Welcome to the Lacrosse WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the sport of lacrosse. (For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects). The goal of this project is to organize the efforts of those working on articles about and concerning the sport of lacrosse, including both field and box / indoor lacrosse. [edit] Different kinds of lacrosse [edit] Leagues - All professional or highest level of play lacrosse leagues should have pages describing (or at least listing) the teams, former teams, champions and past champions, awards, etc. Some of these may be on separate pages.
- List of pro or top-tier leagues:
- All teams should have pages, including years of existence, championships won, any franchise movement, etc.
[edit] Players - Player pages should include the year(s) that the player has played, which team(s) he/she played for (in as many leagues as possible), and should include stats (at least for NLL and MLL) if possible.
- There is now an infobox ({{Infobox Lacrosse Player}}) that should be used on all player pages
- Any participation in international lacrosse should be mentioned as well.
- We should have pages on all of the different tournaments and championships - Mann Cup, Minto Cup, NCAA, Heritage Cup, other international tournaments. Some of these already exist.
[edit] Assessment class The assessment system allows the WikiProject to monitor the quality of articles in its subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. The following guidelines can help to determine what class should be assigned to an article. The class should be filled in on the "class" parameter of the {{Lacrosse}} template on the article's talk page. For further details, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Lacrosse/Assessment. [edit] Open tasks - Expand women's lacrosse article. Include description of positions (cover point, 1-3 home, etc), penalties section should be prose, & an explanation of equipment differences, etc.
- Expand existing articles on MLL teams.
- Expand existing articles on Canadian summer box lacrosse leagues (OLA, WLA, and MSL) and teams (history, records, etc.).
- Create pages for inductees and teams/associations referenced in US Hall of Fame & Canadian Hall of Fame.
- Possibly create page similar to List of family relations in the National Lacrosse League for HOF members
- Organize international lacrosse articles.
- Create NLL Team Season articles: currently all NLL teams' seasons from 2005 to current have been created.(credit: MrBoo) The Toronto Rock seasons & Philadelphia Wings seasons articles for each season since inception have been completed.
- Expand Florida Gators women's lacrosse and their coach Amanda O'Leary
- NLLInsider's Paul Tutka ran a series of his Top 50 Players currently in the NLL. Here are the player's that do not have articles on Wikipedia Anybody looking to create an article for a current NLL player, here is a nice place to start:
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- No. 49 Jon Sullivan (lacrosse) Minnesota Swarm; # 45 Bruce Murray (lacrosse) Colorado Mammoth;
# 41 Jeff Shattler Calgary Roughnecks;# 39 Scott Ranger Calgary Roughnecks;# 37 Sean Pollock Minnesota Swarm;# 31 Chris White (lacrosse) Buffalo Bandits;# 24 Andy Secore Edmonton Rush;# 15 Scott Self Edmonton Rush. [1] [edit] Ongoing tasks - Go through Category:Unassessed lacrosse articles and add class and importance specifiers
- Review and resolve lacrosse articles that have been tagged as needing improvement at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lacrosse/Cleanup listing
- Create new articles on current and former players. Current NLL players can be found at NLL rosters article.
- Create lacrosse-specific categories as necessary
- Create new and expand existing articles on international lacrosse
- Expand stub articles on players
- Find members of HOF who already have articles and properly link them
[edit] Members Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. [edit] Active (users actively editing lacrosse content and new users) - MrBoo (Talk) -- NLL
- lukeoz (Talk) -- Lacrosse in Australia and Australian Lacrosse League
- 10stone5 - Played college lacrosse. Interested in updating college lacrosse entries, but will also handle NLL whenever possible.
- Paploo - I am a proud purple-and-teal-bleeding Rochester Knighthawks fan (a Lifetime Krew member, no less). I can help on the article, and would like to help on any past and present K-Hawk player articles.
- Shootmaster 44 - I can help with some of the Saskatchewan related lacrosse articles, as well as a bit with the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League.
- Xander756 - NLL
- jc121383 - NLL
- Mherr - NLL/MLL/High school and college lacrosse
- Mitico (talk) - General interest
- Yarnalgo (Talk) -- MLL / NLL /
International (sort of) - Strikehold (Talk) – College lacrosse, particularly teams in Maryland
[edit] Semi-Active (users that have sparingly edited lacrosse content in the past six months) - Smith03 (Talk) -- I have no real knowledge of the game but am willing to work on MLL and NCAA (college). glad to see someone start a project for it
- DMighton -- Ontario Lacrosse Association and Amateur Championships
- Davidjsc - I've updated the Western Lacrosse Association page with franchise movement. My area of interest in BC lacrosse; especially the BC field leagues from 1886-1931. I'll eventually post up my BC history articles which can be found at [2]; As a league executive with the West Central Lacrosse League, I've been responsible for constructing and maintaining the enrty for that league.
- WestJet- NLL, mostly the Calgary Roughnecks. Already helped on Kaleb Toth and Tracey Keluskey articles.
- Diogenes00 - Interested in NCAA D1 Lacrosse, specifically JHU. I'll try to add some of the better-known college players of the last 20 or so years...
- MrShamrock. Huge Victoria Shamrocks fan, I got them covered. Will also contribute to other WLA teams and players' pages.
- LaxKeeper (Talk) - Fan of women's college lacrosse
[edit] Inactive (users that haven't edited lacrosse content in over a year) - CanbekEsen (Talk) -- I don't know much of lacrosse, but I'd be glad to copy-edit or clean-up any articles.
- Vincent Ree (Talk) -- Albany Attack mostly.
- JamesTeterenko (Talk) -- mostly interested in the Calgary Roughnecks of the NLL -- hopefully, I'll get some more pictures in the season
- P3d0 (Talk) -- I don't have a ton of time to spend on Wikipedia these days, but I'll help where I can.
- Wwwhhh - Primarily Australian Lacrosse, but keen to help improve all articles.
- RedSkull619 -- I can help with the MLL articles, mainly the Baltimore Bayhawks; I can also sort through for reworking on grammar and writing style for any article
- Racer38 - I can help with most lacrosse articles currently on Wikipedia.
- J71- Mostly BC box lacrosse, I can help with player pages as well.
- lesserm - Mainly Ohio and Midwestern lacrosse. Can help with MLL
- AmandaWins - I can help with basically anything, esp. clean-up, and college and high school lacrosse teams and rules.
- Joe - I've created all the brackets and pages for the NCAA DI Tourney since 2003.
- Added some earlier tournament brackets. Will add and 8 team bracket template.
- Meldshal42. I wil add everything about LAX. I am a huge LAX fan and I play middy on my local team.
- Sekuloguy. I am a huge Long Island Lizards fan and can help on that article. I can also help on the MLL article.
- Amaryllis25 - I'd like to help on college entries and on women's lacrosse entries.
- The Founders Intent - I'd be glad to research things for folks.
- Panicpack-NLL/MLL/Western
- Bvalx2005
- BricoleurHistory of Lacrosse in British Columbia
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Article alerts are updated daily by ArticleAlertbot. — Tips /Report a bug / Got ideas? / Suggest news / Feedback [edit] New articles New articles older than one year are archived to here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Lacrosse/New articles archive. Please feel free to list your new Lacrosse-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page. Note: If you remove something from here, please archive it to the New Articles page. - Doc Schneider by Hhgoal14 (talk · contribs) and John Zulberti by 10stone5 (talk · contribs). --Yarnalgo talk to me 21:59, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
- List of college lacrosse events, created by Strikehold (talk) 00:13, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
- Welsh Lacrosse Association, created by Daicaregos (talk · contribs).
- Virginia Cavaliers men's lacrosse, created by Strikehold (talk) 13:13, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
- Ross Cup, Victory Trophy. DMighton (talk) 17:57, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
- Doug Knight by 10stone5 (talk · contribs). --Yarnalgo talk to me 18:03, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
- Fred Linkous, UMd player, Hall of Famer, created by Strikehold (talk) 18:33, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
- North-South Senior All-Star Game, created by Strikehold (talk) 15:29, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
- Kenny Nims and Dan Glading, 2 college players that just graduated; both by 10stone5 (talk · contribs). --Yarnalgo talk to me 04:48, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
- Can-Am Senior B Lacrosse League and West Coast Senior Lacrosse Association started by DMighton (talk) 18:52, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
- Northwestern Wildcats women's lacrosse (by Bolt Vanderhuge (talk · contribs)) and Charley Toomey (by Interzil (talk · contribs)). --Yarnalgo talk to me 03:16, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
- Jim Berkman, Salisbury head coach, all-time winningest NCAA lacrosse coach. Strikehold (talk) 23:28, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
- Dom Starsia, UVA head coach. Mitico (talk) 17:55, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- Cyrus C. Miller, NYU and Crescent A.C. player, Columbia coach, HOF inductee, started by Strikehold (talk) 05:08, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- Bill Schmeisser, Johns Hopkins' "Father Bill", Hall of Fame inductee, started by Strikehold (talk) 23:58, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- Charles Marsters, Hall of Fame inductee, started by Strikehold (talk) 23:58, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- Don Zimmerman, current UMBC coach, former three-time national championship Johns Hopkins coach, started by Strikehold (talk) 09:04, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
- North Carolina and Duke started by Strikehold (talk) 03:41, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
- Cornell, Villanova, and UMass men's lacrosse stubs started by Strikehold (talk) 23:04, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
- The First 4 invitational stub started by Strikehold (talk) 00:23, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
- Navy Midshipmen men's lacrosse, started by Strikehold (talk) 19:47, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
- F. Morris Touchstone, HOF inductee, namesake of Touchstone Memorial Award, started by Strikehold (talk) 17:34, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
- Army Black Knights men's lacrosse started by Strikehold (talk) 02:30, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
- UMBC Retrievers men's lacrosse started by Strikehold (talk) 19:34, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
- 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship started by Strikehold (talk) 03:40, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
- Siena Saints men's lacrosse started by Strikehold (talk) 03:40, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
- Johns Hopkins Blue Jays women's lacrosse - separated from men's article; started by Strikehold (talk) 00:07, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
- Big City Classic started by Strikehold (talk) 08:12, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
- Day of Rivals started by Strikehold (talk) 06:39, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
- Scottish National lacrosse teams - Scotland (M) · Scotland (W) · Indoor --MacRusgail (talk) 15:23, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
- Split the List of national lacrosse organizations from the main lacrosse article. Any ideas, assistance welcome. Mitico (talk, contribs) 14:54, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- Lacrosse in Scotland, Lacrosse Scotland (please help create articles on our national teams too!) --MacRusgail (talk) 21:00, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
- Dick Edell, former college coach and HOFer (started by Strikehold (talk · contribs); anyone want to encourage this guy to join?) --Yarnalgo talk to me 23:41, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
- Face-Off Classic, started by Strikehold (talk · contribs). --Yarnalgo talk to me 23:00, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
- Dave Cottle, Maryland Terps head coach (started by Strikehold (talk · contribs)). --Yarnalgo talk to me 23:57, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
- Florida Gators women's lacrosse which was started by NorwalkJames (talk · contribs). --Yarnalgo talk to me 01:04, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
- 2009 Women's Lacrosse World Cup - only major international tournament of 2009. -Mitico (talk, contribs) 22:23, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
- Added a Lacrosse in Pennsylvania page to include history of sport in PA, high schools & colleges in PA -- haven't gotten into any of the Pro aspects yet, though. --10stone5 (talk, contribs) 23:40, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
- Rome Lions and La Spezia Black Eagles, two Italian lacrosse teams translated from their Italian wiki articles. --Yarnalgo talk to me 21:45, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
- New Rock coach Jamie Batley --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 23:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
- Added Brett Queener article, and also stub articles for J.R. Castle & George Castle (lacrosse) who I believe to be the first father-son players in the NLL. Mitico (talk)
- Tyler Richards. I updated the roster of the San Jose Stealth and began a project of creating pages for players who didn't yet have pages. (also added: Tom Johnson (lacrosse), Travis Gillespie, Will Dalton (lacrosse), Rhys Duch, Eric Martin (lacrosse), Cam Sedgwick -Mherr
- List of defunct NLL teams. Also thinking about doing an NLL equivalent to the Timeline of the National Hockey League. It would be a lot cleaner than the NHL page, but the code to do it is pretty complicated. --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 18:57, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
- Added Draft History section for the Rochester Knighthawks, Head Coaching History section for the Buffalo Bandits, aided Mitico with the new roster templates (put in "first name first" format) Jc121383 (talk) 03:28, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Featured content [edit]  Did You Knows (DYKs) [edit]  Good Articles (GAs) [edit] Resources [edit] Images For images of lacrosse and lacrosse-related things check the Wikimedia Commons at commons:Category:Lacrosse. Also make sure to check commons:Category:Lacrosse in the United States which has a lot of good action shots. [edit] Fair use template for logos Note that logos (teams, leagues, etc.) require a "Fair use" tag and rationale. Here's the page from Image:BaltimoreThunder.png as an example:
{{Non-free media rationale |Description=Logo of the [[Baltimore Thunder]] lacrosse team (now defunct) |Source=http://www.logoserver.com/MILLNLL.html |Portion=Entire image |Purpose=for fair use: This image is a low-resolution image of the logo. This image does not limit the copyright holder's ability to profit from the original source, nor will it dilute the importance or recognition of the logo in connection with its organization. This image enhances the article in which it's displayed, as it provides an immediate means of visual identification of the subject to the reader more capably than the textual description alone. Use of the logo visually identifies the organization in a manner that mere prose cannot, and meets all criteria in WP:NFCC. |Resolution=Yes |Replaceability=Not replaceable }} {{Non-free logo|lacrosse-logos}} [[Category:Sports logos]] [edit] Banner Please add {{Lacrosse}} to the talk page of any and all lacrosse-related pages that you edit. You should also add class and importance parameters, described above. [edit] Templates [edit] National Lacrosse League {{NLL}}: {{NLL Arenas}}: {{NLL seasons}}: [edit] Major League Lacrosse {{Major League Lacrosse}}: {{MLL Stadiums}}: {{MLL seasons}}: {{NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championships}}: League and team logos should contain this:
{{sports-logo|lacrosse-logos}} [edit] Roster templates There are two player templates; one for actual rosters and another for lists. The {{Lacrosse player}} template should be used for rosters and roster templates, where the {{Lacrosse player list}} template should be used for lists. The roster template is the same as the {{Player}} template, but has additional optional fields for captains, alternate captains, unrestricted free agents and franchise players. The list template was originally copied from {{fs start}} et al., but those templates are specific to soccer, and they linked the positions to pages about the soccer positions. There was also no "transition" position, and the soccer term "goalkeeper" is usually "goaltender" in lacrosse. I removed the links so now you can put in any position you want. We can add the links again later if we want, since these are now lacrosse-specific. {{Lacrosse player start}}
{{Lacrosse player list | no=num | pos=pos | nat=Canada | name=name | other=other }}
{{Lacrosse player mid}}
{{Lacrosse player end}}
Which looks like this: | No. | | Position | Player | | num |  | pos | name (other) | | | | {{Professional Lacrosse}}: [edit] Infoboxes [edit] Lacrosse players - {{Infobox Lacrosse Player}}
- For each player, include this infobox at the top of the article (see the template page for all available fields):
{{Infobox Lacrosse Player |image= |position= |shoots= |height_ft= |height_in= |weight_lb= |nll_team= |mll_team= |former_nll_teams= |former_mll_teams= |nationality= |birth_date= |birth_place= |career_start= |nickname= }} [edit] Lacrosse teams - {{NLL Team Infobox}}
- For each NLL team, include this infobox at the top of the article (see the template page for all available fields):
{{NLL Team Infobox |team_name= |bg_color= |title_color= |division= |logo= |founded= |home_arena= |hometown= |team_colors= |head_coach= |general_manager= |plpa= |media= |website= |champs= |division_champs= |formerly= }} - {{NLL Defunct Team Infobox}}
- For each defunct NLL team, include this infobox at the top of the article (see the template page for all available fields):
{{NLL Defunct Team Infobox |team_name= |bg_color= |title_color= |division= |logo= |played= |home_arena= |hometown= |team_colors= |champs= |division_champs= |later= }} - {{MLL Team Infobox}}
- For each MLL team, include this infobox at the top of the article (see the template page for all available fields):
{{MLL Team Infobox |team_name= |bg_color= |title_color= |conference= |logo= |founded= |home_stadium= |hometown= |team_colors= |head_coach= |general_manager= |media= |champs= |conference_champs= |division= |division_champs= |website= }} [edit] Categories Note that some categories may be subcategories of more than one category.
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