This is
WikiProjectsports, a collaboration area for Wikipedians interested in improving coverage of
sports. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
Welcome to WikiProject Sports. This collaboration resource and group is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of
sports, including the organization of information and articles on this topic area. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and various resources, including article assessment information, that we hope help focus the efforts of other Wikipedians to improve all sport related articles in order to make Wikipedia an excellent resource for sports-related information for all who visit. And we are here to point editors in the right direction to get involved in child projects that focus on their more particular sporting interests. If you would like to help, please inquire on the
talk page,
join the project, and see the
to-do list below.
Describe how sporting-related articles should be represented and what information belongs in the articles
Provide a central location for coordinating and organizing sports articles and their features
Serve as an article assessment group, helping move articles closer and closer to
Featured Article status
Foster sports article creation and improvement
Creation of useful Wikipedia
templates for use in sports articles – navigation boxes, stub tags, infoboxes, etc.
Out of scope: board games, table top games, video games (even sports simulation ones) and other games of a non-sporting character; for such pastimes, please see
WikiProject Games and its child projects.
Also out of scope are individual athletes. These should be under the person's relevant sports Wikiproject
Assess : newly added and existing articles, maybe nominate some good B-class articles for
GA; independently assess some as A-class, regardless of GA status.
Cleanup : *
Sport governing body (this should-be-major article is in a shameful state) *
Field hockey (History section needs sources and accurate information - very vague at the moment.) * Standardize
Category:American college sports infobox templates to use same font size and spacing. *
Sport in the United Kingdom - the
Popularity section is incorrect and unsourced. Reliable data is required.
* Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show."
Any member of WikiProject Sports may assess Sports-related articles by following the guidelines below. If you aren't sure about an article, ask about it on
the assessment page.
Class
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Sports}} project banner on its talk page: {{WikiProject Sports|class=???}}
The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see
Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sports, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
sport-related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SportsWikipedia:WikiProject SportsTemplate:WikiProject Sportssports articles
Assess : newly added and existing articles, maybe nominate some good B-class articles for
GA; independently assess some as A-class, regardless of GA status.
Cleanup : *
Sport governing body (this should-be-major article is in a shameful state) *
Field hockey (History section needs sources and accurate information - very vague at the moment.) * Standardize
Category:American college sports infobox templates to use same font size and spacing. *
Sport in the United Kingdom - the
Popularity section is incorrect and unsourced. Reliable data is required.
* Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show."
Talk Tags an article or other page (on its talk page, not in the article itself) as being within the scope of the project. Should not be used for articles that already have a more specific sports WikiProject tag, unless their tag does not support assessments and you are assessing the article.
Userbox
For all participants to use I have created a userbox to both declare your allegiance to the project and to increase the visibility of the project to the community.
There shall be an alphabetical list of all sports. There shall also be an organization of sports by categories. There shall be a listing of sport competitions, that involve multiple sports (e.g. the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, the Maccabiah Games, the Good Will Games, etc.) -- competitions for particular sports, or groups of sports, would be better located on the page for that sport. The lists of competitions should be organized along the lines of what area of the world they involve -- i.e. are they global (e.g. the Olympics), restricted to a particular region of the world (Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, etc.), or restricted to a particular country (in which case, they could be placed under a section on the sport in that particular country.) These lists shall be either on the main
Sports page, or if they become too long on separate pages linked to by the main page.
Suggested topics:
information on sport in general (what is a sport?, why do people play sports?, what are the benefits of sport?)
information on sporting competitions, clubs, events (incl. the Olympic Games)
famous sports people
sports ethics, drugs in sport, cheating
related areas: sports law, sports medicine
sporting history
Historical and annual summaries
The purpose of these articles (e.g.,
History of baseball,
2009 in sports) is to summarise significant events that are relevant to the sport or period under review. It is very important that the articles are not encumbered by excessive detail, particularly where a certain theme is being promoted. This is in accordance with general Wikipedia guidelines and policies such as
WP:NOT#STATS,
WP:UNDUEWEIGHT and
WP:NOTDIRECTORY.
For that reason, the project has
decided to exclude lists of births and deaths. Births have no conceivable importance to sports in the year of the person's birth, no matter how famous the person might become a generation hence. Deaths of active sportspersons are significant but must be recorded under a section about the relevant sport or the relevant time period.
History of sports: category
Articles that cover a sport's general history must be categorised in
Category:History of sports and a category specific to the history of that sport. Histories of specific events in a sport or covering a limited period only must not be categorised in the sports history category.
Currently, there are relatively few general histories about individual sports and most sports have their histories within the sport's own article (e.g., the history of boxing is in the main
boxing article, whereas
baseball has a
history of baseball article). Until such time as a general history of the sport can be created, the main article must be included in the sports history category.
SMcCandlish – I focus mostly on
WP:CUE and
WP:SNOOKER, but am insterested in the overall "administration" of the sports article- and category-space, as well as consistent templates, etc.
Sue Kastle - I edit my favorite teams pages which include baseball, American football, ice hockey, rugby union, MMA (mixed martial arts), extreme sports and Olympic sport events.
Dey subrata Edit generally on Indian sports and sports person and sometimes on other country teams and club
Denim11 I edit my favourite game pages which include cricket and football .I also do some editing on other pages.
Benjamin112 - Main focus on
WP:FOOTBALL and especially
WP:CYCLING; also like to fill in missing results of current/recent sports events while browsing around