Talk:FNB Stadium/Archive 1

Archive 1

An image?

I found an image for the project - Image link. Can we put it in the article? Zippo 12:09, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Christian Event

There is no credible source cited for the attendance. This portion of the article is written in a different style than the rest, giving the impression of bias toward the event. Currently this portion of the article is written as such.

"On Friday March 11, 2011 Christ Embassy held a crusade "Night of Bliss with Pastor Chris".[16] [17] The FNB Stadium witnessed an unusual crowd with all the stands and field filled to capacity, with over 80,000 participants.[18] [19] [20]"

These citations do not actually belong with the text. The text should read something more like this given the citations annotated.

"Chris Oyakhilome of Christ Embassy held an all night event on March 11, 2011 called "A Night of Bliss with Pastor Chris". [16][17] Many attendees arrived the night before and slept in their cars awaiting the event. The roads in front of the stadium had to be blocked off, with police diverting traffic away from the stadium.[18][20]"

You can try putting in something regarding to the "stands and field filled to capacity," but none of the cited sources really cover this. The closest coverage would be 17, where in the video they speak of a full stadium, however the only numbers they throw out are "millions of participants." Previously stated in the article is the capacity of the stadium, which is less than 100,000. Not to say millions did not participate (I don't know, I wasn't there), but that would be over capacity. It could be possible to say "The participants were so many, that they spilled into the parking lots and surrounding areas of the stadium" again attributed to the video from 17.

Source 19 is a youtube video with no relevance merit for this article except maybe to show the crowd. However, it has a strong religious overtone, which leads (this portion of) the article back to bias. Also, it may be better to call this section of the article "Religious Event" or "Religious Events," but that is likely coming from my own bias toward ambiguity.

I apologize if I did something wrong here, feel free to remove this content if it is placed in the wrong area, or violates some portion of what I have agreed to. ~~PAul~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.249.96.191 (talk) 02:15, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved. It looks like this was moved here about a year ago with the argument that "Court case has determined that the name FNB Stadium still stands." The argument here is more compelling; we use the common name even if different from the "official" one. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 21:53, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

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FNB Stadium → Soccer City – This stadium is commonly known as Soccer City, and according to WP:COMMONNAME this is what the title of the article should be. Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 10:11, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page moves. Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 11:46, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.