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Welcome to the Lacrosse WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the sport of lacrosse.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Please participate in our current polls for allocating importance rankings to lacrosse-related articles.

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[edit] Goals

The goal of this project is to organize the efforts of those working on articles about and concerning the sport of lacrosse, including both field and box / indoor lacrosse.

[edit] Different kinds of lacrosse

  • There is already a page for box lacrosse, which also includes indoor lacrosse. Field lacrosse does not have its own page -- the lacrosse page describes field lacrosse, with a link to the box page.

[edit] Leagues

  • All professional or highest level of play lacrosse leagues should have pages describing (or at least listing) the teams, former teams, champions and past champions, awards, etc. Some of these may be on separate pages.

[edit] Teams

  • All teams should have pages, including years of existence, championships won, any franchise movement, etc.

[edit] Players

  • Player pages should include the year(s) that the player has played, which team(s) he/she played for (in as many leagues as possible), and should include stats (at least for NLL and MLL) if possible.
  • There is now an infobox ({{Infobox Lacrosse Player}}) that should be used on all player pages
  • Any participation in international lacrosse should be mentioned as well.

[edit] Other

  • We should have pages on all of the different tournaments and championships - Mann Cup, Minto Cup, NCAA, Heritage Cup, other international tournaments. Some of these already exist.

[edit] Assessment class

The assessment system allows the WikiProject to monitor the quality of articles in its subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. The following guidelines can help to determine what class should be assigned to an article. The class should be filled in on the "class" parameter of the {{Lacrosse}} template on the article's talk page.

For further details, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Lacrosse/Assessment.

[edit] Stub

A Stub-class article is possibly useful to someone who is not familiar with the subject of the article. It may be useless to a reader who is passingly familiar with the subject. The article does not meet criteria for Start class.

In addition to filling in the class parameter of the lacrosse template, please place the {{lacrosse-stub}} template at the bottom of the article, just above the categories.

See also: Category:Lacrosse stubs

[edit] NA

A class of "NA" should be used for non-articles, such as categories, infoboxes, userboxes, etc.

[edit] Image

A class of "Image" should be used for all lacrosse images.

[edit] Start

A Start-class article for players has a reasonably complete infobox, including a list of all current and former pro teams, and at least some statistics if possible. A short description of the player's career should also be included (i.e. something more than "<name> is a professional lacrosse player").

A Start-class article for teams should also have a reasonably complete infobox, including any and all franchise movement, and some text describing years of existence, championships, and other notable facts.

If the article meets these criteria, remove the stub tag, if any, and change the class parameter on the talk page to "start".

[edit] B-class

A B-class article has a fairly complete listing of details, and has had its text expanded.

It should include everything listed for Start-class, but also as complete an infobox as possible. For players, the article should include full stats for all professional leagues. For teams, win-loss records for each season of existence should be included.

The text should be more than one paragraph. A casual reader should learn something about the subject, including (for players) things like movement from team to team (i.e. trades, free-agent signings, etc.), awards won, and other lacrosse involvement (eg. international competition, college, etc.).

An article may be rated at B-class if it meets these criteria, even if other problems exist, such as needing substantial editing for English language usage and/or clarity or lack of references, but such problems should be tagged.

[edit] Good Article, A and Featured Article classes

These classes are reserved for the best of Wikipeida articles. They should not be assigned by an author.

Good Article: The article has passed through the Good article nomination process and been granted GA status, meeting the good article standards.

A-class: Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article. Should go through Peer-review.

Featured Article: Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status, and meet the current criteria for featured articles.

[edit] Open tasks

  • Expand the box lacrosse page the box and indoor lacrosse pages into one "box lacrosse" page Done --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 01:00, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
    • make "indoor lacrosse" redirect to the box page Done --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 01:00, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
    • expand the box page
  • Pull field lacrosse out of the lacrosse page into its own page, and rewrite the lacrosse page to be more general
  • Expand existing articles on MLL teams
  • Create new and expand existing articles on Canadian summer box lacrosse (i.e. WLA, MSL, OLA). The OLA, WLA, and MSL pages need to be expanded, and many WLA/MSL teams don't have pages at all
  • All NLL teams use a {{NLL Team Infobox}}. MLL teams should have a similar template available, rather than embedding the source in each article. Done --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 03:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ongoing tasks

[edit] Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. MrBoo (Talk) -- NLL
  2. Yarnalgo (Talk) -- MLL / NLL / International (sort of)
  3. CanbekEsen (Talk) -- I don't know much of lacrosse, but I'd be glad to copy-edit or clean-up any articles.
  4. Vincent Ree (Talk) -- Albany Attack mostly.
  5. JamesTeterenko (Talk) -- mostly interested in the Calgary Roughnecks of the NLL -- hopefully, I'll get some more pictures in the season
  6. P3d0 (Talk) -- I don't have a ton of time to spend on Wikipedia these days, but I'll help where I can.
  7. Smith03 (Talk) -- I have no real knowledge of the game but am willing to work on MLL and NCAA (college). glad to see someone start a project for it
  8. stoneice02 (stoneice02) -- my experience, having worked for both, is in the MLL and general college lacrosse (not necessarily NCAA... the MCLA (AKA USL MDIA) has more teams and more players than any level of lacrosse except for youth (no, I don't have a cite for this)). This is my first time even looking at a Project Page so I'm not sure what to do next. Any help would be appreciated.
  9. DMighton -- Ontario Lacrosse Association and Amateur Championships
  10. lukeoz (Talk) -- Lacrosse in Australia and Australian Lacrosse League
  11. Wwwhhh - Primarily Australian Lacrosse, but keen to help improve all articles.
  12. RedSkull619 -- I can help with the MLL articles, mainly the Baltimore Bayhawks; I can also sort through for reworking on grammar and writing style for any article
  13. Racer38 - I can help with most lacrosse articles currently on Wikipedia.
  14. davidjsc - I've updated the Western Lacrosse Association page with franchise movement. My area of interest in BC lacrosse; especially the BC field leagues from 1886-1931. I'll eventually post up my BC history articles which can be found at [1]
  15. 10stone5 - Played college lacrosse. Interested in updating college lacrosse entries, but will also handle NLL whenever possible.
  16. J71- Mostly BC box lacrosse, I can help with player pages as well.
  17. WestJet- NLL, mostly the Calgary Roughnecks. Already helped on Kaleb Toth and Tracey Keluskey articles.
  18. Diogenes00 - Interested in NCAA D1 Lacrosse, specifically JHU. I'll try to add some of the better-known college players of the last 20 or so years...
  19. lesserm - Mainly Ohio and Midwestern lacrosse. Can help with MLL

[edit] Articles

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Lacrosse-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Banner

Please add {{Lacrosse}} to the talk page of any and all lacrosse-related pages that you edit. You can also add class and importance parameters, described above.

[edit] Templates

[edit] National Lacrosse League

{{NLL}}:

 v • d • e National Lacrosse League
East Division: Buffalo Bandits | Chicago Shamrox | Minnesota Swarm | New York Titans | Philadelphia Wings | Rochester Knighthawks | Toronto Rock
West Division: Arizona Sting | Calgary Roughnecks | Colorado Mammoth | Edmonton Rush | Portland LumberJax | San Jose Stealth
NLL Awards: Champion's Cup | Most Valuable Player | Rookie of the Year | Defenseman of the Year | Goaltender of the Year | Sportsmanship Award | Les Bartley Award | GM of the Year | Executive of the Year | Tom Borrelli Award | Weekly Awards | Monthly Awards
NLL Articles: All-Star Game | Players' Association | Family relations | Hall of Fame | Season reviews | Former teams
Related Articles: Box lacrosse | Lacrosse | Major League Lacrosse

{{NLL Arenas}}:

Current arenas in the National Lacrosse League
Eastern Division Western Division
Air Canada Centre | Blue Cross Arena | HSBC Arena | Madison Square Garden1 | Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum2 | Sears Centre | Wachovia Center | Xcel Energy Center HP Pavilion | Jobing.com Arena | Pengrowth Saddledome | Pepsi Center | Rexall Place | Rose Garden Arena
1The New York Titans play four of their home games at Madison Square Garden.
2The New York Titans play four of their home games at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

{{NLL seasons}}:

National Lacrosse League seasons
Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League
1987 • 1988
Major Indoor Lacrosse League
1989 • 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997
National Lacrosse League
1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007

[edit] Major League Lacrosse

{{Major League Lacrosse}}:

 v • d • e Major League Lacrosse
Eastern Conference: Boston Cannons | Long Island Lizards | New Jersey Pride | Philadelphia Barrage | Rochester Rattlers | Washington Bayhawks
Western Conference: Chicago Machine | Denver Outlaws | Los Angeles Riptide | San Francisco Dragons
Related articles: Steinfeld Cup | All Star Game | Most Valuable Player | Rookie of the Year | Coach of the Year | Defensive Player of Year | Offensive Player of the Year | Iron Lizard Award | Goaltender of the Year | Sportsman of the Year | Most Improved Player | Community Service Award | First draft selections | MLL Seasons | Stadiums

{{MLL Stadiums}}:

Current Stadiums in Major League Lacrosse
Eastern Conference Western Conference
Georgetown Multi-Sport Field | Harvard Stadium | Mitchel Athletic Complex
PAETEC Park | Villanova Stadium | Yurcak Field		 The Home Depot Center | INVESCO Field at Mile High |
 Kezar Stadium | Toyota Park

[edit] Logos

League and team logos should contain this:
{{sports-logo|lacrosse-logos}}

[edit] Other

{{Professional Lacrosse}}:

Lacrosse Leagues
National Lacrosse League | Major League Lacrosse
Canadian Box Lacrosse

Senior A: Western Lacrosse Association (BCLA) | Major Series Lacrosse (OLA)
Senior B: OLA Senior B | RMLL Senior B
Junior A: OLA Junior A | RMLL Junior A
Junior B: OLA Junior B | RMLL Junior B | Prairie Gold Lacrosse League
Collegiate Lacrosse

US Lacrosse Intercollegiate Associates
Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association
North East Collegiate Lacrosse League
Post-Collegiate Club Lacrosse

Midwest Cities Lacrosse Conference
Other Leagues
Australian Lacrosse League
Notable Defunct Leagues

National Lacrosse League (1974-75) | American Lacrosse League
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[edit] Infoboxes

[edit] Lacrosse players

{{Infobox Lacrosse Player}}
For each player, include this infobox at the top of the article (see the template page for all available fields):
{{Infobox Lacrosse Player
|image=
|position=
|shoots=
|height_ft=
|height_in=
|weight_lb=
|nll_team=
|mll_team=
|former_nll_teams=
|former_mll_teams=
|nationality=
|birth_date=
|birth_place=
|career_start=
|nickname=
}}

[edit] Lacrosse teams

{{NLL Team Infobox}}
For each NLL team, include this infobox at the top of the article (see the template page for all available fields):
{{NLL Team Infobox
|team_name=
|bg_color=
|title_color=
|division=
|logo=
|founded=
|home_arena=
|hometown=
|team_colors=
|head_coach=
|general_manager=
|plpa=
|media=
|website=
|champs=
|division_champs=
|formerly=
}}
{{NLL Defunct Team Infobox}}
For each defunct NLL team, include this infobox at the top of the article (see the template page for all available fields):
{{NLL Defunct Team Infobox
|team_name=
|bg_color=
|title_color=
|division=
|logo=
|played=
|home_arena=
|hometown=
|team_colors=
|champs=
|division_champs=
|later=
}}
{{MLL Team Infobox}}
For each MLL team, include this infobox at the top of the article (see the template page for all available fields):
{{MLL Team Infobox
|team_name=
|bg_color=
|title_color=
|conference=
|logo=
|founded=
|home_stadium=
|hometown=
|team_colors=
|head_coach=
|general_manager=
|media=
|champs=
|conference_champs=
|division=
|division_champs=
|website=
}}

[edit] Categories

Note that some categories may be subcategories of more than one category.

[edit] Stubs

[edit] Userboxes

Lacrosse
{{User:MrBoo/Userboxes/WikiProject Lacrosse}}
This user is a member of WikiProject Lacrosse.
{{User:MrBoo/Userboxes/Lacrosse Fan}}
This user loves lacrosse.


{{User:UBX/Lax}}
This user plays Lacrosse.
NLL
{{User:UBX/NLL-Bandits}}
BUF This user is a Buffalo Bandits fan.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Knighthawks}}
ROC This user is a Rochester Knighthawks fan.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Lumberjax}}
POR This user is a Portland LumberJax fan.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Mammoth}}
COL This user is a Colorado Mammoth fan.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Rock}}
TOR This user is a Toronto Rock fan.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Roughnecks}}
CGY This user is a Calgary Roughnecks fan.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Rush}}
EDM This user is an Edmonton Rush fan.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Shamrox}}
CHI This user is a fan of the Chicago Shamrox.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Stealth}}
SJ This user is a fan of the San Jose Stealth.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Sting}}
ARI This user is an Arizona Sting fan.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Swarm}}
MIN This user is a Minnesota Swarm fan.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Titans}}
NYT This user is a New York Titans fan.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Wings}}
PHI This user is a Philadelphia Wings fan.
MLL
{{User:UBX/MLL-Barrage}}
PHI This user is a Philadelphia Barrage fan.
{{User:UBX/MLL-Bayhawks}}
WAS This user is a fan of the Washington Bayhawks.
{{User:UBX/MLL-Cannons}}
BOS This user is a Boston Cannons fan.
{{User:UBX/MLL-Dragons}}
SF This user is a fan of the San Francisco Dragons.
{{User:UBX/MLL-Lizards}}
LI This user is a fan of the Long Island Lizards.
{{User:UBX/MLL-Machine}}
CHI This user is a Chicago Machine fan.
{{User:UBX/MLL-Outlaws}}
DEN This user is a Denver Outlaws fan.
{{User:UBX/MLL-Pride}}
NJ This user is a New Jersey Pride fan.
{{User:UBX/MLL-Rattlers}}
ROC This user is a Rochester Rattlers fan.
{{User:UBX/MLL-Riptide}}
LA This user is a fan of the Los Angeles Riptide.

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