Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Canadian sport/Archive 1

Project icon
Can someone suggest a better icon for this project. It would also show up in the project banner. Thank you. --Qyd (talk) 18:21, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Canada Basketball
Hi there. There is a user: who is attempting to link to his/her organization through a bunch of Canadian basketball player articles, claiming that Canada Basketball is somehow equivalent to the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame (or the Canadian national BB team). I've reverted all these changes but you might want to look through the user's contribs because some of these people were in fact elected to the HoF, and that would be good info to have in the article, just not linked to this user's organization. Thanks, Katr67 (talk) 20:36, 1 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) 21:16, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

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paralympics
We don't have a Canada at the Paralympics article. It would go well with at the Canada at the Olympics article. 70.55.86.69 (talk) 12:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Labatt Park (Montreal)
Labatt Park (Montreal) has been nominated for deletion at WP:AFD. 70.55.89.214 (talk) 07:39, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Canadian sport
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Gilbert Perreault under GA review
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Curling Wikiproject work group proposal
A Curling task project is being proposed. Please feel free to join the discussion with comments, your support or non-support. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  01:40, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Naming conventions (sportspeople)
Please check out and comment on WP:Naming conventions (sportspeople). Double Blue (talk) 02:38, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

New sports navbox
A new sports navbox was created recently which needs population or discussion... see the article Sport in Canada SriMesh |  talk  03:51, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

List of international ice hockey competitions featuring NHL players
At Talk:List of international ice hockey competitions featuring NHL players, there is a discussion going on about the scope of the article. Please comment. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 07:00, 10 January 2009 (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)

Old-time hockey
Old-time hockey has been proposed for deletion. 76.66.193.90 (talk) 06:19, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

The Brier
The Brier has been assessed as a "low" importance article at some point... it seems weird that such a major Canadian sports event is "low"... I think it's an artifact of the fact that the WPCANADA template has no assessments for subprojects. Should this be reassesed? 76.66.193.90 (talk) 11:59, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes. Importance rating: An attempt is made to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it).  Topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated. --- It should therefore be rated top for sure while the tourmaents are on, and perhaps have a lower rating later in the year.SriMesh |  talk  03:40, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * The Tournament of Hearts is rated "high", so seems like it's more important than the Brier? 76.66.193.69 (talk) 09:58, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

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Wikinews Brier/Scotties curling tournaments
Does anyone from this article wish to add a tid bit to the wikinewsc curling article? ... or add a new wikinews article when the Brier is finished.SriMesh | talk  03:37, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Hockey players
There are two new articles to watch, Jody Lehman and Kevin Shmyr if anyone with expertise in hockey wants to look at these articles and see how they are doing wiki-wise that would be awesome. I think Shmyr has a delete tag on it now. I don't know if he is notable or not. SriMesh | talk  03:47, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

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Carter Ashton
It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern:   The subject does not fulfill notability criteria for athletes. SriMesh | talk  02:09, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Canadian curling hoaxes
I have PRODded the articles New Brunswick Scotties and Stephen Pelletier as hoaxes, because I can find no confirmation (see their talk pages), and their author 's other contributions don't inspire confidence; but I would be grateful if anyone familiar with the curling scene would take a look and confirm. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 10:01, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

National Hockey League GAR notice
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Propossed Merger of Montreal Expos and Washington Nationals
Since one of these articles falls under your project I just wanted to point you all to the discussion at Talk:Montreal_Expos -Djsasso (talk) 15:09, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

2009 Jeux de la Francophonie
Hi mates, Canada has the biggest team participating in the games with over 300 athletes, could you please help us expand and further the coverage of the event. thank you Eli  +  14:51, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Regis McGuire Hoax article
Please could someone double check the hoax tag on this article, I tend to agree with the original hoax tagger....Regis McGuire and also feel the article should be deleted. As per the talk page, it looks like a re-write of Pierre McGuire just changing hockey references to volleyball. SriMesh | talk  00:10, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Defenceman -> Defenseman
Defenceman has come up for renaming again, to the American spelling, again, see Talk:Defenceman

76.66.197.17 (talk) 04:58, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

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Olympic locales
We seem to be missing some Olympic location articles...
 * Whistler-Creekside/Whistler Creekside

70.29.210.242 (talk) 05:41, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Canadian Deaflympics
We don't seem to have articles for the 1991 Winter Deaflympics (Calgary Deaflympics/1991 Deaflympics) or the 2015 Winter Deaflympics (Vancouver Deaflympics/2015 Deaflympics) ...

There does exist an article for a specific Deaflympics, 2009 Deaflympics, so perhaps with the Canadian Olympics of Whistler going on now, we should also articlize these events? (The Deaflympics are sanctioned by the IOC)

70.29.210.242 (talk) 06:28, 15 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I think this is a good idea - if you would like to take the lead on this then please do; otherwise let's put it on the to-do in the future. Perhaps there is another project or team doing related work (Olympics for examnple) that would be able to look after this since I am sure there are additional events that did not take place in Canada. HalifaxRage (talk) 20:44, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Canada at the Olympics
I was wondering why Canada at the Olympics is rated as "Low-importance" ? 70.29.210.242 (talk) 12:48, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Paralympics
We seem to be missing the main Canada Paralympics article...
 * Canada at the Paralympics

70.29.210.242 (talk) 14:32, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I made a very brief stub however this will need significant work.HalifaxRage (talk) 20:33, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Inactive Project
I am taking the lead on cleaning up this project. Currently compiling topics in the to do list - let me know if you'd liek to help. HalifaxRage (talk) 13:40, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Archived old discussions
I have moved the old discussions to an archive page - see the archive box. HalifaxRage (talk) 13:41, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Portal
We have made you guys a portal in hopes to drum up some editors for you !!! It will be added to -->Template:WikiProject Canada if it has not already by the time you see this message !! The portal has also been added to -->Portal:Canada/Related portals...that appears on all the Canada portals ...
 * Note the minor change above. Rich  Farmbrough 17:20 8  June 2010 (UTC).

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Montreal Carabins
Montreal Carabins Good evening, I redid all the page. --Charlesquebec (talk) 01:31, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Canadians clubs in W-League
Ottawa Fury Women a new page. Only verify if everything is correct --Charlesquebec (talk) 01:09, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

and important update on Hamilton Avalanche,Toronto Lady Lynx and London Gryphons --Charlesquebec (talk) 13:14, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Battle of Quebec (sports)
We seem to be missing the "Battle of Quebec" in sport. There are articles on it for Battle of Alberta and Battle of Ontario. (Battle of Quebec is a disambiguation page)

76.66.203.138 (talk) 13:53, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Women's soccer articles
Many additions for the old page of defunct teams: Montreal Xtreme and Sudbury Canadians, --Charlesquebec (talk) 21:06, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

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RFC on sports notability
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Ray Emery FAR
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Nomination of Portal:Canadian football for deletion
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Proposed move discussion at 'Canada national football team'
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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)