A fact from Lloyds Bank RFC appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 May 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in 2000, Lloyds Bank RFC's ground was sold by Lloyds TSB, which meant the club had to groundshare with a rival bank?
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Latest comment: 7 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
I removed the sentence "Despite losing their home ground, Lloyds Bank RFC still play matches against fellow financial institutions." with an explanation, but the Cof E readded it without edit summary. I removed it again.
The article makes it clear that after losing their home ground, they groundshared with another team. The team is not disbanded and still plays. That they still compete against other financial institutions isn't strange, that they do this "despite losing their home ground" is connecting two unrelated things. Either they still play, or they don't, but the type of teams they play has little or no relationship with losing their home ground or not. Basically, the sentence tries to imply some deeper meaning but is essentially meaningless filler. Fram (talk) 08:33, 11 May 2017 (UTC)Reply
And while I wrote this, the C of E readded it with this time an edit summary, "It shows they now have a nomadic existence like the Barbarians but still play matches even without a home". However, this is a complete misrepresentation of the source, which is simply a report of an away game, not an indication that they are homeless and have a nomadic existence. As far as we know, and as far as the article shows, they still groundshare with NatWest. Please reremove the sentence or provide an actual source supporting your claim that they have no home ground and have a nomadic existence. Fram (talk) 08:36, 11 May 2017 (UTC)Reply
