Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sports

Templates Help

Can someone please help me with the coding for Template:ParalympicNationRow I am no programmer and I can't work out what I have done wrong. There is an example on the template page. User:Yachty40000 (talk) 01:07, 16 Sept 2016 (UTC)

RfC on template display options

There is an RfC about a template that falls into the purview of this project. Your input is requested at the template's talk page. Primefac (talk) 14:46, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

With the holiday season over, I thought it might be worth bumping this discussion. Primefac (talk) 03:00, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

A series of AfDs

There is currently a series of bundled multi-page AfDs running, a list of which is at Template:2016-17 Sports event AfDs, in which wider input is highly encouraged. Deep and well-researched comments are especially welcome. 103.6.159.89 (talk) 01:37, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Please note the template is being constantly updated with new AfDs. So it would be helpful if interested editors watchlist it so that they may participate at the newer ones. 103.6.159.66 (talk) 02:05, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Please note that this template has been nominated for deletion. You may participate in the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2017 January 25#Template:2016-17 Sports event AfDs. — Jkudlick ⚓ t ⚓ c ⚓ s 00:35, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Mass deletion

A recent discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive941#User:Fram closed with the decision to mass-delete all biographies of living people created by user:SvG, probably over 16,000 in all, mostly sports people stubs. The rationale is that the stubs were generated in a slapdash manner, serious violations of BLP policy have been found and deleted, an unknown number of BLP violations remain, and it is just not practical to check all the stubs to ensure they accurately reflect what the sources say.

Most of the stubs have little value: the stub was generated from one line in a list of competitors in an event, and that one line is in a table entry in an article about the event. However, some articles will have value and should be userfied so they can be recreated after the mass deletion. Any comments at User:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up and volunteers to help with scripts to identify articles worth checking would be appreciated. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 13:55, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Missing topics list

My list of missing topics about sports is updated - Skysmith (talk) 18:40, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Texas–Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros listed at Requested moves

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16,000 BLPs moving out of mainspace

Hi. Some of you will be aware of an ongoing issue of BLP articles created by Sander.v.Ginkel. The background at ANI can be found here. The discussion on the cleanup can be found here. In short, 16,000 BLP articles are being moved out of the mainspace to draftspace. This has already started following a Bot Approval. This should be complete in the next 48hrs or so. Articles will remain in draft for 90 days. In that time, they can be checked, and if OK, moved back to the mainspace. Anything not checked after 90 days will be deleted automatically.

So how can you help? The BLPs are broken down by occupational area. If an one of these interests you, please help. Even if it is checking one article. Check the article that has been moved to draft that a) it meets the notability requirement of the occupational area in question and b) that the facts in the article are supported by the sources. This includes, but is not limited to, the dates of birth, who they represented, when they were active, etc. If there are elements that can not be supported by the sources, they must be removed. If you are happy with the article, then move it back into the mainspace. DO NOT move anything until you have checked the sources, or supplied other reliable sources to support information in the article that may not already be cited. More information can be found here.

This is not going to be an easy task. I don't think there's too much support to check 16,000+ articles and I suspect that most of them will be gone after 90 days. If you have any questions, please raise them here. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Precious bodily fluids} 11:46, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Sports Year articles too long

2014 in sports, 2015 in sports, 2016 in sports & 2017 in sports are way too long & can't be navigated. GoodDay (talk) 19:40, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Lets split it up into multiple articles and then keep the original as a navigation page? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 23:37, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

I'm not good at doing those things. But, I'll support it. GoodDay (talk) 04:13, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Lella Lombardi

Today would have been Lella Lombardi's 75th birthday; I've added her to March 26#Births. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:23, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

You're invited...

 Note: You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#Navigation boxes in coaching articles (again), which involves articles in your WikiProject, regarding the issue of whether or not the navboxes in coaching articles should be collapsed or stay as is. Please comment there and not here. Thanks, Corkythehornetfan (ping me) 06:00, 1 April 2017 (UTC)