Talk:List of surfers

Untitled
Instead of listing these people alphabetically, perhaps their ages would be more informative. Maradja 04:03, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Eligibility
Due to the amount of surfers in the world and the risk for non-notable surfers being included in this list, I think we should limit entry in this list to those who: This will eliminate the level of spam we receive here. Lympathy   Talk  14:40, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * have a wikipedia page
 * have references in a wikipedia page (as stated on this page)
 * Sad to say...I have tried to list some very noteable people from the surfing world and culture. All have been rejected by Wikipedia. Such names as Hobart "Hobie" Alter (founder of Hobie Surfboards and Hobie Cats), Bing Copeland (founder of Bing Surfboards), Rabbit Kekai (famous old school Hawaiian surfer and the Father of Modern Hotdogging and one of the original Waikiki Beach Boys), Patrick O'Connell (starred in Endless Summer II), Sam Ryan (surfer and author, owner operator of Longboard Grotto Surf Shop)...and the list goes on. I was, however, able to list a few names such as Dewey Weber, John Severson, and Jack O'Neill.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.98.20 (talk) 03:06, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Housecleaning

 * Houscleaned... every entry now has either a ref or a WP article with that name. However:
 * - I did not check any refs I did not add
 * - I did not check to see if the linked article is a surfer, except in a couple of cases
 * An interested editor might undertake to do a bit of that. Or not.User talk:Unfriend12 01:24, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

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Housecleaning
I noticed a couple of egregious problems -- one totally spurious entry that had persisted for five months -- and did a few other minor edits. This could use a more thorough review by someone more knowledgeable about surfing than I am; someone who could make judgments in borderline cases which I cannot. Mason Peters should probably be removed, perhaps others as well. Jreiss17 (talk) 04:52, 28 November 2023 (UTC)