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April 2009

My apologies. Upon looking at the information, I see now why you were removing the template. I monitor the recent changes, and your removing a large portion of content repeatedly without justifying it in the edit summary appeared suspicious and was reverted. To avoid confusion in the future, may I suggest that you make use of the edit summary? This will ensure that any edits you that make in good faith aren't immediately reverted. Again, sorry for the confusion. (And may I suggest you review Talk page guidelines?) Thanks, Ono (talk) 14:55, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

It is nice to see an editor taking an interest in some of the tens of thousands of articles that are all but abandoned. I thank you for your efforts to bring these articles up to date. Thanks, Ono (talk) 15:18, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Scots language

Don't sweat it. I'd rather know about any mistakes, no matter how small. But no I don't use a bot. --User:Woohookitty ^{Diamming fool!} 01:52, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Why i edit International RL Players

How can players just be called an Australian player when they havent played for them even when they have what about the other country they are allowed to represent are they just forgotten and the international rl eligibilty rule is a joke hayne can play for fiji one year then play for australia and tonie carrol can play for australia and new zealand so it doesnt matter any way as to what international rl category they are as long as they are able to represent them if they have a grand father/mother or father then they can play for them and i have to edit the international league pages to show how much players can represent the weaker teams for people who dont know much about international league i hope you understand why edit the way i do and hope you let me continue my editing in the future as its only fair to include all the countries they are able to represent under the current eligibility rules.58.165.209.77 (talk) 10:36, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

RL players are called Australian even when they haven't represented Australia because they have Australian nationality. Offiah doesn't have a Nigerian passport, wasn't born there, didn't grow up there and didn't play representative sport for them.GordyB (talk) 12:46, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Rugby union in Africa

Thanks for adding cats to this. This was the continent I was least looking forward too (too many damn countries - Asia would be in the same boat, if more Asians played!)

I pinched the idea of rugby union by continent from the RL pages. It's not meant to supersede the "by country" pages, but should hopefully fill a gap, as many RU competitions are transnational.--MacRusgail (talk) 18:20, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Mungoball

I have reverted your blanking of the redirect page. If you wish to see it deleted, take it to WP:AfD. Drmies (talk) 19:05, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Indeed I will but in the meantime there is no need for an abusive term to have a redirect page.GordyB (talk) 20:26, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

I can't say I approve of your edit summary; where I'm from that's a bit callous, and very pointy, to say the least. And you're right in the sense that it doesn't redirect to African-Americans, but oh so wrong in all other senses: the term has its own article. Anyway, I saw you took it to AfD and that is the right step. Drmies (talk) 23:08, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Referring to people as sub-humans because of the sport they play doesn't count as "callous"? Some double standard there. Nigger is significant enough in its own right to warrant an article "mungoball" is not but terms of abuse should certainly not redirect to those that they abuse.GordyB (talk) 12:06, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Opinion please!

What do you make of this - Rugby Soccer? --MacRusgail (talk) 20:21, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I was unsure whether it was real or not. Maybe someone saw the name "rugby football", and changed it to "soccer" I don't know. Part of the reason for my uncertainty is that some genuinely bizarre hybrids do exist, such as football tennis and chess boxing--MacRusgail (talk) 16:58, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Soviet Union

Thanks for the edit. I would appreciate any comments on the article... I think currently it talks a bit too much about the political set up, although this is important.

However, I've just come up with a new piece of evidence, which suggests that rugby football was indeed played in Russia as far back as the 1880s (which puts it way before the split, and the 1908 date given). What's more surprising, perhaps, is that it transpires that rugby may predate soccer in the Russian Empire!

I've gone through a book by James Riordan called Sport in the Soviet Union, which was published back in the 1970s. It's turned out to be a real goldmine, and has resolved some of the contradictory information that I had been given in sources elsewhere (such as rugby being banned during a period in which other sources claim it was being played). There isn't a vast amount on rugby union in it, but more than enough to go on, and what's there is more than enough to sort out a few of the issues.--MacRusgail (talk) 16:39, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks for your kind advice. I need to get the Huw Richards information in there, and also I'll try and fill out the story of Llanelli in Moscow which looks an interesting one. It's been hard to track down some of the information - I've even used the National Library of Scotland to source some of it. My philosophy is that while most readers of Wikipedia will head for articles on the 6N, Jonny & Jonah, that they're well served elsewhere (online and off), and that it is difficult (impossible?) for us to improve on them. However, on a subject like this, I think it's quite possible for us to be the best - probably also on Tier 2 nations as well. The article should have stuff in it, which one can't find elsewhere online (at least not in English)

Still, I reckon Soviet rugby must be a big historical "what if?" If the USSR had survived a decade more, and if they had got into the first RWC, then I think we would have seen teams of at least the calibre of Romania. (Probably full of steroids and shamateurs!) Instead they took the huff at SA, which wasn't even in it, and by the time '91 had come around, the USSR was dead. (Which was good in some ways, but a disaster for the game). Unless the old SA etc counts, and pre-WWII Italy and Japan, rugby doesn't seem to thrive in dictatorships. Romania's definitely the odd one out in that regard. --MacRusgail (talk) 14:36, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Sport glossaries

I have nominated Category:Sport glossaries (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for renaming to [[:Category:]] ([[[:Template:Fullurl::Category:]] edit] | [[Category talk:|talk]] | [[[:Template:Fullurl::Category:]] history] | links | [[[:Template:Fullurl::Category:]] watch] | logs). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 00:16, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

No objection.GordyB (talk) 10:01, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Service awards proposal

Hello, GordyB! I noticed you display a service award, and would like to invite you to join the discussion over a proposed revamping of the awards. If you have any opinions on the proposal, please participate in the discussion. Thanks! — the Man in Question (in question) 07:15, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

See

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rugby league and discussYoundbuckerz (talk) 09:52, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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Irish Rugby flag

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Rugby union at the Summer Olympics GA Sweeps: On Hold

I have reviewed Rugby union at the Summer Olympics for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since you are a main contributor of the article (determined based on this tool), I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:15, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:US rugby union teams

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Reviewer rights

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Can you have a look at this please?

I could do with your input here please - Talk:List of Jews in sports#Rugby--MacRusgail (talk) 11:41, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Re: Rugby Forum

Given that The Rugby Forum covers NRL and Super League, it spans both "flavours" of rugby, union and league. Accordingly, it is rightfully in the categories of both, and it rightfully should not be referred to as a "rugby union" site, but generically a "rugby" site. —C.Fred (talk) 20:34, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

I too would like to lend my voice to this. While some wording can, and will be looked at, it is not a rugby union only site. One of the owners is primarily a rugby league supporter. The appropriate term would be either just rugby or rugby football. We can then look at which sections pertain more to union or more to league. Rowlan (talk) 09:19, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

I also would like to throw my 2 cents in. Stop editing the article for which you have no knowledge of. If you are a rugby league fan then all well and good and it would be welcoming to get you onto the forum but don't edit the article please when you have no idea of the forum. Welshman25 (talk) 09:33, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

In response to your last message, no one has nominated any rugby league players to be inducted into the Hall of Fame at TRF. So your argument is invalid and shows that you have only glanced over the top and not got involved with the members. Its quite rich when people like yourself edit pages that they lack any knowledge of the subject purely for the fact they think they know better and show a good level of arrogance when told better. Welshman25 (talk) 10:28, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Featherstone RUFC

Hi, I notice that you have made contributions to the Featherstone article. The current rugby league club, Featherstone Rovers, wasn't founded until 1902, and appears to have no links to the earlier rugby union (RU) club. However, I have contributed to an article about James "Jimmy" Metcalfe, and I have found details of him playing for Yorkshire (RU) in 1896/7 while playing at Featherstone (RU), would you have any information about the RU club of the 1800s in Featherstone. Best Regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 13:22, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the response, if you could ask at a rugby league forum, that'd be great. Best Regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 10:39, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on adding the detail about Featherstone (Trinity) RUFC, to the Featherstone Rovers article. Best Regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 09:37, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Cramlington Rockets

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Sorry for getting around to this article late, there's a bit of a backlog at copyright patrol just now. I've tagged the section as being a close paraphrase of the source. I think that it does need to be rewritten in your own words from scratch, since it's clear that you did follow the source, and it remains very close in parts. Just for an example of where it follows closely, you wrote:

Over the next few years, the club went on to win three other cup competitions and had nine players win county caps. In 2003, with the original under-14 team reaching adulthood, efforts to establish new under-12s and under-11s sides failed, and the club struggled for survival.

where the source says

Over the following years the club went on to win three other cup competitions and saw 9 players compete at representative county level. In 2003, with the original U14 team reaching adulthood, endeavours to establish the new U12’s and U11’s teams failed, and the club battled for existence.

VernoWhitney (talk) 13:57, 14 April 2011 (UTC)