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Page Blanking
On 25-Jan, you blanked
- Also applies to John Dick (1950s footballer). A redirect from a page move should normally be left in place. In certain cases, it might make sense to delete, but redirects are cheap. -- JLaTondre 15:05, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
- I see you decided to ask for deletion. Unfortunetly, they should have been listed at WP:DEL isn't the clearest. Most times admins will close out a redirect listed at AfD, but other times they'll let it go through. -- JLaTondre 02:13, 29 January 2006 (UTC)]
- I moved both of them to Chick Bowen 02:03, 30 January 2006 (UTC)]
- I moved both of them to
Re: Squad list. Information such as date signed and previous club is available on the players page, the official squad list looks neater and also reduces the page size.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Football_squad_player And it took me a good 20 minutes to convert the squad! Elzar 19:13, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
The book I have (Arsenal Who's Who,
Possible solution - say he was captain according to Dickford & Gibson, but provide a footnote saying no mention of this is made in Harris & Hogg. What do you reckon? Qwghlm 15:34, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
- Haha. To be fair, a lot of football history from pre-1900 is pretty murky, so I'm not surprised if there are conflicting sources. Anyway, I've added the footnote in now. Qwghlm 16:16, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm afraid I drew a bit of a blank: I had a check of my archives - my list of results has no record of Arsenal playing Thames Ironworks in 1896 - according to that we didn't play them until a friendly on April 26 1898 (which ended 2-2). According to the fixture list I have, Woolwich Arsenal played Casuals on March 2 1896 (winning 4-1) and Tottenham Hotspur on March 16 1896 (losing 1-3 :-( ). So if the match did happen then it's slightly more likely it was played on the earlier date - even then, it was rare for a team to play twice in one day!
The only 5-3 friendly scorelines that happened to Arsenal that decade were against
Hi mate, this was pretty much all I could find on the Western League (copied from my reply to Lion King). Have you found anything?
I can't find anything too official that mentions it. There is this page that records it:
1906-07 Western League Division 1B Champions.
Overall Champions after beating Division 1A Champions Fulham 1-0 at Chelsea (
I'm pretty sure that'll have been the reserve team. Our progression into the Football League started through the Southern League Second Division, which we joined in 1899. We moved to the Southern League First Division the following year but stayed there for yonks. We came fifth in the Southern League First Division in 1907. That page doesn't mention this, but the reserves page does. I think they have that the wrong way round. There is also a page for West Ham United "A" just to confuse matters. This page of spud results shows that the Western League ran concurrently with the Southern League, with some matches being played a couple of days apart. The Wikipedia page states that:
In the years before the Second World War, many teams played in both the Southern and Western Leagues; the Western League was considered as subservient to the Southern League.
The list of champions does show a number of other clubs that fielded reserve teams in the league.
- N (talk) 23:07, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Deleted articles
Latish last night I came across a series of one-line articles on old and apparently short-lived football teams, one of which didn't mention the title in the article ("Vampires FC"), and which were all created with a jokey (though obscure) and uninformative edit summary. My thought was that, first, they were a hoax, and secondly, they were in any case very, very short articles that made no claim to the significance of their subjects (which, in fact, seemed more to assert their insignificance).
When I came to the fourth, I began to wonder if they weren't in fact serious, and held off until I'd had a chance to investigate further. If genuine, I still believe that they belong in one article (perhaps a list?), unless they really are individually significant and can be expanded with genuine information (which seems unlikely, from what I saw). At the moment, though, they're little more than entries in a trainspotter's football-team spotter's notebook.
What I should have done was check on their creator, and see whether he or she was likely to be a hoaxer or not — but if you've ever patrolled the New pages section, you'll know that of every fifty entries up to a half can be either straightforward vandalism, blatant copyvios, unformatted but possibly useful articles, etc., all needing attention, and that makes it hard to do a thorough check on all of them. Sorry for not doing it, though. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:02, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Unused categories
Hi. It seems you made several positional categories, and decided to abandon them:
- Category:West Ham United F.C. centre halfs
- Category:West Ham United F.C. left backs
- Category:West Ham United F.C. left halfs
- Category:West Ham United F.C. right backs
- Category:West Ham United F.C. right halfs
Should they be deleted, per the
Your user boxes
Using copyrighted images in user boxes is not part of the fair use claim. You should remove them. ed g2s • talk 21:58, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Quick thanks
Erm, apologies if I'm not meant to write this here but I just wanted to thank you for expanding George Hilsdon's entry. He's my great great grandad you see. I started the article a long time ago and was shocked to see it had now become a fully fledged piece of prose. Many thanks!
Ashley Hilsdon
Hi mate, could you double-check your appearance stats for
- Hi mate, another discrepancy (just a little one). John Dick article (and remove the tag) please. Cheers. Nzd (talk) 14:03, 31 December 2006 (UTC)]
- Oh yeah, and the other, er, discrepancy is George Furnell, who is listed as David Furnell in the Who's Who book. I expect both are right, with one or other as a middle name that he was more often known as. I've added a note for now.. - Nzd (talk) 23:54, 16 January 2007 (UTC)]
- Just noticed that ref tag on the West Ham United F.C. season 1922-23, etc. for the individual pages? Thanks mate. - Nzd (talk) 13:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)]
- That was me ;) I'll try to standardise the format, to make them look a bit more like the others in Category:English football club seasons in time. - Nzd (talk) 16:57, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- Just noticed that ref tag on the
- Oh yeah, and the other, er, discrepancy is
Your edits to AC Omonia
Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, Spyrides! However, your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove
Hello there. I noticed you've been putting up an awful lot of information regarding West Ham during the early parts of the century and was wondering what your sources were (books, web, etc) as I attempt to flesh out the History of West Ham United F.C. from what I started last year and could use some such texts.--Koncorde 20:38, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Cheers for the links. Lalamy is superb, have used it myself a lot. Will give the other books a look up. Cheers.--Koncorde 23:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
- Hope you don't mind, lifted a few bits and pieces from your Castle Swifts article, and will probably be halfinching a bit more as I flesh out the early history with a little more about Thames Ironworks (I have cited your main articles and year by year analysis at the beginning and end of relevant sections). Would welcome your input anyways!--Koncorde 22:47, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
- Funnily enough I ordered that book the day before last! Kowinkydink.--Koncorde 19:07, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
- Hope you don't mind, lifted a few bits and pieces from your Castle Swifts article, and will probably be halfinching a bit more as I flesh out the early history with a little more about Thames Ironworks (I have cited your main articles and year by year analysis at the beginning and end of relevant sections). Would welcome your input anyways!--Koncorde 22:47, 20 May 2007 (UTC)