Wikipedia:WikiProject Lacrosse

Welcome to the Lacrosse WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the sport of lacrosse.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals
The goal of this project is to organize the efforts of those working on articles about and concerning the sport of lacrosse, including all four distinct versions of the sport: men's field lacrosse, box lacrosse (or indoor lacrosse), women's lacrosse, and intercrosse or soft-stick lacrosse. Each has its own article with a link from the main lacrosse article.

Leagues
All professional or highest level of play lacrosse leagues should have articles describing the teams, former teams, champions and past champions, awards, etc.

List of leagues:
 * Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse - women's, Athletes Unlimited model
 * Major Series Lacrosse - box, Senior A, summer, Ontario
 * National Lacrosse League - box, winter/spring, United States and Canada
 * Premier Lacrosse League - field, touring model, United States and Canada
 * Western Lacrosse Association - box, Senior A, summer, British Columbia
 * Major League Lacrosse - defunct field league
 * Women's Professional Lacrosse League - defunct women's, United States

Teams
All team pages need improvement. They should have several prose sections, including history, championship descriptions, notable years, and notable players. Perhaps arena info or broadcasting. Tables should include championships, yearly records, roster of players, head coaches, maybe draft picks. Example: Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014). Or any NFL, NBA, MLB, or NHL team page.

WPLL team pages are stubs. Also, almost all WLA and MSL teams are stubs with very few citations. Finally, PLL team pages are mostly statistics, with very little prose content. An external link to the PLL's stat page would suffice for the individual stats table.

Players

 * Infobox lacrosse player should be used on all player pages.
 * Player pages should include the year(s) that the player has played, which team(s) he/she played for (in as many leagues as possible), and should include stats (at least for NLL, PLL and MLL) if possible.
 * Any participation in international lacrosse should be mentioned as well.

Other
Create and improve pages on tournaments and championships - Mann Cup, Minto Cup, NCAA, Heritage Cup, World Lacrosse championships, other international tournaments, etc.

Expand international lacrosse articles.

Tasks

 * Recruit new members
 * Expand stub articles, especially high importance stubs
 * Create pages for Premier Lacrosse League team’s seasons and move information such as stats and rosters from the team main page to those pages.
 * Fix individual players articles. So many of them are outdated or badly written and need to be fixed.
 * Expand women's lacrosse article. Include description of positions (cover point, 1-3 home, etc.), penalties section should be prose, & an explanation of equipment differences, etc.
 * Expand articles Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse, season pages should include week-by-week standings updates(at least for the top four) and week-by-week draft selections and results.
 * Expand existing articles on Major League Lacrosse and Premier Lacrosse League teams.
 * Expand existing articles on Canadian Senior A summer box lacrosse leagues WLA and MSL) and teams (history, records, etc.).
 * Create pages for inductees and teams/associations referenced in National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame & Canadian Hall of Fame.
 * Create bio articles for any of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame members. Information about them can be found at their HOF bios.
 * Create NLL Team Season articles
 * Create articles on the current ILIndoor top 20 NLL players: . Create new articles on current and former NLL players. Current players can be found at NLL rosters article.
 * Create and improve articles on Inside Lacrosse's 20 best field lacrosse players. Randy Staats, Zach Currier, Bryan Cole, and Justin Guterding are all top 10 pro outdoor players without articles.
 * Go through Unassessed lacrosse articles and add class and importance parameters (see assessment for details)
 * Tag lacrosse-related articles with on their talk page, filling in class and importance
 * Create new and expand existing articles on international lacrosse. Create an article for Lacrosse in Ireland
 * Find members of HOF who already have articles and properly link them
 * Images for articles in Category:Wikipedia requested images of lacrosse
 * Create and improve articles about Tewaaraton Award winners. They are all notable enough for articles. See Tewaaraton Trophy and https://tewaaraton.com.
 * Find a criteria for creating articles about lacrosse players for WP:ATH. A conversation on the talk page was started. Add opinions there to get to a consensus for what the criteria should be.
 * Expand articles on the Women's Professional Lacrosse League and each of it’s teams.

Assessment
Note that pages tagged with a class of "Image" do not appear in this table.

The assessment system allows the WikiProject to monitor the quality of articles in its subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. The class and importance should be filled in on the parameters of the WikiProject Lacrosse template on the article's talk page.

These guidelines can help to determine what class should be assigned to an article.

Members
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Active
(users actively editing lacrosse content and new users)
 * 1) MrBoo (Talk) -- NLL
 * 2) lukeoz (Talk) -- Lacrosse in Australia and Australian Lacrosse League
 * 3) 10stone5 - Played college lacrosse. Interested in updating college lacrosse entries, but will also handle NLL whenever possible.
 * 4) Paploo - I am a proud purple-and-teal-bleeding Rochester Knighthawks fan (a Lifetime Krew member, no less). I can help on the article, and would like to help on any past and present K-Hawk player articles.
 * 5) Shootmaster 44 - I can help with some of the Saskatchewan related lacrosse articles, as well as a bit with the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League.
 * 6) Yarnalgo (Talk) -- MLL / NLL / International (sort of)
 * 7) Bhockey10 (Talk) – WPLAX member since 2010. Mostly focus on College lacrosse teams, conferences, and organizations.
 * 8) EmjayMiller (Talk) – College, high school & youth lacrosse in USA
 * 9) Nurmsook - International tournaments
 * 10) Bes2224 - MLL, NLL, PLL, minor leagues
 * 11) Davidjsc - I've updated the Western Lacrosse Association page with franchise movement. My area of interest in BC lacrosse; especially the BC field leagues from 1886-1931. I'll eventually post up my BC history articles which can be found at ; As a former league executive with the West Central Lacrosse League, I've been responsible for constructing and maintaining the entry for that league. I'm currently involved with the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame board of directors, as the person responsible for acquisitions and archives. Recently I proofed and updated the names on the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame page as there were errors and omissions.
 * 12) TheScottDL - updated the 'Lacrosse Leagues' categories and added a Senior/Post-Collegiate area. Deleted 'Professional' category with MLL combined with all indoor leagues.
 * 13) DMighton -- Ontario Lacrosse Association and Amateur Championships
 * 14) schetm - Radiating out from the Bandits, where I'm a season ticket holder, I'm creating player articles, importing various stats, and trying to improve NLL content in the spare time I have
 * 15) Taxman1913 - NLL and MLL
 * 16) Daniel Case – Just returned to lacrosse after 30 years by reffing local HS games; finding that a lot of articles about gameplay could use work.
 * 17) Mnnlaxer Main articles, international, basic templates, categories, assessment, whatever. See my user page for articles I've worked on significantly.
 * 18) Twooeight - creating articles about the top lacrosse players, fixing articles with maintenance tags.
 * 19) Sue Kastle - PLL and MLL. Creating/updating articles about seasons all-star games).
 * 20) ThatWikiAl - PLL and NLL. Creating articles about top players, recording league statistics.
 * 21) B1GLAX2 - College lacrosse. Updating season results and creating articles for significant rivalries.
 * 22) DFC54 - College Lacrosse Team Pages and PLL
 * 23) Jsfxmn - Various pages(mainly field lacrosse, will also work on women's lacrosse as I see it, very little box lacrosse) as I find them and work on them, if you see an article that needs work, tell me on my talk page, I'll see what I can do!
 * 24) OnlyNano - creating articles
 * 25) SammySpartan - College lacrosse, NLL, PLL
 * 26) Buffalkill - Updating and improving stale articles

Inactive
(users that haven't edited lacrosse content in over a year)
 * 1) CanbekEsen (Talk) -- I don't know much of lacrosse, but I'd be glad to copy-edit or clean-up any articles.
 * 2) Vincent Ree (Talk) -- Albany Attack mostly.
 * 3) JamesTeterenko (Talk) -- mostly interested in the Calgary Roughnecks of the NLL -- hopefully, I'll get some more pictures in the season
 * 4) Doradus (Talk) -- I don't have a ton of time to spend on Wikipedia these days, but I'll help where I can.
 * 5) Wwwhhh - Primarily Australian Lacrosse, but keen to help improve all articles.
 * 6) RedSkull619 -- I can help with the MLL articles, mainly the Baltimore Bayhawks; I can also sort through for reworking on grammar and writing style for any article
 * 7) Racer38 - I can help with most lacrosse articles currently on Wikipedia.
 * 8) J71- Mostly BC box lacrosse, I can help with player pages as well.
 * 9) lesserm - Mainly Ohio and Midwestern lacrosse. Can help with MLL
 * 10) AmandaWins - I can help with basically anything, esp. clean-up, and college and high school lacrosse teams and rules.
 * 11) Joe - I've created all the brackets and pages for the NCAA DI Tourney since 2003.
 * 12) * Added some earlier tournament brackets. Will add and 8 team bracket template.
 * 13) Sekuloguy. I am a huge Long Island Lizards fan and can help on that article. I can also help on the MLL article.
 * 14) Amaryllis25 - I'd like to help on college entries and on women's lacrosse entries.
 * 15) The Founders Intent - I'd be glad to research things for folks.
 * 16) Panicpack-NLL/MLL/Western
 * 17) Bvalx2005
 * 18) BricoleurHistory of Lacrosse in British Columbia
 * 19) Xander756 - NLL
 * 20) Mherr - NLL/MLL/High school and college lacrosse
 * 21) MNLax8 - New to wikipedia.  College player, experienced and knowledgable stringer.  I'd like to help out with stick technology and stringing technology/technique, and can help with NCAA and MCLA college lacrosse.
 * 22) Mitico (talk) - General interest
 * 23) Strikehold (Talk) – College lacrosse, particularly teams in Maryland
 * 24) Epeefleche  - general interest
 * 25) MrCasteMania - MLL and Youth Lacrosse
 * 26) Da Drewster -
 * 27) Smith03 (Talk) -- I have no real knowledge of the game but am willing to work on MLL and NCAA (college). glad to see someone start a project for it
 * 28) MattBinYYC- NLL, mostly the Calgary Roughnecks. Sporadic edits.
 * 29) Diogenes00 - Interested in NCAA D1 Lacrosse, specifically JHU. I'll try to add some of the better-known college players of the last 20 or so years...
 * 30) MrShamrock. Huge Victoria Shamrocks fan, I got them covered.  Will also contribute to other WLA teams and players' pages.
 * 31) LaxKeeper (Talk) - Fan of women's college lacrosse
 * 32) jc121383 - NLL

Unreferenced BLPs
It is very important that these articles are dealt with quickly because they can easily become candidates for deletion.

New articles
New articles older than one year are archived to here: WikiProject Lacrosse/New articles archive.

Please feel free to list your new Lacrosse-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

Note: If you remove something from here, please archive it to the New Articles'' page.
 * Army–Navy lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Cornell–Syracuse lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Hobart–Syracuse lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Johns Hopkins–Navy lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Johns Hopkins–Princeton lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Johns Hopkins–Syracuse lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Johns Hopkins–Virginia lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Loyola–Towson lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Maryland–Navy lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Maryland–Virginia lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Duke–North Carolina lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Core articles

 * Box lacrosse
 * Field lacrosse

Events

 * 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
 * 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
 * Johns Hopkins – Maryland rivalry

People

 * Scott Bacigalupo
 * Ryan Boyle
 * Dan Cocoziello
 * Christian Cook
 * Jack Faber
 * Alex Hewit
 * Jon Hess (lacrosse)
 * Jesse Hubbard
 * Kevin Lowe
 * Chris Massey
 * Ryan Mollett
 * David Morrow
 * Joe Nieuwendyk
 * Alan Pastrana
 * B. J. Prager
 * Bill Schmeisser
 * Josh Sims
 * Matt Striebel
 * Trevor Tierney
 * Peter Trombino
 * Don Zimmerman

Places

 * Scotiabank Saddledome
 * Moda Center

Images
For images of lacrosse and lacrosse-related things check the Wikimedia Commons at commons:Category:Lacrosse. Also make sure to check commons:Category:Lacrosse in the United States which has a lot of good action shots.

Logos
League and team logos should contain this:

Fair use template for logos
Note that logos (teams, leagues, etc.) require a "Fair use" tag and rationale. Here's the page from Image:BaltimoreThunder.png as an example:



National Lacrosse League
NLL: NLL Arenas: NLL seasons:

Major League Lacrosse
Major League Lacrosse: MLL Stadiums:

NCAA
NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championships:

Premier Lacrosse League
Premier Lacrosse League:

Roster templates
There are two player templates; one for actual rosters and another for lists.

The Player template should be used for rosters and roster templates, where the Lacrosse player list template should be used for lists.

Lacrosse player start Lacrosse player mid Lacrosse player end

Which looks like this:

Other
Field Lacrosse Leagues:

Infoboxes
Place these infoboxes at the top of the respective articles

Lacrosse specific

 * Infobox lacrosse player
 * Infobox college lacrosse team
 * Infobox lacrosse team season
 * Infobox college lacrosse championship
 * Infobox international lacrosse competition
 * Infobox national indoor lacrosse team
 * Infobox national lacrosse team

Generic

 * Infobox sports team
 * Infobox sports league
 * Infobox college coach
 * Infobox NCAA conference tournament

Categories
Note that some categories may be subcategories of more than one category.

Stubs

 * Lacrosse-stub
 * Lacrosse-bio-stub

Related groups of Wikipedians

 * Category:Wikipedians interested in the National Lacrosse League
 * Category:Wikipedians interested in Toronto Rock
 * Category:Wikipedians interested in Rochester Knighthawks
 * Category:Wikipedians interested in Major League Lacrosse
 * Category:Wikipedians interested in New York Lizards