A fact from Niamh McEvoy (footballer, born 1990) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 October 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourcedmust be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.
This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's sport (and women in sports), a WikiProject which aims to improve coverage of women in sports on Wikipedia. For more information, visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.Women's sportWikipedia:WikiProject Women's sportTemplate:WikiProject Women's sportWomen's sport articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Basketball, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Basketball on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BasketballWikipedia:WikiProject BasketballTemplate:WikiProject BasketballBasketball articles
Niamh McEvoy (footballer, born 1990) is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.AustraliaWikipedia:WikiProject AustraliaTemplate:WikiProject AustraliaAustralia articles
This article has been given a rating which conflicts with the project-independent quality rating in the banner shell. Please resolve this conflict if possible.
Latest comment: 4 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion
@4TheWynne: I have a number of issues with the your recent edits in this article.
1. The statement "playing for Dublin in the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association" is factually incorrect. The LGFA is not a league or competition, it is a governing body. Even basic research make this obvious.
2. The sport she plays is Ladies' Gaelic football not Gaelic football.
3. You have removed from the opening summary the very reason/fact the article was nominated for "Did you know...". Not helpful.
4. Can you please stop imposing your "Australian rules" regarding honours on the article. As of January 2010 she has not played a single competitive game of Aussie rules. She is best known as a Dublin senior ladies' footballer. DjlnDjln (talk) 15:58, 6 January 2020 (UTC)Reply
I'm fine with changing this first phrase to "playing for Dublin in the All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship and the Ladies' National Football League..."; the AFL is the governing body if its sport/competition of the same name, so an easy mistake to make.
This one's a bit tougher; for example, we don't say at AFLW player articles: "_______________ is a women's Australian rules footballer...", or at WNBL player articles "women's basketballer...", as you would just put the name of the sport. From what I can tell, there aren't major differences in the rules (definitely not completely different rules) compared to the men's version of the sport – there are only minor differences in rules between AFL and AFLW and across the sport down to local level, and therefore they aren't considered different sports (I know we're talking about Gaelic football, but I think similar logic can be applied here), which is why we put "Australian rules footballer" in the opening sentence of both men's and women's articles. I don't have a problem with having "Ladies' Gaelic football" in the infobox, but I do think it should simply read "...is a Gaelic and Australian rules footballer..." in the lead, as it does now (besides, in the version before I started editing the article, her Gaelic football career section literally says "Gaelic football" – you trying to tell me that was a mistake?).
Just because it was an interesting fact that saw the article added to "Did you know...", doesn't mean it belongs in the lead section of the article – the lead section is just supposed to summarise the article, and this is just repeating information, word-for-word, that is already in the body of the article. See Nina Morrison, for example – her article was also added to "Did you know..." for a fact ("...was nominated for the 2019 AFL Women's Rising Star award on debut – but suffered a season-ending knee injury in training the next week?") that is the body, rather than the lead, of the article.
The way that the honours and achievements section is currently formatted is a lot neater than it was – I haven't seen any other sports list runner-up finishes in this section (or equivalent), and don't understand how it's necessary. If McEvoy were to get a few AFL Women's games this year and win an honour, an Australian rules football subsection would be added, but if she were to not play a game (or play but not win anything), I think the section should be moved up and made a subsection of her Gaelic football career section, as all of her achievements would only have been won in that sport.
If you were to revert all of my changes going back to the version linked above, you would genuinely be making the article worse. I'm happy to discuss these things, but I wouldn't be doing what I've been doing if I wasn't trying to improve the quality of the article. 4TheWynne(talk•contribs)02:24, 7 January 2020 (UTC)Reply
4TheWynne,
I have done a revised version taking into account the following. 1. I have corrected your basic error implying the LGFA is a competition/league. You need to stop applying your "Australian logic" to articles about Irish sportspeople. What applies in Australia does not always translate to Ireland and before making changes you need to do some basic research. Your efforts to "improve the quality of the article" are sloppy and amateurish and have had the opposite effect. There was nothing wrong with the article to start with. 2. Articles should be linked to the most relevant related articles. Why does Wikipedia have articles like ladies' Gaelic football and Women's Australian rules football if they are exactly the same their male equivalent ? It is perfectly is ok to use "Gaelic football" and "Austrialian rules football" within articles but they should link to the correct lead article. 3. Regarding the infobox, there are slightly different infoboxes for the different Gaelic games. They link to different competitions, awards, etc. That is why "Ladies' Gaelic football" is used there. 4. Absolutely nothing wrong with the way the honours list was set up. I believe the original version is more thorough. DjlnDjln (talk) 14:14, 7 January 2020 (UTC)Reply
.svg){kind=logo}
