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Sydney Showground Stadium
I have reverted your edit at Sydney Showground Stadium, not because it's necessarily wrong, but because it's probably the wrong place to start. You have made an interesting observation. The club DOES appear to use all capitals in the GIANTS part of its name. I suggest you take your observations to the Talk page of the club's Wikipedia article. That's Talk:Greater Western Sydney Giants. Note that it's important to gain consensus on the Talk page before you actually change the article. I will be interested to read what other editors think. Good luck. HiLo48 (talk) 10:07, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

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Greece national rugby league team results moved to draftspace
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Nomination of Earlwood Saints for deletion
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Infoboxes for Matildas results articles
An alternative format to an Infobox has been added to link between the articles with different date ranges. Matilda Maniac (talk) 02:00, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. WDM10 (talk) 06:03, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

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Australia vs England in rugby league moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Australia vs England in rugby league, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. buidhe 22:47, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

AfC reviews
Reviewers of drafts submitted to AfC can accept, decline or reject a draft. Decline means they believe the topic may be suitable, but the draft has correctable flaws, one or more of which are usually provided. The draft's editor can revise the draft and resubmit. Most often, a different reviewer will next examine the draft, and may have different objections. A rejection means the reviewer's opinion is that the topic is not worthy. Editors can by-pass AfC, but a flawed article could then be flipped back to draft or submitted to Articles for deletion. David notMD (talk) 09:08, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your information. Just to confirm, was this responding to my teahouse question? WDM10 (talk) 09:15, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes. David notMD (talk) 09:17, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok. Thanks again. WDM10 (talk) 09:18, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Ways to improve List of Macarthur FC players
Hello, WDM10,

Thank you for creating List of Macarthur FC players.

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Boleyn (talk) 21:26, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Draft:List of National Soccer League Clubs
I declined the Draft:List of National Soccer League Clubs but at the same time I merged the main table you created in to the National Soccer League article. I think there may be the potential to extract the sections on clubs from the main article and create a stand alone daughter article if you were to look at creating tables for the period between 1957 and 1977, where a number of early iterations of NSL with the National Ampol cup, and the Australia cup taking place reflecting the NSL article. Gnangarra 08:59, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
 * So like a pre-NSL history? WDM10 (talk) 09:10, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
 * yes so it has the same structure of the main article. Gnangarra 10:42, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Do you mind if you could just help me start it off so I know exactly what to do? WDM10 (talk) 19:03, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

1999 National Soccer League Grand Final moved to draftspace
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Re: Draft:Australia vs England in rugby league
Have you seen Wikipedia pages like this -- for other countries or sports, perhaps? I've joined Wikiproject Australia recently and I'm not sure what kind of coverage is needed for such a draft to be approved. Just checking if you have any examples. --Gryllida (talk) 05:21, 19 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I based that article of Australia vs New Zealand in rugby league which is of a similar type. Likewise, in rugby union there’s an article called History of rugby union matches between Australia and England. Is there a specific idea that you’re thinking of? WDM10 (talk) 05:30, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, this looks like it. Gryllida (talk) 09:04, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

I've looked at it again (very new to these drafts things, still getting started...) It looks like the `title` fields of the sources can be added (different from HTML title of original) to include the game dates or participants or some other unique information, so that they do not seem the same. --Gryllida (talk) 09:14, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The title of the reference can be changed to what you want. WDM10 (talk) 09:24, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Akane Yamaguchi
Hello. Help copy edit. Thanks you. Vomli (talk) 07:38, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Apologies, but do you have the right user and if it's me, what exactly do you want me to do? I ask because I have never edited a badminton article before. WDM10 (talk) 07:41, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * You can add citations to the article. Vomli (talk) 07:44, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I'd be happy to do so but I'm just asking am I the right person you are looking for as I've never touched an article like that before. WDM10 (talk) 07:45, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * You are the right person and I trust you. Vomli (talk) 07:46, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the kind words. I've added a citation and the article, overall, looks very good to me! :) WDM10 (talk) 07:51, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Greece national rugby league team results (April 17)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Greece national rugby league team results has been accepted
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Your submission at Articles for creation: 1999 National Soccer League Grand Final has been accepted
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Australia vs England in rugby league
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Thanks again, and happy editing! 1292simon (talk) 22:37, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of Macarthur FC players


The article List of Macarthur FC players has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "This is a list with no items; Macarthur have yet to play a competitive game."

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Happy to discuss further if you'd like. I feel like this is even more of a concern now that the logistics of next season are up in the air - but regardless, I can't see the use of the page when there are no relevant entries yet.

Macosal (talk) 13:43, 10 May 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm ok with it being deleted. When I created it, I didn't realise the players had to have played a match for the club but now I know how it works you can go ahead and get rid of it until they do play a match. WDM10 (talk) 19:15, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

2002 National Soccer League Grand Final moved to draftspace
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Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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Invitation to RedWarn
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RedWarn is currently in use by over 80 other Wikipedians, and feedback so far has been extremely positive. In fact, in a recent survey of RedWarn users, 90% of users said they would recommend RedWarn to another editor. If you're interested, please see the RedWarn tool page for more information on RedWarn's features and instructions on how to install it. Otherwise, feel free to remove this message from your talk page. If you have any further questions, please ping me or leave a message on my talk page. Your feedback is much appreciated! Ed6767  talk!  19:54, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for notifying me about it. I like it quite a lot. WDM10 (talk) 20:23, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , great to hear! Please let us know if you have any issues or general feedback over at the talk page :) Ed6767  talk!  20:30, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

2000 AFC Asian Cup Final
Hi, I should have taken care of the article. Let me know if there's anything else I should take care of. <b style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:80%;color:#000080">Nehme</b><b style="font-family:Verdana;color:#27B382">1499</b> (<b style="font-size:80%;color:#a9a9a9">talk</b>) 11:19, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for your additions. WDM10 (talk) 19:41, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: List of NRL Women's Premiership records (July 2)
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Editing news 2020 #3


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 * The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
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Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

2021 RLWC group pages
What do you see as the purpose of separate pages for the four groups? I can't see any information going into these pages that isn't going to be in the main article under the group sub-section. In which case, what is the point of having four separate sub-pages? Nthep (talk) 12:27, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Right now, the pages look pretty similar however when the tournament comes around, these pages will contain team lists and details of the game. See the 2017 Rugby League World Cup group pages for what I'm basing this off. WDM10 (talk) 20:04, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * If it's only team lists and like the 2017 pages they are going to be collapsed I don't see why that couldn't all go in the main article as that would be the only non-duplicated information as it stands. Nthep (talk) 21:50, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * But the main page usually just consists of the scores in the tables, unless we’re willing to scrap those and just have the match boxes there. However we should probably do that across all tournaments then to be consistent. WDM10 (talk) 22:16, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I've already linked the match boxes for Group A from the gp A article to the main and was intending to do the others affer we'd conclude this discussion. I think you've swung it to keeping the group articles separate. If after the tournament these little in them merging can be considered then. Nthep (talk) 09:30, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * That sounds good to me. WDM10 (talk) 09:40, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * thanks for the discussion. As I said to someone else yesterday the problem with a lot of rugby league articles is that they are little more than a collection of stats about the player or competition with little or mo narrative. If we can work on the 2021 WC articles to try and make sure that isn't the case here would be a good outcome. Nthep (talk) 09:59, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * That is very true. We could base our group articles off the RWC articles as they have the overview prose at the beginnings of their pool pages. WDM10 (talk) 10:16, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Draft:List of National Soccer League Clubs concern
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Please warn vandals
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Thanks again for helping to protect articles on Wikipedia. Happy editing! <abbr title="Smiling face" style="border-bottom: none;"> JochemvanHees (talk) 15:41, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Will do. WDM10 (talk) 20:10, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #4
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The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

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Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Hey there! You made an edit on a page I created
Hey there, What are your interests? Maybe we can collab? I have quite a few articles to write/publish, pretty much like the Ade Oladipo article, so I'd love a researcher or editor to partner up with.

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Hey there! You made an edit on a page I created
Hey there, What are your interests? Maybe we can collab? I have quite a few articles to write/publish, pretty much like the Ade Oladipo article, so I'd love a researcher or editor to partner up with.

Let me know.

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 * Hey. I mostly edit sports pages (particularly rugby league and football) as well as pages relating to the Eurovision Song Contest. WDM10 (talk) 00:08, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

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St. George Illawarra/St. George
I don't know why you changed the edits on St. George Illawarra. The club even though they are called that are still referred to in the media as St. George and are still given the nicknames Saints and Red V. In very many ways the club is more St. George than anything. Illawarra contributes very little to the joint venture. I doubt people who would be new to the article would be confused by St. George Illawarra and St. George as they are both the same thing. Sully198787 (talk) 17:30, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree with your points about branding however as the St. George Dragons are the name of the old club and part owners of the current club, there is still a difference between what is “St. George” and what is “St. George Illawarra” and this difference, even if it doesn’t seem confusing for newcomers, should be stated. WDM10 (talk) 19:53, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Ben Davies (rugby league, born 2000) (October 30)
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Super League xxv table
Hi, how would I edit the template on the main page, because it only shows ((Super League xxv regular season table)) and I can't figure out how to edit it (not that it needs editing anyway) without having to go into the template itself? Thanks L1amw90 (talk) 07:29, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 * You would have to go into the template itself, there's no way to edit templates like that in the articles. WDM10 (talk) 07:36, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Jake Wingfield (November 8)
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Your draft article, Draft:2002 National Soccer League Grand Final


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Reply tool
The Reply tool  is available at most other Wikipedias.


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New discussion tool
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Next: Notifications
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Your draft article, Draft:List of National Soccer League Clubs


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February 2021
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 * Ah thanks. Was a bit confused by what you meant at first but will make an effort to add more detail. WDM10 (talk) 19:52, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

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Looking ahead

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Your draft article, Draft:List of National Soccer League Clubs


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Templates For Discussion - AFL Player Significant Statistics Templates
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A-League 2021/22 AFC Cup source?
Would just like to know what source you know of that cites the 2021/22 season as showing the second-placed A-League team to qualify for the AFC Cup.

Cheers.


 * I did not put that in the ladder template so cannot say for sure. This link states that it is likely however I do not believe that there is an official announcement yet. WDM10 (talk) 20:36, 31 October 2021 (UTC)


 * I have also looked around and seen the possibility, but unsure as Aussie teams have never played in that competition. Thanks.


 * Basically the tournament is for teams within a certain AFC coefficient ranking, which Australia has never been in until now, explaining why Aussie clubs have never competed until what will be 2023. WDM10 (talk) 20:47, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:RLWC2025
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The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Village pump (proposals). You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences.

The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.

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Nomination for deletion of Template:NRLW2020Ladder
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The new [] button notifies people when someone replies to their comments. It helps newcomers get answers to their questions. People reply sooner. You can read the report. The Editing team is turning this tool on for everyone. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.

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