Wikipedia:WikiProject Skiing and Snowboarding/Guidelines

This is recommended advice for articles under the project scope, it is intended to aid standardization and quality of articles. As well as providing a reference guide, nothing below is required to be implemented and should not be forced upon others.

Notability

 * Athlete articles should follow sports notability and people notability.
 * Competitions, events, races, and series articles should follow sports notability and events notability.
 * Governing authority's, brands, and operating company articles should follow organizations and companies notability.
 * Film articles should follow films notability.
 * Everything else should follow the general notability guideline.

Terminology
Ski resorts are the businesses that offer skiing or snowboarding along with supporting services, usually on managed land. Ski areas are the physical land where skiing or snowboarding is allowed or occurring. Articles should only be made for ski resorts. Ski areas are not to be confused with articles of mountains.

Athletes and People
Articles about anybody who is alive must follow Biographies of living persons. While all articles about people should follow Manual of Style/Biography.

Ski Resorts
These pages should include the ski area infobox and have sections for history, terrain (with a lift subsection), events (if applicable), and snowfall.

The terrain section should include # of trails, skiable area, snowmaking coverage, mountain elevations, # of trails for each ability level, and # of special trails (like terrain parks or night skiing). As well as any other information related to the skiable terrain of a resort.

The lift subsection should contain a table with columns for name, type, year, make, vertical, length, and capacity (in that order). An additional column can be added for resort specific designation systems like letters or numbers before the name column if it exists in addition to a name.


 * The "type" column is for the type of lift (High Speed Quad, Gondola, etc.), it does not have to be wikilinked.
 * The "year" column is for the year that the lift began operation.
 * The "make" column is for the manufacturer (Doppelmayr, Poma, etc.)
 * The "vertical" column is for the vertical rise, Template:Convert should be used.
 * The "length" column should use Template:Convert.
 * The "capacity" column should be defined for passengers/hr.

Olympics
Olympic specific articles should follow the Manual of Style set by WikiProject Olympics for events and sports. (Note that their pages are currently under construction).