Talk:Fantasy football (association)
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Prunning External Links
editThis article has been tagged with the {{Cleanup-spam}} tag as a result as part of the WP:WPSPAM project this article has come to my attention. My plan is to drastically cut the number of links. I plan on removing links to individual leagues (Wikipedia is not a links repository). I also plan on removing links to sites giving tips and advice on playing fantasy football. I feel the links that are important are those that give more detail about what Fantasy Football is (and any history). -- Rehnn83 Talk 08:28, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
- All forums and blogs have been removed immediately, as according to WP:EL. I would also delete the links to individual game websites. Ideally, I would have no external links here at all - any external websites about the history game can be used as references instead. Qwghlm 15:36, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
You're idiots... The job of this page is to inform. The links might need pruning but taking them all off is stupid.
- Insightful comments are always welcome. Thanks for your contribution.Montco (talk) 11:55, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
It's amazing how this stuff accumulates over 4 years' passage. Removed the entirety of the EL section again as it appears none of the links in particular offers any special insight -- they're mostly forums, specific fantasy leagues, etc. —Darkwind (talk) 23:23, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Advertising?
editWhy is the TimesOnline game featured so prominently? I can understand the Telegraph being mentioned, but no other league is even referred to, yet PlayTheGame has its own section. It has some interesting features but so do other systems. I can't see any reason to keep the section, but I might be missing something. Can anyone justify it? Sorryitwasme (talk) 18:51, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Origins
editIt might be worth mentioning the idea for "fantasy soccer" spawned from Fantasy football (American) which was originated in 1962. UrbanNerd (talk) 16:52, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Move discussion in progress
editThere is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Fantasy football (American) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 16:45, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Suggested move to clarify subject
editThe title sounds like a fantasy football trade group, like Fantasy Sports Trade Association. I know this will upset the association fans, but why not move this article to Fantasy football (soccer) and be done with the confusion?Timtempleton (talk) 04:59, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
Some POV and/or vandal IP keeps adding nonsense
edit@82.47.83.112: keeps adding the following:
- One of the most successful managers ever known is Scott Jones, who once won a trophy for his efforts thus entitling him to represent all future team names with a star or other appropriate symbol e.g. asterisk.
It seems pretty obviously of no use to an encyclopedia article, even if it could be sourced somewhere, which it is not. I assume that this editor is trying to advertise that they once won a mini-league.
I will continue to revert unless sourcing is provided that might at all be plausibly reliable and give some indication that this "fact" is of encyclopedic interest. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 23:29, 5 May 2018 (UTC)