User talk:GordyB

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Yorkshireisms

I find it strange that you have cut out words that you have never heard of, but have put in words that you have personally heard. It is one-sided, and a POV. If everyone did that, there would be about five words in the article. andreasegde 00:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Apart from the long list you took out, are you really saying that "As bold as brass" is not a Yorkshireism? I beg to differ, Sir. I also noticed that you are adding in some of your own. "Boro" is just a short form of Middlesborough. Think on... andreasegde 09:43, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Any comments? andreasegde 15:44, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hostile - me? (by using two words that is a dialect expression?) Not on your nelly. My interpretation of "Think on" is "Think about it...". I thought (yourself being a rugby fan) that you would enjoy a bit of banter.

P.S. I didn´t put in "Sheff" - someone else did. BTW, Why not take out "Boro", "Cass", and "Sheff"? "Le-ads" could do with a trim... What do you think? (In as nice a way as possible.) andreasegde 16:22, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note. I will share a thought with you though; I think the page is going to get one of those "delete or keep" debates sooner or later. Every time I look at it I expect to see one. Ho-hum... andreasegde 17:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Sometimes I think you could write an article on a crisp packet you found under your sofa and it would survive a vote for deletion." You gave me a good laugh with that. Thanks... andreasegde 20:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Parkin? Good grief, I forgot that one! Bonfire night, or...? Yum-yum andreasegde 15:04, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Check these out:

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I didn´t ADD them, I looked them up, and added a link. Careful? We´re the only two people working on it! :) andreasegde 21:57, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ahhh... I just looked at your sandbox work, because I overlooked it before. Sorry.

If I can be honest for all of us I would say that it´s a monumental piece of work that has to be done. Mammoth. (There some words in the sandbox - like Clemmy - that I have never heard of, BTW.) Problems:

"nonstandard pronunciation information which should be rewritten using the International Phonetic Alphabet." If it’s not a problem now, it will be later.
The oft-written comment that it should be split up into sections (north, south etc.)
The certainty that editors will constantly come along and “lob” words in willy-nilly.
Vandals.

If you wish to proceed, I wish you all the best, but it seems all uphill to me. Best of luck. andreasegde 05:33, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to tip my hat to you for trying to clean out this article. It's been annoying me for a while that it's so wildly un-encyclopedic. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information etc.

Personally, I would merge the best stuff into the Yorkshire Dialect and Accent page, and leave the original page as a user page where people can add all sorts of fun but unsourced stuff. Or maybe rename it to The Yorkshire dialect in popular culture to allow lots of ref. to Last of the Summer Wine, Bold as Brass etc. It seems like it's always going to be very hard to make this encyclopedic, and it's not clear why this needs to be separate from the Yorkshire Dialect and Accent page.

Anyhow, I just wanted to give you some encouragement. I will try and help a bit but I don't think I can commit to what this is really gonna take. Dave w74 17:34, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Limerick Rugby

You asked about GAA and Rugby in Limerick. While Rugby is big in Limerick, it is still dwarfed by Hurling. Munster Rugby games get 15,000 crowds max (usually only maybe 5,000) while Limerick hurling games get 30,000 to 55,000 or upwards depending on what game it is.

On top of that, the sheer number of players of both sports in Limerick are on different scales. You might have 3,000 Rugby players max, while there would be upwards of 20,000 hurlers in County Limerick.Niall123 00:51, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All Blacks

Dude, the team is called the All Blacks. Deal with it! ElectricRay 22:56, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And the scoreboard is more determinative than the jersey, or the NZRFU, or the website, or fact that in common parlance that's what everyone on the planet refers to this team as, is it? Says who? What I don't understand is what your beef is - if there is a redirect from New Zealand National Rugby Union Team, which there always has been, how could anyone be confused or disadvantaged about this? You type in "New Zealand National Rugby Union Team" and it loads a page headed "All Blacks" and the very first sentence of the page is "The "All Blacks" is the name of New Zealand's international rugby union team." any doubt, confusion or ambiguity is, I humbly submit, immediately dispelled? Where's the problem, and why is this causing hackles to raise? This should be a total no-brainer. ElectricRay 17:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comparison of American football and rugby union

Sorry, my mistake. I came to the page via a redirect from Comparison of American football and rugby, saw some apparently incomplete references to rugby league, and thought I could fill in some gaps. I didn't notice the actual page title. ~~I'll help tidy up.~~ -- Avenue 12:41, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You beat me to it. I have changed the redirect into a disambiguation page. -- Avenue 12:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Category:Sport in Ireland

Ah ok, I thought that the discussion was leading to relegating Category:Rugby union in Ireland to a subcategory of Category:Sport in Northern Ireland while excluding rugby union in Category:Sport in Ireland for some reason. I agree that it should a subcat of both, so I think we're on the same page; the misunderstanding probably stemmed from my not knowing that Category:Rugby union in Ireland was already a subcategory of Category:Sport in Ireland. As is with everything involving Northern Ireland, I can see how things have become confusing. Thanks for the message! hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 15:57, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Football

Thanks for the message Gordy. I just checked the page out, made a few edits, though it may need further. Most notably I removed that football may refer to AFL or rl in Africa, which really is too far. But yeah. Cvene64 14:37, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help fight systematic bias

Dear Gordy,

I would like to draw your attention to the discussion currently ongoing at Talk:Popsicle. If you are interested in helping to counter systematic bias towards North America, and instead establish Wikipedia as an international website, then please feel welcome to contribute with your opinions. Thank you. EuroSong ^talk 19:39, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rugby Union Tri Series

Hi Gordy Are you OK if I go ahead with Move proposal 4 for "Tri Nations Series (rugby union)"? Or would you prefer the discussion for Move proposal 3 be formally closed first? GringoInChile 12:33, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not too sure of the protocol either. Maybe we can request an adminstrator to close the discussion. --GringoInChile 17:57, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Twickenham Stadium

Hi Gordy, I was wondering if you could give Twickenham Stadium a quick read. The article is looking quite nice these days, so I thought we should put it up for a Good Article nomination, but I thought I'd see if you think there is anything notable/important that needs mentioning first. Cheers. Cvene64 18:20, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. There are only three refs as of now. I'll try and do it now. Let me know if there is anything else that should be done. Cheers. Cvene64 07:50, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Leeds United Article

Hi. I'm considering editing the Leeds United article into a few smaller articles as when you click edit at the top now it say's it's too long plus the page seems too long in general to me anyway. You're one of the people registered as a wikipedian Leeds United AFC fan in the category that I thought I may get a serious response out of so I was wondering what your thoughts were on which sections should be moved to different pages and linked in the club page. I will do all of the work on this (unless you want to do some yourself) but I’m currently after a few peoples opinions so I can sort the page out on a general consensus. Thanks. --Chappy84 15:19, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Super 14 moves

I see that you voted oppose on Talk: Blues (rugby team), saying all the names would need a disambiguate. If you exclude moving the Blues rugby article, the other three pages (Chiefs, Hurricanes, Highlanders) are all redirects, as the page Crusaders once was. Perhaps you might want to support these three moves, providing they have a header like the Crusaders Article?--Hamedog_Talk|^@ 01:55, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed that makes sense.GordyB 15:09, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

French finals

Hi! I saw that you reverted the 1893 final of the French championship with racing as winners. But there was a mistake in the original article : Stade Français actually won, Racing were runner-up, so I'm reverting it again. Clck on the green links, you'll get details for each match. See here for the 1893 final. Cheers! Beru91 10:11, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My fault absolutely. I made a mistake after I added the detail of the finals. And if you look at the time of the various diffs, you'll notice you and I made the correction at the exact same minute! Sorry about the sandboxing... and thanks for your eagle eye! Cheers! Beru91 14:06, 22 October 2006 (UTC) (France).[reply]

Sheffield Eagles

I'm not sure why you removed the bit about Barrow's support in the Sheffield Eagles article. For Eagles fans Barrow's backing was vital and has led to a strong relationship between the clubs since. Tim Fellows 16:56, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

looks OK now Tim Fellows 16:56, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reasons:

Autoblock of 195.93.21.6 lifted.

Request handled by: Netsnipe ► 19:36, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal for rugby super league

Leave your opinion on this[3] matter if you are interested. It is basically about the term rugby super league being used as a disambiguation for all rugby competitions by that or a similar name. Currently it is used as a page for the American RU competition, the rugby super league.

--Ehinger222 12:33, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Swing Low Sweet Chariot

Comment added to the talk page Graemec2 14:51, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2003 RWC final

Hey Gordy, I posted a message about the article I have been working on for the breakaway 03 RWC final, found here, however I don't think anyone noticed, so do you think you could maybe give it a quick read for any errors or anything? Cvene64 10:34, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Survey Q

Have you ever been to the southern hemisphere, click here to reply.AstroBoy 01:46, 11 November 2006 (UTC) Deadline for entries is December 15th[reply]

Harlow Rugby Club

Hi,

I know you have an interest in both codes of rugby and have assisted with our new entry. However, some idiot has vandalised the site, removed pictures and wants to delete the whole entry. I am not an experienced Wiki author and don't understand why this prat would want to do this. Can you return the Harlow entry to how it was prior to the unwanted intervention and tell the guy who did it to sod off please? I read some of his talk page and it seems he is a serial deleter of new entries. If there was anything wrong with the Harlow site (I looked at loads of other entries before submitting the Harlow RUFC entry) then please advise although I assume you would have said something when yo edited before if anything was intrinsically wrong with it.

Thanks, Mark