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Listing team name in player profiles section

For purposes of listing team names for players there should be four separate categories.

1. KC Wizards players (people who played 2010 and prior for the team. (example Jimmy Conrad) The team should be listed in their profile as Kansas City Wizards.

2. Players who play 2011 onward only should be listed as Sporting Kansas City (unless of course they are rebranded.

3. Players whose tenure began prior to 2011 but is still on the team (i.e.. they have played for both incarnations of the team without interruption) should be listed as Kansas City Wizards/Sporting Kansas City. I have made the change to Davy Arnaud and indicated it as a discussion topic on his page. You cannot leave out the fact that Arnaud suited up for the Wizards.

4. Players who played for both teams, but the tenure has been interrupted. For instance, if Jimmy Conrad or Josh Wolff were to return. Their 2010 prior should say wizards, while their post 2011 would say Sporting. An example of a past occurrence is John Wolyniec who is listed as playing for both the Metrostars and the Red Bulls.70.189.42.247 (talk) 17:57, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Copa MercoNorte section

This section seems bias in favor of the Wizards. I think it should be reformatted to remove the instances of "questionable." Unless of course there are sources to cite that make the same claims.

The section POV is much better now! Thanks. Rballou 17:03, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

International Competition

I think the whole international competition section needs to be worked on. I think the Chicago Fire International Competition section is more concise than current layout. Any thoughts? Rballou 14:11, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nationality Icons

What, if any, is the wikipedia policy on indicating nationality? I notice in this article that Preki has an American flag by his name and Bob Gansler has a Hungarian flag. I find it difficult to believe that either one of them isn't an American citizen by now. If it should properly indicate place of birth, then they should both do so, and if it should indicate current citizenship, then they should both indicate that. I would do it but I don't know which is correct.

According to the discussion on the WikiProject page for Clubs it seems that they should have the flag for the national team that they have played for. If they have not played for a team, then I think they get the flag of their birth nationality. Not sure on this though, especially when the person in question is a coach. Rballou 18:58, 6 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Notable Players

I think the notable players sections (not just for the Wizards, but for MLS teams in general) should be changed to notable former players. I realize that MLS teams have far less notable former players, but I'm not sure we need to duplicate players who are already listed in the current roster. Thoughts? Rballou 22:02, 6 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copa Games

I formatted the Copa Merconorte games like the 2006 FIFA World Cup page, but I am not sure if we want all this information or if this should be moved to a 2001 Copa Merconorte page. I found the following information about the 2001 cup:

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I have moved the games to the Copa Merconorte 2001 page. --Rballou 05:14, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Roster change

Now that the 2006 FIFA World Cup is over, should we remove the astericks for the roster noting that certain players are on the national team. From my understanding, the roster is pretty fluid accept during tournaments. Thoughts? Rballou 22:04, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and removed the asterisks and notation about players on the national team.Rballou 14:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To whomever keeps adding Omar Bravo to the current roster: Please pay attention to the notes in that section - until the signing is confirmed by the Kansas City Wizards, do NOT add Bravo to the roster.Jroushkolb (talk) 14:00, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Squad Template

I created the roster squad template:

Rballou 21:17, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:KC Wizards new logo.jpg

Image:KC Wizards new logo.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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History Section

The comment about being proven the worst club in MLS history? If true, surely there should be some numbers to back up such a claim?

The statement that KC is the first team to beat an EPL team is false. Real Salt Lake beat Everton FC in a friendly in 2007, even if there are no other instances. BalanceUT 04:52, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Picture of Shirts

The picture of the home/away shirts, while much prettier than the hodgepodge approximations we have usually on team's websites, they are eggregiously outdated and are in serious need of update. Can someone with a little more technical skill work on this? -- Grant .Alpaugh 15:49, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Current Season

Most football clubs have some sort of current/ most recent season page- I believe templates can be found in the wikiproject for Football, would anyone be interested in such a thing? Maybe the best MLS version of this belongs to Houston http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Houston_Dynamo_season Morry32 (talk) 00:58, 13 June 2008 (UTC)Matthew[reply]

War over State

Stop it! Wikipedia:WikiProject_Football has discussed and voted- it will remain as the Kansas City Metro area and neither state. If you have a problem with that take it up there.Morry32 (talk) 01:15, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Omar Bravo signing.

While the guidelines are to assume good faith in all editing efforts, it is becoming very difficult to respect that guideline with regard to Omar Bravo. The only source indicating that a deal has been completed does not really jive with WP:SPS standards, and given that the signing has been explicitly denied in credible media sources on multiple occasions by Wizards President Robb Heineman, the validity of that source is called further into question.

Rest assured that in the event Omar Bravo does indeed join the team, he will be added to the roster. Until such date, please do not make that change to this page.

Jroushkolb (talk) 01:06, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Manchester United friendly

To those who are looking to discount the importance of the friendly win over Manchester United, it is indeed the first time that an English Premier League team has lost to a Major League Soccer team. While West Ham and Everton were both defeated by All-Star teams comprised solely of MLS players, those teams are not "MLS teams." Jroushkolb (talk) 16:53, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sporting Club Kansas City

At 5:30pm CST on 11/17/10... sniff sniff... they will change the name of the Kansas City Wizards to Sporting Club Kansas City... Lame, but just a heads up, get to changing everything... So does that mean the 1999 season is Sporting Club or still a Wizards season? Moonraker0022 (talk) 19:53, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Still a Wizards season. It's the same club with a re-branding. --JonBroxton (talk) 20:23, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Swope Park Rangers

Just noticed this article, which has been tagged for a merge here for a few days shy of two years!!!! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:11, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Who is SPR, anyhow? I clicked on a link to them, and it redirected here.YellowAries2010 (talk) 00:17, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

conference champions

Talk:New York Red Bulls#conference champions

just adding a link to a centralized discussion on division champions conventions. Please post comments there.