Wikipedia:WikiProject Poker

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to poker. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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1 Scope and Goals
2 Biography article notability criteria
3 Wikiproject Alerts
4 Adopt an article
5 Participants
6 Poker Tags
7 Wikiproject family
- 7.1 This WikiProject has two parents
- 7.2 Similar WikiProjects

[edit] Scope and Goals

To provide a place for editors interested in editing poker articles to discuss issues related to those articles, to encourage editors to improve poker articles and to organise collaboration on poker articles.

Goals

To improve Wikipedia's coverage of poker in general.
To create articles on every notable poker player.
To improve existing poker articles and get articles to featured standard.

[edit] Biography article notability criteria

This section is a WikiProject essay on notability. It contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more WikiProjects on how they interpret notability within their area of expertise. It is not a policy or guideline, and editors are free to, but not obliged to follow it during XfD's.

WikiProjects are encouraged to write essays on notability that meet or exceed the expectations of notability or the applicable sub-guideline (BIO, ORG, NUMBER, ACADEMICS, and rest of the sub guidelines). Please update the page as needed, or discuss it on the talk page.

WP:BIO is the Wikipedia notability criteria for biography articles. Any poker player who meets the general criteria of WP:BIO qualifies for a Wikipedia article.

For purposes of notability, Wikiproject Poker does not consider the Additional Criteria for Athletes to be valid for poker players. The project considers a poker player generally notable only by:

Winning a WSOP/WPT/EPT event.
Winning a million dollars in a single event at an established tournament.
Induction into the Poker Hall of Fame

Other poker players must be able to establish their notability via secondary sources and the normal guidelines as defined by WP:BIO. Winning other major tournaments (including but not limited to Aussie Millions, USPO, Legends of Poker, LA Poker Classic, Foxwoods, National Titles (including the US)) is not in and of itself sufficient notability to warrant an article, but can help establish a player's notability. As most poker tournaments are open events, participating in or "making the money" rarely adds to (let alone establishes) the notability of a poker player. On-line poker players must be able to establish notability independent of the poker sites they play on and sites that simply track online results.

[edit] Wikiproject Alerts

[edit] Active AfDs/TfDs/FACs/PR/etc

See a log of poker debates here.

[edit] Current articles needing monitoring

Please list below any poker pages that are particularly prone to spam or vandalisation below.
Please keep an eye out for these pages by adding them to your Watchlist and reverting any questionable changes.

Pages:
Bodog	Doyle Brunson	Jamie Gold	PartyGaming	Poker	Stu Ungar
Phil Hellmuth	Chris Moneymaker	Online poker	Rake (poker)	Todd Witteles	Phil Laak

[edit] Recently completed/updated

See Completed tasks for tasks completed prior to March 1 2008.

Created article on David Oppenheim‎ --Sirex98 08:44, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
William E. Baxter Jr. vs. the United States Balloonman (talk) 06:13, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Outstanding

These are tasks/requests for Wikiproject Poker. If you wish to add a task/request please do so at the top of this list. Please sign your request with 5 tildes, e.g. ~~~~~ this will capture the date of the request but not your name.

Add images to poker players
Add more detail about dealing procedures and irregularities. (In progress by LDC)
Update player's WSOP cashes, I have noticed that a lot of them are up to date and I can use some help fixing them 02:50, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Make World Series of Poker and Poker into featured article candidates. (long term goal) 19:50, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Expand articles on World Series of Poker commentators Lon McEachern and ~~Norman Chad.~~ Currently, both are stubs. ~~Chad's article in particular, could be embellished with some of his better quotes.~~
Two Plus Two Publishing expand.

[edit] Adopt an article

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If you wish to adopt an article, please watch the page and add the following to the article's talk page:

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