Wikipedia:WikiProject Curling

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to curling. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will aim to help and focus the efforts of other Wikipedians.

Participants
This is a list of members included in the Project. When you join, don't forget to consider joining the project's facebook page where we can discuss project activities with the outside world.

Templates
Userbox

You may place   on your user page to display the following userbox:

This template will add your user page to:
 * Category:WikiProject Curling participants

Invitation

An important part of having an active and effective WikiProject is bringing in new participating editors. To this end, a template has been created to be added to a user's talk page in order to make them aware of our WikiProject and invite them to participate. Please, do not use this indiscriminately but only for users that are not currently participants, have not been previously invited, and that you genuinely think will be interested because of their edits or user page.

To use, enter  ~  to their user talk page. This will create a message that looks like the following(except with their username at the beginning and your username at the end):

Welcome & invitation to an anonymous editor

If you notice an IP editor who has been making constructive edits to curling-related articles, you can use WikiProject Curling Welcome-anon to welcome them to Wikipedia, encourage them to create an account and continue editing, and invite them to WikiProject Curling all at once!

The full syntax is, see the documenation page for details on the parameters.

Active
Please sign your name here if you'd like to participate. Note: Please use the template when adding your name.
 * (Alexey Gustow) - Hi from Russia! I'm novice fun of this incredible "chess on ice" (year only; because Russian curling team plays better and better... and when I watched STOH 2015 online year ago - I seen RACHEL HOMAN! Wow!!!!) - so now I'm "chief" in Ru-Wiki Project "Curling" (it was "near zero level" just 5 monthes ago - but now it expandes fast: me and 2-3 guys translates articles from Eng to Ru - for example, last few weeks I'm translating articles about famous Canadian women curlers & STOH's, - writes about Ru-Curling events & persons and so on). Excuse me for "not the best English" - but I'm trying! :) Any help needed? You are welcome of course! More info about me on Eng? Look at my User page in Eng-Wiki. And..... Haaaard!!! :)
 * —I focus mainly on improving the quality of our content.
 * - I did a major revision of the list of US curling clubs last year, and I'd like to keep it updated from here on.
 * - Love curling and have been involved with clubs in Vermont, Massachusetts, Quebec, and (many years ago) Ottawa.
 * Focusing on American curlers, particularly filling in gaps in mixed doubles-related articles at the moment.
 * I have curled for over forty years, since I was about 12, semi-competitive in my late teens and younger adult years; I can help with history and culture of the game from the perspective of a still active participant in Canada. Just the facts, please, ma'am.
 * - Come to me with any template issues/requests.
 * I curl occasionally
 * Editing many Canadian sports people pages including curlers, I am from Manitoba and focus on curlers there.
 * - Formerly posted as
 * - I like curling very much, but I'm relatively new to curling and to Wikipedia. I'd still like to help as best as I can.
 * - I love curling and represented Alberta at the 2016 Optimist U18s.
 * — I focus on creating and editing players articles and tournament pages.
 * - I am a fan of curling. I mostly work on templates.
 * - I have been following curling for a long time, as well as curling semi-competitively, in my junior days, I represented Nova Scotia at a U18 Optimists International Curling Championship! I hope to contribute to the team here at Wiki as well.
 * I have a genuine interest in helping out with projects, if there's a discord or somewhere where everyone here talks and correlates with each other, definitely let me know or add me with my user on my user page.
 * Hi everybody! I'm an avid curler and I look forward to helping out with some different articles!
 * - I am primarily editing curlers from St. Paul, MN and adding Senior National Championships pages
 * - I love curling and represented Alberta at the 2016 Optimist U18s.
 * — I focus on creating and editing players articles and tournament pages.
 * - I am a fan of curling. I mostly work on templates.
 * - I have been following curling for a long time, as well as curling semi-competitively, in my junior days, I represented Nova Scotia at a U18 Optimists International Curling Championship! I hope to contribute to the team here at Wiki as well.
 * I have a genuine interest in helping out with projects, if there's a discord or somewhere where everyone here talks and correlates with each other, definitely let me know or add me with my user on my user page.
 * Hi everybody! I'm an avid curler and I look forward to helping out with some different articles!
 * - I am primarily editing curlers from St. Paul, MN and adding Senior National Championships pages
 * Hi everybody! I'm an avid curler and I look forward to helping out with some different articles!
 * - I am primarily editing curlers from St. Paul, MN and adding Senior National Championships pages

Inactive
This is a list of members who have not contributed in at least six months. If you return to the WikiProject, or if you are put here mistakenly, just move your name back to Active Participants.


 * - I'll try to lend a hand where ever I can.
 * - Love curling. Work as an Ice Tech.  Have the summer to help work on this project.
 * - I love this game and all sports. To bad it's not very appreciated.
 * - Curling fan for years. Played a number of years ago before moving south. Now I am founding a new club. My level of interest is in documenting all the curling clubs (specifically in the US) and to standardize those pages.
 * - I don't mind helping a new project here and there.
 * - I'm currently focusing on adding team and event information to the articles, along with up to date photos.
 * - I'm a curler, love curling, will only contribute to Canadian curling pages.
 * - I can do cleanup, style/grammar checks, new article creation and research, and whatever else needs doing, have been a curling fan for almost 30 years, but fairly new to Wikipedia.
 * - A competitive curler looking to do something in my spare time.
 * - Not sure I have much to contribute, but I'll do what I can.
 * - Update curling results at Multi-sporting events/Olympics.
 * - I'm all up for assisting this, already expanding many pages and plan to do a lot more.
 * - I'm new to editing Wikipedia (and, for that matter, curling), but I'd like to help.
 * - I'm happy to help, with mainly a Scottish focus.
 * - Looking forward to helping out where I can!
 * - I'm a Wikipedia newbie, but I'd like to help in whatever way I can.
 * - I've really only watched Curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics but it intrigues me and I'd love to help a budding WikiProject.
 * - I curl semi-competitively and watch a lot of curling.  Willing to work on any articles that I can help with.
 * - I'm happy to help, with mainly a Scottish focus.
 * - Looking forward to helping out where I can!
 * - I'm a Wikipedia newbie, but I'd like to help in whatever way I can.
 * - I've really only watched Curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics but it intrigues me and I'd love to help a budding WikiProject.
 * - I curl semi-competitively and watch a lot of curling.  Willing to work on any articles that I can help with.

Assessment
The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WikiProject Curling project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Curling articles by quality and Category:Curling articles by importance, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Miscellaneous

 * Hello please comment in on the current discussion about the Curling notability guidelines here Wikipedia talk:Notability (sports). The discussion is about how to treat non canadian curlers. While the above guidelines work for countries where curling is popular (i.e. Canada) they are likely too lenient for other countries. Please add your input. Thanks --MATThematical (talk) 19:42, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
 * (Note: Link to archived discussion is here: Wikipedia talk:Notability (sports)/Archive 8)

To do list
The To do list contains articles which have been requested to be made or improved upon to current standards/expectations. Feel free to leave any articles you wish to be created or improved upon inside the appropriate header.


 * Create an Infobox template for US Curling Clubs. Once complete, it could be cloned for use in Canada or other countries. I am working on this. --WaxonWaxov (talk) 12:04, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

New articles (generated by AlexNewArtBot)
(running once a day; search options created at July 10, 2017)
 * Lists for similar WikiProjects can be found at: User:AlexNewArtBot

Collaboration
Some members have expressed interest in doing a monthly collaboration, in which a low-quality article would be massively improved, with the hope of eventually getting the article to Good Article status. All low-quality articles about or closely related to curling may be nominees for the collaboration. See WP:CURLING/AID for a list of articles to be improved.

Nomination procedure
''Note: This format is taken from WikiProject Birds. I am unaware of where they got it.''

If you wish to nominate an article, please use the following format: ====ARTICLE NAME==== Nominated MONTH DAY YEAR;

Support:
 * 1) (sign with four tildes)

Comments:
 * (put your reason for nomination, sign again)

Please use the following code when voting to support an article.

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Skip (curling)
Nominated January 21 2012;

Support:
 * 1) Peacock28 (talk) 00:17, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) -- Earl Andrew - talk 02:59, 21 January 2012 (UTC) I'll support this to get the ball going.
 * 3) Prayerfortheworld (talk) 02:44, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 4) Jake Rowsell (talk) 17:54, March 22, 2013 (AST)

Comments:
 * In spite of the article's obvious importance, it is poorly written and very short. It also has few citations.  Additionally, the majority of the article is simply a list of famous skips; very little is about what a skip does. Peacock28 (talk) 00:17, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, if we can find the time to add pages for the lead, second, and third (mate), that would be awesome! I also agree with Peacock28, it can/could be improved.......and I will try and see if I have time to work on that article. Jake Rowsell (talk) 17:56, 22 March 2013 (AST)
 * I agree. If anyone has the Russ Howard book, it has really good analysises of the various positions. I don't have it, unfortunately. -- Earl Andrew - talk 19:01, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I have a Russ Howard book called Curl to Win at my house. Is that the one? Thatcurler (talk) 13:17, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's it. -- Earl Andrew - talk 13:09, 10 August 2014 (UTC)