Editing North Melbourne Football Club (section)

===Name and mascot===
The club was widely known as the "Shinboners" for much of its early history. The origins of the nickname is believed to come from the areas abattoirs, where a number of the players worked.<ref name="nmfc.com.au">{{cite web | url=https://www.nmfc.com.au/club/history | title=Official AFL Website of the North Melbourne Football Club }}</ref> By 1926, the club was known as the "Blue Birds", but this nickname did not last.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} It was Phonse Tobin, North president from 1953 to 1956, who oversaw the club adopting the kangaroo emblem in 1954; Tobin found the image of a shinbone unsavoury and wanted the club to have a mascot it could show with pride. In selecting a new name, he wanted something characteristically Australian and was inspired by a large kangaroo he saw on display outside a city store.<ref name="Heraldsun.com.au">{{cite web | title=Subscribe to the Herald Sun for exclusive stories | website=Heraldsun.com.au | url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/what-your-footy-team-was-once-called-and-how-it-got-its-name/news-story/ebc68823888ac0000580d313422aca4c | access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref><ref name="Watson 2011 p. 23">{{cite book | last=Watson | first=T. | title=Malcolm Blight | publisher=Hardie Grant Books | series=EBL ebooks online | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-74273-663-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5pU9mmDQRwYC&pg=PT23 | access-date=4 May 2019 | page=23}}</ref>

The official name of the club is North Melbourne, but the club has gone under several other aliases over the years. The club was founded as the "North Melbourne Football Club", but changed to "North Melbourne cum Albert Park" after merging with Albert Park in 1876.<ref name="Hotham History Project">{{cite web | title=The North Melbourne Football Club, The Shinboners' | website=Hotham History Project | url=https://www.hothamhistory.org.au/the-north-melbourne-football-club-the-shinboners/ | access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref> Following the reformation of the club in 1877, it was known as the "Hotham Football Club" but later took the name "North Melbourne" again in 1888. In 1998 the club proposed changing its name to the "Northern Kangaroos", but it was rejected by the AFL. From 1999 to 2007, the club traded without much success as "The Kangaroos" in a bid to increase its appeal nationally; this decision was reversed at the end of 2007 when the club again reverted to the name "North Melbourne".<ref name="Navaratnam 2016">{{cite web | last=Navaratnam | first=Dinny | title=Members force change to North's kangaroo logo | website=afl.com.au | date=4 November 2016 | url=https://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-11-04/north-melbourne-unveils-new-fierce-roo-logo | access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>