Talk:List of sportswomen

Female sportspeople????
Isnt this political corectness gone way OTT?> What wrong with Sportswomen? I prpose moving this page to one with the new sensible title. comments?--Light current 17:54, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: Page moved. Ucucha 02:25, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

List of female sportspeople → List of sportswomen — per WP:COMMONNAME. I have never heard the phrase "female sportspeople" used before, and a google search shows that "sportswomen" is much more widely used, by a factor of about 1000:1. This list is in Category:Sportswomen, and there is no Category:Female sportspeople, not even as a redirect. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:28, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Google results:
 * -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:34, 7 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Support - undo the ridiculous PC... – ukexpat (talk) 22:40, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment why is "women" applied to non-adult/non-adolescent females? 70.29.210.242 (talk) 05:35, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
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Proposed for deletion
I want this list deleted. This list is embarrassingly incomplete, lacks useful organization and detail (athlete's nationalities? Teams? Decade/century they were active?) and there are literally hundreds (thousands?) of women athletes who are notable enough to potentially be included in Wikipedia, this list isn't actually feasible in the long run. I think it's best to just scrap this article, and work on adding the appropriate category tags to the biographies of women athletes as they're added to Wikipedia. There is already with sub-categories by sport. OttawaAC (talk) 04:05, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Perhaps a better approach would be to set a high criterion for inclusion. As in, multiple Olympic gold medals, or multiple MVP awards.--Epeefleche (talk) 04:09, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * This article is implausible. There are far too many female athletes to even try to put them all in this list. Doesn't seem necessary. I'm for deletion. HotshotCleaner (talk) 04:14, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Why deletion? Pourquoi une suppression ? We could make a list of the most notable women athletes who have an existing page on English Wikipedia. We could classify them by date of birth. I give my list for the Women ice hockey players (User:Genevieve2/sandbox0345). merci --Cordialement féministe ♀ Cordially feminist Geneviève  (talk) 17:27, 3 February 2012 (UTC)