Talk:Spearfishing

message: *I'm not sure why speargun redirects here and doesn't have it's own page.  If no one minds I am going to spin speargun off into it's own page. Beatdown 20:00, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Speargun

message: *This article doesn't seem to contain any mention of the kind of spear fishing illustrated in the image. This is still practiced especially as an ice fishing technique. I can't see how to easily integrate this into the current article however. Rmhermen 16:23, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Miscellaneous

message: The history section is absurd. Why does the most ancient form of fishing have a history that only starts in the 1960s? --86.138.30.6 (talk) 22:23, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I agree. I have renamed the History section "Contemporary spear fishing", added a new History section, and added another new section called "Traditional spear fishing". This last section needs more work. --Geronimo20 (talk) 05:51, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section 

message: Thank you for your contribution to spearfishing. However, a statement as straightforward as "Spearfishing today employs modern and more effective elastic or pneumatic powered (spearguns) and slings" don't needs citations. Citations are for statements that are not common sense and might be controversial. Surely you are not disputing that "modern and more effective elastic or pneumatic powered" slings have been developed. The idea is that only statements that might be disputed should be cited. Otherwise, articles would consist of a mass of citations for all sorts of uncontroversial statements, which would clog them and make them rather unreadable. --Geronimo20 (talk) 14:04, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  citation for 'more effective' 

message: This article has been assessed as GA-class apparently by WP:FISHING, but the parameter was added by an IP, and there seems to have been no GA Review. The article is not listed at WP:GA. Do others agree with me that the article's lead doesn't summarise the rest of the article and contains material not covered elsewhere? As such, it would (imho) not even meet B-class. --RexxS (talk) 23:34, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you and have reassessed it at C-grade. --Geronimo20 (talk) 01:51, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quality assessment class 

message: I removed the External links section, which had become simply a WP:LINKFARM. If anyone really feels that any of the links removed actually meets the spirit and letter of WP:External links, please discuss it here. --RexxS (talk) 18:40, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:ELNO no.11 --RexxS (talk) 15:26, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: The picture at the top is not what typically is thought of when talking about modern spearfishing. The picture would be better in the gigging article. Should one of the pictures farther down replace that one? Beach drifter (talk) 02:46, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The Peruvian depicted may not have the same concept of modern spearfishing as we do :) - but go ahead and be BOLD. I certainly think the picture could be used in both articles, so add it to Gigging wherever you think best. If you think one of the existing images would make a better lead image, I'd suggest you just swap them. --RexxS (talk) 03:00, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  There are very few free underwater photos for illustration. So the uploading of underwater photos to commons.wikimedia.org will significantly improve the article: blue water hunting with flasher, storing, using camouflage, freshwater, competitions, lady spearfishing etc. SamuLahti (talk) 17:23, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: It mentions using scuba equipment is "frowned upon" and "illegal" in the intro but makes no mention of it in this section.  Also, is the "Gulf of Florida" supposed to be the "Gulf of Mexico"?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Droopy3 (talk • contribs) 14:29, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Some pretty poor writing has been added with a couple of the last edits. I'm going to try to reword some of it and remove the bolder unsourced parts. Beach drifter (talk) 01:43, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Boat Diving" Section 

message: An image used in this article, File:Spearfisherman Ryu Kyu Islands July 2007.JPG, has been nominated for deletion at Wikimedia Commons in the following category: Deletion requests October 2011 
;What should I do?
Don't panic; a discussion will now take place over on Commons about whether to remove the file. This gives you an opportunity to contest the deletion, although please review Commons guidelines before doing so.
* If the image is non-free then you may need to upload it to Wikipedia (Commons does not allow fair use)
* If the image isn't freely licensed and there is no fair use rationale then it cannot be uploaded or used.
This notification is provided by a Bot --CommonsNotificationBot (talk) 12:59, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: File:Spearfisherman Ryu Kyu Islands July 2007.JPG Nominated for Deletion

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to  on Spearfishing. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add  after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add  to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20070927134426/http://www.frivannsliv.no/spearfishing.no/Spearfishing.html to http://www.frivannsliv.no/spearfishing.no/Spearfishing.html
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.
Cheers. —cyberbot IITalk to my owner:Online 03:41, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I've just reverted the removal of a number of sourced entries in the list by , along with an undiscussed change to the inclusion criteria.
I am by no means opposed to cutting trivia out of the list, but I simply don't agree a change to criteria which results, for example, in the removal of Raymond Pulvénis (who is clearly an important early promoter of the sport), while retaining Ian Fleming who is notable for many things, but not as a spearfisher.
Under the current criteria, someone could add Bob Marley as he has an article. After all, he probably had as much opportunity to go spearfishing in Jamaica as Fleming did.
If we can agree new criteria, perhaps a reliable source that names someone as a spearfisher, I'd be delighted to see the list trimmed. --RexxS (talk) 18:07, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable spearfishers again