Talk:World Aquatics Championships

Watchlist and correct "Disciple at..." and event naming
I've set up a watchlist for the entire World Aquatics Championships series of articles using the article naming convention as used by WikiProject Olympics. Due to the number of articles we're dealing with in the series, I've had to separate swimming from the other disciplines. Hopefully they will be of use to editors of this series of articles, and will assist in creation of articles for the upcoming 2009 Championships. Let me know if you spot any errors. Yboy83 (talk) 19:23, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Editions, diving, open water, synchro, water polo, templates  (Raw list) 
 * Swimming  (Raw list) 

est-ce que quelqu'un peut me dire comment joindre le responsable de la nation au sein de la Fina. rené hardy de radio-canada. rene.hardy@radio-canada.ca —Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.33.10.92 (talk) 18:28, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Mistake by Spain medal account
Hi everybody. I found a mistake, Spain has 7 gold medals, not 6: Also 7 gold medals. I made the correction in the medal account. Leonprimer (talk) 04:17, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 in waterpolo: 1998 & 2001,
 * 1 in syncro. swimming: 2009,
 * 1 in open water: 2005 and
 * 3 in swimming: Nina Zhivanevskaya in 2003, Martín López Zubero in 1994 and Martín López Zubero in 1991.

Why isn't this just "FINA World Championships"?
I believe the event/page name (and subsequent references to it) should be just "FINA World Championships", without the word "Aquatics" in it. This would match the nomenclature existing elsewhere (e.g. FIBA World Championship, FIFA World Cup, FIBT World Championships, World Curling Championships, Biathlon World Championships) where there is not a duplication in the sport reference ("FINA" and "Aquatics" are a duplication). This event is considered "the" World Champs for FINA. While FINA does also have discipline championships with the word "World" in them, there are not on par with this, and also never referred to as just "Worlds". "FINA World Championships" also matches the terminology that FINA, itself, uses. - Hooperswim (talk) 03:16, 18 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Actually, the only discipline championships I could find are the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) and FINA World Junior Swimming Championships. But, I think this makes your statement even more appropriate. 82.141.64.25 (talk) 21:11, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Notability of swimmers/divers
Please see this discussion. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 16:42, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 20 June 2019

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The result of the move request was: no consensus.  Calidum   04:09, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

FINA World Aquatics Championships → World Aquatics Championships – The page title should either be "FINA World Championships", the official name, or "World Aquatics Championships", a more common name. The current page title is redundant and seems to be a poor outcome of compromise Infinite mission (talk) 21:58, 20 June 2019 (UTC) Infinite mission (talk) 21:58, 20 June 2019 (UTC) --Relisted. – Ammarpad (talk) 05:56, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose per WP:OFFICIAL official names are not always as clear and the best choice for the article. SmartyPants22 (talk) 21:18, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Do you also oppose "World Aquatics Championships"? Infinite mission (talk) 23:55, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes retaining the current title, keeps uniformity with all other world championships where the sporting body is within the name along with the sport- such as IAAF World Championships in Athletics and FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. SmartyPants22 (talk) 11:15, 22 June 2019 (UTC)


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Proposal related to featuring this event at Wikipedia:In the news
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:In the news § Remove ITN/R: Sports cleanup. &#x0020; Currently this event is listed at In the news/Recurring items, meaning that it has been judged significant enough that, if nominated, it will always be posted to the In the news section of the main page (subject to article quality being sufficient). However as it has not been nominated recently as proposal has been made to remove it from that list. If the proposal is successful, the event may still be nominated but the nomination will debate the significance of the event as well as article quality. To avoid splitting discussion, please leave your comments in at the linked discussion rather than here. Thryduulf (talk) 20:41, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Recommendation to move page to new name adopted by World Aquatics
As per World Aquatics constitution, this meet is now the  World Aquatics Championships  as of the 2023 Fukoka championships. Seeking others thoughts re: moving page from former title: FINA World Aquatics Championships. The organisation switched from FINA to World Aquatics following a December 2022 vote. The FINA name is no longer used on any competitions staged by World Aquatics. Nationhillmedia (talk) 09:40, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 6 November 2023

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The result of the move request was: Moved (closed by non-admin page mover) BegbertBiggs (talk) 19:47, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

FINA World Aquatics Championships → World Aquatics Championships – As recommended in the post above, I'm opening an actual RM for the recommendation. FINA is now World Aquatics, and since it's rename, reporting on the event has adopted the new name as searching for FINA World Championships yeilds results for World Aquatics Championships. I'm not sure where the current title comes from as it seems to be a combination of the old governing body name and the new governing body name, when it was simply "FINA World Championships" beforehand if you look at older news articles. I guess it might be because the WP article for each event's iteration is at "YYYY World Aquatics Championships" for some reason (despite the news—and logos, when included—using "YYYY FINA World Championships"). Opened this RM since there was an older one above. This title actually retains the governing body now (after rebrand), addressing the only concern from the opposing !vote four years ago. -2pou (talk) 18:44, 6 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Weak support, seems to somewhat meet WP:NAMECHANGES, there are sources omitting FINA, Which was more easier than searching with the current title. GT may back up NAMECHANGES, although it shouldn't be relied on alone. If new sources, disproving me are found, please ping. The body has since dropped the "FINA" name compared to the 2019 discussion arguing to keep the body name in the title, so not the same situation, but avoiding the WP:OFFICIALNAMES argument.  Dank Jae  03:52, 13 November 2023 (UTC)