User talk:Rogerthat/Archive1

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Roger(?), Welcome. I suggest you ask at the Australian Wikipedian's noticeboard whether there are many others interested in a WikiProject for Australian rules football. I expect you'll get a couple of people, and User:J L C Leung from Canada is likely to also be interested as he voted for the Australian footy finals at Australian collaboration of the fortnight (it didn't get up as a collaboration, but the articles were written anyway). If you get some experienced editors offering to help, they'll be able to help set up a wikiproject. I think it sounds like a good idea, but I'm not a footy fan, so wouldn't help (but might occasionally copyedit an article). Good luck. --Scott Davis ^Talk 13:01, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Empty articles

You've recently created a couple of articles that contain nothing but category tags. Articles which contain no text other than category tags are deletable under our standards for speedy deletion, and those articles will likely be deleted by an administrator. You may wish to add some real content to these articles to prevent them from being deleted. Kelly Martin (talk) 01:45, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Football

Hi Roger, if I can call you that. I'm keen to help with the football project, and have already been doing a bit with soem of the Swans players. I'm not really happy with what you've been doing with the categories, though - I've made soem comments at the project page you set up. JPD (talk) 09:29, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. Just thought I'd better let you know that I have moved AFL rising star to AFL Rising Star award so that you can link to the right place. I have fixed the pages that already linked to it. Also, when you put succession boxes, put one {{start box}} at the beginning of the boxes and one {{end box}} at the end. It looks a bit strange if you have {{start box}} before each new succession box. JPD (talk) 11:45, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

G'day Roger, thanks for your contact. I'm a lifelong Bomber fan, but have no special expertise to offer on the subject of footy. Cricket yes - you'll see my name here and there, also Australian history topics. Good luck with the project! MulgaBill 01:13, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Lewis Roberts-Thompson

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AFL logos

It wouldn't be hard to make some types, Essendon and Richmond can just have a black rectangle with a red and yellow diagonal stripe through respectively. Striped clothing is also pretty easy. But it will be harder for clubs like the lions, swans, eagles, dockers and maybe port power. I'll see what I can do though. Template:DaGizza/Sg 12:16, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject AFL

Thanks for bringing it to my attention Rogerthat. Swarve 07:59, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Count me in!

Ciau Ruggeru - naturalmenti vi junciu! Salutamu. File:WesternBulldogsLogo.png ρ¡ρρµ δ→θ∑ - (waarom? jus'b'coz!) 11:21, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have to say - when I first read that you were starting an AFL project, I initially thought, what is there left to write about?! But now that I've had a quick look through this project page I realise that you have put a lot of thought into this, and opened up heaps of possibilities. Well done! I guess I should naturally be writing about Daniel Giansiracusa. Maybe we can have a pronunciation sound file in their for the benefit of the commentators! As if I didn't have enough on my plate working in scn.wiki and it.wiki! My wife is going to divorce me if I spend any more time on wikipedia. File:WesternBulldogsLogo.png ρ¡ρρµ δ→θ∑ - (waarom? jus'b'coz!) 11:31, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the invite

I'll be in it also, although I'm not sure how much time I can give it with other commitments. You done a great job setting up the structure which i'm sure anyone passing this way in a year or so will get the benefit of. Congratuations. -- Ian ≡ talk 11:39, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject

Hi Roger, just letting you know that I removed the link to the wikiproject from the Australian rules football article, because I think it's usually considered best not to have links to Wikiprojects and other things like that in articles. Apart from that, I like what you're doing. I was glad to see those player profile link templates appearing! I'll help with the project here and there, but I've never really seen the point of actually signing up on one of them. JPD (talk) 20:03, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Briscula

Ciau Ruggeru - ti piaci jucari Briscula, e Tri Setti? Avemu bisognu dûn artìculu supra Tri Setti. Salutamu. File:WesternBulldogsLogo.png ρ¡ρρµ δ→θ∑ - (waarom? jus'b'coz!) 03:46, 19 December 2005 (UTC) ps di quali parti dâ Calabbria sunnu li toi ginitura? Siddu vennu dâ parti cchiù vicinu â Sicilia, forsi parravanu nu dialettu calabbru-sicilianu, e dunca forsi tu capisci lu sicilianu scrittu. Tu sai? Forsi unu jornu poi scriviri articuli pi scn.wiki.[reply]

WikiProject AFL

Thank you Rogerthat for inviting me to the project. I'm sure I'll find lots to contribute, especially on lesser-known areas of the AFL, for example umpires. --EuropracBHIT 11:39, 19 December 2005 (UTC).[reply]

Thankyou Rogerthat for inviting me to the project. I'm afraid I don't follow AFL at all so I am unable to help. I saw your article on Bruce McAvaney so I popped in and noted that he was born in Ferryden Park, South Australia because he noted that he lived there across the road from Charlie Walsh in his childhood. This was from a book I had as a child (and still have) called the The Sportsworld Year where he was talking about the Olympics. I made the Ferryden Park, South Australia article because it is adjacent to Mansfield Park, South Australia, which is I am. At the moment I have a book with me called Australia at the Olympics and I am doing bios on swimmers at the moment, working backwards from the most recent, and creating a few more (yesterday) for the likes of Duncan Armstrong, Jon Sieben, [[Samantha Riley, Scott Goodman, and Scott Miller. I noticed that you have contributed to the Nicole Livingstone page and are probably interested in Australian involvement in sports in general, so if something is coordinated on the Olympics I would love to help - I think they are severely underrated because there is no prize money, but the standard and depth of competition is just so impressive. I have also been wandering around the cricket bios, local suburbs stuff in SA, and the Eurovision Song Contest. Thankyou again and good luck with the project. Blnguyen 06:26, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the Invite

I'd love to help out. I'm trying to compile information on Football (all forms: Rugby, Association, Aussie, Gaelic)...to be more specific Mob Football. I'll look at what's up about the AFL and see what I can add.

Cheers,

Rowlan 05:00, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Football Positions

Hey Roger. I think it would be a better idea for WikiProject AFL if we put all the positions into one article, similar to that of the Football (soccer) positions. The page is up at Football (Australian rules) positions. This page is going to need a lot of attention because I only know so much about certain positions. Normy 16:17, 23 December 2005.

Paul Barry

Why did you re-add a link to the article on the deleted random Canadian teacher? Ambi 08:39, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. :) Ambi 09:20, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Wikiproject AFL

Hi Rogerthat, I love my footy but my Wikipedia interests lie elsewhere. I won't join up, but I'll keep making the occasional football contribution. By way of apology I have just added Warwick Armstrong to Category:Australian Rules footballers. Snottygobble | Talk 11:43, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Tables conversion

I think you can save your Word document as HTML? There are a number of tools for converting HTML tables to Wiki format; see Meta:Help:Table#External_links. I notice on that list a tool for converting CSV to Wiki format - if you have access to Excel that might be an even easier option. Snottygobble | Talk 08:22, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Profiles

Sure I'll look into what i can add for some AFL personalities. I tend to edit alot of Entertainment/Television articles alot so this may suit me better. Mike 12:36, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Why does Commentators cover Broadcasters? Broadcasters are 100% different and have nothing to do with commentators I believe Broadcasters are an Impotant part of AFL look at the current battle over broadcasting. Mike 12:48, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously that info needs to be added but that would take alot of time getting information together with sources etc.. That may be a project within iteslf and probably should be put together 100% before any brodcasting info is added again along with all the different state local current broadcasters too as I only know what occurs in Victoria ie. State Radio Stations which air AFL games. Mike 12:54, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Collab

Hi, mate, thanx for the invite. One of the major concerns atm with the rugby league wikiproject is the manual of style. We dont really have one. I was going to have a read through the Football's (Soccers) WikiProject and adopt most of its structure, with probably a change of colour for templates depending on how articles related to Football use colour. I'd suggest the AFL wikiproject do the same. It probably wont require much fiddling, most templates and infoboxes etc are just copies of previous ones, probably defined from Football articles. We're a relativly young project on the management front. And being xmass and new years, everyones a little slacker around this time of the year I believe. POds 23:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Aussie Rules Footy

Regarding adding Aussie Rules Footy to Category:Australian rules football computer games, is it Wikipedia convention to consider console games as video games in categories and articles? I would have thought that NES games would not be classed as computer games. Remy B 05:29, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Tks for invite

Thanks Rogerthat. I'm not much of a footy follower, but I do keep track of high profile Australian people, so I might be able to help out from time to time. I've just added some info to Ron Casey's page (including his date of birth) as my token gesture for now. Noticed you've got the McGrath family on your to do list. I have some McGrath's in my background, but no famous footy players as far as I know. Cheers JackofOz 08:41, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]