Kmg1434

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The shrugs

Re: "The shrugs" please don't post articles until you actually have content ready in the form of complete sentences; an infobox cannot alone justify an article. One of the reasons for this is because the article must assert why the subject is important, and the band infobox didn't establish anything other than that the band has members. See WP:MUSIC for guidelines regarding the inclusion of articles on musical groups. Cheers, Postdlf 00:35, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Longboarding

I reverted your proposed edits to Longboarding but thought I should explain in more detail because my edit summary got cut off. Strictly speaking, there's nothing wrong with your edits except that you haven't provided a reliable source to verify those claims. Are you basing your edits on a particular book or article or are they based on your own experiences? Stalwart111 03:28, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

These edits are based on my own experiences as a professional longboarder. Unfortunately I cannot find a published source verifying these edits.

Some of them are surely common knowledge, including "longboarding is a sub-genre of skateboarding". Kmg1434 (talk) 03:28, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Okay, well there are lots of things that count as reliable sources, including old magazines (if you happen to have any). Common knowledge, maybe, but the word "genre" in the context of skateboarding seems a bit strange. Got an alternative? Stalwart111 14:17, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

True, how about sub-class or sub-section? I found a source for my edit on preventing "speed wobbles" here: http://www.stokedlongboarding.com/how-to/downhill/stopping-speed-wobbles/ Things such as slopestyle, most popular wheelbases, etc are simply not published since the sport is so young new, and quickly developing. Do youtube videos count as sources? I highly doubt it. Kmg1434 (talk) 14:59, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately, material from blogs like that is rarely considered reliable and yeah, YouTube videos can be problematic. In many ways, longboarding is probably only just notable enough for inclusion at all - as you say, it's new and growing and those sorts of things are rarely included. The vast majority of the content in the article is unsourced and I'm genuinely surprised nobody has tried to delete it yet! I think just explaining the physical difference between a longboard and a skateboard is probably enough until one of those longboarding industry pioneers writes a book about it and defines it properly (it won't be long - hell, if you're a professional and you can write, you could always consider it). Stalwart111 06:48, 11 October 2013 (UTC)