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Semi-protected edit request on 9 February 2018
Please change "Curling shoes are similar to ordinary athletic shoes except that they have dissimilar soles; the slider shoe (usually known as a "slider") is designed for the sliding foot and the "gripper shoe" (usually known as a gripper) for the hack foot." to "Curling shoes are similar to ordinary athletic shoes except that they have dissimilar soles; the slider shoe (usually known as a "slider") is designed for the sliding foot and the "gripper shoe" (usually known as a gripper) for the back foot." Traemikal (talk) 00:36, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: "Hack foot" is the actual term used in curling Stickee (talk) 01:06, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Power play
What is it? BBC commentators just now have spoken about it's tactical implications for past 5 minutes, but haven't said what it is. 09:50, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * It's a peculiarity of the Mixed Doubles game (and would belong in the Mixed Curling article). Normally in Mixed Doubles, two rocks each end are pre-set on the centre line, but in a Power Play end the two rocks are set over on one side.  I still don't understand it completely, however.   PK  T (alk)  11:49, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Article in Vice Sports about Curling's Wikipedia Page
I wrote an article about curling's Wikipedia page and related articles for Vice Sports: The Battle for Curling's Wikipedia Page. Hint: A lot of it has to do with trolls claiming it's not a sport. Thanks to everyone who maintains curling's page and fights off persistent vandalism. Stephenbharrison (talk) 13:25, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the interview! -- Earl Andrew - talk 14:20, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

"Curling sheet" section
The curling sheet diagram at the end of the section has an "HA" 'description/definition' in the caption but no HA in/on the diagram.

Also, the same curling sheet diagram has a blue "B" in the upper right corner of the diagram itself, but no listing of its 'description/definition' in the caption area.

Can these be 'corrected'?

Just curious. 2600:8800:785:1300:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 05:12, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism
This page has been vandalized quite a bit throughout the fairly limited amount of time I've been editing on Wikipedia, I think this has been discussed before but I was wondering if there's any way we can apply for protection of sorts? I don't know much about the whole system, but I think it would probably help us all. Allthegoldmedals (talk) 00:24, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I can lock it, but it usually only gets seriously bad during the Olympics. -- Earl Andrew - talk 02:39, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, you know better than me. It seems somewhat manageable right now, but if it gets worse, that might help. Allthegoldmedals (talk) 12:07, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Image available
Hi there, I just uploaded an image from the Agnes Deans Cameron collection that shows women curling on an indoor rink (probably in Canada in the early 1900s, definitely before 1911). I see that there seems to be a lot of edits on this page, and so rather than be presumptuous, I leave it to those who typically care for this article to add it if you see fit. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_curling_(S2004-1017_LS).jpg The Raven&#39;s Librarian (talk) 15:17, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Please explain… the verb "to curl"
In the introduction I read this phrase: "Sweeping a rock makes it curl less" but I can’t understand what it means. Could someone knowledgeable about the sport please explain what the verb means here, or rewrite that sentence? Thanks!

Update: after reading up in the article I think I found out what the word means here. So if you like, have a look if my changes in that section make sense. :)--Geke (talk) 16:58, 12 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Looks good. Thanks! -- Earl Andrew - talk 17:21, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Curling railway stations
Following fairly extensive research I have added three of the railway stations so far discovered that were built to transport curlers to bonspiels, etc. Rosser Gruffydd 10:03, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Adding 'Team' section
I intend to create a new section titled 'Team' soon. I'm planning on it having two subsections, one called 'types of teams' to briefly describe the different team formats such as open, men's, women's, and mixed and the second being 'positions' to briefly describe skip/vice-skip and the throwing order. A lot of these topics are lightly covered throughout this article but spread all over and I think it is important to consolidate the info into its own section and it would clean up some of the other sections. Mixed curling has its own article (Doubles curling was just split off of it) but would be merged into the 'types of teams' subsection, there was consensus on the Mixed curling talk page that it doesn't need its own article. Anyone have thoughts/suggestions/objections to this idea? - A202985 (talk) 17:49, 13 April 2019 (UTC)