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November 16

sports

I would like to have an article on the topic. "sports for girls in the ancient days" and "sports for girls in the modern days". --Sadie666 (talk) 06:28, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sports for girls in the modern days would be a very short article that simply says "All of them". —Nelson Ricardo (talk) 06:36, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We have an article on Women's sports. The section on ancient civilizations requires expansion.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 12:00, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to object that there's no women's decathlon, Nelson, but apparently there is. We also have a Timeline of women's sports, but it lists nothing before 1780 and suffers from rather poor coverage of women's sports outside of America. --Antiquary (talk) 14:10, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I recently saw a contestant on a quiz show talking about the 1970s, which was, according to her, "before they had electricity". So, in her world view, 1780 is truly ancient. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 20:17, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

On a different tack from the "inclusion of women in previously all-male sports" line, rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming are strictly women's sports at the hightest level (i.e., the Olympics). Deor (talk) 22:06, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Women do not participate in professional sumo wrestling. Apparently there used to be "a form of female sumo or onnazumo" though "in the cities it was more of a spectacle often associated with brothels", according to our article on controversies in professional sumo, subsection "Women and sumo". ---Sluzzelin talk 22:24, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sadie! The great thing about Wikipedia is that it's an encyclopedia that anyone can create and edit - including you. Have a look through Women's sports and the associated pages and talk pages to get an idea of scope and format and so on. The, be WP:BOLD and try writing an article yourself. I highly suggest you do so within your own personal sandbox, here (basically it's a safe area for you to play around in while you figure out how things work). Also, give a look WP:YOURFIRSTARTICLE for some great tips. After you're done some reading and thinking, you may decide to just expand an existing article instead - and that's great too! Matt Deres (talk) 17:14, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]