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Advice for bot request

Hi. I have a current request for bot approval open, requesting authorisation to migrate {{needs football biography infobox}} to parameters in {{WPBiography}} and {{Football}}. A couple of questions...

Firstly, would it be useful for the bot to simultaneously fill in the class= field in {{Football}}, copying it from other such fields on the page?

Secondly, the bot will attempt to detect the presence of an infobox on the corresponding article page. If it does find an existing infobox, should it delete {{needs football biography infobox}} or list the page for review?

Thanks for your help!

[[Sam Korn]] (smoddy) 11:07, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

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Joe Louis

I've significantly re-worked the B-Class Joe Louis page and put it up for peer review. Any comments woudl be appreciated. BillTunell (talk) 19:18, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Samuel Peter

I am not a boxing person, but would someone perhaps take a look at Talk:Samuel Peter most recent post [from me]. Maybe someone more knowledgeable than I can deal with my question. --Dumarest (talk) 11:43, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Sportsperson of the Year (Czechoslovakia)

Hello, I would like to nominate the article Sportsperson of the Year (Czechoslovakia) for a Featured list. Before doing so, I listed it for a peer review and would like to invite everybody to express their opinions. It would really help me. Thank you very much. Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 22:15, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Update to Template:WPBiography

Please note that priority assessments for this work group are now added by using the |sports-priority= parameter in the {{WPBiography}} project banner. Please refer to Template:WikiProject Biography/doc for full instructions on how to use the banner, or feel free to ask any questions on the banner's talk page. PC78 (talk) 11:02, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cato June/archive1

Please feel free to comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cato June/archive1.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 21:21, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Add a category

I propose to add a category of "Olympic Team Doctors". These are nearly all already notable in some manner to get there, anyway. Feedback? Д-рСДжП,ДС 04:39, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Add to WPBiography all chess players

I'm a member of WP:CHESS and often review assessments. I just noticed some chess players have the sports-work-group=yes set, for example this, but others like this don't. Is it the idea to include all sports people in your project? In which case I can add sports-work-group=yes as I go along. SunCreator (talk) 22:47, 29 November 2009 (UTC)


Does anyone feel that certain other games, especially poker, bridge, and Go are appropiate games to include in this classification too? I would like to add some bios to this project workgroup. Jjd323 (talk) 11:03, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

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Unreferenced living people articles

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Proposed deletion of Archie McLeod

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Proposed deletion of Mark Osowski

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Talk:Steve Davis/GA1

Steve Davis is going through a GA review, and is on hold for 14 days to allow time to deal with the issues listed on the review page. SilkTork *Tea time 13:13, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs - the final surge

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Thank you for any assistance you can provide. The-Pope (talk) 15:47, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Reversion of article name change request

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Adrián González#Requested move. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 18:54, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Pro gamers

At new article patrol, I have noticed in recent days that editor Redefining history has been creating several articles/templates on professional "DotA" players. As this is being called "electronic sports", I assume that it falls within the purview of this project. Knowing next to nothing of this stuff, I find these articles completely incomprehensible (which is not what an encyclopedia is for, I think). I also ignore completely whether these people are notable or whether the sources used are reliable. Perhaps somebody in this project would care to take a look at these articles and clean them up or propose them for deletion, as the case may be. Thanks. --Crusio (talk) 10:51, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Typography of combined units as adjectives

Hello. What are acceptable styles and what are recommended styles:

  • The 6-foot-8-inch (2.03 m) Sportsman ...
  • The 6 feet 8 inches (2.03 m) Sportsman ...
  • The 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) Sportsman ...

Best regards --Diwas (talk) 20:22, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Lincecum GAR

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Christoph Bertschy and Christopher Bertschy

These articles seem to be about the same person. --Mika1h (talk) 12:50, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Nevermind, I merged them. --Mika1h (talk) 13:00, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Improvement at Evangelos Marinakis

Please help improve Evangelos Marinakis as it needs some good work to bring it to acceptably meeting WP:N and WP:V (not to mention WP:BLP). There are several suggested references posted on the talk page which may help in improving it. Any help is appreciated as I know nothing about the topic myself. Thanks! ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 06:14, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

Autographs in infoboxes

Wayne Gretzky's infobox template doesn't allow for an image of his signature/autograph. Other celebrity infobox templates have them. Do we want to add them to sports templates? I don't really care but the commons does have one for Mr. Gretzky.--Canoe1967 (talk) 16:01, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

John Houck COI

People might want to keep an eye on both the essentially unreferenced BLP John Houck and the related Millennium (Disc Golf). They seem to be edited largely by either Houck or someone associated with him under a series of usernames - see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dleekha. Le Deluge (talk) 14:31, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Frank LeMaster

Folks, we have received an e-mail at OTRS from Frank LeMaster asking that his details be corrected:

I was reviewing your website about my statistics and found an error about the number of consecutive games played without missing a game. I played for 9 years from 1974 to 1981 I played 16 games x 8 years=128 games, in 1982 we had a strike where I played 9 games=137, I also played 7 playoff games=A total of 144 games

Would someone take a look and update accordingly? Thanks.--ukexpat (talk) 14:50, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Request for name change reversion

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Gordon Paiʻea Chung-Hoon. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 10:06, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

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Good article reassessment for Hope Solo article

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Tom Simpson peer review

I have requested a peer review for Tom Simpson. If anyone has a chance, could you please head over and give some feedback. Cheers, BaldBoris 00:56, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Human height

Just seeking a wider range of input from informed persons at Template_talk:Height#rfc_97AACED.--Gibson Flying V (talk) 01:19, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Requesting for more editors to join in discussion at Talk:Adelina Sotnikova

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Request for assistance

An editor is trying to alter the first sentence of Monica Seles article, by putting the Hu name before the Sr name [1]. Can you please intervene? 79.117.171.50 (talk) 22:55, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Jersey number issue.

Requesting opinion on Talk:De'Anthony_Thomas#Number. Website's roster says jersey is #1. Another user says it cannot be per NFL rules. Would like some outside, but knowledgeable, opinions. Please comment on linked talk page. EvergreenFir (talk) 02:21, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

New article

I just created the stub Abe Hawkins. Would someone take a look at it to see if I missed anything important. Otr500 (talk) 10:55, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Trey Burke/archive1

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Trey Burke/archive1 has been open for 2 and a half weeks without any substantive commentary.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:11, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention

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RM: Barry Davis (amateur wrestler)

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Ancient Olympians

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Support for Tom Simpson FAC

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Discussion on final image selection tweaks at Jahlil Okafor

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GAR for Frank Tarr

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About baseball pitchers

I think that, all articles about baseball pitchers should have WHIP on the infoboxes. Also basic statistics during their professional baseball career should be included just like Japanese Wikipedia does (see ja:則本昂大 for example), since by doing so readers do not have to take time reading statistics posted on external websites (e.g. MLB or ESPN) to know a pitcher's ERA or WHIP in a particular year. What do you think?--RekishiEJ (talk) 16:17, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to add draft, file and redirect classes for WP Biography

I started a proposal to add draft, file and redirect classes for all WP Biography articles here. This would first help organize the half dozen or so drafts from the 270 or so articles at Category:NA-Class biography (sports and games) articles so we can identify the draft articles more easily. Please comment there. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:46, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Oliver Byrne

I came across Oliver Byrne while working off Category:Articles needing link rot cleanup. I tried to cleanup the whatever links I could find, but some of the older The Irish Times articles require a subscription to access. So, I'm wondering if anyone in WP:IE can access them and either fix the bare URLs themselves or post them on Talk:Oliver Byrne for me. Also, I tried cleaning up the article a bit, but I'm not too familiar with Byrne or Irish soccer. The article sort of reads like a rap sheet by focusing on his legal problems, so I think it could do with a bit of reorganizing, balancing and expanding. Byrne seems to have been notable enough and successful enough so that there should be more to add about his accomplishments in Irish soccer or his personal life. I just can't seem to find sources that I can access. Thanks in advance. - Marchjuly (talk) 05:42, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

You're invited...

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Ana Ivanovic move attempt

FYI, there is a request to move Ana Ivanovic to Ana Ivanović. Comment if you wish. Fyunck(click) (talk) 08:59, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

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Nomination of Jenna Fife for deletion

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The use of self-published sources in cue-sport articles

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Bojan Djordjic move request

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Leonardo da Silva Moura

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Proposed deletion of Peter Vogler

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Ronald Poulton

Hello, I recently picked up the GA review of Ronald Poulton, unfortunately it looks like the user who submitted it (Funky Canute) has retired from Wikipedia and has not participated in the initial portion of the review. I was wondering if anyone from this project would be interested in stepping up and working on the article? It's been open for a while and I'll leave the GA review open for a couple of days more. If you are interested please respond on the Talk:Ronald Poulton/GA1 page. Thank you.  MPJ-DK  19:51, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of James Milner

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Alexander Cartwright

Can someone rewrite the article for Alexander Cartwright? The article needs be better research and reflect modern scholarly consensus on the subject.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 18:30, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

Islam Siam

The article been tagged for notability since 2008. I'm not sure if the article meets WP:NFOOTY. Would appreciate some input on the subject's notability. K.e.coffman (talk) 19:55, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Former everything

Hi, I'm wondering if it's an internal and/or external MoS standard to refer to sportpeople as "former"? I saw one, and thought it was strange as I wouldn't refer to a "former architect" or "former musician", and I went to change it but justincase I checked for other instances, and found a lot of them, e.g. Canadian former and English former and etc. Hence my question! I guess this might be related to "retirement from professional/paid participation in the activity" or something? Thanks. Quiddity (talk) 03:27, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Para-athletes at able-bodied nationals

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Yūki Ōgimi page

I understand that Yuki Ogimi has divorced her husband and so is going back to use her maiden name of Yuki Nagasato in the 2016-17 season. I think it will be appropriate to revert all her page in various languages back to her original name, but I'm not sure how can we do it. Any experts advice? Frankie goh (talk) 18:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Good Article Reassessment of Tom Hawkins (footballer)

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Requested move of "Bobby Harris (gridiron football)"

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Referee

Hi. I would like to start a task force for referees, umpires and other sports officials. Would there be any objection to making it a subpage of this taskforce. AIRcorn (talk) 03:04, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Requested move of "Gennadi Yermakov"

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RFC on tennis player Andy Murray (Scottish/British)

There is an ongoing RfC to determine whether Andy Murray is a Scottish or British tennis player. Please lend a hand at the Andy Murray British tennis player or Scottish tennis player RfC. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 10:09, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Good Article reassessment for Sam Fuld

G'day ladies and gentlemen, the article on Sam Fuld, a professional baseball player, has been nominated for a Good Article reassessment. Any editor who is interested in taking part in the review, is invited to join the discussion here: Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Sam Fuld/1. Thank you for your time. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 03:33, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fia Tootoo

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Proposed deletion of Ihab El-Lebedy

The article Ihab El-Lebedy has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

dependent on only one source which is not reliable and also lacks notability.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. BSOleader (talk) 14:33, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Roger Federer: Should we include the term "male" to Greatest of All-Time?

Since you are listed as a project of interest, please consider joining in the discussion on whether or not to include the term "male" to Greatest of All-time at Talk:Roger Federer. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 18:54, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Eilish Redmond for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Eilish Redmond is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eilish Redmond until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BSOleader (talk • contribs) 16:42, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Removing gay athletes from gay categories

User:Kevin_McE is wholly invested in removing the entry Colin_Jackson from the appropriate LGBT sportspeople categories, using what I can only describe as a nonsensical argument that Jackson doesn't belong in the category because he's identifying as gay is irrelevant to his public life - despite the fact that he's come out and did so in a public venue (on TV no less). Jackson previously denied being gay, and the entry has covered his denial for years. It makes sense that it must now acknowledge his admission. Kevin insists on not accepting that point. Can you all please add your two cents on the Talk Page to the entry? Thanks. Rafe87 (talk) 16:04, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

I don't know why Rafe87 has thought fit to raise this here: maybe there is grounds for discussion at WP:CATEGRS, the relevant policy. Kevin McE (talk) 21:11, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Gail Kim

Gail Kim, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 09:36, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Move request for Ana Ivanovic

There is a request to move tennis icon Ana Ivanovic to Ana Ivanović. Join in if interested. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 00:49, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Rod Laver RfC

For those who edit tennis articles, there is an ongoing Rod Laver RfC that affects article ledes at Talk:Rod Laver. Fyunck(click) (talk) 21:13, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Brett Favre

Brett Favre, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AIRcorn (talk) 22:30, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Ray Emery FAR =

I have nominated Ray Emery for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Teemu08 (talk) 20:01, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Tom Pryce nationality

There is a discussion concerning Tom Pryce, a featured article associated with this project, taking place at Talk:Tom Pryce#Nationality in infobox for those interested. -- DeFacto (talk). 17:03, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

As this doesn't seem to be a very active page I've added the same notice to the parent project too. -- DeFacto (talk). 08:36, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Aaron Hernandez article

Opinions are needed on the following: Talk:Aaron Hernandez#Update. A permalink for it is here. The discussion concerns Hernandez's sexuality and how much detail to include on it, and WP:In-text attribution. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 03:43, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:LeBron James for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:LeBron James is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:LeBron James until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 02:14, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Requested move

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Hassan Chaito (footballer, born 1991) that would benefit from your opinion. Please come and help! Paine Ellsworth, ed. put'r there  13:30, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

OLY as honorific suffix

An editor has been adding OLY as an honorific suffix in multiple BLPs of sportspersons, e.g. [2], [3], [4], [5], etc. I was wondering if there is any consensus for or against such edits. - NitinMlk (talk) 20:17, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Charles David “Bud” Butte

I think you can add him, here you can find a biography, he's famous as "the father of italian baseball".. --2.226.12.134 (talk) 07:47, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Requested move_2

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Santiago Bernabéu Yeste that would benefit from your opinion. Please come and help! Paine Ellsworth, ed. put'r there  10:27, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Booth Lusteg#Researching Booth Lusteg

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Booth Lusteg#Researching Booth Lusteg. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:08, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Sport bio infobox

What is up with the sports bio infoboxes. The sportmans name are outside the box itself. Is that something new or is there a problem?.--BabbaQ (talk) 18:05, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Frederick Alexander (cricketer)

There are comments at Talk:Frederick Alexander (cricketer) concerning notability. Otr500 (talk) 09:33, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

How to phrase text about LeBron James being considered the greatest basketball player of all time?

Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:LeBron James#Removing Michael Jordan from Lebron's introduction - phrasing of sentence for GOAT. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 22:08, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Featured article review CM Punk

I have nominated CM Punk for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:13, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Requested move

A requested move at Talk:Catherine Bott (footballer) has been reopened and relisted. Your opinion would be greatly appreciated. Please come and help! PI Ellsworth  ed. put'r there 06:11, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Mike Jackson

Mike Jackson (right-handed pitcher), an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Therapyisgood (talk) 19:49, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Ryan Hanigan

Ryan Hanigan, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Therapyisgood (talk) 21:42, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Archery

Please provide your views here - Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Archery - on whether or not you think we should create a WikiProject Archery. Helper201 (talk) 20:54, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Chris Gragg FAR

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Gilberto Silva FAR

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RM discussion at Chris Mullin

All - There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Chris Mullin#Requested move 22 August 2020 concerning an American basketball player. Please feel free to join in if you are so inclined. Rikster2 (talk) 20:41, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

How important is religion in sports?

Is "first Muslim" in a sporting event a thing? I don't see that for other religions. Even Template:Infobox person removed the religion parameter from it. Please discuss at Talk:Khabib Nurmagomedov#First Muslim to win UFC title. Share your views.--2409:4073:97:E01:9437:2B45:4023:AA9 (talk) 08:26, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

M Hagler

Practicing style. 1 day at recent deaths left. Bokoharamwatch (talk) 15:29, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

FAR for Paul Stastny

I have nominated Paul Stastny for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 20:17, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Name parameter {{Infobox sportsperson}}

The guideline says: «If this parameter is omitted, the name of the article is used.» Which in my way of understanding means that, in the event that the name of the person is the same as that of the article, it is recommended to omit it. However, I am undergoing systematic reverts by a user who instead believes it is necessary to add it. How should I behave? --Kasper2006 (talk) 15:19, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Ezequiel Matthysse

Review this article Draft:Ezequiel Matthysse and published Emat20211 (talk) 13:35, 31 May 2021 (UTC)Emat20211

Shawn Michaels Good Article Reassessment

Shawn Michaels, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. --Whiteguru (talk) 12:38, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Aubrey Huff Good Article Reassessment

Aubrey Huff, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. --Whiteguru (talk) 01:30, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

Jack Hobbs (footballer) GA Reassessment

Jack Hobbs (footballer), an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. --Whiteguru (talk) 12:34, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Marcell Jacobs sudden popularity led to too much confusion in the article

I created the article year ago and kept it until before the Olympics following the rules of Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics and the Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics/Manual of Style/Biographies. Now I will arrange the article step by step according to the MOS of the project and detailing every single change in the "edit summary" of the article after each modification. But I'll go into more detail on my edits, explaining its, in this section.

  1. In the MOS first goes the biography section (which eventually includes the career section) and then the statistics section. --Kasper2006 (talk) 21:52, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
  2. World, European and National records need a specific section in the Statistics section. --Kasper2006 (talk) 21:56, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
  3. Also national titles need a specific section in the Statistics section. --Kasper2006 (talk) 21:58, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
  4. Add Others international meetings section (why national meetings and not Diamond League?) --Kasper2006 (talk) 22:06, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Notification of FAR for Doug Ring with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948

I have nominated Doug Ring with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. RunningTiger123 (talk) 16:40, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

AfD discussion

An AfD discussion that may be of interest to this project has been started. Editors may wish to comment, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Doug Ring with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 (2nd nomination). Thank you. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 21:59, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Mika Salo paid editing

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see Talk:Mika Salo#Discussion of "paid contributions" template – some input would be helpful from people familiar with the subject.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:52, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Stefan Mitrović#Requested move 26 December 2021

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Stefan Mitrović#Requested move 26 December 2021 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. — Shibbolethink (♔ ♕) 17:20, 26 December 2021 (UTC) — Shibbolethink (♔ ♕) 17:21, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Matt McCullough

Can someone who knows rugby improve this a bit? I can revert the latest IP edit for being unverified--but the whole article is a mess anyway. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 15:58, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Alpine Skiing World Cup race podiums

Mikaela Shiffrin
Sport
CountryUSA
SportAlpine skiing
Medal record
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Slalom 47 11 8
Giant slalom 14 7 9
Super-G 4 1 3
Downhill 2 1 2
Combined 1 0 0
Parallel 5 1 1
Total 73 21 23

At the end of each ski world cup competition, the first three athletes are awarded. Ok, no medals are awarded, but the placements in the top three are considered podiums in careers. Ok the "medal count" template speaks of "medals" and in the World Cup medals are not awarded to the first three as in the Olympics or the World Cup, but the count of podiums in the world cup would be useful information, as it is in other Wikipedia like the German one. Do not tell me that the infobox already contains the information of podiums and victories, because it does not contain the details. So I ask what harm it would be to put this additional information in the infobox since it is almost never in the body of the athletes article? --Kasper2006 (talk) 17:46, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

World Cup race podiums in Infobox of the alpine skiers

Discussion. --Kasper2006 (talk) 17:08, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Redirect - Marlon (footballer, born 1995)

Hello. This title redirects to Marlon, a name list article. There are about 18 articles that link to this redirect-to-a-disambiguation-page, most of them being sports biographies. Thought I would bring this to your attention in case anyone wanted to take on this relatively small wiki-link repair activity. Thanks. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 18:46, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

FAR notice

I have nominated Tom Pryce for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 08:01, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Ray Byars § Date format

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Ray Byars § Date format. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:52, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for James Milner

James Milner has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:20, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Curtis Joseph

Curtis Joseph has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 00:20, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Zarina Diyas

Zarina Diyas has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 20:38, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Request move participation: athlete Laslo Đere → Laslo Djere

Please join in the move discussion of athlete Laslo Đere → Laslo Djere at Talk:Laslo Đere. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 23:44, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Red Auerbach

Red Auerbach has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 21:19, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Juan Martín del Potro

Juan Martín del Potro has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:00, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

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