Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian sports/Archive 1

Australia at the Winter Olympics
I have submitted Australia at the Winter Olympics for peer review. Andjam 11:21, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project
Hi, I'm a member of the Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-class, B-class, and Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any suitable articles? Please post your suggestions here. Thanks a lot! Gflores Talk 17:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC)


 * (Self-nom) You may wish to check out Australia at the Winter Olympics. If the article gets assessed against the criteria, I'd be interested to see how it goes. Thanks, Andjam 09:00, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I think your olympic article looks A-Class to me, but I'd appreciate some expert opinion on that! You could also get help with that one here, and you could also nominate it for WP:GA. Meanwhile Cynna Neele is a decent article too, though it needs a couple of non-copyright images. You can update our listing here. Thanks, Walkerma 16:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Hockey Australia
Hockey Australia needs some content. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  15:34, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Football in Australia - naming conventions
I would like to invite all interested editors to have a read of Naming conventions (Football in Australia) and offer improvements or suggestions on the talk page. Please do not comment about it on this page - I am hoping to centralise discussion in one place! -- Chuq 10:31, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Australian Baseball
A WikiProject for Australian Baseball has been created, anyone interested can see and join it at WikiProject Australian Baseball. cheers --Dan027 08:35, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

AUS Sailing - John Bertrand confusion There are two John Bertanrds in Sailing, and they both won medals in the Olympic Finn class. I added a complete explaination the John Bertrand page including the pertinent Olympic medals, dates of birth, etc, but someone condensed it down to a single sentence. I'm happy to work with whomever to get the full clarification back in the entry. - John at Kauffmans dot org.

WP:PROD nominations

 * 20 August Mark Doran --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 02:28, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

FAC Alan Kippax
The article about Test cricketer Alan Kippax has been a FAC for a while. I was hoping someone may like to review it and help it along. Tanks.

Phanto282 15:44, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

2007 Australian Equine influenza outbreak
This has been split off from Horse flu by request of the Veterinary Medicine WikiProject. WikiProject Australian sports may be able to expand on the effect on the racing industry. Dbromage [Talk]  00:41, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

2007 World Aquatics Championships needs updating...
Today the disqualification of the Tunesian swimmer was announced by the Court of Sport Arbitration, which entails the revocation of his 2 medals from Melbourne 2007. Consequently, the article and its dependent articles (Swimming at.., the biogram of the athlete) need updating, as well as the addition of the newly created replacement medal winners and their times. I suppose his medal results should be retained in the 2 competition tables, but put on pink background or whatever is customary. --Mareklug talk 17:54, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Cynna Kydd
Cynna Kydd has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Australian sports
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WP:NOT#PLOT
Apologies for the notice, but this is being posted to every WikiProject to avoid accusations of systemic bias. Hiding T 13:34, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Australia at the Winter Olympics FAR
nominated Australia at the Winter Olympics for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.  Giants2008  ( 17–14 ) 14:44, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

GAN backlog reduction - Sports and recreation
As you may know, we currently have 400 good article nominations, with a large number of them being in the sports and recreation section. As such, the waiting time for this is especially long, much longer than it should be. As a result of this, I am asking each sports-related WikiProject to review two or three of these nominations. If this is abided by, then the backlog should be cleared quite quickly. Some projects nominate a lot but don't review, or vice-versa, and following this should help to provide a balance and make the waiting time much smaller so that our articles can actually get reviewed! Wizardman 23:39, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

new article: Hall of Fame
FYI (for your info), I just created a new article: Baseball Australia Hall of Fame. Eagle4000 (talk) 08:04, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Should Category:Scandals with -gate suffix stay deleted?
There's a discussion going on here (until February 13) about whether it was proper to delete the "Scandals with -gate suffix" category (Watergate, Troopergate, Travelgate) a subject that may be of interest to members of this project. According to List of scandals with "-gate" suffix there are a few scandals having to do with Australian sports that have been called "-gate" ("Liargate", "Liegate", AFL siren controversy, 2006 ["dubbed 'Sirengate'"], I have no idea how often the term is really used in these cases or whether the one article here should ever be in that category). Two articles on Australian politics are also on the list.

If you're interested, please look at the discussion, look at the policy and insert your two cents with all the wisdom you have available to you. -- JohnWBarber (talk) 20:17, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Melbourne Storm
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. You are being notified as this project's banner is on the talk page. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Melbourne Storm/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:24, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Sports Notability
There is discussion ongoing at Wikipedia_talk:BIO debating possible changes to the WP:ATHLETE notability guideline. As a result, some have suggested using WP:NSPORT as an eventual replacement for WP:ATHLETE. Editing has begun at WP:NSPORT, please participate to help refine the notability guideline for the sports covered by this wikiproject. —Joshua Scott (LiberalFascist) 03:20, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Australian sports articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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We would like to ask you to review the Australian sports articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (&diams;) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 21:55, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 21:14, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Sports trainer
This article has been a mess for years and nobody seems to know what to do with it. There doesn't seem to be a lot of material on the topic which makes editing the article from an outside perspective difficult. Any insight would be appreciated. ITasteLikePaint (talk) 00:39, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Help getting some Australian Paralympic articles Good Article ready
Hi. I've been working on editing a few articles about Australian Paralympians and the Australian Paralympic movement. These articles are:


 * Louise Sauvage
 * Priya Cooper
 * George Bedbrook
 * Frank Ponta

These articles are all in decent shape and are well cited. Two of them have a number of good pictures. It would be really fantastic if some one could come in and help improve these articles to get them up to a place where they could be nominated for Good Article. If anyone is interested in doing that, it would be really appreciated. :) There are very few articles about disabled athletes that have become GAs. :) --LauraHale (talk) 08:15, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikimedians to the Games
If there are any Australians lurking around, Wikimedians to the Games is a collaboration drive to improve Australian Paralympic articles, with the most active contributors having an opportunity to go attend the Paralympic Games and to cover the Games behind the scenes with a press pass. The top two contributors will get their airfare and accommodation paid for. :) The drive official starts on 10 January 2012. --LauraHale (talk) 09:42, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Women's history month goals

 * Wikiproject Australia sport
 * Bring articles Australian women water polo to Good Article status. (11 currently nominated.)
 * Create/update articles about current members of Australia women's national softball team that may compete at the Women's World Championships and nominate them all for DYK.

That is what I have listed on WikiWomen's History Month. The softball articles are linked on my user space. Waiting to get them all to length, edited a bit, passable for WP:GNG before moving over and nominating. Any help related to that appreciated. --LauraHale (talk) 03:23, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month follow-up
Hi everyone! I just wanted to follow up with your project and see if any article creations or improvements took place in regards to WikiWomen's History Month! If so, it'd be great if you could please post your article outcomes on the..you guessed it...WWHM outcome page! Thanks everyone for all your efforts! Sarah (talk) 20:52, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Merge discussion for List of Australian Paralympic powerlifting medalists
An article that you have been involved in editing,  List of Australian Paralympic powerlifting medalists, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. NtheP (talk) 20:47, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Problematic new article
Australia at the team sports international competitions was created earlier this month, ironically by a user who has a Userbox on his User page saying "This user can contribute with an advanced level of English". To me, the title, which is repeated in the first sentence, displays a not so good level of English.

Firstly, that title leaps out at me as needing to be changed. Secondly, do we need this article? HiLo48 (talk) 22:57, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

RfC on the use of flag icons for sportspeople
An RfC discussion about the MOS:FLAG restriction on the use of flag icons for sportspeople has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons. We invite all interested participants to provide their opinion here. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:45, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Portal:Sports is up for featured portal consideration
This is a courtesy message to inform the members of this project that I have nominated Portal:Sports for featured portal status. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Sports. The featured portal criteria are at Featured portal criteria. Please feel free to weigh in.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  18:41, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Football in Australia
Just seeking to draw a wider range of informed opinion at Talk:Football in Australia regarding that article's future (whether persisting with the attempt at a comprehensive and well-balanced broad-concept article and how best to achieve that, or returning it to a simple disambiguation page). Cheers.--Gibson Flying V (talk) 02:35, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Please note, the disambiguate state last existed in 2009. --LauraHale (talk) 12:08, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Re-Assesment request for Tristan Thomas
I would like to request a Re-Assesment for Tristan Thomas because I believe that after my major edits, the article is above Stub Class and possibly above Low Importance now that Tristan Thomas has become more noteworthy. I understand if it is still low class but I think it should be a Start Class at least. NickGibson3900 (talk) 07:57, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Australian Sports At Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

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WikiProject X is live!


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WikiConfererence Australia 2015 - Save the date 3-5 October 2015
Our first Australian conference for Wikipedians/Wikimedians will be held 3-5 October 2015. Organised by Wikimedia Australia, there will be a 2-day conference (Saturday 3 October and Sunday 4 October) with an optional 3rd day (Monday 5 October) for specialist topics (unconference discussions, training sessions, etc). The venue is the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane. So put those dates in your diary! Note: Monday is a public holiday is some states but not others. Read about it here: WikiConference Australia 2015

As part of that page, there are now sections for you to: It would really help our planning if you could let us know about possible attendance and the kind of topics that would make you want to come. If you don’t want to express your views on-wiki, please email me at kerry.raymond@wikimedia.org.au or committee@wikimedia.org.au
 * indicate your interest in possibly attending the conference (this is not a binding commitment, of course)
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We are hoping to have travel subsidies available to assist active Australasian Wikipedians to attend the conference, although we are not currently in a position to provide details, but be assured we are doing everything we can to make it possible for active Australian Wikipedians to come to the conference. Kerry (talk) 00:16, 20 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Folks, just letting you know we will not be proceeding with Wikiconference Australia 2015 originally proposed for 3-5 October 2015. Thanks to those of you who expressed your support. You are free to attend the football finals instead :-) Kerry (talk) 07:49, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

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Rod Laver RfC
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