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WikiProject Running

Statue of Betty Cuthbert outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Shortcut	WP:RUN
Category	Running
Wikimedia Commons	Running
Parent project(s)	Sports
Project banner template	((WikiProject Running)), ((running project))
Userbox	((User WikiProject Running))

A project was formed in 2006 to better organize information in articles related to running. It includes: track and field, trail running, road racing, marathoning, and ultramarathoning. This page and its subpages contain suggestions for enhancing such articles; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts on these topics. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

This WikiProject aims primarily to create, improve and organize articles relating to running. This includes but is not limited to the history of running as a competitive sport, as recreation, and as a basic means of bipedal locomotion. It includes: track and field, trail running, road racing, marathoning, and ultramarathoning.

Hierarchy definition

• Running (Category:Running)

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

1. tag all running related articles with ((WikiProject Running))
2. adding assessment and importance parameters when missing
3. find references for articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Running/Unreferenced BLPs
4. adopt an article and promote it to GA

In the mean time, you can find a list of running articles requiring attention here.

• List of all subpages of this page.

Featured list

As of August, 2007, the List of winners of the Boston Marathon has earned featured list status, meaning it has been identified as one of the best lists produced by the Wikipedia community.

In June 2009, the List of winners of the London Marathon earned featured list status.

Tagging

As of March 2010, we have over 500 articles currently tagged as being within the scope of this project. As of August 2010, we have now identified 9,524 articles as relating to this project. In September 2010, we identified an additional 680 articles that need to be assessed in terms of qualitfy and importance.

Assessment of running-related articles:

• Importance
  • Top = Core article or primary definition; central running topic/person or necessary for basic coverage of the topic (for example: sprint, long distance running)
  • High = Core daughter article or significant related topic/person, hard to write the article comprehensively and NPOV without this article, enjoys widespread notability and consensus (e.g., Barefoot running, Dipsea Race)
  • Mid = Daughter article or broad/basic definition, important for comprehensive coverage of the top issues, but not an integral definition (e.g., Jon Anderson (runner), Track Town, USA) For example, bio of runners that competed in the Olympics. Articles covering IAAF World Championship series are of at least mid importance.
  • Low = Non-core, the topic could be covered without this article (e.g., Walt Stack, Midnight Sun Run) Bio of runners who never competed in the Olympics.

• Quality
  • Has attained FA
  • A-class or could attain with a bit of work
  • GA-class or could attain GA with a bit of work
  • B-equivalent, mostly cited and accurate, but has some issues, could be citations, OR, POV, or incomprehensive. Not too much work needed to bring to decent standard, but may still be a stub or start.
  • Some cleanup/work needed, below B-class, has some issues like lack of citations, OR, POV, incomprehensive. Sustained attention needed to bring to standard.
  • More work needed, multiple issues such as uncited, essay, POV, dubious accuracy or questionable notability. Lots of attention needed.

We have now shifted to a system where editors designate the importance and quality of each article using parameters on the ((Running project)) template on each article's talk page.

All articles within the scope of WikiProject Running have been classified by quality and importance, as summarized in the table below. Users can access a list of articles with a particular combination of quality and assessment ratings by clicking on the appropriate square in this table.

Running articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1	1	4			6
FL	1		3	1			5
GA	1	7	16	23			47
B	1	19	65	143		3	231
C	8	39	146	382	1	46	622
Start	3	47	509	3,037		1,337	4,933
Stub		4	67	7,953	1	6,087	14,112
List		4	30	47		3	84
Category				1	3,313		3,314
Disambig					2		2
File					18		18
Project					4		4
Template		1	3		108		112
NA		1	9	82	104		196
Other					25		25
Assessed	14	123	849	11,673	3,576	7,476	23,711
Unassessed				4		157	161
Total	14	123	849	11,677	3,576	7,633	23,872
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 112,188			Ω = 5.64

• There is a bot-generated daily log which lists articles Reassessed, Assessed and Removed.

• Popular pages lists top Running articles with the most frequent views. It is updated monthly.

It is expected that this rating and assessment scheme will require periodic and iterative maintenance, as new articles are created or identified, and existing articles are progressively improved (or, hopefully much rarer, demoted), requiring the status to be reassessed.

Of course, anyone is free to edit any of the articles they choose without regard to priority, however it is hoped that this will provide some basis for a more methodical approach to the longer-term overall improvement of content and coverage in the field.

You may add yourself to the list here and/or add ((User WP Running)) to your profile page.

• Gosox5555 00:06, 16 June 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Ombudsman 08:16, 28 February 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Can't sleep, clown will eat me 05:30, 11 March 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Myles Long 18:04, 16 March 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• MisterHand 01:00, 27 March 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Sharpdust 03:38, 27 March 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• I Wonder March 28 2006
• wayzatarunning April 30 2006
• Dunne409 07:23, 8 May 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• SilkTork 21:41, 23 May 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Kelly Katula
• Zachyzz 15:53, 15 June 2006
• Longhornsg 21:54, 7 July 2006
• Farakon 09:24, 19 July 2006
• Meynardtengco 01:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Fordsbasement 10:34, 28 August 2006
• Tonyfuchs1019 18:11, 22 September 2006
• KarateLady September 25, 2006
• Mipchunk 19:35, 30 September 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• TrackMonkey 01:19, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• WillMak050389 22:17, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Shideharagaikou 15:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• DJREJECTED 02:13, 26 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Borat fan 20:46, 17 February 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Chrislamagne 17:24, 31 March 2007
• Geraldk 23:51, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Racepacket
• Marlith ^T/C 03:48, 4 October 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Redmarkviolinist 17:37, 29 October 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• NSH001 (talk) 23:11, 16 January 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Teh Rote (talk) 01:07, 11 March 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Blooded Edge: I've always been very interested in professional sprinters, and look forward to helping this project in acheiving its goals.
• Sticky Parkin 00:39, 10 November 2008 (UTC) I run as an attempt at fitness and enjoy organising/trying to improve articles on wiki:)Reply[reply]
• Riwo
• Runninguy
• Bearas 6 April 2010
• jakla 31 October 2010
• Bezza84 (talk) 15:31, 21 May 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Jowaninpensans 6 August 2011
• CanadianWikiUser 30 January 2013
• Green Pistachio 22 November 2013
• User:Legoboyvdlp
• mad runnerist 20 August 2014
• TheEditor867 24 April 2015 (UTC)
• User:LongDistance06 16 October 2015
• User:Whoisjohngalt 25 April 2016
• Curtisclaar (talk) 23:24, 25 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• User:Metro man 27 (talk)
• Habst (talk) 06:19, 25 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Jackalopeicus (talk) 12:1942 15 October 2019 (UTC)
• Jahamian876242 (talk) 20:48, 20 March 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• Fuchsia the Sun (talk · contribs) 15:58, 1 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• CipherSleuth (talk) 17:59, 29 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Notice there is a proposed new notability standard for runners which can be found here. A vote is currently being conducted on the talk page to adopt this as an official guideline to replace WP:ATHLETE. Articles for deletion

• 12 Feb 2024 – Mohamed Fouzai (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ltbdl (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 07 Feb 2024 – Antoine Nkounkou (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by F.Alexsandr (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 05 Feb 2024 – Radoslav Holúbek (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by CuteDolphin712 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 25 Jan 2024 – Ibrahim Tondi (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Geschichte (t · c) was closed as delete by OwenX (t · c) on 09 Feb 2024; see discussion (7 participants; relisted)

Articles to be split

• 30 Mar 2023 – USA Track & Field (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Pelmeen10 (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Jan 2023 – Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 37.222.245.42 (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Apr 2021 – Neurobiological effects of physical exercise (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 09 Feb 2024 – Draft:Adizero: Road To Records (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 94.197.242.116 (t · c)
• 15 Jan 2024 – Draft:Indoor Track at the Albuquerque Convention Center (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LetDoThis.Meh (t · c)
• 26 Aug 2023 – Draft:Charles Keating IV (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 50.37.92.170 (t · c)

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What to type	What it makes	What it's for
((running-stub)) Talk		The official stub for running-related articles.
((running project)) Talk	Running NA‑class This article is within the scope of WikiProject Running, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of running on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.RunningWikipedia:WikiProject RunningTemplate:WikiProject RunningRunning articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. To-do list: edit history watch purge tag all running related articles with ((WikiProject Running)) adding assessment and importance parameters when missing find references for articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Running/Unreferenced BLPs adopt an article and promote it to GA	The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of this Wikiproject.
((User Running)) Talk	This user just LOVES to run!	Just a userbox to tell others what you love to do!
((User WikiProject Running)) Talk	This user is a participant in WikiProject Running.	Just a userbox to tell others what you love to do on wikipedia!
((Running To-do)) Talk	tag all running related articles with ((WikiProject Running)) adding assessment and importance parameters when missing find references for articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Running/Unreferenced BLPs adopt an article and promote it to GA	A centralized to do list for the project

The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject Sports and WikiProject Transport.

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• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cycling
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• Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics
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