Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sports

Implementation of consensus infobox changes for current seasons

At Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_172#Designating_current_seasons_in_infoboxes, I read clear consensus to use text rather than images to designate the current season. I went ahead and made the change at {{Infobox award}}, but since I'm not a sports person, I'll leave the implementation for sports templates such as {{Infobox football league}} to you all here. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:35, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

I've added a DNAU tag to this thread; feel free to remove it once you have finished implementation. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 20:49, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Miejski Stadion Piłkarski "Raków"#Requested move 30 January 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Miejski Stadion Piłkarski "Raków"#Requested move 30 January 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 18:33, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

New article: Sports fandom

Mine - enjoy, and feel free to improve; there are many reliable sources (just GScholar for the term...). I am surprised such a major topic was missing... . Should sports fan redirect there now? There is a section in the main sports article for fans (not fandom); mostly unreferenced. I think the section in my article is better - shorter but referenced. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:36, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for creating the new article. From a cursory read, it does need copy-editing, mainly for grammar, so I've tagged it with {{copy edit}} accordingly. Left guide (talk) 10:25, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

@Left guide Can you help? This template will disqualify the article from DYK nom :( _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:02, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

@Piotrus: Proper grammar isn't a policy, it's more of a nice-to-have, which is why the tag is yellow-bordered as opposed to orange-bordered which is for policy violations. It's not mentioned at WP:DYKCITE, so it shouldn't disqualify the DYK. Left guide (talk) 11:19, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

@Left guide Well, I am curious what will happen - will ping you if someone complains :) _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:44, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

@Piotrus: Ok, I read through the whole article and cleaned up all of the grammar I could and removed the tag. Good luck with the DYK. :) Left guide (talk) 11:54, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

@Left guide Much appreciated :) Any thoughts on the sports fan redirect target? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:49, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

@Piotrus: I think that sports fan should redirect to the new sports fandom article, seems much more intuitive. Left guide (talk) 21:18, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

The whole sports fandom article seems to be a WP:CFORK from Fan (person)#Sports. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:46, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

@Joseph2302 Errr, I looked at your contributions and you are not a newbie... but I think you clearly misunderstand CFORK. What we have at the main fan article, sport section, is WP:TNTable, as it is WP:OR that fails WP:V. Except the referenced bit at the top, which I reused into my article, it pretty much needs to be deleted, then it could be recreated from what I wrote. The article I created meets all Wikipedia policies, an existence of a (badly written) section about the topic in a parent article is not a reason not to create an article (although it can delay that process, as many people will accept crappy content and move on, instead of trying to remedy the issue...). But if you disagree, feel free to WP:AFD the new article and enjoy snow keep and WP:TROUT... _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 00:55, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Or maybe not. As CFORK says, "Most types of content forks are acceptable". So maybe I am misunderstanding whatever you meant to say, which I thought was an argument that the new article should be deleted? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 00:56, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Whilst the content at Sports fandom is better than the content at Fan (person)#Sports, that doesn't address the fact that all of this cited content could just have been added to Fan (person)#Sports, instead of the creation of a separate article, which doesn't seem at all necessary. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:15, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

If a topic is notable, it merits a subarticle. If you disagree, try AfD. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:11, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

American collegiate football seasons articles deletion discussion - potentially hundreds of articles to be impacted

Dear all,

there is a discussion going on at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1873 NYU Violets football team to discuss possible deletion or refactoring of potentially hundreds of college American football articles. Your comments will be welcome Szmenderowiecki (talk) 18:09, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Chinese Taipei national baseball team/Archive 1#Requested move 14 February 2025

An editor has requested that Chinese Taipei national baseball team be moved to another page, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 (𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚔) 22:56, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

Notable call? Delete?

I’ve been looking for sources about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:VC_Maaseik can’t seem to say it meets notable claims. Can only find three articles that aren’t actually about the team but a specific player. But I don’t feel confident to delete. Advice would be good! Cansavvy (talk) 23:41, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

It's been tagged for sourcing for over a year. Sometimes it takes an AfD for significant coverage to surface (even for subjects in English), if they exist. —Bagumba (talk) 00:48, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

Sorry what does AfD stand for? Cansavvy (talk) 00:59, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

Ah found it. Article for deletion. Cansavvy (talk) 01:03, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

So should it get deleted or just hangout? Cansavvy (talk) 01:04, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

If you dont feel it meets the notability guidelines, it's your call if you want to volunteer to nominate it for WP:AFD. That leads to a community discussion, and its fate will be decided by consensus. As it seems you have performed the steps at WP:BEFORE already, it seems reasonable if you choose to initiate a deletion discussion. —Bagumba (talk) 01:40, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

I have to think though that it ought to be pretty damn easy to find Belgian sources for a club that's won half of the Belgian top flight championships in the last thirty years. Ravenswing 04:47, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

Team sport athletes' infobox captions

FYI

You're invite to join a discussion about team sports athletes' infobox captions at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Captions § Infobox caption of team sport athlete.—Bagumba (talk) 08:52, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Wilt Chamberlain has an RfC

Wilt Chamberlain has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Left guide (talk) 21:02, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Flying disc sports#Requested move 15 February 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Flying disc sports#Requested move 15 February 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Sophisticatedevening ^(talk) 23:43, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Notifying about a RATER bug that impacts this WikiProject

Please see User talk:Evad37/rater.js#Bug: Forced auto-filling "Stub" rating on WP Sports banners. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 14:16, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Apparently, the issue was caused by the template's documentation, and not the script. It has now been fixed. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 18:39, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Los Angeles Angels has an RfC

Los Angeles Angels has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Left guide (talk) 06:10, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Racewalking#Requested move 19 February 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Racewalking#Requested move 19 February 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 10:05, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Discussion at WT:NBA § Discussion on allowing "greatest" in the lead of all NBA players

 You are invited to join the discussion at WT:NBA § Discussion on allowing "greatest" in the lead of all NBA players, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. Left guide (talk) 00:08, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Allan (footballer, born 2004)#Requested move 25 February 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Allan (footballer, born 2004)#Requested move 25 February 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 04:42, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Requested move notice

An editor has requested that Luka Dončić–Anthony Davis trade be moved to Luka Dončić trade, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. Left guide (talk) 22:43, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Notice of reliable sources noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Sports Illustrated. Thank you. --Left guide (talk) 03:18, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rugby union § Linking of rugby union clubs in Germany

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rugby union § Linking of rugby union clubs in Germany. Justjourney (talk) 01:35, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Defunct events

I’m getting stuck on finding sources for documenting defunct sled dog races, a lot of them just disappear with no coverage. The one I’d really like a source for is Apostle Islands Sled Dog Race, as it has its own Wikipedia page. List of sled dog races has at least two more without their own articles: MusherIce 150 and Volga Quest.

Any tips? Annwfwn (talk) 12:24, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

A Question About the Template

I can not add importance=top, or any other for that matter and your categories for the importance seemed to be deleted. Could someone please inform me why this is, and how to fix it? Easternsahara (talk) 00:22, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Updated Requests for assessment

Greetings, Today at "Requests for assessment" here, I added category and counts for Unassessed - Sports articles, Athletics articles. With several thousand articles, asking for assessment help here. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 14:05, 31 March 2025 (UTC) [

RfC

There is an RfC at WP:NBA that is relevant to this WikiProject. See here. Ladtrack (talk) 20:18, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Super Rugby #Requested move 20 April 2025

There is currently a move discussion in place Talk:Super Rugby #Requested move 20 April 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Servite et contribuere (talk) 11:45, 20 April 2025 (UTC)