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Short Program
FYI Talk:Short Program lists a requested move for renaming the article. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 10:06, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

CFD
Category:Figure skaters by century and subcats have been nominated for deletion/upmerging. Kolindigo (talk) 23:18, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

A question about merging
I'm not a member of this wikiproject, and I'm sure this has been discussed before, but is there precedent for merging the pages of two pairs/ice dancing skaters? I ask because I was reading through the pages for Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue, and other than the personal life sections they are pretty much exactly the same. It would be much more efficient to merge the two, and I was wondering if anyone from this project would object if I proposed a merge of the two pages. -- Scorpion 0422  04:32, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * They are notable as individuals, so there's no need to merge the articles. Kolindigo (talk) 04:37, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not saying they aren't both notable. I'm saying two identical pages is inefficient and unnecessary duplication. There is precedent for having the pages of two notable individuals merged, for example, Coen brothers or Wright brothers. -- Scorpion 0422  04:57, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * But skaters can have more than one partner and more than one notable partnership. For Virtue/Moir, that's currently not the case, but for many skaters, we'd have bios split up across many articles. It's inefficient and confusing. Yes, there's duplication, but there's no guarantee that Virtue (for example) won't retire and Moir team up with someone else, or for that to happen with any notable partnership. It's better to have an article for each individual and then, if, say, Craig Buntin ends his partnership with Valérie Marcoux and teams up with Meagan Duhamel, we don't have details about Buntin's career spread out across many articles. As far as the articles seeming identical, they can be made more distinct by editors contributing and expanding them. Kolindigo (talk) 05:20, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * But I'm not saying every pair's article should be merged, I just think it should be considered in this case. And if a merge happens and they go their seperate ways and get new partners, there is a similar solution: unmerge the articles. -- Scorpion 0422  05:31, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * A merge would destroy the page history and throw everything out of whack if it was necessary to unmerge them. I don't see what the difficulty is in having two separate articles. I don't see that there's anything broken here that needs fixing. Kolindigo (talk) 05:39, 24 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Proposal makes sense, because the articles usually overlap, but skaters have short career in sport and do not always spend the rest of their live together. -- deerstop. 22:48, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Twizzle
I've never heard of this at all, let alone in a track and field or pole vault application as the article says. All I'm getting is things related to Figure skating. I'm a complete novice when it comes to these things: is this a particular move in figure skating? If not, then this is probably an article to delete. Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits) Join WikiProject Athletics!  22:42, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
 * As article creator of Twizzle (running), I don't oppose deletion of the article; as you can see from a previous edit summary, I split that information off from Twizzle because it didn't belong there, and I don't actually care what happens to Twizzle (running). As far as the figure skating element is concerned, as the article says, it is a required element in ice dancing. As well, many skaters do them as part of step sequences. Kolindigo (talk) 00:14, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Silly me. Didn't actually read the main twizzle article! In that case I'll suggest it for deletion. If this is a real running term, then it is one used so infrequently as not to merit an article. Cheers! (Hope you guys enjoyed working on the figure skating side of the Winter Olympics!) Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits) Join WikiProject Athletics!  10:42, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

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Figure Skating Notability: WP:NSPORT
On the talk page on WP:NSPORT there is a proposal to limit figure skaters notability. Please comment, as WP:NSPORT is going through a change that may lead to it becoming guideline. The comment is that the figure skating clause seems to be much more lenient when compared to other Olympic sports MATThematical (talk) 00:30, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Sports Notability
There is discussion ongoing at Wikipedia_talk:BIO debating possible changes to the WP:ATHLETE notability guideline. As a result, some have suggested using WP:NSPORT as an eventual replacement for WP:ATHLETE. Editing has begun at WP:NSPORT, please participate to help refine the notability guideline for the sports covered by this wikiproject. —Joshua Scott (LiberalFascist) 03:42, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Managing issues of print-journal plagiarism in re Eugene Turner
I've brought this up on Kolindigo's talk page, but she's probably off having an undoubtedly much-deserved life at the moment.

Briefly: an obituary for Eugene Turner appeared in a recent issue of Professional Skater. To readers coming to the WP article directly from the magazine pages (as well they might, seeking yet more information about him), it might appear that Wikipedia has plagiarized the obit. In fact, it's the other way around: the obit plagiarizes Wikipedia. Some details at the link, more details forthcoming (copy of journal page, links) if anybody is interested in figuring out what to do with the WP article, given the potential here for misunderstanding. Yakushima (talk) 07:02, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

I've added an image clipped from a PDF including a scan of the PS Journal obit, which was attached to an e-mail that was received from an employee of PSA some time around March 31st, then forwarded to me weeks later. It's possible that there is attribution of some kind on the following page -- I don't have a copy of the magazine yet, so I can't tell you.

The first part of the obit is, except for the opening paragraph, copied verbatim from article Eugene Turner just before his death on Jan 14. The last line is also identical to the last line of the WP bio. Most of the second half is verbatim from Virgina Vale's 1982 "History of the Los Angeles Figure Skating Club", which in some (not very cleanly edited) form is available at the LAFSC website via a link on the WP bio. I've since verified via the Wayback Machine that there's no chance of this PS Journal obit having been copied to the LAFSC website -- Vale's essay shows up in its present form back in August 2007.

I was baffled by the problem of how to describe the "Non-free fair use" of this image, finally settling on "Non-free fair use newspaper image". It contains text that's arguably copyright Virginia Vale, though she's deceased, so perhaps rights revert to LAFSC; the article first appeared in one of their newsletters. It also contains text taken verbatim from Wikipedia. However, since the image is not for an article and never will be, I guess it's a non-issue.

What is the issue? The current version 15:56, 23 April 2010 (UTC) still looks like it's copying PS Journal, not the other way around; as readers of that journal arrive at the WP bio, they'll tend to assume it's copying what they just read in PS Journal. What do we do? Re-write? Post a notice? Is there a generic notice template for this? If not, should there be? Yakushima (talk) 15:56, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

File:GeneTurnerObit.JPG
 * The appropriate template to use is Backwardscopyvio. I have added a barebones version of it to the article's talk page, but if you have more details (author, publisher, date), you can add them too. VernoWhitney (talk) 15:54, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

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Possible WikiProject rename to include Speedskating?
I'm not a member to this WikiProject, but I was thinking since many/most Figure Skating events are under the jurisdiction of the International Skating Union, it would be possible to include Speedskating (long-track, short-short) into this project's scope (the ISU runs speedskating events as well)? There are many speedskating-related articles that could use a Wikiproject behind them to support them... and if this were possible, perhaps this WikiProject could be renamed to WikiProject Ice Skating to include them? Good/bad idea? Thanks,  on camera (t)  17:05, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I disapprove the idea, because many figure skating fans know absolutely nothing about speedskating, speedskating is a whole other world. -- deerstop. 18:45, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I suppose that could be true, but that doesn't really seem a reason to disapprove. :) The International Skating Union handles both sports reasonably well, no?  A WikiProject could do the same. (BTW, Speedskating is basically racing-on-ice.)  on  camera (t)  00:18, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I know what speedskating is. :) But merging projects will automatically turn all participants of Figure Skating WikiProject into the participants of both Figure Skating and Speedskating projects. Which I disapprove, because IMHO a person involved in any project should write and edit articles on this particular topic, and how will we do that if we have no interest in speedskating? -- deerstop. 16:08, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I think you mean "I have no interest in speedskating" as you can't speak for other participants in this project. A person here could edit figure skating articles and ignore the speed skating ones, and there might be editors interested in building the scope of speed skating, having it a defined project; no one is forced either way.  Thanks for the input,  on  camera (t)  18:15, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure, it was just mine (and mine alone) point of view. -- deerstop. 21:07, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

[dedent] I don't understand the organizing principle being invoked here, for having a merged project. Is it that the ISU governs both sports? If it's that speedskating is also a sport on ice, using skates, then why not hockey as well? I'd stick with the status quo. After all, if someone says, "I'm an ice skater", it's virtually synonymous with "I'm a figure skater." If you want a project as a home for articles about speedskating and speedskaters, it's hardly unreasonable to start your own. Yakushima (talk) 16:27, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Hans-Jürgen Bäumler photo
Pretty please! I need help with identification. Where exactly is Hans-Jürgen Bäumler on this picture? -- deerstop. 18:43, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

What is the 'Place' means?
in this article, I saw the 'place', and I want to know what does it mean. Sincerely.Realidad y Illusion (talk) 12:04, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

+ Also, what is the 'point' meaning in this article?Realidad y Illusion (talk) 15:24, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

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