Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Bandy


 * The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council).  No further edits should be made to this page.

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Description
Project to develop the pages on the sport of bandy, since it is an old sport as well as a coming sport and will be added to the Winter Olympic Games in 2018. Andrew S. Knight (talk) 13:17, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

List of important pages and categories for this proposed group
 * bandy (number of pages in the category: 2, and 12 subcategories)
 * bandy competitions (number of pages in the category: 8, and 2 subcategories)
 * bandy players (number of pages in its subcategories: over 100)
 * bandy (number of pages in the category: 2, and 12 subcategories)
 * bandy competitions (number of pages in the category: 8, and 2 subcategories)
 * bandy players (number of pages in its subcategories: over 100)


 * List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles
 * Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See WikiProject_Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.




 * Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?
 * Bandy is an old sport and has grown again considerably in the last decades. It has a common ancestry with ice hockey, field hockey and association football. It will most probably become an Olympic sport for the next Winter Olympics.

Support
Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.
 * 1) I will most certainly join this project. Andrew S. Knight (talk) 13:17, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) I'd join. Bandy boy (talk) 12:25, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 3) I'd join. Alex Maltsev (talk) 18:19, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Discussion

 * I certainly don't object to it. But I think you would probably have a hard time finding enough people that edit the topic regularly to need a separate project for it instead of just using the generic sports project talk page for organization. -DJSasso (talk) 18:07, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree with User:Djsasso above. Without a group of like-minded editors already in place, I can't see a bandy WikiProject getting off the ground too easily. Besides, you don't need a WikiProject to work on articles. – PeeJay 23:07, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Why not just create this as a joint taskforce between WPSOCCER and WPHOCKEY? Ice hockey variant played on a soccer pitch... It might also be useful to revive WP Winter Sports, and make it a taskforce of that. -- 70.24.244.161 (talk) 05:14, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Because I rather doubt that footy and hockey editors will divert attention from the sport in which they're interested to a sport in which they've shown no interest, however much bandy might have a common lineage with them ... aside from that I imagine that few such have enough expertise in bandy to be credible editors. I expect, by way of example, that there aren't too many editors participating in two or three of the footy, American football and rugby WikiProjects.  I concur that I've no objection to a bandy WikiProject if enough editors show interest.   Ravenswing   06:24, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
 * "and will be added to the Winter Olympic Games in 2018." That is a false statement. The IOC has not made such a decision. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 06:41, 13 February 2014 (UTC)


 * There doesn't seem to be much support for a project, but a taskforce within another project might do. What exactly is a taskforce in a project? — For those of us who likes bandy and writes about it now and then, I created this userbox anyway: . Bandy boy (talk) 20:52, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
 * A taskforce is really just a mini wikiproject. They usually don't tag articles with their own tag, they usually use their parent project's tag. However, that tag sometimes has a parameter that indicates that there is a task force that deals with it. Generally its just a separate talk page in its parent wikiproject to separate off co-ordination of tasks to its own area. But in this case I am not even sure there is much need of a task force, bandy is a pretty minor sport and I am guessing there isn't likely to be much co-ordination done when working on articles in its scope. I would do most organization that might be needed just on the main Wikiproject:Sports talk page personally. That being said I don't follow bandy so I don't know how many editors that are here regularly edit articles about bandy. -DJSasso (talk) 19:12, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The easiest way to go is to set up a taskforce of WP:WikiProject Winter sports, create a WP:WikiProject Winter sports/Bandy (fill it out like you would as if you were creating a wikiproject) and WikiProject Winter sports (I can help with the template if you want) -- 70.24.250.235 (talk) 10:03, 6 April 2014 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.