Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Figure Skating

Merging and improvement of PSA articles

I've merged Professional Skaters Guild of America and American Skaters Guild to Professional Skaters Association, as I believe that the renamings (edit: referring to the guilds renaming, not the Wikipedia articles) do not come with any significant change in purpose or function. i'd really appreciate the community's opinion on the merge. In addition, the new article would really benefit from the review of someone more knowledgeable about figure skating. In particular, the first two sections have very few citations, and the statements that are sourced rely on physical publications which don't seem to have been archived. I would really appreciate if someone who has access to older Guild materials could verify existing citations, and potentially add some. JarJarInks (talk) 18:54, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

@JarJarInks, I think the merge is fine. The problem is that the More citations needed templates that appeared on both versions are even more glaring now, which could be a problem going forward. I suggest that someone (not me, I don't have either the time or the inclination) should do some more research and find more sources to support all its claims. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 19:09, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

U.S. Figure Skating Championships

I’m done arguing with this guy over at U.S. Figure Skating Championships and Template:U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Would uninvolved editors please take a look and chime in. Other nations’ national championships do not feature rowspan like this and I’m sorry to have introduced it in the first place. Additionally, unless there is some reason why a competition was not held in a particular year (like major events like WWI or WWII), then there is zero reason to include it. It just clutters up with the tables and templates with pointless garbage. Bgsu98 (Talk) 04:28, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

With the template, 2026 should not be introduced yet. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. As for the US Figure Skating charts... tennis has pages with and without a player in every row. I actually think it is easier to follow with only a single name over multiple years. It takes less coding and it is easier to see blocks of dominance. As for the missing year, tennis always includes those missing years in grey. And there was a reason many sports got canceled or shortened in 1919... the Spanish Flu Pandemic! Quarantines, fear, difficulty planning... all these were because of the pandemic and still some war recovery. Fyunck(click) (talk) 07:58, 24 December 2024 (UTC)