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Tigers Template

I have reverted your change to add colour to the template. Long term consensus within the Rugby union Wikiproject is to use standard wikipedia navbox colours rather than club colours. noq (talk) 14:33, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Leicester Tigers

I am not vandalising anything and don't make a big thing out of it. I rework and balance out current squad pages for those top professional rugby squads. That's it. They play at any position that is on their wiki pages. NikeCage68 (talk) 17:26, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

John Jackett - Falmouth and Leicester

Hi, I'm thinking of showing Jackett as both a Falmouth and Leicester player for the 1906 and 1907 Home Nations games. John Griffiths' Book of England International rugby lists him as being solely a Falmouth player for those games and notes for the NZ game in 1905 "Jackett became the first player capped direct from Falmouth club". For his 1909 games Jackett is listed as Falmouth/Leicester. It looks a bit ambiguous as I can see on Jackett's article that you've got a citation for him joining Leicester in 1904 and playing seven years for the club, so I assume he played variably for both clubs during the period as well as representing the Cornwall county side. For the 1908 Anglo-Welsh tour, Clem Thomas's History of the British & Irish Lions also gives him as a Falmouth player only. Any thoughts? --Bcp67 (talk) 10:48, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. No doubt Jackett would be amazed if he could know that his career was being discussed more than 100 years after he played for England! Happy enough to leave things as they are - as you say, circumstances were different back then and he was associated with both clubs, possibly at the same time, and the link leads to his article where readers can find out more about him. All the best! --Bcp67 (talk) 21:50, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

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Hi, it's great to see someone take an interest and keep articles like 2016–17 English Premiership (rugby union) up to date (even if it's the wrong code :-) ) but can you please make sure the links point to the right place George Ford, Billy Burns and Joe Marchant are all disambiguation pages so the right one needs to be selected. Can I recommend one of these disambiguation tools as a great help in checking whether links needs disambiguating or not. Thanks. Nthep (talk) 12:01, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

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Alex Lewington appearances

Hi Skeene, I was under the impression that the Wiki stat boxes for all sports only include league appearances? Therefore Lewington's LV Cup appearances wouldn't be counted? TGB13 (talk) 20:47, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

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Leicester Tigers

Given how much information was in the article, the Start class rating didn’t really apply any more. I thought a higher class rating was a no brainer, so I moved it up to a C. Do you think it deserves a different grade? CUA 27 (talk) 19:42, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Overall the article is in decent shape, one of the better rugby club articles out there. Congrats on your hard work. Since you asked for feedback, here are some further thoughts:

• I tagged the lead. It reads as fanboy stuff. I’d suggest tone down the accolades, and insert some plain vanilla facts.
• I didn’t like the fact that the Honors section comes first. For the same reason as above. I suggest moving it further down the article.
• The History section is quite long. I suggest trimming to 1/3 or 1/4 the length, and move more info to the linked History of Leicester Tigers article if it’s not there already.
• The Season Summary table could be improved. Too much colour, and too much repetition of the name of the competition (we don’t need to repeat Premiership or Heineken Cup twelve times.
• The Notable Players section with eight subsections, including many lists and tables and many many flags, is far too much. I’d suggest creating a separate article called “Leicester Tigers players” or something like that, dump a lot of these tables into that article, leaving the main article with no more than 2-3 list of the very best players.

I would make some of these changes myself, but I don’t know how they would be received, which is why I offer them as suggestions. Overall, as I said at the outset, there is a lot of useful information in here, but if you are looking to improve it further, look for ways to reduce some of what’s there, in particular the lists and tables with an overload of names, colours, and flags. CUA 27 (talk) 20:09, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Some other ideas on things to add — There is no text re any affiliate teams (eg, the A-side, any youth or U-20 team, any women’s team?). I don’t know how many affiliate teams there are, but if there are some, then perhaps a brief section with one short paragraph re the more notable of the affiliate teams. If more ideas occur to me on items to add I will pass them along, but I doubt I will have much given the article is mostly complete already. CUA 27 (talk) 02:38, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

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ARU referees

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2018–19 European Rugby Champions Cup

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Rugby numbering schemes

Since you asked, here is the World Rugby regulation regarding the numbering of players according to their position. As you can see, it is at the very least recommended by World Rugby that the "left flanker" wear number 6 and the "right flanker" wear number 7. There doesn't seem to be a distinction regarding which is the openside and which the blindside. That, I assume, is how South Africa get away with swimming against the tide of every other international team. – PeeJay 15:46, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Re: Mat Protheroe

I'm not sure I agree. While he may self-identify as Welsh, he has played international rugby for England, which makes this more controversial. – PeeJay 15:59, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

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Dan Kelly

Hello. Sorry, it seems that the other Dan Kelly played for Birmingham & Soluhull RFC. -- Postoronniy-13 (talk) 09:36, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

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Hallo, I think I checked and found it was half an hour since the red link was added, so didn't know you were still working on the page. Same thing can happen with categories: add a redlinked category, or create a category and it gets deleted as "empty"...! Sorry about that. I did use "rollback AGF". PamD 12:56, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

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Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia, and articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to List of common false etymologies of English words. Readers looking for accurate information will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, please use your sandbox instead, where you are given a certain degree of freedom in what you write. (Even if Atlas are sods) Nosebagbear (talk) 20:13, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

@Nosebagbear: Lol, no worries, thought it might stay up for a little longer.Skeene88 (talk) 20:31, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

I hate to say it but I actually saw it through the rugby forums and laughed at it there, rather than actually finding it through Wikipedia :D Nosebagbear (talk) 21:33, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

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