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Rugby union was one of the Sports and recreation good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
March 10, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 7, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
August 4, 2025	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

Ten man rugby was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 15 January 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Rugby union. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Rugby union received a peer review by Wikipedia editors, which was archived on February 2007. It may contain ideas you can use to improve this article.

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Cleanup :
- Sport governing body (this should-be-major article is in a shameful state)
- Field hockey (History section needs sources and accurate information - very vague at the moment.)
- Standardize Category:American college sports infobox templates to use same font size and spacing.
- Sport in the United Kingdom - the Popularity section is incorrect and unsourced. Reliable data is required.
- Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show."
Expand : Professional sports (crucial article explaining the salaried undertaking of sports)
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Update : List of world sports championships
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- Categorize: Gather all (major/olympic) sports to be part of this project
- RfCs: answer requests for comment

Text and/or other creative content from Rugby union was copied or moved into Rugby union gameplay with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

The content of Ten man rugby was merged into Rugby union on 14 February 2023. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

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"Springboks get hilarious mention on official Rugby Wikipedia page". Jacaranda FM. November 18, 2025. Retrieved November 19, 2025. After the last game, someone took to Wikipedia to update the official entry on 'Rugby Union' (also known as rugby).

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Le Rugby est presque pratiqué un peut partout dans l'Afrique. Des pays comme le Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso etc... Formes des jeunes talentueux expérimenté et qui finissent par tourner le dos à se sport juste parceque les revenu ne sont pas certaine. Au Niger le Rugby empêche même à d'autres d'étudier ,c la passion à se sport... Le Niger a une école de Rugby qui forme pleine de talentueux. En septembre 2018 l'équipe Nationale de rugby à 7 Nationale à accueilli 3 enfants ..tels que Moubarak 20ans ,Ismaël 20ans,ibrahim18ans. Qui sont sans club mais passionné. À la recherche des clubs ! Barackindo (talk) 11:19, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Source of Rugby’s Origin

Can anybody offer a good source on Rugby’s origins? I’ve seen some stuff but nothing particularly authoritative. Sportismygame (talk) 22:23, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I cant believe that somebody asked this question. History of rugby union for completeness. - Walter Ego 08:36, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Article review

It has been a while since this article has been reviewed, so I took a look and saw lots of uncited statements, including entire paragraphs, and "citation needed" tags since 2017. Should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 20:44, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

Rugby union

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:26, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lots of uncited statements including entire paragraphs. Citation needed tags since 2017. Z1720 (talk) 02:09, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Page protection

I have requested it. Let's see what happens. - Walter Ego 15:02, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Report the users to WP:AIV Louis (talk) (contribs) 15:43, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, too many, can't be bothered with the individual reports, this is the easiest way, if only an admin looked at the request. - Walter Ego 17:22, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]