Talk:Prominent women's sports leagues in the United States and Canada

College leagues
Not sure why college leagues are included there, when people think of major leagues that's generally leagues that gather most of the top post collegiate talent in a given sport. And is CIS basketball really that good? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E35:2E96:BA90:2CC5:8B91:EBE8:9F0B (talk) 07:30, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Non encyclopedic vocabulary
Several terms ("the sport they love", "is an extremely demanding and challenging season"...) reflect a sentimental and partial approach to the topic that is not really appropriate in this context.
 * Absolutely agree. Utterly inappropriate editorializing, as though the writer of those passages was trying justify the article. oknazevad (talk) 01:23, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I have fixed those. Any other phrases that are similarly awful? CUA 27 (talk) 15:29, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

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This article seems to be an attempt to create something roughly parallel the men’s article major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. But it doesn’t work. In men’s sports in the US, the concept of the four major leagues (with MLS a possible emerging fifth) is well established. There really is no such thing as major women’s sports leagues in North America. Instead, this article is a grab bag of loosely related topics. The article includes professional leagues and select amateur leagues, as well as certain college competitions. The article spans three countries, even though it appears that almost all the ccompetions discussed are wholly domestic. That’s different from the men’s sports, where NHL, MLS, NBA, and NBA are cross border competitions.

I am wondering if this article should remain in its current format. I could see the material in this article being folded into three separate articles for women’s sports in the US, women’s sports in Canada, and women’s sports in Mexico. Other ideas? CUA 27 (talk) 18:55, 31 August 2018 (UTC)


 * I'll re-raise the question for discussion: Does the current format of this article work well, and if not, what would be a better alternative? I do not think the article works well.  "Major women's sports leagues" is not a recognized term; some leagues in the article are semi-professional and some are college. The article is a collection of domestic women's sports leagues from three separate countries; mostly about the U.S. but with a few sections on Canadian sports and only passing references to the existence of Mexican sports. I see no good reason for the article to continue in its current form. I recommend that we: (1) fold the U.S. content into the Women's sports in the United States if not duplicative, and (2) create a new Women's sports in Canada article and fold the Canada content in there. Does anyone disagree? CUA 27 (talk) 00:38, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, this is a mess. I'd support your suggestion. --Khajidha (talk) 14:49, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I've removed the college sports sections, leaving only some incidental mentions of collegiate eligibility and such. --Khajidha (talk) 12:14, 1 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Late to the discussion, but I totally agree with the original complaint. I tried to clean the article up, split into different sections, tried to find/fix dead links, fixed poor phrasing (though it's not a strong area of mine and I mess that up sometimes). Plus, many leagues are now defunct so I separated those into a section at the bottom, and most of the article's content was of date. I tried my best to give it some semblance of order and update some of it, but I still see it as a mess. It's hard to distinguish amateur from pro and semi-pro, collegiate etc., and as someone who isn't particularly familiar with the topic, I'm lost and confused most of the time when trying to read the article. I think some new ideas are needed in terms of where to go from here; there is already an article on Women's professional sport so looking at that one might help generate ideas, though I haven't looked at it yet. I think the article does have some merit, but again, I think it needs some serious work. CheckersBoard (talk) 12:09, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Liga MX Femenil
Does anyone else feel that the references to Liga MX Femenil seem rather hastily and poorly tacked on? There is no real discussion of this league, only a mention of its existence, a few attendance records, and a note about its television contract. If it's going to be here, shouldn't we discuss it more? Is this the only Mexican women's league of note? Are there professional women's leagues (in any sport) in any Central American or Caribbean country? Is this article really about North America as a whole or about the US and Canada in a sort of parallel to the article Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada for women's sports? --Khajidha (talk) 00:48, 29 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Yes the article is a mess, I cleaned it up and organized it somewhat, but even them it's not flowing properly. Not sure what the original idea was, but the article needs work and clarity is a big issue. I find the article confusing. CheckersBoard (talk) 12:12, 12 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Just changed the article name to "Prominent women's sports leagues in the United States and Canada" which makes more sense CheckersBoard (talk) 12:20, 12 October 2022 (UTC)