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WikiProject Running
Shortcut WP:RUN
Category Running
Wikimedia Commons Commons:Category:Running Running
Parent
project(s)
Sports
Project banner template{{ WikiProject Running}}, {{ running project}}
Userbox{{ User WikiProject Running}}
WikiProject Running
DateJULY 22nd 2022
LocationEUGENE
Event typeHurdle
Distance400-Meter Hurdles
Course records50.68
ParticipantsSydney McLaughlin
WikiProject Running
DateAUGUST 3rd 2021
LocationTOKOYO
Event typeHurdle
Distance400-Meter Hurdles
Course records45.94
ParticipantsKarsten Warholm


A project was formed in 2006 to better organize information in articles related to running. It includes: track and field, trail running, road racing, marathoning, and ultramarathoning. This page and its subpages contain suggestions for enhancing such articles; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts on these topics. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to create, improve and organize articles relating to running. This includes but is not limited to the history of running as a competitive sport, as recreation, and as a basic means of bipedal locomotion. It includes: track and field, trail running, road racing, marathoning, and ultramarathoning.

Hierarchy definition

To do list

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

  1. tag all running related articles with {{ WikiProject Running}}
  2. adding assessment and importance parameters when missing
  3. find references for articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Running/Unreferenced BLPs
  4. adopt an article and promote it to GA

In the mean time, you can find a list of running articles requiring attention here.

Subpages

Notices

Featured list

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

In June 2009, the List of winners of the London Marathon earned featured list status.

Tagging

As of March 2010, we have over 500 articles currently tagged as being within the scope of this project. As of August 2010, we have now identified 9,524 articles as relating to this project. In September 2010, we identified an additional 680 articles that need to be assessed in terms of qualitfy and importance.

Assessment criteria

Assessment of running-related articles:

  • Importance
    • Top = Core article or primary definition; central running topic/person or necessary for basic coverage of the topic (for example: sprint, long distance running)
    • High = Core daughter article or significant related topic/person, hard to write the article comprehensively and NPOV without this article, enjoys widespread notability and consensus (e.g., Barefoot running, Dipsea Race)
    • Mid = Daughter article or broad/basic definition, important for comprehensive coverage of the top issues, but not an integral definition (e.g., Jon Anderson (runner), Track Town, USA) For example, bio of runners that competed in the Olympics. Articles covering IAAF World Championship series are of at least mid importance.
    • Low = Non-core, the topic could be covered without this article (e.g., Walt Stack, Midnight Sun Run) Bio of runners who never competed in the Olympics.
  • Quality
    • Has attained FA
    • A-class or could attain with a bit of work
    • GA-class or could attain GA with a bit of work
    • B-equivalent, mostly cited and accurate, but has some issues, could be citations, OR, POV, or incomprehensive. Not too much work needed to bring to decent standard, but may still be a stub or start.
    • Some cleanup/work needed, below B-class, has some issues like lack of citations, OR, POV, incomprehensive. Sustained attention needed to bring to standard.
    • More work needed, multiple issues such as uncited, essay, POV, dubious accuracy or questionable notability. Lots of attention needed.

We have now shifted to a system where editors designate the importance and quality of each article using parameters on the {{ Running project}} template on each article's talk page.

Assessment table

Photo taken during 2006 race. Grant Swamp Pass, 12,900 ft (3,900 m)
The finish line of the 2008 Gobi March.

All articles within the scope of WikiProject Running have been classified by quality and importance, as summarized in the table below. Users can access a list of articles with a particular combination of quality and assessment ratings by clicking on the appropriate square in this table.

  • Popular pages lists top Running articles with the most frequent views. It is updated monthly.

It is expected that this rating and assessment scheme will require periodic and iterative maintenance, as new articles are created or identified, and existing articles are progressively improved (or, hopefully much rarer, demoted), requiring the status to be reassessed.

Of course, anyone is free to edit any of the articles they choose without regard to priority, however it is hoped that this will provide some basis for a more methodical approach to the longer-term overall improvement of content and coverage in the field.

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

cleanup
needed

Q R S T
More work

needed:
Uncited,
essay,
notability,
or POV

U V W X
non-biographical
biographies

Participants

Runners participating in the 2004 US Marine Corps Marathon.

You may add yourself to the list here and/or add {{ User WP Running}} to your profile page.

Article Alerts

Notice there is a proposed new notability standard for runners which can be found here. A vote is currently being conducted on the talk page to adopt this as an official guideline to replace WP:ATHLETE. Requests for comments

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

You can click here to see a list of project pages with the most page views.

Infoboxes

Templates

What to type What it makes What it's for
{{ running-stub}}
Talk
The official stub for running-related articles.
{{ running project}}
Talk
WikiProject icon Running NA‑class
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Running, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of running 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.
NAThis article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
To-do list:
  1. tag all running related articles with {{ WikiProject Running}}
  2. adding assessment and importance parameters when missing
  3. find references for articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Running/Unreferenced BLPs
  4. adopt an article and promote it to GA
The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of this Wikiproject.
{{ User Running}}
Talk
 This user just LOVES to run!
Just a userbox to tell others what you love to do!
{{ User WikiProject Running}}
Talk
This user is a participant in WikiProject Running.
Just a userbox to tell others what you love to do on wikipedia!
{{ Running To-do}}
Talk
  1. tag all running related articles with {{ WikiProject Running}}
  2. adding assessment and importance parameters when missing
  3. find references for articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Running/Unreferenced BLPs
  4. adopt an article and promote it to GA
A centralized to do list for the project

Related projects and pages

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

Similar WikiProjects include:

Related WikiProjects include

External links