Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports

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Welcome to WikiProject Sports. Some have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of sports, including the organization of information and articles on this topic area. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and various resources, including article assessment information, that we hope help focus the efforts of other Wikipedians to improve all sport related articles in order to make Wikipedia an excellent resource for sports-related information for all who visit. And we are here to point editors in the right direction to get involved in child projects that focus on their more particular sporting interests. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page, join the project, and see the to-do list below.

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[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to:

  • Describe how sporting-related articles should be represented and what information belongs in the articles
  • Provide a central location for coordinating and organizing sports articles and their features
  • Serve as an article assessment group, helping move articles closer and closer to Featured Article status
  • Foster sports article creation and improvement
  • Creation of useful Wikipedia templates for use in sports articles – navigation boxes, stub tags, infoboxes, etc.
Out of scope: board games, table top games, video games (even sports simulation ones) and other games of a non-sporting character; for such pastimes, please see WikiProject Games and its child projects.

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports: edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:

[edit] Article assessment

Sports
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 2 1 2 7
A 1 1 1 3
Good article GA 1 2 1 2 6
B 26 12 19 4 15 76
Start 9 16 76 87 38 226
Stub 3 7 30 180 427 647
Assessed 41 36 130 274 484 965
Unassessed 2 1 2 390 395
Total 41 38 131 276 874 1360

Any member of WikiProject Sports may assess Sports-related articles by following the guidelines below. If you aren't sure about an article, ask about it on the assessment page.

The {{WikiProject Sports}} template has a class= and an importance= parameter which provide an article assessment and importance rating for each article:

{{WikiProject Sports|class=???|importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter. Please note that you must type them exactly as below as they are case-sensitive:

If a rating is not assigned, the article will be filed in Category:Unassessed sports articles. The class should be assigned according to the grading scheme. A list of Unassessed and In dispute articles can be discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports/Assessment.

The following values may be used for the importance parameter. Please note that you must type them exactly as below as they are case-sensitive:

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Talk page banner

What to type What it makes What it's for
{{WikiProject Sports}}
 Example of output:
Sports icon This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sports. For more information, visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Sports and games Portal
Sports To-do:
Talk Tags an article or other page (on its talk page, not in the article itself) as being within the scope of the project. Should not be used for articles that already have a more specific sports WikiProject tag, unless their tag does not support assessments and you are assessing the article.

[edit] UserBox

For all participants to use I have created a userbox to both declare your allegiance to the project and to increase the visibility of the project to the community.

This user is part of WikiProject Sports

[edit] Infobox

What to type What it makes What it's for
{{Sport overview}}
 Example of output:
WikiProject Sports
Contesting for possession in an indigenous communtiy Aussie Rules game
Governing body Australian Football League
National team Australia
First played 1858, Melbourne, Victoria
Registered players 539,526 (total)
120,000 (adult)
Clubs 2,548
Competitions
National
 - AFL
Club
 - SANFL
 - VFL
 - WAFL
 - Queensland State League
 - NTAFL
 - Northern Tasmanian
 - O&M
 - Sydney AFL
 - AFL Canberra
Audience records
Single match 121,696 - 1970 VFL Grand Final
Season 6,283,788 - 2005 AFL season
Flag of Australia
Talk An overview of sport in a country/state

[edit] Structure

There shall be an alphabetical list of all sports. There shall also be an organization of sports by categories. There shall be a listing of sport competitions, that involve multiple sports (e.g. the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, the Maccabiah Games, the Good Will Games, etc.) -- competitions for particular sports, or groups of sports, would be better located on the page for that sport. The lists of competitions should be organized along the lines of what area of the world they involve -- i.e. are they global (e.g. the Olympics), restricted to a particular region of the world (Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, etc.), or restricted to a particular country (in which case, they could be placed under a section on the sport in that particular country.) These lists shall be either on the main Sports page, or if they become too long on separate pages linked to by the main page.

Suggested Topics:

  • information on sport in general (what is a sport?, why do people play sports?, what are the benefits of sport?)
  • information on particular sports (Wikiproject Sports Listing)
  • information on sporting competitions, clubs, events (incl. the Olympic Games)
  • famous Sportspeople
  • sports ethics, drugs in sport, cheating
  • related areas: sports law, sports medicine
  • sporting history

[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of Sports has been defined. See this example on dividing a topic into a hierarchy.

However:

[edit] Participants

  1. R-HIT
  2. Eisenhower
  3. gurulegend
  4. Spewmaster
  5. Einar Ragnarsson
  6. Catneven
  7. SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] — I focus mostly on WP:CUE and WP:SNOOKER, but am insterested in the overall "administration" of the sports article- and category-space, as well as consistentent templates, etc.
  8. SheffGruff 00:50, 13 November 2007 (UTC) Interested mainly in 'field' hockey.
  9. Shootmaster 44
  10. StarryWorld
  11. Tyciol

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Parent WikiProject

WikiProject Culture

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports for an up-to-date charts showing all sports WikiProjects and their interrelations.

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