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    Research Tracking down the 'missing Hawks'

    Hi, as others have mentioned, the rules to have a Wikipedia article for footballers used to be "has played in the V/AFL(W)". Similarly for other sports they had rules like "has competed at the Olympics" etc. Some got grumpy that we made thousands of single line articles, so they cancelled that...
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    Little Help

    The best solution would be to import everything into Wikidata. This would work well for player pages, but any other pages/refs would need manual updates. We already have AFL Tables and Australian Football links in Wikidata, if you could provide an excel list of every player, their DoB and the...
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    Research Recent Deaths

    Bruce Bentley, 1 game for Carlton, son of Percy
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    Research Recent Deaths

    His footy birthday was 1938. The family birthday appears to be 1937. The change from 1938 to 1937 in the Wikipedia infobox only (not the lead sentence or category) was made in 2017 by a user's only ever Wikipedia edit. Updating grandad's birthday? The Swans obit with "at age 88" matches a 1937...
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    Research Recent Deaths

    Got another one from Essendon, a curious one. Bob Taylor apparently recently died, according to EFC PPOA, 2 January 2026 from he death notice. But, AustralianFootball and Wikipedia had him dying in 2015. On the exact same date as the Bulldog's Rob Taylor! Oops. Please fix AF Oliver G, I'll fix...
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    Research Recent Deaths

    Another non player who recently died, someone who would've fitted perfectly into this forum, was 95 year old WAFL historian Dave Clement. Nice obituary by John Townsend in the Subi Post, that included, as well as the usual tributes, a claim that Dave discovered that Val Sparrow had kicked Ron...
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    Research Recent Deaths

    Hi WHL, thanks for the table. Do you have a source for Tom's demise? I picked that up when you only updated Wikidata, but not the article. Haven't checked them all yet, but Aust Footy is missing this one Oliver G
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    Westside Football newspaper

    I've got the full set as searchable PDFs if anyone ever needs to search for anything. Won't be uploading them anywhere though, as I don't know who owns the copyright, especially now that both Alan East and Peter Poat have died. If SLWA or Trove ever want them and their lawyers think it's ok...
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    Research Missing DOD or DOB for League players (AFL)

    Thanks everyone. That's some amazing coincidences. I bet the Kiwi Denis was a Rugby player who switched to 10 pin bowling! I've split up the Wikipedia articles into separate Denises, can someone please get the Collingwood Forever bio to remove the bowls but.
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    Research Missing DOD or DOB for League players (AFL)

    Got a questionable one here: Collingwood and Preston's Denis Dalton is listed as later becoming a Commonwealth Games medal winning lawn bowler. That bowler died in 2018, but according to the obituary, has a different DOB and is from Maitland/ Hunter Valley, not Melbourne. So are there actually...
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    Research Recent Deaths

    The 25m line was a good idea. DoB 24 Jan 1933 DoD 13 Sep 2025
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    Research Recent Deaths

    Thanks. Didn't see James in the coverage, focus was on the violin. At least (as far as can see), no blatant errors of wrong name like last year!
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    Research Recent Deaths

    People featured in the In Memorium segment during the Hall of Fame last night. Pity the director thought the violinist was more important than the players on numerous times. Would be interesting to know who chooses who gets on, and who nominates or is asked to submit people. Brian Lowe - 36...
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    Research Recent Deaths

    They really should include Hall of Famers who didn't play in the AFL too in this list. Marsh, Todd, James etc. Be nice to include all top level players, but that is probably asking too much.
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    Research Recent Deaths

    Oliver G DOD is 8 Sept as per the Hist Soc Facebook post and cemetery records.
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