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Article move
editThe article that was here was moved to College athletics in the United States because it had a global tag since 2009. As the article had not been fixed in a long time and the structure was not conducive to providing a global perspective, it was the easiest solution to fixing the problem. A stub article was created here. Yes, it is pretty awful but a new structure and removal of the USA centric perspective should allow for greater improvement. --LauraHale (talk) 23:33, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- The USA-centric perspective you reference is a U.K.-generated parallax. While the entire world recognizes and uses "athletic" in the same way, the scant 62 million people in the U.K. are the ones holding all these pages hostage because they insist "athletics" is different than "athletic." The 350 million people in North America, plus the other English-speaking countries of the world do not demand such monolithic and dogmatic separation of "athletic" and "athletics." For all the rest of us, athletic is the adjective and athletics is the noun referring to the same broad-base of sports competitions which include swimming, volleyball, boxing, etc. TommyKirchhoff (talk) 12:56, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
- This is an Indian news publication discussing "athletics" in New Zealand: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Athletics-New-Zealand TommyKirchhoff (talk) 13:28, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Professionalization of college athletics
editIf professionalization of college sports will be discussed in this article, it needs to be from a truly global perspective. Any attempts to include large tracts about the United States only will be trimmed down to roughly one or two sentences. --LauraHale (talk) 02:02, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
Undue tag
edit@Prisencolin:, could you explain why this was tagged? I'd like to resolve the tag. pbp 02:45, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
- It was quite a while ago so I don't remember exactly. I think it had to do with the fact that US college sports is far more prominent than any other country (except occasionally Canada) therefore it should be given more weight. I don't remember honestly and you can remove the tag if you'd like.--Prisencolin (talk) 02:49, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
- Yeah, there wasn't any mention of U.S. college athletics at all. I put in a paragraph that summarizes College athletics in the United States and removed the tag. pbp 03:06, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
Adding more detail
editFor the ‘World University Games’ section, provide more details. State where they were held, why the name changed and more about what the games entail. For the ‘United Kingdom’ portion, talk about why the Boat Race between oxford and Cambridge is such a big, annual event. Maybe mention how many people show up and where the event is held. Btennis (talk) 15:43, 23 January 2017 (UTC)