Talk:2008 Rugby League World Cup matches

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Reason for separate article?

Why is the information in this article not just merged into the tournament's main article? All you need to do is add the points scorers to the article and that should be it. Unless they were designated as part of the tournament by its organisers, the warm-up matches shouldn't even be listed, and the "Welcome to the country" match should be merged into the main article. – Pee Jay 19:11, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well as you mentioned, this article includes information that isn't in the main article. The main reason for the creation of this article was to prevent the main one from becoming too long. This also allows more information to be listed here for each match than was possibly appropriate to include on the main page. Mattlore (talk) 22:34, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

NB: See Talk:2008_Rugby_League_World_Cup#Match_results for original discussion. Mattlore (talk) 22:36, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have to say that I disagree with that discussion, and it doesn't look like there was much of a consensus there, tbh. But still, RL isn't really my area of expertise, so I'll not press on with this any further. It just seemed like this was an unnecessary article. I mean, when you consider that adding the attendance and referee to the {{rugbyleaguebox}} adds an extra two lines to the box anyway, how much space have you actually saved by creating an entirely separate article? If anything, you've actually duplicated a lot of info unnecessarily, and you would have a much simpler time looking after one article than two. – Pee Jay 23:36, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well I think it's the try scorers that considerable lengthen the article, for instance the 7th & 9th Place Playoff games. This article was created before the event started, so in hindsight I guess a second page wasn't entirely necessary, but we didn't know that at the time and now I'm not sure if there is any benefit to deleting this page, especially as some information, such as the warm up games, would probably be lost in the process. Mattlore (talk) 23:58, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that would be such a bad thing, you know. The warm-up matches aren't actually part of the tournament; despite their proximity to the tournament, they're basically just friendlies. – Pee Jay 07:23, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]