Talk:Soccer dad

Reinstating Soccer dad

I would like to reinstate this article with the help/support of other editors, now that there are more references to support it. In our imperfect world, the term, "soccer dad," evokes different images (a father who may drive kids to soccer, but is likely to coach or keep game stats and focus on his kids as competitors, rather than just being a chauffeur) than "soccer mom." If you take umbrage with the discrepancy, there's no place for us to begin making change like naming the issue (see the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women's_History tag on article Soccer mom).

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Would you like to help make this a good article? Post your ideas here. To begIn the dialogue, I've given a brief of this article's history and listed some current references.
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History of article

Years ago (June 2006), I created this article, in recognition the distinction between "soccer dad" and "soccer mom." As soon as I put the article in the category, "Soccer," (because the culture of youth soccer is certainly part of this category, even though some sports fan editors eschew non-professional participants) editor, User:Johan Elisson, came out of the woodwork and strong-armed a quick deletion of Soccer dad. Without any research or real cultural understanding of the phrase, he dismissed it, lumping it into the Soccer mom article by redirecting there. I tried to explain the cultural phenomenon... to no avail. S/he seemed to believe there was no such term with any unique meaning. And s/he expressed no interest in discovering the facts, only in removing a topic with sociological value out of the category "Soccer," in which s/he had invested years of ownership. So, User:Johan Elisson deleted the article content and put a redirect (to [Soccer mom] in its place, leaving readers to believe that Wikipedians don't know the terms are used differently.