Wikipedia:WikiProject Water sports

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WikiProject Water sports

Shortcuts	WP:WPWS, WP:H20
Categories	Water sports, WikiProject Water sports
Wikimedia Commons	Water sports
Parent project(s)	Sports
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Water sports}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Water sports}}
Assessment	Wikipedia:WikiProject Water sports/Assessment

Welcome to WikiProject Water sports. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of water sports and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic.

If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Scope

Every subject that involves sport, games or other activities in conjunction with (under, on or over) water.

Task Forces

• RNLI Task Force

Goals

WikiProject Water sports has a few longstanding goals, which are in place to provide a direction for expansion.

• To ensure that all marine-activity related articles are always expanding and being improved.
• Establish a large, active member base.

Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Water sports: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2020-08-29 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : You can help by tagging the talk pages of all articles in Category:Water sports with our talk page banner: {{WikiProject Water sports}} Cleanup : Cleanup Surfboard Expand : Rename/improve/expand ripcurl, Grain Surfboards; find and add reliable references Photo : need better pictures of a windsurfing universal joint (hourglass and tendon type). One photo is currently in Coupling, but it's not an ideal photo. Split : Windsurfing related items: make dedicated articles for Windsurfing board (such as article for Surfboard), Mast (windsurfing), and Fin (windsurfing) (such as article for Surfboard fin) Unreferenced : Improve/find references for Howard Rice

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Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Userbox

Please feel free to add {{User WikiProject Water sports}} to your user page:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Water sports

Article Statistics

Water sports articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				2			2
GA	1	1	2	4		2	10
B	5	8	12	44		6	75
C	8	14	28	127		63	240
Start	5	14	43	899		594	1,555
Stub		10	39	4,723		5,217	9,989
List		5	10	219	1	42	277
Category					1,364		1,364
Disambig					5		5
File					128		128
Project					8		8
Template				2	133		135
NA			1	33	199		233
Other					12		12
Assessed	19	52	135	6,053	1,850	5,924	14,033
Unassessed	1			4	2	543	550
Total	20	52	135	6,057	1,852	6,467	14,583
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 68,914			Ω = 5.81

Article Alerts

Articles for deletion

• 27 Apr 2024 – Tyler Lawlor (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 25 Apr 2024 – Artificial wave (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Boleyn (t · c): This doesn't appear to be a clear concept, and has no references

Articles for creation

• 27 Jan 2024 – Draft:Volodymyr Lisovets (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ілля Криворучко (t · c)

Featured articles (FA)

• Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford)

Candidates

Good articles (GA)

• 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
• Neil Brooks
• Peter Evans (swimmer)
• Theresa Goh
• Mark Kerry
• Tao Li
• Quietly Confident Quartet
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre butterfly
• Henry Taylor (swimmer)
• Mark Tonelli
• Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
• Yip Pin Xiu

Candidates

New articles

• Outline of canoeing and kayaking
• Surfboard
• Paddle float
• Paddle leash
• Whitewater canoeing
• 200 metre individual medley
• Wing foiling

Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

Article Template

{{WikiProject Water sports}} is our main tag for article pages. There's no need to use it if one of our sub-project's template is already there. The template looks like:

Water sports NA‑class Top‑importance

WikiProject Water sports is within the scope of the WikiProject Water sports, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Water sports. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.Water sportsWikipedia:WikiProject Water sportsTemplate:WikiProject Water sportsWater sports articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

User Invite Template

To invite an editor to participate in WikiProject Water sports, please incite them to the project with the following template.

To place the template on a users talk page, just use: {{Watersports invite}}

Hello WikiProject Water sports. Given your interest in Water sports related articles, you are cordially invited to participate in WikiProject Water sports, a project dedicated on improving Wikipedia's coverage and detail regarding Water sports articles. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks that you can help with..

Categories

• List of all subpages of this page

Related portals

• Portal:Underwater diving

Related projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Canoeing and Kayaking
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Rowing
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Sailing
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Swimming
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Swimming/Water polo work group
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Underwater diving

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.