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How do we deal with stadium names which are officially "[Sponsor] Field at [Normal Name] Stadium" or some variation thereof but are more commonly known by their normal name? I was looking into this after the home of the Potomac Nationals was renamed Northwest Federal Field at Pfitzner Stadium earlier today. I looked at other stadiums I'm familiar with, and Harry Grove Stadium redirects to Nymeo Field at Harry Grove Stadium while the home of UConn football is Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field with Rentschler Field being an article about the former airfield at that site. However, Scott Stadium's full title is Carl Smith Center, Home of David A. Harrison III Field at Scott Stadium, which isn't even a redirect to that article. Also, Husky Stadium is listed at that title despite its official name being Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium, which is a redirect. What is the policy in situations like this? Perhaps significantly, the Potomac stadium was previously known as G. Richard Pfitzner Stadium and the "G. Richard" appears to have been dropped from the name entirely. However, Frederic Scott's first name was never on that stadium, Harry Grove's still is, and the other two aren't named after people so they kept their full name, it was just added to. Smartyllama ( talk) 16:21, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
A discussion related to this project, regarding AR-15 style rifle, has been opened at Reliable sources noticeboard. – dlthewave ☎ 15:00, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
There is a debate about several sections on this article that could use some outside eyes. One is the appropriate mention of mass shootings in the article lead. Another is how the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban should be covered in the article. Thanks! Springee ( talk) 18:32, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi there! I recently posted an edit request for the article on Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank that might interest members of WikiProject Sports. I'm seeking to update the article's section on his early life. While there are no major issues with the existing section, there is room for improvement, including clarifying the details about his youth and college football career. I'm hoping to add citations where none exist, clarify some details that aren't accurate, and a few other clean-up items. This is laid out fully on the article's Talk page.
As I do have a financial conflict of interest here, since I'm making this suggestion on behalf of Mr. Plank via agency SKDKnickerbocker as part of my work at Beutler Ink, I won't make any edits to the article myself. Instead, I welcome input from uninvolved editors and assistance taking live changes as appropriate. Thanks in advance, 16912 Rhiannon ( Talk · COI) 17:18, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
The above two events were held separately until recently. They have since been merged as one event, however both Wikipedia articles continue to indicate this, I believe there should be a separate article for the merged championships. What is everyone's thoughts on this? Sportsfan 1234 ( talk) 17:39, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
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I'm looking for a word/term/expression (if it exists) for a system like this:
It's something like a knock-out system, however with a major difference. Losing doesn't mean you eliminated but you continue for the lower ranks where winning means you continue for the upper ranks.
Suppose I have 8 teams, playing in a 3-round system. The table below shows the consequence of winning (W) or losing (L) in each round:
1st round | 2nd round | 3rd round | Final rank |
---|---|---|---|
W | W | W | 1 |
W | W | L | 2 |
W | L | W | 3 |
W | L | L | 4 |
L | W | W | 5 |
L | W | L | 6 |
L | L | W | 7 |
L | L | L | 8 |
So winning in the first round means continue for rank 1 to 4, where losing means continue for rank 5 to 8. (Winners of the first round continue playing each other and losers of the first round continue playing each other, so in the second round, a team which won in the first round will never play a team which lost in the first round.) Winning first and second means continue for rank 1 to 2, winning first and losing second means continue for rank 3 to 4 etc.
So not knock-out, but maybe something like knock-down (knocking your competitors to a lower (down) ranking).
Anyway, I'm looking for a word/term/expression for a system like this.-- Sb008 ( talk) 12:49, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
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Any better categories here? An interesting phenomena, that seems to be using a Konglish term. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:20, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
An unreferneced stub from 2009. Is this notable? Could it be a hoax? I see a few non-wiki mentions but they could have been inspired by a long-standing hoax. If it is not a hoax, maybe it should be merged somewhere? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:35, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
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Please see Talk:Milwaukee Bucks#RfC for team colors
This is really beyond the Milwaukee Bucks or even sports in particular, and relevant to coverage of organizations and their
house styles generally. This touches on all of:
MOS:CAPS,
MOS:TM,
WP:NOR,
WP:NPOV, and
WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE, in various aspects (see the more detailed discussion below the !vote section).
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Just found out that there's some sports articles (mainly athletics & swimming) that link to {{ ANT}} for Antigua and Barbuda (their IOC code), but link goes to Netherlands Antilles (per ISO code). See also Wikipedia:Inline templates linking country articles - maybe the same problem with {{ BRN}} (Brunei) while meant Bahrain. -- Pelmeen10 ( talk) 10:26, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
There's an RM I'm following at the moment in order to move Nagano, Nagano to the base title Nagano, but I think the base title is ambiguous and has no primary topic, so I've been going through the pages that link to it, many of which related to Winter Olympics events. 1998 Winter Olympics refers to "Nagano" as the "host city" but 1998 Winter Olympics#Venues indicates that only five of the fifteen venues were located in Nagano City.
Obviously if all the reliable sources refer to "Nagano" as the "host city" we can't contradict them, but I'm wondering if the "official" sources actually do say "host city" when it is not technically accurate. Has this kind of thing been discussed before? I hardly ever edit sports articles so I don't even know where to start with the research.
Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 06:58, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
should [be] as specific as possible, yet the question posed here is hopelessly vague. It's in reference to "many sports," without defining which sports exactly, or at the very least which category of sports, e.g. track and field. The subsequent discussion has focused mostly on Chess but it would certainly be a mistake to suggest rules about "many sports" articles on the basis of one sport only, no matter what that sport is. The enormous variety of sports demands that a specific question about a specific sport be submitted. From then on, and depending on the RfC outcome, the path is to be defined.
In many sports articles there are sections dedicated to listing or detailing notable games. I am looking to gather some opinions on how these sections should be handled, particularly in biographies. Should they be included at all? If so what should be the criteria for a game to be designated notable? AIRcorn (talk) 07:32, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Additional notes: The majority of these I have come across relate to Chess Players and Baseball Umpires. I will leave messages at their wikiprojects, but if there are any others editors think should be contacted feel free to do so. Also while notable games are used for lots of different sporting articles, I am most interested in there use on biographies, where our sourcing requirements are stronger. However I welcome opinions on the other articles. AIRcorn (talk) 07:37, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Might be good to take into account already-existing lengthy thread WT:CHESS#'Notable games' inclusion criteria. -- IHTS ( talk) 08:44, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
sweep away chess"? I was clear in the example I gave about secs equivalent to secheads "Notable games". I'm not familiar nor do I have to be in this discussion re sports matches & splitting them, this thread is 1/2 about WP:CHESS bios. I think you don't comprehend this thread or what I wrote above. For WP:CHESS bios, are you suggesting "Notable games" secs list "
playing style or specific points [games] of interest"? I suppose many times that is true. And on that basis I w/ have little problem w/ "Notable games" secs in WP:CHESS bios renamed to "Playing style" or "Games of interest". But that's unfortunately not what those secs are most often named. If I understand you correctly, you are claiming a substantive difference based on word choice ("notable" versus "style" or "point of interest"). The same arguments c/ be made against those secheads. ("What makes the games included more representative of playing style [or more interesting than] the subject's other games?" This topic has built-in confusions that haven't been dealt with, and plowing forward to a "solution" when the problem isn't well defined or understood can never be a good idea. -- IHTS ( talk) 18:43, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
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Hi all,
I've recently been doing a lot of updating/creating World Pool championship articles, and saw there is a Template:World championships in 2014 to Template:World championships in 2018 navigational boxes. However, there are obviously a lot of world championships that pre-date this, and a lot of them follow a naming convention. I'm quite happy to create some of these going backwards, however, I'd want a little consensus on what constitutes a world championship. For instance, does the FIFA World Cup qualify as a world championship? This seems like the most notable type of world championship, but is omitted from the template. Is this because it's known as a "World Cup", rather than a "World Championship"? Many Thanks, Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 08:29, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
{{World championships in year|2013}}
. Then {{
World championships in year}} uses its data to determine which links to add for that year. It takes time to add the data but then we could immediately make yearly templates going back to 1930 or whatever.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
11:05, 22 August 2018 (UTC)- Indeed. Seems like a phenominal idea! I'm having a slight issue with the conditional formatting, as I'd like it to look similar to how it already does in {{ World championships in 2015}}, with disciplines in brackets from the original sports. This is fine to do if they are all played in a year, such as pool for:
However, when one isn't played, it creates an open bracket such as:
Any ideas? I'm sure it's something super easy to fix, but I'm a little dim when it comes to this sort of stuff. Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 11:35, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
I have a question - can the indoor sports really be called "summer sports"? Basketball, futsal, volleyball, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, different martial arts/combat sports etc. The competitions are often held in winter also. -- Pelmeen10 ( talk) 13:51, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
- Makes perfect sense. I'll adjust. There will also be other events that are not covered by this (Such as retired world championships), but I feel like these will simply be added over time by editors. I can see an issue regarding spreading the template though, I'm not sure on the best way to attach these to the thousands of articles it covers. Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 10:50, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
In my opinion lists as this, like many other similar lists created at the dawn of Wikipedia, today no longer has any reason to exist. before I ask for the deletion, I take a survey here. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 09:11, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
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There is an RFC on Population-Wide Metrics at Talk:Sport in Australia Should the sport in Australia page have participation statistics from Ausplay, a study funded and led by the Australian Sports Commission on sport participation. Join in the fun and frolic. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 05:45, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
Regarding UCD Ladies' Hockey Club, anybody here know how to add skirts to Template:Infobox field hockey team. Thanks in advance for any help provided. Djln Djln ( talk) 19:03, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
Hey project. I was moving a file File:Sialkot-Stallions.jpg. In the process of moving the file and fixing links while I'm at it, I came across pages like 2006–07 ABN-AMRO Twenty-20 Cup, which according to WP:DATERANGE should be 2006–2007 ABN-AMRO Twenty-20 Cup. If there is consensus to move these pages I found Category:Domestic cricket competitions in 2006–07 and {{ Pakistan Twenty20 League}} that have a bunch of pages listed, but obviously I don't edit sports pages I don't know if there's more pages not listed. I just wanted to notify someone of this. I wouldn't mind helping moving these pages, just give me a ping. :) Cheers, - FlightTime Phone ( open channel) 11:16, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
What do you thonk about? Would it be possible to add the caps in national team line, as is, for istance, in {{ Infobox football biography}}? For example in Alessandro Del Piero in the {{ Infobox football biography}} is |nationalteam1 = [[Italy national under-17 football team|Italy U17]] and |nationalcaps1 = 3. In {{ Infobox sportsperson}} there is only the line "national_team" I would that we have also the line "national_caps". -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 15:33, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
In response to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2017 American Ultimate Disc League season, I’d like to question the opinion of the WikiProject on whether common sources used for these articles such as Ultiworld are reliable for use in these articles. 99.203.30.242 ( talk) 21:25, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
Can a wikiproject page for soccer (not football) please be created? SportsFan007 ( talk) 03:07, 31 October 2018 (UTC)SportsFan007
A move discussion at Talk:Diving regarding the re-naming or re-purposing of that page may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. power~enwiki ( π, ν) 02:30, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
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At Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 December 5#Wikipedian_sports_fans I have proposed renaming 718 sub-categories Category:Wikipedians by interest in a sport, to use the phrase "interested in" rather than the word "fans".
The discussion will consider how this proposal fits with Wikipedia's categorisation guidelines. Please add your comments at the Categories for discussion page. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 06:35, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
I have no other means to bring this issue here, recently from a ip address, an edit had been done at the article of Saina Nehwal. The edit was nothing but a verbal and sexual abuse in "Hindi" to defame the sport person. Please if anyone know how to request for the blocking of this ip-address please do it. Thank you. Dey subrata ( talk) 12:37, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
A requested move discussion is taking place at Talk:Ice resurfacer, and your input would be welcome. Mathglot ( talk) 08:06, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
Extra eyes at Ingemar Stenmark would be welcome. Boeing720 is continuing to edit war (and refusing to discuss on the talk page) in order to include some egregious WP:PUFFERY and incomprehensible English. Thanks, – Deacon Vorbis ( carbon • videos) 19:04, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi all,
As there isn't a WikiProject for the game of Bowls, or anything active that covers the subject matter; I thought I'd ask the question here. I've seen quite a few BLPs with the disambiguation X (bowls); such as Paul Foster (bowls), or current indoor world champion Stewart Anderson (bowls). Is this really the suitible disambiguation for these pages? I suggest X (bowler), or X (bowls player) similar to other sports such as Mark Gray (pool player), or Stan Smith (footballer).
Is there a more suitible place to talk about this, and is this something that would need administration help to make wholesale changes. It should also be noted this would only be for BLPs, as I'm sure there are articles for bowls related things. Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 18:27, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
There is a discussion on the reliability of Dai Sport ( dai-sport.com) at the reliable sources noticeboard. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § dai-sport.com. — Newslinger talk 02:41, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
I had discussed notability of Amit Chhetri at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive_914#Notability_question. Is he notable?- Nizil ( talk) 04:31, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello my question concerns project guidelines relating to governing bodies of sport is it correct to merge information relating to a world governing body of a sport with a national governing body of the same sport who is just one member nation of the world body. For example this navigation template now lists all ranked events of the world body with the ranked events of just one national member of that body when there was two separate ones Template:BDO Tournaments and Template:WDF Tournaments. There are 80 other national members of the World Darts Federation regardless of whether there is an overlap of tournaments surely global and national level sports bodies should be kept separate any thoughts anyone.-- Navops47 ( talk) 04:18, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
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Hey, sporty colleagues! I am working on The Tempestry Project and a related article, and both mention an artist who used a 'chalk marker' to draw lines through and around a city. I had zero idea what that meant until I found her website and realized it's that little roller cart thing they use to draw the lines on sports fields and pitches. You guys here are probably thinking this is just too obvious, but I don't sports. If possible I'd like to be able to provide a helpful wikilink for other idiots like me. There doesn't seem to be an article, though a check at References/Entertainment show there doesn't seem to be a standard term for this thing, either, so maybe I'm just not finding it. At any rate, with no standard term, I have zero ideo how to google it accurately enough to show enough notability to even write a stub. I kind of feel like with all the stuff that's been written about sports over the past 100+ years, someone must have written about this thing. Like, somoene somewhere invented the darn thing; someone must have been commenting on it at the time, as it must have been a kind of major deal in sports circles. But I have no idea where even to look.
So: long story short: Would anyone here know of sources -- maybe some book or article on the history of fields and pitches or something -- that could be used for this? If I can find even ONE source that mentions this thing, I'd try to start a draft in userspace, but as a 100% non-expert in sports I kind of hate to start work on this if everyone here thinks I'd be out of luck finding any sources at all.
Thanks for any help! -- valereee ( talk) 12:28, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Case Western Reserve Spartans that would benefit from your input and opinion. Please come and help! Paine Ellsworth, ed. put'r there 16:41, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
An article in this project space 2018 World Snooker Championship has been added as a Featured Article Candidate. Please see the nomination page to discuss. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 11:59, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
I see there have been previous discussions on the talk page about the size of 2019 in sports but this is becoming an urgent issue. This is the 7th largest article on Wikipedia (see Special:LongPages) and it is only June 3rd. This article can't double in size before the end of the year or it will approach 1M bytes! How can this article be split up? Or are there simply sections that can be removed or reduced?
I'm not a sports fan so I don't feel like boldly going in and hacking away so I'll just try to rejuvenate this discussion and add a little urgency to the decisions that should be made before July starts up. Even if the year was divided up (Jan-June, July-Dec), this article would STILL be too big. What are some feasible but substantial changes that wouldn't cause a revolt in sports-minded Wikipedia editors? Change needs to happen, sooner better than later (autumn). Liz Read! Talk! 22:04, 3 June 2019 (UTC) (cross-posted from Talk:2019 in sports)
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WikiProject Women in Red is devoting the next two months (July and August) to a virtual editathon on Women in Sports. Please take this opportunity to improve articles about women who lag far behind men on Wikipedia's coverage of sports.-- Ipigott ( talk) 06:48, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello, all. I've just become interested in this project as something of a social historian but perhaps more so because I'm a footy fan who also likes sport in general and is known to have cue and (try to) pot a few; as well as sometimes losing a few quid at Aintree and Haydock Park.
Anyway, I see in your project page that you say: "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".
It struck me that the category presents a decidedly limited number of sporting histories because of their inclusion in the main articles so I've set up several redirects within Category:History of sports by sport to the history sections of the more prominent sports which don't have historical categories. When I say "more prominent", that infers a limit to what I've done so far and in fact there are countless other sports which deserve historical coverage and recognition so this is just a start. Ideally, I think we should aim to have a "history of x" article for every sport within a "history of x" category for every sport.
Thank you. No Great Shaker ( talk) 20:30, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
An Featured Article nomination that might concern this project at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/2018 World Snooker Championship/archive2 requires additional commentary and support/opposes. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 15:48, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
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Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America 1000 01:27, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
I opened a discussion a couple of weeks ago in the talk page of 2020 in sports and invited everyone interested in this project to participate. Since this project is often heavily overloaded with information and needs some important changes for what concerns the page content, I newly invite everyone interested in this project to participate, otherwise those changes will be made necessarily. -- 151.50.223.199 ( talk) 14:15, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
Our three-month stub contest is starting now and will continue until the end of the year. Although there will be no physical prizes, each month (October, November and December) recognition will be given to the winners of two different sections: one for new stubs, the other for enhancing existing stubs to start class and beyond. The contest is open to all registered members of Women in Red. Join in now and help us improve coverage of women in sport on Wikipedia.-- Ipigott ( talk) 19:22, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I plan on editing the "Women's Sports" article as part of a class project. I will be restructuring the article, such as combining smaller sections together into larger ones; editing sections so they include the experiences of athletes in a greater number of non-Western countries; and adding new sections, like "Professional Sports," to further enrich the article. If you'd like to learn more about my plans, please visit my Sandbox, where I have included an annotated bibliography and more details on my plans. Thanks! Emilymohlin ( talk) 03:19, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing— Portal:Sports—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Guilherme Burn ( talk) 12:10, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.
We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma ( talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
There is an RfC currently underway about where a section on brain damage should appear in a biography of a football player. Your contribution would be welcome. -- Slugger O'Toole ( talk) 22:07, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
I've just stumbled upon ball game, which is almost a disambig, but I think it has a tremendous potential for growth, if anyone is looking for good major topic to work on. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:14, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
It seems sports articles are a difficult proposition to get through the FAC review process. My recent experience has proven that it can be something of a grind to find reviews rather than a process of simply ensuring the article is of sufficient quality. The comments of one of the FAC coordinators Laser brain at the FAC review for 1982 Formula One World Championship seem to strike a similar cord where they state "I understand sports articles often struggle for reviews". But why? In my experience, sports have just as many active participating editors as most other topics, football possibly even more, yet improving an article to featured status is rarely achieved.
Right now there are three sports articles at FAC which have generated two reviews between them despite all being listed for over a month, while sports and recreation articles have almost double the backlog of any other category at good article nominations. Perhaps the fact that we have separate WikiProjects for individual sports dilutes the pool of willing editors somewhat. Would there be any merit in something like a task force, a newsletter for interested parties to sign up for or even an individual WikiProject for sports reviews? MILHIST has a core of editors who frequently participate in GA, A-class and FAC reviews, often following the article through the promotion cycles, and this is something I'd hope to replicate. I'm just looking to float ideas and judge interest really. Kosack ( talk) 08:02, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Talk:UST Growling Tigers#Team rosters. —
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22:40, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
There are comments at Talk:National Hockey League#Article issues for anyone interested. Otr500 ( talk) 13:56, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Isn't the country link should be the national team like Spain Davis Cup team instead of the whole country. See in e.g. 2018 FIFA World Cup. I suggest to change Template:ATP Cup box to a format like in Template:Hopman Cup box so that the countries as a whole no longer associated to the tournament but instead the team representing each of them. Flix11 ( talk) 09:43, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Sports league#Needs to split or at least re-organize along pro/am lines. Summary: The present article is overwhelmingly dominated by pro-sports material (all of which has its own articles already), meanwhile there is not much about amateur/recreational leagues nor really room to put it in there due to how the article is structured and scoped. These really are not the same topic (just the same term, "sport[s] league" – this is a bit of a WP:DICDEF problem), and they either need sharply delimited sections or probably separate articles, along WP:SUMMARY and WP:SETINDEX lines. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:18, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
Articles on Icelandic football seasons have been given titles in Icelandic, making them opaque and ill-suited for English Wikipedia. They don't even mention "Icelandic" in their titles, as though it's Wikipedia readers' responsibility to infer the subject of an article in part by the language in which the title is written (assuming they even recognize the language). These titles don't even mention the sport, and even the word for "men" ("karla") is in Icelandic. We don't do this for other countries: we don't title articles "hommes" for the French leagues and "мужчины" for Russian leagues.
I think, for example, that Úrvalsdeild karla (football) should be named Icelandic Men's Premier League (football) 2019 1. deild karla should be named 2019 Icelandic Men's First Division Football, 2018 3. deild karla should be named 2018 Icelandic Men's Third Division Football, and 1. deild karla (basketball) should be named Icelandic Men's First Division (basketball).
I think we should have an RFC for this, but I thought I'd start by getting some initial feedback to get a sense of where it might go and to see if it would help me formulate the RFC properly (or maybe someone else with more experience would want to do it, if they agree with me). Largoplazo ( talk) 12:29, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Both pages were in Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded. After reading both talk pages and noticing that 2017 in sports had "sub-articles" for each month, I created 2018 in sports by month and 2019 in sports by month. I figured one "by month" sub-article would be easier to manage than 12.
I recommend that the most important events from the new pages be put back in the old pages' "calendar by month" section.
It is very easy for list-type sports articles to wind up in the "template include size exceeded" due to the large number of flag-icon templates. Care should be taken to only use flags where appropriate, and to consider splitting articles if the HTML file sent to the web browser is approaching the software limit of 2MB. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 02:06, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
There is a clear consensus against having templates for NHL teams that won the Stanley Cup with the list of players and coaches who won the championship in their respective seasons.
For the purpose of gaining WikiProject consensus, I'm starting a discussion regarding a proposal about whatever or not we should have templates for NHL teams that won the Stanley Cup with the list of players and coaches who won the championship in their respective seasons. We got templates for Super Bowl winning NFL teams, NBA teams who won the NBA Finals and MLB teams who won the World Series. Plus, we got a template for the hockey players who won the Triple Gold Club. For those reasons, it is possible to have templates for NHL teams who won the Stanley Cup.
The discussion of this proposal are about putting in navbox templates for NHL teams who won the Stanley Cup in their respective seasons, like the ones we have in teams who won the Super Bowl, NBA Finals and the World Series. Option 1 is Support for inclusion of the templates. Option 2 is Oppose of not having them. Neutral is for those who are indecisive. Please state your comments about the proposal of having navigation boxes of NHL teams who won the Stanley Cup in their Stanley Cup winning seasons. BattleshipMan ( talk) 06:14, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
We don't seem to have an article on this, but it's apt to be something people want to know about (especially kids who are not yet fully steeped in sports stuff). Redirects from Invitational tournament and even just Invitational would be good, plus the plurals. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 17:46, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
Participants in this WikiProject may be interested in participating in the RfC at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (sportspeople)#RfC: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (sportspeople)#Association football (soccer), in regards to players of Gaelic football. The question has been raised regarding whether to use "(Gaelic footballer)" or "(footballer)" for the base/default disambiguator for Gaelic football player article disambiguation. Steel1943 ( talk) 19:54, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I am starting to look at new articles someone recently created about Australia, but sports is not exactly my thing.
This draft contains over a dozen references from the same site. Is it necessary to link to these individual pages? If so, I would be happy to go ahead and correct their titles. Otherwise this would be unnecessary effort. It would be appreciated if you could kindly confirm this.
Also, do you consider this amount of coverage sufficient for moving this to mainspace?
Thank you and best regards, -- Gryllida ( talk) 00:46, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
There are some problem with 2013 European Karate Championships. See old version and it:Campionati europei di karate 2013. Can you check and correct? -- Dispe ( talk) 10:46, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Pretty much exactly what it says in the title. Jasmine Ser could do with being looked at by more knowledgeable eyes. Three different sources all disagree about her 2010 Commonwealth Games results. Red Fiona ( talk) 22:50, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Considering adding proper subcatgories as the category is overcrowded. Unnamelessness ( talk) 10:27, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
From my prospective, curtailed is not a subcate of postponed. They should've levelled same. Unnamelessness ( talk) 07:26, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
I know this has been talked about in the past but it should be raised again - the page List of professional sports leagues is a mess:
- The formatting is inconsistent for every sport.
- Many of the sections contain inaccurate information, including extinct leagues.
- Some of the sports here don't necessarily have "leagues" but "tournaments", such as MMA and MOST of boxing and tennis.
I am prepared to overhaul the page completely to give it a consistent format and up-to-date information for every section, however I would like some advice and recommendations from people here (especially from admins) for how to proceed.
I have a few questions concerning the above:
- Which format do you think is the best to adopt (I'm a little biased towards the format I used for both rugby codes so I would like other opinions too)?
- Which sports should be omitted from the list due to having too many leagues? Currently, this applies to association football and basketball, although I would add auto racing and esports to this list.
- Should tournaments and organisations not in a traditional league format (e.g. UFC) be included in the list or removed?
- When it comes to women's sports, should they be given their own subsection for each sport or be included in the men's section for each league system?
Many thanks, ATrueCelt ( talk) 12:04, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
ATrueCelt ( talk) 17:10, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
Given the long-ago announcement, and officially occurred on 14 May 2020, the site closed definitively. How will Wikipedia behave now with the thousands of external links and not only that are present in the articles of the athletes on Wikipedia and Wikidata? -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 04:39, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
We could use some eyes on China national football team. There is disagreement about content. It would be helpful for editors more familiar with our standards for football articles to help mediate. -- David Tornheim ( talk) 18:49, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
edit 15:31, 25 April 2020 This show Historical negationism leading to systemic bias and lack of neutral point of view. Disruptive editing in repeated deletion of reliable sources posted by other editors.
edit 13:38, 21 April 2020 Removal of historical content has lead to historical negationism by ignoring or deleting significant views, research or information from notable sources that would usually be considered credible and verifiable in Wikipedia terms. Concealing or misrepresenting (or non-neutrally representing) relevant information about sources or sources' credentials that is needed to judge their value leading to systemic bias and lack of neutral point of view.
edit 13:29, 21 April 2020 Not allowing one view to "speak for itself", or refactoring its "world-view" into the words of its detractors.
edit 13:27, 21 April 2020 Entirely omitting significant citable information in support by minimizing, trivializing or ignoring other citations that call one's opinion into question.
edit 08:59, 21 April 2020 Information suppression by concealing relevant information about sources or sources' credentials that is needed to fairly judge their value.
edit 10:45, 29 April 2020 Section blanking, no consensus discussions with all concerned users, Appropriate text should be preserved, as much as possible, according to WP policy WP:EDIT and Removing encyclopedic content without any reason.
As for this editor/s comments, when one of their edits was undid and clearly stated the reasons why, this is what they wrote on the China national football team: Revision history page
This comment shows a clear rejection of community input, a campaign to drive away productive contributors, ownership of the article and uncivil language. Kai Lau ( talk) 16:17, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
Just in case there are folks here who might be interested in reviewing drafts awaiting article status that are particular to WikiProject Sports. If you'd like to sign up to review/approve/decline new Drafts, instructions are here. AFC Reviewers get to use really cool automated tools that make reviewing really quick and easy, and I've really enjoyed volunteering there, and I'm really digging the AFC Sorting tool so instead of having to comb through lots of articles, I can zip right to topics I'm interested in. MatthewVanitas ( talk) 06:48, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
There is a discussion about listing a player's years with the team in {{ infobox ice hockey player}}. Editors are welcome to give their opinion at Template talk:Infobox ice hockey player#New discussion. Bait30 Talk 2 me pls? 03:48, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
We have a lot of articles in Category:Sports events cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and all of them are not going to happen- the postponed ones are in a separate category. Usually all of these events/seasons would be notable, but because they're not happening, I believe almost all of them are not. A large number of the articles just say that it was scheduled for some date(s) and then was cancelled due to the pandemic. Thus, I don't believe those articles meet WP:GNG, but would like to get others' thoughts? Joseph 2302 ( talk) 10:49, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
The items would only be non-notable if the event went on was fringe notable. The question is simply - do these items pass WP:GNG? Usually, they do. If not, the items shouldn't have been created in the first place. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 14:28, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
There has been a discussion going on at Talk:List of Bengal cricketers#Merge proposal which potentially has wider scope than cricket and may be helped by additional input. The merger proposal follows on from a no consensus AfD, and concerns whether or not very short stub articles should be merged into an appropriate list (with a redirect) or left as stand alone stubs. wjemather please leave a message... 14:01, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Should this draft be accepted or rejected? All input welcome! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 06:37, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
There are usually around 2000 articles in CAT:NN just on sport, see [4]. The backlog is now almost 12 years. We'd be hugely grateful if people from this project could help with the sports backlog. Thanks for your help, Boleyn ( talk) 14:54, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
Is the United Football League (2009–2012) considered a fully professional league? If not, then Aaron King (American football) is utterly non-notable. Hog Farm Bacon 21:16, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
That being said, I would love to go back in time and knock on the head the premise that "fully professional" was a useful euphemism for "top-flight." Players at the lowest tiers of the minor leagues in both hockey and baseball get paychecks. Ravenswing 21:37, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
There is an Aft if lists of performance comparison of club competitions are notable or not. This Afd effects following lists: UEFA Champions League clubs performance comparison, UEFA Europa League clubs performance comparison, AFC Champions League clubs performance comparison, Performance record of clubs in the Premier League, EuroLeague clubs performance comparison, Copa Sudamericana clubs performance comparison, Euro Hockey League clubs performance comparison and similar lists. Malo95 ( talk) 07:07, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
I was directed here from Wikipedia:Teahouse by Calliopejen1.
I just noticed that @ Govvy: nominated Finswimming at the 2013 World Games for deletion. (as the deletion tag is about to expire I'll remove it for this discussion) At the bottom there is a box "Events at the 2013 World Games" with a whole bunch of red links, and I don't know if fistball at the 2013 World Games is much more notable than finswimming.
Perhaps all these events (or at least the results) should be merged into Events at the 2013 World Games, redirect the existing articles and only keep articles (with a {{ Main}} at the to be created "events" article) for single events that appear to be notable on their own and consist of more than a table of winners? - Alexis Jazz 08:30, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
Just created stick to sports. All contributions/thoughts welcome! AleatoryPonderings ( talk) 16:39, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi all—I'm not familiar enough with the sports world to tell concretely, so wanted to check: is Claremont Colleges Rugby Football Club likely to be found notable? It seems to be a successful team competing at a higher level than most Claremont teams, but it's also just one sport, and the two articles for the Claremont (D3) athletic teams were barely found notable themselves. Would it be slam dunk keep or delete at AfD, or somewhere in between? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 00:22, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
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A large number of pages calling {{ infobox country at games}}, which is primarily used for Olympics articles but also for things like the Asian games, don't yet have a short description. The infobox can add it to these pages, but I wanted to get opinions on the format for the shortdesc. I mean, how else can one describe Australia at the 1980 Winter Olympics or Singapore at the 2018 Asian Games other than with the title itself? Looking for opinions and thoughts so I can code it up. Primefac ( talk) 17:15, 2 September 2020 (UTC)