User:Lajamibr/sandbox

I will begin by suggesting that we put a stop to people using anecdotal evidence as a basis for argument on this matter. Nobody can say what the majority of Australian citizens use to refer to soccer/football I have already spoken to one editor about this and they have said that the people they know use soccer and I have said the people I know use football, it is not evidence of anything and proves nothing.

Secondly, in regards to the use of WP:COMMONNAME as a basis for argument, In every example given in that article the common names are almost exclusively used in relation to the topic i.e. nobody, including the media, calls lady gaga or bono by their real name because nobody, not just a few, would know what you are talking about. You would be hard pressed to find a single person in Australia that wouldn't accept that football was the most common name for soccer throughout the world. At the absolute most all you could argue is that most Australians know the game as both football and soccer.

Another major point was that the term football was ambiguous in an Australian context, I agree with this to a certain degree. Football is certainly somewhat of an ambiguous term when discussing multiple codes of football at once. However, on articles that only discuss soccer/football there is nothing ambiguous about it, if you insist on arguing that there will be people confused by this it will only be momentarily as they click the link of 'Football' that reveals the topic is association football. This is no different to the current situation in which people who will be confused by the term soccer can click the link or hover over the link to clarify.

Also we must stop comparing Australia to the United States in terms of the use of soccer/football they are very different circumstances, for example their competition is officially named Major League Soccer and teams participating in the competition use either no suffix, FC, or SC. Below is a list of evidence of the wide spread use of the term football in Australia including the sports governing body, the confederation we play under, the teams that play in this country, and the use of the term football by the media in Australia. This is further evidence that the situation in Australia is very different to that in the United States

Sports governing body and confederation uses the term Football

Football Federation Australia

Asian Football Confederation

Teams playing in the country use the term Football

Melbourne Victory

Sydney FC

Melbourne City

Western Sydney

Perth Glory

The term Football is wide spread in the Australian media, Of all the media I sourced only The Age used the term soccer (on their main website while using Football on its mobile site)

Herald Sun

The Australian

Fox Sports

Sydney Morning Herald

News.com.au

Daily Telegraph

Nine msn

Yahoo7