Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby league
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Rugby league. 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 league and wish to make Wikipedia the world's foremost reference on rugby league like the rest of our participants then add your name to the list below.
Please read the section below labelled How to help to find out the easiest ways to get involved with this project.
For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
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News
Do not list page creations, updates or deletions in Project Announcements space. Use this space for items that are of interest to project members. Possibly anything except for the above exclusions.
Please use other space for recently created, updated or deleted articles. Don't mention minor (fixing vandalism, spelling adjustments etc) edits.
- News Archive: +Edits 2005, +Edits Jan 2006
- Edits Archive: Jan & Feb 2006, March_2006
Project Announcements
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Creations, updates and deletions
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Aim
The aim of this project is to recognise, organise and discuss efforts that are in the projects interests of meeting its goals.
Scope
- Rugby league related articles (creations, improvements etc)
- Category:Rugby league and sub category organisation
- The Rugby league Project its self
Goals
- Refined organisation of the project into child projects
- The first rugby league related article with feature article status
Discussion forums
General discussion
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.
- Times Digital Archive 2006
- Current NRL spoilers
- Players infobox
- Project goals needed
- Cowboys article problem
- People attacking Cowboys article
Votes
Please use this area for changes or suggestions on how this WikiProject should be run. This might include changes, editions relating to the manual of style or any suggestions on project policy that members should follow. Try to discuss in the general discussion area first, then vote once the subject is understood.
Participants
If you wish to become a member, simply add yourself to the bottom of the list of names by editing this page.
How to help
We break our work here into two groups: content and project.
Those concerned with content take to editing our vast range of articles covering history, nations, competitions, players, coaches, etc. Then there are those who wish to use their creative brilliance to better organise the project and its people so that work on the content is more productive.
- Check the for important project announcements or recent creations and editions to articles that may require expanding or 'peer review'.
- Involve yourself in project discussions and help push this project help other wikipedians
- Help create or edit others have requested be done content changes.
- You can also find articles that may appeal to your tastes in the large Wikipedia rugby league category.
Templates
Infoboxes
- {{infobox_nrl_club}}
- {{Infobox_defunct_rl_club}}
- {{Infobox_esl_club }} - Used for all UK and French clubs at present
Region Templates
Stub templates
- {{RugbyLeague-stub}}
User Page Templates
- {{userbox|#33CCCC|#33DDDD|RL|This user loves Rugby League}} - Although its not compulsory, i'd expect all project participants to use this on their user pages. Thanks go to Tim Fellows.
Resources
- Russia
- Georgia
- South Africa
- Dave Southern e-mail (Original Research - dont use[YET])
- Barry Haslim on 2000 WC Appearance
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
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:
Naming Conventions
Rugby league shall be written in lower case, such as rugby league, except when starting a sentence, such as in this one.
See the Rugby league discussion page for more information.
Also see wikipedia naming conventions, for naming articles.
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.
- 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. The history section in the rugby league article is the perfect example of this.
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