User talk:Badgerbyname

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Gloucester Rugby
Hi there, just thought I'd drop a commment about some of your edits to the Gloucester Rugby page. In the main these are great and a big improvement. Particularly the season by season results part. I've removed the bullet points from the intro and the main body. This is not a standard presentation of information in an encyclopedia and should mainly be kept for lists rather than articles.

The article is massively lacking in references, only 13 when there should probably be more like 100+ given the size of it. If you are looking to continue to improve the article adding references would be an enormous help! Keep up the good work and hopefully I'll come across your edits more often as club rugby needs a lot of work on wiki.Skeene88 (talk) 16:19, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Will have a look. I might add a few.--Biografer (talk) 03:53, 19 May 2018 (UTC)


 * No worries! Thanks for your comments I will certainly get some sources listed in the near future.

A couple of notes - I'd like to remove the small part in the intro about 7 wins as this is duplicated otherwise just below? Also, do you know how the kit editor works - the one for Gloucester is very out of date! Badgerbyname (talk) 08:49, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

I see your point on duplication in the lead. However, most sports clubs (off the top of my head Manchester United, San Francisco 49ers, Crusaders (rugby union), Leicester Tigers) do have refernces to their honours in there. The lead section is meant to "stand on its own as a concise overview of the article's topic. It should identify the topic, establish context, explain why the topic is notable, and summarize the most important points, including any prominent controversies". So I think the honours, particularly being the first club to win a national trophy, really should be mentioned in there. Agree that a total duplication is not right though.

The kit editor is a bit hard to use. Basically you need to edit the basic templates for arms, shorts, body etc in paint (or something like that), upload them to wikipedia as a new file then refer to them in Template:Football kit. It took me ages to get it right and I'd suggest practicing in your sandbox area to get the look you want before changing the live page.Skeene88 (talk) 11:18, 22 May 2018 (UTC)