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Mid-season transfers

Are there any objections to adding a new section to the Player Transfers section of season articles to list mid-season transfers separately, similar to players who are loaned out to other clubs? It would avoid some of the confusion with the existing format, like having to list a player as departing in 2024 even if they left in the first few rounds of 2023. Would also help with players like Fa'amanu Brown who started 2023 at one club, switched mid-season, and is now set to head to a 3rd next year. PhinsUp23 (talk) 10:07, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Personally I think the squad tables in articles needs looking at. I do t think they’re great to look at. I don’t think there’s really any need for a transfer section when this should be included in clubs season articles Northern Wonder (talk) 12:20, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
I think the transfer list definitely has a place since its much simpler than having to check 17 different pages per season. Some team-specific seasons don't even have articles, the 2022 NRL season for instance is missing four. PhinsUp23 (talk) 12:39, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
Yeah there are lots of club season articles that need creating. The transfer section in club articles is only for the current season though Northern Wonder (talk) 14:30, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
If the club articles have been regularly updated and referenced, then the history/old revisions can be used to retrieve the squad and transfer information from previous years if/when articles on the club seasons are created. EdwardUK (talk) 18:34, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
No, not at all, the more information the better (providing it doesn't become too much to not easily read). Agree with @Northern Wonder's point re transfers are much better suited to club season's articles, but this would result in a lot of lost information as what @PhinsUp23 said re the vast majority of club season's articles don't exist. Mn1548 (talk) 18:13, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Are transfers notable information in relation to a whole season of a league? Transfers are relevant to a club's season (and the article on the player), not the league season. The absence of club's season articles is not a reason to throw the information into another article just because that article exists and another doesn't. Nthep (talk) 20:49, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Watchlist

I tried the watchlist link on the main page for this project and found that it is broken because the tool it used stopped working several years ago. However, Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire has an alternative method for creating a watchlist and as a participant in that project I find this helpful for monitoring for errors and disruptive edits as well as for noting changes that could be useful for improving other similar articles. Their watchlist works by using Special:RecentChangesLinked with a set of wikiproject sub-pages that list all the articles that have been tagged by the project and I think it should be possible to set up something similar for Rugby league. EdwardUK (talk) 19:04, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Done – the link to the watchlist has been updated EdwardUK (talk) 01:41, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Rugby#Requested move 11 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 08:11, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Super League season articles

Is it time we ditched the roman numerals format and just used 2024 Super League season as the main article title, per WP:UCRN? Compare "Super League XXIX" with "2024 Super League", and the latter generates far more search results, and I am not sure they are even used for the official name anymore, as I can't find any mention of "XXIX" on the Super League's own website. J Mo 101 (talk) 21:07, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Seems sensible to me. Nthep (talk) 10:32, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
I have created a RM proposal here. J Mo 101 (talk) 09:38, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Challenge Cup semi final

Request Challenge Cup semi final be moved to draft space as article is incomplete and unreferenced. Mn1548 (talk) 20:20, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

To be honest, it should probably be sent to AfD, as it's already been PROD'ed a couple of times. Semi finals aren't really notable enough to be considered anything more than trivia. J Mo 101 (talk) 23:51, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
If we take FA Cup semi-finals, the Challenge Cup article has the potential to be a well written article, but agree it shouldn't exist in the mainspace in its current state. Mn1548 (talk) 09:24, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
No further discussion will move to draft for now. Mn1548 (talk) 09:54, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Was his move to Manley a loan, if KR had the power to recall him after three years? Mn1548 (talk) 15:28, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Manly paid £15,000 to sign Lowe for three years, after which he would either return to Rovers on a free transfer, or stay with Manly a further two years if an additional £10,000 was paid (which of course the two clubs later disagreed over). I don't think it was really a loan, the RFL were still using the Retain and transfer system at the time, so presumably Rovers kept him on the club register so he couldn't sign for another club when he returned to England. J Mo 101 (talk) 15:51, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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