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The list was promoted by Giants2008 via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 8 October 2018 (UTC) [1].[reply]

List of Gold Coast Football Club players edit

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Nominator(s): Allied45 (talk) 06:29, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is my second project I have been working on in an attempt to increase the number of FL for Australian rules football-related topics. I was recently successful in getting Norm Smith Medal promoted and have decided to try and get a players list promoted this time to create a standard that can be duplicated across all VFL/AFL club lists. The Gold Coast Football Club is one of the most recent clubs to join the top-level Australian Football League, and this list represents all individuals who have played a game for the club in this competition. Allied45 (talk) 06:29, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from TompaDompa (talk) 12:04, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  1. Gary Ablett Jr. was Gold Coast's inaugural captain from 2011–2016. should be changed per MOS:ENFROM.
  2. The club was also allowed to operate with an increased playing list size and salary cap in its first four seasons, before these allowances were reduced to be in line with the existing AFL clubs from 2015. should clarify whether it was always the plan that this last for four seasons or not.
  3. The maximum playing list size of each AFL club is a total of 47 players, consisting of 38–40 senior-listed players and the remainder as rookie-listed players. As every club is required to make a minimum of three changes to its list at the end of each season, not every player necessarily makes a senior appearance for the club before being removed from the playing list. should be elaborated upon to make it clearer for readers not familiar with Australian rules football (what's the difference between rookie players and senior players, and so on).
  4. As at the conclusion – I'm guessing this is meant to be "As of".
  5. Cap (sport) should be linked somewhere.
  6. The key is not consistent in its use of periods.
  7. Statistics are correct as at the conclusion of the 2018 season. – I'd use "updated" rather than "correct", and "as of" instead of "as at".
  8. I'm not a big fan of the way the seasons are presented for players who are still on the roster (e.g. 2011–). See if you can't change it something more visually distinct from having played only a single season.
  9. If there are more photographs of players that are of as good quality as the ones already on the article, adding some would improve the visual appeal further (there's no shortage of vertical space to place them).
  10. In the table of players with no senior appearances, why are some listed with their age and some not?
  11. The "Date of birth" column does not sort correctly.
  12. The link to Connor Nutting redirects back to the same page.
  13. The broken anchors here should be fixed.

TompaDompa (talk) 23:13, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks TompaDompa, I have implemented all of your suggestions except linking Cap (sport) – it's not a term really used in Australian rules football. Hopefully the lead now clarifies those points that were confusing, and I've added "–present" to current players' seasons in the table (if that works as a solution?). There are also now plenty of images to improve the visual nature of the list. — Allied45 (talk) 11:50, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support TompaDompa (talk) 12:04, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • The only thing I could pick up on is this sentence in the lead: "The club was formed in March 2009 when it was granted a licence to join the Australian Football League (AFL) as an expansion club" - this makes it sound like the granting of a licence (to whom, if the club hadn't been formed?) immediately triggered the creation of a club which did not exist at all up to that point. I would imagine the club must have already existed in some form before that month, so I would suggest this needs re-wording slightly. Other than that, I didn't pick anything up........... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:49, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
This has been reworded, thanks ChrisTheDude :) – Allied45 (talk) 08:16, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Awesome! (or should I say "bonzer!"?) Now happy to support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:18, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 11:26, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • "The Gold Coast..." seems odd to me, is it okay? I would never say "The Ipswich Town F.C. ..." or "The Manchester United F.C. ..."
  • My ignorance, but why didn't they play in the first round of the 2011 season? Just didn't have a fixture?
  • "additional draft selections in the 2010 AFL Draft," don't need "draft" twice, and the "2010 AFL Draft" doesn't capitalise draft.
  • "recruit underaged players" again, my ignorance, but this probably needs an explanatory note as to what, in the context of the AFL draft and league system, constitutes "underage".
  • "The main ways AFL clubs.." this sentence seems anomalous and not specific to the Gold Coast article, it should probably be a footnote.
  • "is a total of 47 players" no need for "a total of".
  • You include goals in the list, so it'd be advisable to mention the player with the most goals in the lead as well as the player with the most apps.
  • Where is the "current playing list" referenced?
  • Tom Hickey is piped to a redirect.

The Rambling Man (talk) 16:50, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks The Rambling Man, I have now addressed all concerns, including adding explanatory notes to help clarify things for readers not familiar with AFL :) – Allied45 (talk) 10:57, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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