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I just wanted to thank you for the help on the netball article. This is my first time really editing a Wikipedia article and I'm not all that knowledgeable about netball... and thus, your edits are very much appreciated. :) --LauraHale (talk) 12:24, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
While I'm thanking you for the help, if you know any New Zealand netball clubs... I'm trying to set up some sport wiki academies in New Zealand. :) Any help trying to find some netball clubs who might want to learn about wikis (or social media) would be very much appreciated. :) --LauraHale (talk) 12:26, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Some one else suggested I do that. :( They said it was eating the space on the TOC and it should be fixed. So I did. :( Not very familiar with the Style guide. :( --LauraHale (talk) 11:08, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hopefully this isn't viewed as a copy-vio but I thought I would share the text from the All England Netball Association book that is quoted on the netball article in the history section. (I've been trusting this source because I figured they were possibly more credible as they may have had access to primary source documents that others did not have.) This is all from page 13
Early Beginnings
1891: Game invented in USA by YMCA Secretary, where it was then, and is now, called Basket Ball.
1895: Visit of Dr. Toles, an American, to Madame Osterberg's P.T. College (then at Hampstead). Students were taught Basketb Ball - indores - no printed rules - no lines, circles or boundaries. The goals were two waste paper baskets hung up on walls at each end of the hall.
1897: Game played out of doors on grass. An American lady paid a visit to the College (moved to Dartford), and taught the game as then played by women in America. The students at Dartford introduced rings instead of baskets, the larger ball and the division of the ground into three courts.
1900-1: The newly formed Ling Association (now the Physical Education Association) set up a sub-committee to revise and publish the first set of rules. 250 copies were published and many changes were adopted.
End quoting.
This source also talks a bit about the history but I'm not sure of their sourcing. Hopefully these two sources can help you with any improvements in that section. :) I can paste this to the talk page on Netball if you think it should also be there. --LauraHale (talk) 22:56, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
The whole thing was confusing for me too. It was one of the reasons I asked Hawkeye7 to try to fix the wording because I was just stumped. I put that source next to him and another one (the Gilbert netball book) and asked him to try to make that coherent. It might be worth it to say try to rewrite the whole section on the history of netball section to get the big picture and then try to summarise it down from there? --LauraHale (talk) 23:33, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Not sure if this is helpful but from the same book on page 46:
Jane Blunt, who has visited the columns of Netball over the last quarter century, picks out a few only of the multitudinous changes in The Rules of the Game with comments of the day. She has listened to nostalgic memories and shares them with present day players.
1890's: Long before the AENA came into being, a game was played "indoors without printed rules or boundaries", "outdoors on grass and with waste paper baskets tied to clothes line props"; a court (100 ft. by 50 ft. with a flag at each corner) was divided into three sections. There were nine players in each team.
End quote.
Page 4:
It was not until the end of the 19th Century and the opening years of this century that public opinion became aware of the serious neglect not only of the well being of children in State schools but of the health, welfare and recreational needs of young people in offices, shops and industry.
Many voluntary associations for years had been doing their best to meet the problems. Children's Happy Evenings, Mrs. Humphrey Ward Play Centres, Guild of Play, the Boys' and Girls' Brigades, University Settlements, all took an active interest in fostering centres of recreation. The various school sports associations arranged matches for the more gifted children. But for the masses there was little opportunity for organised recreation.
Secondary schools were more fortunate. As soon as the qualified teach of PE and Games came on the scene at the turn of the century and physical education and games became a regular feature of the curriculum in the secondary schools, netball was played and developed very largely in London and other large industrial areas in the Midlands and the North to suit playground conditions and open space available. The rules and regulations of the game were laid down by the Ling Association (founded 1899), a body of expert gymnastic teachers. The game soon became highly skilled and a strong association formed throughout the country in these more privileged schools.
En quote. Those are pretty much the pre-1900s references. Hopefully that is useful. --LauraHale (talk) 23:47, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey. I wanted to thank you for the massive help on the good article process for the netball article. Things just got weirdly out of control. I know we don't fully agree on how information should be presented but I do think we've done a really, really good job at overall improving the article to what it was before. The second reviewer apparently has a history of problems with good article reviews. I'm not entirely certain how to resolve our differences regarding American women's basketball and English netball. :/ I think we both agree that the sport has roots in basketball. The question is the how much of an influence did American women have on what the English were doing and what of the shared history should be in there. (I'm inclined for less and seeing it put over on the history of netball article... but that's more because I can't find netball sources that support a connection, that cite the Ling Association being inspired by it, nor sources that support Australians and New Zealanders being inspired by the American women's game.) In any case, while we disagree, I don't hold any ill will or feel anything but real appreciation for the support you've given on trying to improve the article. Hopefully, we can fix things and try to get it improved.
On a back to the basketball issue, do you think it would be worth getting additional sources cited, talking it over on the history of netball, trying to improve the summary of the game's early development on that article? And after that's done, taking what would basically be a well cited lead and putting that into the netball article? I can probably find some sources for changes in tactics and some of the rules. (The All England Netball Association has details regarding that.) Doing it that way might make it easier. (And if the history section becomes too long, it shouldn't be an issue as length isn't supposed to be a good article criteria.) --LauraHale (talk) 05:50, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
More commenting. (I don't shut up. I take 5 sentences to say what normally takes 1.) I just wanted to let you know that after examining and thinking critically about some one's edits, I'm feeling a bit... put out and just a little bit stupid. (Hence Wikipedia editing at this time of night.) This is something that I put into another article and I might like your opinion on it as it may require us to make fixes to the netball article:
End quote. If we inserted stuff to make netball appear less popular than it actually is, then I'm a bit worried. :/ It would also go a long way towards explaining some of the issues that we've dealt with... and I don't know how to clean this up. :( --LauraHale (talk) 12:13, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
I understand that User:LauraHale wishes to withdraw, but I hope that you and the other editors could continue so that we can wrap this up and not have to start from scratch next time. I have placed the article back on hold because only the review can "fail" the article. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 16:25, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
If you are willing to work on the change to the history section and the dozen or so other items, please let me know. Racepacket (talk) 21:56, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Liveste, I created this article Tennis New Zealand and I would appreciate any feedback. If you have any time, could you take a look at it. I was thinking as you are one of the senior members of WP NZ, you would be able to guide me to improve this article. And, of course, you are free to edit the article directly, thanks in advance. Bill william comptonTalk 14:11, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Babbling: It might be jumping the gun a little bit. I talked about it with about four people to see if they thought it was a good idea. They said it might be a bit of a slog to get it through but that ultimately, they all thought it would pass. Netball in the Cook Islands has been looking for a peer review for a few days now and I honestly can't see it getting one. The project person most responsible for doing that peer review would be you. (I believe we're the only two real active members of the Netball project.) And as we're both major contributors, we don't have many places to get that sort of feedback. If it fails the first time (and there are reasons it might, including what could be perceived as a lack of stability and the drama involving Racepacket), at least we'll have a good idea of what needs to be addressed. It doesn't particularly bother me. I was also worried that we might get hit with a GAR in response to the article passing GA. It should have passed that rather easily. My original intention was to get it past GA and then do major improvements but we've basically done a lot of that already. And your timeline is consistent with my timeline. I want to get it to featured article status so it can be on the main page. Concluding: Any and all help is appreciated. If there is something you want me to address in an area, let me know. (I'm trying to improve International Federation of Netball Associations at the moment as it feels like to me if it can be content improved, it should help with an arguement against merging by demonstrating that the article has nothing to do with Netball in the Olympics. --LauraHale (talk) 21:54, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Are you reviewing this page? --TIAYN (talk) 14:08, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
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Could you possibly help address the feedback about the objective of netball left on my talk page? I'm not familiar enough with the mechanics of the game to be able to do that adequately myself. --LauraHale (talk) 23:13, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Do you know their copyright policy regarding any video taken on your phone at the game? I assume I have the copyright to any video I took? I've got probably 30 seconds total of tonight's game of the Tactix versus the Mystics. If there doesn't appear to be a copyright issue and you think it might be useful, would be happy to upload it. (Though that might take a while as I'd need to figure out how to convert it to ogg.) --LauraHale (talk) 09:46, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply. I'll wait until I have more bandwidth to play with the video. Otherwise, I upload a few images to commons:Category:Netball in New Zealand. They aren't particularly great but you might find them useful (or might be able to crop? for any player pages? though that seems iffy as the quality isn't great). --LauraHale (talk) 22:03, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi. :) I've been poking at Rules of netball some tonight to fix a few minor citation issues. I've asked a couple of people on Wikipedia IRC channels if they thought the article was to GA status. They all pretty much suggested that the lead needs fixing. Once the lead is fixed, it shouldn't have that many problems getting through. I was wondering if you could help reword the lead. (Or rather, rework Netball#Rules of netball possibly.) Once done, it can be submitted. If we can get a good lead developed that gives a comprehensive idea of the rules, we can plug it back into Netball, which should make it easier the second time around in trying to get an FAC though on Netball. --LauraHale (talk) 08:42, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
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Now, now Liveste, where is a copyright violation of that picture?
There are plenty of graphic enhanced/edited photos here on wikipedia!? Though it probably wasn't in the right context. . . USer:Alex0274.
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Hi Liveste. I still haven't quite got the hang of using wikipedia. Can users suggest topics for articles? And would I have to write the article or could another user (as long as they have done some research and ensure that it is written from a neutral point of view) write the article? Guinevere1 16:16, 13 November 2011 (UTC) Guinevere1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guinevere1 (talk • contribs)
As far as I can tell, ((Infobox_ANZC_team)) is the only team template that incorporates ((current sport-related)).
In my view, these "current" templates should be used rarely, and only on the infrequent occasions that many editors are attempting to change an article on the same day, and not incorporated into some other template.
If some template needs some standard linking format, preferable, in my view, is to use some kind of much more general template, such as ((see also)). I suggest this, so that if and when the article falls out of date, an implied currency is not failing on the article, merely a suggestion (the "see also") that may be less than compelling. In general, all of the "current" templates imply that there is astonishing news today only, which will be old news tomorrow, and almost all sports news fails on this standard.
I would like to suggest that you revise this particular team template to avoid the use of ((current sport-related)).
Regards, Yellowdesk (talk) 01:42, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
Kia Ora Liveste. Well, I actually live in Onepu, so I just took a picture outside of our house. Yes it is very tiny! Have a great day, Air55 (talk) 02:49, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. You do a lot of fantastic work with Wikipedia and improving women's sport related content. Given that, I wanted to personally invite you to attend WikiWomenCamp being held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in May 2012. This is a women's only conference, followed by a two day gender gap conference open to every one. Your experiences and knowledge base would be a great thing to add to the event. :) --LauraHale (talk) 23:19, 19 December 2011 (UTC)