User talk:Zeorin

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Parkour
Would you mind having a look at Parkour's talk page? I've made a comment about it maybe being put forward for Featured Article status (I'm very fond of the subject matter itself). I consider the article to be very well written and suggest a swift fact-check before we ask to submit it for possible Featured Article candidacy. What do you think? Bobo192 | Edits

Zeorin said: Having Parkour as a featured article would be great! It would certainly increase exposure of the discipline, with a good article. Most of the exposure Parkour gets is not accurate.

The facts in the article are (to the best of my knowledge) correct. It would be hard to do a fact check anyway because the history of Parkour is largely undocumented and that which has been documented is in French. However, there are a number of articles relating to the history of Parkour on the website PARKOUR.NET. They may be of some use.

The article is well written, but I feel that it does need one or two edits still. For example, there is no clear definition of what Parkour is in the introduction, because at the time that the article was first written, there was no defintion. Also, when the definition was available, many small edits have been made in the main body of the article, to reflect the new definition. It is a bit haphazard. It needs a little restructuring before it is ready.

If you want you may attempt a fact check using the above link, and I shall try to edit the article in such a way that it is more fluid. I won't do it now though, I have a test today and tomorrow, so it will have to wait until I am done studying. :)

Let's get the definition from an official source such as a dedicated website and then attempt to define it via a single dictionary to see what the discrepancies are between the definitions of those who wish to present hard concrete facts as per a dictionary in a standard way and a definition from those who are dedicated to it.

I've done a few small edits to the article recently which were mainly spelling and such. These should make the article read pretty well. Bobo192 | Edits 17:37, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Zeorin said: Well, there is an explanation of what is Parkour and what is not Parkour on the PAWA website, but it isn't really a dictionary style definition. If you had to ask me for one, I would say:

When you are doing Parkour, you are moving through your environment in the fastest, most efficient manner possible.

That is as close to a dictionary style definition as I am going to get. We could ask the Parkour community for input (not Urban Freeflow, you'll get a whole bunch of confusing and mostly un-informed replies). I would pose the question to the PARKOUR.NET (previously art-du-deplacement) community. A lot of dedicated traceurs who are truly passionate about Parkour frequent there. You could also ask the community there for input concerning the whole article (as opposed to just me).

That sounds like a good definition, something which summarizes the art in a way that we can include in an opening paragraph or so, and yet opens it up for beginners. I guess asking 100 different traceurs would get us 100 different answers, so actually asking would serve no purpose other than the fact that people would eventually work out that there are "many definitions". That's cool, I'll see what I can do to the opening paragraph or so. Bobo192 | Edits 18:10, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

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If you have any questions, just leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again. --Romeo Bravo 07:32, 25 December 2005 (UTC)