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Nomination for deletion of Template:Greater Sydney Regions

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The Rebels

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Mate, I love the enthusiasm but slow down a bit ;) I want to help out with the new page, so how about you lay out a list of things to do so we're not working across purposes. Just be careful about paring back the ARC Rebels article for the moment. You never know, the VRU might try and tie the new franchise directly to the old one for PR purposes.Paul. Paul Roberton (talk) 13:36, 11 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

I just found this article written by Harold Mitchell [1]

If we take the article at face value, the team WILL be the Melbourne Rebels, it will be owned by Mitchell. Given announcements today [2] Brian Waldron of the Melbourne Storm is the likely CEO but it hasn't be confirmed as his role hasn't been defined.

I'm starting to think we move the current Melbourne Rebels article to Melbourne Rebels(ARC) and the new article at Melbourne Rebels that way we can have a disambig at the top that reads
For the team of the same name in the defunct Australian Rugby Championship please see Melbourne Rebels(ARC)

That way anyone looking for information on "The Melbourne Rebels" will find an article on the new team rather than the old one.

We should also start having the discussion on the article talk page at Talk:Melbourne_Rebels as it will need an opinion ballot or concensus to make those changes. Make sure when you want to say something on the talk page that you click 'New Section'. That way any additions you make will appear in a content lists that's automatically generated. Paul Roberton (talk) 14:08, 11 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Let's keep talk about this article on the articles talk page. Click on this link to go to the talk page. I've gone through the edit history of the page and contact other people who have edited the page. As I said, we'll need a consensus for the changes we want to make. Paul Roberton (talk) 14:28, 11 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Melbourne Rebels(ARC)

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Orphaned non-free image File:Melbourne Rebels logo.svg

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File:Pictoral Map of Greater Sydney.jpg listed for deletion

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2010 Shute Shield season moved to draftspace

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Your draft article, Draft:2010 Shute Shield season

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Shute Shield teams

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