User talk:Aircorn/Rugby

Non-aesthetic changes made from the Wikiproject

Just noting some differences between the content in my user space and what is presently found at the wikiproject. I have compiled this after the fact so I may have missed some details. A lot of these changes I considered uncontroversial, but can appreciate that this might not be the case for all of them. I would be happy to return to the original wording anything here and debate further on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rugby union page if necessary. AIRcorn (talk) 08:10, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Main Page

Left Side

Add a tab to useful information and copy relevant sections into sub-pages there
Rugby union to rugby union
Blue linked participants list
Removed sentence For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
Reworded Scope of project
- Added updating to maintaining and creating
- Moved articles related to rugby union to top
- Shortened Portal:Rugby Union and Current sports events up-to-date for international matches and provincial competitions to the rugby union portal
- Split current sports events ... to it's own line
- Removed current sports events and (As usually there are newspaper obituaries written when a rugbian dies, it is also an opportunity to write up and improve the Wikipedia article on that player.) from Recent Deaths line
- Removed coordinate efforts and peer review articles, expand the biographies on every man who has played Test rugby (all players who have played in at least one Test).Allblacks.com maintains bios on every All Black, increase the number of well-written rugby union-related articles and expand and improve other rugby union-related articles as they are redundant with creating, maintaining and updating articles related to rugby union.
Added to How to Help
- Expand - linking to rugby union stubs
- Improve - using the Featured Status bullet point as a guide
- Assess - linking to unassessed articles and the criteria
- Categorise - linking to rugby union categories
- Removed The above also applies to templates, categories and other wiki items that make finding rugby union information easier
- Added where to find articles to bullet points, including a link to Rugby Union requests
Added an article alerts transclusion

Right Infobox

removed links to participants, style guide, new articles, assessment requested articles and resources (all now in tab)
removed links to news, to do, quiz, peer review, previous collaborations, removed collaboration nominations, Fiji rugby workgroup (No or unsubstantial recent edits)
added links to wikiproject watchlist, deletion sorting,
added userbox, wikiproject and biography templates
kept but reordered links to Templates, Portal, Shortcut, Discussion and Collaboration of the fortnight
added Statistics and Featured Content sections (updated featured content and shortened History of rugby union matches between All Blacks and France to France vs New Zealand to keep it in proportion.

New Articles

add an introduction

Requested Articles

Had previously added an introduction, removed blue links and attempted to make the table of contents shorter [1]
Removed {{rugby topics}}

Participants

Had previously added an introduction and separated active from inactive (using a year with no contributions as a cut off point)[2] - NB the intro says 6 months without working on a Rugby Union topic, but that should probably be agreed upon (it was adapted from another wikiproject that used three months) before being enforced.

Notability

Added a general notability criteria adapted from WP:ATHLETE

Style

Added GordyBs plea regarding "rugby" to "rugby union" as a bullet point
Removed Parts of this section are disputed; see Talk for details.
Changed the example reference from Wikipedia to IRB

Assessment

removed {{rugby topics}}

References

Unchanged

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Stasm (talk) 09:48, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]