Talk:2009 in sports

What happened?

What has happened to this page? I spent a lot of time fixing and expanding the soccer/football section and now everything is gone. 207.233.69.81 (talk) 23:25, 23 April 2009 (UTC) california viola

Anniversaries

Are anniversaries really suitable for this article? (I don't normally edit these articles, but I've moved a few sporting events from the year articles to the correspond sports articles, and anniversaries are not appropriate in year articles.) — Arthur Rubin (talk) 13:19, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

International football/soccer

I expanded this section as there are many important tournaments taking place in 2009, in particular during the summer. California viola (talk) 06:38, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Unspaced en dashes for date ranges ...

Like this: August 23–29. Please see WP:MOSDASH. Tony (talk) 15:24, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Exactly, except it suggests a spaced en dash for an interval spanning months, such as August 23 – September 2. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 16:22, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

I apologize for not correcting that when I reverted Tony's changes earlier. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 16:23, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it's an easy rule: when either or both items have an internal space, the en dash is spaced. When neither item has a space, the en dash is unspaced. So: September–October 2009, but September 2009 – August 2010. And as Arther exemplifies above with dates. Tony (talk) 16:38, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

What is the purpose of links for the dates in the article? Thank you. California viola (talk) 16:58, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

I have no idea: it violates a MOSLINK principle that links should not be jammed up against each other. The practice appears to be a left-over from the old date-autoformatting system; the link itself is utterly useless. It would be far better to bold the dates as normal, but Arthur seems to be insisting on retaining them as bright-blue links. It's a pity, because they dilute the important links. Tony (talk) 17:42, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

It's left over from the specification at WP:YEARS, actually, which may follow from the date autoformatting. However, that is a general guideline, and project-specific guidelines may override general guidelines. Dabomb87's Summary of the Date Linking RFCs is unclear on the issue. I'm perfectly willing to leave it to consensus on the whatever WP:SPORTS task takes responsibility for formatting these articles, regardless of general consensus. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 22:43, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Question asked at WT:SPORTS. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 22:46, 12 January 2009 (UTC)