Wikipedia:WikiProject Referees

Welcome to the Referees Task Force, a task force of WikiProject Sports and WikiProject Biography. The task force is a group of pages in the "Wikipedia" article namespace which are devoted to the management of a specific topic or family of topics within Wikipedia; and, simultaneously, a group of editors who use those pages to collaborate on encyclopedic work. It is not a place to write encyclopedia articles directly, but a resource to help coordinate and organize the writing and editing of those articles. This group focuses on Referees and other sports officials.

Scope
This task force covers all referee articles, with a special focus on biographies of referees, past and present. It can be considered to be a subgroup of the WikiProject Sports and the WikiProject Biography. It covers the referees, umpires, assistant referees and any other official for every sport.

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding to the articles talk page.

Guidelines

 * Referee/Criticism An essay on how to keep articles on referees in line with our neutral point of view policies.

Participants
''If you approach anyone from this list for advice or help, please check their contributions first to check if they've edited recently. This list may contain people who have not edited Wikipedia in a long time.''



To do list
Immediate goals


 * Add banner to appropriate pages
 * Develop some guidelines (assessment/notability/style etc)

Top importance referees without articles (i.e. refereed at the highest level in their chosen sport)
 * Charles Appleton (referee) Rugby league
 * Georges Jameau Rugby league
 * Billy Thompson (referee) Rugby league

Templates

 * Userbox : User WikiProject Referees—a userbox indicating an editor is a participant of WikiProject Referees.


 * Edit notice : Sports official editnotice—an edit notice that can be applied to referee articles. Editnotices need to be added by an administrator or template editor.


 * Barnstar : —an award placed at another users talk page for improving Referee-related articles.

Related projects

 * WikiProject Sports
 * WikiProject Biography/Sports and games