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Box lacrosse versus Indoor lacrosse

My personal belief after 11 years of playing the sport is that there is no difference... just another name for it... just like Boxla... I'd like to see the two articles merged under Box Lacrosse and then have a little write up about the different names.. also, the article is in desperate need of being expanded... as an example we might want to look at: American football. DMighton 10:16, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree. I didn't even know there as a difference... atleast around these parts, the terms are used interchangibly. Vote to merge Stoneice02 20:05, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Well... the argument from an old discussion was that Indoor is different because 3 years ago they switch back to the old 4 quarter rule over 3 periods... and that they use turf. These rule changes are basically only for the top tier of the sport... the NLL... and mostly for aesthetics... green turf looks less ghetto than a cement floor... and four quarters allows for a halftime. DMighton 20:43, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

New Page?

I just finished added infomation on the National Lacrosse HOF (see Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame). There are currently 323 inductees into the HOF. Do we want to create a page tha lists them all? Stoneice02 04:42, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Hmmmm....my first thought is no - what we can do is add a category called National Lacrosse Hall Of Fame Inductees, and then go through each person inducted and add them to the category. The only drawback to that is that if pages don't exist for each person in the HOF, we'd have an incomplete list until we can add pages for each one.

I just looked at how the Hockey Hall of Fame did it - they have one page on the hall, another page for inductees sorted alphabetically, and yet another page for inductees sorted chronologically. So it looks like that's probably the way to go. MrBoo (talk, contribs) 10:19, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I like that idea. I will start working on that this weekend Stoneice02 18:41, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Images

There are very few images on any of the lacrosse pages. Most NLL/MLL team pages have a logo, and there are a few other pictures on some of the team pages, but there are very few pictures on the player pages. I know very little about what images we are and are not allowed to upload. For example, can we upload pictures from the NLL web site, or individual team sites (eg. www.torontorock.com)? --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 17:22, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunatly, it isn't so simple. Most pictures you find on web sites are copyrighted (i.e. someone owns the rights to use it.) For further information on this, see the image use policy. The best way to add pictures, is often to take them yourself. Sometimes you can find pictures online that have been release with a license compatible with Misplaced Pages. These are usually from other amateur photographers. For example, you may be able to find some on Flickr (e.g. search within http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/). I see that this one is compatible. But be careful, not all pictures on Flickr are free. -- JamesTeterenko 19:53, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Lacrosse player categories

There are categories for Category:Lacrosse players as well as ones for Canadians, Americans, and Australians. Should there be one for players of native heritage? If so, what should it be called?

Positions of players

Talk:Lacrosse#Position (team sports) may be provocative for your project. Anyway, Position (team sports) should at least list lacrosse (genus). --P64 02:06, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Questions

I'm moving some stuff from the main project page here, since they are up for discussion. Please place any comments you have or changes you make under the appropriate entry: --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 19:43, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

• Merge the box lacrosse and indoor lacrosse pages. There are discussions at both talk pages (indoor here and box here), but so far, nobody seems to be against this idea.

• There are pages for the NLL and MLL as well as the Australian Lacrosse League. There are pages for both the WLA and OLA, but they need expanding. Are there any other lacrosse leagues?

• There is no page specifically for the MILL - that page redirects to the NLL page. As long as some history of the NLL including the MILL remains on that page, that's probably fine.

• There are very few pictures on lacrosse pages - we need more, particularly pictures of players! Can someone knowledgeable about copyright issues (i.e. not me) contact the leagues and/or teams to see if we can get images (that we are allowed to use) from them?