Talk:Single skating

Official name
The ISU Regulations use the term "single skating". I'd suggest renaming the article unless there is some non-figure form of single skating that it might be confused with. Also, we should be careful not to use either "singles skating" or "singles' skating" on Wikipedia, same as we should use the official name of "pair skating" instead of "pairs skating". Dr.frog 23:05, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Agreed. --Fang Aili talk 23:20, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Competitions section
While working on this article, I'm thinking that we should revamp this section, since none of its content has references anyway (although that'd be easily remedied). Also, the other two articles about figure skating disciplines (pair skating and ice dance don't discuss how competition are structured at all, and I think that these three articles, when possible, should have the same basic structure. The ice dance article, which is newly revamped (by me), has a "Competition segments" section because the changes in its segments throughout the years is important.  For single skating, I think that we should follow the same structure by changing the current section title to "Competition segments", and and include a discussion of figures and its history. Since the subsections of the new section (Compulsory figures, Short program, Free skating) are/should be summaries of these main articles, each of these articles should be improved first, so that's my next step in my personal goal of improving figure skating articles.  Any thoughts/discussion? Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:48, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * No discussion, but I've gone ahead and completed the above. I've also included a subsection about figures. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 05:03, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Article re-vamp
I have basically re-written this article. I have updated the content and changed the structure so that it resembles other figure skating articles. Its references are complete, accurate, and reliable. The images are appropriate to its content. I would like to submit it to GAN, which I'll do in seven days from now (6 November 2018) if there's no objections. If anyone has any thoughts about what should be added and/or removed, please speak up. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 04:03, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Ladies vs. women
You might have noticed that this article now refers to female skaters as "women" and not "ladies" as per the ISU regulations. I've done that throughout all the figure skating articles I've improved/created since taking them on late this summer; see User:Figureskatingfan/Sandbox 4. I've referred to female skaters as women because not only do I agree with the practice personally, I think it better fits with the values of Wikipedia and Wikimedia, despite the archaic practices of the ISU in this matter. I was prepared for it to be more of a controversy before this, but it doesn't seem like anyone has noticed. Perhaps they won't now, but I think that I'd open up the discussion and record the choices I've made as an editor. I'm prepared to take it to arbitration, if necessary. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 04:12, 30 October 2018 (UTC)