Wikipedia:WikiProject Rugby union/Collaboration of the fortnight/History

The following articles were previously collaborations of the fortnight:

Rugby union
Nominated on 25 February, 2006.

Support:
 * 1) Nominate Might aswell start with the orginal as it should really be featured.-- HamedogTalk 02:04, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) I Second the Rugby union nomination. Rowlan 06:19, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) I seem to have got the wrong end of the stick fist time round. I now support the nomination.GordyB 14:59, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) A team effort will be fantasic for the article. Great work setting this up by the way. Its great. Forever young 07:23, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Comments:
 * So I guess we can confirm this is the first Collaboration of the fortnight? Young said on the talk page 3 support votes would be good now, and we have four, so I will put up the collaboration template on rugby union. Please forgive me if I don't do work right away, I will try and do a bit this weekend. -- HamedogTalk 08:38, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
 * AGREED! -- Scaife    (Talk)  [[Image:Flag_of_Austria.svg|18px|]] Don't forget  Hanlon's Razor  02:13, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Rugby World Cup
Nominated on 13 April, 2006.

Support:
 * 1) Nominate See FIFA World Cup, we could use this as a model for big improvement. Cvene64 15:13, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) I support this nomination Scarletman 10:03, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) I second this nomination, we can really improve this article perhaps up to the standard of the FIFA World Cup article. Still Young 00:38, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) I also support this nomination Soundabuser 06:31, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

History of rugby union
Nominated on 3 May, 2006.

Support
 * 1) Nominate I think we could make this a great article, needs some work in places Soundabuser 03:34, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support The COTF will really help this article, it has great potential. Cvene64 03:49, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Great Idea, however I have exams coming up, might not be able to do much work :( -- HamedogTalk|@ 12:27, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

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Rugby union in New Zealand
Nominated on 27 May, 2006.

Support Comments
 * 1) To hopefully be chosen at the same time at New Zealand Collaboration of the Fortnight, A dual collaboration! Cvene64 01:17, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support. Look forward to the joint collab! --Midnighttonight 05:41, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support A joint collaboration. Sounds cool. Arguss 06:30, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support Sounds like a good idea :) Having fun watching "gorillas in the mist" at the moment :P -- P a g  e  a n t U p d a t e r 08:47, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Support I don't care about the mist because my Gorillas won! - Shudda   talk  11:38, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Support Same here from another Crusaders fan! -- HamedogTalk|@ 08:25, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

International Rugby Board
Nominated on 14 June, 2006.

Support Comments
 * 1) Could do with a lot of work. Cvene64 13:15, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Could be modeled after the FIFA article after creating the appropriate subpages  hoopydink  Conas tá tú? 13:51, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

North America 4 (NA4)
Nominated on 30 August, 2006.

Comments
 * I would like to nominate the North America 4 tournament. It was previously mentioned to nominate one particular club team in the US to raise interest in North America, however this tournament features two teams from the US and Canada respectively. These teams are composed of the best domestic players available. The IRB is pumping a lot of money into it, with the hopes of bringing professional rugby to North America.  In fact the exposure of this tournament has led to some players representing their country and others getting professional contracts.Am rockstar 17:06, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure, I think it's a great idea. There has recently been an influx in creating North American rugby articles, and I think the article would do well to have some new sets of eyes on it   hoopydink  Conas tá tú? 18:35, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I support this nomination. The current article is very small, but can very much be expanded. COTF will be great for this article.Cvene64 22:44, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Support, IRB is getting stale.-- HamedogTalk|@ 12:08, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I Support this nomination.Narrasawa 10:30, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Frank Hadden
Nominated on 18 October, 2006.

Support
 * 1) Has some information there, however a lot of work can be done. Clearly quite a bit of information out there on him that is accessible. Would be great for a current, tier one coach to have a high quality article about them. - Shudda   talk  01:56, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Agree. Also, we have never had a player or coach as the COTW thus far. Hadden would be great to start with. Cvene64 05:41, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) I also support this much needed expansion, however, where we get the info from to expand is anyones guess. (He's a nice guy as well, and an excellent coach) --Bob 23:13, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) I support this proposal.--Historian 12:09, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments
 * I do believe there is a fair bit of information out there on him. Especially on the internet, not sure how many books there will be with much on him, a Scottish fan might know more about that. I certainly think there is more out there on him then on NA4, and I think there is enough to at least achieve Good Article status. - Shudda   talk  23:55, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

All Blacks
Nominated on 18 December, 2006.

Support
 * 1) Not a huge amount left to hopefully get to FA. Is realistic to get this done in a fortnight if we can get a few people contributing. -  Shudda   talk  09:20, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) I'm in. The page looks very good. Narrasawa 09:50, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Same Here.This Page Deserves to be Nominated. --Cometstyles 11:20, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

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Brian O'Driscoll
Nominated on 2 January, 2006.

Support
 * 1) Very poor atricle considering that he is regarded as the best player in Rugby Union today. Also needs a lot of work. Deco16-10 21:50, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) This should be the one, this article needs allot of work - — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.71.157.67 (talk), 11 January 2006
 * 3) I agree entirly with this, it is very poor work hereMiquel9987 18:47, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

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France national rugby union team
Nominated on 27 March, 2007

Support
 * 1) Is now a featured article on French language Wikipedia. This can be used to get the article to Featured Article status here. Would be good to have a European team at FA status because at the moment there are only New Zealand teams at that standard. - Shudda   talk  23:37, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) I support the initiative and can give input as I was involved in the improvement of the French version Dingy 05:41, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) It's got my vote.GordyB 16:12, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Australia national rugby union team
The Australia national rugby union team is a national sporting side, representing Australia in rugby union. Sport is very popular in Australia, rugby union is popular, and the national team are one of the best in the world. Australia compete annually with All Blacks and Springboks in the Rugby Union Tri Nations. The Wallabies have competed in all five of the rugby union World Cups that have thus far been staged. They won the World Cup on two occasions, in 1991 and 1999 and also lost in the final match in extra time to England in 2003 competition. They are the third top ranked team in the world (behind only the All Blacks (featured article) and France national rugby union team (current collaboration)). Seven former Australian players have been inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame. Please help improve it to featured article standard. I hope that fr:Équipe d'Australie de rugby à XV will be a featured article before the beginning of rugby world cup...

Nominated 12 May 2007

Support Comments
 * 1) As nominator. - Ddfree 10:35, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Good idea Dingy 11:14, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Needs some more sources and citations but can be brought to FA Class. Cometstyles 12:03, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Strong support. Not that the other nominations aren't deserving, but the only nation to date to win two World Cups ought to have an FA-class article. — Dale Arnett 20:57, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Gareth Edwards
Considered the greatest Rugby player of all time. Article clearly in need of a clean-up. Would not be hard to find enough online references to at least get to GA status. - Shudda   talk  01:36, 12 May 2007 (UTC) Nominated 12 May 2007

Support Comments
 * 1) As nominator. -  Shudda   talk  01:36, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Really a great player... The article should be better... Good idea... Ddfree 05:20, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) The Greatest Player of All-Time deserves an analagous Wiki-Article at least.  -G W, 19 Jul 07
 * 4) Yes. The article's disappointing considering the profile of this player. Very little by way of sources - what about referencing his autobiography for a start? That's not the only book he's written either. Then there's a bit a cross-referencing to other wp articles. Ewen 18:46, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Yeah, he deserves it 83.70.71.53 12:11, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Rugby union
Nominated on 13 December 2007

Support
 * 1) Is there a good reason not to support this? - Shudde   talk  04:03, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) This has to be featured, all other articles stem from this one. --Bob (talk) 16:20, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Of course... Very important article... Ddfree (talk) 15:54, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) same as above Dingy (talk) 16:40, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

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