User:A202985/sandbox

Can also use: WikiProject Curling/to do

Gathering of USA curling related articles/to-do: User:A202985/USA Curling

Example of short, simple GA article: Eidsiva Arena Example of GA article about a curling tournament: 2013 Continental Cup of Curling

link for info about peer review for articles

Rubric for article assessment

Articles to create

 * United States Women's Curling Association - website
 * Mid America Curling Association -
 * Dakota Territory Curling Association -
 * Alaska Curling Association -
 * Washington Curling Association -
 * WCF member association pages
 * 1997 United States Olympic Curling Trials, 1991 United States Olympic Curling Trials, 1987 United States Olympic Curling Trials
 * High Performance Program (curling) - "Curling gets serious" article pt1, pt2
 * curling statistics/curling percentages article
 * Template:Curling as a cover-all template for curling articles (examples: Template:Archery, Template:Water polo, Template:Tennis)
 * Spin-off articles from Curling: History of curling, Curling stone, Curling broom, Curling sheet, Hack, Statistics of curling, (maybe: gameplay of curling, strategy of curling, curling shoes) (See above sport templates for examples)
 * articles for individual year's competitions for US Mixed Nationals (curlingzone has pages for them going back years and can find USA curling press releases, and the Canadian Mixed Nationals has pages)
 * Elmer Freytag - User:A202985/Elmer Freytag, use this article, obit, this article, this article, this article, this article, list of UW alumnus, WCF article about HOF induction, another one, blog post, wife was pres of USWCA, WCF history
 * Qualification pages for USA nationals (such as 2012 United States Men's Curling Championship – Qualification)
 * 2008 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship - if can ever find good enough source (two news articles here and here), this page has dead links related to it, this page has final standings
 * "Curling in the United States" nav box - links to regional and national governing bodies, national championships, HPP players?, major bonspiels?
 * Curling in the United States - a history of the curling in the US as well as an examination of curling in the US now, there's some books in the potential sources section that can help with the history

Articles to add to

 * United States Olympic Curling Trials and United States Mixed Doubles Curling Olympic Trials
 * United States Curling Association - User:A202985/USCA - add HPP section, how teams qualify for olympics, how teams qualify for national championships, add Hall of Fame section
 * World Curling Federation - add description of zones, qualification requirements for championships (important link)
 * World Curling Championships and individual championship pages - add qualification requirements for championships
 * Bonspiel - clean up
 * Arena curling - either improve it or merge it
 * Scotch doubles (curling) - either improve it or merge it
 * Glossary of curling - add "turn", "sweeper", "throw", "thrower", combine far hog line and near hog line into one "hog line" entry, "shot", either add "cross the face" or improve "across the face" and check for usage elsewhere in glossary, rewrite "peel weight", "thinking time", rewrite "time", rewrite "trick shot", rewrite "broom" to mention it's also used to mean "line", "skins"
 * link glossary entries to more in-depth sections in main curling article, such as hammer, FGZ, delivery
 * look at redirect pages that point to main curling article and point appropriate ones to glossary of curling
 * Doubles curling - User:A202985/Doubles curling, created but now need to build it up
 * Curling - edit/improve brush controversy info, lots of italicized terms - should they stay and be cleaned up or just removed? Maybe add a "Team" section User:A202985/Curling
 * List of curling clubs in the United States - clean up - remove external links within list (per WP:ELLIST), remove defunct clubs, line up regional association membership with sources
 * add infobox to all bio articles that don't have infobox curler already - can use AWB to search for curlers and skip pages with "infobox curler"
 * Template:Infobox curling competition - make prev/next not case dependent
 * add infoboxes to all provincial Tournament of Hearts pages (starting here, here, here)
 * Qualification info in US Nationals (Link to 2015 US Nationals qualifications, and link to 2015nationals webpage)

Potential future sources

 * USCA has curling 101 pages with additional sources, for basics on game, strategy, etc.
 * Resource for USA Curling press releases (in addition to crappy USA Curling website): Team USA News site, can search a time frame and specifically curling
 * History of Curling and Fifty Years of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club on Google Books - history of curling in general, in Canada, in Scotland, and in the US.
 * Curling in Canada and the United States on Google Books - curling in North America in 1902-1903
 * Curling Superiority on Google Books - a history of the curling club in Superior, WI
 * wmflabs tool that looks at other language wikis to see what pages are missing with-in a category tree (can find curling pages missing in english wiki that exist in other languages)
 * U.S. Curling News archive for '08-'12 and U.S. Curling News archive for '12-present (should be super useful for USA curling pages
 * SI article about curling, specifically in ND, from 2004
 * USA Today article about curling, specifically in MN, from 2005
 * Sports Illustrated archives, article about 1965 National Championship

WP:curling
Example of good wikiprojet: WP:Astronomy

I like this WP page: WikiProject Food and drink

Example of WP outreach: WikiProject Roots music/Outreach

Directory of sports wikiprojects (good source of ideas): WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports

Example of WP assessment page: WikiProject Minnesota

WP Council, guide, and Assessment FAQ: WikiProject Council, WikiProject Council/Guide, WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ


 * create assessment page for WP:curling (can then replace the assessment guide link in the WP:Curling banners with this link, see Assessment_Link
 * create WP:Curling guidelines for importance rating, example of WP with importance guidelines: WP:tennis - User:A202985/WPcurling
 * add more documentation to Template:WikiProject Curling/doc
 * improve WP:curling pages in general, organize front page better

A similar size WP in terms of # of articles, but much nicer WP page: WikiProject Wine

Setup article alerts, like how WP:Physics has done

Another WP to look at for ideas (small size but good seeming set-up): WikiProject_Snooker

AWB uses

 * find curling articles not tagged with WP:Curling and add them
 * assess WP:Curling articles missing assessment
 * reassess WP:Curling articles that have grown in size
 * update links to Glossary of curling to use anchor syntax
 * delink Mixed curling when it is turned into a disambiguation page (AutoWikiBrowser/User manual)
 * find curler pages without infobox curler