Talk:Steer roping

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Controversy

Why is there no mention of the controversy behind this event over animal cruelty? Why is there nothing about how this practice is banned in most states?

This website features numerous videos of this event in action, and this videos should be cited as a source for this page. http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000882 72.253.205.13 (talk) 01:42, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mostly an issue of sourcing and keeping an encyclopedic tone. Need citations to the state statutes that ban it and other non-axe-to-grind sources. Also, SHARK gets a little too hysterical to be credible, with wikipedia's NPOV standard, it isn't a very good source (ASPCA or HSUS are more credible and mainstream). This article sort of comes under the heading of "too obscure to hit the front burner" but if you have some solid sources that can be added that don't sound too over-emotional, I think it would help. Even a lot of mainstream rodeo people don't like this event, so solid info should be fine. Ditto the horse-tripping event in charreda if anyone wants to tackle that one. Montanabw^(talk) 03:41, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've taken a stab on it based on sources, I don't really have a strong feeling about the event--it's too far removed from my experience to feel that I understand the putative dangers involved or to be upset about it. There are frequent sources that say it's controversial that seem neutral, and the one source that gets into specific laws says (as of 2001) that only RI has banned it explicitly. Anyway, further improvements welcomed. --j⚛e decker ^talk 02:49, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You confused this with team roping which is totally different, and may have some material confused with calf roping. I'll review the sources later, for now, I just popped on a couple tags. Overall, it's good to see some sources, but I will need to review and be sure we are truly talking about steer tripping and not the other events. Montanabw^(talk) 20:15, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]