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See talk:Disability table tennis classification ; talk:Disability racquetball classification ; talk:Disability sailing classification ; talk:Paralympic powerlifting classification ; talk:Disability judo classification ; talk:Disabled lawn bowls player classification where this rename is proposed. -- 65.92.181.190 ( talk) 06:43, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
The usage of Arrows is under discussion, see Talk:Arrows, where the page is suggested to be renamed to Arrows (F1) so that it can be redirected to Arrow as the plural form. -- 65.92.181.190 ( talk) 13:37, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I ask you if we can delete the references to the Anglo-Saxon measures in the articles of athletics, as the international federation is not using them. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 13:20, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi. This is to let you know of Requested moves at:
-- Stfg ( talk) 15:03, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering. Should we have Colorado Rockies as the disambiguation page & move the MLB team article to Colorado Rockies (MLB)? Note, we have Colorado Rockies (NHL). GoodDay ( talk) 18:01, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
LauraHale and I are having a dispute about whether to use the word "earned" rather than "won" to describe winning of medals, in a phrase like "She earned/won three gold medals". I believe the use of "earned" is non-neutral as it implies effort and honesty which, while probably true in the vast majority of cases, shouldn't be assumed to be the case; did Lance Armstrong "earn" the seven yellow jerseys that he received? Therefore, I don't think we should use the word "earn" when we have the perfectly good word "won" at our disposal which has no value judgements attached to it. Laura disagrees with this assessment, believing that the word "earned" is neutral. What do you all think ... could it be an English dialect issue? See the conversation at User talk:LauraHale#Earning medals and User talk:Graham87# Medals earned, and please reply here to keep the conversation in one place. Graham 87 09:19, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
I (and Google: 1,470,000 "won a medal" vs 182,000 "earned a medal") am on the side of Graham. I have no doubt, for me there is no dispute, the dawn of time you win a medal, you earn a salary. ;-) -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 12:33, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
I disagree that the word "earned" is a violation of NPOV. As Graham87 notes, it does imply effort and honesty, which is true in the vast majority of the cases. It is appropriate to eschew the term, or remove if once added, when facts come to light indicating it wasn't appropriate, but it is an over-reaction to avoid using it because it might not be the case in some instances.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 14:44, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
But in that mad mad world we live in? ;-) It seems like a surreal discussion. ;-) I win a race. I win a competition. I win a medal. It is a simple syllogism, I never heard say "I earn a race". I repeat "I earn a salary" not a medal. Do you believe in Sports Illustrated? After a long layoff, Rebecca Twigg won a medal in Barcelona and a fifth world title this summer -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 15:15, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
The truly neutral option would be "received a gold medal" or "was awarded a gold medal". Neither of these can change after the fact no matter what.-- Gibson Flying V ( talk) 16:57, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Racquetball classification , Table tennis classification , Powerlifting classification , Template:Basketball classifications , Template:Swimming classifications , Template:Cycling classifications , Template:Athletics classifications , have been nominated for deletion, please see WP:RFD. -- 65.92.181.190 ( talk) 07:11, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
...I refer to this {{ Sports-reference}}, it's preferable to use it as EL rather than as inline source? It's otherwise justifiable an user that rolls back who inserts it? -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 08:24, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
See Talk:John Bunyan (Kerry GAA), where the disambiguatory use of the term "dual player" is being discussed -- 70.24.250.26 ( talk) 07:07, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
There is an Rfc at Major professional sports teams of the United States and Canada regarding how the teams should be listed on that page. You are invited to comment. Angryapathy ( talk) 19:39, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
If so The Netherlands could field six athletes in the 100 meter race at the Olympics, not three. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 23:19, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi people! I'm new here and I don't know if the point that I'll talk about has been discussed before. I've seen a long time ago in Italian Wikipedia a simple template that makes links to the articles that refers to national teams of all sports, the template "Naz". I translate this to Portuguese Wiki (my native language, I'm Brazilian) (see template "Seleção") and it works very well. The only thing necessary is to create one template listing the sports (as in pt:Predefinição:Seleção/Esporte), one for each country (containing the flag and the name of the country, as in pt:Predefinição:Seleção/BRA) and one that makes all work (as pt:Predefinição:Seleção). What do you think about it?
Sorry my poor English... Gustavo Tell me! 17:28, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
After an ANI relating to the matter, I'm starting a discussion on the appropriate of articles on individual events at competitions like the Olympics and other international competitions. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 100#Appropriateness of individual swimming events (and related). I would appriciate if others could relay this to Wikiprojects that are involved with these types of events/competitions. -- MASEM ( t) 19:43, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
An RfC discussion about the MOS:FLAG restriction on the use of flag icons for sportspeople has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons. We invite all interested participants to provide their opinion here. Qwyrxian ( talk) 02:34, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Professional Hockey League says in the infobox that it is the Professional Hockey League of Ukraine, as "Professional Hockey League" is a highly generic term, and Ukraine isn't an English-speaking locality, or much featured in English-language hockey media. Does this type of naming for non-English leagues hold up? (generic names used as article titles for non-English leagues) -- 76.65.128.43 ( talk) 08:52, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
FYI, there's a notice at Template talk:Medal wanting to change the way DQs are handled. -- 76.65.128.43 ( talk) 15:17, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
I have nominated American football, a top-importance article on this project, for good article status. Additionally, I have nominated List of NFL champions (1920-1969) for featured list status, an article with relevance to the topic of sports in general. If any project members are interested in commenting on either, you are more than welcome to join in the discussion and help improve them even more. Thanks. Toa Nidhiki05 20:01, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
FYI, there's a proposal to create a wikiproject for eSports. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Electronic Sports -- 76.65.128.43 ( talk) 03:22, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, folks! I'm trying to find the articles on ideal team awards, like FIFA World Cup All-Star Team, FIFA/FIFPro World XI, All-NBA Team, Gold Glove Awards and All-American. I want to make an article on the concept in English and Spanish. Can you help me? Thanks! -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 14:31, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Not mentioned in our article All-America, however, Baseball Magazine selected one "All-America" ideal team of major league players, as well as two all-league teams (American and National) annually for several decades from 1908 or soon after. ... -P64 2013-01-25
I noticed a while ago that there were some teams missing in the article. I added what I could to the table, but I don't know all the missing information. And the map needs to be fixed too since North Dakota and Wyoming should be blue. I tried leaving a message for the person who first made the map but he hasn't done anything.
I just noticed this since I write about volleyball (though the missing teams are for swimming and diving). I don't know much of anything about fixing mistakes on Wikipedia and I am not really keen to learn. I left a message on the MPSF's discussion page but I don't think anyone's looked at it. If I'm leaving this message in the wrong place, sorry, but could it maybe be taken to the right page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.160.130.14 ( talk) 02:12, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
I have started two move requests on articles within the scope of this project: 1, 2. 88.88.165.222 ( talk) 15:26, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
A discussion has started there about improving the article. Any help would be appreciated. Gtwfan52 ( talk) 02:18, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
The National Football League article is up for good article status. As a significant article in this WikiProject, any project members are invited to comment on or review the nomination. Toa Nidhiki05 01:30, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
There is a debate going on at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Federer–Murray rivalry about there being too many or too few tennis rivalry stand-alone articles. Regardless of views, come give us a better cross-section of the wikipedia editor pool so we can get a better feel on how to proceed with the creation of these articles in the future. Thanks. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 10:05, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
Any input appreciated. ThanX GenQuest "Talk to Me" 21:32, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
This is a courtesy message to inform the members of this project that I have nominated Portal:Sports for featured portal status. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Sports. The featured portal criteria are at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria. Please feel free to weigh in. Sven Manguard Wha? 18:41, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Every time there is unofficial news of a trade, signing, waiver, etc, editors rush to add it to an article as if it was official. I've created the essay Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports/Handling sports transactions to capture how to handle this. It's easier to just drop this on a talk page/edit summary than having to explain this every time. Feel free to improve it.— Bagumba ( talk) 21:06, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Uploading some photos about womens football, I've discovered a lot of photos taken by a Flickr user, who has covered a lot of various sports events hold in Catalonia. In his account We can find Barcelona and Joventut various basketball matches, also "Clásicos" Barça-Madrid. Also are pictures from the Barcelona's indoor soccer sction (not veterans from association soccer), Some Espanyol, Tarragona, Girona and Barcelona Association football matches, from the Catalan Cup, were usually play youngster or less habitual FCB players. We have also the presentation of Cesc Fàbregas as a FCB player, with former goalkeeper and staff member Andoni Zubizarreta in some photos, An Spain's handball match, and a vaste ammount of photos from different matches of the Spanish indoor rolley hockey league (Were most of the teams are catalan, including a section of Football Club Barcelona).-- Coentor ( talk) 15:10, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion taking place here and here regarding whether or not 100 or 200 sports related articles should be included (and which) at Wikipedia:Vital articles/Expanded. GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 00:44, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Shouldn't
WP:WikiProject Biography/Sports and games also be signed onto the {{
WPSPORTS}} banner as it is with {{
WPBIO}} ? It would sign on like {{
WPBIO|sport-work-group=yes}}
and the switch could be {{
WPSPORT|biography=yes}}
--
65.92.180.137 (
talk) 02:39, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
{{ Infobox National Sport Association of the Deaf}} has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 04:50, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
While patrolling new pages, I ran across United SportsCar Racing. I could use some help assessing the series's notability if any of you have time. OlYeller21 Talktome 19:31, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
I just wanted some input from other sports editors on the yearly pages being created for Serena Williams. There are many but 2012 Serena Williams tennis season is representative. Is there too much detail? I was thinking it was overly detailed and tagged it as such, at which point the editor who created the pages promptly removed it. There has been some controversy of whether the pages should exist at all but, with consensus wanting them to stay put, should the detail of the prose be cut down or is it about right? Thanks. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 15:26, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Football_League#College_names_in_athletes.27_infoboxes. — Bagumba ( talk) 17:18, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
The Oval (Belfast) has been nominated for GA status. Could a member of the project give it a review? The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 16:56, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
There is now an WP:IRC channel for collaboration between editors in various sports WikiProjects. It's located at #wikipedia-en-sports connect. Thanks Secret account 03:41, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
File:Ausublues.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 23:51, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
For all of you who watch this page but not the wikiproject football page, please consider adding your thoughts to my proposal consistently gendering articles on national football teams (and, potentially other sport team names) at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/National teams#Proposed change: consistency in article title gendering. Thank you in advance for any contributions to the discussion. Dkreisst ( talk) 21:37, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello.
Looking for the best place to post this discussion, as it needs to be centralized. I have posted it at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion too.
I'm thinking of the big – hence the location for this discussion – category trees Category:Sports festivals by country and Category:Sports competitions by country. What's the difference, really? And says that sports festivals are to be subcategories of sports competitions, which is the current situation?
Merge?
HandsomeFella ( talk) 17:05, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
I've really got to ask who thought these were a good idea. I've come across their wide-scale use on at least 3 pages -- NCAA Bowling Championship, NCAA Women's Field Hockey Championship, and FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. When a link like 2010 exists next to an entry in a table about the yearly championship in one or another of these events, a reader reasonably expects to be headed to an article that deals directly with them. Not some just-barely-relevant catch-all. The links on the beach volley page are especially baffling, because we do have articles for those tournaments specifically going back as far as 2004. I've since edited in more appropriate links to that page and will do so for the NCAA pages very soon. The bluelinks also make editors believe that articles addressing these topics have already been written, when in fact they have not been. The only way I can even conceive of someone thinking these were a good idea would be out of some misplaced desire to get rid of redlinks at all costs. There's nothing wrong with redlinks and, as said, "impostor" bluelinks can be damaging. Green-eyed girl ( Talk · Contribs) 00:17, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Gliding Grand Prix report ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) seems like it would be redundant to some more generic sport template? Also, the articles that use this template seem to be a particular year edition, but occupying the non-year race article location. -- 65.94.79.6 ( talk) 05:35, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
There is a proposal to redesign Portal:Current events/Sports. Please comment at Portal talk:Current events/Sports#MFD?. -- John of Reading ( talk) 19:33, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm from WikiProject Kayaking I have just started a discussion on our talk page about the naming convention for Canoeists vs Canoers. We would appreciate your input on the topic. Jamesmcmahon0 ( talk) 17:05, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
What's the difference between these two articles: List of indoor arenas in Sweden and Indoor venues in Sweden? Is there a difference between arenas and venues? Otherwise, it seems a good idea to merge the two articles into one. Hey mid ( contribs) 21:38, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello. There is an ongoing move discussion at Talk:Coimbra Academic Association#Requested move 2. Since it has now been relisted twice it seems time to notify the three tagged projects; WikiProject Portugal, WikiProject Universities and WikiProject Sports. In ictu oculi ( talk) 00:30, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello project.
I'd like to address the YYYY in Fooan sport category tree. I think these categories are ambiguous and confusing. For instance, the article on the 2013 World Allround Speed Skating Championships is currently categorized in " Category:2013 in Norwegian sport", although it is obviously an international event.
Is this category meant for sport events that occurred in Norway that year, or is it for events involving Norwegian athletes or teams that occurred (anywhere) that year? That is very unclear from its name.
A distinction is necessary. A category is needed for International sports competitions in 2013 hosted by Norway (or whatever you wanna call it, suggestions are welcome), which would hold international events, competitions, etc, hosted by Norway. Strictly national events, and Norwegian participation in international events, would go into 2013 in Norwegian sport.
Suggested year-in-sports tree (wiki-linked for convenience):
As you can see, the Swedish women's team's participation in the various stages of the UEFA Women's Euro 2013 is placed in "2013 in Swedish football", while the main article is instead placed in "International sports competitions in 2013 hosted by Sweden".
Year-in-country tree is unchanged:
HandsomeFella ( talk) 18:06, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
I checked some of the championships pages 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 and the data didn't match up between events medalist and medal tables. I'm not sure which one was correct, but i went with the events one. I have no idea where to check them, can someone do that with all of the championships articles? Pelmeen10 ( talk) 02:47, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I just would like to signal this new discussion I just opened here. -- SERGIO aka the Black Cat 08:29, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
There is no such category at present eg Category:1973 in Soviet sport, and I propose to create the series; the Soviet Union was prominent in sport. Hugo999 ( talk) 02:00, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Should season articles carry the word "season" ? see Talk:2013–14 Liga MX season -- 70.24.244.158 ( talk) 06:30, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
FYI Portal:Current events/Sports has been nominated for deletion; it seems to revolve around updates -- 76.65.129.3 ( talk) 06:21, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
This is a special invitation for experienced editors to the discussion in WikiProject Volleyball about the proposal for Notability Guide for Volleyball Players. Your wise and kind participation will be highly appreciated. Osplace 18:41, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Help! Please see here and here. ;) -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 15:16, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
Template:SN College Athlete of the Year has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jrcla2 ( talk) 15:12, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
A split of List_of_doping_cases_in_sport has been suggested at Talk:List_of_doping_cases_in_sport#Proposed:_Split_list_by_the_existing_.22sections.22. Please feel free to comment and discuss so that a consensus can be established. Thank you. Hasteur ( talk) 15:13, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
Please join discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navbox for college basketball teams. CrazyPaco ( talk) 05:59, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Might be useful for various sports (e.g., hockey and baseball): m:Talk:Interwiki_map#JerseyDatabase.com πr2 ( t • c) 19:50, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
What is correct:
e.g. in article titles? See for instance List of world junior records in athletics and Category:Shooting junior men's world record navigational boxes. HandsomeFella ( talk) 16:13, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect England FH Squad 2012 Champions Trophy. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. John Vandenberg ( chat) 23:50, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Just seeking a wider range of input from informed persons at Template_talk:Height#rfc_97AACED.-- Gibson Flying V ( talk) 01:13, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
The title of Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see Talk:Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics -- 70.24.244.161 ( talk) 11:56, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
I have proposed to create a WikiProject for bandy. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Bandy. Andrew S. Knight ( talk) 17:10, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear sports enthusiasts: This old abandoned Afc submission is soon to be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable player? Should the article be kept? — Anne Delong ( talk) 22:36, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Please, see Talk:Régis Rey. Thanks, -- Manuguf ( talk) 11:11, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello, everyone. There is a WP:RfC on whether or not the leads of articles should generally be no longer than four paragraphs (refer to WP:Manual of Style/Lead section for the current guideline). As this will affect Wikipedia on a wide scale, including WikiProjects that often deal with article formatting, if the proposed change is implemented, I invite you to the discussion; see here: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section#RFC on four paragraph lead. Flyer22 ( talk) 17:13, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Massachusetts Minutemen and Minutewomen ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 00:53, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Boston Minutemen ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Boston Minutemen for the discussion -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 00:53, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
I have a concern/gripe about the following articles
These are all massive lists with no apparent criteria for inclusion, generally poorly sourced and are, in my opinion, the textbook example of WP:INDISCRIMINATE, because basically any competitive athlete can get a sponsorship (and Nike, Inc.#Current sponsorships has a similar problem). Is there a way to define these lists better? My instinct is to list them for deletion, but I believe one or more has gone through AFD already. Now, sponsorship itself is a worthy topic of discussion, but these lists are basically what Wikipedia is WP:NOT. Mosmof ( talk) 18:00, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Assistant referee ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Assistant referee (association football) -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 06:32, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
I've created a stub on the recently announced Invictus Games, which may be of interest to members of this project. Sadly my sporting knowledge is limited, so please feel free to add or expand anything I've missed. I think we may also need to start an article about the US Warrior Games if we don't already have it. Paul MacDermott ( talk) 17:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Template:Great West Conference navbox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jrcla2 ( talk) 21:32, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
For anyone with interest and time, the article needs help from objective editors. It's a public relations dream, with swaths of copyright violations. JNW ( talk) 04:11, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
There is a CfR you might be interested in discussing over at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 March 7#Mt. SAC athletics. Thanks. Jrcla2 ( talk) 14:49, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi all - please note I have requested that all "sports festival" categories be renamed to "International sports competitions". Please contribute to the discussion. SFB 12:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi. My question might be odd but you see, Wikipedia have two templates: one is {{ WPSports}}, the other is {{ WPBiography}}, both are sports related, but the latter one is sports and games, which might confuse people into believing that football for example is a game. Is it O.K. to use both? Someone told me that its fine, so I added the template to some athletes (like over 500). If its not (and you will cite a guideline), then I will remove the {{ WPSports}} template from athlete related articles (but then there should be a good reason for its existence). Many thanks in advance.-- Mishae ( talk) 21:06, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I've come across a definition-jumble.... Strength sports goes to strength athletics, which is defined there as strongman sports, but strength athlete covers the usual inclusion of throwers, football players, powerlifters and strongman. The use of "strength athletics" to refer to strongman competitions seem to have some usage-citation but there is, to me anyway, a clear delineation between "strongman" as such and the broader "strength athlete" which includes Olympic lifters, powerlifters, discus/shot etc.....There's some other articles in the respective categories on these pages, I'm not sure where to start to straighten out the terminology and figured better to seek consensual input..... Skookum1 ( talk) 05:32, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm curious about how we might expand the article on Tori Murden in relation to research on extreme sports and/or heroic efforts in sporting events (e.g. skiing or rowing). Since there are new research opportunities involved in sports and/or kinesiology, who might be willing to add these kinds of resources in understanding the kinds of experiences that Tori Murden underwent as she became the first woman to row across the Atlantic, etc.? Randolph.hollingsworth ( talk) 01:52, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello All! South Korea's official flickr account has tons of photos of the 2013 World Rowing Championships, all cc-by-sa-2.0 licenced. unfortunately people are not named in the tags. Would need some help in identifying the athletes... There are a handful of photos only, the rest are about the opening and closing ceremony. Commons:Category:2013 World Rowing Championships Thank you in advance for the help!!! Teemeah 편지 (letter) 18:57, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
There has been a long-running dispute at Talk:Australian national association football team that has spiralled out into a number of requested moves, ANI threads and much else besides.
Below are two summaries of the dispute from User:Lukeno94 and User:Pi zero:
- The major bone of contention is twofold; should this particular article contain some reference to the male gender in the title or not, and should an article located at this title be a DAB or a mixture of both team's genders? There is also the fairly perennial "association football" vs "soccer" debate as well, as well as a disputed POV tag. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 23:19, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
- Fwiw, my understanding of what's gone on here (alas, not so admirably succinct as the preceding):
- Some people objected to an article whose title says it's the national team, while the content says it's only going to cover the men's team, for the women's team go to another article whose title specifies "women's".
- A proposal was made to fix this perceived neutrality problem by renaming this article to have a name that specifies "men's", parallel to the other article whose name specifies "women's".
- Some people objected to the move on the grounds of PRIMARYTOPIC. Proponents said PRIMARYTOPIC doesn't apply to a long title that isn't the most commonly used name for the thing. Some opponents, invoking PRIMARYTOPIC, further maintained that any sexism in the title passively reflects existing sexism in the culture, while some proponents maintained that the article actively promotes sexism.
- The neutrality issue got mentioned in the move discussions, where some people maintained the hatnote was sufficient while others claimed the hatnote doesn't help with the sexism problem. It was suggested that if the article doesn't get moved, the other way to fix the neutrality problem would be to cover both the men's and women's teams in this article.
- The move was proposed and discussed twice, with both discussions closed as "no consensus". Afaics, no formal discussion has taken place regarding the neutrality problem specifically, which would presumably be the basis on which one would claim that the closure of the move proposals does not bear on the neutrality issue.
- Anyway, that's my understanding of about how things have gone. To be clear, I'm one of those who wrote and voted in favor of the move, suggested PRIMARYTOPIC doesn't apply, and still maintain that the article in its current form is offensively sexist; so, my attempt to neutrally summarize things is made while holding those positions. -- Pi zero ( talk) 23:34, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
It seems like the best course of action is to have a formal RfC on the issues related to this. The general question seems to be: should articles about national sports teams include "men's" or "women's" in the title? Please express your views calmly and civilly and assume good faith of others in this discussion. — Tom Morris ( talk) 17:56, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Add any more general comments here.
Comment: I'm not sure if it is legal for national teams for football, but a lot of sports and at a range of levels, t-ex- chess and golf, women are allowed to participate in competition against male in "mens class", while men are not allowed to compete in competition in the "woman class". The "mens class" could may be concidered as an open class, rather than a "mens class". Grrahnbahr ( talk) 17:51, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
What's the point in having categories for sports teams and categories for sports clubs? They mainly overlap eachother. The only teams which are not club teams I can think of, are national teams. Bandy boy ( talk) 08:47, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
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talk) 15:28, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi everybody,
Half a dozen of french-speaking wikimedians have decided to improve illustrations of sports articles and more generally produce free content of sport events.
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Since the beginning of the year, 30 events have been photographed and many different sports.
We maintain a list on Wikipedia ( Projet:Sport/Photo). Feel free to make suggestions ! Pyb ( talk) 13:09, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
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Is there a sports-minded person who would be willing to add appropriate material from the above draft about an Olympic athlete to the existing stub Jaman Lal Sharma? I can help with the attribution if necessary. — Anne Delong ( talk) 17:44, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Eurocup ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Eurocup Basketball -- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 05:24, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Dear sports experts: This old AfC submission appears to be about a notable conference. I'm not sure that it's appropriate to have the names of all the speakers included. Should this be accepted into the encyclopedia, or does it still need work? — Anne Delong ( talk) 01:32, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
Please note: This is an updated version of a previous post that I made
Hi all,
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Hi, I just tidied up Category:Argentine sportspeople by creating Category:Argentine sports competitors and filling it with categories of Argentine players, coherently with the upper categories Category:Sportspeople (which includes coaches, players, referees etc.) and Category:Sports competitors (which only includes the players). It should be done with all the subcategories of Category:Sportspeople by nationality, like the ones in it:Categoria:Personalità dello sport per nazionalità. Could someone please provide to help with bots or just by manual edits?
Categories "NATIONALITY sportspeople" should also be moved on Wikidata, from this situation to this situation. Practically, "NATIONALITY sportspeople" (en, simple and Commons) should be replaced in the data pages with "NATIONALITY sports competitors" and connected instead with the corresponding category of it:Categoria:Personalità dello sport per nazionalità.
Thanks in advance for the help :-) -- Superchilum( talk to me!) 13:46, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I am linking French pages with other Wikis through Wiki Data (mostly Wiki EN). But as I see that these two categories exist and there is only one article : Sport club I wonder if we could all merge ? Sincerely. Nezdek ( talk) 19:01, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Dear sports enthusiasts: This old AfC submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is there anything in it that should be saved and moved to Fuahea Semi ? — Anne Delong ( talk) 14:53, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm creating a stub for each participants of the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships. A user add this template, eg. Artur Beliakou. But I don't know what to do. Should I source the content of the infobox ? Should I source each fact with two references ? Pyb ( talk) 12:07, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
Do we have any Tournament bracket templates that display team names without numerical scores? Probably it is equivalent to have versions of the templates {{ Round16}}, {{ Round8}}, etc, that display single rather than double cells at each position if one of the two cells would be empty.
Viewing some of the 63 16-Team bracket templates, for example, I find designs with two-, three-, and four-celled positions evidently sized for team names and one-, two-, or three-part scores. And greater variety, such as four-celled positions designed for numerical seeds, team names, and two-part scores ( Template:Round16-2legs). -- P64 ( talk) 19:01, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
How reliable and up to date is the MaxPreps website for information? Specifically I'm creating pages on various United States high school athletic leagues and conferences and I want to know if the information I'm pulling from that website is correct. Thanks.-- Prisencolinensinainciusol ( talk) 15:47, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Proposal here to restore content to athlete (currently a disambiguation page) after having been forked between " sportsperson" and athletics in an attempt to change it from an American English article to a British one. — LlywelynII 09:16, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
-- 65.94.169.222 ( talk) 09:11, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
I've suggested that Sasuke (TV series) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) be split apart into a set of articles. The article "Sasuke (TV series)" is currently over 100kB, so is very large. (it is even larger than the recommended max size for archives) For the discussion see Talk:Sasuke (TV series) -- 70.51.46.146 ( talk) 10:54, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi WikiProject Sports. I notice that the subcategories of Category:Sports by country and year, Category:Years in European sport, Category:British sport by year and (apart from a handful of exceptions) Category:English sport by year only go back as far as 1850. Was there a deliberate decision that the pre-1850 categories should not be created, or is it just the case that nobody has created the pre-1850 categories yet ? Non-empty subcategories could be created all the way back to 1726 (= the earliest subcategory of Category:Cricket in England by year). I'm happy to create the categories (and any relevant parent categories), but I didn't want to invest the effort if there had been a decision that these categories should not be created. Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 11:08, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej ( talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
There is a Request for Comment about "Chronological Summaries of the Olympics" and you're invited! Becky Sayles ( talk) 07:28, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
The usage and primary topic of " Batista" is under discussion at talk:Dave Batista -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 07:39, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
Does "fighter" mean "mixed martial artist" or any combat sports fighter (such as boxers, kickboxers, etc?) We are discussing disambiguation at Ed Herman (mixed martial artist) -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 10:56, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
I've proposed that "fighter" not be used as the disambiguator for mixed martial artists, due to uses in other sports, for the RFC on the matter, please see WT:BIOG -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 10:32, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of Oregon Ducks Department of Athletics Awards is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Oregon Ducks Department of Athletics Awards until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Jrcla2 ( talk) 01:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
There is a move discussion; I invite you to improve consensus by commenting. -- George Ho ( talk) 07:36, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Looking sown the list of navigational templates related to sport(s) by region, I see that in some places the template name uses an uppercase S (such as {{ New York Sports}}), while others use a lowercase s (such as {{ Texas sports}}). I think we sjhould fix this - probably go in the direction of lowercase, lthough naming them all to uppercase would be better than the current mix there is. (Note that I'm not proposing editing the thousands of articles using these templates, just renaming the templates, and keeping the redirects around.) עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:22, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, I started a discussion about the notability of the country pages for the UCI Road World Championships. All your comments would be appriaciated. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cycling#Country pages for the UCI Road World championships. Sander.v.Ginkel ( Je suis Charlie) 13:24, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
In reading the article " List of multi-sport athletes", I notice that it is becoming peppered with entries of people who were prominent in one sport, yet had significantly less importance in another. That is not what it is supposed to be. It is my belief that to qualify for this article, a person should qualify for a Wikipedia article even if he/she played only one of those sports, under " Wikipedia:Notability (sports)". For example, Michael Jordan is not on the list, because his baseball career is not notable enough to qualify him for an article on its own. Similarly, Dan Marino should not be listed but is, even though he was only drafted and never played professional baseball. However, someone like Bob Hayes would qualify for being both a pro football player and an Olympic medalist. I do not want to diminish the accomplishments of these athletes, but when I turn to this article, I am looking for people more like Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, or Danny Ainge. I am tempted to be bold and cut many listings out, but this would be too significant an action to take unilaterally. My comments on the article's talk page go unnoticed, while more and more names are added to the page. Thank you. → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 08:57, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Is there any policy or guideline on this one? For the most part, articles don't list every game result for domestic leagues, except for a summary table. This includes "regular season" game results, as playoff results and competitions above the national level are almost always listed individually. There are some exceptions: domestic rugby union results, cup competitions, US NCAA basketball and football, and Australian leagues. Should these be under WP:NOT#STATS? – H T D 14:59, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
Are Sports associations the same as Sports trade associations? If yes then shouldn't Category:Sports associations be a member of Category:Trade associations? Ottawahitech ( talk) 15:39, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Is there a bracket template that would handle the below scenario (first round is over two legs and the remaining rounds single matches)? Hack ( talk) 06:50, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, can anyone tell me whether this website [3] is reliable or not as per WP:RS? Itz arka ( talk) 10:07, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
On the WikiProject Cycling there is a proposal for an update for the notable criterea ( WP:NCYC). It is possible to vote/respond here. Sander.v.Ginkel ( Je suis Charlie) 11:02, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
What does carbon fiber mean? We are discussing the primary topic at talk:carbon (fiber). As carbon fiber is a frequent sporting goods material, I thought I'd let you know. -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 05:02, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
The stylization of 'eSport' is under discussion, see talk:electronic sports -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 05:47, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
The usage and primary topic of Schtick is under discussion, see talk:Schtick (disc game) -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 04:27, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Athletics (British) to be moved to Sport of athletics. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 22:29, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Schtick (disc game) to be moved to Schtick. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 23:16, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
I've noticed a lot of projects seem to track deletion discussions related to the scope of their project, but I don't see a link on your project page for one for sports. At any rate, I wanted to notify the project of a Prod that I placed earlier today on Sports Beijing. ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 19:46, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 121#MOS:IDENTITY clarification regarding the application or the guideline to articles outside the biography, in particular regarding transgendered persons in sports. Further opinions would be appreciated. Diego ( talk) 09:46, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Could anyone help determine if she passes notability guidelines already? Draft:Katie Kelly. Thanks, FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 20:25, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, folks! I've founded the Commons WikiProject Sports, to gather people around the world to develop free images, videos, audio and other media related to sports. Have fun! -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 12:55, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
In case anyone is interested, I have launched a proposal to change the style of the mobile tables to make them match the desktop skin's tables more in response to a number of readability issues that were reported within the F1 project in recent moths. In case anyone wants to weigh in their opinion for either side of the argument, you can do so here. Thanks, T v x1 15:30, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to undertake a peer review of the College Football Playoff article, to which I've contributed on-and-off for awhile now. It was recently rated C-class, and I was hoping somebody could give me some feedback. It seems like something the community might want to get to GA (or even FA) before this fall. I've never done this before, so I'm sort of unsure of the next steps for this. Thanks for any help! Woodshed ( talk) 22:23, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
The usage and primary topic of Eurogame is under discussion, see talk:German-style board game -- 67.70.32.190 ( talk) 04:29, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
It's currently nominated for In the news, but more content is needed. I need your help on this. -- George Ho ( talk) 18:42, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Should Russia and the Soviet Union be counted as one in medal tables? Please give your thought at Talk:Bandy World Championship for men#Medals for Russia and Soviet Union! Snowsuit Wearer ( talk| contribs) 10:48, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
Please share your thoughts here. Thanks. Marcocapelle ( talk) 19:57, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Could you please have a look at this discussion and this discussion? Thanks. Marcocapelle ( talk) 08:28, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
2016 Women's Bandy World Championship has been nominated for speedy deletion. Please give your thoughts at the talk page of the article. Snowsuit Wearer ( talk| contribs) 18:18, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Washington University Bears to be moved to Washington Bears. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 04:30, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Could someone please fix 2015 in sports? Someone forgot how to use summary style and created the longest article in Wikipedia history. Kaldari ( talk) 00:41, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Janae Marie Kroc to be moved to Kroc. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 17:31, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
The usage and topic of Rest of the world is under discussion, see talk:Rest of the world -- 67.70.32.190 ( talk) 05:32, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Rest of the world to be moved to Rest of the world in sports and games. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 05:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
A question has been raised at Talk:Bandy#History whether the history section for the sport should be moved within the article. It seems to be common to have the history section for a sport close to the top of the article about the sport (e.g. in the articles about association football, ice hockey, and field hockey). Is it commendable to follow this practice in all sports articles? Snowsuit Wearer ( talk| contribs) 11:12, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Fox Sports 1 to be moved to FS1. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 18:45, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Hockey on ice is up for discussion, see the RfD. -- 70.51.202.113 ( talk) 04:14, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Jumping (horse) to be moved to Horse jumping. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 05:00, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
I've made a proposal to change the naming conventions for sports teams so that they fall in line more closely with general naming convertions. Participation would be appreciated at this page. -- ArmstrongJulian ( talk) 11:03, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Category:Superlatives in sports, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for renaming to Category:Perfect scores by sport. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect ( talk) 03:18, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
Shall Wikipedia write about sponsors (in general) and their importance for a sport? One user at talk:bandy seems to be very opposed to this idea, saying it goes against Wikipedia principles. Please share your opinion at that page! Skogsvandraren ( talk) 12:51, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
A a Village Pump thread has opened (link) to determine how to guide editors when referring to transgender people when they are mentioned in passing (such as in articles and lists on historical sporting events). Please join the discussion. Blueboar ( talk) 00:05, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Category:Sportspeople from Utrecht (city) to be moved to Sportspeople from Utrecht (city). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 16:15, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
I noticed redirects world team of the year / world team of the year 1996 -- these lead to a magazine article. Shouldn't these be disambiguation pages? Should the yearless one point to Team of the Year ? -- 70.51.44.60 ( talk) 07:32, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
The naming of Chin-up and the existence of Pull-up (exercise) is under discussion, see Talk:Chin-up -- 70.51.44.60 ( talk) 06:13, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Shipwreck Kelly (American football) to be moved to John "Shipwreck" Kelly. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 08:59, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Invictus Games (multi-sport event) to be moved to Invictus Games. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 05:30, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
I have created a stub for Comeback (sports), and could use some help filling in details for specific sports. Cheers! bd2412 T 14:15, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Roller skates to be moved to Roller skate. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 00:59, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Should the WADA Independent Commission chaired by Dick Pound and its report receive a separate article? [5] [6] [7] - 70.51.44.60 ( talk) 08:16, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Fox Sports 1 to be moved to FS1 (U.S. TV channel). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 17:15, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | ← | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 |
See talk:Disability table tennis classification ; talk:Disability racquetball classification ; talk:Disability sailing classification ; talk:Paralympic powerlifting classification ; talk:Disability judo classification ; talk:Disabled lawn bowls player classification where this rename is proposed. -- 65.92.181.190 ( talk) 06:43, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
The usage of Arrows is under discussion, see Talk:Arrows, where the page is suggested to be renamed to Arrows (F1) so that it can be redirected to Arrow as the plural form. -- 65.92.181.190 ( talk) 13:37, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I ask you if we can delete the references to the Anglo-Saxon measures in the articles of athletics, as the international federation is not using them. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 13:20, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi. This is to let you know of Requested moves at:
-- Stfg ( talk) 15:03, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering. Should we have Colorado Rockies as the disambiguation page & move the MLB team article to Colorado Rockies (MLB)? Note, we have Colorado Rockies (NHL). GoodDay ( talk) 18:01, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
LauraHale and I are having a dispute about whether to use the word "earned" rather than "won" to describe winning of medals, in a phrase like "She earned/won three gold medals". I believe the use of "earned" is non-neutral as it implies effort and honesty which, while probably true in the vast majority of cases, shouldn't be assumed to be the case; did Lance Armstrong "earn" the seven yellow jerseys that he received? Therefore, I don't think we should use the word "earn" when we have the perfectly good word "won" at our disposal which has no value judgements attached to it. Laura disagrees with this assessment, believing that the word "earned" is neutral. What do you all think ... could it be an English dialect issue? See the conversation at User talk:LauraHale#Earning medals and User talk:Graham87# Medals earned, and please reply here to keep the conversation in one place. Graham 87 09:19, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
I (and Google: 1,470,000 "won a medal" vs 182,000 "earned a medal") am on the side of Graham. I have no doubt, for me there is no dispute, the dawn of time you win a medal, you earn a salary. ;-) -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 12:33, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
I disagree that the word "earned" is a violation of NPOV. As Graham87 notes, it does imply effort and honesty, which is true in the vast majority of the cases. It is appropriate to eschew the term, or remove if once added, when facts come to light indicating it wasn't appropriate, but it is an over-reaction to avoid using it because it might not be the case in some instances.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 14:44, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
But in that mad mad world we live in? ;-) It seems like a surreal discussion. ;-) I win a race. I win a competition. I win a medal. It is a simple syllogism, I never heard say "I earn a race". I repeat "I earn a salary" not a medal. Do you believe in Sports Illustrated? After a long layoff, Rebecca Twigg won a medal in Barcelona and a fifth world title this summer -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 15:15, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
The truly neutral option would be "received a gold medal" or "was awarded a gold medal". Neither of these can change after the fact no matter what.-- Gibson Flying V ( talk) 16:57, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Racquetball classification , Table tennis classification , Powerlifting classification , Template:Basketball classifications , Template:Swimming classifications , Template:Cycling classifications , Template:Athletics classifications , have been nominated for deletion, please see WP:RFD. -- 65.92.181.190 ( talk) 07:11, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
...I refer to this {{ Sports-reference}}, it's preferable to use it as EL rather than as inline source? It's otherwise justifiable an user that rolls back who inserts it? -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 08:24, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
See Talk:John Bunyan (Kerry GAA), where the disambiguatory use of the term "dual player" is being discussed -- 70.24.250.26 ( talk) 07:07, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
There is an Rfc at Major professional sports teams of the United States and Canada regarding how the teams should be listed on that page. You are invited to comment. Angryapathy ( talk) 19:39, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
If so The Netherlands could field six athletes in the 100 meter race at the Olympics, not three. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 23:19, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi people! I'm new here and I don't know if the point that I'll talk about has been discussed before. I've seen a long time ago in Italian Wikipedia a simple template that makes links to the articles that refers to national teams of all sports, the template "Naz". I translate this to Portuguese Wiki (my native language, I'm Brazilian) (see template "Seleção") and it works very well. The only thing necessary is to create one template listing the sports (as in pt:Predefinição:Seleção/Esporte), one for each country (containing the flag and the name of the country, as in pt:Predefinição:Seleção/BRA) and one that makes all work (as pt:Predefinição:Seleção). What do you think about it?
Sorry my poor English... Gustavo Tell me! 17:28, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
After an ANI relating to the matter, I'm starting a discussion on the appropriate of articles on individual events at competitions like the Olympics and other international competitions. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 100#Appropriateness of individual swimming events (and related). I would appriciate if others could relay this to Wikiprojects that are involved with these types of events/competitions. -- MASEM ( t) 19:43, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
An RfC discussion about the MOS:FLAG restriction on the use of flag icons for sportspeople has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons. We invite all interested participants to provide their opinion here. Qwyrxian ( talk) 02:34, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Professional Hockey League says in the infobox that it is the Professional Hockey League of Ukraine, as "Professional Hockey League" is a highly generic term, and Ukraine isn't an English-speaking locality, or much featured in English-language hockey media. Does this type of naming for non-English leagues hold up? (generic names used as article titles for non-English leagues) -- 76.65.128.43 ( talk) 08:52, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
FYI, there's a notice at Template talk:Medal wanting to change the way DQs are handled. -- 76.65.128.43 ( talk) 15:17, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
I have nominated American football, a top-importance article on this project, for good article status. Additionally, I have nominated List of NFL champions (1920-1969) for featured list status, an article with relevance to the topic of sports in general. If any project members are interested in commenting on either, you are more than welcome to join in the discussion and help improve them even more. Thanks. Toa Nidhiki05 20:01, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
FYI, there's a proposal to create a wikiproject for eSports. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Electronic Sports -- 76.65.128.43 ( talk) 03:22, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, folks! I'm trying to find the articles on ideal team awards, like FIFA World Cup All-Star Team, FIFA/FIFPro World XI, All-NBA Team, Gold Glove Awards and All-American. I want to make an article on the concept in English and Spanish. Can you help me? Thanks! -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 14:31, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Not mentioned in our article All-America, however, Baseball Magazine selected one "All-America" ideal team of major league players, as well as two all-league teams (American and National) annually for several decades from 1908 or soon after. ... -P64 2013-01-25
I noticed a while ago that there were some teams missing in the article. I added what I could to the table, but I don't know all the missing information. And the map needs to be fixed too since North Dakota and Wyoming should be blue. I tried leaving a message for the person who first made the map but he hasn't done anything.
I just noticed this since I write about volleyball (though the missing teams are for swimming and diving). I don't know much of anything about fixing mistakes on Wikipedia and I am not really keen to learn. I left a message on the MPSF's discussion page but I don't think anyone's looked at it. If I'm leaving this message in the wrong place, sorry, but could it maybe be taken to the right page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.160.130.14 ( talk) 02:12, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
I have started two move requests on articles within the scope of this project: 1, 2. 88.88.165.222 ( talk) 15:26, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
A discussion has started there about improving the article. Any help would be appreciated. Gtwfan52 ( talk) 02:18, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
The National Football League article is up for good article status. As a significant article in this WikiProject, any project members are invited to comment on or review the nomination. Toa Nidhiki05 01:30, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
There is a debate going on at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Federer–Murray rivalry about there being too many or too few tennis rivalry stand-alone articles. Regardless of views, come give us a better cross-section of the wikipedia editor pool so we can get a better feel on how to proceed with the creation of these articles in the future. Thanks. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 10:05, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
Any input appreciated. ThanX GenQuest "Talk to Me" 21:32, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
This is a courtesy message to inform the members of this project that I have nominated Portal:Sports for featured portal status. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Sports. The featured portal criteria are at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria. Please feel free to weigh in. Sven Manguard Wha? 18:41, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Every time there is unofficial news of a trade, signing, waiver, etc, editors rush to add it to an article as if it was official. I've created the essay Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports/Handling sports transactions to capture how to handle this. It's easier to just drop this on a talk page/edit summary than having to explain this every time. Feel free to improve it.— Bagumba ( talk) 21:06, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Uploading some photos about womens football, I've discovered a lot of photos taken by a Flickr user, who has covered a lot of various sports events hold in Catalonia. In his account We can find Barcelona and Joventut various basketball matches, also "Clásicos" Barça-Madrid. Also are pictures from the Barcelona's indoor soccer sction (not veterans from association soccer), Some Espanyol, Tarragona, Girona and Barcelona Association football matches, from the Catalan Cup, were usually play youngster or less habitual FCB players. We have also the presentation of Cesc Fàbregas as a FCB player, with former goalkeeper and staff member Andoni Zubizarreta in some photos, An Spain's handball match, and a vaste ammount of photos from different matches of the Spanish indoor rolley hockey league (Were most of the teams are catalan, including a section of Football Club Barcelona).-- Coentor ( talk) 15:10, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion taking place here and here regarding whether or not 100 or 200 sports related articles should be included (and which) at Wikipedia:Vital articles/Expanded. GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 00:44, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Shouldn't
WP:WikiProject Biography/Sports and games also be signed onto the {{
WPSPORTS}} banner as it is with {{
WPBIO}} ? It would sign on like {{
WPBIO|sport-work-group=yes}}
and the switch could be {{
WPSPORT|biography=yes}}
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65.92.180.137 (
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{{ Infobox National Sport Association of the Deaf}} has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 04:50, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
While patrolling new pages, I ran across United SportsCar Racing. I could use some help assessing the series's notability if any of you have time. OlYeller21 Talktome 19:31, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
I just wanted some input from other sports editors on the yearly pages being created for Serena Williams. There are many but 2012 Serena Williams tennis season is representative. Is there too much detail? I was thinking it was overly detailed and tagged it as such, at which point the editor who created the pages promptly removed it. There has been some controversy of whether the pages should exist at all but, with consensus wanting them to stay put, should the detail of the prose be cut down or is it about right? Thanks. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 15:26, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Football_League#College_names_in_athletes.27_infoboxes. — Bagumba ( talk) 17:18, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
The Oval (Belfast) has been nominated for GA status. Could a member of the project give it a review? The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 16:56, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
There is now an WP:IRC channel for collaboration between editors in various sports WikiProjects. It's located at #wikipedia-en-sports connect. Thanks Secret account 03:41, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
File:Ausublues.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 23:51, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
For all of you who watch this page but not the wikiproject football page, please consider adding your thoughts to my proposal consistently gendering articles on national football teams (and, potentially other sport team names) at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/National teams#Proposed change: consistency in article title gendering. Thank you in advance for any contributions to the discussion. Dkreisst ( talk) 21:37, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello.
Looking for the best place to post this discussion, as it needs to be centralized. I have posted it at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion too.
I'm thinking of the big – hence the location for this discussion – category trees Category:Sports festivals by country and Category:Sports competitions by country. What's the difference, really? And says that sports festivals are to be subcategories of sports competitions, which is the current situation?
Merge?
HandsomeFella ( talk) 17:05, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
I've really got to ask who thought these were a good idea. I've come across their wide-scale use on at least 3 pages -- NCAA Bowling Championship, NCAA Women's Field Hockey Championship, and FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. When a link like 2010 exists next to an entry in a table about the yearly championship in one or another of these events, a reader reasonably expects to be headed to an article that deals directly with them. Not some just-barely-relevant catch-all. The links on the beach volley page are especially baffling, because we do have articles for those tournaments specifically going back as far as 2004. I've since edited in more appropriate links to that page and will do so for the NCAA pages very soon. The bluelinks also make editors believe that articles addressing these topics have already been written, when in fact they have not been. The only way I can even conceive of someone thinking these were a good idea would be out of some misplaced desire to get rid of redlinks at all costs. There's nothing wrong with redlinks and, as said, "impostor" bluelinks can be damaging. Green-eyed girl ( Talk · Contribs) 00:17, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Gliding Grand Prix report ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) seems like it would be redundant to some more generic sport template? Also, the articles that use this template seem to be a particular year edition, but occupying the non-year race article location. -- 65.94.79.6 ( talk) 05:35, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
There is a proposal to redesign Portal:Current events/Sports. Please comment at Portal talk:Current events/Sports#MFD?. -- John of Reading ( talk) 19:33, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm from WikiProject Kayaking I have just started a discussion on our talk page about the naming convention for Canoeists vs Canoers. We would appreciate your input on the topic. Jamesmcmahon0 ( talk) 17:05, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
What's the difference between these two articles: List of indoor arenas in Sweden and Indoor venues in Sweden? Is there a difference between arenas and venues? Otherwise, it seems a good idea to merge the two articles into one. Hey mid ( contribs) 21:38, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello. There is an ongoing move discussion at Talk:Coimbra Academic Association#Requested move 2. Since it has now been relisted twice it seems time to notify the three tagged projects; WikiProject Portugal, WikiProject Universities and WikiProject Sports. In ictu oculi ( talk) 00:30, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello project.
I'd like to address the YYYY in Fooan sport category tree. I think these categories are ambiguous and confusing. For instance, the article on the 2013 World Allround Speed Skating Championships is currently categorized in " Category:2013 in Norwegian sport", although it is obviously an international event.
Is this category meant for sport events that occurred in Norway that year, or is it for events involving Norwegian athletes or teams that occurred (anywhere) that year? That is very unclear from its name.
A distinction is necessary. A category is needed for International sports competitions in 2013 hosted by Norway (or whatever you wanna call it, suggestions are welcome), which would hold international events, competitions, etc, hosted by Norway. Strictly national events, and Norwegian participation in international events, would go into 2013 in Norwegian sport.
Suggested year-in-sports tree (wiki-linked for convenience):
As you can see, the Swedish women's team's participation in the various stages of the UEFA Women's Euro 2013 is placed in "2013 in Swedish football", while the main article is instead placed in "International sports competitions in 2013 hosted by Sweden".
Year-in-country tree is unchanged:
HandsomeFella ( talk) 18:06, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
I checked some of the championships pages 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 and the data didn't match up between events medalist and medal tables. I'm not sure which one was correct, but i went with the events one. I have no idea where to check them, can someone do that with all of the championships articles? Pelmeen10 ( talk) 02:47, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I just would like to signal this new discussion I just opened here. -- SERGIO aka the Black Cat 08:29, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
There is no such category at present eg Category:1973 in Soviet sport, and I propose to create the series; the Soviet Union was prominent in sport. Hugo999 ( talk) 02:00, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Should season articles carry the word "season" ? see Talk:2013–14 Liga MX season -- 70.24.244.158 ( talk) 06:30, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
FYI Portal:Current events/Sports has been nominated for deletion; it seems to revolve around updates -- 76.65.129.3 ( talk) 06:21, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
This is a special invitation for experienced editors to the discussion in WikiProject Volleyball about the proposal for Notability Guide for Volleyball Players. Your wise and kind participation will be highly appreciated. Osplace 18:41, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Help! Please see here and here. ;) -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 15:16, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
Template:SN College Athlete of the Year has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jrcla2 ( talk) 15:12, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
A split of List_of_doping_cases_in_sport has been suggested at Talk:List_of_doping_cases_in_sport#Proposed:_Split_list_by_the_existing_.22sections.22. Please feel free to comment and discuss so that a consensus can be established. Thank you. Hasteur ( talk) 15:13, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
Please join discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navbox for college basketball teams. CrazyPaco ( talk) 05:59, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Might be useful for various sports (e.g., hockey and baseball): m:Talk:Interwiki_map#JerseyDatabase.com πr2 ( t • c) 19:50, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
What is correct:
e.g. in article titles? See for instance List of world junior records in athletics and Category:Shooting junior men's world record navigational boxes. HandsomeFella ( talk) 16:13, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect England FH Squad 2012 Champions Trophy. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. John Vandenberg ( chat) 23:50, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Just seeking a wider range of input from informed persons at Template_talk:Height#rfc_97AACED.-- Gibson Flying V ( talk) 01:13, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
The title of Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see Talk:Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics -- 70.24.244.161 ( talk) 11:56, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
I have proposed to create a WikiProject for bandy. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Bandy. Andrew S. Knight ( talk) 17:10, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear sports enthusiasts: This old abandoned Afc submission is soon to be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable player? Should the article be kept? — Anne Delong ( talk) 22:36, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Please, see Talk:Régis Rey. Thanks, -- Manuguf ( talk) 11:11, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello, everyone. There is a WP:RfC on whether or not the leads of articles should generally be no longer than four paragraphs (refer to WP:Manual of Style/Lead section for the current guideline). As this will affect Wikipedia on a wide scale, including WikiProjects that often deal with article formatting, if the proposed change is implemented, I invite you to the discussion; see here: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section#RFC on four paragraph lead. Flyer22 ( talk) 17:13, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Massachusetts Minutemen and Minutewomen ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 00:53, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Boston Minutemen ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Boston Minutemen for the discussion -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 00:53, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
I have a concern/gripe about the following articles
These are all massive lists with no apparent criteria for inclusion, generally poorly sourced and are, in my opinion, the textbook example of WP:INDISCRIMINATE, because basically any competitive athlete can get a sponsorship (and Nike, Inc.#Current sponsorships has a similar problem). Is there a way to define these lists better? My instinct is to list them for deletion, but I believe one or more has gone through AFD already. Now, sponsorship itself is a worthy topic of discussion, but these lists are basically what Wikipedia is WP:NOT. Mosmof ( talk) 18:00, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Assistant referee ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Assistant referee (association football) -- 70.50.151.11 ( talk) 06:32, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
I've created a stub on the recently announced Invictus Games, which may be of interest to members of this project. Sadly my sporting knowledge is limited, so please feel free to add or expand anything I've missed. I think we may also need to start an article about the US Warrior Games if we don't already have it. Paul MacDermott ( talk) 17:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Template:Great West Conference navbox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jrcla2 ( talk) 21:32, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
For anyone with interest and time, the article needs help from objective editors. It's a public relations dream, with swaths of copyright violations. JNW ( talk) 04:11, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
There is a CfR you might be interested in discussing over at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 March 7#Mt. SAC athletics. Thanks. Jrcla2 ( talk) 14:49, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi all - please note I have requested that all "sports festival" categories be renamed to "International sports competitions". Please contribute to the discussion. SFB 12:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi. My question might be odd but you see, Wikipedia have two templates: one is {{ WPSports}}, the other is {{ WPBiography}}, both are sports related, but the latter one is sports and games, which might confuse people into believing that football for example is a game. Is it O.K. to use both? Someone told me that its fine, so I added the template to some athletes (like over 500). If its not (and you will cite a guideline), then I will remove the {{ WPSports}} template from athlete related articles (but then there should be a good reason for its existence). Many thanks in advance.-- Mishae ( talk) 21:06, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I've come across a definition-jumble.... Strength sports goes to strength athletics, which is defined there as strongman sports, but strength athlete covers the usual inclusion of throwers, football players, powerlifters and strongman. The use of "strength athletics" to refer to strongman competitions seem to have some usage-citation but there is, to me anyway, a clear delineation between "strongman" as such and the broader "strength athlete" which includes Olympic lifters, powerlifters, discus/shot etc.....There's some other articles in the respective categories on these pages, I'm not sure where to start to straighten out the terminology and figured better to seek consensual input..... Skookum1 ( talk) 05:32, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm curious about how we might expand the article on Tori Murden in relation to research on extreme sports and/or heroic efforts in sporting events (e.g. skiing or rowing). Since there are new research opportunities involved in sports and/or kinesiology, who might be willing to add these kinds of resources in understanding the kinds of experiences that Tori Murden underwent as she became the first woman to row across the Atlantic, etc.? Randolph.hollingsworth ( talk) 01:52, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello All! South Korea's official flickr account has tons of photos of the 2013 World Rowing Championships, all cc-by-sa-2.0 licenced. unfortunately people are not named in the tags. Would need some help in identifying the athletes... There are a handful of photos only, the rest are about the opening and closing ceremony. Commons:Category:2013 World Rowing Championships Thank you in advance for the help!!! Teemeah 편지 (letter) 18:57, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
There has been a long-running dispute at Talk:Australian national association football team that has spiralled out into a number of requested moves, ANI threads and much else besides.
Below are two summaries of the dispute from User:Lukeno94 and User:Pi zero:
- The major bone of contention is twofold; should this particular article contain some reference to the male gender in the title or not, and should an article located at this title be a DAB or a mixture of both team's genders? There is also the fairly perennial "association football" vs "soccer" debate as well, as well as a disputed POV tag. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 23:19, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
- Fwiw, my understanding of what's gone on here (alas, not so admirably succinct as the preceding):
- Some people objected to an article whose title says it's the national team, while the content says it's only going to cover the men's team, for the women's team go to another article whose title specifies "women's".
- A proposal was made to fix this perceived neutrality problem by renaming this article to have a name that specifies "men's", parallel to the other article whose name specifies "women's".
- Some people objected to the move on the grounds of PRIMARYTOPIC. Proponents said PRIMARYTOPIC doesn't apply to a long title that isn't the most commonly used name for the thing. Some opponents, invoking PRIMARYTOPIC, further maintained that any sexism in the title passively reflects existing sexism in the culture, while some proponents maintained that the article actively promotes sexism.
- The neutrality issue got mentioned in the move discussions, where some people maintained the hatnote was sufficient while others claimed the hatnote doesn't help with the sexism problem. It was suggested that if the article doesn't get moved, the other way to fix the neutrality problem would be to cover both the men's and women's teams in this article.
- The move was proposed and discussed twice, with both discussions closed as "no consensus". Afaics, no formal discussion has taken place regarding the neutrality problem specifically, which would presumably be the basis on which one would claim that the closure of the move proposals does not bear on the neutrality issue.
- Anyway, that's my understanding of about how things have gone. To be clear, I'm one of those who wrote and voted in favor of the move, suggested PRIMARYTOPIC doesn't apply, and still maintain that the article in its current form is offensively sexist; so, my attempt to neutrally summarize things is made while holding those positions. -- Pi zero ( talk) 23:34, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
It seems like the best course of action is to have a formal RfC on the issues related to this. The general question seems to be: should articles about national sports teams include "men's" or "women's" in the title? Please express your views calmly and civilly and assume good faith of others in this discussion. — Tom Morris ( talk) 17:56, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Add any more general comments here.
Comment: I'm not sure if it is legal for national teams for football, but a lot of sports and at a range of levels, t-ex- chess and golf, women are allowed to participate in competition against male in "mens class", while men are not allowed to compete in competition in the "woman class". The "mens class" could may be concidered as an open class, rather than a "mens class". Grrahnbahr ( talk) 17:51, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
What's the point in having categories for sports teams and categories for sports clubs? They mainly overlap eachother. The only teams which are not club teams I can think of, are national teams. Bandy boy ( talk) 08:47, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hi everybody,
Half a dozen of french-speaking wikimedians have decided to improve illustrations of sports articles and more generally produce free content of sport events.
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Since the beginning of the year, 30 events have been photographed and many different sports.
We maintain a list on Wikipedia ( Projet:Sport/Photo). Feel free to make suggestions ! Pyb ( talk) 13:09, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
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Is there a sports-minded person who would be willing to add appropriate material from the above draft about an Olympic athlete to the existing stub Jaman Lal Sharma? I can help with the attribution if necessary. — Anne Delong ( talk) 17:44, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
The usage of Eurocup ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Eurocup Basketball -- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 05:24, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Dear sports experts: This old AfC submission appears to be about a notable conference. I'm not sure that it's appropriate to have the names of all the speakers included. Should this be accepted into the encyclopedia, or does it still need work? — Anne Delong ( talk) 01:32, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I just tidied up Category:Argentine sportspeople by creating Category:Argentine sports competitors and filling it with categories of Argentine players, coherently with the upper categories Category:Sportspeople (which includes coaches, players, referees etc.) and Category:Sports competitors (which only includes the players). It should be done with all the subcategories of Category:Sportspeople by nationality, like the ones in it:Categoria:Personalità dello sport per nazionalità. Could someone please provide to help with bots or just by manual edits?
Categories "NATIONALITY sportspeople" should also be moved on Wikidata, from this situation to this situation. Practically, "NATIONALITY sportspeople" (en, simple and Commons) should be replaced in the data pages with "NATIONALITY sports competitors" and connected instead with the corresponding category of it:Categoria:Personalità dello sport per nazionalità.
Thanks in advance for the help :-) -- Superchilum( talk to me!) 13:46, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I am linking French pages with other Wikis through Wiki Data (mostly Wiki EN). But as I see that these two categories exist and there is only one article : Sport club I wonder if we could all merge ? Sincerely. Nezdek ( talk) 19:01, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Dear sports enthusiasts: This old AfC submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is there anything in it that should be saved and moved to Fuahea Semi ? — Anne Delong ( talk) 14:53, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm creating a stub for each participants of the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships. A user add this template, eg. Artur Beliakou. But I don't know what to do. Should I source the content of the infobox ? Should I source each fact with two references ? Pyb ( talk) 12:07, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
Do we have any Tournament bracket templates that display team names without numerical scores? Probably it is equivalent to have versions of the templates {{ Round16}}, {{ Round8}}, etc, that display single rather than double cells at each position if one of the two cells would be empty.
Viewing some of the 63 16-Team bracket templates, for example, I find designs with two-, three-, and four-celled positions evidently sized for team names and one-, two-, or three-part scores. And greater variety, such as four-celled positions designed for numerical seeds, team names, and two-part scores ( Template:Round16-2legs). -- P64 ( talk) 19:01, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
How reliable and up to date is the MaxPreps website for information? Specifically I'm creating pages on various United States high school athletic leagues and conferences and I want to know if the information I'm pulling from that website is correct. Thanks.-- Prisencolinensinainciusol ( talk) 15:47, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Proposal here to restore content to athlete (currently a disambiguation page) after having been forked between " sportsperson" and athletics in an attempt to change it from an American English article to a British one. — LlywelynII 09:16, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
-- 65.94.169.222 ( talk) 09:11, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
I've suggested that Sasuke (TV series) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) be split apart into a set of articles. The article "Sasuke (TV series)" is currently over 100kB, so is very large. (it is even larger than the recommended max size for archives) For the discussion see Talk:Sasuke (TV series) -- 70.51.46.146 ( talk) 10:54, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi WikiProject Sports. I notice that the subcategories of Category:Sports by country and year, Category:Years in European sport, Category:British sport by year and (apart from a handful of exceptions) Category:English sport by year only go back as far as 1850. Was there a deliberate decision that the pre-1850 categories should not be created, or is it just the case that nobody has created the pre-1850 categories yet ? Non-empty subcategories could be created all the way back to 1726 (= the earliest subcategory of Category:Cricket in England by year). I'm happy to create the categories (and any relevant parent categories), but I didn't want to invest the effort if there had been a decision that these categories should not be created. Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 11:08, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
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There is a Request for Comment about "Chronological Summaries of the Olympics" and you're invited! Becky Sayles ( talk) 07:28, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
The usage and primary topic of " Batista" is under discussion at talk:Dave Batista -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 07:39, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
Does "fighter" mean "mixed martial artist" or any combat sports fighter (such as boxers, kickboxers, etc?) We are discussing disambiguation at Ed Herman (mixed martial artist) -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 10:56, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
I've proposed that "fighter" not be used as the disambiguator for mixed martial artists, due to uses in other sports, for the RFC on the matter, please see WT:BIOG -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 10:32, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of Oregon Ducks Department of Athletics Awards is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Oregon Ducks Department of Athletics Awards until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Looking sown the list of navigational templates related to sport(s) by region, I see that in some places the template name uses an uppercase S (such as {{ New York Sports}}), while others use a lowercase s (such as {{ Texas sports}}). I think we sjhould fix this - probably go in the direction of lowercase, lthough naming them all to uppercase would be better than the current mix there is. (Note that I'm not proposing editing the thousands of articles using these templates, just renaming the templates, and keeping the redirects around.) עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:22, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, I started a discussion about the notability of the country pages for the UCI Road World Championships. All your comments would be appriaciated. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cycling#Country pages for the UCI Road World championships. Sander.v.Ginkel ( Je suis Charlie) 13:24, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
In reading the article " List of multi-sport athletes", I notice that it is becoming peppered with entries of people who were prominent in one sport, yet had significantly less importance in another. That is not what it is supposed to be. It is my belief that to qualify for this article, a person should qualify for a Wikipedia article even if he/she played only one of those sports, under " Wikipedia:Notability (sports)". For example, Michael Jordan is not on the list, because his baseball career is not notable enough to qualify him for an article on its own. Similarly, Dan Marino should not be listed but is, even though he was only drafted and never played professional baseball. However, someone like Bob Hayes would qualify for being both a pro football player and an Olympic medalist. I do not want to diminish the accomplishments of these athletes, but when I turn to this article, I am looking for people more like Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, or Danny Ainge. I am tempted to be bold and cut many listings out, but this would be too significant an action to take unilaterally. My comments on the article's talk page go unnoticed, while more and more names are added to the page. Thank you. → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 08:57, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Is there any policy or guideline on this one? For the most part, articles don't list every game result for domestic leagues, except for a summary table. This includes "regular season" game results, as playoff results and competitions above the national level are almost always listed individually. There are some exceptions: domestic rugby union results, cup competitions, US NCAA basketball and football, and Australian leagues. Should these be under WP:NOT#STATS? – H T D 14:59, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
Are Sports associations the same as Sports trade associations? If yes then shouldn't Category:Sports associations be a member of Category:Trade associations? Ottawahitech ( talk) 15:39, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Is there a bracket template that would handle the below scenario (first round is over two legs and the remaining rounds single matches)? Hack ( talk) 06:50, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, can anyone tell me whether this website [3] is reliable or not as per WP:RS? Itz arka ( talk) 10:07, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
On the WikiProject Cycling there is a proposal for an update for the notable criterea ( WP:NCYC). It is possible to vote/respond here. Sander.v.Ginkel ( Je suis Charlie) 11:02, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
What does carbon fiber mean? We are discussing the primary topic at talk:carbon (fiber). As carbon fiber is a frequent sporting goods material, I thought I'd let you know. -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 05:02, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
The stylization of 'eSport' is under discussion, see talk:electronic sports -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 05:47, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
The usage and primary topic of Schtick is under discussion, see talk:Schtick (disc game) -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 04:27, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Athletics (British) to be moved to Sport of athletics. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 22:29, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Schtick (disc game) to be moved to Schtick. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 23:16, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
I've noticed a lot of projects seem to track deletion discussions related to the scope of their project, but I don't see a link on your project page for one for sports. At any rate, I wanted to notify the project of a Prod that I placed earlier today on Sports Beijing. ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 19:46, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 121#MOS:IDENTITY clarification regarding the application or the guideline to articles outside the biography, in particular regarding transgendered persons in sports. Further opinions would be appreciated. Diego ( talk) 09:46, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Could anyone help determine if she passes notability guidelines already? Draft:Katie Kelly. Thanks, FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 20:25, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, folks! I've founded the Commons WikiProject Sports, to gather people around the world to develop free images, videos, audio and other media related to sports. Have fun! -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 12:55, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
In case anyone is interested, I have launched a proposal to change the style of the mobile tables to make them match the desktop skin's tables more in response to a number of readability issues that were reported within the F1 project in recent moths. In case anyone wants to weigh in their opinion for either side of the argument, you can do so here. Thanks, T v x1 15:30, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to undertake a peer review of the College Football Playoff article, to which I've contributed on-and-off for awhile now. It was recently rated C-class, and I was hoping somebody could give me some feedback. It seems like something the community might want to get to GA (or even FA) before this fall. I've never done this before, so I'm sort of unsure of the next steps for this. Thanks for any help! Woodshed ( talk) 22:23, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
The usage and primary topic of Eurogame is under discussion, see talk:German-style board game -- 67.70.32.190 ( talk) 04:29, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
It's currently nominated for In the news, but more content is needed. I need your help on this. -- George Ho ( talk) 18:42, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Should Russia and the Soviet Union be counted as one in medal tables? Please give your thought at Talk:Bandy World Championship for men#Medals for Russia and Soviet Union! Snowsuit Wearer ( talk| contribs) 10:48, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
Please share your thoughts here. Thanks. Marcocapelle ( talk) 19:57, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Could you please have a look at this discussion and this discussion? Thanks. Marcocapelle ( talk) 08:28, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
2016 Women's Bandy World Championship has been nominated for speedy deletion. Please give your thoughts at the talk page of the article. Snowsuit Wearer ( talk| contribs) 18:18, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Washington University Bears to be moved to Washington Bears. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 04:30, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
Could someone please fix 2015 in sports? Someone forgot how to use summary style and created the longest article in Wikipedia history. Kaldari ( talk) 00:41, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Janae Marie Kroc to be moved to Kroc. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 17:31, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
The usage and topic of Rest of the world is under discussion, see talk:Rest of the world -- 67.70.32.190 ( talk) 05:32, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Rest of the world to be moved to Rest of the world in sports and games. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 05:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
A question has been raised at Talk:Bandy#History whether the history section for the sport should be moved within the article. It seems to be common to have the history section for a sport close to the top of the article about the sport (e.g. in the articles about association football, ice hockey, and field hockey). Is it commendable to follow this practice in all sports articles? Snowsuit Wearer ( talk| contribs) 11:12, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Fox Sports 1 to be moved to FS1. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 18:45, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Hockey on ice is up for discussion, see the RfD. -- 70.51.202.113 ( talk) 04:14, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Jumping (horse) to be moved to Horse jumping. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 05:00, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
I've made a proposal to change the naming conventions for sports teams so that they fall in line more closely with general naming convertions. Participation would be appreciated at this page. -- ArmstrongJulian ( talk) 11:03, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Category:Superlatives in sports, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for renaming to Category:Perfect scores by sport. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect ( talk) 03:18, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
Shall Wikipedia write about sponsors (in general) and their importance for a sport? One user at talk:bandy seems to be very opposed to this idea, saying it goes against Wikipedia principles. Please share your opinion at that page! Skogsvandraren ( talk) 12:51, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
A a Village Pump thread has opened (link) to determine how to guide editors when referring to transgender people when they are mentioned in passing (such as in articles and lists on historical sporting events). Please join the discussion. Blueboar ( talk) 00:05, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Category:Sportspeople from Utrecht (city) to be moved to Sportspeople from Utrecht (city). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 16:15, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
I noticed redirects world team of the year / world team of the year 1996 -- these lead to a magazine article. Shouldn't these be disambiguation pages? Should the yearless one point to Team of the Year ? -- 70.51.44.60 ( talk) 07:32, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
The naming of Chin-up and the existence of Pull-up (exercise) is under discussion, see Talk:Chin-up -- 70.51.44.60 ( talk) 06:13, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Shipwreck Kelly (American football) to be moved to John "Shipwreck" Kelly. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 08:59, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Invictus Games (multi-sport event) to be moved to Invictus Games. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 05:30, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
I have created a stub for Comeback (sports), and could use some help filling in details for specific sports. Cheers! bd2412 T 14:15, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Roller skates to be moved to Roller skate. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 00:59, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Should the WADA Independent Commission chaired by Dick Pound and its report receive a separate article? [5] [6] [7] - 70.51.44.60 ( talk) 08:16, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Fox Sports 1 to be moved to FS1 (U.S. TV channel). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 17:15, 28 November 2015 (UTC)