Talk:Outline of sports

National sport of Canada
What is national sport of Canada ???

I'm pretty sure it is ice hockey.

I'm new to the adding message thing so I hope it gets there. As I said it is pretty cool. It's definitely ice hockey, though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.116.232.154 (talk) 13:53, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


 * See Sport in Canada. Please ask questions like this at Reference desk. Thanks. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:49, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Rename proposal for this page and all the pages of the set this page belongs to
See the proposal at the Village pump

The Transhumanist 09:26, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

OK. I have to question the physical nature of poker and chess etc. They are clearly not sports; they are games of immense skill, and unless someone can demonstrate that they are physical in nature, I think they should be removed from this list. 81.156.37.253 (talk) 00:43, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Guidelines for outlines
Guidelines for the development of outlines are being drafted at Outlines.

Your input and feedback is welcomed and encouraged.

The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

The "History of" section needs links!
Please add some relevant links to the history section.

Links can be found in the "History of" article for this subject, in the "History of" category for this subject, or in the corresponding navigation templates. Or you could search for topics on Google - most topics turn blue when added to Wikipedia as internal links.

The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Types of sport == ==

We really don't need to duplicate what is already in List of sports. We should just replace the section with

== Types of sport ==

History of sports
174.3.103.39 (talk) 01:19, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Straw poll and discussion concerning what outlines should be called
A discussion is underway that may affect the name of this article.

See: Wikipedia talk:Outlines

The Transhumanist 04:38, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Resolution of preceding 5 sections
What is the resolution? At the moment,

"List of sports" and "Sports topics" redirect here

"List of sports topics" redirects to "Sport" --P64 (talk) 23:52, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Physical sports, Mind sports, Miscellanea, Other
A while ago someone commented above without any heading,
 * OK. I have to question the physical nature of poker and chess etc. They are clearly not sports; they are games of immense skill, and unless some one can demonstrate that they are physical in nature, I think they should be removed from this list. 81.156.37.253 (talk) 00:43, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Today I added column format to many sections and moved some images (only partly as required by columns). I noticed both the redundancy of Miscellaneous and Other and their questionable grouping under Miscellanea.

How much of Mind sports, Miscellanea, etc (1.2 to 1.7 in the outline numbering) really needs distinction from "physical sports" (1.1)? Here are some suggestions: Good luck with this mess. Over and out. --P64 (talk) 00:05, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
 * move Target and Wind into physical sports
 * combine Miscellaneous and Other, somehow
 * move most Miscellanea subclasses including Miscellaneous/Other into physical sports
 * consider what's left of 1.2 to 1.7
 * classification of some sports as "team" sports is a different kind of classification, maybe more important, but it doesn't belong here

Not Sports
Read all of the items listed on this page and swear to the world they are sports. You can't. My personal least favorite: Tiddlywinks. (!) If its not athletic, its not a sport. It may be a worthwhile game or activity, but its not a sport. Similarly, dancing is athletic, but isn't a sport either. Without an objective definition of success beyond judgement of artistic merit, any given activity is not a sport either. ie Athletic Arts Are Not Sports. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.86.88.249 (talk) 10:11, 2 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I think we should nuke tiddlywinks from the outline.


 * Though competition dance is a sport.


 * The Transhumanist 06:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Trash sports
I thought there was a class of television known as "trash sports" where tv makes up a competition featuring "unusual" combination of events for competition by amateurs for a "real world" feel. Where do those go? Note that reality shows, featuring amateur non-notables, are already in Wikipedia. Student7 (talk) 20:33, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Golf?
Whoever compiled this list omitted golf. Frankly, I'm really not sure why the old "List of Sports" article needed to be replaced by this poorly organized and confusing one, anyway. For my two cents, I would revive the old version. 24.57.148.137 (talk) 19:07, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Which old version the whole article is a mess. DoctorHver (talk) 03:00, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Fictional Sports
What is this section? What's the point of a "group" of sports if it only has one sport? All sports are "fictional" until people actually start playing them. They start in our minds and then get written down and if successful they get played. Quidditch is no different. I'm not a quidditch expert, but someone should put it where it belongs (bat and ball sports? aerial sports?)Dreslough (talk) 13:28, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe some eninger can work on flying brom sticks lol. DoctorHver (talk) 02:42, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines
"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 00:10, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Draft:1987 Wrestling World Cup
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