Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Water sports

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Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Canoeists by century
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Cliff Diving
I am looking for information on Cliff Diving, but wikipedia only has a small section under Cliff_diving. Looking on the web, and finding La Quebrada, Mexico mentions that cliff diving is there. But I have no way to locate this page without the help of google. I feel that Cliff Diving should have a specific page to itself.
 * Other locations:

Thanks, 160.109.98.44 (talk) 18:22, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Kimberley region, Western Australia, 28meter
 * Southpoint Cliffs, Hawaii, 30-50 feet
 * Negril’s cliff, Jamaica, 40-70 feet
 * Brontallo, Switzerland, 26+ meter
 * Ponte Brolla, Val Maggia, Southern Switzerland, 20meter

Sports Notability
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Water sports articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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76.66.203.138 (talk) 06:30, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Artificial Whitewater Courses
I have recently started or beefed up several articles, making use of the new info template:

Adventure_Sports_Center_International

U.S._National_Whitewater_Center

Lee_Valley_White_Water_Centre

HowardMorland (talk) 04:54, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Zodiac (boat)
Zodiacs are used to illustrate the article Inflatable boat, but are not mentioned in the article, or in the article Rigid-hulled inflatable boat (which is mentioned on the RIB disambiguation page). The RHIB was developed at Atlantic College in Wales in the 1960s.
 * Is a Zodiac boat which can have a solid (eg plywood) transom and floor a Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) but not a Rigid-hulled Inflatable Boat (RHIB)?
 * Is Pierre Debroutelle's 1937 design (referred to in the Inflatable boat article, History) certified by the French Navy, with an added wooden transom (1943), the same as the inflatable rubber boat from the 1930s referred to in the article on Zodiac Aerospace?
 * The Inflatable boat article (History) also refers to the 1950s: the French Navy officer and biologist Alain Bombard was the first to combine the outboard engine, a rigid floor and a boat shaped inflatable. Zodiac built that boat and a friend of Bombard, the diver Jacques-Yves Cousteau began to use it, after Bombard sailed across the Atlantic Ocean with his inflatable in 1952. Cousteau was convinced by the shallow draught and good performance of this type of boat and used it as tenders on his expeditions.
 * The Zodiac history should be added to the article on Zodiac Marine & Pool, who are the current manufacturers of Zodiacs (not Zodiac Aerospace). Hugo999 (talk) 01:47, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

New template Template:Student athlete
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Portal:Sailing
✅ I'm perfecting it by adding new articles and biographies (for use the "purge button"). Who wants to help this, of course, is free to do so. --Kasper2006 (talk) 08:35, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Jeff Rowley
Hi, I am a new editor and an editor, Future Perfect at Sunrise recommended that I go to you for assistance after the editor removed most of the content I put on Wikipedia for Jeff Rowley. By the way, I am not Jeff Rowley and want to edit his article. Future Perfect at Sunrise called this page a 'monstrosity' and I couldnt understand why because to me, I think the page looked good and there were ZERO complaints since this page has been up, for 8 months. I went to Wiki support for help and they also directed me to you as Future Perfect at Sunrise mentioned no experience of editing in this field.

I actually put this page up three times after it was torn down because I thought that someone was vandalising the page and it was devastating.

Can you help me edit this article to make it appropriate for Jeff Rowley page on Wikipedia? I am a new editor and dont want to be banned on Wikipedia. I also want the articles I contribute to, to look as visually attractive as possible.

Thanks

Lengthy page content removed

Shacktown123 (talk) 12:36, 4 June 2012 (UTC)Shacktown123--Shacktown123 (talk) 12:36, 4 June 2012 (UTC)


 * It is not appropriate to post the lengthy proposed content of an article here, so I have removed it. Readers can look at the history of the article Jeff Rowley and see your version.  Other readers can express their views, but my own view is that FPaS was wholly justified in reverting your version as being over-promotional.  If you want to promote a subject than you are welcome to create a fansite, but that isn't the purpose of an encyclopaedia such as Wikipedia. - David Biddulph (talk) 14:43, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't disagree that the earlier version of Jeff Rowley was too promotional, but surely one can say more than three sentences about an award winning, professional surfer. I don't know the subject matter, so I don't know how to help the editor, but we have an editor, not skilled in the rules of Wikipedia, asking for help in expanding the article somewhat. Because of my lack of knowledge of the subject matter, I thought this project would be a good place to ask for help. Can someone offer to help Shacktown123 identify the types of things that are appropriate for a bio of someone in this field?-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  13:04, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Disability sailing classification → Sailing classification
See talk:Disability sailing classification for the discussion -- 65.92.181.190 (talk) 06:39, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

RfC on the use of flag icons for sportspeople
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Portal:Sports is up for featured portal consideration
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File:Red raft.jpg
File:Red raft.jpg has been nominated for deleiton -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 06:34, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Competent Crew
Competent Crew has been proposed for deletion. [--Fil e  Éireann 02:28, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Automated process for article tagging and/or assessing
Hi, I am a member or WP:Kayaking, I am hoping to request a help from AnomieBOT to auto-tag articles with WikiProject Kayaking. I will ask for the bot to tag all pages in Category:Canoeing and kayaking and all it's sub-categories. I think that all of these pages also fall under the scope of WP:H20 so I would like to get it to add WikiProject Water sports to them too. It can also replace redirect templates such as Watersports with WikiProject Water sports. I will assume there is consensus for the task if there are no objections in a week. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 20:39, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

RFC: Convention of article names of Canoeists vs Canoers
I'm from WikiProject Kayaking I have just started a discussion on our talk page about the naming convention for Canoeists vs Canoers. We would appreciate your input on the topic. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 17:05, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

New photos on Commons that might interest you
Hi everyone!. I recently uploaded a set of photos from the Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland of some sailboats. You can find them on Commons here. Hope they are of some use for you! SarahStierch (talk) 15:56, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Andy Stevens
Hello! The above old abandoned AfC submission is about to be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable player, and should the article be save? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 23:33, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dirk Klingenberg
Dear water sports enthusiasts: This old Afc submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable athlete, and should the article be kept and improved? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 18:06, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Expert attention
I created Category:Water sports articles needing expert attention for making Category:Kayaking articles needing expert attention a subcategory of it. Category:Water sports articles needing expert attention will maybe be populated in the future, and might be of interest to your WikiProject. Iceblock (talk) 13:10, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Is Keanu Asing notable?
Is Keanu Asing a notable surfer? Dwanyewest (talk) 10:34, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Should it exist?
Should a Surfing in the United States article exist? I think it would be notable since we have articles on Surfing in India. Dwanyewest (talk) 10:36, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

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Sunday Times Golden Globe Race
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Contested deletion Category talk:Yachting races
You should know about this and comment. One of our editors has systematically depopulated it, and thinks that is a good reason to delete it. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 12:05, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

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RFC on sports notability
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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)

Please come and help...
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Women's Surf
Hi; Since the last year, I started some articles of female surfers that were red links in those pages: 2017 World Surf League and 2018 World Surf League. I edit Wikipedia occasionally and I'm not an expert on the rules. But with about 10 years in the project, I know some basic things like notability of somebody to figure in Wikipedia. In my head, all CT (top level) surfers are notable as they are the best in the world in a popular (now Olympic) sport. In the last couple of weeks, I faced a deletion tag in Caroline Marks article. I tried to argue that somebody who is top ten in the World in a sport like surf is clearly notable. But I could not save the article. Now there are deletion tags in the articles of Johanne Defay (#1 in Europe and top 10 in the world), Courtney Conlogue (2 times runner up in the word), Silvana Lima (2 times runner up in the word), Bianca Buitendag (former CT member and top 20 in the world), Nikki van Dijk, Laura Enever, Coco Ho and Jacqueline Silva. All of those surfers are (or were) top level competitors, all are mentioned in the ASP years pages and I can't understand why their are in a deletion process. I came here, in WikiProject Water sports to ask somebody to save those articles and, if it is possible, to recover Caroline Marks article. Thanks. Caiaffa (talk) 14:55, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

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Nomination of Portal:Fishing for deletion
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Dispute at Talk:Surf culture
There is a content disagreement going on at Talk:Surf culture. Outside opinions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time. 61.10.67.14 (talk) 00:47, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Draft talk:Bob Purvey
Draft on a possibly notable 73 year old surfer, for the interested. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 21:01, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
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Proposal related to featuring this sport at Wikipedia:In the news
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:In the news § Remove ITN/R: Sports cleanup. &#x0020; Currently one or more of this sport's events are listed at In the news/Recurring items, meaning that they have been judged significant enough that, if nominated, they will always be posted to the In the news section of the main page (subject to article quality being sufficient). However a proposal has been made to remove some that not been nominated recently from that list. If the proposal is successful, the event(s) may still be nominated but the nomination will debate the significance of the event as well as article quality. The event(s) relevant to this sport are: FINA World Aquatics Championships. To avoid splitting discussion, please leave your comments in at the linked discussion rather than here. Thryduulf (talk) 20:46, 17 September 2022 (UTC)