Talk:Arsenal W.F.C.

Nature of the Link with Arsenal (Men's team)?

The wording on this is vague, at time of wring (June 2014) it says the Arsensal LFC are affiliated to the Arsenal. The exact nature of the relationship is not explained. Is it in fact one Club as Arsenal, and Aresenal LFC is simply the Ladies team?

The kit seems identical, using the same logos and sponsors- which suggests either a strong legal relationship, or that it's simply part of the same club, (a bit like Cardiff RFC, which is not really a separate club, but simply the Rugby Section of of Cardiff Athletic Club- which also has other sports teams, e.g. bowls, cricket etc).

The fact that the article explains there's an overlap of directorships between the Men's and Ladies Clubs suggests that the Ladies Club is subsidiary company? (Is part of the job of the men's Arsenal team Cheif Exeutive to be the Chairman of the Ladies Club?) Or is the "affiliation" relationship more akin to the relationships you see between firms using the same brand in Japan say?

Clearly the casual observer would assume given the logo is the same etc that the Aresenal LFC is simply the Ladies team of the same club. (Akin to say most golf clubs almost all of whom have Gentlemen's and Ladies teams, but there is no question of them being separate clubs- generally speaking). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.254.218.39 (talk) 22:15, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

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Club Crest

The Rationale of the logo specifically states the following

The image is placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing Arsenal F.C., a subject of public interest. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the organization, assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the organization, and illustrate the organization's intended branding message in a way that words alone could not convey. There is commentary in the article about the logo itself as follows: "Logo of Arsenal Football Club and Arsenal Ladies Football Club, used to illustrate the teams in articles about them and the teams that they field."

This therefore covers the use of the logo in this article. 31.127.133.203 (talk) 07:31, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

I've had a look on some of the other articles of the teams who participates in the WSL and they have the logos used on there. The Arsenal website includes the team on their website so it should be fine in guideline with the other articles.

The following rule on the logos is - club logos are copyright so we can't use them anywhere apart from the club articles. This is certainly a club article so that should be used here. Iggy (Swan) 16:08, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

See my post at WT:FOOTY#File:Arsenal FC.svg for more specifics, but basically each use of a non-free file has to comply with Wikipedia's non-free content use policy. The non-free use was previously discussed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2016 February 8#File:Arsenal FC.svg and the consensus established was that the file's non-free use in this article doesn't comply with that policy. So, if you'd like clarification or feel that should be re-considered, then you can discuss your concerns with the administrator who closed the discussion and removed the file. Continuing to re-add the file without doing discussing this with the closing administrator and following their instructions, however, is going to be seen as edit warring and may lead to an administrator getting involved for another reason. A consensus can change, but it needs to be changed the right way. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:09, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

I had not been aware of this issue when changing the logo today (via IP, not logged in). Problem however is that this is the official logo of the women's team as well. The one including "Ladies" has been out of use since the club changed from being Arsenal Ladies to Arsenal (Women), where women is only used to differentiate from the men's team when needed (which is not the case here). Source: https://www.arsenal.com/news/important-update-our-womens-team TheM NL (talk) 09:45, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

A single sentence in the article like "In July 2017, the club rebranded as Arsenal Women Football Club." even supported by sources would probably not be in and of itself enough to justify the non-free use of the (men's) logo; however, more sourced content about the branding change, in particular things having to do with WFC and the differences in badge/logo might. The best thing to do would probably be to ask Explicit (the administrator who removed the file based upon the above-mentioned FFD discussion) for his take on things. Perhaps a new consensus can be established based upon the changes the team made in favor of allowing the file's use in this article. -- Marchjuly (talk) 12:17, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Largest fanbase in the world in 2018-19

The sentence "Based on social media activity from the 2018–19 season, Arsenal's fanbase is the largest in the world." recently added to the lede seems to be quite an exceptional claim to make and surely something that requires something more than a citation to the team's Twitter account (i.e. a primary source). Are there any secondary and independent sources which support such a claim? If there are they perhaps the content can be moved to the body of article and expanded upon, and even attributed as needed; for example, "According to FIFA, ...", "According to ABC soccer magazine", "According to ABC newspaper", "According to Twitter statistics, ...", etc. The team's Twitter page is not really published by "Twitter" so to speak in that nobody at Twitter verifies the what the team tweets; so, basically all editorial control over the account rests with the team itself. If the team tweeted out something that some other reliable source stated, then it would be better to actually cite that source than a tweet per WP:SPS and WP:UGC; if the team is making a claim that cannot be verified by a secondary source, then the claim should be removed. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:53, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

I've just removed this sentence as the linked first-party source doesn't say anything about having the largest fanbase. It doesn't link to particular tweet, just the Arsenal WFC Twitter account. I'm not sure where that claim ever came from. Lazer-kitty (talk) 20:00, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 15 November 2021

• Arsenal W.F.C. → Arsenal F.C. (women)
• Aston Villa W.F.C. → Aston Villa F.C. (women)
• Birmingham City W.F.C. → Birmingham City F.C. (women)
• Brighton & Hove Albion W.F.C. → Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. (women)
• Chelsea F.C. Women → Chelsea F.C. (women)
• Leicester City W.F.C. → Leicester City F.C. (women)
• Manchester City W.F.C. → Manchester City F.C. (women)
• Manchester United W.F.C. → Manchester United F.C. (women)
• Reading F.C. Women → Reading F.C. (women)
• Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Women → Tottenham Hotspur F.C. (women)
• West Ham United F.C. Women → West Ham Untied F.C. (women)

– It appears on a football discussion page that the abbreviation “W.F.C.” needs to be expanded a bit, either with or without brackets. 46.149.249.106 (talk) 11:21, 15 November 2021 (UTC) 46.149.249.106 (talk) 11:21, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Are you able to show on which discussion page this assertion has been made? It's a bit hard to respond to when you don't know the arguments which have been made. Falastur2 ^Talk 18:39, 15 November 2021 (UTC)