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Interstate matches in Australian rules football
Hi, how are you going, I appreciate you're input. Yeah I was going to add one more, from Dean Laidley, I wanted to get more of a Western Australian perspective. I've only got one. Yeah I respectfully disagree about the Mick McGuane quote. The person interviewing him said about a State of Origin game saying "it's a big day for a player" and he responded "it certainly is, this is what it's all about". I think from the context of what was said, it was clear he was saying "this is what it's all about" in referring to State of Origin being what it's all about, being the pinnacle.Qwermnbv12 (talk) 06:48, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

WP:AFL
Hi mate, I suggest you take a look at WikiProject AFL if you love your footy, and also Category:VFL/AFL players. Drop us a line with any questions mate. Cheers,  R o  gerthat  Talk  10:46, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

== AFL season article naming convention ==

As a participant of WikiProject AFL I thought you might be interested in this. I have started a vote to get a consensus on the naming convention for AFL season articles. You can participate in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject AFL. Cheers. Remy B 13:23, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Bryce Gibbs Cup
In your edit to Bryce Gibbs your edit summary said:
 * (slight re-ordering; included "Bryce Gibbs Cup" as a separate section which will be expendable as his career progresses)

I am not sure how the (fictional) Bryce Gibbs Cup could be expanded as the point of the joke was that the loser of that particular match would get to draft Gibbs in the 2006 AFL Draft? I would think that the "Cup" belongs well and truly in his pre-AFL Career section. Pudgey 10:45, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Green Week
Aspirex

As a former Monash student who was heavily involved in the Activities collective and Green Week from 1997-2002 it would be nice to see recognition given to the history of particular events, rather than just stating what happens now. It is important to recognise that the scavenger hunt has changed over the years (particularly with reference to issues like the addition of the pre-list) because of the efforts that were made by participants in doing things such as the long road trips in 24 hours. It is also important to note that while the "hardest to obtain" was from Farm Week, the scav hunt list traditionally included a "hardest to obtain" item to make them think.

Let me know what you think.

Charmlessbloke 08:14, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Sir Robert Menzies Lecture
Hi. Can you tell me where you got the names of the lecturers? Only a handful are mentioned on the website. Cheers -  JackofOz 01:58, 1 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks. :)  JackofOz 12:53, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Levi Greenwood
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Request
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Advice
You can vote in mediation. Regards,--PIO (talk) 14:41, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Green Week
I thought that wikipedia was about the truth? Since when do we edit articles based on how the subject wants it to read? Should the OJ Simpson page omit the trial if he requested it? Should Coke be able to write their own bio? Kip participated in Green Week, was named the Jester, hence it should be recorded that way. I am following wikipedian guidelines, you are not. Disco (talk) 04:32, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Kip threw a hissy at me last night when I told him about what was happening, so I've agreed to leave it blank... for now ;) Disco (talk) 05:47, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Blackadder: Back & Forth
I've just checked the DVD - they lose Balders' underpants in the Jurassic Period, and there is a pair of grubby Y-fronts on the table when Blackadder tips the artefacts out of the plastic bag at the end, which are definitely not Baldrick's - but there's still no proof that the underpants are Marion's. If you can find a reference (such as an interview with Richard Curtis, Ben Elton or Paul Weiland, or another definite piece of evidence) for them being hers, put it back in with the ref, but until then we're just assuming they're hers - which is original research and not allowed. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 10:58, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Hey man
I just wanna agree with yall. Soccer mega fails. Captain Spleen (talk) 18:51, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mitch Robinson
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Proposed deletion of Chris Yarran
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AfD nomination of Mitch Robinson
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AfD nomination of Caleb Tiller
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AfD nomination of Rhys O'Keeffe
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AfD nomination of Chris Yarran
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AfD nomination of Clint Benjamin
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Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Aspirex! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 12 of the articles that you created  are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the list:


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 * 11. Shaun Hampson

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 19:31, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Joshua Donaldson


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Proposed deletion of Zach Tuohy


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Proposed deletion of Simon White (Australian Rules Footballer)


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Proposed deletion of Levi Casboult


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Proposed deletion of Jaryd Cachia


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Sourcing of articles
As you probably have realised, the importance of sourcing biographies of living people, such as the articles you have recently created, is becoming more and more important. It would be a shame for you to put so much effort into creating articles only to have them deleted. Maybe you would like to have some help sourcing them before they are created; if so, drop me a note on my talkpage and I'm sure we can find a solution. Regards -- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 18:49, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * To quote your coach - your contributions are "An embarrassing effort". Haven't you learnt anything from all the AFDs and notifications above over the past 3 years?  YOU MUST REFERENCE ALL ARTICLES. It's policy.  Especially when they are borderline notable players like the rookie list guys. I've saved the Yarren article the other year, referenced Lucas, Tiller, Armfield, Browne, Jamison, Jacobs and maybe more earlier this year - and the other AFDs above generally survived on a "no consensus" (and they would not have survived if they were nominated today, as poorly or unreferenced BLPs will be deleted).  So please supply reliable sources for your articles - and generally that means not local community papers or AFL/Carlton sources and definitely not forums/blogs etc.  They have really tightened up on the requirements this time around, so I may not be able to save them all this time around.The-Pope (talk) 23:38, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

2000 AFL season
Hi Aspirex, I noticed your edit under the 2000 AFL Season, notable events section stating that Round 5 had the most behinds scored in a single round in AFL history. After last weeks poor kicking, I too pondered about this record, but was unable to find any info on the web when I searched. Just to satisfy my curiosity, can you tell me where you found this fact? Cheers, Matt5AU (talk) 12:36, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Basically, it's a violation of the "no original research" rule.Aspirex (talk) 04:48, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Not too fussed about wiki-regulations. Was just trying to expand my pool of resources.  So by original research, do you mean you worked it out yourself? Seems like a lot of work. Maybe if you could write a query to a database of all the game results (does one exist that is publicly accessible?).  I figure Champion Data and the stats guys on the radio stations must have access to some sort of database.  Anyway, good to know I wasn't the only one pondering about the record of behinds kicked in a round. Cheers, Matt5AU (talk) 12:25, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I copied all of the game results off stats.rleague.com, and put them into an excel format for easy manipulation. Aspirex (talk) 06:44, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
 * This looks like the sort of thing covered by the essay These are not original research, though sourcing is of course always good. - 2/0 (cont.) 12:19, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

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the grammar of entropy
A comment, not a criticism:

In Entropy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) you changed
 * ... Spike, whom they know to have loitered watching the house in the past.

to
 * ... Spike, who they know has loitered watching the house in the past.

with the annotation
 * grammar fix - relative pronoun governed by case of succeeding clause

Of course both versions are grammatical; in the first, the subject of the subordinate clause is they, not who [Spike]. Constructions like this are often tricky; in your version I'm tempted to put commas around they know, to make it easier for ESL readers to parse. —Tamfang (talk) 18:19, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

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 * Will do in future. Thanks. Aspirex (talk) 07:28, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Rhys O'Keeffe


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1967 Tasmanian State Premiership Final
Mate, terrific job with the page! Just a couple of things for your footnotes, specifically 1 and 2 if you're interested.

Cooee actually folded their club up at the end of 1986 and started a brand new one called Burnie Hawks, it got them into the TFL and eliminated their $108k debt at the same time. Was a clever move but sad at the same time as it ended 92 years of Cooee history, the Burnie Hawks were good for their first few years but lost their way badly by around 1990 and lost a lot of the support of the old Cooee following when they started taking down a lot of the old Cooee memorabilia at West Park. By 1992 they were in discussions with Burnie Tigers and merged in late 1993.

North Hobart actually started the 1969 season as the Robins, but officially became the Demons on 1 May 1969, about five rounds into the season! I wonder how many clubs can say they've had two different emblems in the same season!!

Keep up the great work!Forfuxake (talk) 14:56, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Great article...
But the name is awful! Reserves affiliations of Australian Football League clubs. But as I can't think of anything better, I'll just say well done and just try to keep improving it, especially the WAFL section. I might end up spliting up the SANFL/WAFL sections, but it's a fantastic start. Cheers, The-Pope (talk) 13:50, 4 August 2011 (UTC) If you could get some better citations into the SANFL/WAFL section, that would definitely be appreciated. I cobbled a lot of the information together from unreliable forum-type sources, and struggled to find much official information on the web that I could cite. I also struggled to justify splitting up the SANFL and WAFL into different sections when the two follow basically the same rules, but I recognise that the downside of that is the abstract-sounding language of "state of origin", the clubs' "respective state league" and so on that makes the section difficult to read; now that you've added the short-lived single-club alignments, this does provide the justification I lacked to split them up. Aspirex (talk) 08:56, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I thought hard about the title and bagsed a few more via redirects, but (as you've clearly found out) it was very difficult to come up with a title that succinctly covers all aspects of the affiliations and their differing interrelationships with all of the various state leagues. I feel like the title I came up with is accurate, but it's definitely clumsy. Best bet is probably to put a topic on the article's talk page and look for suggestions from others.

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Phillip Hughes
You removed ".. who is widely considered to be one of the most promising prospects for the Australia cricket team" from the Phillip Hughes article with an edit summary of "POV statement". But, I should mention that this was there in the article for nearly 3 years (from early 2009 to 2011) as can be verified from the history. In fact, the person to remove this first was me! Here's the diff:.

I later regreted removing it and added it back in. But then other people removed it. I think it should be there because Phil Hughes has one of the best first class records in the country of a young batsmen. Besides, it's not POV as there're three references for it (Alan Border, Bill Lawry, Mark Taylor, Steve Waugh etc.). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.216.12.253 (talk) 14:02, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

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Well done!
Congratulations on your clean-up of AFL team rivalries. Much of that content has been annoying me for a long time, but fixing looked a bit overwhelming. Glad you found the time and energy. HiLo48 (talk) 21:03, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

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 * Just delete it then. I have no interest in getting involved in or learning about image copyright issues at Wikipedia. Aspirex (talk) 10:00, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

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Bendigo Whatevers
Do you think we should just stick it back at Bendigo Football Club rather than the nickname, or is that incorrect in some way? The-Pope (talk) 16:14, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * That suits me. I haven't seen anything to suggest that would be wrong. Aspirex (talk) 05:29, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

MCG's 2500th match
I'm OK with you re-adding that. I thought someone might. But can you please go to the article's Talk page. For me, the citation doesn't work. And the VFA was the senior competition until 1896. It's a serious question of mine. HiLo48 (talk) 09:48, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, sorry. Saw the change to the article before I saw the talk item. We probably got caught in the overlap. Aspirex (talk) 09:55, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Andrew McInnes
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GWS achievements
I'm normally pretty brutal myself on trivia in the AFL season articles, but I really thought the GWS stuff today was worth a mention, especially in the light of coach Sheedy's achievement today too, which is how the person who originally added it framed it. First win in particular at a brand new home ground (the club's first real home ground) is notable. It will be recorded forever at the club and the ground. Compared with other clubs, 107 points isn't great, but it is GWS's best so far. I don't support the club (Go Cats!), so I'm not pushing a POV here. Just thought you were a bit more brutal than I would ever be. HiLo48 (talk) 07:58, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * My rationale is as follows:


 * Only the first win is inherently notable. Second, third, and everything thereafter just takes up space, and isn't notable in its own right. (That having been said, the fact that they ended a ten-match losing streak does meet the notability guidelines, so I'll set about including that).
 * It is only their fifth game at Škoda, so they've only lost four in a row there, so breaking that doesn't really qualify as notable. (Compare with Gold Coast losing 17 in a row and counting at their home ground at Metricon; when they finally win their first game there, it's definitely going to be notable.)
 * You've pretty much stated my rationale for the highest score yourself. 107 is GWS's best so far, but it isn't great compared with other clubs: as such, 2012 Greater Western Sydney Football Club season is the place to make note of it, not 2012 AFL season. Back when I drafted the notability guidelines, I specifically included a comment that a highest score is not considered notable unless it is above 150 for this exact reason. Aspirex (talk) 08:21, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The point is that this isn't just any club. It's a brand new club for which these achievements mean a lot. I wouldn't argue for the inclusion of such statistics for any of the established clubs. HiLo48 (talk) 08:58, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * That may be true today. But 20 years from now, when the club is established and has a reasonable amount of playing history, this score and the fact that it was ever a record will not be notable. Notability Aspirex (talk) 09:22, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's true, though not an absolute reason to leave it out. But the first win at the real home ground can never happen again, or be "exceeded". HiLo48 (talk) 10:45, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Unnecessary Characters
I completely agree, there were several characters on this page that did not need to be listed (i.e. unknown guest). However I believe Mr. Ingram was important because of the context it has from the creator's perspective and what they hoped to accomplish. The character was very purposefully done and was intended to humiliate a real life person. Therefore it is a notable character that should stay in. Nonetheless I completely agree with everything else you've done.DaltonCastle (talk) 07:42, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I would argue that this information is more suited to being in The Psychiatrist, rather than in the list of characters page, because he's not particularly important as a character, as such; but, I'm not particularly fussed either way. However, this story about the real Ingrams needs to be removed until a citation is provided – exactly as you have said, it humiliates a real person, so simply tagging with "citation needed" is not sufficient.Aspirex (talk) 07:48, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

2012 AFL Grand Final
I note that you've had a go at improving the Match summary part of the 2012 AFL Grand Final. That's great, but I'd be interested in your thoughts on something I've posted on the article's Talk page. (Note that I wrote it BEFORE your improvements.) HiLo48 (talk) 08:07, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

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That was not biased. I am a fan of North Melbourne & I did list their major wins. The GRVO fLigh tning (talk)	 23:46, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

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Hi,

how is it that an AFL club becoming the first to reach 30,000 goals in club history is not notable, while a player becoming the 29th player to kick 600 career goals is notable?

--SuperJew (talk) 18:48, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 600 goals is a relevant measure of a player's ability and career as a forward in a contemporary setting; it is a milestone players seek to achieve and is widely considered to be of stand-alone importance to the league. 30,000 goals over a period of 118 years is not: it merely states that Collingwood has scored more goals than anyone else, but it has no stand-alone importance, scant relevance to the AFL as a whole or to this season in particular. It is a statistic much better placed in 2014 Collingwood Football Club season than in 2014 AFL season. Aspirex (talk) 22:30, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

To Make It Clear.
I was not doing it live. I was editing at the quarters so that I would have an easier job at doing the score formatting. The GRVO fLigh tning (talk)	 10:39, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

VFA
Cheers for that, I've checked 2nd Division scores up to end of '86 so still need last two seasons of D2 plus a handful of other results post '88. I don't want to post my email address here in an open forum, can you contact me via my site for details of info I'm still chasing (the email link is top right of the home page). Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Easty01 (talk • contribs) 21:16, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

G'Day Aspirex, haven't heard from you yet, can you get back to me when you get a chance. Cheers. Easty01 (talk) 11:48, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Is Peter Neville really notable enough?
I admit I didn't even know that the VFA had 2 divisions, but is someone who mainly played in division 2 really notable? I was reading it hoping for some higher honours, but to me he's a good amateur player, club stalwart etc, with the equivalent of local coverage or routine match report coverage only. I don't think he really meets the notability requirements. Cheers, The-Pope (talk) 11:00, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

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Hi, I'm interested as to why you elected to effectively purge the AFL clubs' VFL team articles. Forgive me if I missed it, but was there a discussion about making such a change or did you elect to do it on your own initiative? Not that I necessarily disagree with the move just that it seems quite a bit of information from each of the club articles would be lost if the change went ahead. Jono52795 (talk) 10:44, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * The discussion can be found at the project talk page: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Australian_rules_football. I recommend you add that to your watchlist, since changes which affect more than one Australian rules football article often get discussed there. Aspirex (talk) 11:17, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

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G'day, mid last year you added a partial ref to the Frank Seymour article. It's now popped up on the list of citations without titles. Without even a date I can't improve the ref. Any chance you know more info and could complete the reference to include a date and title? Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 11:30, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hey, I've had a look at your section in the 2011 AFL season talk page about notability and I agree with most of it, however, I believe that the point made about GWS' round 7 biggest win and biggest score, which you deleted, should still be recognised as your notability list was written pretty much before the expansion clubs played (April 2011 - so about a month into GC playing, and all other clubs had exceeded those requirements anyway). I understand that there needs to be a line drawn so there's no grey areas in the argument for most cases of notability, but these efforts made by GWS today are still notable, and they may not be superseded for a while. It wouldn't be notable, for example, if their biggest win was 40 points and biggest score was 100 points, so I understand why you've deleted it in the past. However, 78 points is 2 points short and 135 points is 15 points short of meeting your definition of notability, so there isn't much of a difference, and your notability prerequisites should perhaps be slightly lower due to the timing of when the list was written. In their short history, I strongly believe it does meet notability and should be recognised.Flickerd (talk) 15:34, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I can waver on the issue of the greatest winning margin, but only because GWS' history is short; but the comment will be removed the first time GWS wins a game by more than 80 points (i.e. it's only notable while it's the highest ever, and won't be notable as a progression-of-record in the future). But on the grand scheme of football history, 135 is not a particularly high score, and is a full 10% short of the target, so I disagree on that matter. Aspirex (talk) 23:46, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Rude
Wow. Do you really need to be so rude about that comment on the 2015 AFL season page, we're all trying to work collaboratively, it was in an AFL article and something that the club hadn't achieved for over 60 years, I thought it was notable when I first read it, I wouldn't just do a comment that was pointless. You can just simply say you don't think it's notable (and you do realise everyone has a different opinion of what is notable, so perhaps you should be a bit more understanding of that and have a discussion rather than just deleting most people's contributions), you don't need to be so rude about it. Flickerd (talk) 07:16, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I apologize. I did regret it shortly after I'd hit the 'save' button. Aspirex (talk) 14:13, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Interstate matches in Australian rules football
The reference I provided doesn't say the games were eagerly anticipated. The reference is with the VFL still a few years away from morphing into a national competition is today Interstate clashes between Victoria, South Australia & Western Australia were amongst the most anticipated in the first half of the electrifying eighties. He was clearly talking about Victoria, seeing as the article is about him going from Braybook Victoria, to the Footscray Football Club Victoria, to Burnie, and then back to Victoria. And seeing as Football is almost a religion in Victoria, that implies interstate Football was hugely popular in Victoria. But even if he wasn't talking about Victoria, and he was talking about the whole of Australia, that includes Victoria. So either way that statement is correct.

And the reference is for the statement But Interstate Football was still hugely popular in Victoria, not anything else.

And with due respect you just don't know the topic. The game between Victoria & South Australia in 1963 at the MCG got 59k, you can find that information on the AustralianFootball.com Web Site. The game between Victoria & South Australia at the MCG in 1971 got 66k, Graham Cornes talks about it in his Open Mike interview, which you can watch on Youtube. The game between Victoria & South Australia at the MCG in 1995 got 64k. The game between Victoria & Western Australia in 1978 in Victoria got 45k, you can read about that On-Line and on this site. The 2 games Victoria held in the 1975 Carnival both got 40k, you can read that on the Net. The game between Victoria & South Australia in 1989 got 91k, you can read that on this site and on the Net. And there are more games you can read about On-Line where Victoria got big and good crowds.

Yes there weren't big crowds at the 1958 Melbourne Carnival. But there also weren't big crowds at the Adelaide 1980 & 1988 Carnivals, and the Perth 1979 Carnival. Interstate Football has had patches of low support though out history. But overall, though out history all over Australia in the Football states Interstate Football has been hugely popular.

So please stop removing that reference, thanks.2001:8003:4610:BF01:223:32FF:FE9E:4B9F (talk) 12:55, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Well for 1 I'm not new to Wikipedia. Statistics do not back up that Interstate Football was much more popular in the rest of Australia than in Victoria, and wasn't. I have provided more than several examples of Victoria getting big crowds for Interstate matches. The point you bring up about comparing Interstate crowd numbers to regular season crowd numbers is irrelevant. The point I'm making is that Interstate Football was popular in Victoria, not how popular it was in comparable to the regular season, or how popular it was in Victoria comparable to other states & their regular season, those points are irrelevant. The big crowds I've pointed to prove that Interstate Football was hugely popular in Victoria.

Also the last 2 Carnivals South Australia held, and the last Carnival Western Australia held got crowds no where near the crowds Victoria got in the 1975 Carnival. But like I said there have been few low points of popularity (All Over) Australia, including South Australia & Western Australia in Interstate Football. But it gives some perspective on Victoria's popularity of Interstate Football.

And the statement were fighting over doesn't say Interstate Football was always popular in Victoria. It say's But Interstate Football was still hugely popular in Victoria, meaning at times, the majority of the time. The reference is very clear and valid, so I will be keeping it on there. But I do think we could do what your suggesting by saying in the opening sentence that (Interstate matches mostly though out history were very significant events on the annual Football calendar). Meaning that there were low points of popularity (All Over) Australia, but for most of history they were very significant events. 2001:8003:4610:BF01:223:32FF:FE9E:4B9F (talk) 14:02, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

It doesn't work like that, you don't know if a city had more people it would get bigger crowds, so there not equivalents. Population to crowds numbers are irrelevant, the fact is Victoria has gotten many big crowds in Interstate Football over the years. that means a lot of people have liked it. And you're totally ignoring the fact that people watch the games on T.V, which a lot of people did. And Victoria did get much bigger crowds in the 1975 Carnival, than SA & WA got in the 1979, 1980, & 1988 Carnivals. And a 60k crowd is a big crowd, and is very remarkable. Also seeing as the AFL average attendance is 32k.

And you should read things before you make a comment. I didn't say that, I said (the statement were fighting over doesn't say that). The reference for the statement I made is only for But Interstate Football was still hugely popular in Victoria, not anything else.

The other paragraph you're talking about is correct, I don't have a reference for it at the moment, but when I've got time I'll add one.

And the problem I have with your proposal is that regular season Football is hugely popular in Victoria, it's almost a Religion, and Victoria has always gotten huge crowds for it. And just saying Interstate Football crowds in Victoria drew similar crowds similar in size to larger Home & Away matches, doesn't describe how hugely popular Interstate Football was in Victoria.

And you've totally ignored my proposal about how Interstate Football has had few low periods of popularity all over Australia. You're just playing semantic games, bring up things that aren't relevant, and ignoring the fact that the rest of Australia has had few low periods of popularity. All the statements I have made are correct, and the reference I have provided is very clear and valid, so I will be keeping it up there. I will also add the new sentence I have proposed, to indicate that all over Australia there have been few low periods of popularity, but overall Interstate Football has been very significant. 2001:8003:4610:BF01:223:32FF:FE9E:4B9F (talk) 09:34, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

You're just being ridiculous, I never said a city size couldn't influence a crowds attendance, I said it wasn't a guarantee. The opening sentence I have wrote fixes you're problem that Interstate Football wasn't always popular in Victoria, so I don't know what your problem is. But what you want to do is fine with me.2001:8003:4610:BF01:223:32FF:FE9E:4B9F (talk) 11:14, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

How about another compromise. We get rid of the line in question, and add Victoria's popularity in the concept was inconsistent. There were times it was very popular, but though out it's history in the State there were periods of low popularity. The periods of popularity usually coincided with close contests or losses with other states, and after periods of Interstate games not being played in the State.SportsEditor518 (talk) 11:37, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Stephen Kernhan & Craig Bradley
You just described what I did. I agree with the point that the hyphen/dash implies a single continuous period of time, that's what I did. For period of Best & Fairest wins, for example if C Bradley won the B&F from 83-87, that means he won the award from the continuous period from 83 to 87. I think it's clear who made a imprecision thought. Not using the Hyphen/Dash, especially with a lot of numbers, is silly, and wastes a lot of unnecessary space. So I will be changing it back. 2001:8003:4610:BF01:223:32FF:FE9E:4B9F (talk) 13:52, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

That's irrelevant. For 1 I didn't do that, and 2 I agree with that way of describing Craig Bradley's example All-Australian's, that's what I did. And for the Simpson Medal if it's in for example the Representative category then people will know it's for a SoO Game. And Vice Versa if it's in the Club category people will know it's for a Grand Final. Using the Hyphen/Dash, and not listing everyone of the years will not confuse people. I haven't used the Hyphen/Dash for a year when someone hasn't won a award. Using the Hyphen/Dash people will know every year they won the award, it will make no difference. And opposite is true we are short of space on Wikipedia in the (Info Box). Because the longer lines are the bigger the Box get's, and after a while it get's that big it looks silly.2001:8003:4610:BF01:223:32FF:FE9E:4B9F (talk) 07:57, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Yeah but those were not listed in a (Info Box). The only problem I have with it is when there is a lot of years the box is going to get too big and look silly. In most sport Info Boxes on Wikipedia they use the Hyphen/Dash when there is more than one year. I think we should use the Hyphen/Dash for all years listed, because the Info Box is what we're working with. and if there is too many numbers the box will get too big and will look silly.2001:8003:4610:BF01:223:32FF:FE9E:4B9F (talk) 09:58, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

It should be listed next to the award, that's what's done on most sport pages on Wikipedia, it's more efficient and professional, and I think we should follow suit.2001:8003:4610:BF01:223:32FF:FE9E:4B9F (talk) 11:18, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

I've seen plenty of sports pages, and American Big 4 sport pages where there've done what I've suggested. For example Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Andrew Gaze. I don't think we should change the Australian Football Info Box. Having Line Breaks for year numbers doesn't look as professional. I think we should follow suit of most Wikipedia sport pages. Like I said it's more efficient and professional. 2001:8003:4610:BF01:223:32FF:FE9E:4B9F (talk) 11:52, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

This is Editor 2001:8003 ect. Just letting you know, please respond to this account for any new messages. I'm sorry, I don't agree with that. It won't look as professional if you have Line Breaks. And my proposal is what most Wikipedia sport pages do. So for those reasons I will be supporting the status quo. SportsEditor518 (talk) 12:36, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Move
I would like to know why you removed the comma from "Andrew Krakouer (footballer born 1971)". Is it because the article is related to Australian rules football? In association football articles we add a comma. SLBedit (talk) 23:48, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Historically we haven't used commas in Australian football articles, so I changed it for consistency. However, I was informed shortly after moving it (see above User_talk:Aspirex) that there's an MoS agreement somewhere saying commas should be used, and I've used the commas since. Aspirex (talk) 07:06, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Comment on "2015 in ball sports" section,,,
Hello to you, Aspirex. I agree mostly about giving each ball sport their own Wikipedia entry, instead of having another cumbersome and too-big Wikipedia entry. I have realized that the "ball sports" article could end up with the same situation as the "2015 in sports" entry. Maybe, the 2015 in athletics (track and field) entry one could be a model template for most of the other sports. What do you think? Rockies77 (talk) 00:28, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree. I think there are some sub-categorisations of sports which go well together (e.g. the ice sports article you mentioned on your own talk page works well, and I think all motor sports could go together, all Gaelic sports, etc.), and I think a lot of sports will just be best served having their own page. Aspirex (talk) 06:38, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Interstate matches in Australian rules football
I have not failed on two occasions on the issue, and there was no conclusions at the dispute resolutions, those are flat out lies. If you can prove the content or the references aren't accurate I am happy to discuss the issue with you further, but at the moment the references and content are accurate, so I will putting it back. If you revert it again I will report you for edit warring and removing sourced content.2001:8003:4406:9F01:223:32FF:FE9E:4B9F (talk) 10:07, 23 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I have to agree with Aspirex that you did indeed fail to return to the discussion for a very long period on two occasions. The first time, we closed the discussion, believing your absence from both the discussion and from continuing to edit the article signalled that you had decided not to dispute the issue further.  We reopened discussion when you started editing again.  You returned briefly to the discussion and promised to respond the following day, and you never did.  We finally closed the discussion as failed.  The average dispute resolution process takes 14 days, and we gave you nearly five weeks of our attention.  I have to also agree with Aspirex that what started as a content dispute has become, unfortunately, a behavior issue. valereee (talk) 11:12, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

ANI discussion
We never got a resolution on this, and it got archived, so I pulled it back out and put it under a new heading asking for admin attention. I'll try to keep it open, but I'm leaving town Aug1-Aug9 and will be camping, so extremely limited access. valereee (talk) 11:25, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
 * FYI -- the article has been semi-protected. valereee (talk) 16:48, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Apologies; I saw it disappear and saw no dissenting opinion so I figured it had been resolved. Aspirex (talk) 07:02, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
 * No need, it's all good! There was no dissension, there was just no resolution either, and it needed admin attention to actually implement. It'll be archived now, but it can be opened again if necessary. valereee (talk) 09:28, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

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Hello Aspirex, I've put a few old AFL scorecard templates that are redundant to Template:AFLGameDetailed up for deletion, one of which you created. From the looks of this discussion, they were intended to be replaced by AFLGameDetailed in 2009, but ended up going unnoticed. Just a heads-up. – Teratix ₵ 12:05, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

2020 AFL Season - Essendon vs Melbourne
Hi

In order to prevent further edit-warring, which is in general a bad thing, I've decided to move this discussion to your talk page.

I don't understand your reasoning for the repeated removal of the mention of the bye in Round 3 of that page. From your most recent edit - you made mention of having to read through the text regarding Adelaide - which of course, doesn't change regardless of which form the page is in. Furthermore, the version I last made (which is the revert you made most recently) is directly sourced from the AFL's website, with a direct quote of the two teams having 'already served their "bye"' from the initial decision to include byes for all teams (Approximately around Rounds 7-8, in terms of time).

Despite the fact that under normal circumstances a bye would be scheduled in a regular means, this does not means the rescheduled or cancelled game would not, or should not be considered as such. Likewise, no matter the circumstances which surround an event, we are required to report on issues accurately and list the outcomes of the events - just because an event's cause is unique, does not mean we should approach or list the event differently.

In summary, and with all due respect, it is my opinion that you have allowed your own personal biases in your perception of the match (That is, that a bye should have been scheduled and therefore the match should not be considered a bye & that the match should be treated differently due to circumstances) to influence your actions in regards to the match, despite the presence of a source supporting the wording used in a more appropriate manner. I believe we should re-instate the version which lists the game as a Bye, as this is how the match has been considered in a global sense, as supported by the listed source.

Thanks, Empoleonmaster23 (talk) 05:30, 31 October 2020 (UTC)


 * , I would appreciate if we could discuss this before any further changes are made - a compromise only works if both people agree to it. If we could discuss this issue, we could come to a resolution without having to edit back and forth with each other. Empoleonmaster23 (talk) 02:10, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Are you going to give me time to respond this time? Honestly, I think we should just put it to the other editors of the page, as I don't see a compromise happening if my last suggestion wasn't to your liking. Aspirex (talk) 02:37, 30 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Considering you never responded to this message prior to now, I think you've had ample time to propose a compromise before now. But regardless, here is my justification for the language changes, and then the dual listing. The language use changes were just general cleanup - the word retroactive is more accurate than retrospective, as the former applies to the past events (The Postponed Match itself) and the future, whereas the latter only applies to future events. I replaced suspended with postponed, as that is the terminology the sources use. I changed scheduled to re-scheduled for this reason as well - the match was ultimately re-fixtured for a later date, so it's generally a better fit.


 * In regard to the dual listing - the terminology I used in my edit summary was ambiguous, so I'll clarify - 'as it occurred' was meant in the sense, where we should reflect that the match was ultimately considered a bye, and only use that listing. It is redundant to have both the postponed listing alongside the bye, alongside a further descriptor in the notes. Consider the bye as its own match - we have not treated the other occurrences of rescheduling (i.e Richmond vs West Coast) in this manner, so why would this match deserve special treatment? Empoleonmaster23 (talk) 03:58, 30 November 2020 (UTC)


 * I disagree. We have many styled examples of short-notice postponements/cancellations being presented as unfinished games. As there is no single answer which fulfils all policies (this is a style dispute rather than something fitting obviously into a WP policy), nor it would appear is there a single solution satisfying both of us, I again suggest that we put it on the article talk page and put it to a simple vote of other page editors. (And giving two days then declaring the argument over is hardly a decisive length of time in a content discussion). Aspirex (talk) 06:12, 30 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Do we really? I can count only the one example - being the Adelaide-Geelong match from 2015, which was never re-scheduled. The two postponements I've found are also irrelevant, as they were done during a time period without byes and are simply considered part of their own round. This entire debate is occurring because this situation is unprecedented within the AFL, as far as I'm aware. We have never had a postponed match be replayed as part of another round, nor had a bye take the place of the original match. As such, there are no styled examples of either side, in the context of the current situation. As far as I can tell, however, the sources indicate that the bye serves as a replacement for the match - hence my belief it should not be listed. That's also why I brought up the other occurrences of rescheduling, as in my opinion, these are identical situations to this, simply substituting an actual match for the bye. (I'd also like to reiterate you did not respond within this month period, before editing the page again and only responding once I attempted contact again. The argument was only over due to your own reluctance to respond.) Empoleonmaster23 (talk) 09:29, 30 November 2020 (UTC)


 * With this diff, you clearly signalled that you believed - after less than a mere two days of the conversation being open - that I was acting in bad faith. I don't deal with people who do that. Now let's resolve how this request for comment will be worded. Aspirex (talk) 07:33, 1 December 2020 (UTC)


 * What? If that's how you interpreted it, that wasn't the intent. I was simply trying to gain your attention with respect to this (hence the reference to timely response & believing you had not seen the message). It wasn't an accusation of bad faith in the slightest, at least it wasn't meant to be. Sorry if it came across that way at all Empoleonmaster23 (talk) 11:16, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Proposed wording of request: ''Seeking other editors' input on a style dispute in Round 3 regarding how to present Essendon and Melbourne in the schedule. With an AFLGameBye template showing the two teams; or an AFLGame template for the original schedule showing no result and a cancelled/postponed tag; or both. The game notes will explain the situation whichever way it ends up. Disputing editors have not reached a consensus or compromise, and are happy to take other editor consensus or majority vote.''


 * That seems a reasonable wording - though I'd remove the references to the templates themselves to make it a touch more understandable for an average user who may be unfamiliar with the templates. I.e - Seeking other editor's input on a style dispute in Round 3 regarding the presentation of the Essendon-Melbourne match. The proposed options are as follows:


 * A bye, under the pretense that the match was assigned as for the two club's retroactively.
 * A listed match cited as postponed or cancelled, under the pretense that the change was sudden and unplanned and therefore should not be listed as a 'bye'.
 * Both of the above options
 * The game notes will provide detail on the situation whichever way it ends up. Disputing editors have not reached a consensus or compromise, and are happy to take other editor consensus or majority vote.
 * Depending on whether results are actually gathered though, it may be in best interest to also post it on the Wikiproject page at a later date. Empoleonmaster23 (talk) 08:55, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

I'd rather just give the options, rather than try to justify each. We could just direct everyone to the current Round 3 edit, since it has both options in it already. Aspirex (talk) 09:22, 30 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Apologies for the late reply, been having computer troubles over the previous few days. The reason I suggested justifications is simply so users have the additional context that has been discussed, in a compressed format. Boiling down our reasoning essentially comes to these justifications (as far as I can tell), so it's explaining this context in that simplest form to help make a informed decision, as opposed to a blind one. Empoleonmaster23 (talk) 11:16, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

I the two reasonings are self evident from the gamenote. Aspirex (talk) 20:27, 4 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Even if they were (which they aren't, in my opinion), it's better to provide the information readily. You're still relying on an individual to chase up the information themselves, which there is no guarantee of. By supplying the information, you're guaranteeing they'll have it - preparing for the worst case scenario as it were. Empoleonmaster23 (talk) 08:21, 5 December 2020 (UTC)


 * But again, that doesn't state 'why' the dispute has occurred, simply the options themselves. I added the reasoning to my proposal because it provides the uninformed user with context regarding the situation which they would likely be devoid of otherwise. Context is necessary to make a choice with true merit. Empoleonmaster23 (talk) 08:26, 7 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Very well. Suggest instead then to state: ''Seeking other editors' input on a style dispute in Round 3 regarding how to present Essendon and Melbourne in the schedule. Options are:

The game notes will explain the situation whichever way it ends up, so no loss of content; this is just to determine the primary presentation of the information. The disputing editors have not reached a consensus or compromise, and are happy to take other editor consensus or majority vote.'' Aspirex (talk) 06:41, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
 * A bye (AFLGameBye template), on the basis that Round 3 was ultimately considered to have been the clubs' bye for the year.
 * A listed match cited as postponed (AFLGame template), on the basis that the rescheduling was at short notice and the game's original schedule is of sufficient importance to include.
 * Both of the above options


 * I believe this should work, yes. Glad we could come to compromise on at least this.Empoleonmaster23 (talk) 07:29, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

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AFL Grand final article ... always in Melbourne
Not sure why you reverted my edit. The AFL Grand Final article was really unclear as to why it was held in Brisbane and Perth and not Melbourne. The current article makes it appear as though it is always held in Melbourne. Hence why its important to explain to readers that it is contracted to the MCG until 2058, but is hosted elsewhere when the MCG is unavailable. While it clarifies that the MCG isn't always the venue (article says "all but 11 occasions" that is not insignificant and there is no reasoning as to why). People interstate quite often ask why they can't host the Grand Final in their state given that its supposed to be a "national" competition - well that is why! --Rulesfan (talk) 04:19, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

I don't agree at all - there's an entire section devoted to the venue, the non-MCG occasions with reasons why, with links to anothet article AFL Grand Final location debate which goes into even more detail on the wider question of venue. My reason for reverting was 1) when 90% of Grand Finals have been at the MCG, then an article about that game's full history can only reasonably lead with an image of the MCG; and because I thought the details which you added to the lead were not sufficiently important to be placed there when considering the full history of the event. It is always best to keep trivia, once off occurrences, etc. out of the lead. Aspirex (talk) 04:42, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

What were you thinking?
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Australian National Football Council
I'm curious to know why you remove any references to the Australian National Footbal Council (ANFC) in the Interstate matches in Australian rules football article. I think its pretty important to note that is who organised these matches since there is otherwise no mention in the article other than "Australian National Football Carnival" (named for the Council). I think it is also important to note that AFL dissolved this organisation along with the teams and tournaments and why since that is the primary reason these matches are no longer contested.--Rulesfan (talk) 01:28, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * The first point about the council's involvement was a mistake on my part; apologies, I have returned this to the article.
 * The second point about the AFL Commission's part – this is a simple matter of WP:PROVEIT. I disagree with what you've been adding, and you've not backed up any of those statements with references. Here (and in the Allies article), you've added unreferenced text stating there was an intentional plan to phase out interstate football, commencing in 1994 with the Allies' establishment. This is outright contradicted by the references which are included in the Allies page, which state that the changes made in 1995 by the AFL Commission were an attempt to reinvigorate the concept, not to phase it out. If you're going to say the AFL Commission planned a phase-out, then find a proper reference that says exactly that – and that stands up to critique. (I'm always skeptical of modern commentary on interstate football because I've seen enough historical and modern coverage to know that interstate football is thesedays viewed through rose-coloured glasses). Now, if you want to acknowledge that it was under the AFL Commission's watch that interstate football ended, that's fine and indisputable (although probably not appropriate for the lead); but once this decision is attributed to reasons or plans, references are required.
 * Honest feedback here: I'm quite surprised by the edits you've been making to the Interstate and Allies pages. You do a lot of good and well-referenced work for the project; but on these two pages, and the Allies in particular, you're adding unreferenced POV lines with an unencyclopedic tone ("The team really lacks the identity and symbolism that other representative sides have"; under failed rebranding of the "Dream Team"; the ), highly dubious statistical syntheses (drawing your own conclusion about the Allies popularity based on a single home crowd figure, stating "They have also not been successful on the field" despite a historical 2–2 record), and even using scare quotes on the statement (Their record "home" crowd was...). It breaks every pillar of Wikipedia and it's really out of character. Aspirex (talk) 09:23, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

The Allies
You've reverted edits about their largest crowd quote: "Garbage. The Allies had one home game ever, and the 13k crowd exceeded any previous Qld SOO crowd see here Interstate matches in Australian rules football# Australian Rules State of Origin Matches (1977–1999)"

You are totally incorrect and your own source disagrees with you! Queensland drew 16,000 in one of its few games at the Gabba against Victoria in 1980. I was there. Capacity prior to the Allies match was reduced due to the presence of the greyhound track. AFL apologists might disagree, but the Allies have NEVER been supported by Queenslanders and NEVER will be. --Rulesfan (talk) 08:47, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I acknowledge that I missed the 1980 crowd. I'll change my statement to "Garbage. The Allies had one home game ever, and the 13k crowd exceeded the average previous Qld SOO crowd see here Interstate matches in Australian rules football". It doesn't change the fact that this edit is a clear violation of WP:SYNTH. Aspirex (talk) 09:27, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

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Question How is the fremantle comment i put on 2022 afl wiki not notable i hae seen the same comment for multiple teams in previous seasons — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flipstatic Energy (talk • contribs) 11:48, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

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Reverted Edit
See you reverted my edit on the 2022 Grand Final page. You didn't think it's interesting that they haven't played each other in so long? Anyhow, here's to a great match! MaskedSinger (talk) 07:01, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Princes Park
You've reverted an edit stating that "Permissive occupancy of Princes Park was granted to CFC and CCC simultaneously in 1895; although the football club began playing there before the cricket club, it was nevertheless built for both clubs and managed by a joint committee from it earliest days".

Nowhere can I find this mentioned in the Princes Park article.

Numerous sources back up that the Carlton Football Club built and owns the ground on its current site from 1886. Which was disputed by the cricket club which had its own ground elsewhere in the park. They were not as you say managed by a joint committee. Please feel free to dispute this in the article itself rather than to put your facts in an edit note. Thanks. Rulesfan (talk) 15:21, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

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VFA/VFL - competition cf. operating organizations
Hi, You undid changes I made to the article on the VFL. I was trying to distinguish the competition from the two organizations that have run it. The article was very confused as to the distinction. It is one competition operated by two successive bodies, the VFA and then AFL. For example, the VFA presidents relate to the operating organization and not the competition, therefore the list of VFA presidents belongs in the history of the organization. Please review and consider whether your edits help to distinguish the competition from the organizations.115.42.10.172 (talk) 09:14, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't believe the distinction is at all unclear. It is, as you correctly say, one competition operated by two successive bodies, and both the lead and history presently do a good job of reflecting this. I certainly feel your removal of references to the VFA portion of the onfield history from the lead was unhelpful, since it gave the impression that the subject of the article would be just the post-1995 competition. Regarding the VFA presidents section, I believe the header and introductory statement are fairly clear in distinguishing this represents VFA era only; but more to the point, the prose history section would be somewhat of a non sequitur location for a table of former presidents; I'd rather it be forked or deleted than inserted in that location. Aspirex (talk) 09:23, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Also, please don't make edits like this. If you have disputes about content, either correct them directly or take them to a talk page for discussion. I've transferred your comments to the talk page. Aspirex (talk) 09:48, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Re AFL Victoria - Yes, that is more appropriate. Thank you. I was overwhelmed by the appalling article. You state "these disputes are based on legal definitions too technical for my understanding" (here) but you need to fully understand these concepts and issues to write authoritatively on the subjects and not confuse the sports, the competitions and the operating organizations. You removed the word "been" from the statement that the VFL "has been operated under the current name since 1996". This exemplifies confusion between the competition and the operating organization. The competition doesn't operate itself! it has been operated by an organization. The VFL article is still confused in regard to the VFA as it is trying to cover both the competition and the organization in the one article.115.42.10.172 (talk) 11:32, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

PS. See utter confusion about ARL. Soccer articles were worse. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.42.10.172 (talk) 12:16, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Freo Dockers
What is wrong with my trivia as its the first time in 183 games? Flipstatic Energy (talk) 05:39, 22 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Short consecutivity sequences like this are rarely notable for the main season page. Partly it's because the achievement in question is seldom notable in its own right; here for example we have a list of streaks of scoring 100+, and three games is so far short of meeting that list that the achievement is trivial. "First time winning consecutive matches since..." also generally gets removed for this reason. It's also because statistical sites like AFLTables don't keep lists of 'most time between instances of three or more consecutive scores above 100', and if a site dedicated to statistics doesn't think it notable to keep record of, then Wikipedia, whose inclusion standards as an encyclopedia should be tighter than the inclusion standards of its references, really shouldn't be including it either. Aspirex (talk) 06:10, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

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Hey Aspirex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AFL_debuts_in_2023 is really outdated since round 1 could you help me update it? Flipstatic Energy (talk) 13:54, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

This what each row entry should look like.
 * align=""left""|Lachlan Cowan||||18 years, 105 days||1 ||align=""left""|Pick 30, 2022 national draft
 * align=""left""|Lachlan Cowan||||18 years, 105 days||1 ||align=""left""|Pick 30, 2022 national draft

The best place I can find to get a list of debutants is the AFL Tables 'all players by debut' list: https://afltables.com/afl/stats/biglists/bg10.txt This has all of the information you need for the true debutants except for draft history, which you'll need to cross reference the AFL Draft pages to fill in. I'm not aware of a consolidated reference of 'first game for a new club' for players who have changed clubs, so you'll just have to check those manually against the last few years' AFL Draft pages' trades sections. Honestly I don't think it's really in the spirit of a page called "List of AFL debuts" to have a section on traded players anyway.

Hopefully that helps. Aspirex (talk) 22:11, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

I disagree with you
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2023_AFL_season&oldid=1167994397

I think the fact that it is a record overpowers it not being at 10 games. Flipstatic Energy (talk) 04:45, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Also Freo's 9 game streak was noted and we have Port Adelaides record noted before 10 games (but port probably don't count because they got over 10) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flipstatic Energy (talk • contribs) 04:55, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

The standing rules are clear at a 10gm threshold, and the whole point is to avoid commenting on the low-achievement records of the newer clubs (e.g. the Suns have still never scored 150pts, so still don't have a highest score game note because they just don't have a score worthy of comment). The 2015 Freo situation is slightly different because it was a "best start to the season" note rather than a "longest winning streak" note. Aspirex (talk) 10:22, 31 July 2023 (UTC)


 * ok Flipstatic Energy (talk) 00:05, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

My addition to the 2023 AFL Page
You removed the stat about foundation teams Carlton, Melbourne and St Kilda all making the finals in the same year for the first time ever. Given that there's Geelong missing the finals for the first time since 2015 and Carlton making it for the first time since 2013 and whatever else is in there, I thought this was worthy of being included. How do you determine what is cruft and what isn't? Whitemancanjump23 (talk) 11:27, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

As a guiding principle, I use Talk:2011 AFL season, a set of guidelines which we've had for the last twelve years to determine what is and isn't included. Now admittedly I wrote the guidelines, but they have been accepted by the project over this time. When something doesn't fall directly within the guidelines (as is the case with this one), the questions I ask to guide my thinking are: If it doesn't at least meet the positive side of a couple of these, I'll generally argue to remove it. In this case, it comes out on the negative side of all four questions. There is no single person or team which benefited or suffered as the result of this specific combination of teams making/not making finals. I don't know how many combinations of three teams have never played in finals together, giving me no context for whether this is common or not. Lasting memory: if you got a Carlton, St Kilda and Melbourne fan together in a pub five years from now, they're not going reminisce about "hey, remember that time you both made finals as well?" And this comes from a Twitter reference. By comparison. Carlton making finals: it's an achievement which follows a club-record failure (finals drought), so strong case for inclusion. Geelong missing finals: it's a failure the end of an eight-year finals streak, that streak being a non-record achievement which is moderately common, so borderline for inclusion. Highest attendance ever across 9, 13 and 17 rounds: it's an achievement, a record, and has AFL media references, but in the long run these will be completely forgettable since it's the full-year crowds that really matter – so three out of four questions on the positive side, but still a very strong case for removal (I just haven't gotten around to arguing yet). Aspirex (talk) 12:04, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Does the statistic describe some sort of individual/team achievement or failure? Or is it a neutral occurrence which no individual/team would look back upon with either pride or shame?
 * If we look through history, is this common or uncommon? Do we even have the records or context to know?
 * Is this something likely to be in lasting memory or mentioned in a pre-game or the AFL Record, or is this a factoid which will be forgotten almost immediately?
 * Has it come from a traditional media, or is it lifted from Twitter, Facebook or Bruce McAvaney's commentary?


 * Ok wonderful. Thanks for letting me know. I will use these points as guidelines if I want to add something again. Whitemancanjump23 (talk) 12:06, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

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