Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby league/Manual of style/Rugby league in Nation articles

WikiProject Rugby League Links Shortcut: WP:RL       WPRL Taskforce Clean-up List WikiProject Watchlist Templates Project template: {{WikiProject Rugby league}} Member userbox: {{User WikiProject Rugby league}} Biography infobox: {{Infobox rugby league biography}} Statistics Rugby league articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 3 4 FL 2 2 GA 1 4 7 12 B 9 22 31 49 14 125 C 3 40 78 345 1 64 531 Start 10 89 605 3,456 668 4,828 Stub 9 209 6,767 1 1,505 8,491 List 5 51 236 1 47 340 Category 3,764 3,764 Disambig 75 75 File 1,094 1,094 Project 25 25 Redirect 5 30 136 844 1,015 Template 1,177 1,177 NA 1 1 4 5 313 324 Other 24 24 Assessed 23 173 1,012 11,006 7,319 2,298 21,831 Unassessed 1 7 511 519 Total 23 173 1,013 11,013 7,319 2,809 22,350 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 77,781 Ω = 5.55 Featured Content FA       Bootham Crescent FA Gateshead International Stadium FA Old Trafford FA Valley Parade GA 1939–40 Northern Rugby Football League Wartime Emergency League season GA Brick Community Stadium GA Cumberland RLFC GA Dwain Chambers GA Glebe RLFC GA Hunter Mariners GA Melbourne Storm GA MKM Stadium GA Ray Lindwall GA Sam Tomkins GA The Matty Johns Show GA York Community Stadium FL List of NRL golden point games FL List of Rugby League World Cup hat-tricks

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Introduction should summarise briefly the article so as to provide a spiralling out effect. That is, cover little of the article for the introduction which then the article goes onto cover more. Refer to the Wikipedia:Manual of Style.

Rugby league in England achieved good status and can be used as a model.

History (Compulsory)

The most important aspect. All nations that have or are playing, have a history.

National team (Compulsory)

This is compulsory as every nation should at least have or have had a national team. If it does not or never did, the article is questionable at best. In this case, mention that no team has ever represented the nation.

Competitions (Compulsory)

Summarise competitions (history, teams etc.) and link to relevant articles. If articles do not exist for the separate competitions, either one of two things can be done:

1. Store all information about the competition under this section
2. Create the relevant articles and link

Demographics (Optional)

In nations for which rugby league is a popular sport, a demographics section should be written, if not when the article is created, then eventually. It should give a good idea of what type of people play rugby league and where it is played. Use your imagination when talking about demographics (e.g. sex, race, location).

Culture (Optional)

Only necessary in cases where rugby league has a noticeable impact on the culture of a nation such as Australia and PNG. In these countries, especially in Australia it forms a large part of modern pop culture in NSW and QLD. In PNG, its slightly different, its the most followed sport and has been said to have a much more tribal-like culture attached to it. It is expected a general rugby football culture article will be written. References may be made to this article where appropriate.