Talk:Sport in Saskatchewan

New Article
This a new article in response to the comments discussed as per the WikiProject Saskatchewan newsletter. Please extend a note to any folks you know who may have an interest in Sports and or Saskatchewan to expand this newly created outline which begins to introduce the visitor to the many and varied sport articles and sections already on Wikipedia about Sports in Saskatchewan. The sections need to be filled out somewhat as per the to do list, but it gives a starting place to join together the awesome content by many wiki editors.SriMesh | talk  06:51, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Notable Saskatchewan people in Sport
Comments about expanding this section....
 * Should the person just need to be added to the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame but their birth origin is elsewhere, so not a native Saskatchewaninian.
 * Should they be native Saskatchewan's who make an athletic name for themselves elsewhere?
 * The list has been started with native born Saskatchewan folk, who also contributed to Saskatchewan sports as team player, athlete, or builder.SriMesh | talk  07:06, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I recommend grouping them together by sport. Canuckle 22:50, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Footnotes problem
Wikipedia is not a source, yet 14 footnotes lead to other Wikipedia articles. I suggest this be fixed, and I offer here two possible solutions. If the claims are controversial (which they don't appear to be), we need a footnote referring to a reliable source external to Wikipedia. If non-controversial, appropriate links to the articles in question (assuming those are properly sourced) should suffice. Biruitorul 04:01, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I have not seen a wikipedia rule stating that wikipedia is not a source - could you please refer me to the page where this cannot be a footnote, please? If I have information from another wikipedia article that is useful to this article how do I honour the first wikipedia article?  SriMesh |  talk  02:16, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * There is actually a long-standing rule stating that Wikipedia articles should not be used as sources for other Wikipedia articles, it's normally in Citing sources, but someone removed it without consensus a while back, a change which went unnoticed until now. It's going to be restored soon, the article is protected, but one of the protecting admins stated such in Citing Wikipedia articles.  Dreadstar  †  19:30, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * See WP:SPS. Anything on Wikipedia is being published by individual editors and should not be used as a reference.  17Drew 19:36, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Overlinking
I believe this article is way overlinked, the sheer volume of links is almost overwhelming - I can't even evaluate the wikilinkage to see if there are duplicates or other issues. Please read WP:MOS Over/under-linking best ratio, and address the article accordingly. Thanks! Dreadstar †  18:15, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

2009 Canadian Figure Skating Championships
As the 2009 Canadian Figure Skating Championships will be held in Saskatoon, can anyone develop a section or summary of skating in Saskatchewan for this article? SriMesh | talk  18:52, 30 November 2008 (:== re: Skating in Saskatchewan ==


 * Hey. I don't know much about figure skating in Saskatchewan. If you're interested in getting info on skating events held in SK, the Canadian Figure Skating Championships has an (incomplete) list of locations of the Canadian Championships (national-level competitions) and Skate Canada International has a list of locations as well (international competition). There may have been other international competitions held in SK, but I can't remember which off-hand. You could also take a look around the Skate Canada website, which is the web site of the national governing body for figure skating in Canada. Hope that helps. Kolindigo (talk) 19:38, 30 November 2008 (UTC)UTC)

New York, New York
Not sure if it merits mention, or where, but when the Saskatoon Arena opened 30 October 1937, the New York Rangers & New York Americans played an exhibition, according to Jeff O'Brien, City Archivist, in Saskatoon Chronology: 1882-2005, p.3. (I found this linked to on WP, but can't find the link again...)  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  20:54, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

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Proposal: separate article for ice hockey
Hi all - I've been working on this article for a few days to try and make it more readable, adding references, reducing repetition, etc. I think the ice hockey section is a bit unwieldy, and I personally feel like there's enough information about hockey in Saskatchewan, and enough notoriety, to merit a separate article on Ice hockey in Saskatchewan. There are some comparable examples, like Ice hockey in Calgary and Ice hockey in Ottawa. For an example of Saskatchewan's notoriety, see this article from The Athletic.

I think doing this would allow us to scale back the wall of information on hockey in this article to a more basic summary, with a redirect to the full article on ice hockey.

If everyone disagrees, I think an alternative is to reorganize this article in order to both fill out other sections with similar information and to improve readability. But to me, the best option to start with is a dedicated hockey article. I've started drafting one.

Thanks for any input! Other justin (talk) 14:08, 14 July 2023 (UTC)


 * An update: Seeing no opposition, I did get this separate page going, which you can find at Ice hockey in Saskatchewan. Feel free to discuss on the talk page over there! Other justin (talk) 17:43, 3 August 2023 (UTC)