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Archive 1 -- beginning-Mar 9 07

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[edit] Pictures

(I've archived the page, since none of the discussions appeared to be active.)

I added some picture that were available on Commons. I tried to find the most representative ones for each shot, and get a balance of men and women. I don't really like the forehand one, but there weren't too many there. Here are some others that I liked, feel free to change them up:

Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 00:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Featured Article drive

We at WikiProject Tennis are starting a drive to improve this article to Featured status. We will soon assess the article against FA standards and provide notes for improvement. Let's show the Wikipedia community what we can do! Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 00:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Additional citations are needed for improvement, especially in history section. --KZ Talk • Vandal • Contrib 09:22, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Verifiability

I was wondering at the verifiabilty of "Other rules of play used in American high school tennis" and the one after that. Seems to be an unverifiable sub-topic to be placed in the article? --KZ Talk • Vandal • Contrib 05:49, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I think the info in the section deserves to be here, but maybe in a section called "alternate rules" or something. The stuff about Canadian/American/Australian doubles and wheelchair tennis could go there, too. --Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 06:14, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Successful players of the past

I've tagged this section for violation of WP:NPOV. Both "great" or "successful" are entirely subjective terms. As it sits now, it also places WP:Undue weight on pre-open era men's players. I'll allow that it's a good debate, but it's not appropriate for Wikipedia. There's really no way we can stop this from being a soapbox, other than completely removing the section. Parts of it (and one section in 'history') look more to be link farms to "my favorite player".

Anyway, let's discuss this and try to get a consensus before this turns into a revert war. --Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 07:03, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete non encyclopedic. Non of the other featured articles have this section. --KZ Talk • Contribs 21:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete unencyclopedic-if there's a tennis wiki, put it there, but not here Bluebrody7 03:30, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
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