Talk:Shuttlecock

This page seems to need another image (The "Diagram" looks quite ugly)

I've come up with my own "Diagram", which is this:

(Yes, I'm no Ascii art fan.)

--bodq 11:44, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

TODO I shall make a photo as soon as I'd get my hands on digital camera I don't own any fearher shuttlecocks, but I might as well borrow it.

--bodq 18:39, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

So here is the promised picture.

It would probrably look better with border, but I don't know how ho achieve that.

--bodq 14:30, 6 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to me, that every dictionary I've looked in, and all the top hits on Google, say that a shuttlecock is a name for the 'birdie' of badminton. This comes from the original game, shuttlecock and battledore, where the shuttlecock was the object hit back and forth and the battledore was the paddle used to hit it with. I'm going to revert the article and then add back some relevant information about this sport of shuttlecock, but I think that the far more common definition as a birdie should take priority in this article. QVanillaQ 04:26, 4 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I just added back a link to the sport of Jianzi, which is what the rewrite of the page was about. QVanillaQ 04:35, 4 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Shuttlecock sport and Shuttlecock Sport

These were both recently created by User:62.74.5.158 and User:Jostar (who may be the same person); I redirected the latter (which was identical) to the former, but presumably both should be merged here (if not deleted). — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 08:20, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pricing of feather/plastic

I changed the part where it said that the price of plastics were very similar to those of feathers. HELLO?? Pricing is not even close. Because of this change, I also had to make a slight correction to the first sentence of the next paragraph. Tingalex 21:53, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Birdies

Should there be mention of this name (Birdy) in the article, because this is what I hear most commonly in reference to shuttlecocks-(at least in middle school)?

It already is there: "The name shuttlecock is frequently shortened to shuttle; a shuttlecock may also be known as a bird or birdie." If you think the correct singular for this slang noun is "birdy" rather than "birdie", go ahead and edit that spelling :) --Mike Hopley 22:36, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Source of Feathers

Are there any animal rights issues surrounding the use of feathered shuttlecocks? Were do the feathers come from? Are certain species of animals used and raised in captivity? It'd be an interesting topic.

History

Anyone got anything to contribute? Turkeyphan^t 15:59, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Olympics using plastic shuttlecocks?

I paused my DVR and could swear that plastic shuttlecocks are being used in the 2008 Summer Games. I'm no expert on badminton by any stretch, so I don't want to edit the page really, but this line seems to contradict what I'm seeing on my television: "all senior international tournaments use only feather shuttlecocks of the highest quality." Additionally, this sentence seems to contradict WP:WEASEL anyway so maybe it should just be removed. Thx1200 (talk) 05:19, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]