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Welcome to WikiProject Sports. This collaboration resource and group is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of sports, including the organization of information and articles on this topic area. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and various resources, including article assessment information, that we hope help focus the efforts of other Wikipedians to improve all sport related articles in order to make Wikipedia an excellent resource for sports-related information for all who visit. And we are here to point editors in the right direction to get involved in child projects that focus on their more particular sporting interests. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page, join the project, and see the to-do list below.
Scope[edit]
This WikiProject aims primarily to:
- Describe how sporting-related articles should be represented and what information belongs in the articles
- Provide a central location for coordinating and organizing sports articles and their features
- Serve as an article assessment group, helping move articles closer and closer to Featured Article status
- Foster sports article creation and improvement
- Creation of useful Wikipedia templates for use in sports articles – navigation boxes, stub tags, infoboxes, etc.
- Out of scope: board games, table top games, video games (even sports simulation ones) and other games of a non-sporting character; for such pastimes, please see WikiProject Games and its child projects.
- Also out of scope are individual athletes. These should be under the person's relevant sports Wikiproject
Portals[edit]
Open tasks[edit]
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Article assessment[edit]
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Instructions
Any member of WikiProject Sports may assess Sports-related articles by following the guidelines below. If you aren't sure about an article, ask about it on the assessment page.
Class
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the ((WikiProject Sports)) project banner on its talk page:
((WikiProject Sports|class=???))
The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
| FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class sports articles) |  FA |
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| A (adds articles to Category:A-Class sports articles) |  A |
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| GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class sports articles) |  GA |
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| B (adds articles to Category:B-Class sports articles) | B | |
| C (adds articles to Category:C-Class sports articles) | C | |
| Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class sports articles) | Start | |
| Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class sports articles) | Stub | |
| FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class sports articles) | FL |
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| List (adds articles to Category:List-Class sports articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
| Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class sports articles) | Category | |
| Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class sports articles) | Disambig | |
| Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class sports articles) | Draft | |
| File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class sports articles) | File | |
| Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class sports articles) | Portal | |
| Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class sports articles) | Project | |
| Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class sports articles) | Redirect | |
| Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class sports articles) | Template | |
| NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class sports articles) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed sports articles) | ??? |
Core articles
These are some of the most important articles to improve to GA-quality or better - or at least cleanup to B-class without tags.
Article alerts[edit]
Did you know
- 24 Jan 2024 – Demise and revival of compulsory figures (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Figureskatingfan (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 22 Feb 2024 – Puttshack (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Duffbeerforme (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 22 Feb 2024 – Sweet spot (sports) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by DrowssapSMM (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 21 Feb 2024 – Cedar Run District (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Flux55 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 21 Feb 2024 – Viktor Rájek (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by CuteDolphin712 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 21 Feb 2024 – 2034 Winter Olympics (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by GeoffreyT2000 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
- 21 Feb 2024 – List of Formula Regional champions (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by SpacedFarmer (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 20 Feb 2024 – Kuala Lumpur Cricket Association (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by UtherSRG (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 20 Feb 2024 – Royal Southampton Yacht Club (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by AusLondonder (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 19 Feb 2024 – Royal Dart Yacht Club (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JMWt (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 19 Feb 2024 – F.C. Banjar Union (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by North8000 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
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Proposed deletions
- 20 Feb 2024 – UK Armed Forces Polo Association (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by AusLondonder (t · c): concern
- 19 Feb 2024 – Puttshack (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Duffbeerforme (t · c) was deproded by Jax 0677 (t · c) (author) on 20 Feb 2024
- 14 Feb 2024 – Ken Hermann (disambiguation) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by AllTheUsernamesAreInUse (t · c) and endorsed by Boleyn (t · c) on 15 Feb 2024 was deproded by Voorts (t · c) on 17 Feb 2024
- 14 Feb 2024 – Majestic League (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Hey man im josh (t · c) was deleted
Categories for discussion
- 21 Feb 2024 – Category:Women sports announcers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by HouseBlaster (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – Category:High school wrestling in Pennsylvania (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – Category:Sports venues by city (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – Category:Sports venues by country and city (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – Category:Sport-related lists by city (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – Category:Sports competitions by city (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – Category:Sports organizations by city (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – Category:Sport by city and sport (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – Category:Sports clubs and teams by city (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – Category:International sports competitions by city (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 (t · c); see discussion
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Redirects for discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – 2030 Super Bowl (talk · edit · hist) →Super Bowl was RfDed by Hey man im josh (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – Super Bowl LXIV (talk · edit · hist) →Super Bowl was RfDed by Hey man im josh (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – Super Bowl 64 (talk · edit · hist) →Super Bowl was RfDed by Hey man im josh (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – 2029 Super Bowl (talk · edit · hist) →Super Bowl was RfDed by Hey man im josh (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – Super Bowl LXIII (talk · edit · hist) →Super Bowl was RfDed by Hey man im josh (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – Super Bowl 63 (talk · edit · hist) →Super Bowl was RfDed by Hey man im josh (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 19 Dec 2023 – MS Dhoni (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Magentic Manifestations (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Aug 2023 – 2022 FIFA World Cup (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Lee Vilenski (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 11 Feb 2024 – United States Football League (2022) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to United States Football League (2022–23) by GoodDay (t · c); see discussion
- 13 Feb 2024 – XFL (2020) (talk · edit · hist) move request to XFL (2020–23) by GoodDay (t · c) was moved to XFL (2020–2023) (talk · edit · hist) by Robertsky (t · c) on 21 Feb 2024; see discussion
- 09 Feb 2024 – Overtime (sports) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Extra time by YorkshireExpat (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 13 Feb 2024 – 2023 SEA Men's V.League – Second Leg (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 2023 SEA Men's V.League by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion
- 13 Feb 2024 – 2023 SEA Men's V.League – First Leg (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 2023 SEA Men's V.League by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion
- 04 Feb 2024 – Stat padding (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Running up the score by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 12 Feb 2024 – Minister for Culture, Sport and Recreation (New South Wales) (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Minister for Sport (New South Wales) by DilatoryRevolution (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Articles to be split
- 08 Jun 2023 – The Soccer Tournament (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Gargaj (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Jun 2023 – USC Trojans (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mifield (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Mar 2023 – Fight song (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by MagentaCat1 (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Sep 2022 – 2022 in sports (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Tymewalk (t · c); see discussion
- 12 Sep 2022 – TNT Sports (United Kingdom) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by MegaSmike46 (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Jan 2020 – Sports league (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by SMcCandlish (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Jul 2019 – Victory parade (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by KolbertBot (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 21 Feb 2024 – Draft:Sam Finley (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Samfinley5 (t · c)
- 20 Feb 2024 – Draft:Gatineau Fusion (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Kristgendreau (t · c)
- 20 Feb 2024 – Draft:Damon Kemp (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by WorldClassChampion (t · c)
- 13 Feb 2024 – Draft:Ifunanya Okoro (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JTtheOG (t · c)
- 11 Feb 2024 – Draft:Ton van der Laaken (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 10 Feb 2024 – Draft:Alexander Karachun (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 10 Feb 2024 – Draft:Grace Loberg (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 09 Feb 2024 – Draft:Keith Rendleman (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 09 Feb 2024 – Draft:Adizero: Road To Records (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 94.197.242.116 (t · c)
- 09 Feb 2024 – Draft:Glasgow 2024 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by B1o766 (t · c)
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Templates[edit]
Talk page banner
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| ((WikiProject Sports)) |
Example of output:
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Talk Tags an article or other page (on its talk page, not in the article itself) as being within the scope of the project. Should not be used for articles that already have a more specific sports WikiProject tag, unless their tag does not support assessments and you are assessing the article. | |||||||||||||||||
Userbox
For all participants to use I have created a userbox to both declare your allegiance to the project and to increase the visibility of the project to the community.
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Sports. |
Infobox
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| ((Infobox sport overview)) |
Example of output:
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Talk An overview of sport in a country/state | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Structure[edit]
There shall be an alphabetical list of all sports. There shall also be an organization of sports by categories. There shall be a listing of sport competitions, that involve multiple sports (e.g. the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, the Maccabiah Games, the Good Will Games, etc.) -- competitions for particular sports, or groups of sports, would be better located on the page for that sport. The lists of competitions should be organized along the lines of what area of the world they involve -- i.e. are they global (e.g. the Olympics), restricted to a particular region of the world (Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, etc.), or restricted to a particular country (in which case, they could be placed under a section on the sport in that particular country.) These lists shall be either on the main Sports page, or if they become too long on separate pages linked to by the main page.
Suggested topics:
- information on sport in general (what is a sport?, why do people play sports?, what are the benefits of sport?)
- information on particular sports (Wikiproject Sports Listing)
- information on sporting competitions, clubs, events (incl. the Olympic Games)
- famous sports people
- sports ethics, drugs in sport, cheating
- related areas: sports law, sports medicine
- sporting history
Historical and annual summaries
The purpose of these articles (e.g., History of baseball, 2009 in sports) is to summarise significant events that are relevant to the sport or period under review. It is very important that the articles are not encumbered by excessive detail, particularly where a certain theme is being promoted. This is in accordance with general Wikipedia guidelines and policies such as WP:NOT#STATS, WP:UNDUEWEIGHT and WP:NOTDIRECTORY.
For that reason, the project has decided to exclude lists of births and deaths. Births have no conceivable importance to sports in the year of the person's birth, no matter how famous the person might become a generation hence. Deaths of active sportspersons are significant but must be recorded under a section about the relevant sport or the relevant time period.
History of sports: category
Articles that cover a sport's general history must be categorised in Category:History of sports and a category specific to the history of that sport. Histories of specific events in a sport or covering a limited period only must not be categorised in the sports history category.
Currently, there are relatively few general histories about individual sports and most sports have their histories within the sport's own article (e.g., the history of boxing is in the main boxing article, whereas baseball has a history of baseball article). Until such time as a general history of the sport can be created, the main article must be included in the sports history category.
Categories
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Subpages
- List of all subpages of this page
Sports by country of origin
Hierarchy
No official classification of Sports has been defined.
However:
- Category:Sports and its subcategories provide a hierarchical view of the sports articles and their categorization, and
- WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports provides a somewhat hierarchical view of sports-related WikiProjects.
Participants[edit]
Active participants
- 45BearsFan - Stadiums or Ice Hockey :D
- THENBAMVP - I usually do Basketball!
- Daniel kenneth –
- P64 –
- Spewmaster –
- Solar Police –
- SMcCandlish – I focus mostly on WP:CUE and WP:SNOOKER, but am insterested in the overall "administration" of the sports article- and category-space, as well as consistent templates, etc.
- SheffGruff – Interested mainly in 'field' hockey.
- Shootmaster 44 –
- StarryWorld –
- Carlosguitar –
- Lihaas – soccer + cricket + Sports diplomacy
- 2o-DeMoN-o8 – I follow all sports, and will be happy to do what I can.
- BlackJack – interested in a wide range of sports and especially their history
- Macarism – Likely to concentrate on sports with UK interests, and working on list articles
- Armbrust – I focus mostly on WP:TENNIS and WP:SNOOKER.
- Drsjpdc – I focus mostly on Olympic, World and Regional Games sports medicine, and sports chiropractic doctors involvement, and their federations.
- Sean –
- Afkatk – Mainly I'll probably focus on curling.
- Mark Rauterkus – of Pittsburgh, PA, USA, a swim coach and wiki organizer at A for Athlete.
- zoroark –
- ANGCHENRUI – have contributed to Youth Olympic and football articles in general; still looking to attach myself to a sport-specific WikiProject
- Sellyme – I'm interested mainly in AFL and soccer, but will gladly contribute to any article in any sport.
- TechnoBladeSPX - Focusing mostly on soccer and cricket -- FIFA; IPL; CWC, but would be glad to help in Rugby, Basketball, or Tennis.
- Hic142 Hockey, Soccer, Racing, Rally
- Bill william compton – Cricket, Lawn Tennis, World and Regional Games, India related articles, etc.
- Around The Globe??????? ???? – active on WP:Cricket, contribute to other sports where possible
- Mckaywiii –
- Roger6r –
- Fabregas0414 – I focus mostly on WP:FOOTBALL, WP:TENNIS, WP:SNOOKER and WP:HKF(Hong Kong football).
- Jweiss11 – I focus on college football and American college athletics conferences
- GuzzyG – Will get around to updating coverage of minor sports and such. (sometimes major ones as well)
- Qantasplanes – Main focus on cricket.
- ZappaOMatic – Mainly focused on American football.
- Gustavo gho – Handball and WP:VOLLEYBALL
- buff – I mainly do American Football and Basketball.
- Miszatomic –
- MasterTTFV ([[Use – (3 June 2014) - British sport/players/teams, tennis, cricket and football
- Da Drewster – Lacrosse and Ice Hockey players, teams, seasons, venues and coaches.
- CUA 27 –
- SWASTIK – Interested mainly in Cricket and Soccer.
- dpchalmers – Most sports. Cricket, Football (Association & Australian), Rugby Union, Tennis, Athletics (Track & Field)...
- Fbgpwns5277 –
- Sirpottingmix – I focus mainly in both codes of Rugby, although I may pop up in Soccer, Basketball and Cricket.
- Bbabybear02?Talk – I mostly focus on Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Sports pages like the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Pittsburgh Penguins
- User:kostas20142
- Abishe
- User:Luisftd Tennis and athletics (combined events - heptathlon and decathlon) at the moment.
- User:Luxic
- Alfred Gonzalez
- User:Bennyben1998 - I was personally named after golfers Ben Hogan and Ben Crenshaw. I also like football, basketball, baseball, and hockey. :)
- User:Malo95 - I create WP:HANDBALL.
- Maxim Stoyalov
- User:CNorthHD - I'm a fan and writer for combat sports and both types of football, but I like most sports.
- Human
- Sue Kastle - I edit my favorite teams pages which include baseball, American football, ice hockey, rugby union, MMA (mixed martial arts), extreme sports and Olympic sport events.
- Dey subrata Edit generally on Indian sports and sports person and sometimes on other country teams and club
- Denim11 I edit my favourite game pages which include cricket and football .I also do some editing on other pages.
- Eliyili00
- Spaceboy900 I tend to focus mainly on college athletics and organizations like the National Junior College Athletic Association.
- Raavi Mohanty I research on sports equipment & manufacturers
- Andrew Base- I edit and research on cricket and football pages.
- Emily Mohlin - I plan to research and edit topics related to women's sports.
- Phikia – I focus mostly on water polo.
- Phosphor - A bit of every sport but mainly sports where athletes from my country achieve great results
- GDLenny123 - I mainly work on Multi-sport events like Olympic Games, Asian Games, Athletic Championships etc.
- EliteArcher88 - I have a passion for almost all sport but I used to compete in Archery.
- Bhockey10 - I mainly focus on US college athletics governing bodies, sports, conference, and teams as well as North American pro sports.
- JurassicClassic767 - I'm mainly interested in Soccer, Basketball and Cycling.
- Christine - As username implies. Trying to improve figure skating articles in time for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 04:26, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
- Fayçal.09 - I contribute in Soccer, all collective sports and many olympic sports. --Fayçal.09 (talk) 15:49, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
- Ken Tony- Work mainly on Football.
- Erokhin – I mainly focus on sports in Russia, USSR, Post-Soviet states.
- Yinglong999 - focus on wushu
- Arorae - focus on Athletics.
- Benjamin112 - Main focus on WP:FOOTBALL and especially WP:CYCLING; also like to fill in missing results of current/recent sports events while browsing around
- BRICK93
- Cyrobyte
- SarahTHunter - I focus on making bios for Paralympians.
- DannyHatcher
- Richard Michael William
- Kerenruz
- Jahamian876242 Mainly the sport of Athletics, with a focus on Bios, national records, and medal table updates.
- Sneha04
South Asian Games, Cricket, World Championships, World Tournaments - Ply.T - I focus on martial arts.
- Keith161
- ChekhovsGunman - I mainly focus on baseball and football.
- Patrick Cristiano - I focus mainly on the Philippines sports scene
- Rauterkus (talk) Webmasster, publisher of how-to books and coach in country club, scholastic and college settings.
- UberLordMetagross (talk) - I focus mainly on motorsports but occasionally chime in on football (soccer for the Americans) too
- 98Tigerius – assessing sports related articles
- Wildcat7176 – Baseball, American football, Ice Hockey, Basketball, Football, NASCAR, Golf, Tennis, Horse Racing
Former participants
- R-HIT
- Eisenhower
- gurulegend
- Einar Ragnarsson
- Catneven
- cheesepuffsaretasty!!!
- Alaney2k
- Bluedogtn
- Matt294069
- ProfCara - Interested in gender and sport
Related WikiProjects[edit]
Parent WikiProject
Descendant WikiProjects
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports for an up-to-date chart showing all sports WikiProjects and their interrelations.
- Wikiproject Biography – Sports and games work group
- WikiProject Flag Template – Result of a WP:VP request for handling flag icons, such as in sports results.
- WikiProject Games
- WikiProject Olympics
- WikiProject Wiki Makes Video/Sports
- Commons WikiProject Sports
