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== Lower levels of the [[National League System]] ==

Is there a great need to have separate articles for each division of every league in the NLS? Steps 1-6 I can understand, but below there it seems a bit unnecessary, as there's not much that can be said about, say, the [[Anglian Combination]] that warrants four separate articles. I'd propose that all leagues at step 7 (level 11 overall) be merged into a single article for the league. By my reckoning, this would combine each of the following leagues into a single article each:

* [[Anglian Combination]] ([[Anglian Combination Premier Division|Premier]], [[Anglian Combination Division One|One]], [[Anglian Combination Division Two|Two]], [[Anglian Combination Division Three|Three]])
**I've re-formatted most of the [[Anglian Combination]] main page to show how much information can be included in a single league article, negating the need for separate divisional articles. I know it's not now the prettiest article on Wikipedia, but am hoping someone else can now pick it up and run with it. (I haven't checked all the spellings either - there may be a typo or two on there!) - [[User:Richard Rundle|fchd]] 18:24, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
* [[Bedfordshire Football League]] ([[Bedfordshire Football League Premier Division|Premier]]) (formerly Bedford & District League)
* [[Brighton Hove and District Football League]] ([[Brighton Hove and District Football League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Cambridgeshire Football League]] ([[Cambridgeshire Football League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Central Midlands League]] ([[Central Midlands League Supreme Division|Supreme]], [[Central Midlands League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Crawley and District Football League]] ([[Crawley and District Football League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[East Berkshire Football League]] ([[East Berkshire Football League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[East Sussex Football League]] ([[East Sussex Football League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Essex and Suffolk Border Football League]] ([[Essex and Suffolk Border Football League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Essex Olympian Football League]] ([[Essex Olympian Football League Division One|One]])
* [[Hertfordshire Senior County League]] ([[Hertfordshire Senior County League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Kent County League]] ([[Kent County League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Leicestershire Senior League]] ([[Leicestershire Senior League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Manchester Football League]] ([[Manchester Football League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Mid Cheshire Football League]] ([[Mid Cheshire Football League Division One|One]])
* [[Middlesex County Football League]] ([[Middlesex County Football League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Midland Football Combination]] ([[Midland Football Combination Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Mid-Sussex Football League]] ([[Mid-Sussex Football League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[North Berks Football League]] ([[North Berks Football League Division One|One]])
* [[Northampton Town Football League]] ([[Northampton Town Football League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Northamptonshire Football Combination]] ([[Northamptonshire Football Combination Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Northern Football Alliance]] ([[Northern Football Alliance Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Oxfordshire Senior Football League]] ([[Oxfordshire Senior Football League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Peterborough and District Football League]] ([[Peterborough and District Football League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Reading Football League]] ([[Reading Football League Senior Division|Senior]])
* [[Somerset County Football League]] ([[Somerset County Football League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Staffordshire County Senior Football League]] ([[Staffordshire County Senior Football League Premier Division|Premier]], [[Staffordshire County Senior Football League Division One|One]])
* [[Suffolk and Ipswich Football League]] ([[Suffolk and Ipswich Football League Senior Division|Senior]])
* [[West Cheshire Amateur Football League]] ([[West Cheshire Amateur Football League Division One|One]])
* [[West Lancashire Football League]] ([[West Lancashire Football League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[West Midlands Regional League]] ([[West Midlands Regional League Premier Division|Premier]])
* [[Wiltshire Football League]] ([[Wiltshire Football League Premier Division|Premier]], [[Wiltshire Football League Division One|One]])
* [[Worthing and District Football League]] ([[Worthing and District Football League Premier Division|Premier]])

Also:
* [[Kent League]] ([[Kent League Premier Division|Premier Division]] at step 5, but [[Kent League First Division|First]] and [[Kent League Second Division|Second]] divisions are just for reserve football)

As well as being easier to navigate for readers, this would make [[:Category:English football competitions]] more manageable. Thoughts? — [[User:Sjorford|sjorford]][[User talk:Sjorford|++]] 10:52, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
:Sounds sensible to me. [[User:Oldelpaso|Oldelpaso]] 17:37, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

::I agree too. If you need a hand drop me a line on my talk page. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 11:08, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

:::Agree also. But there's just getting more and more of them. I'm not even sure of the notability of divisions at higher levels. Division names change frequently (see Southern League). Just one article for each league, explaining the current and recent structures as part of the intro seems sensible to me. - [[User:Richard Rundle|fchd]] 15:32, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

::::I have to disagree here. One of the goals of Wikipedia is to contain as much information as possible. Having a single article for a league containing 2 or more divisions defeats the purpose because eventually, past winners as well as the runners-up of each division will be included in these articles. Having only one article to deal with two or more divisions would prove to be inadequate. Moreover, all the clubs within the [[English football league system]] have the potential to be promoted to the highest league of English soccer. If we base on notability criteria on which clubs or leagues to include in Wikipedia, it would mean that even some second division clubs will not be able to have an article of their own. The goal of this project is to expand the information and knowledge of the various clubs and leagues and '''NOT''' to decrease it. --<span style="background:gold;">[[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<span style="color:green;">S</span>]][[User:Siva1979|iva1979]]</span>[[User talk:Siva1979|<sup style="background:yellow;">Talk to me</sup>]] 16:07, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

:::::Nobody's talking about decreasing knowledge. All I was saying was that we should organise things better, by not having hundreds of articles each only a page long. For the vast majority of leagues below level 10, ''as they are at the moment''', there isn't enough information to warrant having seven separate articles on the [[Anglian Combination]], for example, when it'll all fit perfectly fine on one. If we do start adding tables of past winners and runners-up and the article starts to get unmanageably long, ''then'' it can be split up, but I just don't see that happening right now. But I'm certainly not suggesting deleting any leagues from Wikipedia completely. Individual club articles are a different matter - see the discussion below. — [[User:Sjorford|sjorford]][[User talk:Sjorford|++]] 16:22, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

::::::Well, I can understand your point of view. In fact, I was the one who created most of these articles. However, it is '''NOT''' in my intention to just create them as stubs and forget about them. I am planning to improve these articles further in content and style. All the articles which I have created have the potential for greater expansion of content. In the meantime, I have to gather more research and information about them. Moreover, I am concentrating my efforts for the time being, in the creation of other leagues within the [[English football league system]]. But rest assured, it has always been my intention to improve the content on the articles which I have created in the future. This may take me a few months, so I hope that you would be patient about this. This also applies to the club articles which I have created as well. My goal here is to include every football club within the [[English football league system]] into Wikipedia eventually. And most of these articles would definitely have room for expansion in the future. --<span style="background:gold;">[[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<span style="color:green;">S</span>]][[User:Siva1979|iva1979]]</span>[[User talk:Siva1979|<sup style="background:yellow;">Talk to me</sup>]] 16:41, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

==Person data?==
Is it new? User {{user|Yonatanh}} is adding some sort of "person data" template in several players' articles. Would somebody check his contribs and tell me what is it about? —<i>[[User:Lesfer|Lesfer]]</i> <sup><small>[[User talk:Lesfer|(talk]]/[[Special:Emailuser/Lesfer|@)]]</small></sup> 05:49, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
:<i>'''[[Wikipedia:Persondata|Persondata]]''' is special metadata which can be added to biographical articles. This metadata can then be extracted and processed automatically (unlike conventional Wikipedia content). It consists of a set of standardized data fields which include basic information about the person, such as name, birthday, place of birth, etc. This metadata can be used for a variety of purposes, including advanced search capabilities, statistical analysis, automated categorization, and birthday lists. The addition of persondata will not affect the normal display of an article since the information remains hidden unless a user sets their user stylesheet to display it.</i> &ndash; [[User:Albinomonkey|AlbinoMonkey]] <sup>([[User talk:Albinomonkey|Talk]])</sup> 08:11, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

::Thanks! :D —<i>[[User:Lesfer|Lesfer]]</i> <sup><small>[[User talk:Lesfer|(talk]]/[[Special:Emailuser/Lesfer|@)]]</small></sup> 16:28, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

== Style of FIFA World Cup articles ==

I've been doing minor edits to [[2006 FIFA World Cup]], and I like the style that's used there &mdash; in particular, I think <nowiki>{{footballbox}}</nowiki> is much better than the tables used in [[1998 FIFA World Cup]], so I'd like to change other articles (starting with [[1998 FIFA World Cup]]) to use that style... does that sound like a good thing to do? --[[User:StuartBrady|StuartBrady]] ([[User talk:StuartBrady|Talk]]) 19:35, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

==Flags or Emblems==

After adding flags to the past winners part of [[Copa Libertadores de América]], an inactive user returned, who had been working on the article last year. He expressed that previously, where now on the article below every team it says their country, and has its national flag, it previously had the club emblems. I noticed that [[User:Ed g2s]] removed on the grounds that use as decoration (i.e, they added no relevant information that could not be obtained from the link provided) was not fair use. [[User:Sebastiankessel]] argued in favour of the emblems, saying that the clubs enter to represent themselves, and no their country, where as I claimed that they do inadvertantly represent football from the league they come from, and as winnings are divided between the club and league federation of their home country, the country they come from was relevant. I thought it should be discussed here as this place works to make footballing articles uniform. 

So, should international club competitions display the club emblems or the club's country's flag? [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 21:00, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

:The full discussion is here: [[Talk:Copa Libertadores de América]]. Like I said in the talk page club emblems look better and are more representative although I don't have problems with using flags either. And how about using both?  [[User:Bruno18|Bruno18]] 21:51, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

::I don't think Phil could've expressed my opinions any better. [[User:Sebastiankessel|Sebastian Kessel]] <sup>''[[User_talk:Sebastiankessel|Talk]]''</sup> 22:04, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

:From the [[WP:FU|fair use policy]]: "8. The material must contribute significantly to the article (e.g. identify the subject of an article, or specifically illustrate relevant points or sections within the text) and must not serve a purely decorative purpose." As the Copa Libertadores is the subject of the article, not the individual clubs, Ed g2s is correct to say that fair use logos cannot be used. [[User:Oldelpaso|Oldelpaso]] 08:34, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

::I agree with Oldelpaso - the rules on fair use are clear cut - they are quite clearly not allowed as decoration for templates or trophy listings. The choice is not between national flag and club crest, but national flag or nothing at all. I'm not bothered whether to include flags, but the main point is that we cannot use the club crest. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 17:30, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

:::Yeh that was one of the points raised if you read the initial question, Oldelpaso just confermed it for us. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 16:15, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

== Suggested Merge ==

Just to bring this to everyone's attention, [[User:Chuq|Chuq]] has suggested merging [[aggregate score]] and the [[away goals rule]] into the [[Two-legged]] article. Post any comments you might have on [[Talk:Two-legged|this page]]. - [[User:Pal|Pal]] 13:52, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

==FA Cup==
It would be nice to do something like the [[2006 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Singles]] with the brackets etc.. for this season's upcoming [[FA Cup]] and then try to fill-in previous years competitions. [[User:Jooler|Jooler]] 16:07, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

:Like with the world cup articles? One problem is how incredibly huge the fa cup tree would be, considering it includes about 150 clubs. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 16:19, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

:*I'd argue that including brackets in a non-bracketed, random-draw tournament is misleading to the reader. - [[User:Pal|Pal]] 16:22, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

::And also the tree is uneven, not everyone starts in the first round. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 16:24, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

:::The fact that it's uneven because new teams a brought in in each round, means you need to break it into sections, I'm not talking about one huge single bracket.I see what you say though about the unknown status of the following rounds, I hadn't considered that to be honest. I have a book here in front of me, published in 1960, which shows a bracketed table for every FA Cup from 1871/72 to 1958/59 (from the 3rd round on for the later competitions), so it could be done for past competitons anyway, but maybe for an ongoing competition you could break- it up by not having connecting brackets for the rounds which have not yet been drawn.  [[User:Jooler|Jooler]] 17:52, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

==Season templates==

Has there been any work on creating pages for league seasons? Currently some leagues are similiar, but other season recaps are pretty different. I think this would be useful. Thoughts? [[User:Rballou|Rballou]] 16:33, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
:Do you mean '2000-01 in English football' kind off thing, a broad look at that countries league season, or '2000-01 in FA Premier League' kind of thing, looking at the events off a specific league? Because if so they both have been done. Or do you mean something else? [[User:Gran2|Gran2]] 11:03, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Squad templates ==
===Championship Clubs===
Recently I created the squad template for [[Template:Portsmouth F.C. Squad|Portsmouth]] which meant every club in the Premiership had one. (I also created the [[template:Everton F.C. squad|Everton]] one)

There are only 3 Championship sides that have one Southampton, Wolves and Birmingham. I think that all championsip sides should have one and then we should move on to League 1. Basically all teams that have most of their players with wikipedia articles need one. Simply copy the code of another template and edit it accordingly. Use [[Template:Birmingham City F.C. Squad|Birmingham]] as it has the code to put it in the championship squad category making sure you change the word Birmingham to the team you are making --[[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 13:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I help with getting them done--[[User:childzy|<span style="color:#990066;">Ch</span><span style="color:#67E6EC;">ild</span><span style="color:#990066;">zy</span>]]<sub>[[User talk:Childzy|<span style="color:#990066;"> talk</span>]]</sub><sup><span style="position: relative; left: -16px; margin-right: -16px;">[[Special:Contributions/Childzy|<span style="color:#990066;"> contribs</span>]]</span></sup> 14:38, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I've just added [[Template:Ipswich Town F.C. Squad|Ipswich]] to all the relevant pages. [[User:Budgiekiller|Budgiekiller]] 15:12, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

good to see response quickly [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 15:43, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

===League One===

I have just started the category for League One teams, and have created the template for [[Template:A.F.C. Bournemouth Squad|Bournemouth]]. All of the Championship squad templates have now been completed, so we now need to get making the League One templates. -- [[User:Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid black;color:black; padding:1px;background:white">'''''&nbsp;MATTYTHEWHITE&nbsp;'''''</span>]][[User talk:Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:gray; padding:1px;background:silver">'''''<small>&nbsp;yap&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:silver; padding:1px;background:gray">'''''<small>&nbsp;stalk&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]] 17/8/06

:So far I've only created templates for the clubs who have articles for the majority of the players, which isn't the case for a lot of the third tier teams. I suppose it's because templates with loys of redlinks look untidy, and kind of pointless. Although there is an argument that they will encourage people to create articles. [[User:ArtVandelay13|ArtVandelay13]] 20:09, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

::Thank you for the speedy reply. There are still a few teams with lots of player links yet to have templates made, which I think I will make tomorrow, too tired right now. I think that could be true about the encouragement to make articles with red links, interesting thought. -- [[User:Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid black;color:black; padding:1px;background:white">'''''&nbsp;MATTYTHEWHITE&nbsp;'''''</span>]][[User talk:Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:gray; padding:1px;background:silver">'''''<small>&nbsp;yap&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:silver; padding:1px;background:gray">'''''<small>&nbsp;stalk&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]] 17/8/06

:::Thanks for doing the Bournemouth template, though, that full squad table copied onto every page really needed replacing.... [[User:ArtVandelay13|ArtVandelay13]] 20:36, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

===Cellpadding=0===
:I've just realised that the bordered header of certain templates looks ridiculously large in Internet Explorer (which is rubbish). It can be fixed by removing the '''cellpadding="0"''' text from the end of the second line.  [[User:Slumgum|<span style="border:1px solid black;color:black; padding:1px;background:white">'''''&nbsp;SLUMGUM&nbsp;'''''</span>]][[User talk:Slumgum|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:gray; padding:1px;background:silver">'''''<small>&nbsp;yap&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Slumgum|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:silver; padding:1px;background:gray">'''''<small>&nbsp;stalk&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]]&nbsp; 13:59, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

===Global template===
I might be missing something here, but why are we creating templates for every page rather than just creating one global template to which the information can be added? It would be relatively trivial to create a template the looked like the ones above but where the team name, team colours and player names (maybe setting an upper limit of 22 players) could all be added in as variables. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 16:01, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I've seen that attempted bu [[User:Veila|Veila]] in his hard hats mandatory section its harder than it sounds. That would be excellent though. Also upper limit of 22 is just silly. [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 16:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Very complex stuff that you are talking about, BTW i added the template to the Burnley FC players. Another point, it wont be possible to do templates for lower leagues as there are not articles for all of the players, see [[Bury F.C.]]

It's not that hard, really. The reason I was suggesting limiting it to 22 player was because then it could be fitted onto one template, but then I realised it could just be split across 3 templates like the current football squad template. I decided to play around with it and here's what I came up with:

<pre>
{{football squad2 start|teamname=Arsenal F.C.|bgcolor=red|textcolor=white|bordercolor=silver|squadcolor=#ffe0e0}}
{{football squad2 player|no=1|name=[[Jens Lehmann]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=2|name=[[Abou Diaby]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=3|name=[[Ashley Cole]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=4|name=[[Cesc Fàbregas]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=5|name=[[Kolo Touré]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=7|name=[[Tomáš Rosický]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=8|name=[[Fredrik Ljungberg]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=9|name=[[José Antonio Reyes]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=11|name=[[Robin van Persie]]}}
{{football squad2 end}}
</pre>
Creates:
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{{football squad2 player|no=1|name=[[Jens Lehmann]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=2|name=[[Abou Diaby]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=3|name=[[Ashley Cole]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=4|name=[[Cesc Fàbregas]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=5|name=[[Kolo Touré]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=7|name=[[Tomáš Rosický]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=8|name=[[Fredrik Ljungberg]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=9|name=[[José Antonio Reyes]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=11|name=[[Robin van Persie]]}}
}}

<pre>
{{football squad2 start|teamname=Norwich City F.C.|bgcolor=yellow|textcolor=green|bordercolor=green|squadcolor=#ffffe0}}
{{football squad2 player|no=1|name=[[Robert Green]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=2|name=[[Mattieu Louis-Jean]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=3|name=[[Adam Drury]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=4|name=[[Jason Shackell]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=5|name=[[Craig Fleming]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=6|name=[[Darren Huckerby]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=8|name=[[Peter Thorne]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=10|name=[[Robert Earnshaw]]}}
{{football squad2 end}}
</pre>
Creates:
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{{football squad2 player|no=1|name=[[Robert Green]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=2|name=[[Mattieu Louis-Jean]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=3|name=[[Adam Drury]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=4|name=[[Jason Shackell]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=5|name=[[Craig Fleming]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=6|name=[[Darren Huckerby]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=8|name=[[Peter Thorne]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=10|name=[[Robert Earnshaw]]}}
}}

The squads aren't full simply because I was too lazy to do every player. So, what do you think, is this a workable solution?--[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 19:26, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

:Nice. I would add a border colour aswell though, for 3-coloured teams (see [[:Template:Exeter City F.C. Squad|Exeter City]]). [[User:ArtVandelay13|ArtVandelay13]] 19:36, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

::OK, done, and the examples above have been changed accordingly. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 19:41, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

:::Looks good (despite my earlier manual labour!) but the current templates use only the surnames (or used names) of the players to keep the size of the template down a bit.  That's where the hard work comes in really I suppose because you'd need to link to [[Robert Green|Green]] instead of [[Robert Green]] (or Groin as we like to refer to him as....).  But it's certainly an excellent start. [[User:Budgiekiller|Budgiekiller]] 19:44, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
::::That's easy enough, you just change the name field to a piped link like so:
<pre>
{{football squad2 start|teamname=Norwich City F.C.|bgcolor=yellow|textcolor=green|bordercolor=green|squadcolor=#ffffe0}}
{{football squad2 player|no=1|name=[[Robert Green|Green]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=2|name=[[Mattieu Louis-Jean|Louis-Jean]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=3|name=[[Adam Drury|Drury]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=4|name=[[Jason Shackell|Shackell]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=5|name=[[Craig Fleming|Fleming]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=6|name=[[Darren Huckerby|Huckerby]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=8|name=[[Peter Thorne|Thorne]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=10|name=[[Robert Earnshaw|Earnshaw]]}}
{{football squad2 end}}
</pre>
{{football squad|name=:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Archive 5|teamname=Norwich City F.C.|bgcolor=yellow|textcolor=green|bordercolor=green|squadcolor=#ffffe0|list=
{{football squad2 player|no=1|name=[[Robert Green|Green]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=2|name=[[Mattieu Louis-Jean|Louis-Jean]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=3|name=[[Adam Drury|Drury]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=4|name=[[Jason Shackell|Shackell]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=5|name=[[Craig Fleming|Fleming]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=6|name=[[Darren Huckerby|Huckerby]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=8|name=[[Peter Thorne|Thorne]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=10|name=[[Robert Earnshaw|Earnshaw]]}}
}}
--[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 20:13, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
:Uh-huh, I understand the use of the pipe, but what I'm thinking is that by the time you go through all of this, you're not any better off than if you'd have used the original template.  It took me about seven minutes to generate my template after i'd copied the current squad from the Ipswich Town F.C. page.  Job done.  It only takes one fan per club to do this and we're laughing, no real need to optimise things?  [[User:Budgiekiller|Budgiekiller]] 20:22, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
::Well, first of all by using variables for the colours anyone who wants to add their own team's template doesn't have to go looking through the code to find where the colour values are (and it also makes it easier to update the squads as it can be done from the main article rather than from the template). Secondly, it saves a bit of space by not having loads of separate templates all doing essentially the same thing, with each probably only being used on one page. Finally, and most importantly, it means that if it's decided later on to change the layout of the template only one template will need to be changed rather than having to go to every single club page and change the templates on them. Basically, it makes standardisation a whole lot easier, which is, after all, one of the main purposes of this project. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 20:36, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
:::Okay, understood.  Your third point is by far the most pertinent, and I do understand the main purpose of the project.  As regards your second, it seems usual to add the squad template to each player within the squad, so each template gets used at least 22 times (or more!), and as for colours, does every league club's colour have a definition like ''green'' and ''yellow'' (e.g. Burnley - claret & blue, Coventry - sky blue)?  Having said that, I totally, totally go along with the idea of a single template for all league clubs if possible.  And I think we're about 60% of the way there.  I do think that limiting squads to 22 is silly, especially with Chelsea, for example, who will have at least 22 world class players (as compared with Ipswich, who will have 22 world class toes!). [[User:Budgiekiller|Budgiekiller]] 21:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
::::As regards colours, you don't have to use colour names you can use [[hexidecimal]] values too, like so:

<pre>
{{football squad2 start|teamname=Burnley F.C.|bgcolor=#993399|textcolor=#9999ff|bordercolor=#9999ff|squadcolor=#cc99ff}}
{{football squad2 player|no=1|name=[[Danny Coyne|Coyne]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=2|name=[[Wayne Thomas|Thomas]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=3|name=[[Jon Harley|Harley]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=4|name=[[John McGreal|McGreal]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=5|name=[[Frank Sinclair |Sinclair]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=6|name=[[Michael Duff (footballer)|Duff]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=7|name=[[James O'Connor (footballer)|J. O'Connor]]}}
{{football squad2 lastplayer|no=8|name=[[Alan Mahon|Mahon]]}}
</pre>

{{football squad|name=:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Archive 5|teamname=Burnley F.C.|bgcolor=#993399|textcolor=#99ccff|bordercolor=#99ccff|squadcolor=#cc99ff|list=
{{football squad2 player|no=1|name=[[Danny Coyne|Coyne]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=2|name=[[Wayne Thomas|Thomas]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=3|name=[[Jon Harley|Harley]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=4|name=[[John McGreal|McGreal]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=5|name=[[Frank Sinclair |Sinclair]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=6|name=[[Michael Duff (footballer)|Duff]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=7|name=[[James O'Connor (footballer)|J. O'Connor]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=8|name=[[Alan Mahon|Mahon]]}}
}}
::The thing is, there's no way that the piping could realistically be automated by the template anyway - there's too much variation, some players go by first name, first name and surname, one of many surnames, a nickname, etc. Also some players' articles have " (footballer)" in them. It has to be up to the user. [[User:ArtVandelay13|ArtVandelay13]] 20:45, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


:::I'm very impressed by this idea, from a standardisation viewpoint.  I have 2 easily remedied issues though: 
:::1- the '''cellpadding="0"''' text on the first line still creates a mess when viewed in Internet Explorer. 
:::2- for the last player, I've made [[:Template:football squad2 lastplayer]] (without the pipe).
::::[[User:Slumgum|<span style="border:1px solid black;color:black; padding:1px;background:white">'''''&nbsp;SLUMGUM&nbsp;'''''</span>]][[User talk:Slumgum|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:gray; padding:1px;background:silver">'''''<small>&nbsp;yap&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Slumgum|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:silver; padding:1px;background:gray">'''''<small>&nbsp;stalk&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]]&nbsp; 20:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
<pre><nowiki>{{football squad2 lastplayer|no=10|name=[[Robert Earnshaw|Earnshaw]]}}</nowiki></pre>

{{football squad|name=:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Archive 5|teamname=Norwich City F.C.|bgcolor=yellow|textcolor=green|bordercolor=green|squadcolor=#ffffe0|list=
{{football squad2 player|no=1|name=[[Robert Green|Green]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=2|name=[[Mattieu Louis-Jean|Louis-Jean]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=3|name=[[Adam Drury|Drury]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=4|name=[[Jason Shackell|Shackell]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=5|name=[[Craig Fleming|Fleming]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=6|name=[[Darren Huckerby|Huckerby]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=8|name=[[Peter Thorne|Thorne]]}}
{{football squad2 player|no=10|name=[[Robert Earnshaw|Earnshaw]]}}
}}
::::I was thinking of that myself, but was worried it might make things too confusing for editors. Thinking about it, though, there's no reason why <nowiki>{{football squad2 end}}</nowiki> couldn't be added to {{tl|football squad2 lastplayer}}, making things even easier. I hope you don't mind but I changed {{tl|football squad2 lastplayer}} to include the ending brackets, so now we don't need to use <nowiki>{{football squad2 end}}</nowiki>. I've gone ahead and changed the usage guide at [[Template talk:Football squad2 start]] accordingly. Oh, and anyone who's worried about 22 player limits, there's no limit to the number of players you can add to this template. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 21:03, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
::::I've also gone ahead and removed the "cellpadding=0" --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 21:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
::::Okay, so the template looks fine, but in what sense is this easier to use (''automatic'') as compared to what we're already doing? [[User:Budgiekiller|Budgiekiller]] 21:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
:::::Because it means that anyone who wants to add a box to a page can do so without having to know HTML, and anyone who wants to change the squad list can do so direct from the article page rather than having to go to the template. It also means the look is standardised across all articles. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 21:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes this is excellent as it creates templates identical to the current ones butmakes it easier to make new ones i.e. no need to change old ones. Only one change I would make - have background forced white. Colours of team are in header, good idea to have all backgrounds white. [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 21:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
:Yeah, I understand the RGB values too (I'm an image processing engineer!) but I was just working out how your new template would make the generation of new templates easier.  I understand that for the Wikipedia servers life is a bit a easier, but now, if we go ahead with this, we'd need to go back through all Premiership clubs and some Championship clubs replacing all the existing templates.  And we're just moving away from Wiki markup tables and towards the template.  And, once more, don't get me wrong, this is all heading the right way, but I'm just being cautious about the overhead involved (in either direction...).  [[User:Budgiekiller|Budgiekiller]] 21:18, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
::'''Mental breakthrough''' - deal.  [[User:Daduzi|Daduzi]], thanks for your patience in explaining the advantages.  They're all good.  Keep up the good (great) work.  [[User:Budgiekiller|Budgiekiller]] 21:20, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
:::Thanks for that, and I'll try. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 22:04, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Note: If users want to add the coach, it is possible to type "Coach" instead of the squad number for the ''lastplayer''.  [[User:Slumgum|<span style="border:1px solid black;color:black; padding:1px;background:white">'''''&nbsp;SLUMGUM&nbsp;'''''</span>]][[User talk:Slumgum|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:gray; padding:1px;background:silver">'''''<small>&nbsp;yap&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Slumgum|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:silver; padding:1px;background:gray">'''''<small>&nbsp;stalk&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]]&nbsp; 21:55, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I updated the [[template:Everton F.C. squad|Everton]] one with the new template. It did show the tiniest problem which I have fixed. You put a normal space after a non breaking space which caused the template to get too big as between the player name and the | there were 2 spaces. I removed the standard space and left the nbsp in and now the template looks identical to before. I also removed customisation of bg colour on the names. As I say colours in the title are great but all white for this bit with the players in just looks better. AS for adding coaches I think its best we keep them off as they aren't eligible to play in most cases - obviously if they are include them [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 22:04, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Problem: When putting the categories on the templates it puts every player into the categories See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_football_squad_templates][[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 22:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Another problem - overlapping see [[Leon Osman|Osman's]] page [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 22:47, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
FIXED OVERLAPPING [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 22:57, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
:Looks like the categorisation problem's gone too now. Was that you or me? --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 23:05, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

neither its still there I was tinkering with the [[template:Everton F.C. squad|Everton]] template and I completely removed the categories from that page at one point as I saw you put a category in the main template but that removed the everton template from the category as well as the players [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 23:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Well that explains it. I'm absolutely baffled as to what has caused this, though, as the <nowiki><noinclude></nowiki> tags are on the template. I might raise this at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)]] as this is a bit beyond my capabilities. And by a bit I mean a lot. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 23:12, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I have raised it myself although you may be able to ask better questions if you want to add to it [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 23:15, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

It seems to have gone away now (I changed the first <nowiki></noinclude></nowiki> to <nowiki><noinclude></nowiki>).--[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 23:30, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

yep looking good I think its problem free now [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 10:11, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

===New players===
I was thinking about the guidelines for the global templates (seen [[Template talk:Football squad2 start|here]]).  As far as the squad number field (no=) is concerned, I think that the use of 'new' instead of '--' (or "tba" or similar) for new players should be encouraged since it shows that players are new signings rather than youth players who probably shouldn't be on the list anyway.  The only loophole is players who've returned from loan and may not be restored to their old number.  Is it prudent to make this minor guideline or just leave it open to interpretation? It is a problem that only really presents itself during preseason. [[User:Slumgum|<span style="border:1px solid black;color:black; padding:1px;background:white">'''''&nbsp;SLUMGUM&nbsp;'''''</span>]][[User talk:Slumgum|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:gray; padding:1px;background:silver">'''''<small>&nbsp;yap&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Slumgum|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:silver; padding:1px;background:gray">'''''<small>&nbsp;stalk&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]]&nbsp; 01:51, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

perhaps instead of new "tba" could be used as this would suit loan returns as well as new signings. [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 22:10, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

:I dislike "tba" (as I mentioned above) as it doesn't explain ''why'' it's "to be announced".  "new" does. <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><small><span style="border:1px solid gold;padding:1px;background:#DD0000">[[User:Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''&nbsp;Slumgum'''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''T.'''</span>]]&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''C.&nbsp;'''''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></small></span> 23:23, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Do you really need to know why? New cannot work due to loan returns. Any explanation would have to be an * with an explanation at the bottom which would make the boxes too big. [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 16:19, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

===Managers===

Should managers be included on the club squad templates? They are included on the international templates, as [[User:Djdannyp|Djdannyp]] pointed out to me, so what do you guys think? -- [[User:Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid black;color:black; padding:1px;background:white">'''''&nbsp;MATTYTHEWHITE&nbsp;'''''</span>]][[User talk:Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:gray; padding:1px;background:silver">'''''<small>&nbsp;yap&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:silver; padding:1px;background:gray">'''''<small>&nbsp;stalk&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]] 18/8/06

== Historical flags ==

Hi everyone, I was looking for feedback on an idea I had, of using parser templates to make flags change based on year. People tend to go to a lot of effort on sports articles to make sure, say, that the 1934 shows the Kingdom of Italy flag with the coat of arms. My idea (fairly easy to implement) is that we should add a parameter to flag templates (and templates which use flag templates) so that users need not lookup when the flags changed, but merely put in the year of the competition and the correct flag is shown. This would not only make life easier for adding new competitions (especially long result tables), but also save us a lot of work if a country's flag changes.

I posted this on a the flag-related wikiproject but got no responses...would people uses this, or is the current set up fine?

Basically, the result would be something like this:

{|class=wikitable
|-
! Code !! Result
|-
| <nowiki>[[{{country flag alias DRC}}|32px]]</nowiki> || [[{{User:Moszczynski/country flag alias DRC}}|32px]]
|-
| <nowiki>[[{{country flag alias DRC|2006}}|32px]]</nowiki> || [[{{User:Moszczynski/country flag alias DRC|2006}}|32px]]
|-
| <nowiki>[[{{country flag alias DRC|2002}}|32px]]</nowiki> || [[{{User:Moszczynski/country flag alias DRC|2002}}|32px]]
|-
| <nowiki>[[{{country flag alias DRC|1985}}|32px]]</nowiki> || [[{{User:Moszczynski/country flag alias DRC|1985}}|32px]]
|-
| <nowiki>[[{{country flag alias DRC|1968}}|32px]]</nowiki> || [[{{User:Moszczynski/country flag alias DRC|1968}}|32px]]
|-
| <nowiki>[[{{country flag alias DRC|1960}}|32px]]</nowiki> || [[{{User:Moszczynski/country flag alias DRC|1960}}|32px]]
|-
| <nowiki>[[{{country flag alias DRC|1900}}|32px]]</nowiki> || [[{{User:Moszczynski/country flag alias DRC|1900}}|32px]]
|}

[[User:Moszczynski|Moszczynski]] 17:50, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

There still is a problem with your proposal.  If a flag changed in 2006 for instance what happens when the year stated in the code is 2006?  Which flag would appear?  The one before the flag change or after?  Even if you ask for a full date, there will always be a problem.  Think of Serbia and Montenegro who split in 2006.  After the country had split the national football team represented both new countries with the old flag if you follow me.

It is a good idea but I think it might be better if we keep it the way it is at the moment... [[User:Julien Tuerlinckx|Julien Tuerlinckx]] 19:21, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I think it is a great idea, since I have had the experience of having to trawl through several pages to find the right flag. As for countries maintaining their flags even after dissolution, you can simply put in the year before or whenever to achieve the desired result. Saves more time than the current method. [[User:Benjy613|Benjy613]] 22:00, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

==Infobox linking(?)==
I just thought that this would be the place to point out the inconsistancies of the various style guides concerning football player infoboxes.

Note the differences between:
# [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Players]] (everything linked)
# [[Template talk:Football player infobox#Wikilinking]] (nothing linked)
# [[Overlinking]] (ambiguous)
# [[Wikipedia:Ignore all rules]] (unhelpful)
Ideally the top three should have a good concensus, and all four have been quoted at me by various editors. Personally I've been making partially linked infoboxes like: [[Boudewijn Zenden]]. Basically some anal retentive admin got on my case that they should be like that soon after I started editing here. Anyway it's time that we came to a proper concensus and updated 1 & 2. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 19:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

:This might be something for the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Football/Templates#Information_boxes_.28infoboxes.29|Infoboxes section]] on the templates page, that well, doesn't have any content whatsoever (I also believe the content should be available on the template page as well). I personally like 1 better. I think the info box is a good way to quickly navigate information that might be buried on longer pages (players with long histories, etc. might list all the clubs somewhere, but it is easier to get to them on the infobox). --[[User:Rballou|Rballou]] 20:47, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

==Templates and rebranding of FIFA tournaments==

Hi, I'm not part of the WikiProject, but I just wanted to point out the rebranding of several FIFA competitions (see [[Talk:FIFA#Rebranding_of_championships]]), and wanted to ask you guys to change any of the relevant templates accordingly, as well as any categories. I was starting to do it myself, but noticed that templates are standardized so I didn't want to mess them up. I am however changing the relevant articles, but anyone willing to help is more than welcome. Thanks, --[[User:Gabbec|Gabbec]] 04:53, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
:Which templates in particular are you talking about?--[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 17:12, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
::In particular, [[Template:FIFA U-17 World Championship]], [[Template:Women's football]] and [[Template:International club football]], as well as Categories with the previous names of the tournaments. For the first template, it's the heading, the 2007 edition and the v-d-e links at the top right that should be changed; for the second, it's the U-17 women's (the U-20 women's isn't a "world cup" yet); for the third it's just the Club World Cup. Thanks, --[[User:Gabbec|Gabbec]] 22:50, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
:::OK, all the templates have been changed to link to World Cup rather than Championship. For the U17 one I set the link to World Cup but set the title as "U-17 World Cup/World Championship", since otherwise it looked a bit weird on the past tournament pages. I'll have a look at the categories later. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 01:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
::::Thanks. Regards, --[[User:Gabbec|Gabbec]] 02:44, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

==Notability of youth players==
Recently I've discovered several articles (all stubs) of actually unknown players who simply are or were part of youth squads for teams such as Inter, AC Milan, Juventus and so on. Usually, these players appeared no more than a couple of match, or even did not appear at all, in the first team. Since I don't think these players are notable enough for having an article here in Wikipedia, I ask you if it would be a good idea to submit them all for deletion.

The players are: [[Alessandro Matri]], [[Patrick Kalambay]], [[Ignazio Abate]], [[Ilario Aloe]], [[Luca Antonini]], [[Federico Piovaccari]], [[Leonardo Bonucci]], [[Domenico Criscito]], [[Domenico Germinale]], [[Leandro Greco]], [[Pietro Pipolo]], [[Marco Andreolli]], [[Tijani Belaid]]. --[[User:Angelo.romano|Angelo]] 14:23, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

:I'd always thought that the general rule was "If they've played <i>any</i> top league level games then they are notable". From a cursory glance over those articles it looks to me as if those players are notable. The main problem is that the articles are just (sometimes untidy) stubs. Would you say that  even [[Scott Carson]] was notable if you just looked at his stats? [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 20:45, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

::Carson was part of the English team in the last World Cup, so he is a notable player. My question is: does a youth team player become notable by just playing a few minutes in a Serie A match? None of these guys plays regularly in the first team, and none of them is part of any national team. --[[User:Angelo.romano|Angelo]] 01:19, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

:My point is that stats don't tell these players apart from someone like Carson, infact a lot of them have had much more of a football career, games-wise at least. Just because I've never heard of them doesn't mean aren't notable. I'll refer you to [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Danny Knowles]] for an example of what exactly is notable. (see also [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Danny Knowles (2 nomination)]]), cheers, [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 12:35, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

:According to [[WP:BIO]], they should be fine:
{{cquote|The following types of people may merit their own Wikipedia articles... Sportspeople/athletes who have played in a fully professional league, or a competition of equivalent standing in a non-league sport such as swimming, or at the highest level in mainly amateur sports, including college sports in the United States. Articles about first team squad members who have not made a first team appearance may also be appropriate, but only if the individual is at a club of sufficient stature that most members of its squad are worthy of articles.}}
:Looks like the articles are OK even if the players have never made an appearance, given that the clubs in question are at the very top level.--[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 16:17, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

== Official Statistical Sources? ==

Apologies if I'm recovering well-trodden ground here, but I'm new to the association football articles. I started by trying to rationalize some of the World Cup articles, in the process of trying to build my own (non-wiki) database of World Cup goalscorers. What I quickly found was a morass. In the first World Cup, in 1930, there are at least a half-dozen major discrepancies in goalscorers between the various sources of information. The most famous example is of course Patenaude's maybe, maybe-not hat trick. You'd think FIFA would be the official source, but the one thing everyone seems to agree on is that FIFA is wrong. So that middle Patenaude goal: was it Patenaude, as claimed by his teammates and some articles at RSSSF? Was it an own goal by González, as in the primary RSSSF report? Was it Tom Francis, as claimed by FIFA's official report? And that's just one example. My question is, WHO does Wikipedia rely on as the deciding word? Right now, different pages claim different things, which drives me crazy. At the very minimum, if we DO accept multiple versions of the story, the fact of the controversy should be mentioned in EACH of the articles where it occurs, in the form of "some sources credit this goal to X, this article is relying on the version in source Y." 

Some candidates I've seen for official reference are: FIFA (as archived online on the Yahoosports pages); RSSSF (whose pages also disagree with each other); Cris Freddi's book ''The Complete Book of the World Cup 2006''; and presumably others. What I would LIKE to see is Wikipedia settle on a single preferred source. I think it should be RSSSF, but I'm open to other ideas. I'm finding it a little hard to believe that the world's most popular sport doesn't have authoritative base for its most important facts -- baseball in contrast has records of the most mundane imaginable facts about players who played in the 1870s. I mean, come on, these are WORLD CUP goals, and no one knows who scored them? \ [[User:Fnarf999|Fnarf999]] \ [[User_talk:Fnarf999|talk]] \ [[Special:Contributions/Fnarf999|contribs]] \ 18:45, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

:I think they are all valid sources. In cases where there is a dispute of some kind it should be noted as such. In the Patenaude case you could perhaps list two conflicting links or perhaps one like [http://www.thefa.com/Features/EuropeanLeagues/Postings/2002/05/12004.htm this from thefa.com]. The FIFA website is pretty poor in my opinion. rsssf is usually good. I've decided that news portals (bbc, yahoo, etc.) are as good a source as any. However as you say there is a distinct lack of a comprehensive source - a gap in the market perhaps? One huge gap is statistics from the South American leagues - trying to find stats from when some random Brazilian was 19 can be almost impossible. Even Pelé is terribly documented! [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 20:33, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
:: Yes, but I don't consider that link to be a valid source; it's the FA, but it's a general-interest article without sources. I'm referring to the difference between [http://www.rsssf.com/tables/30full.html the rsssf report] and [http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/pwc/mr_1097.html FIFA's official match report]. These are both "official" and yet in disagreement. I have in front of me a printed copy of ''The World Cup: The Complete History'' by Terry Crouch which echoes the FIFA report. Apparently ''Complete Book of the World Cup'' by Cris Freddi credits Patenaude with the hat trick, no goal by Florie and no own goal by González.

:: It appears that conventional wisdom around Wikipedia is that Patenaude's hat trick is a myth; the story is discounted with a great deal of sarcasm when it comes up. I have no axe to grind either way; I don't give a damn WHAT we decide, as long as we decide SOMETHING and stick to it and defend it rationally. I love football but I love data more! And, if anything, Subiabre's "four" versus "one" goal count bothers me more. \ [[User:Fnarf999|Fnarf999]] \ [[User_talk:Fnarf999|talk]] \ [[Special:Contributions/Fnarf999|contribs]] \ 22:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

:Sorry, but I don't see how rsssf is more official than theFA. In my eyes rsssf is good, but on a par with wikipedia in that it's written by knowledgable members of the public. We are talking about an incident 76 years ago which only 800 people witnessed and I'm almost certain there's no footage of. I guess if you could get two different FIFA sources that agreed then that would be the best one could do. If you're just looking at one half-FIFA webpage there's plenty of room for the odd error to creep in :( [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 12:49, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Here's where I stand now, and what I've been making changes based on: official FIFA game reports ONLY. Other FIFA documents, produced by who knows what department of a vast international organization, especially when they are prepared for promotional purposes, as opposed to official record-keeping, bear much less weight in my mind. It all comes back to the OFFICIAL GAME REPORTS; these are the source of all else in the FIFA realm.

Now, these game reports may well be wrong. As you say, 76 years ago, a crowd of players with no names or numbers on their shirts in front of the goal mouth, no film or replay or probably even photos to go by -- there's bound to be differences. Wikipedia does not do original research. We collate the research of others. And by the standards of [[WP:V]], our abiding standard is not TRUTH but VERIFIABILITY. If FIFA says Subiabre scored the goal, then we report that fact and a reference to it, regardless of what the real truth is -- if there is a "real truth".

RSSSF is NOT a verifiable source at this point. They make claims, but they do not support their claims with evidence of a standard that Wikipedia can rely on. I have no doubt that their research is solid and their facts more closely resemble the truth than FIFA's, BUT: they don't show their work. Unless and until RSSSF produces the actual evidence of the research that was done -- what sources, newspapers, eyewitness accounts, etc., that they used to arrive at their conclusions, they have little weight in an encyclopedia. The same goes for the printed resources people have used: if they actually discuss WHY AND HOW their facts differ from FIFAs, it must be considered speculation, I think.

The solution I arrived at was to base the articles on FIFA game reports, with FOOTNOTES that point out discrepancies with RSSSF. RSSSF has enough weight to be a "mentionable" source. Other discrepant sources could be added, if there are third opinions that hold some weight. What I really want to avoid is "some sources say" -- these are "weasel words". If you have another source, NAME IT. I also want to avoid the use as sources of third- or fourth- or fifth-party journalism, such as a newspaper article about "ten interesting facts about the World Cup" or some such.

I'm open to arguments from other points of view, but so far I'm not hearing any. I have already completed modifying the 1930, 1934 and 1938 World Cup pages to this standard. I hope that's acceptable. I also hope that if people think it's wrong they'll discuss it on the talk pages before just throwing out my work! \ [[User:Fnarf999|Fnarf999]] \ [[User_talk:Fnarf999|talk]] \ [[Special:Contributions/Fnarf999|contribs]] \ 16:27, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

:Just to note that I personally agree with your solution. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 17:20, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

:I have to confess to using RSSSF as a source, and I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with that provided it's clearly cited. Users can determine its validity got themselves. While I do agree that FIFA is a more reliable source, they are themselves not infallible and so are subject to similar, though lesser, caveats as RSSF. I think taking FIFA over RSSSF is a reasonable guideline, but RSSSF also provides a lot of statistics FIFA does not, and which are difficult, if not impossible, to find elsewhere. If you want to find out who was the top scorer in the Iranian league in 1971, for instance, it's unlikely that FIFA would be much help. I don't think it's reasonable to state that RSSSF can never be a source, then, just that it should be approached with caution (as should 99% of sources). --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 21:36, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
::Oh, I totally agree. That's why I am including the RSSSF information as a footnote. But where OFFICIAL results exist from FIFA, I think we have to use them. Even if we know they are wrong. \ [[User:Fnarf999|Fnarf999]] \ [[User_talk:Fnarf999|talk]] \ [[Special:Contributions/Fnarf999|contribs]] \ 21:53, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


== assists? ==

Are assisits actually recorded? If they are a documented stat, then they should be recorded on players' pages.
:Sometimes at the highest level, but in general, no. While for some competitions, a company called [[Opta Sportsdata]] issues a plethora of semi-official stats for various things, such stats are frequently unofficial (often recorded solely for the purposes of [[fantasy football]] competitions) and can vary depending on the source. Unlike, say, [[ice hockey]], relatively little importance is given to assists, for example, in the World Cup assists are used as a tiebreaker for the [[FIFA World Cup awards|Golden Shoe]], but are otherwise ignored. [[User:Oldelpaso|Oldelpaso]] 08:52, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

== {{tl|England-footybio-stub}} split ==

This has become very large, and the existing permanent categories aren't much use in finding enough sufficient stub types to split out to reduce it significantly.  I've [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals/2006/July#English_football_internationals|proposed]] two types for full and U21 internationals;  if you have any comments on those, or additional suggestions, please contribute them there.  [[User:Alai|Alai]] 20:15, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

== Standardisation ==

Can we sort out which infoboxes we are going to use for both Stadiums and players? I have seen two which I particularly like. [[Gustavo López]] for the football players infobox and [[Estadio Azteca]] for the stadium infobox. They are not mine but I think they are the best. <small>—The preceding [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|unsigned]] comment was added by [[User:Oscar86|Oscar86]] ([[User talk:Oscar86|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Oscar86|contribs]]) {{{2|}}}.</small>
:After digging around in the archives I've found the [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football/Archive1#New_Template.3F.3F|discussion]] which took place about the stadium template when it was first created. I thought that template was deprecated but evidently it is still used in places. IIRC the difference between the player templates is that one is for current players and one is for retired players, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. [[User:Oldelpaso|Oldelpaso]] 17:39, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

== Referees/officials? ==

Hi, I'm relatively new to contributing to WP. I noticed that several referees have their own WP entries (Collina, Frisk, Merk etc), but little in terms of standardisation. I wonder whether it's worthwhile to have a template for notable match officials, since "player" ones are not appropriate (eg. referees don't "change clubs")?--[[User:Ashli80|Alexio]] 05:01, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
:That's a good idea. The one problem I could foresee is difficulty in getting statistics, but if that can be solved it'd definitely be worth putting in. The only other question is what to put in. The usual biographical stuff would have to be there (full name, date of birth, place of birth and so on). Then there could be a section for games refereed (split into domestic and international). Aside from that, possibly number of yellow and red cards issued? I'm not sure, I'd be interested to hear what others think. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 07:55, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
::I thought the [[Graham Poll]] article was very nicely done; a little ''too'' nicely done perhaps, full commends to the author, although replicating those results would bump into the problems you brought up: gathering the information will be very difficult. Tentatively I'd say the number of domestic games, international honours, plus any major controversies. Frankly, I do not see the point of focussing on the perceived prejudices of officials and how they're perceived by the public ([[Mike_Riley_%28referee%29|Mike Riley]] being case in point).--[[User:Ashli80|Alexio]] 13:15, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
:::Ah, I get you now, for some reason I thought you were talking about an infobox for referee pages, rather than a style template (though it might also be worth creating an infobox). I guess given that "honours" is out of the question (unless there's a golden whistle I'm unaware of) a basic intro->biography (if possible)->matches refereed (ie statistics)->see also/links/references structure would be a good start. It might also be an idea to include a section on high profile matches refereed (though that could go in the biography). As to perceived biases, I'd agree that the Mike Riley article doesn't handle it well, on the other hand a "media scrutiny" section, dealing with press and/or managerial comments about them, might be an idea given how big an issue that is for modern day refs. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 13:07, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

== Club manager and Club staff categories ==

It seems to me that the club manager categories, e.g. [[:Category:Liverpool F.C. managers]], are pretty redundant - most clubs' pages have a list which does the job much better, being presented chronologically and having other information. I think the category could be made more useful by expending it to staff, i.e. non-playing staff, encompassing Chairmen, Coaches, Scouts, etc. This would enable a lot of people to be categorised with a club when they haven't really before. Even if it's felt that the manager category ought to be kept, I think that staff categories would be useful. Any thoughts? [[User:ArtVandelay13|ArtVandelay13]] 12:39, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
:Sounds good to me. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 12:53, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
::OK, so, next question, how do you rename categories? Or get them renamed? [[User:ArtVandelay13|ArtVandelay13]] 15:57, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
:::Yeah, well that's the fun part, you'll have to manually change the category links on every article to point to the new category, then put the old one up for [[WP:CFD|categories for deletion]]. It might be an idea to consider using a [[WP:BOTS|bot]] to do the link changing, you can ask someone else to set one up at [[Wikipedia:Bot requests]]. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 17:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

== International Football Squad Templates ==

With the continual addition of more and more international football squad templates, I thought it would be a good idea to change these templates to have them collapsable as below.

{{tl|World Cup Squads}}

So far I've made a few adjustments to it, but I can't get it perfect.

I've made a list at on the discussion section of [[Template:World Cup Squads]] that needs to be done to the new template to make it useable on wikipedia.

Hopefully this will be used on all past international templates as it doesn't take up so much space on players pages.  Could also be used on squads of special importances, such as the Liverpool 2005 squad who won the champions league etc.

Please note any changes you've made to the template on the templates talk page and please advise anything else which should be done to it.

Thanks

[[User:Niall123|Niall123]] 22:14, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

== When is a club notable? ==
===The problem===

Smaller and smaller football clubs are writing articles. Up and Under, for example, are around level 18 in England. Some threshold is needed or every pub team will decide they are encyclopaedic! Whatever threshold that is picked will be arbitary with hard cases but we do need some standard. My initial thought is level 11 and above. What do others think, please? [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 01:48, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

===Discussion===
:For English clubs, I've seen [[User:Cantthinkofagoodname|CTOAGN's]] criteria of keeping clubs eligible to play in the [[FA Cup]] or the [[FA Vase]], and deleting those lower down used in AfD a few times. Off the top of my head this is about level 9 or 10. The opinions of some project members on notability can be read [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Notability|here]]. Listing a club for deletion who plays below level 10 is unlikely to meet with much disagreement. [[User:Oldelpaso|Oldelpaso]] 09:07, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
::After clicking a few links from low down in [[English football league system]], wow, didn't realise so many tiny clubs had articles. For those where a one line substub with no substantial content has been created for every team in a division, merging and redirecting to the league page could be in order. [[User:Oldelpaso|Oldelpaso]] 09:35, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
:Other criteria that could be used are:
:* Fully 'pay at the gate' to watch (has more international application); or
:* Eligible for the FA Trophy. (Levels 5-8); or
:* Eligible for the FA Vase. (Anyone know which levels?) ([[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 13:38, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
::According to [http://www.tonykempster.btinternet.co.uk/favrbyr.htm Tony Kempster's list], the Vase covers most of level 9, much of level 10, and a handful of levels 11-12 (generally the stronger leagues). The only non-Vase divisions at level 11 that we have full sets of articles for are the [[Essex Olympian League]], the [[Kent County League]], and the [[Anglian Combination]] Premier. Since there are 40+ leagues at level 11, and few of them have any notable clubs (if we take the FA Vase as a starting point for notability), perhaps we should allow all clubs at level 10 and above, and decide not to have most clubs at level 11 and below, with specific exceptions (which ''might'' include the EOL and KCL, but probably not the AC). — [[User:Sjorford|sjorford]][[User talk:Sjorford|++]] 18:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
:::This is most helpful.
'''1st proposal''' for discussion is:
* Clubs in Levels 1-10, together with those in the top division of the [[Essex Olympian League]] and the [[Kent County League]] are deemed inherently notable.
* Other clubs need to make an individual notability case.
May we have further views on this, please? [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 23:22, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

:One immediate thing that springs to mind is that the position of a club in the present day should not be the only deciding factor. Clubs may have reached certain notable positions in their history and these may be worthy of an article in their own right — although none spring to mind to illustrate this, I trust that the point is made. [[User:Alias Flood|Alias Flood]] 00:02, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
::[[Corinthian-Casuals F.C.]] would be one good example. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 00:19, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
::I agree; a notable history can, of course, be a justification by the editors for their club to be included. [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 03:22, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

'''1st revised proposal''' for discussion is:
*Clubs in Levels 1-10, together with those in the top division of the [[Essex Olympian League]] and the top division of the [[Kent County League]], are deemed inherently notable.
*Other clubs need to make an individual notability case which can be based on past or present achievements.
May we have further views on this, please? [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 03:47, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

:I can't really work out from the above discussion - why include the Essex & Kent Leagues, specifically, and not the others at the same level? I would just be consistent across the board and say levels 1-10, and that's it. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 16:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
::Well, I would say the following level 11 divisions have some above-average claim to notability:
::* [[Sussex County Football League Division 3]], [[Spartan South Midlands Football League Division Two]] and [[Wessex League Division Two]] - these are lower divisions of level 9-10 leagues, and several teams are relegated to these leagues from level 10 each season
::* [[Kent County League]] and [[Essex Olympian Football League]] - there is no level 10 league in either of these regions, so these leagues are sort of surrogate level 10 leagues
::* [[Midland Football Combination Premier Division]], [[West Midlands Regional League Premier Division]], and [[Leicestershire Senior League Premier Division]] - these sit below the level 9 [[Midland Football Alliance]], and so are also effectively level 10 leagues; in particular, the MFC and WMRL regularly promote clubs to the MFA. These two in fact seem to be officially level 10 leagues now, although the future status of the LSL is uncertain.
::*The various other leagues that [http://www.tonykempster.btinternet.co.uk/favrbyr.htm enter the odd team in the FA Vase], in particular the [[South Western League]] (which probably would be higher up the pyramid if the Cornwall clubs could afford the travelling)
::So that is why we already have searate club articles for those leagues. Those leagues also get covered by sources outside WP that don't cover the whole of level 11 (e.g. Rothmans Football yearbook, Tony Kempster's website, FCHD, etc). — [[User:Sjorford|sjorford]][[User talk:Sjorford|++]] 16:35, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

:::The list of exceptions is starting to get quite complicated. Why not just disregard looking at it from an NLS point of view and go back to making participation in the [[FA Cup]]/[[FA Trophy]]/[[FA Vase]] the best determinant? For me, I would strongly prefer to keep it to [[FA Cup]] (preliminary and qualifying rounds included), as that way we can use participation in the senior national cup as a good rule of thumb for other countries (as Alias Flood points out below). [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 16:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

:::It should also be bourne in mind that this debate covers only the English leagues at this point. What provision, if any, is planned for Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Australian, American, ... and all other leagues? -- [[User:Alias Flood|Alias Flood]] 20:23, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

::::As you can see just sorting out criteria for the English league is complex enough; if we try to bring in other leagues at this time, the whole thing would collapse! I suggest that once this is sorted editors nominate other leagues they are interested in for discussion. [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 20:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

===2nd revised proposal===

Having looked at the various leagues that have been suggested for exceptions, none of them seem to have worthwhile articles for their clubs. In all cases that I have looked at the very limited information for the clubs can easily be incorporated into their League articles. We need a straightforward standard that the folk at AfD can cope with :-)

Please note - the standard is one for inherent notability only - in other words clubs who meet the standard are entitled to an article. As always, any other club can assert notability in their article on the basis of present performance, past history etc. On that basis I propose:

*'''English football clubs in Levels 1-10 are deemed to have inherent notability'''

Does anyone have strong objections, please? [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 21:08, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
:I would agree with that. I would also add the clubs from lower levels that are allowed to enter the [[FA Vase]] as thay highlight deficiencies in the pyramid system in their areas, but that would be notability based on individual criteria rather than an inherit one, so I'm with you. - [[User:Richard Rundle|fchd]] 08:06, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

:I agree with BlueValour's proposal as well. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 10:12, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

:There's got to be a cut off somewhere and this seems like a sensible place to put it. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 11:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. In the absence of objections I declare '''Agreement''' and will move it upstairs to [[WP:CORP]] and ask them to take it. [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 23:57, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

===Notability criterion===
This has now been added at [[WP:CORP#Criteria for sporting clubs]] and can be referred to during AfD discussions. [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 22:07, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

== Template overuse, to extent of clutter ==

I've noticed people have been creating templates for past squads, and so forth, this really is just clutter thoug isn't it, surely a mention in the article of the fact a player played (or plays) in a team, with a link to the appropriate page, with a full team/squad list is enough, for example why does this need to be at the bottom of the [[Thierry Henry]] page.
{{start box}}
{{succession box|title=[[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal F.C. Captain]]|before=[[Patrick Vieira]] |after=[[Incumbent]]||years=2005-}}
{{succession box|title=[[Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year|FWA Footballer of the Year]]|before=[[Robert Pirès]] |after=[[Frank Lampard]]|years=2003, 2004}}
{{succession box|title=[[Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year|FWA Footballer of the Year]]|before=[[Frank Lampard]] |after=[[Incumbent]]||years=2006}}
{{succession box|title=[[PFA Players' Player of the Year]]|before=[[Ruud Van Nistelrooy]] |after=[[John Terry]]|years=2003, 2004}}
{{succession box|title=[[FA Premier League#Top scorers|Premier League top scorer]]|before=[[Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink]]|after=[[Ruud van Nistelrooy]]|years=2001-02}}
{{succession box|title=[[FA Premier League#Top scorers|Premier League top scorer]]|before=[[Ruud van Nistelrooy]]|after=[[Incumbent]]||years=2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06}}

{{end box}}
{{France Squad 1998 World Cup}}
{{France Squad 2002 World Cup}}
{{France Squad 2006 World Cup}}
{{Arsenal F.C. Squad}}
All of it is explained in the text, so why does there need to be uneccessary box after uneccessary box at the bottom of the page? Also see [[Paolo Maldini]] or other useless templates such as this
{{2006 FIFA World Cup finalists}}
This is just duplicate information that is already on the page, and already on the [[2006 FIFA World Cup]] article.

They're pointles clutter, adding no useful information, duplicating things that are there, and things that are on other articles, so really shouldn't it all be removed. These things are just legitimate infoboxes, however they are as annoying and pointless as ever. Personally I think the club ones were pushing the boundaries, because they are pointless, but the world cup ones are just a joke, now that the hype of it all has calmed down, can we just delete all these pointless templates. Keeping in mind if there is a template for one world cup, someones going to make a template for all of them, and it will just get ridiculous. Past squads are also pointless, any relevant information can be written in the article, it doesnt have to put in a box at the bottom of the page. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 23:17, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

:I agree with Phil about squad templates; the information for both the France and Arsenal squads are available from Wikipedia articles about the tournaments or teams in question, and the text in the article will almost certainly mention the relevant facts anyway. I'd delete them all. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 13:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Although I find that a few of them can brighten up an article by adding a little colour, I have to agree that these cases are completely over the top. I cannot believe that the [[Template:2006 FIFA World Cup finalists]] has been added to the pages of all involved national teams! I can understand it's use in a few pages about the 2006 World Cup, so perhaps it needs some very specific rules written for it? I mean are we honestly going to allow the [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] to have one of these for all 18 World Cups?

I think a call to delete <b>all</b> templates from <b>all</b> football pages is going too far, but some serious thought has to be put into what should and shouldn't be allowed. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 20:02, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

:I'm not keen on any of them, as I think if we draw the line, it will be repeatedly moved budged and broken by people who may or may not know about the project and its regulation. As a compromise I think it should be limited to the current squad of the team the player is currently contracted to for players. And others, notably the world cup one, should be deleted, as although the information is relevant to several pages, it is not going to change, so the information can be put there. The demand is not great enough for a template to be needed to display this information. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 20:35, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Something needs to be done about the succession boxes too. Do we really need to have [[BBC Sports Personality of the Year]] or [[PFA Young Player of the Year]] succession boxes?? A mention of those awards in the article (with a wikilink of course) is enough. In my opinion only the most important ones should be left, like [[European Footballer of the Year]], [[FIFA World Player of the Year]], [[South American Footballer of the Year]] and so on (related to continental achievements). [[User:Bruno18|Bruno18]] 15:29, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

:True, again the boxes have no redeeming value which is not covered in the article and by appropriate links. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 16:44, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

A month ago I nominated the squad templates of all the old world cups for deletion.  They survived due to lack of consensus.  It seemed that several people didn't think it was right to remove mementos of WC involvement. Perhaps the international section of the football player infobox could be used to notate WC squad callups. Now WC06 is over I would support deletion of all the international templates, with the possible exception of winning squads. <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><small><span style="border:1px solid gold;padding:1px;background:#DD0000">[[User:Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''&nbsp;Slumgum'''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''T.'''</span>]]&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''C.&nbsp;'''''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></small></span> 21:55, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

:I would support the deletion of all of the templates discussed. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 18:39, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

:So what, it makes a little clutter? I'm sure you'll all live. -- [[User:Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid black;color:black; padding:1px;background:white">'''''&nbsp;MATTYTHEWHITE&nbsp;'''''</span>]][[User talk:Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:gray; padding:1px;background:silver">'''''<small>&nbsp;yap&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:silver; padding:1px;background:gray">'''''<small>&nbsp;stalk&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]]

::You'll live if they're deleted too. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 19:30, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

== 1994 FIFA World Cup ==

I seem to be getting into an edit war with [[User:SndrAndrss|SndrAndrss]], over the [[1994 FIFA World Cup]] article.  I need support, as I can't stop them alone.  Thank-you for your help.  --[[User:StuartBrady|StuartBrady]] ([[User talk:StuartBrady|Talk]]) 13:19, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
:Report it at [[WP:ANI]]. If it continues they can semiprotect the page to stop anons/new accounts editing it. HTH. [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 13:45, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
::I doubt it'll be semiprotected, as semiprotection is for vandalism only, not content disputes. I'm pretty sure it's not a new user anyway, IIRC that user has done something similar before, a long time ago, on the 1990 WC page. Anyhow, I've watchlisted the page in question. [[User:Oldelpaso|Oldelpaso]] 17:48, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

== Listing famous players ==

Should a club's famous players be listed by nationality or by the time that they played at the club? I'm currently in a discussion at [[Talk:Arsenal F.C.#Famous players (2)|Talk:Arsenal F.C.]] over the matter - I think it makes much more sense to group players of the same era, since they played together, rather than split them into separate lists just because, e.g. one happens to be English and the other a Scot. Anyone with an opinion feel free to make it known over on that talk page. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 21:12, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

:Chelseas ones are listed alphabetically. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 21:40, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
:Era rather than nationality, definitely, though there's an interesting discussion going on at [[Talk:Liverpool F.C.]] about removing such lists altogether. Mind you, having seen the current list for Liverpool it isn't suprising - the list there is enormous. [[User:Oldelpaso|Oldelpaso]] 21:45, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

::The listing by nationality seems to have given people the false impression that every nationality needs to be covered. Titi Camara, for example, despite an excellent first season, doesn't really belong on Liverpool's list. [[User:ArtVandelay13|ArtVandelay13]] 09:38, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

::As for the "removing altogether" option, most clubs have annual "player of the year" awards which would be much more npov to include, than the overtly long, ungovernable lists where everybody want their own private favourite included. For an example, see [[Brøndby IF#Player of the year]]. [[User:Poulsen|Poulsen]] 09:49, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

:::Thank you for your thoughts. As for an official list of PotY - it's a very good idea but I've been unable to find a list of them anywhere for Arsenal, alas. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 13:13, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Given the controverys, it might be a good idea if we tried to work on a set of criteria for notable players over on [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Clubs]], off the top of my head a minimum number of international caps and/or being a club/national record holder for a time might be decent starting criteria. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 15:50, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

:No doubt some legendary players will be ommited from this still, you have to remeber that fame doesnt have criteria, so trying to make criteria for famous players will not work. If you use caps, it will be a list of players with so-many caps, not famous players. For example players like [[George Best]], [[Eric Cantona]] and [[Duncan Edwards]] incredible ability and fame is not reflected in their number of caps. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 18:17, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

::The kind of criteria I was thinking of would be exlusive rather than inclusive (i.e. someone who doesn't meet the base criteria would be excluded, not that anyone who meets the criteria should be included). Best, Cantona and Edwards I'm pretty sure all broke records at some point or another. In any case, the above is just conjecture and not meant to be an exhaustive list, it's just that I think it would be useful to develop some basic guidelines that editors of club pages can take on board when assessing whether players warrant inclusion in a "notable players list" (there would of course, have to be flexibility since it would be ridiculous to hold [[Liverpool F.C.]] and [[Forest Green Rovers]] to the same standards). --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 21:10, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

:I don't believe that club's own "player of the year" awards are justifiable for inclusion in the main page about the club. Most clubs would therefore have to have a list of 100ish players, which would be both ugly and a waste of space. In my opinion we want this to be as short a list as possible. I like the "hall of fame" thing for american sports, but it isn't really mature enough to use for English football. Perhaps players that have won the Football Writers and/or PFA player of the year awards? I guess that would be a relatively small list for each club. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 13:10, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

::Would people back the idea of having a straw poll on this topic? I only put it forward as this discussion is going no-where. My suggestion is that a set of various alternatives will be written, and everyone should vote for which they prefer. Yes? No? [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 11:52, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

==[[A.S. Fortis Spoleto F.C.]]==
I ask you a suggestion. This team, [[A.S. Fortis Spoleto F.C.]], which won [[Serie D]] (5th level of Italy) this year, was cancelled by the Football Federation because of financial troubles and it won't play next season at all, neither in Serie C2 nor somewhere else. What should we do? Should we submit it for deletion or leave it as it is, or something else? Thank you. --[[User:Angelo.romano|Angelo]] 14:59, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

:Sounds keep-worthy to me. Defunct football clubs are worth an article, and their story alone seems notable, and the kind of thing people would be interested to look up. [[User:ArtVandelay13|ArtVandelay13]] 15:04, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

:I have copyedited. Have we any info about what happens next - have they gone out of existance? Also, have we a reference that gives info about the scandal? [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 18:58, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

::Out of existance, yes; the team cannot enter any Italian league, in this case. Here are some references (all in Italian) [http://www.kataweb.it/sport/detail.jsp?idCategory=2184&idContent=1792874] [http://www.spoletonline.com/index.php?sezione=articolo&azione=leggitutto&id=31369&from=&paginafrom=] . Anyway it's not exactly a scandal: in facts, all happened because the club did not pay the registration fees. --[[User:Angelo.romano|Angelo]] 11:04, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

:::Thank you Angelo; I have re-written the article. Would you check my translation of the bylines in the external links, please? [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 21:16, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
::::It looks good. I've also include the article in the "Defunct football (soccer) clubs" category. --[[User:Angelo.romano|Angelo]] 14:44, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

== Managers templates ==

While people are deleting templates with the one hand, here I am thinking up new ones with the other :-) What I should like to do is create a template for [[Huddersfield Town]] managers, to put below the succession boxes. Whilst for someone who has managed many clubs it could all get out of hand, in many instances it would be very useful. Has this been tried/still being tried/abandoned in a flood of tears? [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 22:14, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
:I don't think it would get out of hand - very few managers actually go through more than half a dozen clubs in their career. There's the odd exception like [[Bob Stokoe]], but even there I think it would look ok. — [[User:Sjorford|sjorford]][[User talk:Sjorford|++]] 14:46, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
:Personally I'm going off the idea of sucession boxes. Whilst "ok" in some cases, I think in the main the personal information should be contained within the article and the manager sucession info should be contained within the various club pages. As it's obviously going to create ugly problems on quite a few pages I think that they should be avoided if possible. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 15:12, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
::Succession boxes are slightly different. The key advantage of those is that you can navigate easily between the various managers articles in order. I find them rather useful. [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 20:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
:My point is that it should be contained within an article, rather than repeated on 10 different articles. I don't disagree that they can be useful, but if every piece of info was on every page where would we be? If someone can be bothered to write a succession box, then surely they can be bothered enough to sort out a list on (or linked to) the main page? For example (and this was the first I tried) [[Leeds United F.C.#Managers]] and [[Kevin Blackwell]]. At the bottom of Blackwell's page happens to be a succession box, click the link to the previous guy, [[Eddie Gray (footballer)|Eddie Gray]], and now the succession box trail is dead! Having no boxes is easier, less ugly,  and the info is on the Leeds Utd page anyway. 
:A few further up the Leeds list is [[Terry Venables]]. He already has 3 succession boxes, but should have at least 8 purely management ones (+extras from his playing career). Is this really the best way to construct wikipedia? Many of the best players and managers are going to end up with 10+ boxes if we just let it continue unabated. Can you imagine if someone went around adding "Player of the month", "BBC goal of the month" awards etc., to add to these found on [[Zidane]]'s page
{{start box}}
{{succession box|title=[[European Footballer of the Year]]|before=[[Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima|Ronaldo]] |after=[[Rivaldo]]|years=1998}}
{{succession box|title=[[FIFA World Player of the Year]]|before=[[Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima|Ronaldo]]|after=[[Rivaldo]]|years=1998}}
{{succession box|title=[[FIFA World Player of the Year]]|before=[[Rivaldo]]|after=[[Luis Figo]]|years=2000}}
{{succession box|title=[[UEFA Champions League Most Valuable Player]]|before=[[Stefan Effenberg]] |after=[[Gianluigi Buffon]]|years=2001-02}}
{{succession box|title=[[FIFA World Player of the Year]]|before=[[Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima|Ronaldo]]|after=[[Ronaldinho]]|years=2003}}
{{succession box|title=[[FIFA World Cup awards#Golden Ball|FIFA World Cup Golden Ball]]|before=[[Oliver Kahn]]|after=current holder|years=[[2006 FIFA World Cup|2006]]}}
{{end box}}
:Where does it stop? People will just continue adding more and more and more unless there are obvious guidelines somewhere. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 21:21, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

== Former World Cup squad templates ==

The Scottish squad templates are up for deletion but I don't think they should go unless all the previous squads from all countries go. We need to be consistent and have a policy. If the mood is that they all should go then we put them up for a huge block delete. I don't feel strongly either way but it should be 'One out, all out' on good trade union principles:-) Views, please! [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 22:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

:I would oppose all deletions on the grounds that they are historically relevant. Deleting them would be like deleting [[Apollo 11]] because it is not current. --<span style="color:#002222;">'''GW_Simulations'''</span><sub>''[[User:GW Simulations||User Page]]'' | ''[[User talk:GW_Simulations|Talk]] ''|'' [[Special:Contributions/GW_Simulations|Contribs]]'' | ''[[User:GW Simulations/Chess|Chess]]'' | ''[[Special:Emailuser/GW_Simulations|E-mail]]''</sub> 22:25, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
::Apart from the fact that one's an article and the other's a template which contains information readily available in articles. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 22:38, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

::Ditto.  This area is pretty much covered [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#Template overuse, to extent of clutter|above]]. As I have said, I'd happily see all deleted, as we have the subcats of [[:Category:FIFA World Cup squads]] and [[:Category:FIFA World Cup players]] which denote involvement in two standard ways. <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><small><span style="border:1px solid gold;padding:1px;background:#DD0000">[[User:Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''&nbsp;Slumgum'''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''T.'''</span>]]&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''C.&nbsp;'''''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></small></span> 22:56, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

::Agree with Slumgum. I'm happy enough to see them all go. Mention of the fact that someone played in various world cups is better put into the article than having ugly templates everywhere. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 23:38, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

::Agree with deleting templates, so long as the information is not lost, of course.  World Cup squads are well recorded with categories/subcats/squad list pages. Same goes for manager templates, so long as the information is somewhere that's reasonably easy to find. [[User:Wantok|Wantok]] 01:01, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

::Agreed, these templates serve absolutely no purpose, and just repeat information that is in the relvant articles. Since that is valid criteria for deletion of text, I think that it should be so for these templates aswell, and would support the deletion of a lot of templates, including the world cup ones. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 19:04, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

::Agreed - delete them. The information is already contained in a normal page, e.g. [[1994 FIFA World Cup (squads)]]. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 19:41, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

::I think there's a case for keeping the winning squads, but the rest should definitely go. [[User:ArtVandelay13|ArtVandelay13]] 19:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

::Agree with Slumgum, this sort of thing is what categories are for. [[User:Oldelpaso|Oldelpaso]] 10:59, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I urge everyone who has expressed a view here, to make it hear at the deletion processe of these template
* [[Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Scotland Squad 1990 World Cup|Template:Scotland Squad 1990 World Cup]]
* [[Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Scotland Squad 1986 World Cup|Template:Scotland Squad 1986 World Cup]]
* [[Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Scotland Squad 1998 World Cup|Template:Scotland Squad 1998 World Cup]]
* [[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:2003 AC Milan Squad|Template:2003 AC Milan Squad]].
Thank you. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 21:54, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

:My view on the Scottish templates is that it would be wrong to delete them in isolation. If we get a concensus on here that they all go then we can have a big bonfire but punching small holes in the collection of templates doesn't seem logical. [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 23:22, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

:I have some reservations about the AC Milan template, given that they were a Champions League winning squad (I think, like World Cup winning squads, there's maybe a case for keeping such high profile templates). Maybe it should be renamed and the content changed to just the players whon played in Europe? I'd recommend it on the TfD but it seems to have vanished, which is weird. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 04:05, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

:I agree with BlueValour - better to agree a policy for inclusion here first, then take every template that fails to agree with it to a single mass TfD, rather than pick each one off in isolation. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 09:20, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

::I believe the templates are a good, easy way of seeing who was in a particular World Cup squad. I oppose their deletion. Although, I do believe the "AC Milan winning team" and "Greates ever squad" templates are rather pointless. -- [[User:Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid black;color:black; padding:1px;background:white">'''''&nbsp;MATTYTHEWHITE&nbsp;'''''</span>]][[User talk:Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:gray; padding:1px;background:silver">'''''<small>&nbsp;yap&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Mattythewhite|<span style="border:1px solid silver;color:silver; padding:1px;background:gray">'''''<small>&nbsp;stalk&nbsp;</small>'''''</span>]]

:Daduzi &mdash; I don't see any reason to keep the AC Milan CL winners template either. Write an article and link to it ffs.
:MattytheWhite &mdash; I think it would helpful, for now, if you stopped adding new template info to the many many articles that you are doing. 
#You are just giving people like me more ammunition to argue for their deletion (ick, I just looked at [[Michael Owen]]'s page) :-)
#You could very well just be wasting everyone's time.
:[[User:Alii h|aLii]] 11:09, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

::Part of that comment alludes to one of my bugbears about a lot of football articles: the overuse of lists and templates to express information which would be better served by prose. To me, it is far more preferable to add a brief sentence such as ''A.N. Other represented Wikipedia in the 3333 World Cup, playing in all three of Wikipedia's matches'' than add a template. This might take more effort than copy-pasting <nowiki>{{3333 Wikipedia World Cup squad}}</nowiki> in 23 articles, but its hardly the most difficult of tasks. [[User:Oldelpaso|Oldelpaso]] 11:39, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

::aLii, I'm hardly pushing hard for the retention of the AC Milan template so there's no need to swear, even in abbreviated form. It just seems to me as there (seems to be) a case for templates of World Cup winning squads so there may be a case for CL winning squads. I'll be happy to bow to consensus, whichever way it goes, though. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 21:06, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Bluevalour, I would support the deletion of all of them, I am by no means limiting my argument to the Scotland templates. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 14:44, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

:::It is unsustainable to add templates to every player for every 'notable' squad they were involved in throughout their career (and it's not clear what level of notability is being pushed for here- CL winners at the moment, when will the debate happen about domestic league winning squads for templates. Frankly, too many templates tagged onto the end of an article look a mess, and detract from the text of the article, which should really be the focus, in my opinion at least.--[[User:Robotforaday|Robotforaday]] 21:45, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

==Football Barnstar==
I made this as a draft of a possible award for exceptional work on football-related articles. At the moment the best we have is The Running Man Barnstar which is for all sports, but world-wide there must be a lot of people (like me) who have no interest in other sports but love football. Is it worth taking forward? --[[User:Guinnog|Guinnog]] 02:28, 29 July 2006 (UTC) 
:It's at [[Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals]] if you're interested, either for or against it. --[[User:Guinnog|Guinnog]] 03:37, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
::Can I also ask you if you (as a project) would support this? Sorry to be a bother but it is important in the debate on adopting it. Please indicate below whether you would support it or not. --[[User:Guinnog|Guinnog]] 20:55, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
:::As this is quite a large project in terms of number of participants it might be hard to get a unanimous agreement, but I personally don't see why anyone would have a problem supporting it. [[User:Dan1980|Dan1980]] 21:02, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
::::Thanks for that. I don't know what we would be looking for in terms of a consensus; maybe if we can get six to ten for with none or one against within a week or so? In return, I promise to join the project! I already do quite a lot of work on wikifying and NPOVing football articles. --[[User:Guinnog|Guinnog]] 21:07, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
:::Support, great idea to have a football barnstar. [[User:Wantok|Wantok]] 01:53, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::I just added my support :) [[User:Bruno18|Bruno18]] 21:17, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! We still need more support though if it is going to be successful. --[[User:Guinnog|Guinnog]] 15:22, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
:Add me to the supporters. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 16:34, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
::I approve I'm surprised it hasn't already been done [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 10:02, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
:::I placed the barnstar back on [[Wikipedia:Wikiproject awards|Wikiproject Awards]].--[[User:Leroyencyclopediabrown|Ed]] 15:48, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Thanks, all who supported this idea. It can now be awarded, to those who make exceptional contributions to football-related articles. --[[User:Guinnog|Guinnog]] 09:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

== Quick show of hands for the Bonfire (of templates) ==

Seeming as a mass deletion proposal is imminent, I thought I'd get it out there, here is a non binding poll I am going to use to get a rough dead of peoples stances, and for everyone to exchange their points of view, and make an informed decision. Please everyone, express your reasoning, as this is the point of the poll.

'''Reasons;'''
#Duplication of the category system already in place
#Duplication of text
#Duplication of the relevant articles
#They are clutter, before we know it there will be on for every club season and every international competition. That would mean about 15 at the bottom of the beckham page for example.
#They are spreading, maybe it's best to kill these things off before there is a squad tempalte for every year of every club and squad.

'''This is not a proposal to delete any articles or information. Please do not use the argument that they are historically relevant, as that is not a reason to keep duplicated content.'''

===World Cup squad templates===
Proposal, mass deletion of world cup squad templates of all competitions, and any continental championship ones, as no doubt they will begin to spring up.

====In favour of deletion====
# Per above [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 19:29, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
# Delete all, as per above. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 15:09, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
# '''Delete all''', the information is best left in prose or the appropriate articles. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 16:04, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
# '''Delete all'''. Amounts to redundant clutter. - [[User:Pal|Pal]] 16:20, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
# Delete some. I would keep the templates for the winning team only. So for this world cup, only keep the Italian template. [[User:Ajaxfan|Ajaxfan]] 20:38, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
# '''Delete most'''. Keep the winning squads. [[User:ArtVandelay13|ArtVandelay13]] 20:43, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
# '''Delete.''' I'm undecided over winning squads (happy to go with consensus on that). <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><small><span style="border:1px solid gold;padding:1px;background:#DD0000">[[User:Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''&nbsp;Slumgum&nbsp;'''</span>]][[User talk:Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''T.&nbsp;'''</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''C.&nbsp;'''''</span>]]</span>&nbsp;</small></span> 20:19, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
# '''Delete all'''. [[User:BlueValour|BlueValour]] 01:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
# '''Delete'''. They clutter articles way too much although I wouldnt mind if winning world cup squads are kept. [[User:Bruno18|Bruno18]] 21:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
# '''Delete''' I agree with keeping the winning squads. [[User:CanbekEsen|Can]] 21:34, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
#'''Delete''' Keep the winners. --[[User:Andymarczak|Andymarczak]] 07:56, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
::*'''Just a thought''' for all those saying "keep the winners". Actually playing in a World Cup finals is ''much'' more of an achievement for Trinidad and Tobago than actually winning the Cup is for Brazil. I still don't see any point in keeping a template for the winners. Various players, like Pelé, will still end up with cluttered pages full of templates. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 08:54, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
#'''Delete'''. The World Cup is over now so they can all go. [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 10:01, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
#'''Delete''' ALso don't mind winner templates being kept.  [[User:Seidodge|Dodge]] 04:12, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

====Against deletion====
# I think it's ok to leave World Cup squad templates; will be no more than 2-3 per player, doesn't seem to clutter page. --[[User:Monkbel|Monk]] 07:52, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
# '''Keep current/most recent''' World Cup team templates, '''delete old ones'''.  Team templates are a convenient and quick way to navigate around the team - useful for casual browsers, which are a very large part of the Wikipedia audience.  Forcing them to go to a team page, to a player page, back to the team page, to another player page, etc etc, is inconvenient.  It's a matter of balancing convenience and clutter, so I support keeping the most used templates and removing the less used templates, as a general approach.  If we only have the most recent World Cup teams as templates, there should never be more than one per page. With the proviso that, before every deletion, a check is made that the information is accessible with one click from the page where the deletion is made. [[User:Wantok|Wantok]] 01:51, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
# They are useful, maybe a good idea would be to add a expand/hide link to the templates. [[User:Mxcatania|Mxcatania]] 19:34, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

===Club squad templates===

Proposal, mass deletion of club squad templates past and present seasons, regardless of achievement.

(in case people have different views for clubs than countres)

====In favour of deletion====
# Per above [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 19:29, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
# '''Partial Delete'''. I can live with a current team template, but anything to do with "Champions League squad 2004&ndash;05" or similar should go. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 16:10, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

====Against deletion====
# For sure present squads templates should be kept. while past seasons templates could be deleted, except of, may be, Champions League past winners squad templates. --[[User:Monkbel|Monk]] 07:52, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
# Present squads should absolutely be kept. IMO, they are primarily a means of navigation (as opposed to information, which could of course be accessed on the club page but would take extra clicks to find), and help people quickly move between articles of players from a certain club. Neutral on previous squad templates - a bit pointless. &ndash; [[User:Albinomonkey|AlbinoMonkey]] <sup>([[User talk:Albinomonkey|Talk]])</sup> 09:06, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
#:Perhaps this vote should be split into "delete all", "delete past but keep present" and "keep all"? [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 15:09, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
#::Agree, and would support "delete past but keep present" option. - [[User:Pal|Pal]] 16:20, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
#'''Strong Keep''' The current squad templates are very useful for navigation between player bio pages. I see no reason to delete them. The past ones should probably go for all but the most notable squads however. [[User:Dan1980|Dan1980]] 17:48, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
#Keep the current club squad templates. These are really useful in my opinion. Get rid of the succession boxes and definitely all the world cup templates. [[User:Ajaxfan|Ajaxfan]] 20:34, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
#:In case it's not clear I am definitely not for keeping club templates for previous seasons. [[User:Ajaxfan|Ajaxfan]] 20:40, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
# '''Keep''' But only current squads. [[User:ArtVandelay13|ArtVandelay13]] 20:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
# '''Keep''' current squad templates; if the issue is clutter then I don't see why leaving 1 current squad template is problematic. --[[User:Daduzi|<span style="color:Brown;">'''Daduzi'''</span>]] [[User talk:Daduzi|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]] 21:09, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
# '''Keep current squads'''. Old ones can be tossed, as far as I'm concerned, as we can use "Awards" sections for trophy wins. <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><small><span style="border:1px solid gold;padding:1px;background:#DD0000">[[User:Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''&nbsp;Slumgum&nbsp;'''</span>]][[User talk:Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''T.&nbsp;'''</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''C.&nbsp;'''''</span>]]</span>&nbsp;</small></span> 20:19, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
# '''Keep current''' team templates, '''delete old ones'''. See my World Cup templates comment above for reasoning. If we only have the current club squads as templates, there should never be more than one per page.  With the proviso that, before every deletion, a check is made that the information is accessible with one click from the page where the deletion is made. [[User:Wantok|Wantok]] 01:51, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
#'''Keep''', but only for '''current squads'''. Delete the old ones. [[User:Bruno18|Bruno18]] 21:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
#'''Keep''' For current squads. [[User:CanbekEsen|Can]] 21:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
# '''Keep current squads'''.--[[User:Andymarczak|Andymarczak]] 07:57, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
#'''Keep''' As above really. The current ones add a lot...no need for Champions League/FA Cup winners or whatever [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 10:01, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
#'''Keep''' As above.  Current squads only [[User:Seidodge|Dodge]] 04:13, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

*'''Comment''' It should involve reserve team template in this discussion. It may created sooner. [[User:Matthew_hk|<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Matt86hk</span>]] [[User talk:Matthew_hk|''<span style="color:Blue;">talk</span>'']] 22:53, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

===Succession templates===

Proposal, mass removal of succession boxes from player and club (if any) articles

====In favour of deletion====
# Per above [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 19:29, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
# '''Delete''' - any relevant info should be in the text of the article. - [[User:Richard Rundle|fchd]] 08:02, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
# '''Delete all'''. While some are more worthy than others, any kind of halfway-house system will be a real pain to police. Also the information would be better kept within the prose of the player article, or in a list in the specific article, e.g. "List of top FA Premier League scorers", etc. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 16:08, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
# '''Delete all''' succession templates - too much (potential) clutter.  With the proviso that, before every deletion, a check is made that the information is accessible with one click from the page where the deletion is made. [[User:Wantok|Wantok]] 01:51, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
# '''Delete''' can ''maybe'' see the point in managerial succession boxes but any awards etc should be in article, which would link to a list of winners in most cases [[User:Seidodge|Dodge]] 04:29, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

====Against deletion====
# Why?? Succession boxes are great, since they can give insight on any positions or awards that player had... --[[User:Monkbel|Monk]] 07:52, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
#I'm fairly OK with succession boxes - I think they take up less space are much less visually jarring than the squad templates, and with some (golden boot, player of the year) it's rewarding to be able to navigate through them. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 15:09, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
#*Addendum - I think it is worth keeping succession boxes for posts or awards only when the subject can only receive the accolade once or twice. If say, someone started adding "[[FA Cup]] Winner" boxes for each club article, then that would soon become ridiculous for the likes of Liverpool and Man United. For that reason, I would specifically delete the FA Premier League top scorer succession boxes for players, which could easily be taken many times. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 15:14, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
#'''Keep 'em,''' although some notability threshold needs to be established to prevent over-use. I particularly like them for managerial tenures. <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><small><span style="border:1px solid gold;padding:1px;background:#DD0000">[[User:Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''&nbsp;Slumgum&nbsp;'''</span>]][[User talk:Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''T.&nbsp;'''</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''C.&nbsp;'''''</span>]]</span>&nbsp;</small></span> 20:19, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
#'''Keep them,''' but only one to a page; maybe in exceptional cases have two. There are too many at present. The information is on the pages and some of the pages are now clutteresd with templates. --[[User:Guinnog|Guinnog]] 02:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
# '''Keep significant ones'''. By that I mean awards related to continental achievements such as [[European Footballer of the Year]], [[FIFA World Player of the Year]], [[South American Footballer of the Year]] and so on. [[User:Bruno18|Bruno18]] 21:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
# '''Keep them''' they provide context for a player, and a useful tool to explore other players' pages.--[[User:Andymarczak|Andymarczak]] 07:59, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
#'''Keep''' but go a bit easier on when they are included. [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 10:01, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

== [[Pelé]]'s goalscoring record ==

Pele's goalscoring record is somwehat controversial. It is widely asserted that he scored over 1000 first-class goals; even official sources such as FIFA quote this number. However, I've got hold of the stats and it appears that a lot of these goals were scored in friendlies, exhibition matches, and even matches Pele played for army teams during his national service.

In an attempt to rectify this, I have started to copy tables which give the result for every game Pele played in to sub-pages of my talk page. The list of tables can be seen at:

[[User:James Kemp/Pelé]]

What I have in mind is that each game should be noted as either valid or not, with a source, and that every game that is checked off has the appropriate username appended to it.

I would really appreciate someone with some knowledge of Brazilian soccer to help me out with this, to let me know what the Brazilian conventions are for counting goals.

I will add more details as to how this project might run as soon as I get the time... [[User:James_Kemp|Jim]] ([[User_talk:James_Kemp|Talk]]) 12:54, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

:While is fascinating research, and well worth doing, I'm not sure that Wikipedia is the right place for it. It would probably fall under the heading of [[Wikipedia:No original research|original research]], in that you're trying to decide which goals to count. As an encyclopedia, we should only cover information that already exists elsewhere, and has been reviewed by the general community. A simple list of Pele's matches is one thing (although this too might be considered to be unsuitable for WP), but any new analysis of that list is something else. — [[User:Sjorford|sjorford]][[User talk:Sjorford|++]] 13:08, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

::I take your point. Obviously this is a decision for the entire community, but in my opinion this does not count as original research. It seems to me that the problem is that while most players' stats include only goals scored in competitive games, Pele's stats include every single non-competitive game he played in. I intend this work to be not original research, but kind of a really complicated reference: all people will in effect be doing is providing a reference for each goal. The table itself will be a kind of aggregate of all these references and will therefore, IMO, be a reference itself. I only said that I wanted to know about the Brazilian conventions for counting goals to preempt criticism; in my opinion, if Thierry Henry's stats do not include goals scored in friendly matches, then neither should Pele's. The only reason for doing it like this is to keep everything transparent, as it is a very controversial subject. [[User:James_Kemp|Jim]] ([[User_talk:James_Kemp|Talk]]) 13:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

:His article should note, if it can be proven, that his famed record of 1000+ goals includes many scored during friendly games and while playing for the army/coast guard teams while on national service. Obviously such goals should not be included in his statistics as a professional player. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 13:16, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
::I should add that wikipedia should not be quoted as a source in a wikipedia article. We need outside sources for his record. For all I know you could have made that list up (I'm sure you didn't, but you see my point?) [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 13:20, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

:::I completely take your point - it's a very valid one. I originally took the list from [http://rivelino.caltech.edu/~pelesl/pele/english/pele_statistics.html http://rivelino.caltech.edu/~pelesl/pele/english/pele_statistics.html]. They were apparantley compiled from a book called Pelé: O Supercampeão by Orlando Duarte. I have not checked every single result against other sources, but the 30 or so that I have checked were accurate. [[User:James_Kemp|Jim]] ([[User_talk:James_Kemp|Talk]]) 13:26, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

::Obviously the main problem with the stats on his wikipedia page is that they definitely weren't all league games, like the info box states... I mean 1265/18 = 70.3 games per season! I know that Brazilian teams now play two different leagues, but they didn't back in Pelé's day (from what I can tell from wikipedia). [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 13:35, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


:::From what I can gather Brazilian teams <i>did</i> play in more than one league back then, but Pele certainly didn't play 70 games a season for Santos (competitive or otherwise). Some of the games included under the Santos statistic are for combined state teams, some for the Army, some for other teams based in Brazil. [[User:James_Kemp|Jim]] ([[User_talk:James_Kemp|Talk]]) 13:46, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

rsssf.com says he scored 537 league goals [http://www.rsssf.com/players/prolific.html], still pretty impressive. Now all we need is his appearances record! [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 13:43, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

: One useful source is [http://soccer-europe.com/Biographies/Pele.html http://soccer-europe.com/Biographies/Pele.html], but the problem with this is that even though it's based on the list I'm gradually adding to my User Page, it only gives final totals and doesn't precisely reference its sources. [[User:James_Kemp|Jim]] ([[User_talk:James_Kemp|Talk]]) 13:46, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

:Oh, and I just checked the rsssf.com source and it's pretty good, although it doesn't seem to include goals which maybe should be included!! God this is complicated... [[User:James_Kemp|Jim]] ([[User_talk:James_Kemp|Talk]]) 13:47, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

'''Note:''' I have copied this conversation to [[Talk:Pelé#Proposal]]. Overall it is better discussed there, but getting some extra publicity here is no bad thing. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 14:27, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

== New category - unattached footballers ==

I've created a new category for players '''currently''' without a club - [[:Category:Unattached footballers]]. I think this would be a useful resource, so if you could help populate it, that would be great. Also, as it's supposed to list currently unattached players, it will need to be kept up to date. [[User:ArtVandelay13|ArtVandelay13]] 15:00, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

== Request for comment ==

Because of an ongoing dispute, a poll has been opened on [[Talk:UEFA_Champions_League_2006-07#SCG_.3C-.3E_SER|this]] page regarding flags to display next to teams in UEFA competitions. The dispute regards what flags should be displayed next to clubs that qualified through the FA of Serbia and Montengro. Comments and opinions appreciated. - [[User:Pal|Pal]] 20:06, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
:The page has been protected; please help arrive at some agreement. [[User:Conscious|Conscious]] 07:29, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

== Hello ==

Hello, how can I join the project? --[[User:Josegacel29|::::::100 % Bogotano::::::]]  ([[User Talk:Josegacel29|Quejas y reclamos]]) 17:56, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
:Just add your name to the bottom of the table! There's no voting for who's allowed in or anything like that :) All help is welcomed! [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 18:10, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
::Welcome. In case you're wondering which table aLii is talking about, is this one: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football#Participants|click here]]. [[User:Bruno18|Bruno18]] 20:01, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

== Ariba Ariba ==

I have nominated [[Ariba Ariba]] for deletion...please vote [[User:SenorKristobbal|SenorKristobbal]] 09:57, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

== Inconsistency ==

Dear all, I saw the [[Scotland national football team]] templates deleted, while other teams' were not. Why? I don't understand the isolated deletion. I support the NFT templates (I try to compose template for every squad in every WC), but I want the same conditions for all of them. [[User:Mxcatania|Mxcatania]] 14:40, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

: I would advice you not to compose any more templates for WC squads, as they (according to the TfD) are not wanted, and will probably get deleted anyway. &ndash; <span style="font-family:fixedsys;">[[User:Johan Elisson|Elisson]]</span> [[Special:Contributions/Johan Elisson|•]] <span style="font-family:fixedsys;">[[User talk:Johan Elisson|Talk]]</span> 15:27, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

:So whos going to do it, and delete all those things, its seems there is overwhelming support to get rid of them all. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 16:43, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

::[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion]] and I'll support you for one. --[[User:Guinnog|Guinnog]] 17:03, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

:::Actually it'll be [[Wikipedia:Templates for Deletion]]. There seems to be adequate consensus to delete all but current, so go for it. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 17:42, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

::::Duh! Of course it would be. Sorry for my elementary error. --[[User:Guinnog|Guinnog]] 17:43, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

:::::Do we have to track ever single one down and list them for deletion, and then vote on them, or can we list the pricniple for deletion, and use the result to delete (or protect them depending on the consensus) them as we find them. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 18:28, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::In theory they should all be somewhere in [[:Category:Football squad templates]]. [[User:Oldelpaso|Oldelpaso]] 19:42, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

::I wouldn't say there's overwhelming support to delete all of them.  I'd say there's overwhelming support to delete all but current/latest (for national squads and club squads).  No matter whether the comments were in the 'support' section or the 'oppose' section, most are saying that, I think. -- [[User:Wantok|Wantok]] 02:12, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

So, let's vote. Please consider previous votations: [[Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_July_21#Template:Scotland_Squad_1998_World_Cup|1]] and [[Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_30#Template:Argentina_Squad_1998_World_Cup|2]]. [[User:Mxcatania|Mxcatania]] 13:57, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

:We already voted! The result was 12:3 in favour of deletion. [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 14:21, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

::I mean, let's vote for a policy regarding totally, partially or never include these templates. I suggest: keep actually football squads, keep top-4 World Cup squads of every World Cup tournament. [[User:Mxcatania|Mxcatania]] 14:42, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

== [[Pelé]] again ==
I wasn't going to bring this here, but seeing as [[User:Loudenvier|Loudenvier]] already deemed it necessary to add the page to the WikiProject's watchlist I thought I might as well explain and ask for some mediation.

As per the above discussion, and it's continuation at [[Talk:Pelé#Pele's Goal-scoring Record (Amalgamation)]], Pelé's goal scoring statistics have been researched by me and [[User:James_Kemp|Jim]]. This was yesterday added to the main page as a new section [[Pelé#Statistics]]. Loudenvier has taken exception to this fact and labelled it [[WP:OR|original research]]. I argue that it is all fully sourced and referenced, and as such is not original research. 

Please see the discussion at [[Talk:Pelé#Original research]] and help mediate this disagreement. cheers, [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 14:34, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

===Specifying where the mediation might be needed===
The talk page for the Pele article is now pretty cluttered, but one thing I have managed to work out is that no-one is entirely sure what exactly counts as a "domestic league" in Brazilian football in the 50s, 60s and 70s (i.e., when Pele was playing). There was no national championship until the introduction of the [[Campeonato Paulista]] in 1971.  We seem to be counting the following competitions:

*[[Campeonato Paulista]] - Sao Paulo state championship
*[[Torneio Rio-São Paulo]] - Rio-Sao Paulo interstate championship
*[[Taça de Prata]] - a national competition which (I think) was partly league-based and partly knockout
*[[Campeonato Brasileiro]] - national league championship

This is a problem because the football player infobox states that "* Professional club appearances and (goals) counted for the domestic league only". So, which of these competitions count as "domestic leagues" for the purposes of the infobox? The infobox seems to assume a modern European league structure, which wasn't really present in Brazil in the period in question. Can someone help arbitrate? [[User:James_Kemp|Jim]] ([[User_talk:James_Kemp|Talk]]) 16:45, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

We might als need some sort of mediation regarding precisely what is meant by "advancing a position" in the context of "original synthesis". See [[WP:OR]]. Counting goals they way we have done is certainly "advancing a position" through "original synthesis" in one sense of the phrase, but does it really apply here? We are, after all, only showing which of Pele's goals were scored in which competitions, not providing some sort of revisionist interpretation of statistics relating to the [[Jewish Holocaust]]. [[User:James_Kemp|Jim]] ([[User_talk:James_Kemp|Talk]]) 17:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
:I took the liberty of inserting a full stop into your comment, as I assume you don't want it to look like you go by the name ''Jewish Holocaust Jim'' ;-) [[User:Oldelpaso|Oldelpaso]] 21:23, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

== Needs separate articles for different divisions ==

I would like to start a discussion regarding the [[Manchester Football League]]. This league has two divisions (excluding the reserve divisions) and I feel that we should have a total of three articles regarding the subject matter of this league. The reason is clear. This is consistent with the other leagues within the [[English football league system]]. This also creates a greater amount of consistency with league articles. In terms of content, I feel that there would be major differences between the [[Manchester Football League]] article and the [[Manchester Football League Premier Division]] article. A [[Manchester Football League Division One|Division One]] article has also been created as well. --<span style="background:gold;">[[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<span style="color:green;">S</span>]][[User:Siva1979|iva1979]]</span>[[User talk:Siva1979|<sup style="background:yellow;">Talk to me</sup>]] 21:09, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

:As you have shown there are three articles, what are you proposing? [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 21:22, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
::No. The [[Manchester Football League Premier Division]] article is a redirect page. I have created this article some time back but a user had transferred this article as a redirect page to this [[Manchester Football League|article]]. I am proposing that thses two articles should be seperated as with the other league articles having two or more divisions in the [[English football league system]]. --<span style="background:gold;">[[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<span style="color:green;">S</span>]][[User:Siva1979|iva1979]]</span>[[User talk:Siva1979|<sup style="background:yellow;">Talk to me</sup>]] 21:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Is there enough information to warrant 3 articles considering how obscure they are, and how small the articles are anyway. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 21:32, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

:::What information could possibly be included in a separate article for Division One that wouldn't be better off placed in the main league article? I don't even think there is anything relevant for the individual divisions of say the Isthmian League, let alone leagues this far down the pyramid, and my proposal would be to either delete or re-direct all divisional articles to the relevant league page. Why don't you please expand one of the divisional articles before we get too far down this road, and then the community can have a clearer idea about the best way to proceed. I wont make any of the divisional articles into re-directs in the meantime (although if I have time I might still work on expanding league articles) - [[User:Richard Rundle|fchd]] 05:22, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

::::All leagues are not equal and I don't see how a league at levels 11-12 of the pyramid should deserve three separate articles. I agree with fchd in that many minor leagues do not deserve to be separated out. Perhaps a cutoff point could be discussed and agreed upon, and all leagues below a certain level (perhaps level 10 - as that is the agreed minimum level of club notability) only have a single article about themselves for consistency's sake. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 07:37, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

:::::I'm working through the Step 7 leagues alphabetically and merging the individual division articles into the league article.  There just isn't anything about individual divisions that can't be concisely stated in the league article. --[[User:Balerion|Balerion]] 05:21, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

::Agh, edit conflict. Verifiability is difficult for information about the Premier division, never mind Division One. I'd prefer to see one article used for all divisions, as there is a real possibility that material would fail [[WP:V]] for a full article about the lower division. I live in Manchester, and these divisions and teams receive little or no coverage in the local press. I didn't even realise the team West Didsbury and Chorlton existed, despite living a few minutes walk from it and occasionally going to non-league matches at [[Maine Road F.C.]] (level 9) a few streets away. [[User:Oldelpaso|Oldelpaso]] 21:45, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

== Continental football ==

Since a lot of nations have their own football pages (eg [[Football in Brazil]]), I was thinking should a similar thing be done with continents eg, [[Football in Africa]], giving an insight into how the sport reached the continent, how the cultures reacted, how it set in, a general overview of football and its history in the continent with reference to continental competitions and federations. Similar to the national counterparts, but on a broader scale. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 21:20, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

: Sounds like a good idea to me. &ndash; <span style="font-family:fixedsys;">[[User:Johan Elisson|Elisson]]</span> [[Special:Contributions/Johan Elisson|•]] <span style="font-family:fixedsys;">[[User talk:Johan Elisson|Talk]]</span> 21:24, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

:[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] '''Support.'''  Sounds worthwhile.  In some cases (Asia) there's a lot of diversity across the continent.  Overall, it's a good idea that fills a gap in the coverage. -- [[User:Wantok|Wantok]] 01:59, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

:[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] '''Support.''' Fantastic idea. [[User:James_Kemp|Jim]] ([[User_talk:James_Kemp|Talk]]) 09:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

:[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] '''Support.''' Good idea! [[User:Alexf|Alex Feldstein]] 16:01, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

==Yearbox==
{{yearbox|
| in?=
| cp=19th century
| c=20th century 
| cf=21st century

| yp1=1920
| yp2=1921
| yp3=1922
| year=1923
| ya1=1924
| ya2=1925
| ya3=1926

| dp3=1890s
| dp2=1900s
| dp1=1910s
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}}[[:Category:FA Cup Finals]] is growing. I think it would be good if something like [[:Template:Yearbox]] could be created (see right) to navigate the articles.  Then again, perhaps is could be adapted so that the competition could be one of the parameters, so that it could be used on [[:Category:FA Premier League seasons|FA Premier League seasons]] or any given competition. Slumgum (who often refers to his or her self in the third person) lacks the nouse to adapt such a template and wonders if others think there is a need for such a thing or if anyone has the desire and skillz to make it happen.  <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><small><span style="border:1px solid gold;padding:1px;background:#DD0000">[[User:Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''&nbsp;Slumgum&nbsp;'''</span>]][[User talk:Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''T.&nbsp;'''</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Slumgum|<span style="color:white">'''C.&nbsp;'''''</span>]]</span>&nbsp;</small></span> 22:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

==Rangers "Greatest Ever Team" template==

I just noticed [[Template:Rangers F.C. greatest|this template]] on a player page and this ''seems'' like a template that should be deleted, but I wasn't sure if this related to an acutal team teamplate that should be kept. Thoughts? --[[User:Rballou|Rballou]] 19:36, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

:It is an actual team I think, but only the starting squad, and wether it is the greatest is subject to  the creators opinion. [[User:Philc_0780|<span style="color:Green;">Philc</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:Philc_0780|T]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc 0780/Esperanza|E]]</sup><sub>[[Special:contributions/Philc_0780|C]]</sub><sup>[[User:Philc_0780/Improve me|I]]</sup> 22:19, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

::Delete it. We've all agreed only current team templates should be kept, at most. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 23:50, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Having never setup a template for deletion, I did all that I could find to do... I hope I set everything up correctly :) --[[User:Rballou|Rballou]] 00:50, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

:There's a similar one for Celtic, see [[Kenny Dalglish]]. Apparently it was voted for by fans or players or some such, and is covered on the main Celtic page. It doesn't offend me enough to call for it's deletion though. Maybe this Rangers one is the same kind of thing? [[User:Alii h|aLii]] 08:33, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

::The greatest XI can be included in the articles about [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] and [[Rangers F.C.|Rangers]] (where it can also be mentioned that it's an "official" greatest XI and given an appropriate citation) - it's just the use of it as a template that is contentious. [[User:Qwghlm|Qwghlm]] 08:37, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

== Featured Article Candidate - FA Premier League ==

I'd like to point out that the [[FA Premier League]] is currently nominated for [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates|featured article]] status. Discussion on the nomination is located on [[Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/FA_Premier_League|this page]]. I've been working with [[User:Oldelpaso|Oldelpaso]] to bring this article up to FA quality over the past few days and I'd appreciate it if you could support this article's candidacy (assuming you believe it to be of FA quality, of course). If you see any glaring omissions or sections needing improvement I'd also appreciate any feedback you might have. Thanks. - [[User:Pal|Pal]] 20:12, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
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