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A project has been formed to better organize information in articles related to running. This page and its subpages contain suggestions for enhancing such articles; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts on these topics. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to create, improve and organize articles relating to running. This includes but is not limited to the history of running as a competitive sport, as recreation, and as a basic means of bipedal locomotion.

[edit] Parentage

The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject Sports and WikiProject Transport.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects include:

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Notices

[edit] Featured list

As of August, 2007, the List of winners of the Boston Marathon has earned featured list status, meaning it has been identified as one of the best lists produced by the Wikipedia community.

[edit] Deletion attempts

  • David Ayoub, MD, who one year as a high schooler clocked the third fastest time in the entire world for 800 meters, a feat on par with earning an Olympic bronze medal, has been deleted via AfD. He accomplished the rare feat of being published, while still a college undergrad, as the first author of a paper in the journal Science. Ayoub's biography needs to be restored and updated to include mention of the two papers he recently published that shed light on the vaccine controversy that has escalated exponentially in concert with suppression of information about skyrocketingvaccine injury rates and related controversies in autism.
  • The biography on Don Paul, an accomplished polymath who held the unratified US and world 50k record for many years, needs to be restored in the wake of an AfD. He was the youngest recipient ever of the prestigious Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University for his writing. Virtually every other recipient of the Stegner Fellowship has a WikiBio, but Paul's bio became collateral damage in an ongoing effort to cleanse the Wiki of articles and bios related to the poorly explained collapse of the 7 World Trade Center building. He is one of the main contributors to the widely acclaimed WTC7.net website, which is often recognized as the leading authority for information about the rarely discussed collapse of a third building at the World Trade Center. WTC7 was detroyed along with surveillance records maintained by the FBI, CIA and NSA, which had major offices there to monitor events at the WTC. Although Paul retired from a successful second running career in masters competition earlier this year, he has continued his pursuit of many significant projects as a musician, publisher, poet, and activist in both the 9/11 Truth Movement and Hurricane Katrina recovery effort.
  • Dane Rauschenberg has been voted down for a first nomination for deletion. There are serious WP:COI concerns with this article and its companion fiddy2. The policy question is whether any runner is free to post his running history on Wikipedia as if this were facebook.com or letsrun.com. The self-promotional nature of these articles has provoked vandalism and nasty comments on various running bulletin boards. Perhaps Wikiproject Running can establish some objective notability criteria to avoid 3:20 marathon runners from posting their racing histories and autobiographies.
  • The fiddy2 article is being debated for deletion. It is a separate article about Dane Rauschenberg's fund raising website. Efforts to fix the NPOV problems are met with further edits that have obvious WP:COI problems. The project should adopt notability standards regarding marathon performaces. Otherwise every member of the Marathon Maniacs club will post his/her race list as a Wikitable in an autobiographical article.

[edit] Articles needing improvement

  • Association of International Marathons and Distance Races - this is a stubby article which has been marked with maintenance tags since Oct 2007. It's an organization that regulates some of the largest and most widely publicized events in the world, and deserves a better entry on Wikipedia. Is anyone up for improving it? NSH001 (talk) 23:33, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Assessment criteria

Assessment of running-related articles:

  • Importance
    • Top = Core article or primary definition; central running topic/person or necessary for basic coverage of the topic (for example: sprint, long distance running)
    • High = Core daughter article or significant related topic/person, hard to write the article comprehensively and NPOV without this article, enjoys widespread notability and consensus (e.g., Barefoot running, Dipsea Race)
    • Mid = Daughter article or broad/basic definition, important for comprehensive coverage of the top issues, but not an integral definition (e.g., Jon Anderson (runner), Track Town, USA)
    • Low = Non-core, the topic could be covered without this article (e.g., Walt Stack, Midnight Sun Run)
  • Quality
    • Has attained FA
    • A-class or could attain with a bit of work
    • GA-class or could attain GA with a bit of work
    • B-equivalent, mostly cited and accurate, but has some issues, could be citations, OR, POV, or incomprehensive. Not too much work needed to bring to decent standard, but may still be a stub or start.
    • Some cleanup/work needed, below B-class, has some issues like lack of citations, OR, POV, incomprehensive. Sustained attention needed to bring to standard.
    • More work needed, multiple issues such as uncited, essay, POV, dubious accuracy or questionable notability. Lots of attention needed.

[edit] Assessment table

Running
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low
Quality
FA A B C D
almost
ready for A		 E F G H
almost
ready for GA		 I J K L
B-equiv. M N O P
Some

cleanup
needed

 Q R S T
More work

needed:
Uncited,
essay,
notability,
or POV

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This article is part of WikiProject Running, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to running on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of this Wikiproject.
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