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Ireland" and that their plan is "put up a full and far more detailed history of RLI than currently exists" (including "to have every full international up there (currently on the last squad we have broken links as those players do not yet have pages") and that they "plan to write them ". This might be a
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went professional in 1995 (same year as the emergence of the www) RL was treated as a second class sport and not given much coverage by the media (RL broke from RL in 1895 due to broken time payments - miners being reimbursed to play RL and being forced to miss work shifts, something that the amateur Rugby Union wouldn't allow)).
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I could, from different media formats, across different computers and gaming consoles, which were specifically about Rugby League. I donated these to the RL Museum. Here's the article. I know my stuff when it comes to specific parts of RL history - computer games and Rugby League on the island of
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Ireland has presumed notability. It's obviously likely this person existed and likely played for Ireland (although I haven't found a source confirming this), but this information is likely better recorded in a list article on Knowledge (perhaps
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As far as I'm aware, just playing internationally isn't enough to pass rugby league guidelines. He'd have to have played in a world cup or european cup (for tournaments
Ireland have competed in) which he did not. So he'd have to pass GNG. The rugby union list argument is irrelevant as the rugby union
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Furthermore, your knowledge of the lack of Media coverage misses out on two things; This was one year after the www formed (had we been in a time of the web then there would be match reports galore) and then there's the manner in which RL was treated by the national UK newspapers. Until Rugby Union
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The link to the Rugby game is the actual international, it is definitive proof of the 17 players, including McCabe, who played in that international. It is absolute proof and is far better than a match report in, say, League
Express or Rugby Leaguer (the national weekly RL newspapers of the time and
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Just a few points to answer the above. The subject is a rugby league international, the other sporting information is to give further info but the main reason for uploading the info is to point out about the rugby league international status. Records from that period for international rugby league
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I give you a different example of the lack of knowledge of RL, not just by the admin herewithin, but also by the wider RL community. RL Cares is a charity that supports former RL players in times of need but also collects and collates the wider RL history. I made a point of collating all the games
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to give others a chance to assess them and see if they can be used. The more information you can provide about the source (e.g. publication name, publication date, author name, isbn #), the easier it might be for someone to track it down. Lots of newspapers, for example, archive their older content
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And the project to get all the full internationals up here isn't that big, it's a simple template for all the players and I have to get information on each of them. Sometimes i have to talk to them to gain additional information. As a historian it is my duty to get as much information as possible
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are sketchy at best. The rugby league project is missing a large amount of information. The Rugby Record
Keepers club will soon be posting all international information and that is the agreed source for the International Rugby League so would be a more reliable and trusted source for verification.
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official website and aren't really helpful for establishing notability. In their only response so far on the article's talk page, the creator referred to this article as a "test page" and stated that the RLI "shot itself in the foot" by "not recording information". I've got no idea what that really
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Ireland int he sort of match he played in means there is real notability. The list would appear, by the way, to be out of date and has a whole pile of errors
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which might somehow make it OK to keep this as a stub after some triming, particlarly if McCabe's international career can be verified. I know very little about rugby; so, if those who do feel this can't be kept, then it can't be kept. FWIW, I came across this article first at
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both would have carried a report, though that would require me getting across to
Yorkshire and sifting through a physical archive (none of the papers have been digitised)). The video to the game has been archived in the University of Huddersfield's Heritage Quay (
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It's in your hands, if you still consider the above not enough to prove then crack on, remove the page, but it concerns me you are being selective if that is the case. If I go on the
England Rugby page then I can find all the past internationals if I so wish.
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And just for additional information, someone else has linked McCabe to another wikipedia page to do with
Lansdowne FC (Rugby Union club), showing how he is one of their former RL internationals. That page and that link existed prior to me building this first
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The link below will show him named in the team line-up (displayed on screen after about 3 and a half minutes) in the 1996 USA v Ireland Rugby League international from RFK Stadium, Washington, and he scores a try during the match (after 50 minutes). Link
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I wouldn't consider the referencing or even the information on this page to be anywhere near the information I have provided you for McCabe but I wouldn't want Hallaran removed as it is correct to have him up as he is a former Rugby Union international.
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that instead of focusing on images and the title of the article that it would be better for them for focus on finding reliable sources to add as citations to the article. The article was completely ended up unsourced so it ended up
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as a possible option to deleting if there's no clear consensus established to keep the article. There might be no way to improve it any more than has been tried, but there does seem to be at least a valid claim for notability per
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https://www.rugbyleaguecares.org/news/general/gaming-collection-joins-the-sports-archive/?fbclid=IwAR06C66AL75u6rhwapaC-DKmF7Ez9zfcnBqANRZfprqBg565_iWBhJjqZs4
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