Wikipedia:WikiProject Water sports
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
Scope
Every subject that involves sport, games or other activities in conjunction with (under, on or over) water.
Task Forces
Goals
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
Help & Guidelines
Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
| Name | Areas of interest | Location | Date joined |
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| Pumpmeup (talk · contribs) | All sorts, especially kayaking | 14 November 2007 | |
| 09er (talk · contribs) | American College rowing history, sailing | 18 January 2008 | |
| PhilKnight (talk · contribs) | windsurf, kitesurf | 4 March 2008 | |
| Rauterkus (talk · contribs) | a swim coach and aquatic programming advocate | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | |
| Alistairjh (talk · contribs) | swimming | ||
| HowardMorland (talk · contribs) | artificial whitewater courses | Arlington, VA, USA | 18 February 2009 |
| bodysurfinyon (talk · contribs) | bodysurfing | 11 May 2009 | |
| Commit charge (talk · contribs) | very interested in making hollow wooden surfboards | ||
| Happysailor (talk · contribs) | Powerboating, Sailing (& Canoeing, Windsurfing) | Wales, UK | 18 October 2009 |
| John86uk (talk · contribs) | RNLI Crew member, Kayaking, Yacht & Dinghy Cruising/Racing) | Scotland, UK | 05 June 2010 |
| Oddbodz (talk · contribs) | Dinghy sailing & Dinghy racing | United Kingdom | 15 April 2011 |
| Rsteilberg (talk · contribs) | Sailing, boating, fishing, kayaking, canoeing, and probably much more that I can't remember. | United States | 15 April 2011 |
| Surfnavy (talk · contribs) | Wakeboarding, waterskiing, wake surfing, barefooting, & Surfing | United States | 9 June 2011 |
| JZCL (talk · contribs) | Water Polo | England | 31 December 2011 |
| MTimmins92 (talk · contribs) | RNLI, member of the taskforce, Sailing, Powerboating | Hertfordshire, United Kingdom | 2 June 2012 |
| Tavernsenses (talk · contribs) | windsurfing | Belgium | 29 October 2012 |
| DCSouthwick (talk · contribs) | Waterskiing, tournament and professional | United States | 13 February 2013 |
| Tellez Sr (talk · contribs) | Surfing, Bodysurfing, Swimming, Rafting/Kayaking | United States | 08 April 2013 |
| Ryanx7 (talk · contribs) | Rafting/Kayaking | California,United States | 03 March 2014 |
| Infamouse (talk · contribs) | Surfing, Windsurfing, Sailing, Fishing, Canoeing | Seattle,United States | 13 August 2014 |
| Theforgottenfischer (talk · contribs) | Water polo | Kampala,Uganda and Dana Point,United States | 17 April 2016 |
| Lithiumflash (talk · contribs) | Windsurfing | United States | 30 April 2017 |
| robliscoe (talk · contribs) | Underwater Hockey, Bog Snorkelling | UK | 19 June 2019 |
| hyperduc (talk · contribs) | Boating and all things motorized. Contributed heavily to Yamaha SuperJet. | USA | 21 April 2011 |
| Luzz (talk · contribs) | Anything related to Water Skiing. | ITA | 29 March 2020 |
| G. Moore (talk · contribs) | Fly fishing/Fly tying/Manufacturers of fly tying materials and tools | World | 1 March 2021 |
| Adam C F1 (talk · contribs) | Water Polo, Swimming and other pool sports | Ireland | 17 February 2022 |
| Pipinoiltop (talk · contribs) | Swimming | Italy | 24 April 2023 |
| Watersloth (talk · contribs) | Jetboarding, Efoiling, motorized board sports and PWC's | Denmark | 8 August 2023 |
Userbox
Please feel free to add {{User WikiProject Water sports}} to your user page:
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Water sports |
Articles
Article Statistics
Article Alerts
Redirects for discussion
- 10 Dec 2024 – Ecuador scuba diving (talk · · hist) →Scuba diving was RfDed by Cogsan (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 26 Nov 2024 – Draft:Filip Radojević (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Akileee1 (t · c)
- undated – Draft:Karl Krüger (adventurer) (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC
Featured articles (FA)
Candidates
Good articles (GA)
- 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
- Neil Brooks
- Peter Evans (swimmer)
- Theresa Goh
- Mark Kerry
- Tao Li
- Quietly Confident Quartet
- Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre butterfly
- Henry Taylor (swimmer)
- Mark Tonelli
- Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
- Yip Pin Xiu
Candidates
New articles
- Outline of canoeing and kayaking
- Surfboard
- Paddle float
- Paddle leash
- Whitewater canoeing
- 200 metre individual medley
- Wing foiling
Collaboration and review
Templates
Article Template
{{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 | |||||||||
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User Invite Template
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
Categories
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- List of all subpages of this page
Related portals
Related projects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Canoeing and Kayaking
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Rowing
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Sailing
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Swimming
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Swimming/Water polo work group
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Underwater diving
Tools
- 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.
