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Merger proposal

Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament should not be merged with the sub-article for the Women's squads at the Olympics. This goes against the wikipedia formatting for all major footballing events. All the large tournaments (the Olympic Games, World Cup, and most Continental Championships) all have a page for the squads separate from the tournament page.--MorrisIV (talk) 12:02, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. Not a good idea. HandsomeFella (talk) 14:12, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Isn't that a other stuff exists argument? In this case, some articles will need sub-articles for squads to be split off for reasons of size, but I don't think this one does. If the squads are clearly a subtopic of the tournament (I don't think anyone's disputing that?) and the combined article size wouldn't be unwieldy (neither really have any prose so I don't think that's a concern) then I think a merge should be considered. – hysteria18 (talk) 14:46, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
What, exactly, is your rationale for merging these articles. I mean, you must have suggested this for a reason. My reason for believing that this information should stay in separate articles is that the rosters are not the main topic or interest – the results are – but it is still encyclopedic content. Ergo: separate article. HandsomeFella (talk) 14:55, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My rationale is simply that one article is a subtopic of the other, so a content split isn't justifiable; and the combined size of the two articles isn't enough for a split for size reasons. Most articles include sections which aren't, in and of themselves, "the main topic or interest": in 2012 Summer Olympics, for instance, Public transport or Financing could be split off, but they aren't, because they're subtopics of the main article and the main article isn't long enough to justify splitting them off. (Also, just a heads-up: I've also tagged Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads to possibly be merged into Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament. It might be best if we treat this discussion as pertaining to both pairs of articles, unless there are significant differences which I've missed.) – hysteria18 (talk) 15:54, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Give National Team Coaches two more months to announce their squads and suddenly the Squads section will be large enough for split for size reasons.--MorrisIV (talk) 18:10, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Edited because I forgot to sign the above statement.--MorrisIV (talk) 18:10, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm not wholly convinced but I'm happy to wait and see. Thanks everyone! – hysteria18 (talk) 20:33, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal 2

See Talk:Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament#Proposed merger 2

HandsomeFella (talk) 06:58, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Match reports

As same as the men's tournament, I believe we only need one match report, and that's from the London 2012 official website. We have never used two before in the previous tournaments, such as the Euro 2012 and 2008 Olympics articles. Regarding the FIFA match reports, they should be used as references for the attendance, which User:Kante4 have added previously, but then was removed. Arbero (talk) 11:55, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion is going on here. Kante4 (talk) 12:07, 27 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Colombia's uniforms

Like France's, Colombia's uniforms do not have the standard Adidas tri-stripe, so they need to be updated to reflect that. --Kevin W./Talk•CFB uniforms/Talk 21:18, 28 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also, France's uniform should not have the Nike swoosh on it since it's a file on the Commons. --Kevin W./Talk•CFB uniforms/Talk 00:19, 29 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Discipline

Should the "Discipline" section be updated to reflect the two match ban that Colombian Lady Andrade received for her punch on Abby Wambach? While not an in-match disciplinary action, it still falls under discipline. 208.40.242.41 (talk) 20:54, 31 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've added it in. If someone feels it should be removed, then they can remove it. --Kevin W./Talk•CFB uniforms/Talk 09:12, 1 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Medal infobox

As in all events at the olympics that have thus far been competed an infobox for quick reference of medalists is provided (the purpose of an infobox). It is not redundant because the redundant data has been removed, it only provideds access for the medalists. The evet is also primarily an olympic event not a "football tournament" of its own. So the proposal is to use 2 infoboxes wihout redundant data.Lihaas (talk) 20:54, 9 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is no need for the Olympics infobox, since the football infobox already includes info about medalists. What can the Olympics infobox possibly say that the football one doesn't? – Pee Jay 21:36, 9 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, it's clearly redundant. The only tangible difference is that the Olympic infobox has coloured icons for the medalists, while the football infobox uses the more generic "Champions"/"Runners-up"/"Third place" titles and also includes fourth place. The standard football infobox also has statistics like average goals per match and attendance, which seem trivial to highlight in an infobox in my opinion. But in any case, pick one of these, but using both is silly. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:53, 9 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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