Wikipedia:WikiProject Water sports

WikiProject Water sports
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This sports-related WikiProject is believed to be inactive.

Consider looking for related projects for help or ask at the Teahouse.
If you are not currently a project participant and wish to help you may still participate in the project. This status should be changed if collaborative activity resumes.

(Tag placed November 2020)

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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.

Introduction

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

Help & Guidelines

Participants

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

Name	Areas of interest	Location	Date joined
Pumpmeup (talk · contribs)	All sorts, especially kayaking		14 November 2007
09er (talk · contribs)	American College rowing history, sailing		18 January 2008
PhilKnight (talk · contribs)	windsurf, kitesurf		4 March 2008
Rauterkus (talk · contribs)	a swim coach and aquatic programming advocate	Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Alistairjh (talk · contribs)	swimming
HowardMorland (talk · contribs)	artificial whitewater courses	Arlington, VA, USA	18 February 2009
bodysurfinyon (talk · contribs)	bodysurfing		11 May 2009
Commit charge (talk · contribs)	very interested in making hollow wooden surfboards
Happysailor (talk · contribs)	Powerboating, Sailing (& Canoeing, Windsurfing)	Wales, UK	18 October 2009
John86uk (talk · contribs)	RNLI Crew member, Kayaking, Yacht & Dinghy Cruising/Racing)	Scotland, UK	05 June 2010
Oddbodz (talk · contribs)	Dinghy sailing & Dinghy racing	United Kingdom	15 April 2011
Rsteilberg (talk · contribs)	Sailing, boating, fishing, kayaking, canoeing, and probably much more that I can't remember.	United States	15 April 2011
Surfnavy (talk · contribs)	Wakeboarding, waterskiing, wake surfing, barefooting, & Surfing	United States	9 June 2011
JZCL (talk · contribs)	Water Polo	England	31 December 2011
MTimmins92 (talk · contribs)	RNLI, member of the taskforce, Sailing, Powerboating	Hertfordshire, United Kingdom	2 June 2012
Tavernsenses (talk · contribs)	windsurfing	Belgium	29 October 2012
DCSouthwick (talk · contribs)	Waterskiing, tournament and professional	United States	13 February 2013
Tellez Sr (talk · contribs)	Surfing, Bodysurfing, Swimming, Rafting/Kayaking	United States	08 April 2013
Ryanx7 (talk · contribs)	Rafting/Kayaking	California,United States	03 March 2014
Infamouse (talk · contribs)	Surfing, Windsurfing, Sailing, Fishing, Canoeing	Seattle,United States	13 August 2014
Theforgottenfischer (talk · contribs)	Water polo	Kampala,Uganda and Dana Point,United States	17 April 2016
Lithiumflash (talk · contribs)	Windsurfing	United States	30 April 2017
robliscoe (talk · contribs)	Underwater Hockey, Bog Snorkelling	UK	19 June 2019
hyperduc (talk · contribs)	Boating and all things motorized. Contributed heavily to Yamaha SuperJet.	USA	21 April 2011
Luzz (talk · contribs)	Anything related to Water Skiing.	ITA	29 March 2020
G. Moore (talk · contribs)	Fly fishing/Fly tying/Manufacturers of fly tying materials and tools	World	1 March 2021
Adam C F1 (talk · contribs)	Water Polo, Swimming and other pool sports	Ireland	17 February 2022
Pipinoiltop (talk · contribs)	Swimming	Italy	24 April 2023
Watersloth (talk · contribs)	Jetboarding, Efoiling, motorized board sports and PWC's	Denmark	8 August 2023

Userbox

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

This user is a participant in WikiProject Water sports

Articles

Article Statistics

Water sports articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				2			2
GA	1	1	1	4		2	9
B	5	10	18	128		43	204
C	8	20	40	168		85	321
Start	5	19	73	953		613	1,663
Stub		11	38	4,746		5,246	10,041
List	3	3	15	224	1	42	288
Category					1,404		1,404
Disambig					5		5
File					129		129
Project					9		9
Template				2	137		139
NA			6	35	205		246
Other					9		9
Assessed	22	64	191	6,262	1,899	6,031	14,469
Unassessed	1			22		493	516
Total	23	64	191	6,284	1,899	6,524	14,985
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 70,475			Ω = 5.76

Article Alerts

Articles for deletion

01 Nov 2024 – Marina Kazankova (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Анатолий Росдашин (t · c) was closed as keep by Liz (t · c) on 09 Nov 2024; see discussion (5 participants; relisted)

Articles for creation

undated – Draft:Karl Krüger (adventurer) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC

Featured articles (FA)

Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford)

Candidates

Good articles (GA)

Candidates

New articles

Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

Templates

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 Unassessed 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
???	This article has not yet received a rating 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..

Resources

Related portals

Portal:Underwater diving

Related projects

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.

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Water sports

Introduction

Scope

Task Forces

Goals

Open tasks

Help & Guidelines

Participants

Userbox

Articles

Article Statistics

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Candidates

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Candidates

New articles

Collaboration and review

Templates

Article Template

User Invite Template

Resources

Categories

Related portals

Related projects

Tools

Article Alerts

Featured articles (FA)

Good articles (GA)