Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports Results

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Sports Results. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Title
WikiProject on Sports Results

Scope
This project aims to develop a standard format for sports results listings. See Projects, below.

Parentage
Parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Sports

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Related WikiProjects

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Participants
Once you become a member, feel free to place a put User WikiProject Sports Results userbox on your userpage.
 * 1)  (David D.)
 * 2)  - I can help out with the baseball game logs
 * 3)  - I like stats :D
 * 4)  - I can help with assessment
 * 5)  - i can greatly help with recent cricket scores, results and stats. :)
 * Userbox
 * 1)  - I like stats :D
 * 2)  - I can help with assessment
 * 3)  - i can greatly help with recent cricket scores, results and stats. :)
 * Userbox
 * 1)  - I like stats :D
 * 2)  - I can help with assessment
 * 3)  - i can greatly help with recent cricket scores, results and stats. :)
 * Userbox
 * 1)  - i can greatly help with recent cricket scores, results and stats. :)
 * Userbox
 * Userbox
 * Userbox
 * Userbox
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Structure
''Discuss the format for each article based on the WikiProject. Include various categories applicable to the topic.''

Hierarchy definition
No classification of this project has been defined.

Project 1: Overall format of results listings, including use of flags
For athletics and track and field it is obvious there are several different styles of table to display results. Just compare Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth games to see four different styles. Even within the Olympic project there are different styles for each olympiad. Furthermore, this is probably a problem in other sports. It has been suggested to bring this discussion to the domain of the WikiProjects Sports. I have to admitt I am new to these types of discussion and I could use some help to get this done properly. David D. (Talk) 03:40, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Why is this a problem?
Firstly it results in revert wars due to people having strong feelings about which style should be used. We need to come to a consensus on what style is to be used to present results.

Secondly, we need to have a consistent presentation of the data for quick and easy reference.
 * Should times and distances be entered into the table? Believe it or not many of the Olympic tables only have the name of the medalists.
 * Should the country name be in full or the three letter abbreviation?
 * Should the country flag be added to the results tables as well as the medal tables?
 * If a flag is added, should it be before, below or after the athletes name?

Discussion to date
Initially nine table styles were discussed and this can be found in the following archive. Four of those candidates are now being discussed at this project's talk page.

By clicking on the style names to the left of the table it is possible to see a full table that is representative of that style.

General strategy and discussion forums

 * /General
 * /Strategy

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Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced. Check WikiProject Melbourne to see how this section is used.
 * Example article: User:Example

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Stub templates

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stubs are managed by the WP:WSS:Stub-sorting WikiProject. *To propose new stub categories/templates, see Stub sorting criteria: Proposed new stubs.

Categories

 * Category:Sports Results

Wikipedia articles on Sports Results

 * Sports Results

Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Sports Results

 * Sports Results
 * Sports Results

New Wikipedia articles related to Sports Results
Please feel free to list your new Sports Results-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 on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

For one example of listing new articles, see Japanese Wikipedians' notice board. Listing the articles often gets other editors to help improve and expand a new article.

Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

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Votes for deletion
To see one example of keeping track of various deletion votes, look at LGBT notice board


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Archives

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Sister Project links
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