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To let you know, I added about 100 image of the 2016 European Championships in Athletics at Wiki Commons. See Commons:Category:2016 European Championships in Athletics. Happy editing! Sander.v.Ginkel ( Talk) 22:52, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Please note that there is still a lot of work to do in creating the Olympic event articles. You can use the 2012 article set as a template for this year's ones. Timetable information can be found here. If you want to add preview information on defending champions, world leaders etc. then the IAAF preview articles here will be useful. I've done the relay articles already. I don't think start lists have been released yet, so best just to leave the result tables empty if you're adding those too. Thanks! SFB 23:09, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
I recently moved an article to User:Buchbibliothek/Doping victims of the GDR. The article had no context to explain the material, which is related to Doping in East Germany. I figured that moving it would help give the user ( Buchbibliothek) time to work on the page, as well as to show where the list wouldn't be best served as a section in the main article. It's fairly short, so unless there are more names this could probably be included relatively easily. It could also be made into a category as well, since that's a possibility.
I'm a little concerned as well over potential BLP issues, since this type of thing would need to be very well sourced. The term "victim" is also mildly concerning, given that the term can mean a great many things to different people and if there were any athletes that did this willingly (or were largely perceived as having done it willingly) then the term could be seen as invalid or technically incorrect. Renaming would probably be a good idea and I've left a suggestion on the draft's talk page, although that one would still need a lot of work.
I figured that this would be the best place to look for help, given that I rarely edit athletic related articles and aren't as familiar with the overall guidelines as others may be. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 08:01, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
Many participants here create a lot of content, have to evaluate whether or not a subject is notable, decide if content complies with BLP policy, and much more. Well, these are just some of the skills considered at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.
So, please consider taking a look at and watchlisting this page:
You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and even finding out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.
Many thanks and best wishes,
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Please note there is a move discussion at Talk:IAAF World Championships in Athletics proposing that the article (and its related articles) be moved to IAAF World Championships. Please join the discussion. Thanks. SFB 16:21, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
Our IP results vandal continues their dastardly ways. I have tracked their recent IP's beginning in 84.13. to Northern England, Newcastle and Coxhoe specifically. A deliberate moving target. The pattern is meticulous results editing, improving the marks of particularly English athletes creating fictitious seasons bests all dully notated. It is obvious if you compare to the sourced results, but if you let the edits go by, obviously wikipedia is reporting incorrect information to the world.
To all of us, please watch IP edits to our results articles carefully. Very, very few typos exist in these results so numbers should not change. When they do, please check the source and revert the vandal. Trackinfo ( talk) 15:12, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Members here may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African women athletes for instance. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African athletes, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:47, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Just an FYI - I've made a proposal to allow input of times in Hours:Minutes:Seconds format in Wikidata as part of this year's m:2016 Community Wishlist Survey. Such a change would finally allow us to add records, results and personal bests for events longer than the 400 m. SFB 00:12, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
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There is an RfC about a template that falls into the purview of this project. Your input is requested at the template's talk page. Primefac ( talk) 14:46, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
I was trying to update the women's race walk WBYP footer, and I wasn't sure whether Lashmanova's 1:24:58 should count as the World Best Year Performance or not, given that Russian athletes (or at least the All-Russia Athletic Federation) were suspended by the IAAF throughout the year. "Follow the sources" doesn't give a clear answer; IAAF shows Liu Hong as the world leader and relegates the Russian marks to an appendix, but other sources like T&FN and Tilastopaja give Lashmanova as the world leader. We had a rough consensus a couple years ago that when the IAAF annuls a mark due to doping, we follow suit and no longer consider that mark the WBYP; but I'm not sure whether that is applicable here. Another possible precedent might be the suspension of apartheid-era South Africa; we do list Zola Budd as the women's 5000 world leader for 1983, though not, I think, as the result of any consensus. Any views - should we consider Lashmanova and Vera Rebrik the 2016 world leaders, even though the IAAF does not? Sideways713 ( talk) 15:37, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Some of you will be aware of an ongoing issue of BLP articles created by Sander.v.Ginkel. The background at ANI can be found here. The discussion on the cleanup can be found here. In short, 16,000 BLP articles are being moved out of the mainspace to draftspace. This has already started following a Bot Approval. This should be complete in the next 48hrs or so. Articles will remain in draft for 90 days. In that time, they can be checked, and if OK, moved back to the mainspace. Anything not checked after 90 days will be deleted automatically.
So how can you help? The BLPs are broken down by occupational area. If an one of these interests you, please help. Even if it is checking one article. Check the article that has been moved to draft that a) it meets the notability requirement of the occupational area in question and b) that the facts in the article are supported by the sources. This includes, but is not limited to, the dates of birth, who they represented, when they were active, etc. If there are elements that can not be supported by the sources, they must be removed. If you are happy with the article, then move it back into the mainspace. DO NOT move anything until you have checked the sources, or supplied other reliable sources to support information in the article that may not already be cited. More information can be found here.
This is not going to be an easy task. I don't think there's too much support to check 16,000+ articles and I suspect that most of them will be gone after 90 days. If you have any questions, please raise them here. Thanks. Lugnuts Precious bodily fluids 11:47, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
FYI - a large number of multisport articles have been put up for deletion by User:Sportsfan1234, including several on athletics, such as the entirely of Athletics at the National Games of China. Please contribute to the discussions. Thanks. SFB 00:19, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
In this edit someone added (without ref) the claim that the Mumbai Marathon is one of the IAAF Road Race Label Events. The event's article makes the same claim. But neither has a ref. The event is not listed in {{ IAAF Gold Label}}, which (if it really is one) it should be. What's actually true? -- Finlay McWalter··–· Talk 15:38, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
A review in to the work of one editor has resulted in 200 athlete articles requiring review and they may be subject to deletion. Please help review the affected articles at the links below and restore the articles to the mainspace if they contain no biographical issues. Thanks SFB 20:53, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Not that I want to distract us from rescuing 16,000 articles, but we have another infection on the horizon. An editor has successfully deleted a few Masters athletics related articles based on WP:ROUTINE, as in; the mentions of their world championship results and world records are merely routine coverage. So much of the coverage of our sport is statistics. If this logic persists, whole swaths of our content, innumerable stub articles that only mention an athletes's world championship medal for example, could be deleted on the same grounds. There is a whole diseased group of wikipedia editors who get their jollies out of deleting content. They have an echo chamber of robots who will say "me too to anything in an AfD. I'm used to winning my AfD arguments but its always a battle vs the mindless. I think we as a project should protect our content by clearly defining what is valid and what is ignorable ROUTINE coverage relative to our sport. Trackinfo ( talk) 08:57, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
As I was finishing the last athlete from the SvG cleanup Ivan Shablyuyev, it proved the point. He, a WC participant from Russia has less available information than the deleted Ihar Dolbik. Galina Kovalenskaya sat in the same limbo but was successful based on the weakness of available sources from behind the former Iron Curtain. Four other articles Sue Yeomans, Terhi Kokkonen (athlete), Fatiha Idmhand and Bianca Schenker were successfully deleted All had more information and at least equitable sources. As SFB said, half or our articles, or at least the stubs, could get wiped out if someone were to go on a rampage. There are those kind of creeps on wikipedia. That is why I think we need a specification to NTRACK to explain that lists are a key component to the coverage of athletics and are not merely routine. This IS a lot of the coverage we get, even at the Olympic level, however it is significant to our sport. Trackinfo ( talk) 10:38, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Further to the news today regarding Mariya Savinova (and with other suspended / disqualified athletes) am I right in believing this also invalidates other Personal Bests / National Records / Championship Records etc? Koncorde ( talk) 16:27, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
First of all great start to the page! It's definitely off to a good start and better than some of the other sports equipment pages I've seen. I think this article could be more in depth and informative to the wiki searcher. For example, in the "Type of Spike" section, they do a good job of describing the three main types of spikes. However an accompanying visual would be nice. There are a lot of nice visuals describing all of the different types of track spikes. You would just need to get the permission from the company who posted the pic to the internet. Additionally, there are different variations, mainly size, within the three main categories. I think this would be worth mentioning as well.
Also in the "Design" section the type of metal used could be included as well. This would mainly be helpful for students in sports engineering classes.
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What is a A in an athletics page likely to mean? Several of the PBs on Kurt Felix's page have that next to them. I presume they're area records but it's not clear anywhere on the page and I can't find a note about it. Red Fiona ( talk) 15:43, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
I haven't worked on athletics articles, so I wasn't sure what to do with this. Parkview Cross Country Course has one paragraph about the course, with one reference that does not mention the this cross country course as far as I can tell. The rest of the article is results from the 2009 PIAA high school state championship held at the course. I'm not sure if either the cross country course or the high school championship is notable. Leschnei ( talk) 02:03, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
User:Kevin_McE is wholly invested in removing the entry Colin_Jackson from the appropriate LGBT sportspeople categories, using what I can only describe as a nonsensical argument that Jackson doesn't belong in the category because he's identifying as gay is irrelevant to his public life - despite the fact that he's come out and did so in a public venue (on TV no less). Jackson previously denied being gay, and the entry has covered his denial for years. It makes sense that it must now acknowledge his admission. Kevin insists on not accepting that point. Can you all please add your two cents on the Talk Page to the entry? Thanks. Rafe87 ( talk) 16:04, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello. Is there a place where we can ask for article to be re-assessed; I've been reviewing and adding content to Kévin Mayer and I believe it should be upgraded from Stub; I'd love to hear from you regarding content and style. Thanks! P.S. I know there isn't that much content to justify subheaders under Career, but I'm planning on adding more information in the coming days so please don't erase those. -- Luisftd ( talk) 17:01, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
I have come across a wiki page of an athlete, Siddhanth Thingalaya who happen to be a good friend of mine. But his wiki page is missing lots of information about his latest achievements. Can anyone help me update his wiki page?
Kiran247 ( talk) 11:20, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I was working on Lisa Ryzih and wanted to reference some of her results. I went to the 2016 European Athletics Championships – Women's pole vault page, and when I looked up the listed results, they were for the 2016 under 20s Euro Championships. I've fixed the link there but just a heads up that some of the Euro results might be wrongly referenced. Red Fiona ( talk) 16:45, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello all. In an effort to finally resolve the never-ending and annoying GNG v SSG issue, I've proposed a revision of the NSPORTS introduction. You are all invited to take part in the discussion. Thank you. Jack | talk page 06:20, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Here I invite the participants to the project to express their opinion. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 17:21, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women athletes during this month please sign up in the participants section. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles for your project please add them to the lists by continent at Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:55, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.
A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Athletics
Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 13:13, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
There is a problem that is alluded to in several articles about this subject that I think we should cover but I don't know how we would approach it. This goes beyond Track and field Athletics but keeps affecting people's decisions as athletes. I see it in the U.S. but I believe it happens everywhere. Each sports governing body tries to use their influence; to dictate how or where athletes perform, how or if they can make money; to expand their territory and authority. Historically in the US we have had an alphabet soup of the AAU, USOC, USATF, NCAA, NJCAA, CCCAA, NFHS, ITA, USTFCCCA to name a few just involved with our sport, each playing a 3 dimensional chess game for power and influence over different territories of the sport and other sports using Athletics related sports as pawns in the power struggle. I see other NGBs have been replaced, there are obviously stories like this happening in other countries. Its an ongoing phenomenon. So my question here is how do we present this, even how do we describe it and put a name to it. Or has it already been done and I just don't know about it? Is this a sports related version of a natural political phenomenon to governing bodies of all sorts? Trackinfo ( talk) 03:42, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
The disaster in our sport keeps coming back. We are in the eternal phase where positive doping tests have been announced officially, even doping bans announced officially, but Olympics.org has NOT changed the results. A host of editors, many with IP addresses, keep coming back trying to update our results articles and connected athlete bios to take into account the new, sourced information about the tests and the bans. Sources state facts based on the obvious conjecture. Because the IOC is so slow to make an official decision, we are posting results that do not agree with the official results from the official organization. One of the benefits of wikipedia is that we can provide better information than just one source provides. Do we give up and post the conjecture, or enforce sticking with what the IOC has posted? [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Trackinfo ( talk) 21:03, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi – I've made an effort to gather together all the "Results" spin-off articles into one place at Category:Events at athletics (track and field) competitions. Lots of these didn't have a real place in the category structure so it should be easier to see what's available now. Major events are split out into articles by event (e.g. Category:100 metres at the African Games) while the lesser ones have grouped results pages (e.g. Athletics at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Results). Along the way I spotted a few outliers:
These topics are punching above their weight coverage-wise with event-level articles and given the standard (e.g. 35 mins for a 10,000 m medal) I suggest we merge them into the usual "X – Results" format. @ CroesJ and Pietaster: – you both seem to be busy in this topic area. Any thoughts? Also, I've noticed that the Category:Events at the IAAF Continental Cups have their own naming convention. Should we rename these like 1977 IAAF World Cup – Results to mirror the usual standard? SFB 23:22, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
As always, I found out about this too late. Our project was not notified on articles related to our project. Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Caribbean#Deleted. The one that drew my attention was Densley Joseph, two time CARITFA U17 Gold medalist in Javelin for Grenada, 1999 and 2000, bronze U20 in 2003, plus CAC silver in 2000. And this guy was deemed not notable by a couple of no-nothings. And why does his name search so poorly?
How do we get notified of AfDs against athletes? What recourse do we have against this new trend that can now be used as a precedent? Trackinfo ( talk) 07:23, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
I have requested that the above article be renamed. Thanks. SFB 21:51, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Please see WP:BOTREQ#WikiProject Athletics tagging, where project input is requested. ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 23:44, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi all, I've requested a bot run to fix wikilinks to the track and field and sport of athletics articles given the mixed history. I've requested the following changes be made:
The intention is to point to the best target depending on what is already shown to the reader. The final change will allow us to point athletics (sport) to the disambiguation page athletics (disambiguation), because that page title is not clearly different from athletics (physical culture) for American readers.
Any suggestions/issues? SFB 14:56, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
I've written some proposed naming conventions at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (sportspeople)#Athletics (track and field). Unfortunately, our naming conventions have been inconsistent and there are many articles which don't follow these rules right now, but I think it's a sensible start. Feel free to edit and discuss changes here, and I'll leave it up for a week before removing {{ Proposal}}. Habst ( talk) 18:30, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
Is Isaac Caldiero Mid-Class importance? I noticed that talk:Isaac Caldiero says "MID", but the article page lists only one non-mainstream significant accomplishment in athletics/track&field (that being the basis of the article). While he does compete athletically in non-mainstream ninjasport, he's primarily a rock climber. -- 65.94.42.219 ( talk) 06:10, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
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I've noticed that quite a bit of extra information is being added to Template:AchievementTable, particularly with sprinting. I've added Time and Wind columns to account for that and have done a first try at Zharnel Hughes. Any thoughts? Should we move things like w and CR into the Notes column or leave next to the time? SFB 17:08, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Please look Talk:Authorised Neutral Athletes. -- Pelmeen10 ( talk) 15:27, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
{{ European Athletics Premium Permit Meetings}} and {{ European Athletics Classic Permit Meetings}} have not been updated for some time. Maybe we should merge them into one template. European_Athletic_Association#Meetings also needs update, what about including templates to that section without text (like IAAF page, updating only at 1 place is easier). Other 2 templates are {{ European Athletics Indoor Permit Meetings}} and {{ EAA Cross Country Meetings}}. What do you think? -- Pelmeen10 ( talk) 00:37, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
Dear my fellow Wikipedians,
the article for the new world record holder in the mens marathon, Eliud Kipchoge received a lot of improvements in the days following his impressive run in Berlin on 16 Sep, 2018. In my pov the article should be be upgraded from a C grading to a B grading. I would be happy for a review into my request.
/info/en/?search=Eliud_Kipchoge
Regards,
Da Vinci Nanjing (
talk) 16:55, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Can anyone can help with the correct name of this individual, per this discussion? She took part in the 1500m at the 1996 Olympics. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 09:49, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if anyone would like to help create articles on World Marathon Majors winners. These redlinks are at List of winners of the Boston Marathon, Berlin Marathon, List of winners of the Chicago Marathon and List of winners of the New York City Marathon. Thank you :) -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 01:48, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi all, I've noticed a couple of bio articles that use the phrase "higher claim to [athletics club]" without explaining what this means (see Chris Clarke (sprinter) and Andrew Walcott). Is there a WP article (or section of one) that explains such things? If so, it'd be useful to link to it, so the uninitiated like myself aren't left scrabbling for Google. Cheers, Nzd (talk) 00:54, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
Joachim Müncheberg, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. – dlthewave ☎ 21:06, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
Only WP:CFB was notified. I think all relevant sports should participate in this discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 April 4#Athletic program head coaches navboxes.- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:11, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I think it is a good idea to add a part to the infobox in Boston Marathon that has a redirect to the latest race. In this case, being the 2019 Boston Marathon. Also, please see Template talk:Infobox athletics race Please ping me when updated or replied. IsraeliIdan ( talk) 12:43, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi. Currently, Category:Unassessed Athletics articles includes over 20,000 pages. Of these, around 9200 are already tagged as stubs. Would the wikiproject support / object to a bot run to assess these articles as stub-class? -- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:21, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
I've made an attempt at incorporating some stats graphs into biographies using Template:Graph:Chart. Above is an example using Kim Collins's seasonal bests. More examples are visible at Tero Pitkämäki#Seasonal bests and Usain Bolt#Season's bests. Does anyone have any thoughts on what kind of information we can add using this template? My initial thoughts have focused on season's bests and rankings, but I'm sure there are many other things that graphs would we useful for. SFB 21:39, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
Are there any editors from this WikiProject willing to maintain Portal:Sport of athletics? The Portals guideline requires that portals be maintained, and as a result numerous portals have been recently been deleted via MfD largely becasue of lack of maintenance. Let me know either way, and thanks, UnitedStatesian ( talk) 19:29, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
Arorae raised some concerns about the nation sub-articles for the 2019 World Athletics Championships being mass moved into draft space. Most of these articles were about 1-person delegations and fully sourced, which suggests that the articles were moved due to concerns about the suitability of the articles in general rather than sourcing ( Discospinster?)
My opinion on this type of article is that countries that typically send small delegations would be better served by just an article at the overall championships level (e.g. Vanuatu at the World Athletics Championships), rather than by year. The effort to create and maintain 200+ country articles for each championships is very high and I think directing our efforts to the "country at championships" level, then redirecting the year links to that article, would be a better use of our time. For example, 75% of nations at the 2019 World Championships in Athletics are sending fewer than ten athletes and 100 of the 209 nations are sending a single athlete. There is a clear need for an article on the United States' 159-athlete delegation for the 2019 World Championships, but an article for a delegation of one feels like overkill to me. Any thoughts about the best approach for this? In the meantime, I'll try to create championships-level articles and redirects for the 1-person delegations this year as a start. SFB 19:31, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
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To let you know, I added about 100 image of the 2016 European Championships in Athletics at Wiki Commons. See Commons:Category:2016 European Championships in Athletics. Happy editing! Sander.v.Ginkel ( Talk) 22:52, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Please note that there is still a lot of work to do in creating the Olympic event articles. You can use the 2012 article set as a template for this year's ones. Timetable information can be found here. If you want to add preview information on defending champions, world leaders etc. then the IAAF preview articles here will be useful. I've done the relay articles already. I don't think start lists have been released yet, so best just to leave the result tables empty if you're adding those too. Thanks! SFB 23:09, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
I recently moved an article to User:Buchbibliothek/Doping victims of the GDR. The article had no context to explain the material, which is related to Doping in East Germany. I figured that moving it would help give the user ( Buchbibliothek) time to work on the page, as well as to show where the list wouldn't be best served as a section in the main article. It's fairly short, so unless there are more names this could probably be included relatively easily. It could also be made into a category as well, since that's a possibility.
I'm a little concerned as well over potential BLP issues, since this type of thing would need to be very well sourced. The term "victim" is also mildly concerning, given that the term can mean a great many things to different people and if there were any athletes that did this willingly (or were largely perceived as having done it willingly) then the term could be seen as invalid or technically incorrect. Renaming would probably be a good idea and I've left a suggestion on the draft's talk page, although that one would still need a lot of work.
I figured that this would be the best place to look for help, given that I rarely edit athletic related articles and aren't as familiar with the overall guidelines as others may be. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 08:01, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
Many participants here create a lot of content, have to evaluate whether or not a subject is notable, decide if content complies with BLP policy, and much more. Well, these are just some of the skills considered at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.
So, please consider taking a look at and watchlisting this page:
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Please note there is a move discussion at Talk:IAAF World Championships in Athletics proposing that the article (and its related articles) be moved to IAAF World Championships. Please join the discussion. Thanks. SFB 16:21, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
Our IP results vandal continues their dastardly ways. I have tracked their recent IP's beginning in 84.13. to Northern England, Newcastle and Coxhoe specifically. A deliberate moving target. The pattern is meticulous results editing, improving the marks of particularly English athletes creating fictitious seasons bests all dully notated. It is obvious if you compare to the sourced results, but if you let the edits go by, obviously wikipedia is reporting incorrect information to the world.
To all of us, please watch IP edits to our results articles carefully. Very, very few typos exist in these results so numbers should not change. When they do, please check the source and revert the vandal. Trackinfo ( talk) 15:12, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Members here may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African women athletes for instance. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African athletes, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:47, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Just an FYI - I've made a proposal to allow input of times in Hours:Minutes:Seconds format in Wikidata as part of this year's m:2016 Community Wishlist Survey. Such a change would finally allow us to add records, results and personal bests for events longer than the 400 m. SFB 00:12, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
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There is an RfC about a template that falls into the purview of this project. Your input is requested at the template's talk page. Primefac ( talk) 14:46, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
I was trying to update the women's race walk WBYP footer, and I wasn't sure whether Lashmanova's 1:24:58 should count as the World Best Year Performance or not, given that Russian athletes (or at least the All-Russia Athletic Federation) were suspended by the IAAF throughout the year. "Follow the sources" doesn't give a clear answer; IAAF shows Liu Hong as the world leader and relegates the Russian marks to an appendix, but other sources like T&FN and Tilastopaja give Lashmanova as the world leader. We had a rough consensus a couple years ago that when the IAAF annuls a mark due to doping, we follow suit and no longer consider that mark the WBYP; but I'm not sure whether that is applicable here. Another possible precedent might be the suspension of apartheid-era South Africa; we do list Zola Budd as the women's 5000 world leader for 1983, though not, I think, as the result of any consensus. Any views - should we consider Lashmanova and Vera Rebrik the 2016 world leaders, even though the IAAF does not? Sideways713 ( talk) 15:37, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Some of you will be aware of an ongoing issue of BLP articles created by Sander.v.Ginkel. The background at ANI can be found here. The discussion on the cleanup can be found here. In short, 16,000 BLP articles are being moved out of the mainspace to draftspace. This has already started following a Bot Approval. This should be complete in the next 48hrs or so. Articles will remain in draft for 90 days. In that time, they can be checked, and if OK, moved back to the mainspace. Anything not checked after 90 days will be deleted automatically.
So how can you help? The BLPs are broken down by occupational area. If an one of these interests you, please help. Even if it is checking one article. Check the article that has been moved to draft that a) it meets the notability requirement of the occupational area in question and b) that the facts in the article are supported by the sources. This includes, but is not limited to, the dates of birth, who they represented, when they were active, etc. If there are elements that can not be supported by the sources, they must be removed. If you are happy with the article, then move it back into the mainspace. DO NOT move anything until you have checked the sources, or supplied other reliable sources to support information in the article that may not already be cited. More information can be found here.
This is not going to be an easy task. I don't think there's too much support to check 16,000+ articles and I suspect that most of them will be gone after 90 days. If you have any questions, please raise them here. Thanks. Lugnuts Precious bodily fluids 11:47, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
FYI - a large number of multisport articles have been put up for deletion by User:Sportsfan1234, including several on athletics, such as the entirely of Athletics at the National Games of China. Please contribute to the discussions. Thanks. SFB 00:19, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
In this edit someone added (without ref) the claim that the Mumbai Marathon is one of the IAAF Road Race Label Events. The event's article makes the same claim. But neither has a ref. The event is not listed in {{ IAAF Gold Label}}, which (if it really is one) it should be. What's actually true? -- Finlay McWalter··–· Talk 15:38, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
A review in to the work of one editor has resulted in 200 athlete articles requiring review and they may be subject to deletion. Please help review the affected articles at the links below and restore the articles to the mainspace if they contain no biographical issues. Thanks SFB 20:53, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Not that I want to distract us from rescuing 16,000 articles, but we have another infection on the horizon. An editor has successfully deleted a few Masters athletics related articles based on WP:ROUTINE, as in; the mentions of their world championship results and world records are merely routine coverage. So much of the coverage of our sport is statistics. If this logic persists, whole swaths of our content, innumerable stub articles that only mention an athletes's world championship medal for example, could be deleted on the same grounds. There is a whole diseased group of wikipedia editors who get their jollies out of deleting content. They have an echo chamber of robots who will say "me too to anything in an AfD. I'm used to winning my AfD arguments but its always a battle vs the mindless. I think we as a project should protect our content by clearly defining what is valid and what is ignorable ROUTINE coverage relative to our sport. Trackinfo ( talk) 08:57, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
As I was finishing the last athlete from the SvG cleanup Ivan Shablyuyev, it proved the point. He, a WC participant from Russia has less available information than the deleted Ihar Dolbik. Galina Kovalenskaya sat in the same limbo but was successful based on the weakness of available sources from behind the former Iron Curtain. Four other articles Sue Yeomans, Terhi Kokkonen (athlete), Fatiha Idmhand and Bianca Schenker were successfully deleted All had more information and at least equitable sources. As SFB said, half or our articles, or at least the stubs, could get wiped out if someone were to go on a rampage. There are those kind of creeps on wikipedia. That is why I think we need a specification to NTRACK to explain that lists are a key component to the coverage of athletics and are not merely routine. This IS a lot of the coverage we get, even at the Olympic level, however it is significant to our sport. Trackinfo ( talk) 10:38, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Further to the news today regarding Mariya Savinova (and with other suspended / disqualified athletes) am I right in believing this also invalidates other Personal Bests / National Records / Championship Records etc? Koncorde ( talk) 16:27, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
First of all great start to the page! It's definitely off to a good start and better than some of the other sports equipment pages I've seen. I think this article could be more in depth and informative to the wiki searcher. For example, in the "Type of Spike" section, they do a good job of describing the three main types of spikes. However an accompanying visual would be nice. There are a lot of nice visuals describing all of the different types of track spikes. You would just need to get the permission from the company who posted the pic to the internet. Additionally, there are different variations, mainly size, within the three main categories. I think this would be worth mentioning as well.
Also in the "Design" section the type of metal used could be included as well. This would mainly be helpful for students in sports engineering classes.
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What is a A in an athletics page likely to mean? Several of the PBs on Kurt Felix's page have that next to them. I presume they're area records but it's not clear anywhere on the page and I can't find a note about it. Red Fiona ( talk) 15:43, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
I haven't worked on athletics articles, so I wasn't sure what to do with this. Parkview Cross Country Course has one paragraph about the course, with one reference that does not mention the this cross country course as far as I can tell. The rest of the article is results from the 2009 PIAA high school state championship held at the course. I'm not sure if either the cross country course or the high school championship is notable. Leschnei ( talk) 02:03, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
User:Kevin_McE is wholly invested in removing the entry Colin_Jackson from the appropriate LGBT sportspeople categories, using what I can only describe as a nonsensical argument that Jackson doesn't belong in the category because he's identifying as gay is irrelevant to his public life - despite the fact that he's come out and did so in a public venue (on TV no less). Jackson previously denied being gay, and the entry has covered his denial for years. It makes sense that it must now acknowledge his admission. Kevin insists on not accepting that point. Can you all please add your two cents on the Talk Page to the entry? Thanks. Rafe87 ( talk) 16:04, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello. Is there a place where we can ask for article to be re-assessed; I've been reviewing and adding content to Kévin Mayer and I believe it should be upgraded from Stub; I'd love to hear from you regarding content and style. Thanks! P.S. I know there isn't that much content to justify subheaders under Career, but I'm planning on adding more information in the coming days so please don't erase those. -- Luisftd ( talk) 17:01, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
I have come across a wiki page of an athlete, Siddhanth Thingalaya who happen to be a good friend of mine. But his wiki page is missing lots of information about his latest achievements. Can anyone help me update his wiki page?
Kiran247 ( talk) 11:20, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I was working on Lisa Ryzih and wanted to reference some of her results. I went to the 2016 European Athletics Championships – Women's pole vault page, and when I looked up the listed results, they were for the 2016 under 20s Euro Championships. I've fixed the link there but just a heads up that some of the Euro results might be wrongly referenced. Red Fiona ( talk) 16:45, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello all. In an effort to finally resolve the never-ending and annoying GNG v SSG issue, I've proposed a revision of the NSPORTS introduction. You are all invited to take part in the discussion. Thank you. Jack | talk page 06:20, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Here I invite the participants to the project to express their opinion. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 17:21, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women athletes during this month please sign up in the participants section. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles for your project please add them to the lists by continent at Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:55, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.
A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Athletics
Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 13:13, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
There is a problem that is alluded to in several articles about this subject that I think we should cover but I don't know how we would approach it. This goes beyond Track and field Athletics but keeps affecting people's decisions as athletes. I see it in the U.S. but I believe it happens everywhere. Each sports governing body tries to use their influence; to dictate how or where athletes perform, how or if they can make money; to expand their territory and authority. Historically in the US we have had an alphabet soup of the AAU, USOC, USATF, NCAA, NJCAA, CCCAA, NFHS, ITA, USTFCCCA to name a few just involved with our sport, each playing a 3 dimensional chess game for power and influence over different territories of the sport and other sports using Athletics related sports as pawns in the power struggle. I see other NGBs have been replaced, there are obviously stories like this happening in other countries. Its an ongoing phenomenon. So my question here is how do we present this, even how do we describe it and put a name to it. Or has it already been done and I just don't know about it? Is this a sports related version of a natural political phenomenon to governing bodies of all sorts? Trackinfo ( talk) 03:42, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
The disaster in our sport keeps coming back. We are in the eternal phase where positive doping tests have been announced officially, even doping bans announced officially, but Olympics.org has NOT changed the results. A host of editors, many with IP addresses, keep coming back trying to update our results articles and connected athlete bios to take into account the new, sourced information about the tests and the bans. Sources state facts based on the obvious conjecture. Because the IOC is so slow to make an official decision, we are posting results that do not agree with the official results from the official organization. One of the benefits of wikipedia is that we can provide better information than just one source provides. Do we give up and post the conjecture, or enforce sticking with what the IOC has posted? [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Trackinfo ( talk) 21:03, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi – I've made an effort to gather together all the "Results" spin-off articles into one place at Category:Events at athletics (track and field) competitions. Lots of these didn't have a real place in the category structure so it should be easier to see what's available now. Major events are split out into articles by event (e.g. Category:100 metres at the African Games) while the lesser ones have grouped results pages (e.g. Athletics at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Results). Along the way I spotted a few outliers:
These topics are punching above their weight coverage-wise with event-level articles and given the standard (e.g. 35 mins for a 10,000 m medal) I suggest we merge them into the usual "X – Results" format. @ CroesJ and Pietaster: – you both seem to be busy in this topic area. Any thoughts? Also, I've noticed that the Category:Events at the IAAF Continental Cups have their own naming convention. Should we rename these like 1977 IAAF World Cup – Results to mirror the usual standard? SFB 23:22, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
As always, I found out about this too late. Our project was not notified on articles related to our project. Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Caribbean#Deleted. The one that drew my attention was Densley Joseph, two time CARITFA U17 Gold medalist in Javelin for Grenada, 1999 and 2000, bronze U20 in 2003, plus CAC silver in 2000. And this guy was deemed not notable by a couple of no-nothings. And why does his name search so poorly?
How do we get notified of AfDs against athletes? What recourse do we have against this new trend that can now be used as a precedent? Trackinfo ( talk) 07:23, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
I have requested that the above article be renamed. Thanks. SFB 21:51, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Please see WP:BOTREQ#WikiProject Athletics tagging, where project input is requested. ~ Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf) 23:44, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi all, I've requested a bot run to fix wikilinks to the track and field and sport of athletics articles given the mixed history. I've requested the following changes be made:
The intention is to point to the best target depending on what is already shown to the reader. The final change will allow us to point athletics (sport) to the disambiguation page athletics (disambiguation), because that page title is not clearly different from athletics (physical culture) for American readers.
Any suggestions/issues? SFB 14:56, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
I've written some proposed naming conventions at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (sportspeople)#Athletics (track and field). Unfortunately, our naming conventions have been inconsistent and there are many articles which don't follow these rules right now, but I think it's a sensible start. Feel free to edit and discuss changes here, and I'll leave it up for a week before removing {{ Proposal}}. Habst ( talk) 18:30, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
Is Isaac Caldiero Mid-Class importance? I noticed that talk:Isaac Caldiero says "MID", but the article page lists only one non-mainstream significant accomplishment in athletics/track&field (that being the basis of the article). While he does compete athletically in non-mainstream ninjasport, he's primarily a rock climber. -- 65.94.42.219 ( talk) 06:10, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
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I've noticed that quite a bit of extra information is being added to Template:AchievementTable, particularly with sprinting. I've added Time and Wind columns to account for that and have done a first try at Zharnel Hughes. Any thoughts? Should we move things like w and CR into the Notes column or leave next to the time? SFB 17:08, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Please look Talk:Authorised Neutral Athletes. -- Pelmeen10 ( talk) 15:27, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
{{ European Athletics Premium Permit Meetings}} and {{ European Athletics Classic Permit Meetings}} have not been updated for some time. Maybe we should merge them into one template. European_Athletic_Association#Meetings also needs update, what about including templates to that section without text (like IAAF page, updating only at 1 place is easier). Other 2 templates are {{ European Athletics Indoor Permit Meetings}} and {{ EAA Cross Country Meetings}}. What do you think? -- Pelmeen10 ( talk) 00:37, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
Dear my fellow Wikipedians,
the article for the new world record holder in the mens marathon, Eliud Kipchoge received a lot of improvements in the days following his impressive run in Berlin on 16 Sep, 2018. In my pov the article should be be upgraded from a C grading to a B grading. I would be happy for a review into my request.
/info/en/?search=Eliud_Kipchoge
Regards,
Da Vinci Nanjing (
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Hi. Can anyone can help with the correct name of this individual, per this discussion? She took part in the 1500m at the 1996 Olympics. Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 09:49, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if anyone would like to help create articles on World Marathon Majors winners. These redlinks are at List of winners of the Boston Marathon, Berlin Marathon, List of winners of the Chicago Marathon and List of winners of the New York City Marathon. Thank you :) -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 01:48, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi all, I've noticed a couple of bio articles that use the phrase "higher claim to [athletics club]" without explaining what this means (see Chris Clarke (sprinter) and Andrew Walcott). Is there a WP article (or section of one) that explains such things? If so, it'd be useful to link to it, so the uninitiated like myself aren't left scrabbling for Google. Cheers, Nzd (talk) 00:54, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
Joachim Müncheberg, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. – dlthewave ☎ 21:06, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
Only WP:CFB was notified. I think all relevant sports should participate in this discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 April 4#Athletic program head coaches navboxes.- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:11, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I think it is a good idea to add a part to the infobox in Boston Marathon that has a redirect to the latest race. In this case, being the 2019 Boston Marathon. Also, please see Template talk:Infobox athletics race Please ping me when updated or replied. IsraeliIdan ( talk) 12:43, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi. Currently, Category:Unassessed Athletics articles includes over 20,000 pages. Of these, around 9200 are already tagged as stubs. Would the wikiproject support / object to a bot run to assess these articles as stub-class? -- DannyS712 ( talk) 06:21, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
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I've made an attempt at incorporating some stats graphs into biographies using Template:Graph:Chart. Above is an example using Kim Collins's seasonal bests. More examples are visible at Tero Pitkämäki#Seasonal bests and Usain Bolt#Season's bests. Does anyone have any thoughts on what kind of information we can add using this template? My initial thoughts have focused on season's bests and rankings, but I'm sure there are many other things that graphs would we useful for. SFB 21:39, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
Are there any editors from this WikiProject willing to maintain Portal:Sport of athletics? The Portals guideline requires that portals be maintained, and as a result numerous portals have been recently been deleted via MfD largely becasue of lack of maintenance. Let me know either way, and thanks, UnitedStatesian ( talk) 19:29, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
Arorae raised some concerns about the nation sub-articles for the 2019 World Athletics Championships being mass moved into draft space. Most of these articles were about 1-person delegations and fully sourced, which suggests that the articles were moved due to concerns about the suitability of the articles in general rather than sourcing ( Discospinster?)
My opinion on this type of article is that countries that typically send small delegations would be better served by just an article at the overall championships level (e.g. Vanuatu at the World Athletics Championships), rather than by year. The effort to create and maintain 200+ country articles for each championships is very high and I think directing our efforts to the "country at championships" level, then redirecting the year links to that article, would be a better use of our time. For example, 75% of nations at the 2019 World Championships in Athletics are sending fewer than ten athletes and 100 of the 209 nations are sending a single athlete. There is a clear need for an article on the United States' 159-athlete delegation for the 2019 World Championships, but an article for a delegation of one feels like overkill to me. Any thoughts about the best approach for this? In the meantime, I'll try to create championships-level articles and redirects for the 1-person delegations this year as a start. SFB 19:31, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
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