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Tasmania Football Club VFL/VFLW season results

User:Aspirex is rather strongly objecting to the inclusion of an embedded, hidden list of season results on the Tasmania Football Club page, specifically in the Competitive debut section of the article. Given my previous attempts to catalogue the club's results in a dedicated article not unlike the 2026 Port Adelaide or 2026 Hawthorn articles have been deleted, it seems a reasonable compromise. I imagine that in the years to come, a curious reader might wonder how the club fared on-field in the lead up to joining the AFL and AFLW and would have easy-enough access to it there, as opposed to trawling through the 2026 VFL or VFLW season article, which lets be honest, some overzealous editor will likely one day claim is not notable enough to keep. For the record here is what my edit looks like in isolation, I envision there being a few more that would accompany it, for the VFLW and 2027 information. Global-Cityzen (talk) 04:53, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

I think the only viable options here are to recreate 2026 Tasmania Football Club season as a standalone article or to not include such tables anywhere. Putting it into the Tasmania Football Club history section is the least appropriate solution. To my mind, there should never be a match-by-match list of results on a club page for any season (let alone for a reserves/state league season on an AFL club's page); the whole reason why we spin these out to season articles is to not bog down the club articles with excessive statistical detail.

Which raises the question of should 2026 Tasmania Football Club season have an article. I would oppose that (and I was the one who redirected it to the main club page when it was first written) since it would be very much against project norms to have a season article for a club competing only at the state team level (especially given that league is viewed as a farm system); and I'd say it's a fairly clear violation of WP:NSEASONS for the same reason. This strikes at the question of what is notable for Wikipedia vs what should an interested reader use a stats hosting site like australianfootball.com to find. In any case all of the content is still there in the 2026 VFL season article so nothing will be outright lost. Aspirex (talk) 05:22, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

I think a match-by-match list is too much for the club article and would include there a summary of the season (such as how many games won, position on ladder, any notable events). For a match-by-match it should be on a separate season article. I'd personally not oppose it, but I'm on the inclusionist side and reality of Wikipedia is that it such a season article would unfortunately probably find it's way to AfD. --SuperJew (talk) 08:10, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

If I may - having had a read through of WP:NSEASONS that was linked by Asperix, it gives the suggestion of combining multiple seasons together if the notability of one season isn't notable enough for its own article. In this case, even though their 2026 or 2027 seasons may not be notable in and of themselves, I can absolutely see a combined article that covers both of Tasmania's pre-AFL seasons as meeting the notability requirements outlined, particularly given the fact their VFL entry is a prelude to their AFL one in 2028. The same solution could also be retroactively applied to GWS and Gold Coast, since those pages have also been raised as doing similar in relevant edit summaries. Would that potentially be an adequate compromise? Empole1 (talk) 14:39, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

2026 Tasmania Football Club VFL season
Rd	Date and time	Opponent	Scores (Tasmania's scores indicated in bold)			Venue	Ladder	Ref.
			Home	Away	Result
P/S	Saturday, 7 March (12:00 pm)	Werribee	14.8 (92)	10.12 (72)	Lost by 20 points	RMIT Oval (A)	–
1	Saturday, 21 March (1:05 pm)	Coburg				North Hobart Oval (H)
2	Saturday, 28 March (12:05 pm)	Port Melbourne				York Park (H)
3	Friday, 3 April (2:05 pm)	Frankston				Frankston Park (A)
4	Bye
5	Saturday, 25 April (7:05 pm)	Carlton				Bellerive Oval (H)
6	Sunday, 3 May (12:05 pm)	Sandringham				York Park (H)
7	Saturday, 9 May (1:05 pm)	Werribee				Chirnside Park (A)
8	Saturday, 16 May (2:35 pm)	Southport				North Hobart Oval (H)
9	Bye
10	Sunday, 31 May (1:05 pm)	Port Melbourne				North Port Oval (A)
11	Saturday, 6 June (1:05 pm)	North Melbourne				North Hobart Oval (H)
12	Saturday, 13 June (1:05 pm)	Richmond				York Park (H)
13	Sunday, 21 June (1:05 pm)	Sandringham				Trevor Barker Beach Oval (A)
14	Saturday, 27 June (2:10 pm)	Brisbane				TBC (A)
15	Saturday, 4 July (2:10 pm)	Box Hill				TBC (H)
16	Saturday, 11 July (2:10 pm)	Gold Coast				TBC (H)
17	Saturday, 18 July (2:10 pm)	Williamstown				TBC (A)
18	Bye
19	Saturday, 1 August (2:10 pm)	Sydney				TBC (A)
20	Saturday, 8 August (2:10 pm)	Werribee				TBC (H)
21	Saturday, 15 August (2:10 pm)	Greater Western Sydney				TBC (A)

Requesting general review of two Port Adelaide pages.

Hi everyone! I'd like to request a general review of a couple of Port Adelaide pages, if anyone is willing and able. I've been doing some major work to both the main Port Adelaide Football Club article and the sub-article List of Port Adelaide Football Club records and statistics for the past few days, and I think it warrants a sanity check to make sure everything's up to snuff.

In the case of the former, lots of the work had to do with rewriting and referencing material that had been added since the article's GA review back in 2021. Ideally, I'd like to get it up to a standard where it'd be in consideration for an FA review - but I wanted to run it past the community here first to get general thoughts on where it's at currently, and any changes that should be pursued before putting it in contention for that. One thing that I'm already aware of but have struggling to remedy is referencing for sponsors between 1978 and 1996 - they're all correct, but still currently unreferenced within the guernsey sponsors table and reliable sources are proving incredibly difficult to find. (If anyone is able to find any themselves, it'd be very appreciated!)

For the latter, I identified the potential for the article's scope to include both achievements and records, and thus undertook a major overhaul of the page, expanding it by over double it's initial length. As a general summary: I've ported the Individual Achievements across from the main Port page alongside the Club Achievements, added a more robust lead, and did a big expansion of relevant statistics (Plus doing my best to reference just about every single stat haha). I've also updated the page name as part of the scope expansion, but happy to hear if there's any suggestions for alternative names that better reflect the new scope. Like with the main Port page, I'd appreciate if anyone was able to give feedback on where it's at currently, and whether any changes should be considered. I've already noted the potential for inclusion a section regarding the Australian Football Hall of Fame for relevant players, so might go about adding that in the near future if someone else doesn't beat me to it.

In any case, any feedback will much appreciated! Thanks in advance! Empole1 (talk) 15:41, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

May as well provide a small update: I've also given the same treatment to Port Adelaide Football Club (AFL Women's), so that might be worth having a look at too if anyone does end up willing to pursue any of these trio of pages! I'm pretty happy with where the main club and AFLW pages are at now as a whole, so hopefully others end up agreeing with my assessment of them both. Empole1 (talk) 15:50, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

Stephen Patterson

Hi all, I have been updating all relevant articles following the 2026 South Australian state election on 21 March. The ABC has just called the result for the seat of Morphett where former AFL player turned Liberal state politician Stephen Patterson and incumbent MP has just narrowly lost to Labor's Toby Priest. Patterson's football career section in the article is unreferenced and could certainly be expanded and improved. If anyone here could help out that would be greatly appreciated. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 10:44, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Infobox colours

Just read through an old discussion from 2023 about improvements to the infobox and wondered if anyone can shed light on what happened with letting the prospect of letting the currentclub detail control the infobox colours as per what's done in USA sports. Are there template editors active here that would consider taking that on as a project? DustyNail (talk) 02:43, 23 April 2026 (UTC)