Talk:Sheffield Wednesday F.C.

A bit of a clean up
I cleaned up the introduction blurb it does not in my opinion reach NPOV standards and was not an neutral point of view Red under the bed 17:18,18 november 2006 (UTC)

History
The History section of this page has been moved to History of Sheffield Wednesday F.C.

I am in the process of summarising the info in this section to give a brief overview of the history of the club.

Any major additions should be made at History of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. Dan1980 19:06, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Former Players
This section is currently not adding much value to the article. Its an unhelpful list which most people would simply pass over. My suggestion would be to reduce it down to 10 or less players and then including details such as years with club, position, appearences and goals. Any objections? josh (talk) 16:37, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd remove it for the simple reason that you can't put every former player and on the other extreme it's hard to limit it to 10 players as there will always be a difference of opinion (it's not like ur a small club and only have 5 notable players etc) of which 10 to include, there's a link at the bottom to former players...that should be enough imo. If not, you could base on the Sheffield Wednesday all time XI (I'm sure they'll be some sort of poll in regards to this conducted sometime, I've checked the legends section on the official website and that has too many players to include). Englishrose 18:10, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * A Sheffield Wednesday XI was produced in the last couple of seasons. I'm not sure who was in the list, but I'm sure it will be on the net somewhere. I would have no objection with the section being removed as there is now a seperate page dedicated to the subject. Dan1980 07:17, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Scandal of 1964
Rather surprised that there is no article on the 1964 scandal and have been wanting to write one but have not had a good enough reference. However, good article in The Times, Saturday (23 July 2006) interviewing Swan. I have started the Tony Kay article, I think that it is the easiest. However, the scandal does not seem to have a name. I have suggested Sheffield Wednesday scandal as it is descriptive and should unambiguously describe the event. Other ideas welcome. Cutler 10:12, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

BTW - any help with giving Vic Buckingham the article that he deserves would be welcome. Cutler 10:12, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I've been thinking about the same thing, and found the same article, but the name isn't expansive enough. The Sheffield Wednesday players were only involve in part of a larger scandal. Over 10 footballers were jailed over the incident and it would be better if the article could cover the whole scandal rather than the Wednesday-Ipswich match alone. Perhaps British betting scandal of 1964 could work. josh (talk) 11:22, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm definately with Josh on this one. Sheffield Wednesday scandal makes it sound like it was only SWFC as a club that were involved, whereas the truth is that it was a few SWFC players along with several players from other clubs. British betting scandal of 1964 would be much more appropriate. Dan1980 20:02, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, I hadn't realised that other players were exposed though it always seems to be the Wednesday players who are remembered. I will probably start a stub soon. Cutler 22:49, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm actually quite annoyed that the former players section has been removed as it is a useful source to cite. I thought the whole point of wikipedia was that people could add to it? If some one noticed a player wasn't on the list, they could add to it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.237.98 (talk) 16:38, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Badge
Found a supurb page on the subject here. Its a personal site but well researched. I've managed to match up a couple of the facts with published other sources. There is a picture of the city crest being used on a program in the early fifties in Sheffield Football: A History and the 1970 creation of the modern badge matches up other research. The original badge appears with dates of use. It also comes with a bibliography. Any opinions on the usablity of this material. josh (talk) 12:29, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I've added a fairly large section on the badges now along with three new images. -- Dan1980 (talk | stalk) 16:00, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Today's Featured Article suggestion
I have suggested this article for use on the Main Page as Today's featured article. I have used the club crest as the thumb image to accompany it, does anyone think that any of the other images would be better. Please feel free to add your comments here. -- Dan1980 (talk | stalk) 19:48, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on getting the Wednesday article up to featured article standard. Dan1980 and joshurtree you've done a great job Mick Knapton 20:03, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Congrats on getting the article to an FA. But they won't bother putting the club crest on the homepage, as it isn't a free image. So the image will probably be something else from the article.--Skully Collins 11:31, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Football Kit Template
In response to Panarjedde's removal of detail from the away kit design, I reverted this edit as no consensus has been reached on this issue. Your so-called policy agreement was actually two separate discussions (not polls) where the issue became rather heated and there was clearly no consensus reached. As per Wikipedia policy if no consensus is reached the article should be left as it is, hence why I reverted your removal of the kit design from this page.

There is no good reason to remove detail from the away kit, the design and colour of the kit changes every season or two, hence detail on the kit is integral to the design. As has been mentioned several times before there are no shortage of people to watch these pages and make sure that the kit designs are kept up to date; this page even has its own Wikiproject that will ensure that the kit design is changed when necessary. It should also be noted that removing content from Wikipedia without good cause is considered vandalism. Dan1980 (talk | stalk) 08:07, 27 September 2006 (UTC)


 * 4 to nil is consensus, according to me. Even 4 to 1, counting your vote against.--Panarjedde 22:57, 27 September 2006 (UTC)


 * 4 to nil? There were more than ten contributors to those discussions, so where do you get nil from?! Dan1980 (talk | stalk) 19:24, 28 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Pleeeze lemme see the kits :( Chivista 19:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I would like to see the detail on the awayu unis. :( Chivista 18:34, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the colours. :)

Champions League
This has to be a mistake I recon. The first paragraph of the article states that SWFC have won the Champions League 17 times. Could this be corrected please? Kev. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.196.238.157 (talk • contribs)


 * This vandalism has now been removed. Dan1980 (talk | stalk) 14:31, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Also removed claim to have beaten Real Madrid on penalties in 1960 European cup final. Judderman85 22:59, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Deletion
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. squad, part of the SWFC project, is up for deletion and no-one seems to be defending it (apart from me, a Unitedite for 50 years) although it has been worked on for 6 months or so. (See Articles for deletion/Sheffield United F.C. squad) roundhouse 14:06, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Use of the singular/plural
As this will inevitably come up while the article is on the main page:

This article, being about a British football club, is written in British English (following the recommendation by the Manual of Style on the relevant variety of English to use in an article). As a result, it uses the discretionary plural, namely that collective nouns such as club and team can be used in either the singular or the plural. Generally, in British English media, sporting teams are referred to in the plural. This is notably different from American English, where sporting teams are always referred to in the singular. However, in British English it is perfectly grammatically correct to use the plural and this should be borne in mind before jumping to conclusions about inappropriate subject/verb agreement. Oldelpaso 22:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)


 * This issue was addressed during the FAC with all instances being changed to the pural form. Any singular references that you spot should be changed. josh (talk) 23:08, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Photos
There are some photos of Sheffield Wednesday people with a CC-BY license at and  that could be used on the player pages. Unfortunately, I'm not a Wednesday supporter so I can't identify any of them (and there are no captions either), but I thought you guys might like to know.  howcheng  {chat} 00:25, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that, I'm picking out the useful ones now and will replace the non-free images currently on the player pages where possible. Dan1980 (talk | stalk) 16:35, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Players on Loan
Hi could someone please change Peter Gilberts status and also add Steve Watson to the squad list.

Links
Hi - there should definitely be a link to Owlstalk. http://www.owlstalk.co.uk it's the number one website for owls fans and has the most visitors, contributors and articles on the club ?

New Sheffield Wednesday News Site - If someone could add it to the main page would be great.

Spoken version added
I have added a spoken version of this article; see above for the link. Hassocks5489 22:27, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Wednesdayite
Hey all, there is an article on Wednesdayite which is up for deletion and needs some TLC, I have cleaned it up and added some independent citations, but it needs defending and a little more work on the article if possible - it would be a shame to lose this as people are generalising that Wednesdayite is just a generic term for fans and don't undeerstand that it is also a big political point as well as a large fans trust. 82.38.202.151 22:19, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Hillsborough disaster part
obviously this was a terrible disaster, but does it really have a place in this article? Sheffield Wednesday were in no way invovled in the game, i think that section should just be on the stadium's article but not more than a passing sentence on it here. i have seen Belgium national football team does not have a mention of Heysel disaster for example. -- Bongobaily 04:14, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Rivalry & Website links
The last line about the last 10 matches is now out of date as tehre wasa match todaywhich Wednesday won 2-0.

Also, why is Owlstalk the only forum to get a link. Better forums exist in the form of Owlsonline and Owlsalive. Owlsmad and Owlszone are also popular Sheffield Wednesday forums. Owlstalk may get most traffic but that may be a by-product of Sheffield Wednesday FC recently taking legal action against that website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Uptheowls (talk • contribs) 18:08, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Redundant origin of name
The article explains the name: "Sheffield Wednesday are the only English League club with a day of the week in their name.

The club was initially a cricket club named The Wednesday Cricket Club after the day of the week when they played their matches. The footballing side of the club was established to keep the team together and fit during the winter months."

This is already substantially covered in the previous history section. Think of how to fix the redundancy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.186.165.121 (talk) 17:42, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

actually, there was another club,oddly in sheffield, by the name of thursday wanderers.--173.24.195.48 (talk) 22:26, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

WP:Featured article review?
Apparently the sourcing is not up to standard of a Featured class article. Was promoted in 2006, doesn't look like it's been maintained much. -- &oelig; &trade; 19:44, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I tagged the article at the start of February as I was unhappy with the referencing in some sections, but there has been no progress to putting the situation right so would have to support a review. Keith D (talk) 21:11, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Michael Palin
Michael Palin is listed under celebrity supporters, but he is an avid Sheffield United fan. He has said that, unlike most Blades fans, he enjoys watching Wednesday, but his alliance is definitely to United. http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/3967/29/ Davehogg (talk) 03:35, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Whenever asked about his allegiance, Michael Palin tends to support which ever Sheffield club happens to be doing the better at that time. --217.28.0.171 (talk) 12:33, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

He is not an AVID Sheffield United fan at all. That's nonsense. I've provided three sources (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo_zT3o2n8Y&noredirect=1, http://palinstravels.co.uk/book-1104, http://palinstravels.co.uk/book-1522) to him showing his support for Sheffield Wednesday, and each time someone comes along and deletes it. Very annoying, and tantamount to vandalism. He supports both Sheffield sides, as is stated in the Wikipedia article. His name will remain on the list. Kivo (talk) 20:15, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Those sources are pretty poor. Youtube is not an acceptable source (it's a primary source), and neither of the other two explicitly state that Palin is a Wednesday fan. The bigger problem is having a Famous Fans section in the first place. Such people, except in notable circumstances, have no relevance towards a football club - see this peer review for the Everton F.C. article.

He has mentioned he 'supports' both Sheffield clubs, in that he wants both to do well. This is mentioned in the article.

League History
That table under League history outlining what division the club participated in each season & how many seasons spent at each tier is excellent. Someone should do this for all English/Scottish clubs. Kenallen (talk) 15:17, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Crest and mascots
The article claims to show an image of the original crest. It also states 'the sheaves of Sheffield (Sheaf field) were shown at either side of the owl's head,' but these do not appear on the crest as depicted. The text and the original crest image can't both be right.

Waugh Bacon (talk) 00:41, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Origin of name
"The club was a cricket club when it formed in 1820 as The Wednesday Cricket Club headed by Gerald Hamilton of Leigh, Lancashire (named after the day of the week when they played their matches, which was Thursdays)."

Has this been vandalised? If not could it be explained better, cos I would expect a club called "The Wednesday Cricket Club" named after the day of the week they play their matches to play their matches on, I dunno, Wednesdays?) - filelakesh03 (t / c) 12:35, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 July 2014
RPOwl (talk) 22:49, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. —Mr. Granger (talk · contribs) 15:13, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Is it worth putting in a section or mentioning somewhere ex players who became managers? Could include Pearson, Waddle, Sheridan, Trevor Francis. Thanks. March22nd (talk) 17:26, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Klass Ingerson too, in Sweden I think.March22nd (talk) 17:40, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Famous fans section
I removed a list of Famous fans a couple of times, but the edits were undone. Aside from the problems with many of the inclusions not being referenced, I don't believe that such a list is particularly encyclopaedic, and seems to place undue weight onto people who have had little to no impact on the club and its history. It could be considered that such a list is trivia. Though it may be relevant to the David Blunkett article to note that he is a Wednesday supporter, I can't see what relevance this has on the club's article. If these sections were to be included in all club articles, the articles for the best-supported clubs (e.g. Man Utd, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, etc.) would be swamped with names of famous supporters. If an individual has made a notable involvement with a club (e.g. Robbie Williams or Norman Cook who own stakes in Port Vale and Brighton, respectively, Richard Attenborough was Life President at Chelsea, etc.) then that could be worth including, but merely expressing preference for a team is not a significant thing. Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 15:40, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
 * OK. No reasoning has been provided for why this section should remain, so I am going to remove it. Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 16:19, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 January 2016
I am the founder of the supporters ground "SWSWSWSW". I can confirm that the group was formed in 2011 in Cardiff, if you would like to edit that section.

Geohay Owl (talk) 15:32, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi. The way Wikipedia works means that a third party, reliable source is needed to back up information - see WP:RS for a full explanation. Even if it could be verified that you are the founder of this group (and there's no reason to think that you're not) you are a primary source, and so can't be used. If you've got a suitable citation please put a link to it. Cheers. Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 16:23, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. --allthefoxes (Talk) 16:59, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Merge proposal: Barney the Owl to the mascots section here
Barney's article has been tagged for notability for 7 years. I don't think he meets the uidelines individually, but it would be a shame to lose the information on him. I propse Barney the Owl is redirected here and relevant information merged into the mascots section. Boleyn (talk) 20:14, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

URGENT: Need to change club crest
Hi guys,

Mark here from the press office at Sheffield Wednesday.

The crest that is displaying on the Sheffield Wednesday wiki page is incorrect. It is very close but not quite right (The way the Owl sits on the branch is where it differs.)

The SWFC chairman has requested it to be changed to the one I will add as a picture captioned "SWFC official club crest as of 2016".

Can this be done asap please?

Kind regards

Mark ruane (talk) 15:13, 3 May 2016 (UTC)Mark Ruane

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark ruane (talk • contribs) 14:46, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi the original image you've uploaded to commons is likely to be deleted as copyrighted work can't be uploaded there. Instead I've uploaded the new badge with a better file description here File:Sheffield Wednesday crest from 2016.jpg including fair use rationale for this article etc. and placed this in the infobox. Hopefully I've done this correctly but I'm not an expert when it comes to uploading images. Thanks -  Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 15:13, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Modern Highs and Lows Section
In this section the title was immediately followed by a sentence detailing the club's "highest" run.... but nothing about the "lowest". I have therefore balanced the sentence up, and reflected the meaning of the title, by adding contrasting information about the Clubs lowest run.

206.45.252.222 (talk) 01:26, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

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Nickname
Sheffield United did not adopt Wednesday's old nickname as suggested. There is no evidence or mention of the nickname until both clubs existed and they were both often referred to as the Blades, until Wednesday moved to Owlerton and a newspaper article referred to them as the Owls. This stuck and left United with the existing nickname. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.110.100.240 (talk) 12:16, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Wednesday did not receive their nickname from the area Owlerton, rather it was taken from a lucky mascot Owl, this is explained in numerous SWFC history books. Another animal was used earlier but did not bring luck. The area of Sheffield is not pronounced OWL-erton anyway, it is OLL-erton. On your Blades point, sports teams from Sheffield were known as Blades because of Sheffield's history with steel. However, Sheffield United originally had a nickname of the Cutlers before adopting the Blades. CT Sheffield (talk) 22:56, 18 July 2019 (UTC) CTSheffield

Semi-protected edit request on 29 July 2019
I want to add that Sheffield Wednesday's new manager is Lee Bullen RileyRees13 (talk) 16:29, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. &#8209;&#8209; El Hef  ( Meep? ) 18:09, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Can a more professional editor fix the 2020/21 kit please
hey on the page it has the 2020/21 kit shorts as black in home and away however they are actually (https://www.medocmall.co.uk/cgi-bin/live/ecommerce.pl?site=theclubshop_sheffieldwednesday&state=products&dept_id=10&sub_dept_id=40) < see here, a dark grey home kit shorts and a lighter grey away shorts kit. can someone who has experience in kit editing fix this please thankyou — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamie1128 (talk • contribs) 22:56, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 June 2022
Remove the following players who will be released from the club;

Sam Hutchinson Saido Berahino Chey Dunkley Massimo Luongo Nathaniel Mendez-Laing Joe Wildsmith 178.96.125.112 (talk) 12:07, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:11, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 August 2022
The Current attendance of Hillsborough stadium is slashed down to 33,800 on safety grounds

http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-wednesday/sheffield-wednesday-owls-forced-to-slash-hillsborough-capacity-1-8492989 Dandamanworthy12 (talk) 14:04, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done:, welcome to Wikipedia! Unfortunately, the source link you have provided is broken. When I search for the term 33,800 on the website I only get 2 hits, both of which are from pre-2020. I'm not convinced the stadium seating has remained slashed down since April of 2017. Feel free to re-open this request with an unbroken source link and further explanation as to what you want to be done. Cheers! — Sirdog (talk) 05:06, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 January 2024
Add Bailey Cadz to the senior side! 217.8.12.47 (talk) 14:16, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 17:09, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, there is a player by the name of Bailey Tye Cadermarteri listed as an academy player - you’ll see from his stats however he is a regular first team player so the request was for him to be moved to show on the first team listings. 217.8.12.47 (talk) 02:47, 3 January 2024 (UTC)