Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fencing

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

The Transhumanist 23:48, 28 July 2009 (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) 03:07, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Xenobot Mk V to tag articles in project scope and/or auto-assess unassessed articles
A request has been made at User:Xenobot/R to tag & auto-assess articles in the scope of this project based on these categories and/or auto-assess the project's unassessed articles. This is to be done primarily to assist with the referencing of unreferenced Biographies of Living People.

To auto-assess, looks for a stub template on the article, or inherits the class rating from other project banners (see here for further details).

Feel free to raise any questions or concerns regarding this process. The task will commence after 72 hours if there are no objections.

The-Pope (talk) 15:06, 1 June 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅ 1499 edits. – xeno talk 03:24, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

FYI: Fencer template
FYI only: Template:Infobox fencer has been created and applyed to Michael D'Asaro, Sr. article. Template is intended to provide comprehensive information about past or active fencers consistently. No troll (talk) 17:31, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Outline of fencing
There is no Outline of fencing.

To create one, click on the redlink above and add this line:

 fencing 

Then press save and start adding relevant subheadings and links.

For the whole set of outlines on Wikipedia, 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 19:30, 15 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Sports-related 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 23:48, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Assessment Page
I started creating the project's assessment page today, will try to finish it up soon. Markvs88 (talk) 22:04, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The articles (i.e.: Talk:Italian school of swordsmanship) now show class & importance, but they're not tabulating back to the table yet. Markvs88 (talk) 17:23, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Ratings work. Markvs88 (talk) 20:50, 9 December 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) 19:04, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Your opinions and advice
A recently discussion WikiProject Council/Proposals/Women's Sport. Your opinions and your advice are welcome. --Geneviève (talk) 17:59, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Fencing will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in fencing. 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) 21:09, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Standard for bio?
For a fencer there are three important competitions (Olympics, world and european championships), often a fencer wins several medals in individual and team. So I think it is more appropriate to use Template:MedalW, Template:MedalRU, Template:Medal3rd in "medaltemplate" section of the Template:Infobox sportsperson (than Template:MedalGold, Template:MedalSilver, Template:MedalBronze), that could stretch a lot. Then of course you must detail in the "Achievements" section. Like I do in this page Pavel Kolobkov. --Kasper2006 (talk) 05:01, 29 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I would say that the top three are: Olympics, World Championships, and World Cup. Including European Championships, then that would be four. RobSVA (talk) 14:25, 12 March 2015 (UTC)


 * The FIE competition scale goes: Olympics, World Championships, Zonals / GPs, World Cups, Satellites. Arguably by that factor the Zonal championships is as important or even more important than a world cup finish, however in most disciplines, winning the African zonal is actually easier than winning say, a European World cup. I think the simplest thing to do is just include everything except satellites Jslimmer (talk) 14:08, 28 November 2019 (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) 02:37, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Mahmoud ElShal
Hi, there's a bio of an Egyptian fencer, Mahmoud ElShal, that someone's trying to put through Articles for Creation. I don't know anything about fencing notability myself, so wondered if someone from here could take a look. (The refs given are partly in Arabic, and don't look as if they always have author etc. correctly formatted, but he look on the face of it potentially notable to me.) Best, Dsp13 (talk) 14:38, 20 January 2013 (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?  18:33, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Picture requests
Hi everyone. I hold a press accreditation for the next world championships in Budapest. I'll stay there a full week, from June 6th to the end of the competition. My goal is to bring back as many pictures as possible of course, but it would be a great help if had a list of names. I'm aware of Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of fencing people, but the list isn't up to date and it certainly isn't exhaustive. I'd be grateful if you could help expanding it, especially with people who don't fence any more but would still be at the championships as coaches or officials (people like Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu or Hugues Obry for instance). Picture requests about equipment, refereeing etc. are also welcome. Jastrow (Λέγετε) 08:00, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Fencing Navbox
Hello. I started preliminary work on a Fencing navbox. Sandbox is located here: User:Steveprutz/fencing. Let me know if you have any suggestions! StevePrutz (talk) 23:54, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Move request of Li Na
Since there is also a famous fencer named Li Na, I just wanted this project to be aware of a move request at Talk:Li Na (tennis). Fyunck(click) (talk) 05:12, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Mariusz Piasecki
Dear fencing experts: Is this a notable fencer? There appear to be references, although the citations need appropriate placing by someone who knows more about this sport than I do. &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 19:25, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Request for Comment
There is a Request for Comment about "Chronological Summaries of the Olympics" and you're invited! Becky Sayles (talk) 07:35, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Stacey Johnson (fencer)
I have begun a draft of Draft:Stacey Johnson (fencer), but it will be a while before I can get back to it, if anyone wants to pick it up. Cheers! bd2412 T 14:18, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

assessment
Hi, My first Wiki article, Eric Sollee was just accepted. I'm new to writing / editing in wiki and new to WikiProject Fencing, Portal:Fencing, and WikiProject Fencing/Assessment. Regarding WikiProject Fencing/Assessment: how are the assessments done? What are the criteria? who does the assessments? How does someone get the ability to make assessments? Once changes are made, how do you request re-assessment? Thanks RobSVA (talk) 16:04, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Recent changes to the graphics for Template: Medal
There is a template talk page discussion regarding the graphics used for medalists in infobox medals tables occurring at Template talk:Medal. As this discussion is within the scope of WP:Fencing, you are invited to make your comments on the recent graphics changes there. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:51, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes
Following a recent discussion at WP:VPR, there is consensus for an opt-in bot task that automatically assesses the class of articles based on classes listed for other project templates on the same page. In other words, if WikiProject A has evaluated an article to be C-class and WikiProject B hasn't evaluated the article at all, such a bot task would automatically evaluate the article as C-class for WikiProject B.

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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) 23:08, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Gu Gyo-dong listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Gu Gyo-dong to be moved to Ku Kyo-dong. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 18:47, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
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WC autogenerating tool
Hi everyone,

I'm from the French Wikipedia and I've recently developped a tool that allow taking an HTML formatted tableau from WC official page and automatically transform into Wikicode. The tool is working for us, and is saving us lot of time that we can now use to make biographies, or anything else about the event.

What I'm offering is to change the Wikicode formatter (because your result formatting is not the same on Wikipedia EN) in order to allow you using it ; could even do a little tutorial in English if you need.

The idea is to not only use it for WC but also porting it to other platforms for using on World Cups, later WC, Zone Championships, or anything else. I'll do my best for that, and if you have coding skills, you can even help me.

Please tell me if you're interested, I can make it work for you tomorrow, I think. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Titi Alone (talk • contribs) 19:06, 22 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)

17th Summer Olympics in Rome
Hello, thanks to the rule of 20 years in Italy I found some Ansa photos of the Olympics that were held here in Rome in 1960. this one might be of some interest, Gene Glazer (left) vs Luigi Carpaneda in the men's foil quarter final. -- SERGIO  aka the Black Cat 13:22, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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A new newsletter directory is out!
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MfD nomination of Portal:Fencing
Portal:Fencing, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Fencing and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Fencing during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:34, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

René Geuna
I came across his article and it badly needs sources to show notability. I searched but my computer struggled with translating the articles I did find. I couldn't find sources to show notability, just interviews of him and articles by him. Trouble is, those don't meet the GNG standards. Sandals1 (talk) 21:53, 5 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)

Carlos Bravo listed at Requested moves
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Jorge Pina listed at Requested moves
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Cannabis and sports
New stub: Cannabis and sports. Any project members care to help expand? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 17:53, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Richard Gomez listed at Requested moves
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Elena Belova listed at Requested moves
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Template for sports biographies lacking sources containing significant coverage
The 2022 NSPORTS RfC added a requirement that all sports articles are required to have a source that contains significant coverage of the topic. To help identify sports articles that lack this I've created Template:No significant coverage (sports); please add it to any such articles that you encounter, and if you are looking for an article to improve the relevant categories may be useful. BilledMammal (talk) 13:00, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Mass draftification proposal on Olympians
You may be interested in this village pump discussion on draftifiying nearly a thousand Olympians. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:46, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

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Olha Kharlan listed at Requested moves
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Another RfC on capitalization of all our articles
I thought this was a done deal back in this 2022 RFC but obviously not. A handful of editors did another rfc with no sports projects input at all. And it's being challenged because we just noticed it. This could affect almost every single tennis and Olympic article we have, and goodness know how many other sports. Some may have already been moved it you weren't watching the article. And not just the article titles will be affected but all the player bios that link to the articles. Sure the links would be piped to the right place if thousands of articles moved, but if the wording in a bio still said 2023 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles or Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke that would likely need to be changed by hand. There is also talk of removing the ndash completely.

Perhaps this is what sports projects want and perhaps not. Either way I certainly don't want projects ill-informed as the last RfC was handled. Express your thoughts at the following rfc. Fyunck(click) (talk) 20:50, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Violetta Khrapina listed at Requested moves
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Lee Seung-won listed at Requested moves
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