Talk:Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

Opening comment
I removed the following text from the Bulldogs history: "Eventually all this settled down and the title officially became what most of the fans called the team, the Canterbury Bulldogs." I have checked nrl.com.au, the Bulldogs official web site (where they are officially call Bulldogs Rugby League Club Limited) and even the "Big League" magazine (NRL official mag') still calls them just Bulldogs. -- Timothy Hitchcock
 * While I'm sure that it was correct, they may have changed it back. Oh well as I can't find anything to confirm what I'm saying, I guess we leave it out Steven jones 03:21, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Scandals
An anonymous user included a section that was at a minimum very POV and posibbly just plain vadalism. I have removed the section. If someone wants to add a reasonable section on the scandals the bulldogs have been involved in in the last few years it will probably help stop people adding garbage. If no-one else does, I may do it myself soon. Steven jones 03:09, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * That would be a good idea; someone should add NPOV info about the rape scandals by the Bulldogs. -- realwingus  11:18, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Old logo
Despite my best efforts on Google I have not been able to source a good quality picture of the old Bulldogs logo, last used in 1996. I personally think it is still better than the current logo. If anyone knows where to find, please leave a message on my page. Dankru 00:33, 18 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Never mind, I found one. Am I the only person to reckon the "new" logo looks stupid?Dankru 22:43, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Bulldogs Song
Added our current bulldogs theme song Added our famous supporters, thats all i could come up with Added major sponsors Will add more later
 * Moved the song to it's own page, thought maybe other team songs could go there too. Tiburon 10:09, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Noted former players
Created the table of past players as thought it looked better than just a plain list. I just included all former interntionals and players to have represented NSW/QLD and some rather famous ex-bulldogs.

Anyone i've missed or debate on who should be added is welcome.Tiburon 10:09, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * An excellent table - hopefully you plan to use this as a template for other clubs.--Alexio 11:43, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Follow-up: In fact I'm going to steal this table and use it on the Gold Coast Giants/Seagulls/Chargers page!--Alexio 12:15, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Go ahead, that would be great and yes I plan on doing the same for all the other clubs.Tiburon 01:27, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * All credit goes to The Man Tiburon! :-) --Alexio 22:26, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Move
Should we move the page from 'Canterbury Bulldogs' to 'Bulldogs rugby league team'? 'Canterbury' no longer applies in an official sense... what do we think?
 * Done.Timmah86 10:28, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Vote on introduction entry
Dear all - I have the following quote in the intro as at least 30% of the time the club is called 'Canterbury' by people in the press. Another editor 'Timmah86' does not agree. RAther than entering an edit war I am proposing a vote:

"Ironically, though the club is now officially known as the Bulldogs, having dropped 'Canterbury-Bankstown' from its name, it is still often called Canterbury by players, commentators and fans alike"

Support remaining in the introduction
 * 1) Cas Liber 06:15, 21 October 2006 (UTC) (introduction is summary of important points which are later expanded upon)

Remove
 * 1) Timmah86


 * Comment Personally I'd like to see a comprimise on both parts of the argument. For me, that one paragraph should be removed from the start into the main section of the body, because I can't see anywhere else in the article where it refers to the name drop. I reckon the opening line should read:
 * The Bulldogs (also known as Canterbury, Canterbury-Bankstown) are a team in the National Rugby League (NRL), the premier rugby league football competition in Australia.

Perhaps then include a footnote next to the them Canterbury name and include a note about how people still refer to them as "Canterbury." --mdmanser 09:04, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree with Mdmanser on the comprimise - discuss, don't vote. But each to their own... Daniel.Bryant 06:48, 25 October 2006 (UTC)


 * OK OK, so I'm outvoted. The note is in the 'emblem and name' section nowCas Liber 14:40, 26 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Completely agree with Mdmanser and Daniel Bryant. It is the logical solution. GizzaChat  &#169; 11:06, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Moving History onto a separate History page yet?
I've noticed that many articles, once the history section starts to get detailed, the History gets summarised and the full one goes on a separate page (and can really go to town with loads of detail :). Do we think this page is long enough to do this here? cheers Cas Liber 19:17, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Name
Are they known as Canterbury Bulldogs, as this page just links them as the Bulldogs. Londo06 23:07, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Bulldogs Rugby League Club Ltd, Canterbury Bulldogs is better. Londo06 23:25, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm fairly sure that what is in the article is correct and that the club's official name is just 'Bulldogs' with no geographical identifier. It's quite confusing as television and radio commentators continually refer to the team as 'Canterbury' (as do many RL fans in general). You can get to this page through 'Canterbury Bulldogs' as well so no worries there. CumberlandsAshes81 01:39, 19 April 2007 (UTC)


 * As far as i know, they have been officially known as the 'Bulldogs' since the start of the 2000 NRL season.

I believe the official names that Canterbury have had over the years are as follows: CEP78 05:26, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Canterbury-Bankstown {1935-1994, 1996 & 1998-1999]
 * Sydney Bulldogs {1995}
 * Canterbury or Canterbury Bulldogs {1997-Super League}
 * Bulldogs {2000-present}


 * This is an ongoing Wikiwar I've had to progress with, and many people need to understand - the club name is Bulldogs. Not to worry, Canterbury Bulldogs will still link to the page, but the name has changed and I request all Wikipedia editors respect that and update their pages accordingly. Timmah86 10:38, 24 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I still call them the Canterbury Bulldogs, I've got no problem with the Bulldogs alone. For the last eight or nine years I have known them as Canterbury Bulldogs. Thought they were phasing in the Bulldogs title. Londo06 16:35, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Please see explanation from Bulldogs Official Website : When the NRL was formed in 1998, the club opted for a change of logos to present a new modern image moving forward. There were two issues that forced this decision; 1) The Bulldog logo was claimed to be the intellectual property of the ARL. 2) The demands of meeting the NRL Rationalisation Criteria before the year 2000 meant that the club needed to be pro-active in making sure that all marketing opportunities were realised. The change in jersey and new logo presented a modernised image which proved to be successful. In 2000, the club changed the name to the Bulldogs in an attempt to broaden the supporter base. Today, the Bulldogs enjoy the success of maintaining the traditional supporter base from within the Canterbury-Bankstown district while building an expansive supporter base by playing in Sydney's leading sporting arena, the Telstra Stadium at Homebush. Cheers bradgraham 18:00, 24 April 2007

Off-field Incidents section - removed
Can we please get rid of this section - permanently - from the article? Such a section is certainly not part of the NRL Club template and also contains allegations masquerading as facts (including a reference to an article that contains the allegation only makes the allegation verifiable not the truth of the allegation). The fact that the club's players and supporters have a negative image in the media and have been involved in contraversial incidents is adequately covered in a section under 'Culture' - any more coverage to any alleged incidents is simply going to ruin the balance of the article and turn it into a minefield of libel, innuendo and related vandalism. Anyone care to defend the material? CumberlandsAshes81 06:54, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Nope, I agree 100% (as per similar discussion at Talk:Brisbane Broncos).--Jeff79 07:12, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Consider it gone. There's enough negative light on the game and does NOT form a encycolpedic section under this particular entry. If someone would like to catalogue it in a new article then certainly by all means, but it won't stand in this article. Section removed. Timmah86 10:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * For those interested, I've wikilinked the Media Profile section to a new article titled Bulldogs off-field indiscretions. Cheers. Timmah86 10:54, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree, this section is not required and is found in no other sporting pages. I hope we can all agree for it to remain ommitted. Cheers bradgraham 17:43, 24 April 2007

Collaboration
Since this article is the collaboration of the fortnight I thought I'd mention some things here that I feel need attention. --Jeff79 02:31, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * The Category for Bulldogs players (currently Category:Canterbury Bulldogs players). It's a tough one. Most categories are "(Team name, i.e. location + mascot) rugby league players". This naming convention of including the team name as well as the sport is one I believe in, as it eliminates any possibility of overlapping categories (i.e. should a team of a different sport with the same location or mascot have a category for its players). This convention dictates that the Bulldogs Category would be Category:Bulldogs rugby league players. The thing is though, there's no geographical context in the Bulldogs' team name. So should another rugby league team called the Bulldogs in another place have a category for its players, it would overlap with this one. Perhaps it should be Category:Canterbury Bulldogs rugby league players just for this case, even though the convention for the rest of Wikipedia appears to be to use the official name: Bulldogs.
 * There is a separate article for the Bulldogs' 2004 rape allegation which I really feel just constitutes nothing more than a section of the history article or even the Bulldogs off-field indiscretions article. I don't see why this issue has to be spread across so many separate articles. There needs to be a merger there.

GA Nomination Failed
I have failed this article in its GA Nomination due to "Quick Fail Criteria" #5 - "The article uses copyrighted images which do not meet Wikipedia's fair use policy." In my opinion, this article contains an excessive amount of non-free content, much of which does not have adequate information regarding the source of the material and/or does not contain the proper fair use tag. Many are uploaded as a "historic event," which is incorrect. Please renominate the article once these issues have been addressed. Thank you. Hersfold (talk/work) 22:40, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Article renominated. The above issues have been addressed and further work has been done. mdmanser 10:02, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * History section lacking inline citations. Michellecrisp 11:28, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

GA nom, once again failed
Hey, not wishing to upset anyone, there are too many issues with the article right now for it to be considered as a good article as per WP:GA. I'll highlight as many as I can to make it possible for editors to improve the article for re-nomination. So, I'm failing it, but would be glad to assist in pushing it to GA, give me a shout if you need me. The Rambling Man 17:10, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * [Citation needed] all over the article.
 * PoV issues e.g. "...the great St.George..." - remember this is supposed to be encyclopaedic.
 * It's fine to have lots of books for references but you really need to use the references in-line (as Michellecrisp said above).
 * "80's", "1990s'" - be consistent on how you discuss decades.
 * "young, enthusiastic and free-running side dubbed "The Entertainers"" - POV? No citation.
 * Too much proseline (i.e. single sentence paragraphs) - makes the prose poor.
 * Use WP:DASH to help understand en-dash usage.
 * "...well-documented..." - not to me. Especially without citation.
 * Crest section has zero citation.
 * "...semi-official nickname..." what does that mean?
 * Not a single wikilink in the Crest section - not essential but would probably improve, where applicable, the section.
 * List in the "Colours" section - make it prose.
 * Culture section needs serious overhaul - don't put external links in the prose, the section headings need to be headings, not just bold text, what does the image bring to this section?
 * Place references per WP:CITE e.g. [10] needs to be other side of the colon.

Bulldogs (NRL team)
Insted of Bulldogs rugby league team, I think that we should define the article name down to the league that the Bulldogs participate in. Because the Bulldogs 'rugby league team' could simply define the local team named the Bulldogs.

I know that people will know its NRL but if we put NRL within its name, it makes things more simple. Please leave any coments on my talk page as well on here. Aflumpire 05:37, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Suggested renaming
Perhaps instead of naming the article Bulldogs (rugby league) or Buldogs (NRL team) we simply use the clubs official name, the Bulldogs Rugby League Football Club. It's the official club name, surely we should be using that as the article's title? Bongomanrae (talk) 05:20, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems like a good idea to me.--Jeff79 (talk) 05:41, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Name change
Does anyone know if the Bulldogs are going back to their old name, Canterbury Bankstown Buldogs next year P.o.o.r.P.h.o.t.o.r.e.m.o.v.i.l.s.t. (talk) 22:04, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
 * They changed the logo to the more retro one. Dunno about the name change.--Jeff79 (talk) 22:10, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I have just been speaking to someone who used to play for Souths and is the current trainer and he confirmed that they (the Bulldogs) are going back to the old name CBB. Regards P.o.o.r.P.h.o.t.o.r.e.m.o.v.i.l.s.t. (talk) 06:35, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The board voted to change the name back to Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs, but the NRL still has to approve it.  florrie  09:29, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Woo hoo! :)))) Casliber (talk · contribs) 10:23, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the above link Florrie and yes it is good news Casliber, even to old Parramatta fan. P.o.o.r.P.h.o.t.o.r.e.m.o.v.i.l.s.t. (talk) 02:11, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Good to see you guys are already on top of this, I wasn't looking forward to fixing the re-directs! Bongomanrae (talk) 07:05, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I assume we'll have tyo wait for an official announcement from the NRL before the article name can be changed. Don't want to do it all twice if there is a comma in the wrong spot.  florrie  09:49, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * There isn't likely to be an official announcement from the NRL, however it's worth noting that the 2010 draw on the NRL.com website lists the club as the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. As with all years previous, club names, logos and such are all ratified as official on November 1 for the following year. So the name should remain as Bulldogs RLFC until October 31 :) Timmah86 (talk) 03:52, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
 * November 1 today - shall we change it? 165.228.178.143 (talk) 00:13, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Name change proposal
I propose we change the title of the article to remove the words "Rugby League Club" - "Canturbury-Bankstown Bulldogs" is consistent with other NRL clubs - for example Manly is at "Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles" NOT "Manly-Warringah District Rugby League Football Club". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sydney.city.easts (talk • contribs) 04:59, 6 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree. Remove 'Rugby League Club'.  LunarLander  //  talk  // 15:14, 7 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Naturally "Rugby League Club" must go. All that's left to decide is whether there's a dash or just a space between "Canterbury" and "Bankstown".--Jeff79 (talk) 02:53, 14 November 2009 (UTC)


 * The club have used "Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs" here on the 16th November.  LunarLander  //  talk  // 19:07, 18 November 2009 (UTC)


 * That seems like a consensus to go with "Canturbury-Bankstown Bulldogs" (official name - and is consistent with "Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles") - so could an admin please do it? 124.184.96.26 (talk) 03:42, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:03, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs Rugby League Club → Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs — As per above discussion. Here is use of the new name, "Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs" on the club's official website. --Jeff79 (talk) 09:12, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed165.228.178.143 (talk) 00:11, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Club categories renaming nomination
I've made a nomination for this club's categories to be renamed. The discussion is here: Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_August_6  LunarLander  //  talk  // 01:11, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

2010 Squad - Flags
Hi all,

the flags next to each player - do they represent the country that they have played International Rugby League for our where they were born or their Nationality?

If they are Nationality then heaps are incorrect, eg. Idris, Barba, Tandy,etc.

CheersCanberraBulldog (talk) 03:17, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Again, I notice the flags are changed to countries that the players HAVE played for - can we had a foot note to explain this, because if I was not a support I would think that the flag represent WHERE the players come from. CheersCanberraBulldog (talk) 07:48, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed.--Jeff79 (talk) 08:19, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

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