Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canadian football/Archive 1

It begins
this is the begining of a great wikiproject that will improve everything pertaining to the cfl Burnqq 04:08, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Would anyone like to assist the CFL in a league sanctioned project? Contact me...csonnemann@cfl.ca —Preceding unsigned comment added by Csonnemann (talk • contribs) 20:15, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Proposed football player biography work group
There is now a proposal at WikiProject Council/Proposals for a group which would work specifically on articles relating to biographies of individual players, coaches, and other related individuals. Any parties interested in working with such a group are encouraged to add their names there, so we can see if there is enough interest to start the group in earnest. Thank you. John Carter 13:29, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Templates
Category:Canadian Football League templates should prove quite useful to this project. heqs ·:. 16:52, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

CFD notice
See related discussion on categories here and here. heqs ·:. 17:57, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Template and List rankings for articles
I have categorized all of the previously unranked Canadian football articles as of 23 November 2007, but some of them are lists and templates. While the WPCFL template recognizes them as proper rankings, the existing categories containing the articles do not and thus keep all articles ranked Template or List in Category:Unassessed Canadian football articles. I think we could benefit greatly from two new categories, Category:Template-class Canadian football articles and Category:List-class Canadian football articles. I would be more than willing to create them myself if someone could teach me how to do it. TFCforever (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 20:23, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Gretzky?
How does Wayne Gretzky fit into this project? -Royalguard11 (T·R!) 19:26, 29 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Former owner of Toronto Argonauts. Double Blue  (Talk) 19:39, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I guess you learn something new everyday on Wikipedia. -Royalguard11 (T·R!) 19:43, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

move Safety (American football) → Safety (football position)

 * Safety (American football) → Safety (football position) — I believe the disambiguation (American football) is rather unclear as it could also mean the Safety (football score) and the same position is also in Canadian football. I suggest (football position). Please add your thoughts at Talk:Safety (American football). Double Blue  (Talk) 22:37, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Wayne Gretzky Featured Article Review
Hello, this article, which falls under the scoope of your project, is currently listed as a Featured Article. I felt that there is sufficient reason to revisit this assessment, so I have listed it for a Featured Article Review. My preference is to see the concerns addressed and have the article remain at its current level, but some work its needed. Please feel free to contribute to the discussion at Featured article review/Wayne Gretzky. Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 21:15, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

CFL (disambiguation)
CFL currently redirects to Canadian Football League. There is a proposal to change CFL into a dab page. Please discuss at Talk:CFL (disambiguation). Double Blue (Talk) 03:57, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Notability discussion invitation
The WikiProject College football project is having a discussion of college football player notability in reference to professional football leagues. All members of your project are invited to join in on the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football.--Paul McDonald (talk) 14:54, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Anton McKenzie
This CFL player for the SK Roughrides has had a speedy deletion tag. It was created by a new user to wikipedia. Can anyone help with the article. Some citations have been added. Kind Regards. SriMesh | talk  05:08, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Stub sorting proposal
There is a discussion going on at WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2008/June regarding redistributing the Canadian football-bio-stubs category. Double Blue (Talk) 05:16, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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An invitation
You are hereby invited to visit WikiProject College football/Notability for discussion of notability of college football players.--Paul McDonald (talk) 01:18, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
Currently, 878 articles are assigned to this project, of which 94, or 10.7%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 2008-07-14.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place the following template on your project page:



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 * I think this could be helpful. Any thoughts or objections to adding this subpage? Double Blue  (Talk) 22:09, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Canadian football
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Large number of AfD's in progress
There are (at present count) 58 pages up for deleletion in AfD Discussions at the College Football Project. Since your project is listed as a related project, your project members may wish to participate. This large volume is really more than we can handle in such a short period of time and the project asks for your input. Please review Articles & Pages being considered for deletion immediately.--Paul McDonald (talk) 20:28, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Canada needs YOU!
Hi everyone!

SriMesh and I have taken over running Portal:Canada, as it was being woefully neglected. With the Grey Cup coming up, I'd love to have a series of Cup-related articles featured on the Portal from Nov 16-23, with the actual Grey Cup article on the 23. I don't know a lot about football, but some suggestions:
 * Articles on the teams playing
 * Biographies on notable players
 * The Canadian football article, and/or Canadian Football League
 * Vanier Cup (already in rotation on the portal, but will be scheduled for the day)
 * Featured Images related to the game (or at least really good pictures)
 * DYK hooks related to Canadian Football


 * Helping out is really easy! Just follow the links below.

I know we list GA-class as a requirement for articles, and I'd really love it if all the articles nominated could be at least that level, but I understand that time is a factor. If you have any questions, please post at the Portal Talk page.

Thanks!!

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Major Notability Discussion
ATTENTION WP:ATHLETE is being re-written. There is a very big discussion here. The re-writing is focusing mainly on amateur athletes. You may well wish to participate.--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:51, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Category:Players with NFL and CFL careers
Category:Players with NFL and CFL careers is being considered for deletion. thanks, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:32, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Naming conventions (sportspeople)
Please check out and comment on the newly proposed WP:Naming conventions (sportspeople). Double Blue (talk) 02:37, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

CFL attendance
CFL attendance has been nominated for deletion via WP:PROD by someone. 76.66.196.229 (talk) 05:57, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Portal:Canadian football
This needs to be updated more often that last updates came in 2007, I mean just updated it, but can't guarerntee I'll update it every week.--Giants27 T C  18:55, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Request for comment on use of team colors in sports infoboxes
Please stop by and voice your opinion in the ongoing discussion on the use of team colors in sports infoboxes.-- 2008 Olym pian chit chat 06:17, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

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Expert attention needed at 93rd Grey Cup
Hi all. I'm going through and updating importance levels for Canadian articles. This article needs a lot of work... it's largely unreferenced and reads as a play-by-play on TV. Is that normal for football articles? Anyway, I've assessed its importance as Medium; I think it needs a fair bit of attention, but could easily hit GA/A status pretty easily. Cheers! // roux   22:55, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Canadian Football League free agents
I have nominated canadian football league free agents for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Double Blue (talk) 17:25, 22 August 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)
 * I've been wanting to do something like this maybe, but haven't gotten around to it. I'll check it out eventually.--Giants27 ( c  |  s ) 00:50, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:African American players of Canadian football
african american players of canadian football has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Double Blue (talk) 19:10, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Proposed renaming of British Columbia Lions categories
I have propose renaming Category:British Columbia Lions to Category:BC Lions and similarly the subcats Category:British Columbia Lions coaches and Category:British Columbia Lions players. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Double Blue (talk) 19:20, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I was thinking about suggesting this a few days ago, but forgot all about it. I'd say it makes a lot of sense considering the main article is located at BC Lions and not British Columbia. Plus it's the WP:COMMONNAME.--Giants 27 ( c |  s ) 19:27, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Oskee wee wee
FYI, there is a rather neglected redirect page for Oskee wee wee to the target page The Oski Yell. I've categorized the redirect and added to the target page a bit to try and get some CFL visibility and context. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:27, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Sports Notability
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RfC on "Safety" article titles
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Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons
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RFC On Differing Football Nomenclature
Hello, i'm looking for input from the Wikiprojects on all the Football codes so we can get a standardized wording for each brand of the sport. Doc Quintana (talk) 18:48, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

CFLPA
For what it's worth, I just created the stubiest of stubs for the Canadian Football League Players' Association. I see there's no field that would allow me to include it in the current CFL template, however. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:03, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I did find a way to add it. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:08, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Canadian football articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saskatchewan Roughriders all time records and statistics
Please see the discussion at Articles for deletion/Saskatchewan Roughriders all time records and statistics. Your comments would be welcome. <font face="Times">Eastmain (talk • contribs) 20:14, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

RFC Talk:Football
The question being ask is ''Should football be WP:DAB'd for all codes when the code is first mentioned in the intro? '' Gnevin (talk) 09:46, 5 October 2010 (UTC) --Paul McDonald (talk) 18:23, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Adding a "current" parameter to Template:CFL team
Unless there are any objections, it is probably time to add a "current" parameter to CFL team, providing a link to the current season article, similar to what is used on NFL team, Infobox NHL team, Infobox football club. I ask because a bot was recently starting to enforce strict rules per WP:CET on the use of Current sport-related and the other Temporal templates. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (talk) 07:35, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Canadian football in the United States
at Football in the United States it was noted that we are missing an article about Canadian football in the United States. 65.93.12.101 (talk) 05:02, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Expert needed: Toronto Argonauts owners
Is the Sherwood Schwarz linked from Template:TorontoArgosOwner in fact Sherwood Schwartz? I just can't figure it out. - TB (talk) 10:56, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Treamelle Taylor
Per the note I left on the article talk page, this article's author claims to be its subject. I'd be grateful if you experts could take a look at its notability and any POV issues stemming from the COI. Thanks. --Dweller (talk) 17:06, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Aaron Lockett (gridiron football)
How can I find out Aaron Lockett (gridiron football)'s CFL career stats and teams?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:13, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
 * P.S. this article suggests that Lockett should be on 94th Grey Cup. --TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:38, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Why isn't he listed here.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:40, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
 * My guess is that he predates the newest version of the CFL's website, though I've never heard of him before. That list is nowhere nearly extensive, as the CFL in its current form has been going since 1954, thus it should have thousands of players on that list to be totally correct. Shootmaster 44 (talk) 03:37, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

RfC on the use of flag icons for sportspeople
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American football protective equipment
American football protective equipment has been proposed to expand to cover Canadian football, see talk:American football protective equipment -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 01:56, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Sports is up for featured portal consideration
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Looking for good history sources
I'm collaborating on an attempt to improve the Quarterback article. There seem to be a wealth of sources out there on the history of American football, but I'm finding it slightly more difficult to get some good sourcing on the history of the position in Canadian football. If anyone has some pointers or knows good sources, please let us know – or just add them into the article. --Batard0 (talk) 19:07, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Copyright concerns related to your project
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Toronto Argonauts FA push
Hello everyone. After a massive revamp and expansion over the last month, the Toronto Argonauts article is just about ready for promotion to FA. I've actually already sent it to GA. I'm hoping a couple of outside editors might look it over and offer any suggestions. Please do stop by. Dontreadalone (talk) 00:28, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Stephen Jones (Football Player)
Hello football fans! This old abandoned Afc submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable player, and should the article be saved? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 04:36, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Ya, sure it can be saved. It's easily as notable as a majority of other player bios on this topic. What do you need to do? Simply move it to article space? Dontreadalone (talk) 23:32, 26 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Well, to make sure it isn't deleted as advertising, it needs to be written from a neutral point of view. I've removed the most obvious boasting.  I know nothing about football, but to my untrained eye it seems to have an awful lot of intricate and carefully selected statistics intended to make the player seem more important.  Is this typical of football articles, or should most of this be just left out?  If so, I wouldn't know which are the important ones to leave in.


 * Also, since it's a biography, it needs some inline citations. I've changed the links into reference form and added titles with "Reflinks", but someone who knows about football will be needed to put them in appropriate spots in the text.

Once the article has these two things it can be moved directly into mainspace, or I can use the Afc script to "Accept" it, which is better because it removes all of the Afc templates automatically and allows easy filling in of Wikidata and placing of Wikiproject banners, etc. &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 01:09, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Where to find all time All Stars
Like from here, 1952 in Canadian football. I can't find any All Star listings. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 13:56, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I do not know whether you could find them online. Either newspapers from that time or books describing that period might include them. CRwikiCA  <i style="color:navy">talk</i> 22:13, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

New article
Hi there. I just wanted to let you all know that I created Antoine Pruneau a couple of days ago; he's a Redblacks player, so the article is within the scope of the project. I was hoping to create more articles for CFL players who are currently redlinked, so if anyone has any suggestions for how I can improve, I would welcome them. Cheers, Dawn Bard (talk) 00:46, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Human height and the metric system
Hi. Just seeking the input of informed editors as Template_talk:Infobox_NFL_player. Thanks.--Gibson Flying V (talk) 23:33, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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WP:VG comments subpages cleanup
Hi, there is currently a discussion taking place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games regarding whether it would be acceptable to permanently shift all comments subpages associated with WP:VG articles into talk. This shift would follow the recommended approach given at WP:DCS. The WikiProject Canadian Football articles that would be affected by this action are these: If you have objections related specifically to WikiProject Canadian Football's use of these subpages, please make this clear at the discussion so that other unrelated talk pages can be cleaned up where appropriate. Thank you. -Thibbs (talk) 15:54, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Maximum-Football

TfD: proposed merge of Template:Infobox gridiron football person
Head's up, CFL editors: It has been proposed that the infobox for current and retired CFL players (i.e. Template:Infobox gridiron football person) be merged with the infobox for current American college football players (i.e. Template:Infobox college football player). Please express your opinion here: Templates for discussion/Log/2014 December 14. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:58, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Deletion notice
Template:LVPosseRoster - Templates for discussion/Log/2014 December 23. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 19:54, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Quinn Magnuson (Canadian Football / National Track and Field)
Hello again football experts. Here's an old draft that was never submitted for review at AfC. I'm sure that the CFL is a notable league, but I don't know how to tell if this player was actually on the field. Should the draft be kept and improved?&mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 11:51, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Deletion notice
Template:Infobox CFL team is up for deletion here. In addition, the delete notice broke the infobox, so it has been replaced with Template:Infobox American football team. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 03:58, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Requested Move discussion on naming of football articles
There is currently a requested move discussion at Talk:Reception (American football) that is attempting to build a consensus on what disambiguation phrase should be used when necessary for gridiron football articles. This has a relatively broad scope and may involve many articles that fall under the interest of this WikiProject. Please feel free to add your input on what disambiguation phrase should be used. ~ RobTalk 16:58, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Discussion
I've started a discussion here that involves this project heavily. Please make a trip over there to see and/or contribute to the discussion.  Cra sh  Underride  01:45, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Requested move of "Bobby Harris (gridiron football)"
Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Bobby Harris (gridiron football), regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks,   Paine   u/ c  22:32, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Article alerts?
I was looking for the article alerts section on the page for this wikiproject. Is there one? If there isn't I'd be happy to add one. Ottawahitech (talk) 17:32, 1 December 2016 (UTC)please ping me

Requested move Infobox gridiron football person → Infobox CFL biography
See discussion at Template talk:Infobox gridiron football person. <font color="#008000">Lizard (talk) 04:29, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

You're invited...
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football, which involves articles in your WikiProject, regarding the issue of whether or not the navboxes in coaching articles should be collapsed or stay as is. Please comment there and not here. Thanks, Corkythe hornetfan  (ping me) 06:01, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

RFC on sports notability
An RFC has recently been started regarding a potential change to the notability guidelines for sportspeople. Please join in the conversation. Thank you. Primefac (talk) 23:07, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

GA noms
Could some of our content creators consider reviewing the GA nominations listed here as time permits? It's ideal for editors knowledgeable about Canadian football to review the GAs within this topic area, and the GA review process as a whole is quite backlogged lately. ~ Rob 13 <sup style="margin-left:-1.0ex;">Talk 23:44, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Brick Field
A discussion which affects this community has started at Talk:Commonwealth Stadium (Edmonton). 117Avenue (talk) 22:32, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Practice squad means they are entered into team player categories?
Forgive me if this is posted elsewhere, but I just updated Jeremy Lewis (gridiron football) to reflect the recent report by Herb Zurkowsky in the Gazette that Lewis has joined the Als' practice squad. Does that mean we add him to Category:Montreal Alouettes players? Yes, right? It's the other league, but I see for example Duron Carter is categorized as an Indy Colt, even though he never got off the squad, so that must be the approach? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:10, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is the approach for gridiron football players. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 20:02, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:10, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Brandon Zylstra
I don't have time to do much else now but I have created a stub for the impressive Brandon Zylstra. It needs some TLC but it has some of the basics. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:45, 27 July 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)

Proposed page move of Gridiron football
A move proposal affecting this project has been made at Talk:Gridiron football. The requested new title is North American football. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 09:37, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Discussion regarding the birth date and birth place parameters of Infobox CFL biography
See discussion. Thanks. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 18:36, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

RfC
An RfC has been opened that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#RfC:_Specifying_the_code_of_football_at_first_reference_in_team_articles --Trovatore (talk) 19:47, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Moved to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Specifying_the_code_of_football_at_first_reference_in_team_articles. Apparently it's "not an RFC"; I haven't followed up the link to find out why it's not. --Trovatore (talk) 20:43, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

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Background
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A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Canadian football for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Canadian football is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Canadian football until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 00:34, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

Two month virtual editathon on Women in Sports
WikiProject Women in Red is devoting the next two months (July and August) to a virtual editathon on Women in Sports. Please take this opportunity to write more articles about women footballers who lag far behind men on Wikipedia.--Ipigott (talk) 07:36, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Proposal to redirect all Canadian project related talk pages
Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board...-- Moxy 🍁 22:39, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject American football
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject American football. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:38, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

WikiConference North America
Hey all! I am planning on having a WikiConference North America sports panel December 12 3:00 EST. This is something that has never been done before and there are many sports which are "native" to North America and part of the America identity. What it seems to be is that we (you, me, and other members of WikiSports) will be in a Zoom (or other video conferencing app) to discuss our experiences in editing sports on Wikipedia. These can range from combating vandalism to how to best get permission to use sports photos. The organizers of WikiConference North America (WCNA) created an Etherpad surrounding planning which I will link here. if you Command F "sports" you will find the section. This will be the very first panel WCNA has ever had on sports so not much to go off of here.

Please ping me if you have questions as this page is not on my watchlist. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 20:52, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

CfD: Category:Grey Cup champions
There is an open CfD that the members of this project may be interested in; please see here. Thanks, Ejgreen77 (talk) 11:47, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Category:Edmonton Elks has been proposed for renaming
Discussion here. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 15:10, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

RFC of interest
Hello, an RFC is being held, which may effect the CFL & other Canadian football related pages. GoodDay (talk) 17:40, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

AFD of interest
You may be interested in Articles for deletion/List of current CFL team rosters. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:24, 31 January 2024 (UTC)