who see it as marginalising rugby league. I can see only a couple of 'correct' usages of 'rugby' for the 15 man code 1) when required to do so by the title of the article - the RWC is the Rugby World Cup; it would be silly to alter this to RUWC 2) talking about 'champagne rugby union' or 'counter-attacking rugby union' is odd.GordyB 17:18, 7 January 2006 (UTC) Summarise and link Particularly when writing history of rugby union, 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. Place the link under the heading of the section you are writing and before any text. Type refering link in italics, as follows, Main Article: Link to article 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. 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?