Proposed format of the Global Sports Cleanup Contest
Hello, and welcome to the Global Sports Cleanup Contest! This is a two-month backlog drive from [month] to [month] dedicated towards the improvement of poor-quality sports articles. The main tasks are expanding stub-class biographical articles and providing WP:SIGCOV[a] for the notable topics, while nominating for deletion articles which are not notable. Barnstars and other awards will be given out. Have fun!
The judges will be BeanieFan11 (talk · contribs · email) and [Name]. Feel free to reach out to them or on the talk page if you have any questions.
Stub lists
editList of stubs by topic - to list all sports with decent amounts of qualifying articles
- Olympics (A to K · L to Z)
- Lugnuts[b] (by country (A to J · J to Z)[c] · by sport (A to G · G to M · M to Z · Z to Z) · by sport WikiProject (Athletics · Australian Sports · Badminton · Basketball · Biathlon · Boxing · Canadian sport · Cricket · Cycling · Fencing · Figure skating · Association football · Golf · Gymnastics · Handball · Ice Hockey · Martial arts · Olympics · Pakistan Super League · Professional wrestling · Referees[d] · Rowing · Rugby union · Running · Sailing · Skiing and Snowboarding · Softball · Speed skating · Sport[e] · Swimming · Tennis · Triathlon · Volleyball · Water sports[f] · Women's sport) · BLPs)
Awards
editA list of all the different awards to be given out - I plan normal barnstars, like e.g. The Original Barnstar, but also want to create a few new ones for this task, e.g. The Lugstub Barnstar
The judges of the contest will hand out awards following the end of the drive to participants who earned points. The following will be the awards, and their requirements:
General
At least 1 point: WikiCookie
At least 3 points: Invisible Barnstar
At least 6 points: The Minor Barnstar
At least 10 points: The Modest Barnstar
At least 15 points: The Original Barnstar
At least 20 points The Editor's Barnstar
At least 30 points: The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
At least 50 points: The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
At least 75 points: All-Around Amazing Barnstar
At least 150 points: The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
Additionally, the person who accumulates the most points in the competition will be given the Golden Wiki Award!
Category-specific
[barnstars]
At least 25 points in the category of BLPs: The BLP Barnstar
At least 15 points in the category of referencing[h]: The Citation Barnstar
At least 25 points in the category of stub expansion: The Stub Barnstar
At least 20 points in the category of article expansion / referencing and 20 points in the category of article deletion nominations: The Winnowing Fan Barnstar
At least 25 points in the category of article deletion nominations: The Eraser Barnstar
For users with at least a 90% success rate in 20 or more deletion nominations[i]: The Barnstar of Dilligence
Sport-specific
At least 20 points in the category of American football: The American Football Barnstar
At least 15 points in the category of the sport of athletics: The Running Wikipedian Barnstar
At least 15 points in the category of badminton: The Badminton Barnstar
At least 20 points in the category of baseball: The Baseball Barnstar
At least 15 points in the category of basketball: The Basketball Barnstar
At least 20 points in the category of cricket: The Cricket Barnstar
At least 15 points in the category of cue sports: The Cue sports Barnstar
At least 15 points in the category of fencing: The Fencing Barnstar
At least 20 points in the category of association football: The Football Barnstar
At least 15 points in the category of golf: The Golf Barnstar
At least 15 points in the category of handball: The Handball Barnstar
At least 20 points in the category of hockey: The Hockey Barnstar
At least 25 points in the category of the Olympic Games: The Olympics Barnstar
At least 15 points in the category of referees: The Referee Barnstar
At least 15 points in the category of table tennis: The Table tennis Barnstar
At least 15 points in the category of volleyball: The Volleyball Barnstar
At least 15 points in the category of water polo: The Water Polo Barnstar
At least 15 points in the category of professional wrestling: The Professional Wrestling Star
Scoring system
editAll the different ways to earn points - still in construction
- The primary goal of this drive is to improve existing poor-quality sports articles. To qualify for points, the article should be from one of the stub lists above. However, if you believe you have improved an article not from the stub lists that qualifies for points, you may still claim it and the judges will determine whether it counts.
Base points
- For every sports article having a WP:SIGCOV source added, thus satisfying WP:SPORTCRIT, one (1) point is awarded.[j]
- Four (4) points are rewarded for every article expanded significantly.
- To determine what a "significant" expansion counts as, we will use the Did you know? criteria of 1,500 bytes of readable prose[k]
- For every article successfully nominated for deletion from the lists of stubs, one (1) point is awarded – this includes articles which were deleted, redirected or merged, but not those closed as no consensus.
- If the result was unanimous, with every !voter suggesting to delete, redirect or merge, then two (2) points will be awarded
Bonus points
- Articles which were previously unreferenced will receive three times as many base points.
- Further, if the article is a biography of a living person (BLP), it will receive 1.5 times as many base points, and if the BLP was previously un-referenced, it will receive four times as many base points.
- If the article was created by Lugnuts, it will receive 2.5 times as many base points.
- If the article was one of Lugnuts' draftified creations, it will be worth four times as many base points.
- Articles created prior to 2018 will be worth twice as many base points, those created prior to 2013 will be worth 2.5 times as many base points, and articles created prior to 2008 will receive three times as many base points.
Open AFDs
editA list of active AFDs from this project for participants to comment on
Participants
editTo join, sign your name with four tildes (~~~~) below.
Scores
editA list of participants, with similar formatting to Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/GAN Backlog Drives/August 2023
Example user
editReferencing / expansion
editAFD
editNotes
edit- ^ Due to WP:NSPORT's requirement at WP:SPORTCRIT to provide significant coverage for all sports biography articles.
- ^ Lugnuts was known for creating enormous quantities of short stubs on athletes and was ultimately site-banned for a number of reasons. His articles have been the target of WP:LUGSTUBS and WP:LUGSTUBS2 proposals for mass draftifications. There are bonus points and an emphasis placed on Lugnuts-created articles as they could be targeted in similar RFCs.
- ^ Country lists are incomplete, particularly for the United Kingdom and the United States. This issue is being worked on.
- ^ Mainly cricket.
- ^ Mainly bobsled.
- ^ Mainly canoeing.
- ^ Through WP:LUGSTUBS and WP:LUGSTUBS2.
- ^ This includes adding significant coverage to articles needing it, and expanding unreferenced articles
- ^ No consensus closures do not affect the percentages.
- ^ This only includes articles which had no prior sources of significant coverage.
- ^ For articles that begin with over 300 bytes of prose, the requirement will be a five-fold expansion of readable prose.