Talk:Auckland (National Provincial Championship)

Requested Move
Auckland 1st XV → Auckland representative rugby team &mdash;

I am open to debate on what this article should be called, but it is clear that Auckland 1st XV is not the correct name. There are no references to the team which use that name (lets face it, most media merely refer to "Auckland" with the context of the Air NZ cup etc. established elsewhere in the articles). However, there are frequent references to the Auckland 1st XV Competition, which is the premier schools competition in the region. Indeed, I would suggest that school rugby is what the phrase 1st XV immediately brings to mind for most readers. I do agree that there is room for an article about the team as distinct from the ARFU. dramatic (talk) 06:05, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - Auckland 1st XV certainly isn't the correct name for this article, and Auckland representative rugby team seems like the best alternative. – PeeJay 07:05, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
 * "Auckland representative rugby union team" seems more appropriate still.--Jeff79 (talk) 23:32, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Of course! dramatic (talk) 02:39, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree with Jeff79 and dramatic that "Auckland representative rugby union team" would be better.  LunarLander  //  talk  // 15:39, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Done - Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.

Large amounts of text copied from Auckland Rugby Football Union
An ip editor copied a large amount of material from Auckland Rugby Football Union article to this one. I've changed much of it back because it was basically a fork, and there are issues of attribution to the original contributors (as outlined at Copying within Wikipedia). There is no point conflating the Union and the representative side. Obviously there is going to be a little overlap, but the two articles are discrete (much like All Blacks and New Zealand Rugby Union). However if there is important information I've removed that should be in there, feel free to re-add it. – Shudde  talk 10:00, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

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Merge proposal (September 2020)
I propose to merge Auckland rugby union team into Auckland Rugby Union. This would put this page back in line with other Mitre 10 Cup sides. The current squad and history can easily be merged into the main Auckland rugby union page (with some added sources for verification) to match other Mitre 10 pages. The list of All Blacks is also already listed on the main Auckland rugby union page and so that can just be tidied up. I don't see why this side (and Bay of Plenty Steamers which I'm also requesting a merge for) should be different from other sides. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 10:19, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

I actually propose that it remains separate and all other rugby teams should really have separate pages. Rugby Unions are far more than the chief representative teams. They are organisations with numerous club competition grades and histories and with representative playing teams which can go back for over a century. They are also fielding women's representative sides. To try and have it all on one page could create something very cumbersome. User:Yamis
 * Thanks, this is also being discussed here. There are some examples on what separate pages would look like and what a tidied singular page would look like also. Thanks. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 11:55, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Cheers I've been researching and writing up rugby league in Auckland (have done full season pages from 1908 to 1934) and a bunch of New Zealand rep players so far but I have covered a lot of rugby as well because of players switching codes. When I am linking to representative teams I found it very odd that I had to actually link to some generic 2020 union page rather than the actual team involved in the match (for example if I am linking to the HB rugby team from 1923 the only option is to link it to (essentially) the 2020 HB rugby union). Interesting discussion though as I can see the other argument. I'm just of the opinion that a union is not the same as their representative teams and the histories tied up with them. I think NZ rugby is quite poorly served on wiki at the moment (as is league) and that ultimately more pages, and more detailed pages is better rather than contracting/restricting the existing pages. Thanks (Jamie).
 * , it is a weird one. All the Rugby Union pages for the NZ unions are all very poor, with no real sources and lots of random statistics and player tables on them. They're all going to have to be tidied up whatever happens. I just think that nobody in the past has looked after them, whereas SA sides and Australian sides have had people looking after them. So far more people have suggested creating separate pages for the Mitre 10 Cup sides, and I've created drafts for all of them (just stubs at the moment) if there is consensus for that. Rugbyfan22 (talk) 16:43, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Article name
I moved this article back to "Auckland rugby union team" because this conforms to WP:NAME better I think. Removing "rugby union" and "team" from the name seems unwise to me. This is nice and descriptive, and someone unfamilar with Mitre 10 might have a better idea what the article is about just by reading the title. Added to that, if the sponsor of the provincial competition changes then the name will need to keep changing. If anyone prefers a different name maybe a move discussion should be started. -- Shudde talk 18:29, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, I moved this page to link all the Mitre 10 Cup teams together. Auckland has a number of rugby union teams at differing levels, age groups and women's sides, therefore the originally name isn't entirely suitable. A discussion was held on this talk page, here and here over the whole topic and it was decided that team nicknames weren't suitable for page names either. It also wouldn't be suitable for the disambiguator (rugby union) due to the original union pages, so this was a good all round solution we could come up with. If you think they should be better as something else, feel free to create request moves for all the Mitre 10 Cup pages. Also at Mitre 10 Cup is the clear Common Name for the tournament, people will likely be familiar with it Rugbyfan22 (talk) 19:34, 11 October 2020 (UTC)