Introduction

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Hi,

My name is John C. Moriarty. I live in Cronulla, Australia. I created my first Wikipedia article in April 2016 and have been contributing to Rugby League articles on a consistent basis ever since.


Content Researched & Added

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My Contributions to Pages
Subject Contributions Methods When
Women's Rugby League — NRLW
  • Maintaining the page: List of current NRL Women's team squads
    • Updating for the respective club as each signing was announced ahead of the 2021 NRLW season.
    • Updating basic statistics - appearances, tries and goals - after the completion of each round of the 2021 NRLW season.
    • Updating for the respective club as each signing was announced for the upcoming 2022 NRLW season.
Use of
  • Basic game data collated from
    • Team Lists and Player Stats on NRL website
    • Rugby League Project website database
  • Microsoft Excel lookup, conditional and concatenation functions to convert from spreadsheet to Wikipedia code
2022
Women's Rugby League — Representative
  • Added to the list of   NSW versus Queensland matches. Updated the layout and detail of the current squad (since November 2020, most recently June 2022).
  • Added to and completed a list of international matches for the following teams and events, updating current squads as indicated:

  • Compiled list of international matches for the following teams:
  • Use of
    • online newspaper articles, where available. Coverage of women's international matches prior to the mid 2010's was inconsistent
    • library copies of Rugby League Week and Big League

    Reached out and began consultation with

    • the New Zealand Rugby League
    • the Life with Lionessess project
    2020
    to
    2022
    NSW men's lower tier competitions
    • Compiled list of NSW Cup (Reserve Grade) grand finals: scores, runners-up, referee, winning captains & coaches, with links to match reports where available online.
    • Compiled list of Ron Massey Cup (Tier 3) grand finals: scores, runners-up, winning coaches, referee.
    • Compiled list of Sydney Shield (Tier 4) grand finals: scores, runners-up, referee, winning captains & coaches, with links to match reports where available online.
    • Compiled playing records of multiple lower tier clubs:
    Use of
    • Trove digitised newspapers and periodicals
      • Rugby League News (1920-1973)
      • various newspapers (to 1954)
      • Canberra Times (to 1995).
    • library copies of Rugby League Week and Big League
    2020
    International men's tours
    • Created page for the   American All Stars tour of   Australia and   New Zealand in 1953.
    • Created pages for   New Zealand tours to   Australia in 1948, 1952 and 1959.
    • Completion of the page   1951 French rugby league tour of Australia and New Zealand.
    • Created pages for the   Great Britain tours to Australia and New Zealand in 1950 and 1954.
    • Addition of the touring squad table (player's name, age, club, matches, tries, points) to   Australian team tour pages to   New Zealand in 1953, 1961, 1965 and 1969.
    • Addition of the touring squad table to pages covering the Kangaroos tours to   Great Britain and   France in 1959-60, 1963-64 and 1967-68.
    Use of
    • Trove digitised Rugby League News (1920-1973), various newspapers (to 1954), Canberra Times (to 1995).
    • library copies of E.E. Christensen's Official Rugby League Year Book
    • books on the history of Rugby League in various regions: Ipswich, Mackay, Maryborough, North Queensland.
    • library copies of match programs from Brisbane, Newcastle and Rockhampton.

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    • Identified, where possible, the given names of players that represented country and regional teams against the visitors to Australia. The primary source — Christenen's Year Book — lists only an initial and surname.
    2020
    to
    2021
    Competitions in NSW Country and Regional areas
    • For Group 21 (Upper Hunter Valley) completed a table of grand finalists. Identification of most winning coaches, 1930 to 1954 and 1969 to present. Added a table listing winners of the preceding Rugby Union competition (1897-1919).
    • For Group 4 (Tamworth and neighbouring towns) expanded table of grand finalists, adding matches 1912-1999. Identification of most winning coaches, 1948 to 1954 and 1969 to present.
    • For Northern Rivers RRL added links to media reports of grand finals, 2005 to present. Added Ladies League tag grand finals.
    • For Group 2 (North Coast) filled in missing match scores and added links to media reports of grand finals, 2008 to present. Added minor premiers 1985-2011.
    • For Group 3 (North Coast, Kempsey to Foster) filled in missing match scores and added links to media reports of grand finals, 1946 to 1954 and 2012 to present.
    • For Group 6 (Southern Highlands) added grand finals 1914-1945 with links to newspaper articles, 1914-1954, 2014 to present. Filled in missing scores and coaches in some years.
    • For Group 16 (Far South Coast and Southern Monaro) researched grand finalists prior to 2010, including prior to amalgamations in the early 1970s and local competitions prior to the mid-1950s.
    • For Group 20 (Griffith and neighbouring towns) researched grand finalists 1967 to 2001 and winning coaches from 1967 to present.
    • For Canberra Rugby League added links to media reports of grand finals, 1932-1995, and 2005 to present.
    • For Illawarra Rugby League filled in missing runners-up and scores, added links to media reports of grand finals, 1911-54 (via Trove), some references 1955-1999 (via mircofilm) and 2912 to present (via websites). Added table listing Women's Open Premiership grand finals.
    Use of
    • Trove various newspapers (to 1954), Canberra Times (to 1995).
    • Local newspaper articles via Newsbank and ProQuest, from late 1990s to present. Availability varies by newspaper.
    • Stories retained on newspaper websites
    • YouTube postings of video showing the full match or highlights.
    2017
    to
    2020
    Central Coast Rugby League Use of
    • Trove: Gosford Times
    • Microfilm: Central Coast Express
    2016
    Early years of Rugby in Brisbane and Sydney
    • Created pages an with account of the early seasons of Rugby League in Queensland: 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911.
    • Researched and added a Lower Grades section to existing articles on the 1908 and 1909 Sydney seasons.

    Use of

    2016

    Profile

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    My interests include travel, rugby league, Roman aqueducts, reading, perusing art galleries, cricket, castles, bushwalking, attending music festivals and gigs.

    The subject of my first articles is the early history of Rugby League in Brisbane, Queensland. I chose this topic as there was scant detail available online, and there was an opportunity to make use of the National Library of Australia's Trove website, to access newspaper articles from the time. In the 1990's I helped research the history of my long-time cricket club, Narara-Wyoming. This involved scrolling through micro-film copies of the newspapers, so a lot of time was spent looking for articles. The search function with Trove is excellent, so one can get directly to an article.

    The oldest surviving record of my cricket club is from 1898, which accounts for the latter part of my username. The first part is simply my name reversed, and also my nickname.

    Cheers,

    Nhoj