Talk:Wrestling/Archive 1

message: This should be an article about, well, wrestling. So I took some stuff from other pages and threw it together to make a semblance of an article. It should be expanded and illustrated, but details about individual styles of wrestling should be kept on their respective pages. Zocky 02:54, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I must disagree. There is much to be written about the common origins and features of all kinds of wrestling. This can be made into a good introductory article on the general subject. Zocky 09:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

message: Huh? — goethean ॐ 17:04, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: weird edit

message: I'm just wondering why my addition was just deleted.  I added a section titled "Articles dealing with wrestling" and posted under it an article about a father who was going to sue because someone forfieted (sp?) a wrestling match with his daughter.  You can read that article here.  Was it deleted because children-wrestling wasn't deemed important enough?
Alex
:Howdy Alex! That seems a pretty good guess, although not being the person who deleted the links, I can't say for certain. One of the things which happens on Wikipedia pretty frequently is for someone to post a link that seems a blatant advertisement or tangential at best, usually without signing in (by creating a User account). Links from anonymous users which are not clearly relevant and a major contribution are deleted almost routinely, just to keep the articles tidy. For further details on why this is the case you may wish to check out What Wikipedia is Not. If you plan to stick around and contribute I would strongly encourage you to get a user account (a link to create an account should be in the upper right-hand corner of the Wikipedia page), as this is the best way to connect with folks and learn the "rules of the road" and customs here. Thanks for asking! Almost everyone has a few early edits reverted until they get the hang of it. Enjoy! - Rorybowman 15:27, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted? 

message: The article does not need mention of various folk wrestling disciplines as the are mentioned in the seperate folk wrestling article.
Also,RINGS Submission fighting is a system based on catch wrestling created by Akira Maeda for fighting network RINGS after the breakup of the UWF,Japan.It's based on catch wrestling and emphasises on submissions.
Submission fighting as propogated by the takada dojo is based on Karl Gotch's techniques of shoot wrestling.It is a style of submission based fighting independent of bjj using catch wrestling as an alternative. 
The article can use styling,grammer corrections and additions of a few pics,though.Thank you````
Someone find a way to align some images to the left without messing up with styling,and a grammer patrol would do all the good in the world to the article.Freedom skies 04:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent Edits and suggestions for Cleanup

message: I added a mention of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (somewhat similar to Judo) to the "see also" section. It would probably be worth adding a sentence or two about this sport to the main text, but I don't see where it should logically go. -- 201.51.166.124 06:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu 

message: Judo is a form of grappling, but would you consider it wrestling? If so, then BJJ and other forms of grappling should also be considered grappling... -- Jimmy C. 06:42, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Judo Wrestling? 

message: this looks slightly weird - how wide are the sources used for this? also, this skews whole article - it is a whole lot larger section than others. what are figures for how big military wrestling is compared to rest? and does this matter therefore in determining the shape of the page? i am a patriot but for a world encyclopaedia we can use other pictures than of our military!Extremeweb 21:15, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrestling as military training 

message: In working on this article today, I noticed that there are many links to it that are really related to professional wrestling, which is an entirely different topic and completely unrelated to the competitive youth, collegiate and Olympic sport of wrestling (which is this article).  All of those really should be redirected to the professional wrestling page since it only furthers the confusion about this article (on the sport) and the professional wrestling article (on the entertainment activity that, in my view, should not even be called wrestling).  Any assistance with this would be appreciated. 
Also, this article could be considerably strengthened with more information on some of the best wrestlers in the history of the sport and some of the best high school and collegiate teams.  I was only able (for now) to reference those vaguely by geography and by listing a few of the most prominent colleges and universities in the sport.  Thanks.  PAWiki 08:43, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Professional wrestling vs. wrestling

message: I'd like to remove the lengthy block quote or move this to its own article if there's enough additional material to merit one. Any comments? Mytildebang 18:43, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrestling as military training 

message: It seems that there should be some cleanup on the amateur wrestling articles.  There's a great deal that can be discussed about this sport, which is among the most popular high school sports, which has a rich history as the world's oldest sport known, which is currently the subject of controversial cuts in collegiate programs throughout the United States, which has so many different forms around the world...
There are redundant articles in "wrestling," "amateur wrestling," "College wrestling" and others.  None of them have the specific focus needed to address the subject.  I'm thinking of making some kind of contribution here, although I haven't really edited Wikipedia before, so I need to wet my feet first... however, if there are others out there who are already taking charge of this page, maybe they can take this opportunity to figure out how to incorporate the content from some of the other pages too.
71.156.73.209 22:15, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup of Amateur Wrestling Articles? 

message: i was wondering why someone practically deleted my definition of wrestling, i submitted it about a year ago and reworded it right off of dictionary.com, i still see hints of it in there such as "without the  use of striking" but seriously? it seems like people went all out to change this article, they even took out the pic that accompanied the headlined wrestling/military subtopic —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.188.54.173 (talk) 04:18, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  definition 

message: Could someone please add a section about folkstyle wrestling, as it is considered a variation of wrestling?  Folkstyle is a very common style of wrestling and is used in collegiate(sp?) and lower leveled competitions.
Bigfootman777 18:56, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Folkstyle 

message: Although I do not know anyone who is a vandal of a wrestling page, I think one possible reason is because this is the season for High School wrestling (and in Iowa at least) the State Wrestling tournaments.  What ever is on the student's minds is what they will vandalize.  (Note: My comment may be removed after the vandalism has calmed down to a level so it is no longer on the WikiDefcon charts.) Kshannon 05:52, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible reasons for vandalism? 

message: This page has been vandalized again.  Perhaps it should be locked. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Deadlove75 (talk • contribs) 22:12, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalized Again