Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Player pages format
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This page provides the recommended format for articles about ice hockey players. Scott Walker's information is used to illustrate examples, except for some goaltender-specific information. Not all articles will slavishly conform to this standard; obviously, superstars such as Wayne Gretzky will have longer and more involved articles than more modest players (ex. Sheldon Keefe).
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[edit] Player Infobox
Use the Ice Hockey Player Infobox. Follow the instructions on the main page.
[edit] Article Sections
The first paragraph should be a very short introduction, including the player's position and notable teams for which he played. Do not say that the player "was" a hockey player unless he is deceased; rather say that he is a retired hockey player.
The following is a good example:
| Scott Walker (born July 19, 1973, in Cambridge, Ontario), is a Canadian professional ice hockey player, principally for the Nashville Predators. He plays right wing, but prior to the 1996-97 NHL season played defense. |
The next section should be in paragraph form and provide an overview of the player's career. It should note in which draft the player was drafted (or, if the player was undrafted, the article should note that fact). Drafts should be formated as: [[1999 NHL Entry Draft]] (most of the draft year articles have not been completed, but this way the links will be there when they get finished).
When noting the year that player did something in the NHL, use the [[2001-02 NHL season]] tags.
The following is an example of a Playing Career section:
[edit] Playing careerScott Walker was selected 124th overall, in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. He was selected as the 4th choice of the Vancouver Canucks on June 26, 1993. Exactly five years later on June 26, 1998 he was chosen by the Predators in the expansion draft. He currently plays for the Nashville Predators. Walker became the Nashville Predators' career scoring leader during the 2003-04 NHL season. At that time he was one of only three remaining original Predators on the Nashville roster (along with Greg Johnson and Tomas Vokoun). He played 589 regular season NHL games over ten seasons before making it to post season play. That is the second longest wait in NHL history. Only Guy Charron played more games without making the playoffs. Charron retired in 1981 after 734 games, before ever playing in a single post season game. Walker has two career hat tricks. The first came December 26, 2000, against the Colorado Avalanche at the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville. The first two goals were against David Aebischer and the third was into an empty net. His second came against the Phoenix Coyotes on December 22, 2002, also in Nashville. All three goals came against Brian Boucher. He was the first person to ever score an NHL goal at Glendale Arena when on December 27, 2003, he got the puck past Sean Burke at 14:17 of the first period. When Greg Johnson was sidelined with injuries, Walker served as the Predator's interim captain between January 12 and January 25, 2003. |
After the playing career comes the Awards section. This is a bulleted list of any awards the player has earned. Citations do not necessarily have to be major awards (like the Norris Trophy or Lady Byng), but they do have to be notable. Put them in chronological order if possible.
The following is an example of an Awards section:
[edit] Awards
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The next section is be a bulleted list of any records the person holds. It is acceptable to list records the person no longer holds, as long is it is noted who took the record from them, and when the record was taken from them.
The records listed can be of any level of notoriety (obviously not everyone is Wayne Gretzky). They can be for a franchise, nation, or league. Be sure and note what type of record (team record, league record, etc.) the person holds, as well as the year in which they were set, if applicable.
The following is an example of a Records section:
[edit] Records
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The next section is a wikitable of the player's statistics. There can be more than one totals section, but be sure to include the NHL (or highest league played in) totals. Do not include statistics from international competition; these will be included in the International Competition section below. As well, please refrain from updating stats mid-season, as it complicates things and Wikipedia's purpose is not to provide up-to-the-date statistics.
Goalie stats and Skater stats are necessarily different.
The following is an example of a Career Stats entry for a skater:
[edit] Career statistics
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| 1992-93 | team | league | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| NHL totals | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
The following is an example of a Career Stats section for a goalie (from Tomas Vokoun):
[edit] Career statistics[edit] Regular season
[edit] Post season
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The final section is the International Play section. If the player does not have a lot of international play, this can be a simple bullet list and stats. If the player has significant interational play (ie. Ivan Hlinka) then the section could be significantly larger, or the content could be included in Playing Career above.
The following is an example of an International Play section. Note that the country name links to the page of the national team and the competition names link to the most specific page available - "2004 World Cup of Hockey" and "Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics", for example, and simply "Ice Hockey World Championships" before 2004. Captaincy, alternate captaincy, and a top 3 finish in the competition should be noted in brackets as well. If statistics cannot be found for all the competitions, include just the ones you can find in the table. This example is from Darius Kasparitis and includes most of the situations described:
[edit] International playPlayed for the Soviet Union in:
Played for Russia in:
[edit] International statistics
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[edit] Categories Used for Players
Most players will have several categories to which they will belong. Each player should have a category for their nationality and for each team that he or she has ever been a member. All NHL teams have categories, as well as most junior teams and many minor league and college teams.
For more information on ice hockey categorization see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Category structure.
The following is an example of the code for the categories:
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[[Category:Canadian ice hockey players|Walker, Scott]] [[Category:Nashville Predators players|Walker, Scott]] [[Category:Vancouver Canucks players|Walker, Scott]] [[Category:Owen Sound Attack alumni|Walker, Scott]] |
[edit] If Player Articles are Not Formatted
If a player's article is not formatted according to this standard, then his or her name should be included at: Wikipedia:List of unformatted ice hockey players. Feel free to take any article on that list and properly format it!
[edit] Player Images
Do your best to find or produce free licensed images of players for the biographies article. You may want to upload pictures you've taken to Wikimedia Commons, so that they can be used in any international Wikipedia.
[edit] Images from NHLPA Website
Images from NHLPA Website are not free. They are copyrighted for The National Hockey League Players' Association, and any reproduction or publication of any part of the content of the NHLPA Website, without the express written permission of the NHLPA is prohibited. [1]. Moreover, even if NHLPA would give permission for the use of it's images on Wikipedia, those images would still not be free, and could only be used in accordance to Wikipedia's policy on usage of unfree material, that among other things, forbids the use of unfree images where a free alternative "could be created" (which is the case for living players).
[edit] Use of diacritics and non-English characters
The most common spelling in English should be used as the article's title for players, cities, teams, etc. See main article Wikipedia:Naming conventions (hockey).
