Talk:Trolling (fishing)

Quote
This is a very long quote. In fact, it encompasses the whole article. This is not reasonable. I know nothing about this subject, but will put a stub lable on it. This quote does have a lot of intresting information, but it is not an article.--Broken 22:23, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

rename the page too
to "Trolling (angling)", a more customary form of article title.
 * I agree, but it should be "Troll (angling)", as "trolling" is a form of the verb "troll." Moving. - IstvanWolf 05:28, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation
I'm no fisherman, but as I understand it, "troll" is pronounced with a long O, like the mythical creature. Since English phonetics could also allow a more open O, perhaps it would help to add a pronunciation guide. That would also help in distinguishing it from "trawling". - Blueguy 72.150.208.71 (talk) 01:37, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

File:Trolling for bluefish2.jpg to appear as POTD soon
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Trolling for bluefish2.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on June 11, 2010. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2010-06-11. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks!  howcheng  {chat} 16:03, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

copyright violation
Much of this article's text is directly cut and paste from the cited note. 71.249.105.241 (talk) 18:51, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The last paragraph was a copyright violation. I've paraphrased it. --Epipelagic (talk) 00:48, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

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‎Historical images gallery should be rewritten/removed
re: this (ping User:Epipelagic). WP:GALLERY discourages, well, galleries, unless they are highly relevant. That section contains just some old images that are barely relevant to the concept. Unless it can be explained how are they relevant, this section is not good style. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:41, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * You start by stating WP:GALLERY discourages galleries unless they are highly relevant. Where does it say that? It doesn't say that at all. You just made that up. If you want to claim the support of WP:GALLERY for your position then you must point to what WP:GALLERY actually says, literally, and not just pretend it says something you just made up. Second, you say dismissively that the gallery contains just some old images – as though that somehow supports your position. No, that doesn't support your position. Look at the title of the gallery. The gallery is called "Historical images". That means it contains historical images, or in your terminology, "old images". Third, you claim the images are "barely relevant to the concept". I assume you mean barely relevant to the concept of trolling. I don't see how anyone could say that unless they simply have no experience or interest in fishing. The gallery is short, just four images. The first image is an elegant one of a classic Alaskan salmon troller from the 1950s, clearly displaying details of the trolling rig. The gallery itself is subtitled "Historic trolling for salmon", which is an iconic form of historic trolling. The next three labelled images clearly take you through some key stages involved in trolling for salmon. If you actually examine those images, enlarge them, you will find they are closely integrated, very much to the point, and containing a wealth of precise visual details. In the short time it takes to scan the gallery, a reader genuinely interested in historic trolling will be drawn into a more vivid sense of commercial salmon trolling than any page of dense text could provide. All the images in the gallery come from NOAA's Historic Fisheries Collection, meaning NOAA also considers them worthy of preserving for posterity. So Piotrus, it may well be that you personally find the gallery "barely relevant", but you cannot generalise from your personal yawn about historic trolling to all readers. — Epipelagic (talk) 11:10, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I've removed the heading called "Historical images", since it is unnecessary. Looking at the gallery again, it seems to me that WP:GALLERY could provide a link to it as an exemplary model for the proper use of a gallery. — Epipelagic (talk) 18:22, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Can you expand the caption of the images using the text you added above? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:02, 24 September 2021 (UTC)