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WikiProject Water sports
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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

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Scope

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Every subject that involves sport, games or other activities in conjunction with (under, on or over) water.

Task Forces

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Goals

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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

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Help & Guidelines

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Administrator Intervention Against Vandalism
Wikipedia Help Desk
Requests for Adminship
Articles for Deletion
Templates for Deletion
Miscellany for Deletion
Images for Deletion
Redirects for Deletion
Administrator Noticeboard/Incidents
List of Policies
List of Guidelines
The Three Revert Rule
Wikipedia Logs
User Warning Templates
Article Cleanup Templates
Manual of Style

Participants

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

NameAreas of interestLocationDate joined
Pumpmeup (talk · contribs)All sorts, especially kayaking14 November 2007
09er (talk · contribs)American College rowing history, sailing18 January 2008
PhilKnight (talk · contribs)windsurf, kitesurf4 March 2008
Rauterkus (talk · contribs)a swim coach and aquatic programming advocatePittsburgh, PA, USA
Alistairjh (talk · contribs)swimming
HowardMorland (talk · contribs)artificial whitewater coursesArlington, VA, USA18 February 2009
bodysurfinyon (talk · contribs)bodysurfing11 May 2009
Commit charge (talk · contribs)very interested in making hollow wooden surfboards
Happysailor (talk · contribs)Powerboating, Sailing (& Canoeing, Windsurfing)Wales, UK18 October 2009
John86uk (talk · contribs)RNLI Crew member, Kayaking, Yacht & Dinghy Cruising/Racing)Scotland, UK05 June 2010
Oddbodz (talk · contribs)Dinghy sailing & Dinghy racing United Kingdom15 April 2011
Rsteilberg (talk · contribs)Sailing, boating, fishing, kayaking, canoeing, and probably much more that I can't remember. United States15 April 2011
Surfnavy (talk · contribs)Wakeboarding, waterskiing, wake surfing, barefooting, & Surfing United States9 June 2011
JZCL (talk · contribs)Water PoloEngland31 December 2011
MTimmins92 (talk · contribs)RNLI, member of the taskforce, Sailing, PowerboatingHertfordshire, United Kingdom2 June 2012
Tavernsenses (talk · contribs)windsurfingBelgium29 October 2012
DCSouthwick (talk · contribs)Waterskiing, tournament and professionalUnited States13 February 2013
Tellez Sr (talk · contribs)Surfing, Bodysurfing, Swimming, Rafting/KayakingUnited States08 April 2013
Ryanx7 (talk · contribs)Rafting/KayakingCalifornia,United States03 March 2014
Infamouse (talk · contribs)Surfing, Windsurfing, Sailing, Fishing, CanoeingSeattle,United States13 August 2014
Theforgottenfischer (talk · contribs)Water poloKampala,Uganda and Dana Point,United States17 April 2016
Lithiumflash (talk · contribs)WindsurfingUnited States30 April 2017
robliscoe (talk · contribs)Underwater Hockey, Bog SnorkellingUK19 June 2019
hyperduc (talk · contribs)Boating and all things motorized. Contributed heavily to Yamaha SuperJet.USA21 April 2011
Luzz (talk · contribs)Anything related to Water Skiing.ITA29 March 2020
G. Moore (talk · contribs)Fly fishing/Fly tying/Manufacturers of fly tying materials and toolsWorld1 March 2021
Adam C F1 (talk · contribs)Water Polo, Swimming and other pool sportsIreland17 February 2022
Pipinoiltop (talk · contribs)SwimmingItaly24 April 2023
Watersloth (talk · contribs)Jetboarding, Efoiling, motorized board sports and PWC'sDenmark8 August 2023

Userbox

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

This user is a participant in WikiProject Water sports

Articles

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Article Statistics

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Article Alerts

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No Article alerts at this time.

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Candidates

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Good articles (GA)

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Candidates

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New articles

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Collaboration and review

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Collaboration of the week
Peer review
Assessment

Templates

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Article Template

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{{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.
???This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
TopThis article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

User Invite Template

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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}}

Resources

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Categories

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Tools

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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.