User talk:Villafanuk

Greatest/Notable

I actually agree with you - that greatest players sounds better - but there has been huge discussion on this over at WikiProject Football, and also on the Villa discussion page, and to stop edit wars and arguments it was decided that, unless the list of plkayers conforms to a Greatest Players poll, it should be re-named notable players. It's also worth noting that WikiProject Football has kind of decided that only players who have played more than 100 games for a club should be included, except in very exceptional circumstances. Thanks Superlinus 19:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Villain => Villan

Thanks for the uncorrection. It is necessary to make these changes one at a time so as to avoid fixing the special cases that should not be fixed.

Tabletop 11:44, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Uncorrect Villan

Thanks for the uncorrection. It is necessary to make these changes one at a time so as to avoid fixing the special cases that should not be fixed.

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Villa Quote

Do you happen to have a source for the following quote you added: [1] to Villa Park?

If not, it will be removed soon. Thanks. --Ali'i 15:55, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, managed to find the original autobiography now, so I've added a reference.

Cheers Villafanuk 10:28, 23 March 2007

That's great. Mahalo. --Ali'i 15:00, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Aston Villa FC

Thanks for your comments.

I agree, it's a tough one - football clubs do not fit into neat decades and perhaps we need to use a better general rule for all. Perhaps Pre-WWI, inter-war, and then a few more to Premiership Years? Decades don't work, you're probably right there, but my personal view is that we need to find a decent standard for ALL clubs and then stick to them. Sadly, I think we'll never manage it! All the best, though, and I'll keep on thinking! Gretnagod 02:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it's a tricky one - in the case of Villa, the club achieved most of it's success pre-WWI, so naturally there's more to say for that period than the same period for say Liverpool, who were a minor club at that time. I think the fact that football clubs developed at different rates and all have a unique history means that it would be a mistake to try and straight-jacket their histories into a set formula. At the same time it's always important to keep them as unbiased as possible whilst getting the story across to the reader in the most interesting way. Villafanuk 10:15, 23 March 2007

Villa

Yes well Aston Villa deserves it the greatest club in the world! I just think we need to get the rest of the articles attached to it up to the same standard! Anything you or I could do would be good as I think theres only a few tweaks needed! Thank you once again! (Everlast1910 18:51, 29 July 2007 (UTC))

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Villa Park photo!

If you have the one with the cycle track that would be brilliant :) were i thought it was about 1910-20? But if we have another one that's around that period would be great? Thanks again Everlast¹⁹¹⁰ 08:26, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

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Hi, you left a message on my talk page, but you may have the wrong guy. My only involvement in this article is to try and persuade folk to rename it as Station because Train station is slang, whereas Station is universally ok. --Bermicourt (talk) 17:53, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

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RAF Lichfield

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• Indeed, i have copied it over to give me an outline, I am in the process of editing and adding to it. Watch this space!

Villafanuk 13:12, 19 February 2010

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