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April 17

Regarding my page

Hey, i am new to Wikipedia and i have created a page of Palash Muchhal , i got a message that it's proposed for deletion because i didn't add any references in the end. so i added one but still that message appears on the top of the page which reads that if you don't insert a reliable source the page will be deleted. Please see to it that it should not be deleted.

BuggedBrat (talk) Thank You.

That's not much of a source, just a small fraction of a page. Can't you find a more substantial source ? StuRat (talk) 08:38, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On my talk page, I have advised this user about notability, sources and footnotes. --Drm310 (talk) 16:49, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

All these sports

Sometimes it seems to me, there are new sports invented all the time and at the same time all the existing ones are still competed, many professionally.

Is there any example of a sport which has had prominence in audiences and media coverege but has since vanished, ceased to have any competitions (or almost none)? Snowsuit Wearer (talk|contribs) 20:55, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Boxing is trending that way. I'm not sure anyone does things like bear baiting in public competitions anymore. --Jayron 32 21:13, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It was such a nuisance getting the bear on the hook, and then there was the casting into the water, but it was all worth it when you caught something big. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:02, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jousting went away for quite some time. Then came back as a theatrical sort of thing. And according to our article, there's a limited amount of competition in jousting again. Dismas|^(talk) 21:22, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are many forms of popular sports that have faded away. Rounders, for example, isn't nearly as popular as baseball. Arena football never really took off. We also had a recent Q here about all the less popular forms of hockey. StuRat (talk) 21:41, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The so-called "Massachusetts game" a.k.a. "town ball" style of baseball was perhaps more like rounders than was the "New York game". In any case, Massachusetts town ball eventually disappeared as the New York game became dominant. There are still town ball games staged from time to time. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:45, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Similarly in football was a game called the "Boston game", which was a hybrid of both soccer and rugby; played with a round ball which could be kicked along the ground, but which also allowed for the hands to be used. American football itself developed more from Rugby than anything else, but aspects of the Boston game influenced the famous McGill-Harvard series that inspired the modern American game to blossom. There were also games known as mob football that were popular in the middle ages; they came to America with the colonists and survived until the 19th century, the best known being Old division football which was played at Dartmouth College. Similar games were played at other Ivy League schools as well, until they were all banned in the 1890s for their rampant violence. --Jayron 32 23:56, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Arena football never became as popular as the NFL, but that's a high bar to get over. It's still widely played and has a moderate following. --Jayron 32 21:47, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect, as our rounders article correctly states, it is still popular in the UK, arguably more so than baseball. Quantify your statements geographically, otherwise they don't make sense. Fgf10 (talk) 11:50, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Locally, sure. Globally speaking, rounders is nowhere near as popular as other bat-and-ball games, specifically cricket and baseball. Soccer gets not much more attention in America than baseball does in Britain. But globally it's hugely popular. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:36, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. If you localize any sport enough you can make it "hugely popular", say if you only consider the 1 person who plays that sport, then you get a 100% participation rate in that sport. StuRat (talk) 19:47, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sports can also disappear when a culture collapses. The ancient Roman gladiator "games", for example. (Although they were already in decline from when the Romans adopted Christianity.) StuRat (talk) 21:49, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also chariot racing, a hugely popular spectator sport in Roman times. Then there was the ancient olympic sport of pankration, a kind of mixed martial arts event. --Nicknack009 (talk) 11:12, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pedestrianism no longer packs in the crowds and attracts the gamblers, but it did in the 1800s. See also [1]. SemanticMantis (talk) 21:51, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Billiards is a great deal less popular today than it was a century ago, having been largely eclipsed by snooker and pool. There are also some popular recreational activities that were expected to become "proper" sports, but didn't - skateboarding and roller skating come to mind, and there may be other examples. Tevildo (talk) 08:45, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A little while ago, lots of Swiss still took their "Waffenläufe" ("weapon runs", cross country runners wearing camouflage uniforms and carrying a backpack and rifle, the Alpine version of Hoplitodromos) quite seriously, and even 15 years ago Swiss media would report prominently on some of the larger competitions, but the interest appears to have dwindled extremely since then; I haven't seen anything in the news in ages, and most of the races have ceased to exist. ---Sluzzelin talk 13:31, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are a lot of motor sport classes which has gone defunct, like the World Manufacturers' Championship, the World Sportscar Championship, the A1 Grand Prix etc. Outer Image (talk) 19:40, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are a number of "sports dropped from the Olympics" like club swinging, obstacle swimming and live pigeon shooting. The fact that they were Olympic events might show that they had some popularity once. Real tennis was once more popular as well. Rmhermen (talk) 20:11, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Snowshoe races used to be hugely popular in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. They've become a blip in the sporting landscape now. And there used to be a tug-of-war contest in the early modern Olympic games (I don't think it ever was a medal event however). Competitions are still organized, but at a much lower profile. --Xuxl (talk) 08:54, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Au contraire: Tug of war at the Summer Olympics shows it was a medal event in five Olympics. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:59, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See Vigoro. --Dweller (talk) 13:48, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]