Talk:Handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters

Rosters

Help needed

I edited some templates and started doing the rosters myself, but it turns out that my free time and patience wouldn't allow me to finish in a reasonable time. Then I decided to create articles with what I had and hope people would help me filling the gaps. If you wanna help, the link with the information is at the bottom of each roster's table. If you wanna help, but you're too lazy to find the template documentation, here is a brief explanation of each field and the link to find the information:

• first: player's first name. Links 1 and 2

• last: player's last name. Links 1 and 2

• name: player's full name. used only when the family name is not the last name, but the first (in our case, Korean and Chinese names)

• dab: disambiguation. For example: first = John | last = Smith | dab = handballer or name = John Smith | dab = handballer both return the wikilink John_Smith_(handballer)

• num: player's uniform number. Link 2

• pos: player's position. Accepeted entries are G/P/CB/LW/RW/LB/RB. Link 1

• ft: player's height, only the feet part. Link 1

• in: player's height, only the inches part. Then, a 6'2" player would be ft = 6 | in = 2. Link 1

• lbs: player's weight, in pounds. Link 1

• year, month, date: player's birthday. Link 1

• club: player's club. Link 1

• nat: club's nationality. Not the player's, for obvious reasons =P Link 1

• compyear, compmonth and compdate refer to the competition (for age calculations) and should not be changed.

Known problems

• Inches are less accurate than centimetres. This causes some stats to be incorrect. In the Romania women's team, for example: Elisei is 1.71m tall and Maier is 1.70m. However, both are 5'7" and because of that the conversion scripted in the template listed both as being 1.70m tall. Since there is little difference, I didn't try to solve that.
  • The sources give centimetres, right, but the template only takes feet & inches. There's your problem: the template is no good. P.S. If your sources are metric, why not put metric first? JIMp _talk·cont 13:48, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

• The clubs in the official team profile are a mess. For example, in Brazil women's team they managed to transform Blumenau into BLUMLNAU and Santo André into SANTO ANDAE. I corrected some of the clubs I could understand the name (Brazilian, Angolan and Spanish, mostly) but I can't tell if these mistakes are a general case. If you know any of those clubs, feel free to correct their name.

--Presto K. (talk) 09:22, 23 August 2008 (UTC)