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[edit] Edits from 17-20 March

Point 1) As has already been mentioned, WP is not for advertising. 2) The edit made to the infobox greatly disrupts the appearance & is not neccessary at all, as are the other minor edits made. Changes are always welcome, but please keep them within the style of the page & within Wikipedia's guidelines. CharlieT (talk) 19:39, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Slight overhaul

I've given the page a bit of an overhaul, in order to (hopefully) improve it's rating in the Quality Scale above, for the WikiProject Football. History has been moved to it's own page, with a short overview replacing it on the main page. Colours & Crest section added, but I've removed the Trivia section (see Wikipedia:Avoid trivia sections in articles), I'll be trying to add all the useful information that was in there to the main History article, and improve that further. And more references added, could probably do with more though. (I assume all that Rochdale squabbling is done, so removed that from the page aswell) CharlieT 22:05, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History

I've added a few paragraphs on County's history in place of the 'Overview' section. Could someone add some bits on the Bergara/Wembley years & the pre-Begara years, before the Dave Jones bit? That was before my time I'm afraid so I'm not sure what to include. CharlieT 15:17, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Found out who are chief scout was by doing a bit of snooping, hope you didnt mind me adding his name to your staff list JT

I think the Bergara era definitely deserves a proper section, and the 60s "Go Go Go County" era and the re-election years would probably round it out nicely.

I've just found a copy of "From the Nursery" so I'll try and get summaries of a couple more eras up soon.CharlieT 20:46, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Added section about the Bergara years, as those were the years I spent watching County pretty much every week. Mattwhiteski 16:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)


I'd hold off updating The Record section for a little while, I can see us making it 10 games at Barnet but Hartlepool will surely put at least one of the runs to an end!

[edit] External links

I've tidied it up & sorted the links into categories, and removed the HISC link as the site no longer appears to work. When doing external links, please bear in mind Wikipedia's not for advertising, there's plenty of other sites for that, and keep it simple. Cheers. CharlieT

[edit] Grammar

There's been a couple of reverts on this lately, so I'm not changing it myself without a bit of a discussion here. In my experience, the club is treated as a singular for the purposes of verb agreement (number), though the team is treated as a plural, even when the same noun is used for both. Hence "Stockport County is a football club" but "Stockport County are winning 3-0". Thoughts, contradictions? Js farrar 19:47, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Spot on. That's exactly right. Mattwhiteski 11:55, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

That's consistent with other English football articles. --Dweller 16:05, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure, I'd always refer to both a club and a team as a plural, as both describe a group of individuals. To refer to either in the singular smacks of American English to me, but some other clubs' pages follow the method you have described.

[edit] Player notability

Tes Bramble - has someone been having a bit of a laugh? WP:WPF recommends a notable player as one who's played over 100 games, or is highly notable (i.e. George Best). Tes Bramble doesn't fall under any such category. CharlieT 14:32, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge proposed

Please see Nine wins without conceding a goal that I've rescued from speedy, renamed, flagged for merge and slightly enhanced (it's still pretty poor). Please post to my talk page if it's nonsense and needs speedying. --Dweller 16:04, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

It seems pretty daft to have a separate section for it tbh. It's a good record, but belongs in its own section on the club's page IMO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.207.239.245 (talk) 10:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fans' reputation

What's this bit at the bottom about County fans' reputation preceding them and not showing away colours at EP? As far as I'm aware we have only a small group of Casuals and are good natured on the whole. The only crowd trouble I can recall has come as a direct result of away fans getting into the home stands. 217.207.239.245 (talk) 16:09, 23 April 2008 (UTC)