Talk:Novuss

Sources needed
I have used the Fact ("citation needed") template in several places in the article to mark some places where specific reference citations would be a good idea. This article is entirely unsourced, and as such it is in serious danger of deletion. I would also recommend creating a sourced article about the champion and tournament that are presently red-links in the article, to give this topic more depth in Wikipedia. Non-English sources can be used, perhaps from the Estonian and Latvian articles on this topic, but they should be verified by a native speaker to actually support the facts that are citing them here. Please report any progress on that front here on the talk page. Please use the  reference citation format to the extent possible (i.e. leave off the link if the source is a paper book, or leave off the Author of Source information if the author is not identified, e.g. in the Latvian Novus Federation rulebooks, and so on. &mdash;  SMcCandlish &#91;talk&#93; &#91;contrib&#93; ツ 23:07, 14 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Source for official rules, equipment specs, etc.: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=et&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.koroona.ee/reeglid.html&usg=ALkJrhhPys0IU59AU5hnUiWleZz5EnYaJg
 * This is a subpage of http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=et&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.koroona.ee%2F (koroona.ee) — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿ ¤ þ  Contrib.  04:46, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Novuss and cued carrom variants
This article misleadingly attempts to imply that novuss is not simply a variant of carrom. That needs to get fixed. It's blatantly obviously just a variant of carrom, and not very different from American carrom, Australian puck pool, and other cued carrom variants. — SMcCandlish &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93;   ‹(-¿-)› 16:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I fixed that. — SMcCandlish &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93;   ‹(-¿-)› 21:38, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Digging around more, it's looking to me like games of this sort popped up in various places, perhaps, but that most of them are certainly descended from Asian carrom. We know that this game or game type became popular aboard ships, because the boards/tables were small and used pucks that would stay put on mild seas and not roll around hopeless all over the place with every wave. That would certainly explain the spread of carrom from India to colonial Britain, where we know carrom was popular. We also have (not well sourced yet) info in this article already that the Baltic states got the game via sailors picking it up in British ports, perhaps only as early as the first quarter of the 20th century. — SMcCandlish    Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿ ¤ þ  Contrib.  05:05, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Novus and cued carrom variants, redux
The article claims that novuss itself is spreading around the world, but this seems unlikely. It is likely that game being referred to as novuss in such contexts is a non-novuss, cue-using carrom variant in several other of these countries. Actual evidence that novuss itself (not just American-style or new carrom variants) is being played in the US, Canada, Australia, Israel, England and Germany needs to be cited; Finland, Russia, Georgia and the Ukraine are more plausible.

— SMcCandlish &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93;   ‹(-¿-)› 16:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Maybe take a look at this page http://www.novussusa.com/ - it's quite obvious, that it's not NON-novuss game, that is being played in USA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZZbatam (talk • contribs) 14:30, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * One example. That's a start, but the claims in the article seem to imply that novuss is taking the world by storm, but there's not evidence of this so far. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿ ¤ þ  Contrib.  04:41, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

National sport
I see a call above for sources for this article - it still badly needs more sources. In particular, it shouldn't be too hard for a speaker of the language to find a source for the statement that it has become a national sport - and then it can be readded to that article with that source. Yngvadottir (talk) 13:33, 10 January 2014 (UTC)