Talk:Floorball

message: 1958 Schaper Manufactures COSOM i Lakeville manufactured plastic sticks. (should be fairly easy to check)
Battle Creak, Michigan, 1962 there was a tournament with these sticks
1960 few swedish students found the sticks in holland and brought them to sweden
1979 floorball was founded in Sala and soon after the first tournament was played in Västerås.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.58.22.185 (talk) 23:58, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: After several reverted edits to the article, including some vandalism, I believe that it is time to clarify the difference between floorball and other sports. The beginning of the article states that floorball is also known as floor hockey. That's the way it's going to stay, and searching up 'floor hockey' will redirect you to this article.
What I believe people are trying to say, especially in Canada, is that floor hockey is a completely different sport. This is true to an extent, but the sport they are talking about happens to be either ball hockey or cosom hockey.
What do you think?
Zadora13 (talk) 23:26, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The text "often referred to as floor hockey" seems a bit weaselly. Who refers to it as such? But fluffing out the lead with clarification is an undue burden. My feeling is that floor hockey should be created as a disambiguation page. The words "floor hockey" in this article can then link to that page, and that page can describe who uses the term "floor hockey" for floorball, and who uses the term for other sports. Metao (talk) 12:26, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

text: lol pwned and everything (particularly on the subject of english) but lets not drop ourselves down to his level :D Metao (talk) 06:00, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification

message: Removed "in Europe called Unihockey" from the beginning of the article, because it's a sort of false statement. For instance, I'm a European and have played floorball for a long time, but have never before come across the term "Unihockey". It may be true that it's called Unihockey in German-speaking countries... but that's not really the same as Europe. "In Europe called salibandy" or "In Europe called innebandy" would be similarly false. Let's just call it floorball, as that's the correct name in English. -Jonik — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonik (talk • contribs) 11:37, 2 January 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair point. Kokiri 11:58, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)

text: Anyways, if anyone searches up Innebandy, Salibandy, Unihockey, Unihokej, etc., they are automatically re-directed to the Floorball article page. I think most people would know that the sport is called Floorball worldwide. Unihockeypolska (talk) 03:40, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

text: No. "Floorball" is rather well-established as the English name for the sport. For instance, note that Google currently returns 1 250 000 hits for "floorball", and about 7000 for "indoor bandy". --Jonik 21:31, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

text: In Scotland certainly, and perhaps elsewhere in the UK, floor hockey (with a puck, as opposed to floorball) is known as Unihockey or Unihoc. --Liam Mason 04:45, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Unihoc is an alternate name for floorball, short from unihockey. It is a whiffle ball, not a quiffle.Unihockeypolska (talk) 18:20, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Unihoc is also used in Ireland for any game similar to hockey that is played indoors. Some cub scout clubs for children aged around 8 - 12 used to get us to play it with rolled up newspapers as sticks and tennis balls as balls. I have not seen any reference to this yet, but it surprised me that this article only concerns the complex variety. 213.202.167.182 (talk) 04:05, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternative Names

message: The article has way too many links to external sites ... it has to be cleaned up. I'll keep equipment manufacturers and leagues, but all the other stuff must be deleted. Sorry. Unihockeypolska (talk) 16:25, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Im also wondering if the list of all the championship scores is a bit over the top. It should probably have its own page or pages. Metao (talk) 01:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

text: We should definetly keep the World Championships (Men, Women, MU19, WU19), the EuroFloorball Cup, the North American Championship, and the Asia Pacific Championships as well. The medal tables and the Czech Open has to go. Also, a main article should be made with all of the floorball federations across the world, so that the article can look a little bit cleaner. I've gotten rid of quite a few links that I felt weren't as important to the sport of floorball. Too many people are coming in and putting their links on there. Let me know what you guys think about that. Unihockeypolska (talk) 18:25, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

text: I've created 2 list pages ... List of EuroFloorball Cup Winners & List of World Floorball Champions. We can now get rid of those championship tables and clean up the article. I'll also make Czech Open & AOFC lists. Zadora13 (talk) 21:44, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Just to let everyone know, I've been pretty much re-writing the article on Floorball over the last week or so, and I can tell you that it looks significantly better. It explains the rules thoroughly, as well as giving a great sense into the history of the sport. Everything 'floorball' seems to be covered in this article, but it can surely still use some improvements and more references. If you stumble upon anything, don't hesitate to add it to the article. Zadora13 (talk) 21:50, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Clean Up

message: Do you think there should be a section on IFF records (i.e. Highest game score, most penalty minutes, most goals by a player in an international, etc.)? Unihockeypolska (talk) 20:32, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: IFF Records - Section Proposal

message: Just wanted to state that I have created 4 floorball-related pages. I created the 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002 Men's World Floorball Championships pages. If you have any questions, put them into the discussion and I'll try my best to answer and fix the page. Feel free to edit the page, but I may go back and undo changes if I feel they are not right for the page. The links can be found on the Floorball main article page, where there is a table of all Men's world championship winners, or you can just select the year from here. 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002. Unihockeypolska (talk) 16:48, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, please note that it is only the A-Division of the WFC that is listed. Unihockeypolska (talk) 16:50, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

text: I've just created the 2008 Men's WFC article page. Unihockeypolska (talk) 16:39, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Men's World Floorball Championships

message: If you make a floorball-related page, such as a player or club, place it here so that we can see and help expand it. Unihockeypolska (talk) 16:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Pixbo Wallenstam Innebandyklubb - I created this quite some time ago, but help me expand it, as it is a stub. Unihockeypolska (talk) 16:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

text: Mika Kohonen - I recently created this page, but it's a stub and will need sources, but it would help if someone expands it. Unihockeypolska (talk) 03:29, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

text: 2008 Men's World Floorball Championships - As the event goes on, someone must update this page with scores, statistics, etc. Unihockeypolska (talk) 16:39, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

text: Infobox: International Floorball Competition - I've created this template to organize the WFC pages. Zadora13 (talk) 22:52, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Infobox: International Floorball Club - I've created this template to organize pages for floorball clubs Zadora13 (talk) 22:52, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Sweden Men's National Floorball Team - Zadora13 (talk) 18:57, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

text: IFF World Rankings - Zadora13 (talk) 03:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Canada Men's National Floorball Team - Zadora13 (talk) 18:46, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

text: 2007 Czech Open - Zadora13 (talk) 01:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Floorball-Related Pages

message: I've removed a newly added section about "most accomplished players" as I think it is inherently POV. Lupo 06:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Section removed

message: I've updated the paragraph on physical contact to reflect floorball's ever increasing flexibility in terms of checking. What do you think?
:Sounds good. Unihockeypolska (talk) 20:32, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Physical Contact Changed

message: I don't know anything about Floorball, and wanted to find out more. I think it would be helpful to the understanding of the sport if average game scores were included. Is it more like basketball or soccer? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.143.221.162 (talk) 05:28, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Generally, more goals than in ice hockey (so much more than in soccer), but far less than in handball (so much less than in basketball). Of course, this depends a lot on the level of play. In the play-off rounds of the 2006 Men's World Floorball Championships the average number of total goals per game was 9.5, but in the group stages, there were a lot of very uneven games (like Switzerland 22:5 Germany or Finland 20:0 Italy), so that would raise it higher. I don't have any references for more general statistics on this, but I agree that it would be a helpful fact to add. -- Jao 10:23, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, the world record score is 50:0, set when Poland defeated Ukraine in a WU19 match a few years ago. Unihockeypolska (talk) 20:32, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Game scores?

message: Is there enough certainty about the origin and early history of floorball to simply state that "Floorball as a game comes from northern Europe"? An alternative theory, one I've come across quite a number of times, is that floorball was first played in the US, where it was discovered by a Dutchman, who took it to Rotterdam, where a number of Swedes discovered it, who took it to Sweden, where it was developed into the sport we now know as floorball. I wouldn't be surprised if there were similar stories involving other countries. What information is there on the early days of floorball? AecisBrievenbus 23:40, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of the game

message: someone put up the imperial measurements, please! --Pwnage8 (talk) 22:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Its a European game, so everything is metric. Feel free to do the conversions if you like ;) Metao (talk) 00:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Measurements

message: Do we really need all the results for all the tournaments? International tournaments, okay, sure, but national tournaments are probably not really necessary - partly for keeping the page readable, and partly because we cannot possibly be fair in deciding which national tournaments are more important than others. National tournament results probably belong on a national page (see Football in Scotland). If it becomes necessary, these can further be split up (see 2008-09 in Scottish football). Metao (talk) 01:17, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Strong point ... this page should be only about the game itself, and it's history. I see no need to have any results up on the page. In this case, lists should be made (i.e. List of World Floorball Championship Winners)Zadora13 (talk) 15:52, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Results 

message: I believe that we should work to getting floorball to FA status so that we can eventually have it on the Wikipedia Main Page as one of their featured daily articles. This way, the sport of floorball gets some recognition, and more people will begin contributing to it.We will most likely need to clean up the article (results, federations), and add more sources, as well as getting in touch with the IFF for information. In addition to that, we will need someone to consult floorball on Swedish and Finnish Wikipedia's. The talk page will need to be cleaned up/archived, and people should start joining WikiProject Floorball in order to grow an important floorball resource.I do believe I speak for everyone here in saying that we really want to see floorball grow and expand. Let's do something small (or big) to help out with floorball on Wikipedia. Feel free to leave your comments or concerns, or any propositions you may have.Cheers, Zadora13(Talk) - 02:29, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
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message: Should I add something about sticks having "curve" and other such features, or is that too specific?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ProjectSaver (talk • contribs) 18:14, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
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