Talk:Referee

message: "each side will still supply their own partisan assistant referees". Isn't that implying that the assistant referees are expected to be biased, which doesn't sound like the case, even in amateur matches. DJ Clayworth 22:28, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Partisan assistant referees 

message: I have removed the section added by Descent which stated: "In most sports it is often wholly unacceptable to push or strike a referee and typically results in immediate explusion, fines, and future suspensions. Even verbally attacking a referee can result in immediate punishment, as in soccer where only team captains may debate or question a call". This was because:
a) It didn't really fit in to where it was; and 
b) The information on soccer/football referees was incorrect: There is no prohibition on any player asking the referee a legitimate question (even though the referee is not bound to answer one), however no player (including the captain) may dissent a decision by the referee (Law 12). The captains are afforded no extra rights or privileges under the Laws; in fact the word "captain" isn't used in the Laws!
Cheers, --Daveb 03:47, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Debating with soccer/football referee 

message: Playing along with the notion that pro wrestling "referees" do anything bu play along with the written script is extremely un-encyclopedic.  They're not real refs, they're actors.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roadshell (talk • contribs) 04:40, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pro Wrestling? 

message: When did the term "originate" in football? I doubt it because baseball used something like the two-umpire one-referee system around 1860. Cricket used two umpires, one appointed by each team, perhaps in the 18th century. This is not something I will research and write into the article now but I do doubt the claim for a football origin. 
I flagged the first sentence "citation needed" (the fact template, one of few that I know) but that isn't the only need or the obvious location. The paragraph needs a temporal reference or three, like what century is this? --P64 (talk) 00:12, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin 

message: Seems straightforward to me that they should be merged, but what do I know?  There should also be a redirect from athletics official. Walrus heart (talk) 19:19, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Several other sports have dedicated pages for officials, before merging perhaps you could post in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Athletics to see if they want to and can expand the article. LunarLander // talk // 01:39, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Athletics Official]] 

message: Shouldn't this kind of referee be mentioned in the article, or redirected to another?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.216.193.142 (talk) 16:03, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That'd be covered at Referee (disambiguation). —C.Fred (talk) 02:55, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Referees in science journals 

message: Hi, I have tagged this article as it has no references at all. If anyone could help provide them please? Thanks --JetBlast (talk) 00:28, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Many of the sections will not need references, as the supporting cites will be in the related articles, e.g. Referee (association football) or Umpire (baseball). —C.Fred (talk) 01:37, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: e. g. []  --  92.117.163.38 (talk) 19:32, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of well-known/famous/... refs? 

message: They're called umpires, not (as the article has it) referees.  And their duties are extensive.  See this article from 2011.  
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/sports/golf/05golf.html
68.196.1.236 (talk) 02:52, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I intend to split out Umpire from  the article. Too much trying to jam the Umpire square peg into this article. According to that article they are simply golf officials. Time to take out golf all together. JorgeLaArdilla (talk) 12:56, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  need a real writeup of golf umpires