User talk:Th0rgall/sandbox/Freeskates

Hello, welcome to the talk page on my rewrite of Freeline skates. See Talk:Freeline skates for a message containing initial thoughts on this rewrite. You can certainly help:

By adding additional content of course.
I'm now writing mostly out of experience, a lot more sources will be needed to support the statements.
I'm a beginning Wikipedia contributor, I still have a lot to learn about encyclopaedic style and good practices. If you think certain elements are problematic in any way (too much how-to, too specific information,...) please let me know here and correct it if you want. My goal is to create a quality encyclopaedic article, not an advertisement talk about the sport or its manufacturers.
- An update of this, according to Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not:
  - At the moment there are a lot of problems with "original thought", since this article is written almost completely from own experience and such. I am however confident to find a lot of sources like interviews with the inventors, third party community websites, newspapers ... supporting my views.
  - The "soapbox" section is also problematic now, I realize some text elements can be considered as persuasive info towards a prospective Freeskater. Th0rgall (talk) 14:35, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not a native English speaker, stylistic and other language related corrections are certainly welcome.

Thanks for passing by, Th0rgall (talk) 10:36, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

Hey, I listened to the YouTube interview with Ryan Farrelly that you referenced. At 4:30, they talk about a newspaper article:

Chris Cantore:...a week later, there you are in the UT and they did a whole piece on you in the paper!

Ryan Farrelly:Yea, that was cool. Front page, they hooked it up.

I think that a newspaper article would be a phenomenal source for this page if we can track it down. I think that the "UT" that they're referring to here is The San Diego Union-Tribune. I briefly poked around, but I wasn't able to easily find an archive for the Union-Tribune to dig through. If it comes to it, we might be able to get some help by contacting a library, or if they have a historian on staff, emailing them directly.

Knowing a range of dates to look for would be really good here. The YouTube video was posted in 2010, and the description says it was from a couple of years ago... I know it's not much to go on... I did find out that the host's name is Chris Cantore though. It sounds like the show might have been called Cantore in the Morning and it aired on the station Modern Rock XTRA. Raspberry Curator (talk) 03:26, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures

Here is a list of picture idea's that I think would be illustrative (take it as a sort of "to-do")

A picture of someone acutally freelining in the introduction, I think a good picture of Ryan Farreley doing a downhill would be cool (if we can get a suitable one, with permission).
Trick section: a good picture illustrating a or several one foot riding tricks.
Trick section: a picture of someone doing a jump with grabs (I'm going to search for a good one of Isamu Yamamoto), or a stomp jump to get on a curb
A picture of a whole lot of types of Freelines together (JMK, OG, fakes, ...)
Community section: a picture of a community meeting — Preceding unsigned comment added by Th0rgall (talk • contribs) 15:03, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]