User talk:Son/Newsletters/Archive Q3 2007

WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter

Dear Son/Newsletters/Archive Q3 2007! You are receiving this newsletter because you have signed up as a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey. The purpose of this newsletter is to update on the goings on of the project, as there have been major changes, and a lot of new recognized content in the past few weeks. If you are an inactive user, you probably won't recognize the new and improved state of the WikiProject!

From the project, Maxim.

New recognized content

By Maxim
There have been a lot more Good and Featured articles written in the past few weeks. Here is a list:^[1][2][3][4]

Featured articles

• Wayne Gretzky — Promoted on 2006-02-14; on Main Page on 2006-06-13
• New Jersey Devils — Promoted on 2006-11-20; on Main Page on 2007-06-30
• Martin Brodeur — Promoted on 2007-04-28
• Fighting in ice hockey — Promoted on 2007-05-07; on Main Page on 2007-07-19
• Dominik Hasek — Promoted on 2007-05-25

Good articles

• Calgary Hitmen
• Colorado Avalanche
• National Hockey League
• Joe Sakic
• Nottingham Panthers
• Stanley Cup
• Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup
• Ray Emery
• The French Connection (hockey)

Featured lists^[5]

• List of ice hockey teams in Alberta
• List of ice hockey teams in Saskatchewan
• Frölunda HC seasons
• List of Colorado Avalanche players
• List of family relations in the National Hockey League
• List of New Jersey Devils players
• List of New Jersey Devils head coaches
• List of drafted Frölunda HC players

Notes

1. ^ All articles are in order of promotion, as written on the main WikiProject page; FA's have official dates of promotions.
2. ^ A star represents a featured article or list
3. ^ A green circle represents a good article
4. ^ Stanley Cup is an A-Class article
5. ^ The lists system differs from articles, and doesn't give an official date of promotion

Article Improvement

By Maxim

Upon some discussion on the WikiProject talk page, the Article Improvement Drive page was revamped by Krm500 and Maxim. It was renamed Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Article Improvement, and it includes two section. The first section is called articles in dire need of improvement. It list articles, usually important, that are in very poor shape. The second section is called requested help. Users list an article they request help improving a certain article, which will facilitate collaboration, which is the aim of any WikiProject. There is one article currently listed there, Henrik Lundqvist, here. The goal is to at least get it to Good article status.

Diacritics

By Maxim

In the past few weeks, there has been quite heated discussion about the use of diacritics in article name. The current guideline is using diacritics in the pages of articles of all player names which require them, but redirects are exempt.

Task forces

By Maxim
There have been two new task forces started within the WikiProject to coordinate major topics.

Sweden Ice Hockey task force

This task force was initiated by Krm500. Its current goal is to improve Henrik Lundqvist to Good or Featured article status. It covers all Swedish clubs, leagues and competitions and associated articles, players and coaches that are Swedish, or have played/coached for a Swedish club, and arenas in Sweden. They plan to eventually operate as a sort of a sub-project, which will have its own articles for creation, ranking importance and quality of articles, and co-ordinate article improvement. Its current members are Krm500, Bamsefar75, and CLAES.

New Jersey Devils task force

This task force was initiated by Bsroiaadn. Its goal is to improve New Jersey Devils to Featured Topic status. Although it currently meets the required article count, the task force wishes to improve it further. Its area of coverage is very similar to the Sweden Ice Hockey task force. Its members are Bsroiaadn, JHMM13, FutureNJGov, Sportskido8, Michael Greiner, JRWalko, and Soxrock.

Requested Images

By Maxim
After discussion on the WikiProject talk page, Serte created a page for Requested Images. The page encourages users to license images for use on articles. The page also has section to request images for players, arenas, game situations, miscellaneous, and team and league logos. The page has been quite popular; since it was created on July 21, there have been six completed requests. There are four currently outstanding requests:

• Patrik Eliáš — Photo of player, requested by Bsroiaadn
• Scott Stevens — Photo of player, requested by Bsroiaadn
• Daniel Alfredsson — Photo of player, requested by Maxim
• Hart Trophy — Photo of the original Hart Trophy (retired in 1960), requested by Scorpion0422

Article assessement completed

By Maxim
On July 12, Kaiser matias announced that he had completed assessing all the articles with a {{ice hockey}} tag, sorting them into Category:Unassessed Ice Hockey articles. Kaiser matias has ranked about 9000 articles in that category, and most were stubs, and "have no information at all", according to him. Everybody is encouraged to expand the stubs into real articles. This effort took around 5 months. A big thanks goes to Kaiser matias from me and all the project.