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Welcome to WikiProject Sports. Some have formed this collaboration resource and group 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.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Open tasks 3 Article assessment 4 Templates 4.1 Talk page banner 4.2 UserBox 4.3 Infobox 5 Structure 5.1 Historical and annual summaries 5.2 History of sports: category 6 Sports by country of origin 6.1 Hierarchy definition 7 Participants 7.1 Active participants 7.2 Former participants 8 Related WikiProjects 8.1 Parent WikiProject 8.2 Descendant WikiProjects 8.3 Other related WikiProjects

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to:

• 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

[edit] Open tasks

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports:

Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Average (sports) (crucial article explaining the concept, nomenclature, math; redir to it from Average (sport); use Batting average as starting point for ideas) 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.) Skeleton (sport) (bizarre tone which could do with some copyediting) Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show." Other: 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. Split: Cross-training into Cross-training and Cross-training (business); Hockey puck into Puck (sports) (w/ Puck (sport) redir) and Hockey puck (and update Puck DAB page) Categorize: Gather all (major/olympic) sports to be part of this project Photographs for pages listed in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of sports and games, Wikipedia:Requested pictures/Society#Sport and referenced categories.

[edit] Article assessment

Sports articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 3 3 6 FL 1 1 1 3 A 1 1 GA 1 3 1 5 B 21 16 18 7 22 84 C 4 6 11 11 19 51 Start 7 14 282 130 120 553 Stub 2 9 81 123 714 929 List 1 4 11 26 35 77 Assessed 38 49 406 301 915 1709 Unassessed 4 732 736 Total 38 49 406 305 1647 2445

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.

The {{WikiProject Sports}} template has a class= and an importance= parameter which provide an article assessment and importance rating for each article:

{{WikiProject Sports|class=???|importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter. Please note that you must type them exactly as below as they are case-sensitive:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class sports articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class sports articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class sports articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class sports articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class sports articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class sports articles)
• NA (for pages where assessment is unnecessary, such as templates; adds items to Category:Non-article sports pages)

If a rating is not assigned, the article will be filed in Category:Unassessed sports articles. The class should be assigned according to the grading scheme. A list of Unassessed and In dispute articles can be discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports/Assessment.

The following values may be used for the importance parameter. Please note that you must type them exactly as below as they are case-sensitive:

• Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance sports articles)
• High (adds articles to Category:High-importance sports articles)
• Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance sports articles)
• Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance sports articles)
• Unknown (adds articles to Category:Unknown-importance sports articles)

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Talk page banner

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{WikiProject Sports}}	Example of output: WikiProject Sports   SportsWikipedia:WikiProject SportsTemplate:WikiProject Sportssports articles Sports portal v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sports. For more information, visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. Todo list: edit · history · watch · purge Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Average (sports) (crucial article explaining the concept, nomenclature, math; redir to it from Average (sport); use Batting average as starting point for ideas) 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.) Skeleton (sport) (bizarre tone which could do with some copyediting) Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show." Other: 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. Split: Cross-training into Cross-training and Cross-training (business); Hockey puck into Puck (sports) (w/ Puck (sport) redir) and Hockey puck (and update Puck DAB page) Categorize: Gather all (major/olympic) sports to be part of this project Photographs for pages listed in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of sports and games, Wikipedia:Requested pictures/Society#Sport and referenced categories.	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.

[edit] 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.

using {{Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sports/Userbox}}

[edit] Infobox

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{Sport overview}}	Example of output: WikiProject Sports Contesting for possession in an indigenous communtiy Aussie Rules game Governing body Australian Football League National team Australia First played 1858, Melbourne, Victoria Registered players 539,526 (total) 120,000 (adult) Clubs 2,548 Competitions National  - AFL Club  - SANFL  - VFL  - WAFL  - Queensland State League  - NTAFL  - Northern Tasmanian  - O&M  - Sydney AFL  - AFL Canberra Audience records Single match 121,696 - 1970 VFL Grand Final Season 6,283,788 - 2005 AFL season	Talk An overview of sport in a country/state

[edit] Structure

Shortcut: WP:SPORTS#STR

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 particular sports (Wikiproject Sports Listing)
• information on sporting competitions, clubs, events (incl. the Olympic Games)
• famous Sportspeople
• sports ethics, drugs in sport, cheating
• related areas: sports law, sports medicine
• sporting history

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Sports by country of origin

Can anyone help categorise sports by their country of originYoundbuckerz (talk) 09:04, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of Sports has been defined.

However:

• Category:Sports and its subcategories provide a heirarchical view of the sports articles and their categorization
• WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports provides a somewhat heirarchical view of sports-related WikiProjects

[edit] Participants

[edit] Active participants

1. P64
2. Spewmaster
3. SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] — 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.
4. SheffGruff 00:50, 13 November 2007 (UTC) Interested mainly in 'field' hockey.
5. Shootmaster 44
6. StarryWorld
7. Tyciol
8. Carlosguitar ^{(Yes Executor?)} 14:37, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
9. Lihaas soccer + cricket + Sports diplomacy
10. 2o-DeMoN-o8 – I follow all sports, and will be happy to do what I can.
11. Orrelly Man – interested in a wide range of sports and especially their history
12. SportAuthority 02:06, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
13. Macarism (12 June 2009) Likely to concentrate on sports with UK interests, and working on list articles
14. Alaney2k (16 June 2009) Hockey first, baseball. Also have interest in older eras.
15. Armbrust (18 October 2009) — I focus mostly on WP:TENNIS and WP:SNOOKER.
16. Drsjpdc (16 November 2009); I focus mostly on Olympic, World and Regional Games sports medicine, and sports chiropractic doctors involvement, and their federations.
17. Sean (26 December 2009)

[edit] Former participants

1. R-HIT
2. Eisenhower
3. gurulegend
4. Einar Ragnarsson
5. Catneven
6. cheesepuffsaretasty!!!

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Parent WikiProject

WikiProject Culture

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports for an up-to-date chart showing all sports WikiProjects and their interrelations.

[edit] Other related WikiProjects

• Wikiproject Biography – Sports and games work group
• WikiProject Flag Template — Result of a WP:VP request for handling flag icons such as in sports results.
• WikiProject Games