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Article Milestones Date Process Result May 11, 2006 Good article nominee Not listed March 22, 2007 Good article nominee Not listed Current Status: Failed good article nominee

	To-do list for Lacrosse:	edit  · history  · watch  · refresh
Add references and citations General cleanup Represent a world-wide view References themselves should be formatted consistently Some thought should be given to organization One more copyedit run through with an eye to consistent prose

Archives September 2004–November 2006

Contents 1 A Note To Management 2 Box lacrosse 3 Introduction 4 Failed GA-review 5 Fighting? 6 Ojibwe name 7 List of Leagues 8 Title: Lacrosse vs. LaCrosse

[edit] A Note To Management

I must regretfully inform you that I recently had to manually revert this page to the form it held before it was grievously vandalized with the following text:
BRAD SISSON HAS A HUGE PENIS
I figured you might want to know about this and that the problem HAS been corrected.
Odin of Trondheim 20:29, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
A post-scripted note to management: It was someone who either did not have an account or was not logged in, but the IP address is in the history menu and is either one of the two beneath the edit I made before I thought to revert it. It really is a good page.

It seems like you are new to Wikipedia, but I thought you might want to know that this is fairly common and you do not need to leave a note when you revert vadalism. However, thanks for doing it this time! --Yarnalgo 00:38, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Box lacrosse

I think Box Lacrosse section should be renamed to "fake lacrosse" or "grass hockey" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.167.219.97 (talk) 02:12, 10 March 2007 (UTC).

Given that box lacrosse is the most commonly played form at least in Canada, and is growing in popularity around the world, and fake lacrosse doesn't seem to be a defined term, I would disagree rather strongly with this suggestion Damien73 05:14, 4 April 2007 (UTC) DJ

[edit] Introduction

I would left out the number of players in the introduction. It is not important that there are 10,12 6 or what ever players on the pitch (in the little league there are 7....). 129.69.120.55kuni

[edit] Failed GA-review

There has been a major improvement in the depth of the article the last time the article was up for GA-status. It appears that the major reason it failed then was due to a lack of citations but this has only been partially rectified. Several sections have no citations at all and all but "Evolution of the Game" under undercited. This absolutely needs to be taken care of.

Governing Bodies - this is way too extensive. At least trim to National Bodies or create a new separtate List article.

In line external links should be converted to in-line references. There are a couple in International lacrosse.

References themselves should be formatted consistently (right now the list looks very cluttered).

See also section is much too long especially since you have a Lacrose category (2-3 is good, 5 max).

Some thought should be given to organization. Should Women's Lacrose follow right after Men's Lacrose. I have no real comment on the order just that it seemed a bit disjointed and a result of add-ons (what was written first).

Language is good but I suggest one more copyedit run through with an eye to consistent prose. Its always a problem with long articles.

The article really does have the necessary depth and of course lots of good pictures. Articles (ie. Sumo) were recently delisted because of similar citation problems. I will put this article on Hold for now rather than an outright fail.Peter Rehse 06:21, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Getting better, still would like to see more references and consistently entered references.Peter Rehse 00:16, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Failed primarily because of the reference issue but please refer to the above list.Peter Rehse 01:24, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fighting?

Should there be a section of this article about fighting? I read in a book I have about fighting in ice hockey that lacrosse is the only other sport where players are not outright ejected for fighting in organized play. --Mus Musculus 20:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ojibwe name

Baaga'adowe is the verb form: "to play lacrosse" or "s/he plays lacrosse". Baaga'adowewin is then the noun form of the verb (with the nominalizer -win), "the game of lacrosse". So I guess it depends on which you'd prefer to go with; it seemed to me that those were meant to be translations of the concept of the game itself, thus a noun. But I'm not sure. And it's true that baaga'adowe is closer to the earlier spelling (which maybe reflected baaga'adowewag, "they play lacrosse", but I'm just guessing here). I don't even know what difference any of this makes. But I find this sort of stuff interesting, so whatever. --Miskwito 06:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I guess baaga'adowewin would be right then, however the only reason I chose baaga'adowe is because that is very commonly known as like the native american word for lacrosse. Of course there were other languages, but this is the most known. --Yarnalgo _{talk to me} 22:54, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, if that's the case then I guess baaga'adowe is probably what the article should use. If it's given as the "Native American" name for lacrosse in many sources. --Miskwito 23:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Leagues

A minor suggestion - add this list of leagues:

Damien73 05:32, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Title: Lacrosse vs. LaCrosse

I'd like to point out that when you search for "lacrosse", the top hit is capitalized as "LaCrosse", which is wrong. It also shows up a few results down by it's correct title, but maybe the weirdly capitalized one should be removed. Just a thought. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.111.63.240 (talk) 03:39, 6 April 2007 (UTC).

I changed the LaCrosse redirect to be to Lacrosse (disambiguation), which seems like a better target. If you search for LaCrosse, you're more likely to be looking for a town or the car, not the sport. Thanks --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 11:48, 6 April 2007 (UTC)