"Split/Merge Proposal== 
 Is this done in an official way like a move proposal? This article is a mess, it targets so many different sports and leagues that it is practically worthless, and creates problems as discussed previous because of various sports all wanting to be named ""football"" instead of the actual names we already use on Wikipedia (not to mention AFL v NRL code-warring that apparently existed between Mattdocbrown and other editors). I propose that this page have the contents split off into the following pages: 
 :Soccer in Australia 
 :Australian rules football in Australia 
 :Rugby union in Australia 
 :Rugby league in Australia 
 :American Football in Australia 
 :Futsal in Australia 
 :Gaelic Football (this might need a redirect or merge with Australasia GAA 
 Every sport bar Gaelic Football has it's own 'in australia' page. I just don't see the point of having this page at all. Anything that can't go into a specific topic should be moved over into the Sport in Australia page. Once the merges are complete all wikilinks for Football in Australia could be edited by a bot to point directly to Sport in Australia, and any incorrect changes edited to point at the correct specific sport.    
 :Pointless proposal. It's virtually a repeat of the section up above called ""Replace article with disambiguation page"". Everything that could be said here was said in that thread.    
 ::From what I can see, this needs an independent, non-Australian admin to decide that. Getting into arguments is the exact reason why this page should be split off and merged into it's constituent parts.    
 :::An admin, independent non-Australian or otherwise, can't make the decision that you're seeking. consensus amongst involved editors here will determine the ultimate fate of the article. The discussion closer, who doesn't have to be an admin by the way, just has to close the discussion with a ""ruling"" based on that consensus. Based on the discussion above, that consensus is likely to be that this page is not split. ""Getting into arguments"" is not a valid reason for splitting an article.    

 == Can we drop the time wasting ""soccer = football"" crap once and for all please? == 

 We now have two active threads above where a number of editors known for their enthusiasm to change all uses of the word soccer to football are trying there best to kill this article. Let's be blunt about this. They would like Football in Australia to be an article purely about the round ball game. If they can't achieve that, they don't want it to be about other sports. The ulterior motives behind the above time wasting threads have become clear to me. The fact that the most ardent pushers of the proposals come from one small sector of Australian sports fans is very revealing. At Soccer in Australia we've now had two exhaustive threads in two years trying to get the name changed from soccer to football. Both failed. But these guys won't give up. No accepting of the umpires/referees decision for them. It's very poor faith editing. So, see the title of this thread again please. Please accept that the word football means many different things to many different people in Australia, and cannot be used on its own for a single sport. And go and do some useful editing somewhere else. (Improving the quality of the bulk of the soccer articles here, not just your own favourite teams, would be a good start. I seem to do more of that than any of you.)    
 :Perhaps you should read Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith. Wikipedia is not your own personal pet project, you do not get to decide who can and cannot edit, or discuss here. Perhaps you should open your own personal wikipedia if you want to dictate to everyone how we should behave and edit.    
 ::Good faith? With you lot? LOL.    
 :::And you want to be treated seriously (you started this discussion) and respond by laughing at people. Pot, meet kettle. Close this discussion immediately it does not add anything to the discourse.   (UTC