Talk:Footgolf

Infobox photo
User:Benoisbuff has removed the photo of the sport being played from the infobox with the rationale that it's not the official logo of the FIFG and that FIFG is going to upload this in the future at some point. Per other sporting articles (eg. golf, soccer) the infobox should contain a photo of the sport being played, not the logo of a governing body. If it's a misrepresentative photo somehow, then fair enough, it'd be good to know that and to maybe even find a better one, but "FIFG wants to put a logo there one day" is not a reason to delete it. --McGeddon (talk) 09:54, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * The image in the infobox should remain until a better image, which hopefully will be a bit larger in size, comes along. Also, there is no requirement that the image in the template "infobox sport" be the logo for the association. (just look at the Wikipedia page for American Football.) Its also important for all concerned to remember that FIFG is not the editor of this Wikipedia article and they do not control the text or the images that are used in the article. FFM784 (talk) 14:17, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Looking at it, all the FIFG material in the article (including its claim to be the highest governing body) is either unsourced or sourced to its own website, so I've flagged it as such. --McGeddon (talk) 14:32, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * User:98.150.64.205 blanked the image again without explanation and removed some citation needed tags. It looks like the same IP has blanked equally primary/unsourced information about rival governing Footgolf bodies, earlier in the year, which I've restored. But if all we've got is local groups asserting in their own WP:PRIMARY sources that "no, I'm the internationally recognised governing body", we shouldn't be writing about any of them. --McGeddon (talk) 12:18, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

"FootGolf" or "footgolf"?
It looks like CNN calls it "FootGolf" and the other sources don't capitalize it at all. Should we go with the latter? --McGeddon (talk) 12:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * After two months of silence I've gone ahead and lowercased it throughout the article (capitalizing it as "Footgolf" or "FootGolf" in organization names depending on what they appear to favor). --McGeddon (talk) 15:12, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Word "footgolf" as more likely to be a name of new sport than a design look of word "FootGolf". Version FootGolf is more a word game than something explaining a new sport. Like a difference between words FootBall/football, BasketBall/ basketball or VolleyBall/volleyball. Sanjeobsoci (talk) 20:26, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

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It is Footgolf, no capital on the golf. Deethalia (talk) 19:31, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Capitalization
In the middle of a sentence, should it be "footgolf" or "FootGolf"? This has been discussed or mentioned several times above. I recently changed the mixed usage to lower case. My thoughts on that were that:
 * it is a common noun
 * no other sport or game (except Go) has a capital letter in the name
 * organizations can decide what their name is, but they have no authority over the name of the sport
 * capitalizing the word resolves no ambiguity that would cause confusion

Wikipedia's guidelines for capitalization are at MOS:CAPS. The general rule there is that

"Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization. In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia."

What do you all think? SchreiberBike &#124; ⌨ 00:06, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
 * A week later, I'll add MOS:SPORTCAPS which says:


 * "Sports, games, and other activities that are not trademarked or copyrighted are not capitalized (except where one contains a proper name or acronym, or begins a sentence). This includes groups of sports or games (winter sports, carom billiards, trick-taking card games), traditional sports including modern ones (field hockey, triathlon, BASE jumping), traditional games (Texas hold 'em poker, chess, spin-the-bottle), folk and social dances and dance styles (kołomyjka, Viennese waltz, line dancing), and other such group and solo activities (flash mob, hackathon, birthday party, workout, biology class, political rally, binge-watch, speed dating, tweeting)."


 * Based on that, I think it's slam dunk (hole in one). Unless there's an explanation for why this article should be different, I'll change it back. SchreiberBike &#124; ⌨ 23:57, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Another week later, done. SchreiberBike &#124; ⌨ 03:59, 18 March 2022 (UTC)