Talk:Quidditch

message: I made a minor edit to the section about the 'top box' being similar to the 'front row' at muggle events. It's more likely that this was based on the corporate and private boxes found around football and rugby stadiums in the UK (and Europe). Front row seats aren't really that prestigious at UK sporting events of a similar nature.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.6.149.27 (talk) 13:21, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boxes 

message: This article, though not marked, most definitely falls into the class of articles that are written in an in-universe style. That said, I think I am going to make the suggestion that this article be broken off into two articles, perhaps one Quidditch (Harry Potter) and the other Quidditch (sport). I say this only because Quidditch is now not only played by muggles everywhere, but is even a division sport played intercollegiately, with its own set of roles(NCAA regulated? probably not) apparently. Obviously the rules are different for that variant since the players don't fly, and the snitch is a person who runs around. I am not making this change but merely suggesting it to see what other editors think. Slugmaster (talk) 17:23, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: i agree with your assessment, and have tagged to article to invite comment. --emerson7 01:45, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Break off into new article suggestion 

message: I think most of these dates should be removed. An assumption seems to have been made that any character who was on a Quidditch team when Harry came to the school had been so since they had entered Hogwarts. This is despite Harry being told it is very unusual for a first year to get on the house team, and despite us seeing people much older than their first year join the teams in the last two books.
Unless there's a canon source for this information that I've missed?
Also, James Potter is listed as a Seeker. This information is from the first movie, but it does not apply to the books. In an interview in 2000, Rowling confirmed that he was a Chaser. Philip Reuben 03:16, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Please sign your posts by striking the tilde key four times. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 23:22, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates for players + James Potter 

message: Hi all,
Periodically, there's this claim about anti-gravity technology. It was deleted by 3 other users and is against, I think, the WP:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_crystal_ball policy. I'll treat it as vandalism from now on. Hit me up on my talk page if you think it's wrong. Tony 19:05, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anti-gravity claims 

message: WHY didn't you include Bowman Wright? He was featured as Wizard of the month at J.K. ROWLING'S OFFICIAL site. He created the golden snitch. Can someone please add him there?!? -Lil_Flip246
:Why didn't WHO do WHAT? You realize of course you could have added this information yourself at any time, right? 
:I added a note about it anyway, but I was seriously considering NOT adding it, precisely because anyone can edit Wikipedia, and complaining about what is or is not in an article, and then not adding it yourself when it's a fairly minor addition to boot, well that's just plain silly. Runa27 04:37, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bowman Wright 

message: Has Harry ever played three matches in a school year? Rmhermen 04:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Harry

message: Page 152, paperback Sorceror's Stone, about halfway down:
Seeker? [Ron] said. "But first years never—you must be the youngest house player in about—"
"—a century," said Harry.
Ron does NOT say "You must be the only first year", he says "you must be the youngest", meaning there may have been other first year Quidditch players over the years, but none as young as Harry. Unless it is mentioned elsewhere and I have missed it, saying he's the only first year in a century cannot be verified.
E946 02:27, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Youngest in a century vs. only first year in a century 

message: Some parts of this article, especially history, tend to blur the fictional Harry Potter world with the real world.  Please read Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction).  Thanks, --EngineerScotty 04:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Check your fiction 

message: Removed from article. Unsourced. Possibly unnotable.
At Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont Quidditch exists as a pick up sport with matches Sundays at noon. The players are required to wear capes, usually blankets or towels, and while playing they must also have a broom stick between their legs at all times. The game, for obvious reason, has been adapted: the snitch is a cross country player dressed all in yellow and one must grab the sock ball attached to their back and the capture of the snitch only earns 50 points (for practicallity); the quaffle is a volley ball; the bludgers are dodgeballs that the bludgers throw at the opposite team's players (when hit the player must drop the quaffle, if they have it, and they must stand still for five seconds); and the hoops are hoola hoops taped to chairs instead of 50 feet in the air.
-- Ec5618 22:47, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Middlebury College

message: Possibly the best way for a death to happen is fatal cheating, especially with spells and flying creatures. Harry Potter constantly experienced this during his Quidditch matches at Hogwarts.
Firstly, what does it even mean, "the best way for a death to happen"? Secondly, POV. Thirdly, the way it's worded makes it sound like Harry Potter constantly experienced deaths during his Quidditch matches!!! 84.70.0.193
:I would suggest you just make the changes. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 14:00, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's this nonsense? 

message: It's interesting to have all (or most of the) translations here. We could include, of course, seeker, beater, chaser and keeper to the list... All I know is in portuguese:
Apanhador, batedor, artilheiro and goleiro.
VdSV9•♫ 20:10, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translations. 

message: What are the sources for the names of Regional teams outside of the UK? These should all have sources. I deleted one team, that was added a week ago, that had an offensive name.
Tuyvan 20:59, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regional teams 

message: The article says the quidditch pit at hogwarts has towers for spectators, but nothing of this is mentioned in the books. Furthermore, events like the one described in the first book, atthe first match, suggest ongoing tribunes, not towers. How else would Hermione be able to quickly run around to Quirrels place? - Redmess 11:38, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Towers or tribunes?

message: 5 out of the 7 major sections are entirely in-universe. Much of the intro is in-universe. I believe this article qualifies being labeled "primarily in-universe". Neitherday 15:00, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: In-Universe

message: G'day everyone, In the paragraph about international Quidditch teams, there are teams that have been mentioned in the Harry Potter books, films and games, but there are many national sides that having been placed on seeminly at random, as there is no evidence from the books, films, or games the these national teams exist. For example; Albania, this country is not even mentioned in any of the books, and yet it is still said to have a Quidditch team. There are many more like this, and I was wondering how the writer(s) managed to work out which un-mentioned countries had Quidditch teams. Thanks, Furry9 12:34, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, Albania is mentioned several times and is very important in the book, the team is not mentioned though--69.113.219.55 02:51, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And why are there American, Australian, Canadian, German, etc. teams listed under "British and Irish Quidditch Teams"? Don Sample 07:04, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I put up a request for sources and will denote the ringers in four weeks. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 23:26, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The teams are all discussed in Quidditch Through the Ages. Cheers, faithless (speak) 23:35, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Dear Faithless: It would be nice if you had inserted the source. I had to do it, based on your say-so. And when you say "discussed," do you mean "discussed" or simply "mentioned"? Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 02:08, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  International Quidditch Teams 

message: If one team scores 15 Goals and since each goal is 10 points that make 150 points so if the other team scored no goal but caught the snich there would be a tie. So does anyone know what happens then?
The team with the Snitch would win
69.19.14.15 (talk) 03:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Do the books ever say what happens if there is a tie?

message: I think the team sports template should be removed from this article. Quiddich isn't even on the template!  Codelyoko193  Talk 13:54, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Team sports 

message: The Golden Snitch's artist depiction in the history section at the Golden Snitch looks more like a 5 year old child trying to draw a snitch than a real depiction by a real artist to me.  I'll bet that the picture was put up by some father who wanted their offspring to be famous.  Personally, I would waqnt the picture taken off.  Do you agree?  Gunnerdevil4 03:30, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, but would like to see another image put in its place if removed. A poor image is better than no image, IMHO. I realize that there is another picture of a snitch in the article, but still... faithless (speak) 03:38, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genuine Snitch? 

message: "The game features in every Harry Potter book but the seventh, as Harry Potter plays an important position for his house team at Hogwarts." There was one other book, I believe, that didn't have a Quidditch match.GeorgeLouis (talk) 23:12, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There was no Quidditch at Hogwarts in GoF due to the Triwizard Tournament, but there was the Quidditch World Cup, so there technically was Quidditch in that book. The sentence should probably be rewritten for accuracy. Really, this entire article needs an overhaul. faithless (speak) 23:24, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Quidditch 

message: I've inserted an uncited reference to Quidditch Through the Ages under "rules" - specifically the right to carry wands at all times was granted during the height of magical persecution by Muggles. I'm going to cite it when and if I find my copy of said book, but if anyone else has the book (or a third-party web source), please insert the citation so it doesn't go uncited. (It'd also help to say the year this right was granted, which I'm pretty sure is in there.)
--Dbutler1986 (talk) 02:19, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Right to carry wands 

message: I'm pretty sure that the Barcelona Bombers are a fan made-up team, and the name was added to the end of the list on 2 January 2009, by Theogb.
I've not found any cannonical sources for the Barcelona Bombers team. The only sources outside Wikipedia, copy-paste this very article, or are from fan forums.
And of course, is not listed in Quidditch Through the Ages, as the section starts saying.
(I haven't checked if other teams on the list are fake/wrong...)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.224.54.10 (talk) 12:15, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fake Professional Quidditch teams 

message: ... needs to be fixed.  It only lists years 2-6, though Harry clearly played in Year 1.  The obvious inaccuracy of that omission make the rest of the listed results suspect.  Someone should confirm with the source material to ensure accuracy.  PK9 (talk) 00:00, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, fixed. —thedarklordtrombonator 10:05, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harry's Performance as Seeker section 

message: Why is the Republic of Ireland flag shown for Ballycastle Bats, who are supposedly located in Northern Ireland?  Skinsmoke (talk) 00:56, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ballycastle Bats 

message: This article needs to be condensed to an appropriate length.  The fact that the article is longer in length than that of football ("soccer"), the most popular sport in the world, is compromising to the integrity of Wikipedia as a legitimate informational resource.  It is nearly as long as the article for American football and tennis, and longer than that for golf.   A credible encyclopedia should not have more to say about a fictional sport created primarily within the scope of seven fantasy novels, than for a sport steeped in at least seven centuries of history, with countless generations of players, followers, and devotees.  It should be more of a stub; an offshoot of the Harry Potter article.  If Quidditch is still being talked about in 700 years, then this article will be justified.  Otherwise, we have some SERIOUS additions to make in the articles for Golf, football, tennis, etc.  I understand there are many Harry Potter fans, but Wikipedia is not a fan blog.  When the broad scope of the resource is observed, and one sees that Quidditch is given more attention than the most popular sport in the world, how credible is that resource?  It is a demonstration of skewed priority, and a failure to achieve realistic and unbiased perspective among content.
:Has nobody addressed this?  I'm happy to whittle this sucker down to an appropriate length.  Admiral Bimbo (talk) 00:52, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Should be cut down significantly. I think as is its longer than the article on Australian Rules Football. :D 01:40, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is too lengthy 

message: could anybody find a link for it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.75.209 (talk) 16:36, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  lack of link to Q3D 

message: Just pointing out a minor error, I would fix it myself but the article appears to be locked. In section "Players", the word "practice" should be spelt with an s, as it is being used as a verb. 203.208.110.63 (talk) 13:44, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Gerardw (talk) 15:57, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling error 

message: Hello,
there is the version of muggle quiddich in Russia since 2004, championships since 2006, - the base article Маггловский_квиддич, there are some links, the main resource with some videos is http://quidditch.ru/
It is based on handball rules, players don't use any brooms, all the balls are actually the balls, mixed or female teams strictly etc.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.220.131.52 (talk) 01:34, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Muggle Quiddich in Russia 

message: The article states that Harry uses his "quidditch" skills several times to accomplish tasks in the novels. It seems obvious to me that he is a skilled at flying a broom, and hence a good seeker and also effective at accomplishing said tasks. It never states or even infers in the novels that he accomplishes the tasks because of quiddicth, quite the opposite, that he is good at being a seeker because of his natural skill on the broom. Beach drifter (talk) 05:05, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quidditch skills vs broom skills 

message: Gryffindor did not win the Quidditch House Championship in the first Harry Potter book. I even checked the reference, in chapter 7 of Chamber of Secrets Wood states that they have to train harder because they should have won the year before, but did not. The Harry Potter wiki states Ravenclaw won in Harry's first year.
173.19.197.176 (talk) 03:13, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: . I've changed the result from "Gryffindor" to "Unknown". Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 04:24, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from 173.19.197.176, 15 August 2011 

message: In The Philosopher's Stone, Harry describes the sport as similar to basketball, a real-world Olympic sport. A lot of the common fouls are indeed very close to the fouls and other offenses in basketball. With this sourced analogy in mind, would it still be too OR-y to name the closest foul in basketball, so that readers familiar with basketball can more quickly understand the description of each Quidditch foul? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 05:18, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fouls vs. basketball fouls 

message: I was bold and added the Northern Irish flag to the table for the Ballycastle Bats, it was reverted, so here we are; per WP:BRD. There are three solutions to the problem of what flag to assign to Ballywick. We can either (1) leave it as is, (2) add :File:Ulster banner.svg, or (3) Use the UK flag for all teams in the UK. 1 is a problem for me (as an American) because I had no earthly idea where Ballywick was, upon looking at the table. 2 and 3, I understand are politically tricky (and I do not want to be involved in that in any way). It appears that the inclusion of the English, Scottish, and Welsh flags were done to mimick was was done in Association football. Association football uses these flags because each of the UK's constituent countries has their own FA and fields there own team in the World Cup, for instance. Is there any example of there being, for instance, an English National Quidditch team in the source texts? The MOS says we should not use the flags of subnational entities unless the organizations in question use the flags themselves. So, absent an example of a constituent country fielding a national Quidditch team, I think we should go to what is most Verifiable (that Appleby, Ballycastle, Montrose, and Caerphilly are in the UK) and side with Option #3, instead of Option #2. Achowat (talk) 18:31, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Option #2 and the use of the Ulster Banner is out as it is not the flag of Northern Ireland, the only flag that is official is the Union Jack so if flags must be used then Option #3 would be the best one. Personally I'm not a fan of flags being used in tables the way they are used here. Mo ainm~Talk 18:53, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: But you do recognize the need for a Northern Ireland flag in certain sporting situations, right? (Such as footballers who've played for the Irish Football Association since the partition) Achowat (talk) 18:55, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I accept that usage as the governing body of football in NI use it. Mo ainm~Talk 18:59, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to go ahead and change all the flags to UK ones until a source can be found that the Home Nations are used in Quidditch contexts. Achowat (talk) 20:04, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  agree with Achowat's edit. Bjmullan (talk) 22:31, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flags in [[Quidditch#Professional Quidditch teams|this section]] 

message: I made an edit as I'm pretty sure Gryffindor did not win the Cup in the first book. I do not believe we are ever told who did win it - if Ravenclaw won even one of their other two games they would have been champions as their points difference would have been best because of the result against Gryffindor, but if they lost both their other games, then either Slytherin or Hufflepuff would have been champions depending on who won the match between them.  We know for certain that Gryffindor didn't win, though - the first book hints at it, and the third is pretty explicit that they haven't won since Charley Weasley.MyName2 (talk) 02:26, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Champions of Hogwarts in first book

message: I wonder if Quidditch is based slightly on the obscure card game "Golden Egg" considering that the idea of both is to capture something golden, and the rules are rather Draconian...
81.159.108.31 (talk) 16:13, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Based on "Golden Egg" Card Game? 

message: Is it just me, or does the vast majority of this article belong at Wikia? NickCT (talk) 18:31, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to Wikia? 

message: Addition of an infobox  clearly designed for real sports just adds to the in-universe issue. --NeilN talk to me 22:57, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: Took out "It is never explained why a Seeker would catch the Snitch in a situation where doing so would give the victory to the other team, i.e., the leading team's score exceeds the losing team's by 160 points, instead of simply waiting for the score to change" simply because it's logically not true. The Seeker's goal is to catch the Snitch nonetheless simply because it may be caught by the other team's Seeker first. Of course, the Seeker can maneuver a plan to distract the other team's Seeker; however, that would be difficult considering it's difficult to distract someone from catching the Snitch when their sole goal is to catch the Snitch. Mosammad93 (talk) 11:49, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Game Progression Change

message: Ok this article has been tagged with  for more than three years now. Further, 18 of 26 references depend on a primary, fictional, in-universe source. This needs to end. No, there is no deadline on Wikipedia, but there's also a serious issue here of not being encyclopedic. If people want to do in-universe writing, they are welcome at the Harry Potter Wiki. I'll wait a bit, but then begin restructuring this article to conform to our writing standards here. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:47, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly there is lots of cruft in this article, with little amount of it devoted to real world content and lots of section with in-universe information. I think that the best way is to trimm and present the content of most sections into one single, short "Quidditch in the books", removing the History, Fouls and the Hogwarts Cup sections, and also removing all text that is taken almost entirely from Quidditch Through the Ages. --LoЯd ۞pεth 17:47, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  In-universe, time to get real 

message: What if the Quidditch machine overflowed? That is, if a team scores a thousand points, then the Quidditch machine displays "0" instead of "1000." But Slytherin might cheat Gryffindor by letting Gryffindor score until the machine overflows and Gryffindor loses all its points! -32ieww 11:57 AM 12/30/2015 NY time  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 32ieww (talk • contribs) 16:57, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overflow 

message: "Quodpot" on the page List of fictional sports links here, but there's no mention of it. I've long since lost my copy of Quidditch Through The Ages, so it'd be good if someone could add a mention to justify the pothole. 2A02:C7D:A34A:9000:794F:1118:279F:E256 (talk) 20:44, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead end 

message: Why is quidditch capitalised within sentences in this article? We don't capitalise 'rugby'.    — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.73.233.71 (talk) 09:44, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Quidditch is capitalised within this article because it is capitalised by Rowling in the books. The real-world version of the sport Quidditch (sport) would not be capitalised, in the same way we would not capitalise a sport like rugby. MissTimeturner (talk) 05:10, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalisation 

message: I'm new here, and I've noticed that large parts of this article are just reproducing content from Quidditch Through the Ages, e.g. the History and Rules sections. I can see this has been discussed before, but not much seems to have changed. Bearing in mind the article is tagged with , should this content be removed, or is there a reason it has been kept in for so long? Artemisialufkin (talk) 17:30, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I've gone ahead and removed the sections. If anyone disagrees they can revert. Artemisia (talk) 14:55, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Removing extraneous content

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message: Glad to see my work back on Wikipedia! It got deleted but it is back.
I would like to say that the golden snitch does not win the game for a team instantly it is only highly likely that the team would win if they caught the golden snitch because they would get 150 points but it is not a guarantee. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BlackJack56891 (talk • contribs) 
:The article doesn't say that whoever catches the snitch wins, it says that catching it  It's perfectly clear it doesn't automatically make them win. —El Millo (talk) 02:58, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  added paragrapgh