Wikipedia:WikiProject Sumo

W elcome to WikiProject Sumo! This WikiProject aims to provide a framework for the improvement and organization of Sumo-related articles on Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask us on our discussion page.

Anyone is welcome to join by listing their username on the participants section and contributing to the project.

This project covers all facets of sumo, both professional and amateur, whether sporting, cultural or religious. It covers all articles describing wrestlers, institutions, history as well as articles about articles about the people surrounding this discipline. If you want to participate, have a look at Category:Sumo or one of its subcategories.

How can I help?
You can help by:
 * writing and improving articles
 * undertaking project maintenance – add project templates to article and category talk pages – see templates page
 * assessing articles for quality and assessment standards – see the assessment page
 * assessing and recommending resources (online and print) – see the resources page
 * communicating with project members – at the project talk page
 * improving articles in need of improvement (see Sumo stubs)
 * inviting potential members
 * identifying relevant articles and add WikiProject Sumo to their talk page
 * identifying articles needing creation
 * identifying articles needing improvement

Participants
If you would like to be a participant, just add yourself below in alphabetical order. You can also add one of our userboxes to your Wikipedia profile (see templates) so it can add your user page to the above category.

Occasionally inactive participants are removed from the list; if this happens to you and you would like to re-add yourself please feel free.


 * ArguaBILL
 * Bmesd matt
 * Chiyomaru0417
 * Dane &#124; Geld 12:42, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Demon Taka
 * FourTildes (formerly User:Malnova)
 * Hidenotora 10:44, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
 * lkb335
 * JRHorse
 * Kaiketsu
 * Kaiouma
 * Kaitetsu
 * Konbinimasuta 12 May 2022
 * OtharLuin
 * Pawnkingthree 08:21, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Phonophobia
 * Popapop2
 * Rfkatz2005
 * Tigerboy1966
 * WaimiriMaina
 * XinJeisan
 * Zeieg

Articles conventions
WikiProject:Sumo shares many conventions with its wiki-cousin WikiProject Japan (see opposite) →

Beyond these writing conventions, all record boxes, regardless of if a wrestler is active or retired, should always have all slots properly filled in with basho boxes in order to maintain visual consistency.

General

 * Amateur sumo redirected to main sumo article for now
 * House of Gōjō
 * Jungyo
 * one possible source here
 * 2008 LA tour is here
 * More recent article here


 * Sumo training
 * Sumo show
 * Fuji TV Grand Sumo Tournament, in the news like in February 2018; list of winners in ja:日本大相撲トーナメント
 * Sumodo: The Successors of Samurai, see ja:相撲道〜サムライを継ぐ者たち〜, an article in English, and the official website.
 * Bachi Bachi a sumo manga series by Takahiro Satō (2009–2018)

Rikishi
Active rikishi who meet WP:NSUMO


 * former makuuchi-ranked wrestler
 * former makuuchi-ranked wrestler
 * former makuuchi-ranked wrestler


 * , exists as a draft
 * , exists as a draft
 * , exists as a draft

Retired Rikishi
Remaining yusho winners, remaining modern era ozeki, various rikishi with high silverware counts and/or makuuchi longevity:

Other past rikishi of interest:
 * Takanobori Hirochika DB, sources in English here and here
 * Yanagawa Nobuyuki a rikishi with an article in seven other languages       but not in English!

These recently retired rikishi meet WP:NSUMO and (mostly) have images:
 * (made it to juryo in just 8 tournaments, forced to retire because of spinal injury)
 * (sued stablemaster alleging abuse)
 * (fell off banzuke but returned to juryo)
 * (thrown out for match-fixing)
 * (dismissed along with Sokokurai for match-fixing, unsuccessfully appealed, now MMA fighter)
 * (source)
 * (last recruit of Takamiyama Daigorō to retire)
 * (retired early due to chronic neck pain)
 * (holds record for most juryo promotions, uwatenage specialist)
 * source
 * (forced to retire at age 21 after knee injury)
 * (thrown out for match-fixing)
 * (slowest ever ex-collegiate competitor to reach makuuchi)
 * (thrown out for match-fixing, Source)
 * , (also known as Daikiho)
 * }
 * source
 * (forced to retire at age 21 after knee injury)
 * (thrown out for match-fixing)
 * (slowest ever ex-collegiate competitor to reach makuuchi)
 * (thrown out for match-fixing, Source)
 * , (also known as Daikiho)
 * }
 * (slowest ever ex-collegiate competitor to reach makuuchi)
 * (thrown out for match-fixing, Source)
 * , (also known as Daikiho)
 * }
 * (slowest ever ex-collegiate competitor to reach makuuchi)
 * (thrown out for match-fixing, Source)
 * , (also known as Daikiho)
 * }
 * , (also known as Daikiho)
 * }