Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Orienteering/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Archive 2

I have enabled the article assessments table, so a manual list of articles is no longer necessary. I have also tagged a whole bunch of articles; in a few days the assessments table will be updated to include them. The Index, Statistics, and Log links above the table are helpful navigational aids. Although I tagged the articles, for most of them I did not assess Class nor Importance. Also, I have not tagged most articles about individual orienteers. --Una Smith (talk) 22:34, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

 Done, all articles have now been tagged, if didn't miss any. The article table will soon be updated accordingly. --Kslotte (talk) 12:45, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

I've made a user box for the project

{{User:ARBAY/Userboxes/WikiProjectOrienteering}}

Should this be moved to the main page? ARBAY TALKies

 Done This is now done ARBAY TALKies —Preceding comment was added at 11:31, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

To display this Wikipedia userbox on your own Wikipedia User page, edit your page and put the code {{User:UBX/Orienteer}} on it. To see a list of Wikipedia users who display this userbox, go to its template page and click its What links here, or use this direct link. --Una Smith (talk) 07:11, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

This userbox should be moved under WikiProject Orienteering category and placed on main page. --Kslotte (talk) 16:39, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

 Done, moving is not needed according to Wikipedia:UM. --Kslotte (talk) 12:43, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

		WikiProject Orienteering Barnstar
		I award you the WikiProject Orienteering Barnstar for Significant contributions to Orienteering articles. [[User:]]

Should this be moved to the main page? ARBAY TALKies

 Done - moved to Wikiproject page Anonymous101 (talk) 18:34, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

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Anyone have the creativity to make icons for orienteering stubs, including it's subtemplates orienteering biography, orienteering Finnish biography, orienteering Swedish biography and orienteering Norwegian biography? --Kslotte (talk) 11:15, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

User Radagast added a logo for orienteering stubs, but I didn't find good looking. A black border is needed for the control symbol. --Kslotte (talk) 12:48, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

More icons is needed for the the upcoming stubs. --Kslotte (talk) 12:49, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

• Stub list up-to-date --Kslotte (talk) 19:22, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm in progress making all of these. --Kslotte (talk) 12:45, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

 Done Hope you like the results --Kslotte (talk) 20:50, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Looks fine to me! Good job. Oceanh (talk) 00:54, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Rogaining has been tagged re notability and neologism. Please help rescue this article. --Una Smith (talk) 17:49, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

 Done This aren't anymore an issue.--Kslotte (talk) 23:31, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

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Hi! Why do you insert infobox template in some orieteers-page (e.g. Jana Cieslarová, Johanna_Allston, Jamie Stevenson, Kiril Nikolov and may be other). This template looks very bad.

Please, use MedalTable template like in Šárka Svobodná, Dana Brožková, Minna Kauppi, Valentin Novikov and in most of orieteers-articles.

Thanks for comprehension, Dnikitin (talk) 14:44, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I THINK THIS SHOULD BE A DISCUSSION THAT SHOULD BE PROJECT WISE AS SUCH I WILL COPY THIS TO THE WP ORIENTEERING TALKPAGE OKAYARBAY (talk) 15:54, 16 July 2008 (UTC) I think we all need to make a decision on this as it effects the whole project ARBAY (talk) 15:54, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

My opinion. Date and place of birth do not belong in the orienteer infobox. In fact, I don't think they belong in the article at all, at least not for orienteers who are still alive. See Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. --Una Smith (talk) 22:30, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Is this a consensus and do you think we should all take steps to remove this Birth data or change it so it refers just to year of Birth? ARBAY (talk) 10:41, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons is a Wikipedia policy, not a guideline. It should be followed. What relevance does birth date and place have to these orienteers' competition records? --Una Smith (talk) 14:46, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

I agree that there need not be infoboxes with dates of birth, etc. for orienteers. For most of the biographies a medal table should be sufficient. Infoboxes seem to be tailored mostly for team sports, where club membership and achievements for the club is important. Orienteering is an individual sport, and in championship relays they represent their countries, not their clubs. (Events with club relays, such as Tiomila or Jukola, can eventually be mentioned in the text, but not in infoboxes).

Whether dates of birth is to be included in the article, should rather be discussed at WP:BIO, and projects like this should follow common practice and policy. Reading WP:BLP, it states that information like birthdates should not be picked from primary sources, only when already published in reliable secondary sources. For notable athletes published player's profiles will often contain this information (but not always). Oceanh (talk) 18:12, 19 July 2008 (UTC).

Could an Orienteer Infobox be created ,so that it is tailored to the needs of this projectARBAY (talk) 11:40, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

I do not see a problem with using either template. I think that {{Infobox Athlete}} is better if info like date of birth can be found at a reliable secondary source. I think {{MedalTable}} should be used when that information is not available at a reliaable secondary source. Anonymous101 (talk) 18:58, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

So should all DOB be removed ?ARBAY (talk) 11:34, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

I think so. At least cite only the year of birth. --Una Smith (talk) 17:02, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

I edited Template:WikiProject Orienteering to change the text on the project banner that is displayed on talk pages. Now the banner directs readers to this talk page, as well as the project page. That should help us improve participation. --Una Smith (talk) 17:12, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Are we able to still add the Assessment to-do list? I found the template someway confusing. Are someone able to add it? --Kslotte (talk) 12:55, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

 Done --Kslotte (talk) 18:46, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

I created the stub Control point (orienteering); please help to expand it. --Una Smith (talk) 06:38, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

No longer a stub, good work everyone.  Done --Kslotte (talk) 20:52, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Lots of new and newly improved articles! See Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Orienteering articles by quality log for a list. --Una Smith (talk) 16:49, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

We need a navbox for orienteering concepts, styles, and formats, but the appropriate name {{Orienteering}} is occupied by a redirect to the navbox for this project! I propose changing all links to Template:Orienteering to links to Template:WikiProject Orienteering, then changing Template:Orienteering into a new navbox. --Una Smith (talk) 15:12, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Mostly done. --Una Smith (talk) 22:32, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I did quite much of linking and navbox organization, see navbox section and my 100+ contributions. Kslotte (talk) 14:59, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

 Done Some more organization done of navboxes and categories --Kslotte (talk) 23:02, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Anybody want to write article about Orienteering on the World Games? http://orienteering.org/i3/index.php?/iof2006/events/foot_orienteering/the_world_games

Something like World Orienteering Championships or Junior World Orienteering Championships -- included results, dates, host towns.

--Dnikitin (talk) 10:32, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

 Done Good idea. I started an article, Orienteering at the World Games. Oceanh (talk) 01:03, 12 January 2009 (UTC).

Thanks, Oceanh! --Dnikitin (talk) 17:06, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

(Content moved to article . --Una Smith (talk) 15:17, 15 October 2008 (UTC))

 Done This is all that I can find at the moment. Twiceuponatime (talk) 10:59, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Discussion moved from main page to talk --Kslotte (talk) 13:28, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

I had some thoughts about listify orienteering articles. I have an open helpdesk question about the issue. Feel free to comment. --Kslotte (talk) 23:19, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

In planing are:

• List of notable orienteers
• List of orienteering nations
• List of orienteering clubs
• List of orienteers by nation
• List of all orienteers

--Kslotte (talk) 17:18, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

I like categories better than raw lists. To be better than a category, a list needs some added value. Some comparative information for each entry, such as date each orienteering club was founded, or some such. --Una Smith (talk) 06:43, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

WP:AOAL --Kslotte (talk) 07:35, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Lists are an alternative to categories. --Kslotte (talk) 10:24, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Created clubs and orienteers in progress. Plans still to make a list of orienteering nations, based on the IOF member list. I assume there exist orienteering in countries that aren't IOF members. So, it would be a more neutral list of nations. --Kslotte (talk) 11:05, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Like Una Smith I prefer categories to lists, mainly because of the workload needed to keep them up to date. 'List of nations' is going to be an (almost) duplication of IOF members so probably has little or no value. List of clubs includes 'English Orienteering Council' which is a National body not a club. I am impressed with the List of orienteers although I cannot see any use for it for me. Twiceuponatime (talk) 13:21, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

I have an idea how we might make this more useful and interesting; please see Talk:List of orienteers. --Una Smith (talk) 14:35, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

 Done Lists made: International  · Nations  · Clubs  · Orienteers (by country)  · Events --Kslotte (talk) 13:04, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

I will take a look for solutions to keep them up-to-date. Maybe taking a look at some bots. One thing is the include a 'See also' section in biographies. --Kslotte (talk) 13:04, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

 Done Instructions and further development instructions filled in on talk page. --Kslotte (talk) 16:36, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Some differences compared to what planned. But I'm satisfied with the results. --Kslotte (talk) 16:36, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Proposing re-creation of a organization stub for orienteering, with corresponding category named 'Orienteering organization stubs'. Currently there are total of 14 clubs and 36 nation organizations. That means a total of 50 orienteering organizations. I estimate that about 25 of these meats the criteria for a stub. Any objections for a re-creation of the stub? --Kslotte (talk) 11:05, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

I would not bother. I prefer to use the project assessment template on the talk pages to keep track of stubs within the project. The summary table (displayed at the top of Wikipedia:WikiProject Orienteering) is very useful. Eg, it shows that at the moment we have two articles rated Top importance and Stub class. --Una Smith (talk) 22:08, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

OK, I see. Arguments to make this change is to reduce the stub text at the bottom of the page and keep the content organized from the ordinary Wikipedia users point of use. For example Swiss Orienteering has three stub text, that doesn't seem good. I'm using AWB, so organizing pages is quite simple.

There should be at most one stub template in use on an article. When I find more than one, I decide which one is most relevant and delete the other(s). --Una Smith (talk) 14:29, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Do not work against the rules set by Wikipedia. Three stubs are allowed by WP:STUB. For example in the Swiss case all are relevant, and non of them are sub-category of the others. By creating 'Orienteering organization stubs' we make it a sub-category of 'sport-org-stub' and 'Orienteering-stub'. --Kslotte (talk) 14:54, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Multiple stubs are allowed, but are not appreciated by many editors. And certainly they annoy readers. --Una Smith (talk) 21:25, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

I fully agree with you. --Kslotte (talk) 10:58, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Remember that new stub templates should be proposed and discussed here before creation. The general guideline says that any new stub category should have a minimum of 60 articles, which is apparently not the case here. When there are currently less than 60 articles that could use the suggested stub type, one may propose an upmerged template, which will feed into existing stub categories until there are enough stubs for a separate category. Oceanh (talk) 19:25, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

OK, thank you for pointing that out. I didn't read all the guidelines, and taking the guideline being bold to seriously . The issue is than clear that no 'Orienteering organization stubs' will be created until we become near 60. --Kslotte (talk) 19:42, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

For the record, I counted the stubs to: 32 federations and 7 clubs, total 39 stub organizations. --Kslotte (talk) 21:28, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi - commenting as a stub-sorter from WP:WikiProject Stub sorting here - Una and Kslotte, please don't not remove multiple templates! Multiple stubs are actually preferred to single ones where appropriate. Up to four are allowed, and removing secondary templates makes it far harder for editors to find articles on their specialist subjects, since a single assignment to just one stub category will often remove the stub from view for editors who would be able to improve the article from another perspective. As someone who deals a lot with stub sorters and stub-related editors, I'd like to see some sort of evidence that multiple stubs "certainly annoy readers", too - the general opinions expressed to WP:WSS are that readers don't tend to mind too much one way or the other, but they are greatly appreciated by editors - as long as there aren't a huge number of them (hence the limit of four).

FWIW, my comments at the proposal are that a template would be fine but hat a category's not really appropriate given the number of stubs. If you can find 21 more, then I'd have no objection to a category (note - this is just my personal view, debate is still in progress). One final noter, on the comment about "taking being bold too seriously", please remember that that relates to articles primarily, but more caution is needed with templates and categories (see WP:BOLD). Grutness...wha? 00:58, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Discussion found here. --Kslotte (talk) 13:29, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

 Done Results --Kslotte (talk) 19:14, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

The orienteering-related biographies are mixed with different disciplines. There could be a parallel categorizing based on discipline. Currently the total amount of orienteers are 507.

I am proposing that current Orienteers category will be renamed to 'Orienteers by country'. The new parallel category will be named 'Orienteers by discipline' and having sub-categories like 'Foot orienteers', 'Ski orienteers', 'Mountainbike orienteers', 'Fell runners' and 'Radio orienteers'.

Additionally I propose creation of a category 'Orienteering innovators' for the four names found directly in the root of the Orienteers category.

Comments, suggestions, corrections, support or objections? --Kslotte (talk) 01:55, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Orienteering innovators created. --Kslotte (talk) 10:46, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

 Done See results --Kslotte (talk) 16:38, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

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Re whether to use logos of orienteering groups (like this) under a claim of fair use, please see User_talk:ARBAY#Logos. --Una Smith (talk) 05:36, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Proposing that all four IOF governed orienteering types should use the pictogram instead of the control symbol. By pictogram I mean like done on Trail O page. Opinions? I remembered these can be donwloaded from IOFs hompage. How about license to use them? Kslotte (talk) 14:50, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Please help bring Orienteering to GA status. Anonymous101 (talk) 10:23, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Good idea. I like moving the bulk of the history section to History of orienteering, and I have started to reorganize the content that should stay behind in Orienteering. --Una Smith (talk) 17:00, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

I have worked more on Orienteering. Is it ready for GA review? Anyone, please look at it now (peer review it) and fix problems or note them on Talk:Orienteering. --Una Smith (talk) 05:09, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Assessment to-do list created to get us focused on the most important articles. --Kslotte (talk) 12:52, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Could be good idea to move all to-dos into one sub-page. Currently we have a section on the main page and the Assessment to-do list. --Kslotte (talk) 18:48, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

The article is very close to being ready for GA Review. Here is the updates list of tasks that need to be done:

(I move the task list to Talk:Orienteering. --Una Smith (talk) 16:32, 28 September 2008 (UTC))

I will continue to attempt to address these issues but the help of others is really needed.

Thanks and good luck in improving the article,

Anonymous101 (talk) 12:43, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

The improvement drive continues, and it has spawned a handful of new articles and other improvements. See Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Orienteering articles by quality log. Also see Talk:Orienteering. --Una Smith (talk) 06:45, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Is the article ready for GA review? See Wikipedia:Good article criteria and comment here. Thanks. --Una Smith (talk) 02:36, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

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 Done This has been implemented on the main Wikiproject page. Let's see what happens. --Kslotte (talk) 19:31, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

I made some type of assessment guidelines for importance when assessing articles. The guidelines are a draft and up for discussion. ----Kslotte (talk) 13:50, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

I made a page Assessment to-do list with list of articles that needs to be improved most of all to meat Wikipedia standards. --Kslotte (talk) 13:50, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Renamed from 'Assessment ToDo:s‎' to 'Assessment to-do list'.--Kslotte (talk) 08:58, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

I propose to improve the recruiting template with a more clear message. What do you think? corrections? --Kslotte (talk) 14:53, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Wikipedia User, Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia articles related to orienteering. If you are interested in orienteering, you might want do discover WikiProject Orienteering, a collaboration area and open group of editors. You may add WikiProject Orienteering to your watchlist (see Help:Watching pages) to follow-up activities. We want that you to especially take a look at orienteering articles that needs to be improved most of all, to meat Wikipedia standards. Thanks, WikiProject Orienteering

Hi Wikipedia User, Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia articles related to orienteering. If you are interested in orienteering, you might like to add WikiProject Orienteering to your watchlist (see Help:Watching pages). Thanks,

I have during this year used a more simplified message:

Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia articles related to orienteering. If you are interested in orienteering, you might want do discover WikiProject Orienteering, a collaboration area and open group of editors.

--Kslotte (talk) 12:59, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

I've made a proposition for two articles over at WikiProject Athletics if any here fancies helping out. Any thoughts appreciated. Cheers! Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits)^{Join WikiProject Athletics!} 21:33, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

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Text about this downgrade written on main page. --Kslotte (talk) 14:31, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

A request has been made to tag & auto-assess articles in the scope of this project based on categories and/or auto-assess the project's unassessed articles.

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The categories in scope are: Wikipedia:WikiProject Orienteering/Categories --Kslotte (talk) 11:56, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

The tagging went fine; but we still have to extend our Wikiproject template to cover categories, files and redirects (currently listed as NA). I will probably take a look at it. --Kslotte (talk) 07:25, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Feel free to extend our Wikiproject template if you have time to fix it. --Kslotte (talk) 14:48, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Images, categories and projects works fine. But redirects are still classified as NA. --Kslotte (talk) 16:59, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

The result can be found here: Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Orienteering_articles_by_quality_log#April_26.2C_2010 --Kslotte (talk) 10:51, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Assessment of the following articles is needed:

• importance=Unknown-Class&quality=Stub-Class according to guidelines moved to main page
• Jan Kjellström International Orienteering Festival done

 Done all incomplete tasks moved to main page. --Kslotte (talk) 17:40, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

An experimental usage of User:AlexNewArtBot has been started for Wikiproject Orienteering. The bot patrols for new orienteering articles. Feel free to edit the rules to meet the search scope better. The orienteering entry is found here. --Kslotte (talk) 12:02, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

New articles will be listed here. --Kslotte (talk) 12:32, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

 Done, implemented on main page.

Orienteering (Scoutcraft) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) This article could use some work. It is one of the few articles on this project that focuses on Orienteering as a Scouting and military skill rather than a sport (which is really too bad, as probably more people do it as a skill than a sport) Purplebackpack89 04:49, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

If you haven't noted I have added a article monitoring section. Some of the implementations are still on hold because of technical issues.

But, I recommend to take a look at "new articles" and "recent changes", that are handy for following what is going on with orienteering articles. --Kslotte (talk) 12:56, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

"Recent changes" now also covers talk page an WikiProject pages. --Kslotte (talk) 12:44, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

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Hello, at WikiProject Cycling we're looking at the scope of sports that involve cycling but are not core cycling sports - i.e. triathlon, duathlon and of interest here, mountain bike orienteering. I was wondering how you define this as part of your project? It's not of interest to too many cycling editors so we're not so sure how to include it in our scope. Let us know any thoughts? Cheers, Severo^TC 08:17, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Our scope is "collaboration to improve articles related to orienteering" and mountain bike orienteering satisfy that definition. I assume you have some similair defintion of your WikiProject. --Kslotte (talk) 11:04, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Mountain bike orienteering is combination sport of cycling and orienteering. Both Wikiprojects are appropiate in my opinion. --Kslotte (talk) 11:23, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

So how best to collaborate? I'm not arguing that it falls outside of the scope of either project! Severo^TC 11:58, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

I think the question is more like what mountain bike orienteering articles are appropiate to also tag as "Wikiproject Cycling". Severo, does this describe your intentions? --Kslotte (talk) 12:43, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

MTB-O articles are: 1. The main mountain bike orienteering article, 2. championships, 3. biographies. In my opinion all of these should be tagged with both WikiProject templates. --Kslotte (talk) 12:51, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Severo, please exlpain what you mean about your collaboration question? --Kslotte (talk) 12:54, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

How about this? --Kslotte (talk) 13:18, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:29, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Other inactive bots replaced with this one. --Kslotte (talk) 11:42, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

An RFC has recently been started regarding a potential change to the notability guidelines for sportspeople. Please join in the conversation. Thank you. Primefac (talk) 23:09, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Hello all. In an effort to finally resolve the never-ending and annoying GNG v SSG issue, I've proposed a revision of the NSPORTS introduction. You are all invited to take part in the discussion. Thank you. Jack | ^{talk page} 06:20, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

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)

There is a discussion on SSN (sport specific guidelines) at RFC on Notability (sports) policy and reliability issues. Feel free to go there and post your comments. Cassiopeia^(talk) 01:03, 30 March 2021 (UTC)