User talk:Niall123/1

WikiProject Gaelic Games

Hi, i have noticed that you have previously edited articles related to the subject of Gaelic Games. Several users, including my self, have start work on a WikiProject to collaborate and pool our work on the subject to create, expand and improve listings about Gaelic Games and related subjects. With your previous edits i was wondering if you would be willing to join us and help out in this project. Their is no commitment necessary, and you can assists the project as your time permits. If your interested you can check out the project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Gaelic Games, and if you have any questions about the project feel free to drop a line on the project talk page, or you can drop me a line directly. Thank you, and i look forward to your assistance. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 09:05, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Well poping in and out is good enough, i know that their are time constraints for everyone, and i dont expect ppl to stop and just start writing articles, this is an ongoing project. I would do recomend that you do sign up though, so at least though you might be a part-time participant your are still considered a participant and that you can be notified of anything that needs to be notified about. But eiter way it your choice, and ai for one would welcome any improvement and sujestions that you can give in to the project either at the project or in the articles them selves. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 04:01, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Includes loaned-in and loaned-out players.

Hi, I reverted your edits to the Italian club squad templates so that they all say the generic term: Includes loaned-in and loaned-out players. If you can think of an alternative generic term that reflects that there may be no loaned-in or loaned-out players in the squad, it would be appreciated.  SLUMGUM  yap  stalk  23:57, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I think I'm coming round to your way of thinking regarding the Includes loaned-in and loaned-out players note. I put it in when I made the first one because the club in question had one player loaned in, and several loaned out. I now think that only the loaned-in players merit a place. Therefore, I don't think any note is really needed any more. Sorry for being bullish about it before.
 SLUMGUM  yap  stalk  22:08, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I've now removed all notes - the templates are now more concise and reflect only the 'current' squad. Laters!
 SLUMGUM  yap  stalk  23:11, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Articles with no content

I have tagged for speedy deletion several pages you created on football players, as they contain no content. See WP:CSD. While I understand that you want the pages to conform to the template you have, creating empty pages may actually discourage proper articles from being created by replacing red links, which denote the lack of an article, with blue links that indicates that there exists an article. —Centrx→talk • 05:35, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Iaquinta

I don't understand why you deleted my perfectly honest and proper contribution on this page about him faking an injury against Ghana, please explain

Sorry mate but it was ur name on the change, also the content was true, nobody can deny it

Edit button

I would seriously advise against putting an edit button on the football squad templates, as vandalism to these is frequent with the edit button, and non-existant without. Also, why are you linking to the Template:Serie A with the edit buttons on the Serie A club templates?  SLUMGUM  yap  stalk  21:22, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Paolo Maldini

I thought he had retired because it said so on the A.C. Milan page. I guess that must have been vandalism, which I fell for. -- Boothman _/tɔːk/ 12:23, 9 July 2006 (UTC).

Re: your message

Thanks for your message on my talk page. I'll think about the problem and I'll post a reply on the template talk page you mentioned when I have time (very busy atm). Cheers, jaco♫plane 22:03, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Just a thought, perhaps it would be better to move the discussion to Category talk:Football squad templates or even Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football (at the very least you should mention the discussion on the wikiproject talk page so more people can join the discussion). jaco♫plane 22:06, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Mhh..

I don't see the "show" button XD --Frog Splash 12:17, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

All the people must have IE 7 or Firefox to see the templates? Mhh... Before it was better. PS. Excuse me for my bad english XD --Frog Splash 12:40, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Mhh... So my computer sucks? XD --Frog Splash 12:45, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Here: http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8308/screenwikitemplatezyf3.jpg

Templates

Jus so you know, the collapsable templates are a real menace to people without enabled javascript, displaying the full template accompanied with random jibberish that is the javascript. Philc _T^E_C^I 12:34, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok well, my only thought is that wikipedia is for everyone, not just people with java. But more to the poin these templates are useless, if it says in the article that he was in a certain squad, with a link to the relevant page, then there is no need to make these templates, if there isn't this in the article, it should be added, not the templates. These things are pointless clutter with no additional information, and no redeeming value. Philc _T^E_C^I 15:16, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Italian Team Templates

Thanks for your comments !

Well, I had created the templates but havent had time to link those with the players yet, I thought someone like me who is a volunteer would help me out. Alas, that didnt work.

Will do it as and when I am getting some time.

Thanks

Gurudatt 23:11, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Removing Fabio Grosso Video Section

I was referring to the actual link itself, rather than being hosted on wikipedia. If you want to include another version of it, I have no problem with it. For what it's worth, I think it would be better off in the External Links section rather than a whole section for itself.--Auger Martel 16:32, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Cut/paste move of Paul Flynn

Do you think you could fix all the broken links after your unilateral cut and paste move of Paul Flynn? Owain (talk) 11:09, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Limerick rugby

Thanks for the info. I'm interested in most things Irish but don't know much about GAA sports. GordyB 21:22, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Ehi

I found this text on SSC Napoli's history... It could be useful... Frog Splash 15:50, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Naples has had a football since 1904 and the foundation of Naples FBC by a William Poths, a Cunard sailor. They were one of the teams that would eventually merge to form Napoli. The other Neapolitan side in existence in these early days was Internazionale Napoli, founded in 1912. Before World War One, Naples did not fail to send a representative to the southern Italian finals from the Campanio regional league. This statistic is misleading, however, since in the pre-war years, Naples and Inter Napoli were the only teams competing in the group. Between them, the two clubs never managed to win a single game in the southern finals before the war, Inter Napoli having to suffer the indignity of an eight-nil defeat at the hands of Lazio in the 1914 southern final group. Although the Campanio group was expanded at the resumption of the championship in peacetime, it was Inter Napoli and Naples who continued to dominate the proceedings until the two teams merged at the end of the 1922 season to form Internaples. The new club finished runners-up in the qualifying league, but when faced with the stiffer competition of the regional semi-finals, failed to win a single point. In their last season, 1926, Internaples had their best run yet, reaching the southern final only to be beaten seven-two over two legs by Alba Roma. Shortly afterwards, Inter Napoli was absorbed into the newly formed AC Napoli.

In their first season, things went disastrously wrong. Napoli failed to win a single one of their eighteen matches, lost seventeen, scored just seven goals and conceded sixty-one to finish bottom of the table with a solitary point. Things quickly improved, however, and 1928 and 1929 saw them rise unspectacularly into mid-table. In the inaugural season of Serie A, Napoli managed to finish in a respectable fifth place. This was soon to be improved upon as Napoli managed to finish third in 1933. They were, however, way off the pace set by champions Juventus and lost more games away from home than any of the other top five teams. Napoli placed third again in 1934, but were set to go into a decline in the years leading up to World War Two. They were regular finishers in mid-table, but the bottom half of the division was closely contested and Napoli flirted with relegation in 1937 and 1940 before finally going down in 1942, just four points separating them from the next six teams. In 1943 Napoli missed out on promotion from Serie B by two points, finishing in third place, and at the end of the season, left the Stadio Giorgio Ascarelli to the Campo Vómero. When the championship was contested on a regional basis for the 1946 season, Napoli proved themselves the best team in the Centro-Sud region losing just three matches en route to a narrow league victory, finishing level on points with Bari, but with a better goal difference. They only finished mid-table in the final group, but it was enough to ensure the Neapolitans a place in Serie A the following year.

Napoli only managed to survive one season in the newly formed Serie A before in 1948, they were relegated again. They went up as champions in 1950 and finished in the top six for the next four years, before a steady decline set in for the rest of the decade, culminating in Napoli's record defeat, eight-nil away to Roma in 1959. In 1960, Napoli finished just two points clear of the relegation play-offs before, in the following season they were relegated with just seven wins from thirty-four games. Bari and Roma were the other teams to go down, demonstrating the south's status in Italian football at this time. This was to herald a brief period of instability as Napoli appeared too good for Serie B but not quite good enough for top flight football in the first half of the 1960s, but in 1962, Napoli won, along with promotion, their first trophy. Their opponents in the Italian Cup final were Serie A strugglers, SPAL Ferrara and Napoli won the final two-one, aided by South American strikers Omar Sivori and José Altafini. This was all possible thanks to the financial backing of Achille Lauro, a shipping magnate, and he was responsible for the construction of a new stadium, the Stadio San Paolo after crowd disturbances had forced the closure of the Campo Vómero. The new arena would however, be the venue for more Serie B football as Napoli were relegated at the end of their first season back in the top flight. Napoli were promoted in second place in 1965 and would not be relegated again.

Immediately, Lauro's money made a difference as Napoli finished third and fourth in Serie A in 1966 and 1967. 1968 saw their best league showing so far, as they finished in second place, although nine points behind champions Milan. The resulting Fairs Cup campaign saw them go out to Leeds United in the second round, drawing lots after the two-legged tie remained level at two-two. This form continued into the 1970s, Napoli finishing third in 1971 and 1974 and narrowly missing out on a first scudetto in 1975 when they finished second behind Juventus. In a championship decider, former Neapolitan idol Altafini scored the winner to hand Juve the title. There was further disappointment in the 1972 Italian Cup final, where Napoli lost two-nil to Milan. Although Napoli were back in mid-table again for the rest of the decade, they did reach two more cup finals. The first in 1976 was a success, Napoli trouncing Hellas-Verona four-nil for their second Coppa Italia. The next in 1978 ended in disappointment as Inter triumphed two-one. The 1980s started promisingly enough with top five finishes in 1981 and 1982, but Napoli were almost relegated in 1984 before the arrival of Argentinean Diego Maradona prompted the club's most successful period.

By now, Corrado Ferlaino was club president, and he masterminded Maradona's transfer from Barcelona. The deal was certainly not assured however, as Napoli were more than one million dollars short of the transfer fee. The club appealed for donations from fans and in twenty-four hours the cash was raised. Maradona made little impact in his first season, but the following year, fresh from World Cup triumph he was at his mercurial best, and partnered up front by the Brazilian Careca led Napoli to their first scudetto and their third Coppa Italia. Napoli went out in the first round of the European Cup but a runners-up spot in Serie A in 1988 meant qualification for the UEFA Cup. Juventus and Bayern Munich were among Napoli's victims en route to the final where Maradona and Careca scored a goal apiece late in the second half to beat VfB Stuttgart two-one in the first leg. In the second leg, played in Stuttgart, goals from Alemao, Ferrera and Careca put Napoli ahead just after the hour mark, effectively killing the match off. An own goal and a late goal from Schmaler were scant consolation for the Germans as Napoli won their first European trophy. Napoli also reached the final of the Italian Cup that year, only to be beaten by Sampdoria.

In 1990, Napoli were champions again, although in rather less auspicious circumstances than their previous Serie A title. They were awarded the crucial 2 points after the Brazilian Alemão was struck by a coin away at Atalanta's Stadio Comunale. If this was not bad enough, Napoli's physio was caught on TV cameras exhorting the player to stay on the ground. Worse was to come. Maradona made inflammatory remarks during the 1990 World Cup, appealing to Neapolitans to cheer on his Argentina team over the northern dominated Italy. These comments did not go down well, and when he departed after testing positive for cocaine less than a year later, the club was in financial crisis. One by one, players like Gianfranco Zola, Daniel Fonseca and Careca departed, and apart from being defeated in the 1997 Italian Cup final, Napoli have not come close to winning any trophies.

Pairc Ui Caoimh

Hi ya. Just noticed that you removed the image on that page. Just wondering why it was removed. Was copyright approval not given for the image. Is this also what you mean when you say "unjustifiable fair use image" ?

Thanks

Niall123 20:26, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

The image was removed because it was a Google Earth image, which is copyrighted and did not fall under the fair use policy. Stifle (talk) 22:58, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Rosicky

not sure what you're talking about - i've been responsible for putting up stats for almost all the contemporary arsenal players, some dating back to 1995-96. i can't put up stats for their previous careers with other clubs because such stats are not easily available or they can't quite be verified. hence only arsenal stats are provided. your comment is rude and redundant, and your contributions hardly tantamount to any 'hard work'. Chensiyuan 01:12, 19 August 2006 (UTC)