Category talk:Roller skating

Is this for all wheeled-skate related articles?

Is this intended to be the category for inline-or-quad skating - i.e. all skating on surfaces other than ice, using "some kind of rotating things" as opposed to sharpened blades? It currently contains a lot of inline skating pages, so I guess that's a "yes" from at least some people. Or should we not bother with such a category, and instead put pages like Street skating and Road skating directly into the "Skating" category

(I personally also favour a "yes" answer, and use of the term "quad skating" to disambiguate "traditional" roller skates. See for example the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports which clearly considers inline to be within its remit)

A lot of the skating pages seem to be a bit all over the map at the moment and I'm trying to get a picture for what goes where (confining myself to the non-ice varieties as I don't know anything about skating on the slippy stuff). Getting them all into the same category would be a good start Daniel Barlow 23:53, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I'd say it's a "yes". The way categories go, they usually start out pretty general, and then if it they grow too large and it seems there is a need to push some of the articles into a subcategory, new subcategories are created and articles are moved into them. So this "Roller skating" category should contain all of the wheeled-skating articles (move them out of the more general Skating category if any are there). Once they're all here, if it seems useful, we might make subcategories for different disciplines and types of skates; articles that fall under those will be refiled under them, but you can still navigate to them from here. There are already some subcategories set up. —mjb 07:03, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Goodwood Roller Marathon

I just wanted to say thank you to the writers and editors of the Roller skating pages/category they have changed a lot since last time I was here and look great! I am considering doing an article on Goodwood Roller Marathon as I feel that events aren't represented that well on Wikipedia (funny how many people think we all meet on street corners). I feel I can talk about Goodwood Roller Marathon as I am an organiser but couldn't do the same article for other events. Before I start, as there aren't already events pages can I please confirm that no one objects!? I think this is the best way of asking? :-) --Dogsbody 18:29, 3 January 2007 (UTC)