Wikipedia:WikiProject Lacrosse
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Welcome to the Lacrosse WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the sport of lacrosse.
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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.
- List of pro or top-tier leagues:
- Major League Lacrosse (field)
- National Lacrosse League (indoor)
- Western Lacrosse Association (box; Senior A)
- Major Series Lacrosse (box; Senior A)
- Australian Lacrosse League (field)
[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.
Note that logos (teams, leagues, etc.) require a "Fair use" tag and rationale. Here's the page from Image:BaltimoreThunder.gif as an example:
{{Non-free logo|lacrosse-logos}}
{{Non-free media rationale
|Description=Logo of the Baltimore Thunder lacrosse team (now defunct)
|Source=http://www.logoserver.com/MILLNLL.html
|Portion=The team no longer exists (moved to Pittsburgh in 1999, subsequently to Washington and then Colorado), unknown who the copyright holder is
|Purpose=Team logo, used on uniforms, promotional material, etc.
|Resolution=No (small, low-resolution image)
|Replaceability=Not replaceable
}}
[[Category:Sports logos]]
[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" pageDone --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 01:00, 9 September 2006 (UTC)- 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 alland also expand the WLA/MSL team pages (history, records, etc.). 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)- Create article for Dr. William George Beers (a famous contributer to the game). [1]
[edit] Ongoing tasks
- Go through Category:Unassessed Lacrosse articles and add class and importance specifiers
- Create new articles on current and former players
- Create lacrosse-specific categories as necessary
- Create new and expand existing articles on international lacrosse
- Expand stub articles on players
Create list of National Lacrosse Hall of Fame members- Find members of HOF who already have articles and properly link them
- Possibly create page similar to List of family relations in the National Lacrosse League for HOF members
- Create pages for club teams/associations referenced in HOF list
- Create a page or pages for NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Records. Started. Here's the link -- NCAA Men's Division I Lacrosse Records
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- Create pages for individual annual NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championships, including --
- 1973 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
- 1976 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
- 1977 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
- 1999 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
- 10stone5 16:38, 06 June 2007 (UTC)
- Pioneer Collegiate Lacrosse League created. Researching to get more playoff information filled in. Stoneice02 04:35, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Members
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
- MrBoo (Talk) -- NLL
- Yarnalgo (Talk) -- MLL / NLL /
International (sort of) - CanbekEsen (Talk) -- I don't know much of lacrosse, but I'd be glad to copy-edit or clean-up any articles.
- Vincent Ree (Talk) -- Albany Attack mostly.
- JamesTeterenko (Talk) -- mostly interested in the Calgary Roughnecks of the NLL -- hopefully, I'll get some more pictures in the season
- P3d0 (Talk) -- I don't have a ton of time to spend on Wikipedia these days, but I'll help where I can.
- 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
- 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.
- DMighton -- Ontario Lacrosse Association and Amateur Championships
- lukeoz (Talk) -- Lacrosse in Australia and Australian Lacrosse League
- Wwwhhh - Primarily Australian Lacrosse, but keen to help improve all articles.
- 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
- Racer38 - I can help with most lacrosse articles currently on Wikipedia.
- 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 [2]; As a league executive with the West Central Lacrosse League, I've been responsible for constructing and maintaining the enrty for that league.
- 10stone5 - Played college lacrosse. Interested in updating college lacrosse entries, but will also handle NLL whenever possible.
- J71- Mostly BC box lacrosse, I can help with player pages as well.
- WestJet- NLL, mostly the Calgary Roughnecks. Already helped on Kaleb Toth and Tracey Keluskey articles.
- 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...
- lesserm - Mainly Ohio and Midwestern lacrosse. Can help with MLL
- AmandaWins - I can help with basically anything, esp. clean-up, and college and high school lacrosse teams and rules.
- Joe - I've created all the brackets and pages for the NCAA DI Tourney since 2003.
- Added some earlier tournament brackets. Will add and 8 team bracket template.10stone5
- Meldshal42. I wil add everything about LAX. I am a huge LAX fan and I play middy on my local team.
- MrShamrock. Huge Victoria Shamrocks fan, I got them covered. Will also contribute to other WLA teams and players' pages.
- Sekuloguy. I am a huge Long Island Lizards fan and can help on that article. I can also help on the MLL article.
- Paploo - I am a proud purple-and-teal-bleeding Rochester Knighthawks fan (a Lifetime Krew member, no less). I can help on the article, and would like to help on any past and present K-Hawk player articles.
- Amaryllis25 - I'd like to help on college entries and on women's lacrosse entries.
- The Founders Intent - I'd be glad to research things for folks, and would like to see more attention paid to youth lacrosse from U10 to U15.
- Shootmaster 44 - I can help with some of the Saskatchewan related lacrosse articles, as well as a bit with the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League.
- Panicpack-NLL/MLL/Western
- Xander756 - NLL
- Bvalx2005
- BricoleurHistory of Lacrosse in British Colubia
- jc121383 - NLL
[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.
- Template:2007 NLL season by team and all the season pages in it. I will be doing the 2006 and 2005 seasons as well (stats for earlier seasons aren't as easily available), and the 2008 season once it ends. --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 12:13, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
- Morgan State University Lacrosse, only historically black college lacrosse team.
- Howard "Chip" Silverman, coached Morgan's team and among his 5 books is: "Ten Bears", the story of black lacrosse in the 1970's.
- lacrosse strategy Tells about all of the formations used, and specific tactics for man-up and man-down, and fast breaks. GusChiggins21 (talk) 08:37, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
- National Lacrosse League dispersal draft and National Lacrosse League expansion draft. Also moved Category:Lacrosse images out of Category:Lacrosse articles by quality and into Category:Non-article Lacrosse pages --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 23:30, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
- WLA/MSL team pages: WLA - Langley Thunder, Burnaby Lakers, Maple Ridge Burrards & MSL - Barrie Lakeshores, Brooklin Redmen, Kitchener-Waterloo Kodiaks, Peterborough Lakers (MSL), St. Regis Indians, Six Nations Chiefs -- These pages all need to be expanded -- Mitico 14:02, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
- Major League Lacrosse Weekly Awards. --Yarnalgo talk to me 06:52, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
- Career achievements of Gary Gait, a page listing all the records, awards, championships, etc. of the best player ever. --Yarnalgo talk to me 19:19, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
- Tennessee Scholastic Lacrosse Association
- Ryan Benesch, added Category:National Lacrosse League coaches, moved all NLL coaches from the generic Category:Lacrosse coaches to the new one --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 14:24, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- Finished Dave Pietramala--Diogenes00 02:29, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- MacLaughlin Award created by Mitico, which I helped flesh out.--Diogenes00 21:33, 23 February 2007 (UTC). Also added: Schmeisser Award, Lt. Raymond Enners Award, Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award, & wiki'd Jack Turnbull Award -- Mitico 16:49, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- Andrew McBride & Ryan McNish and also a edit to Calgary Roughnecks to put McNish back in the roster. --WestJet 21:55, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- Under-19 World Lacrosse Championships --Yarnalgo 21:20, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- I'm amazed this page did not already exist: Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 20:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- More NLL awards: Tom Borrelli Award, National Lacrosse League Weekly Awards, National Lacrosse League Monthly Awards, and more players: Adam Bysouth, Mike Hominuck --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 13:18, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
- NLL players and coaches: Ryan Cousins, Dan Ladouceur, Aaron Wilson, Phil Sanderson, Josh Sanderson, Gavin Prout, Mike Miron, Derek Malawsky, Shawn Evans, Matt Disher, Jake Bergey, Sean Greenhalgh, Derek Keenan, Bob Hamley --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 19:08, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
- Brine Lacrosse - No, not the manufacturer, the game. This is the only lacrosse mobile game (for cell phones) ever made and the second lacrosse video game ever made (look at the bottom of this section for the other). --Yarnalgo 00:19, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
- {{NLL seasons}} - placed at the bottom of each NLL season page. Before, we just had links to the next and previous season at the bottom of these pages; now we have them all. I copied the {{NFL seasons}} template. --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 14:32, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
- Professional Lacrosse Players' Association - The players' association for the NLL. --Yarnalgo 01:14, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- OLA Major Senior: Brampton Excelsiors (Major League)... more to come... DMighton 19:06, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Renamed Brampton Excelsiors (MSL) --Yarnalgo 05:55, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- OLA Junior "A": Mississauga Tomahawks, Brampton Excelsiors Jr. A, Burlington Chiefs, Kitchener-Waterloo Braves, Orangeville Northmen Jr. A, Orillia Rama Kings, Ottawa Titans, Peterborough Lakers Jr. A, St. Catharines Athletics Jr. A, Six Nations Arrows, Toronto Beaches. More to come... DMighton 12:35, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sarnia Pacers, Spartan Warriors, Welland Warlords, Niagara Thunderhawks, London Blue Devils, Hamilton Bengals, Wallaceburg Red Devils, Six Nations Red Rebels, Guelph Regals, Elora Mohawks, Owen Sound Rams, and Orangeville Northmen Jr. B. Much more to come. DMighton 16:55, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- 1998 World Lacrosse Championship Final - The greatest field match of all time and hence it deserves its own page - there are only scarce amounts of info elsewhere on the net so we may need some first-hand knowledge to finish the article. Wwwhhh 08:06, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- List of lacrosse teams in Canada - Part of my personal project to organize and document Canadian sports teams at all levels. I imagine you guys can help expand this one considerably. Resolute 04:59, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Base articles for OLA Junior B Lacrosse League teams in the Eastern Conference: Akwesasne Lightning, Barrie Tornado, Clarington Green Gaels, Cornwall Celtics, Gloucester Griffins, Halton Hills Bulldogs, Huntsville Hawks, Markham Ironheads, Milton Mavericks, Mimico Mountaineers, Nepean Knights, Oakville Buzz, and the Scarborough Saints.DMighton 15:13, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- I've created articles on some Aussie players, like Peter Inge and John Tokarua, with more to come. Wwwhhh 14:32, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- List of family relations in the National Lacrosse League -- lists brothers, uncles/nephews, etc. in the NLL. Also a special page for The Sanderson family. --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 00:21, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
- I've now created pages for all the NLL awards, and added pages for almost all players who've won any of them. --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 03:09, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- I created a page for the Les Bartley Award. I will probably create pages for the other awards as well (GM of the year, Executive of the year, Defensive player of the year, etc.) --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 03:03, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- I'm in the process of working on the National Hall of Fame inductees, although I have misnamed the page. See National Lacrosse Hall of Fame and its talk page. Thanks in advance. Stoneice02 21:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry this took so long, but this list is now complete. Please proofread for formating constancy. I will soon begin on the chronological list and the by school list. Stoneice02 03:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- Members of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame (by affiliation)
- I just created an article on the 2006 NLL season, based on the 2006 MLL season. I also added a page that lists all the seasons (which I added to the NLL template) and a category for NLL season pages. I will be adding info on the other seasons in the near future, though I'm not sure how much info I can dig up on the older MILL seasons and the first Eagle Pro season. --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 21:00, 2 September 2006 (UTC) Update: Added pages for 2001-2007 seasons.
- Blast Lacrosse - recently (three weeks ago) made the article on the first ever lacrosse video game based on the NLL, with old teams like the Columbus Landsharks and Washington Power and teams still around today like the Rochester Knighthawks and Toronto Rock. --Yarnalgo 04:42, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
- Dave Stewart-Candy added West Central Lacrosse League and added standings to World Indoor Lacrosse Championships. --davidjsc
- I created a page for the Saskatchewan SWAT of the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 01:55, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Resources
[edit] Banner
Please add {{Lacrosse}} to the talk page of any and all lacrosse-related pages that you edit. You should also add class and importance parameters, described above.
[edit] Templates
[edit] National Lacrosse League
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{{NLL Arenas}}:
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[edit] Major League Lacrosse
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[edit] NCAA
{{NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championships}}:
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[edit] Logos
League and team logos should contain this:
{{sports-logo|lacrosse-logos}}
[edit] Roster templates
They were originally copied from {{fs start}} et al, but those templates are specific to soccer, and they linked the positions to pages about the soccer positions. There was also no "transition" position, and the soccer term "goalkeeper" is usually "goaltender" in lacrosse. I removed the links so now you can put in any position you want. We can add the links again later if we want, since these are now lacrosse-specific.
{{Lacrosse player start}}
{{Lacrosse player | no=num | pos=pos | nat=Canada | name=name | other=other }}
{{Lacrosse player mid}}
{{Lacrosse player end}}
Which looks like this:
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[edit] Other
| National Lacrosse League | Major League Lacrosse | |
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Senior A: Western Lacrosse Association (BCLA) | Major Series Lacrosse (OLA) |
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| Collegiate Lacrosse | |
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NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship |
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| Post-Collegiate Club Lacrosse | |
| Other Leagues | |
| Australian Lacrosse League | |
| Notable Defunct Leagues | |
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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
- {{Lacrosse-stub}}
- {{Lacrosse-bio-stub}}
