Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bowling/Archive 1

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Bowling
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A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:10, 15 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The three articles selected are: Bowling, Ten-pin bowling, and Wii Sports. Useight (talk) 04:20, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Holler House
I created Holler House and need help finding free images and improving it. It's the oldest bowling alley in the USA. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 02:11, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll see if I can help out there. Useight (talk) 04:19, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The images in now are great! – Alex43223T 08:00, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
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GA Sweeps invitation
This message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in.

We are always looking for new members to assist with reviewing the remaining articles, and since this project has GAs under its scope, it would be beneficial if any of its members could review a few articles (perhaps your project's articles). Your project's members are likely to be more knowledgeable about your topic GAs then an outside reviewer. As a result, reviewing your project's articles would improve the quality of the review in ensuring that the article meets your project's concerns on sourcing, content, and guidelines. However, members can also review any other article in the worklist to ensure it meets the GA criteria.

If any members are interested, please visit the GA sweeps page for further details and instructions in initiating a review. If you'd like to join the process, please add your name to the running total page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles from the worklist or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. With ~1,300 articles left to review, we would appreciate any editors that could contribute in helping to uphold the quality of GAs. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 22:37, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Are there enough articles on this subject to justify an Outline of bowling?
Here's a discussion about subject development you might find interesting.

The Transhumanist 23:43, 28 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I believe there are enough. The challenge is that bowling is such as broad subject. It encompasses different types of bowling (10-pin, duck, candle, etc.) And, bowling as an organization is scattered all over the world. Right now, it seems that most of the members of this wikiproject are knowledgeable of 10-pin bowling in the United States. So, an outline of bowling would be a huge help in organizing the articles, and see what we're missing. Groink (talk) 00:01, 29 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)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Unreferenced BLPs
Not sure if you are aware, but there has been a lot of discussion about the need to reference all biographies of Living People. See here if you have a spare week or two. The WP:Australia project has been working through a list, and there are two bowlers on our list. I don't know enough about bowling to know where to find reliable references or if they are notable. Jason Walsh and Rebecca Simpson were the Australians, but I thought I'd search through Category:WikiProject Bowling articles and compare it to Category:All unreferenced BLPs and got the following (short) list (WP:Australia had over 2000, WP:Football has over 3000!). It would pay to try to reference them all, as others want to delete unreferenced articles. Regards, The-Pope (talk) 14:18, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

The list of unreferenced BLPs

 * Achim Grabowski
 * Adrian Ang
 * Aumi Guerra
 * Bryan Goebel
 * Caio Pizzoli
 * Daniela Esposito
 * Dot Wilkinson
 * Edgardo Ruiz
 * Evgenia Tsarkova
 * Fred Borden
 * Helen Johnsson
 * Jasmine Yeong-Nathan
 * Jason Walsh
 * Ken Yokobosky
 * Lee Yu-Wen
 * Lisa John
 * Lucas Legnani
 * Marie Ramirez
 * Melody Yeung (bowler)
 * Mike Mullin
 * Mohammed Al Qubaisi
 * Nikki Harvey
 * Petter Hansen
 * Philippe Huber
 * Piritta Kantola
 * Priscilla Maaswinkel
 * Rebecca Simpson
 * Reydnier Chavez
 * Ryan Leonard Lalisang
 * Saeed Al Hajri
 * Seoung Joon-baek
 * Siti Safiyah Amirah
 * Sofia Granda
 * Tanya Petty
 * Teresa Piccini
 * Thierry Sacco
 * Veronica Lalande-Lapointe
 * William Nimick
 * Wim van der Veen

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons
The WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (UBLPs) aims to reduce the number of unreferenced biographical articles to under 30,000 by June 1, primarily by enabling WikiProjects to easily identify UBLP articles in their project's scope. There were over 52,000 unreferenced BLPs in January 2010 and this has been reduced to 32,665 as of May 16. A bot is now running daily to compile a list of all articles that are in both Category:All unreferenced BLPs and have been tagged by a WikiProject. Note that the bot does NOT place unreferenced tags or assign articles to projects - this has been done by others previously - it just compiles a list.

Your Project's list can be found at WikiProject Bowling/Unreferenced BLPs. As of May 17 you have approximately 37 articles to be referenced. The list of all other WikiProject UBLPs can be found at WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/WikiProjects.

Your assistance in reviewing and referencing these articles is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions, please don't hestitate to ask either at WT:URBLP or at my talk page. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 17:06, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Jerry Calypso
Someone has started an article on Jerry Calyso, but it needs a lot of work. Apparently Calypso was a prominent professional bowler in the 1970s. Help with this article is urgently needed from people with access to appropriate sources. ScottyBerg (talk) 15:34, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Bowling articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Bowling 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 22:07, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Outline of bowling
There is no Outline of bowling.

See Portal:Contents/Outlines.

For a relevant discussion see: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Birds/archive 40

Here's the outline they created: Outline of birds.

The Transhumanist 19:18, 15 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Sports outlines currently under development include:


 * Outline of basketball
 * Outline of tennis
 * Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling
 * Outline of running
 * Outline of cricket


 * Can you beat the other Sports WikiProjects to completion?


 * For the whole set of outlines on Wikipedia, see Portal:Contents/Outlines.


 * Here are some examples of developed outlines:


 * Outline of cell biology
 * Outline of meteorology (weather)
 * Outline of Iceland
 * Outline of Japan
 * Outline of anarchism
 * Outline of chocolate


 * The Transhumanist 23:36, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

New template Template:Student athlete
Feel free to help fill in Template:Student athlete by adding new articles or creating articles for redlinks.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:05, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Files_for_deletion/2011_March_28
All opinions welcome. Thank you. walk victor falktalk 19:04, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I've already seen a couple of editors chime in - both in support of this image. Please keep the comments flowing in! The editors in favor of NFCC#8 are reading into the language too literally, and IMO are policy zealots. If NFCC#8 continue to be interpreted as such, we won't be able to upload any photos, such as imagery show the faces of the bowlers, or important bowling events such as this image in question. The policy does affect the growth of Wikipedia Bowling. Groink (talk) 03:58, 4 April 2011 (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) 03:06, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Perfect game (baseball)
There is a discussion regarding the primary topic of perfect game which you may wish to participate in. -  ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ  τ ¢  02:42, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Bowling will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in bowling. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:07, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Disabled lawn bowls player classification → Bowls classification
See talk:Disabled lawn bowls player classification where this is proposed -- 65.92.181.190 (talk) 06:42, 22 October 2012 (UTC)


 * That RM failed. There is a new one covering several sports, including lawn bowls, here. --Stfg (talk) 15:18, 29 October 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) 02:36, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I put in my two yen. The PBA Tour tournaments like the Round1 Japan Cup uses the flag icons, and I don't think it is necessary. For example, Mika Koivuniemi is from Finland. However, when he bowls along with the other PBA Tour members against the JPBA, he's representing the PBA Tour and not Finland. The tournament documentation is consistent on this - it is the PBA Tour vs the JPBA. The World Bowling Tour is different, in that participants in its tournaments are based on the individual's membership with the WBT. Therefore, if Mika were to win a WBT tournament, he won it for himself and not for the PBA Tour, therefore a flag icon should be used in that case. Groink (talk) 04:00, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Planet Bowl
Planet Bowl is up for deletion please comment here. Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions  03:37, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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WikiProject X is live!


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Naming convention
All Olympic event articles use endashes in their article names, and these bowls articles should do the same.  Schwede 66  19:21, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

FYI
,, et al.: is adding and/or changing project ratings with no evidence of project participation. ATS (talk) 02:06, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at NSPORTS
Hello all. In an effort to finally resolve the never-ending and annoying GNG v SSG issue, I've proposed a revision of the NSPORTS introduction. You are all invited to take part in the discussion. Thank you. Jack &#124; talk page 06:20, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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Proposed deletion of Frames per stop


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User script to detect unreliable sources
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Please help improve this article for PBA bowler Eugene McCune
I wrote a stub article for Eugene McCune. Here is the link to improve the article: Cheers, --ゴミバコ (talk) 21:06, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Draft:Eugene McCune