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Nicole Carpenter (2018-10-18). "Wikipedia drops "eSports"". Dot Esports.

This article has previously been nominated to be moved.

Discussions:

Electronic sports → Competitive gaming, not moved, closed 18:53, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
Electronic sports → Esports, moved, closed 17:59, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Esports → ESports, moved, closed 11:34, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
ESports → Esports, not moved, closed 18:50, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
ESports → Five options (E-sports, Professional video-gaming, Pro gaming, Electronic sports, Other), not moved, closed 08:04, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
ESports → Esports as result of MOS:VG RFC, moved, closed 02:44, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

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ESports in Thailand was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 7 November 2016 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Esports. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Reference ideas for Esports

The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Szablewicz, Marcella (March 2016). "China's E-Sports Paradox". Slate Magazine.
Orland, Kyle (2013-07-12). "Why Nintendo can legally shut down any Smash Bros. tournament it wants". Ars Technica.
Financial Times - Esports: Is the gaming business ready to come of age? - Nov. 5 2017

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Semi-protected edit request on 24 January 2022

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Change: Tournaments established in the late 1990s include the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL), QuakeCon, and the Professional Gamers League. PC games played at the CPL included the Counter-Strike series, Quake series, StarCraft, and Warcraft. TO: Tournaments established in the late 1990s include the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL), QuakeCon, Myth World Cup, and the Professional Gamers League. PC games played at the CPL included the Counter-Strike series, Quake series, StarCraft, and Warcraft. Homerrrr (talk) 19:28, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a reliable source regarding the addition of the Myth World Cup? Alyo (chat·edits) 20:13, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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SabaAnsari21 (talk) 10:06, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I found out that your wiki page needed some edits, and I was thinking if you can allow me to do that! 1. Grammar, spelling, formatting. 2. Citation if needed.

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 10:19, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Not a sport"

"Former ESPN president John Skipper described esports in 2014 as a competition and "not a sport". I remember seeing poker on ESPN, also no a sport. Is there any update on ESPN's stance?

Why is this protected?

I tried looking at the archived talks and couldn't find it. Why is this article protected?

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	I tried looking at the archived talks and couldn't find it. Why is this article protected? ~~[[Special:Contributions/64.72.40.86\|64.72.40.86]] ([[User talk:64.72.40.86\|talk]]) 00:04, 7 October 2022 (UTC)~~		I tried looking at the archived talks and couldn't find it. Why is this article protected?