Talk:Australian football at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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 * Ray Gabelich-VAFA vs. VFL&VFA 1956 Olympic Games.jpeg

Good article nom
Hi all, I've just put the page up for good article nomination, perhaps a year later than I should've, but I'd like to have this properly 'finished off' and recognised for its completeness. You can see my significant rewrite here (+30,000 bytes) and since then I have made minor improvements to the layout and information. Finding free images is a bit of a task given it occurred just after the non-copyright period in Australia, but I endeavour to keep searching. Thanks. Gibbsyspin 03:04, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Good work. I've made a few small edits, but am concerned about use of the term "native sport". It's not used in the article Demonstration sport, nor is it mentioned in any source used in the article, so far as I can see. I'm an old bloke who actually went to the Melbourne Games. I was aware of Aussie Rules being a Demo sport in Melbourne. I've been a keen follower of the Games ever since, and have never seen a demonstration sport described as a native sport. Do you have a source for its use? Would "national sport" be a better description? HiLo48 (talk) 08:12, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks HiLo. I've had a look around to see where that term might have come from, and it appears to be a hangover from the original article which I left in as I thought it made sense. Happy for you to make whatever further changes you deem necessary. Gibbsyspin 08:07, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Seems that the (inappropriate and awkward) term "native" has come from an unsuccessful attempt to express the intention within what seems to be a standard and non-controversial stipulated condition of "demonstration sports" -- namely, one of them must be a "national sport", and the other must be a "foreign sport" (see, for instance, ) -- and, therefore, the simple, and appropriate substitution would be to use "national', and just say, "The rules stated that the hosts must organise both a "national" game and a sport "foreign" to the organising country …"; and, of course, on the basis of it being a "national sport" (or not), one can strongly argue that, at the time, the sport was known exclusively as "Australian Rules" football.Lindsay658 (talk) 08:47, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks Lindsay658. Some good research there. There's a couple of other uses of "native" in the article. They can be easily fixed. It's worth noting that we do have the matching article Baseball at the 1956 Summer Olympics. It's not big, but good enough. HiLo48 (talk) 09:59, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Just changed all uses of native to "national", and all uses of foreign to "foreign" (and, also, added a "See also" link to the baseball article, and vice versa). Lindsay658 (talk) 17:38, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

"Rules"
Given that the VFL and the VFA and the VAFA not only conducted their relative regular-season competitions under different rules, but, also, used different match footballs, I am supposing that, given it was a VAFA field umpire, that VAFA rules obtained. However, I have been unable to locate any mention of the rules under which the match was contested; and, furthermore, there seems to be no mention of the football used in the match (perhaps somebody has knowledge of advertorial bragging in 1957 advertisements?). Lindsay658 (talk) 23:13, 27 September 2020 (UTC)