Talk:Corner kick
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[edit] Article Style
I find this page very difficult to read and understand. It's too dry and academic. Could someone rewrite this in a more reader-friendly way please? Mandel 21:00, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
- This artical follows the standard format for football restarts. It may seem dry and academic, however this is an encyclopaedia.
- If you wish to add more information with regard to the strategy or game-play associated with corner kicks (of course in an encyclopaedic fashion) then please do so.
- Cheers, --Daveb 13:30, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
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- What standard format? I've been here since late 2003 and I've never seen any standard format for, what, football restart (headscratch)? Please let me know who I can officially complain about the poor structure of whatever football restart gibberish on Wikipedia.
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- Encyclopedias need not be dry and academic. Who'd like to read something that is either too academic or technical? There's a tag in Wikipedia for articles which are too technical, so who says Wikipedia ought to sound dry and unappetizing? A encyclopedia that is difficult to understand is a dead encyclopedia, period.
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- Was it cut and paste from FIFA's Laws of the Game? Of so many football articles in Wikipedia this must be one of the toughest to understand.Mandel 16:31, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
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- Perhaps "standard format" would be better worded "same format as the all articles on football restarts". All articles on the eight restarts used to resume play in football follow a similar format.
- I don't consider the article overly technical. It succinctly summarises a) When a corner kick is awarded; b) The procedure for a corner kick; and c) What happens if the procedure is not followed. As this is an encyclopaedia so the content must be accurate (there are enough misconceptions regarding the Laws as things are); perhaps this pursuit of accuracy makes is what gives you the impression of it being overly technical. The article contains information on strategy (gameplay; non technical) and even on proposals for using corner kicks as a tiebreaker (general discusion). No, the content is not cut and pasted from the Laws (which are actually written by IFAB, not FIFA), rather the article attempts to tighten up and make more readable the Laws.
- If you can make the information more "appetizing" whilst still maintaining completeness and accuracy then please have a go.
- Cheers, Dave.
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[edit] Merger
For the discussion on the proposed merger please see here
Lucy-marie (talk) 00:14, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed merge of Short corner into this article
I have proposed a merge of short corner, which I have just removed a proposed deletion tag from, into the main corner kick article. One problem with that article is lack of references, I am unsure if it contains original research so that would need to be resolved first, however I don't think it needs a separate article. --Snigbrook (talk) 00:53, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Speedy merge, it is a valid term, barely notable, would serve as a relevant redirect. MickMacNee (talk) 00:56, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- Merge, that's what I was getting at really by proposing deletion. A short corner is barely notable in association football. The term is more commonly used in field hockey, where it is a major way of trying to score. There is already an article for that under penalty corner. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 08:10, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
