Talk:Curling

Directional Sweeping

Much of the writing about sweeping is now out of date. Sweeping can be done to make the rock curl farther, straighter, or curl more. If you watch a professional game you will often see only one sweeper sweeping (and who is sweeping might change part way down the ice). This is done if the weight is fine, but they want to affect the direction (as this is determined by what side of the rock's direction of curl the sweeping is coming from). 2604:3D09:C7F:95C3:9064:1C69:348F:2C08 (talk) 06:33, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

You are right OP. What we have is the basic or maybe introductory that many people will get to curling, but it does get a lot more complicated. It already has a citation tag, I'm worried about how many people have written on this, an will look some sources on this. Happy Editing--IAmChaos 07:58, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Came here to post this. The sweeping section is incredibly dated. Does anyone have any good citations to use to update it?

Stuff that should be included:

-Sweeping can make the rock curl more

-Sweeping can make the rock travel straighter

- Sweeping can make the rock go further

- Knifing technique

- Sweepers stand behind the rock, and sweep almost parallel to the rocks direction (but the angle off parallel makes a big difference). 2604:3D08:248B:9400:85E0:F435:EC8B:9B26 (talk) 04:29, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Size of curling stone

I don't feel comfortable editing an article, but someone should double check the size of curling stones. The article says the maximum circumference of a stone is 11 inches which would make the diameter 3.5 inches. That's obviously wrong. 2600:1014:A005:2A4B:8C88:7CD1:6BFC:EA1E (talk) 03:56, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Fixed. An IP made that change and no-one noticed. Meters (talk) 05:53, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Recent Quarry operations

At time of posting the section on the stones themselves states the last quarrying operations on Ailsa Craig took place in 2013.

This now appears to be out of date based on this video where the YT channel owner visited the craig with Kays of Scotland as they were allowed to quarry 25,000 tons of Common Green. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTjOoeR0iFY

I'm not finding many other sources from a cursory search (I also don't have a ton of time atm), so I don't feel comfortable just adding the info without additional sources, but it's probably something that needs looking into.

Bpendragon (talk) 21:02, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

no tick rule

There is no mention of the no tick rule in the article. 80.216.228.14 (talk) 19:36, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

That's what's great about wikipedia. Anyone can contribute. Go ahead and add what you think is missing. meamemg (talk) 19:43, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Diagram

Could someone please provide a diagram of the target area (?), with labels and scoring potential? Gil gosseyn (talk) 01:26, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi - there's already a diagram at the 'Types of shots' section. If you're thinking that there are different points depending on where a rock finishes, that's not correct. The scoring is one point nearest the button plus more if a team has more than one nearer than the opposition (see the 'Scoring' section). Regards, PKT(alk) 12:57, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Etymology

It would be nice if someone could add something about the etymology of 'curling'. This history magazine (in Dutch) has some claims (the Wikipedia they refer to is nlwiki, in case you wonder). effeietsanders 18:22, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

That's what's great about wikipedia. Anyone can contribute. Go ahead and add what you think is missing. meamemg (talk) 18:55, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

There is sufficient confusion on the topic, that this would require either someone with some actual knowledge on the issue, or someone to spend more meaningful time on digging into the etymology, to make a contribution that is actually reliable. I'm leaving a comment here, because I haven't been able to find a reasonably convincing answer in the time I was able to dedicate to this particular topic. However, I can assume that there are other people wondering the same, who may have additional information in the future, that this hard-to-find source linked above might prove helpful to them. Or perhaps there are some colleagues here who get curious and try to dig deeper. effeietsanders 11:18, 19 February 2026 (UTC)