Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ice Hockey

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:45, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Adding Woman league on the NHL infobox

I tried to add The Woman league Affiliate teams to the Minnesota Wild and Boston Bruins infoboxs and I could only add the league on the minor-league affiliate it is a part of the NHL. like the NBA WNBA. is there a way to Woman league Affiliate on the infobox in its own spot? FYE31 (talk) 20:38, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

The term "affiliate" when it comes to teams in the hockey world has one meaning: either a farm team affiliated with its major league club, or a major league club referring to its farm teams. No team in the PHF has farm teams. Whatever the formal relations may (or may not) be between the Bruins/Wild and the Pride/Whitecaps, it is not an "affiliation" in the hockey sense. If there is anything to any partnership the teams purportedly have beyond that the Bruins and the Wild let the PHF teams use their practice arenas, it has not made it into the respective articles. Perhaps you can start with that ... but do be aware that despite your unsourced assertions on Good Day's user talk page that the PHF is "part of the NHL!", nothing could be further from the case. Ravenswing 21:00, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

The Pride and the Bruins are "promotional partners" (Forbes). It is not an affiliate relationship. I don't think this is infobox-worthy, but could be included somewhere in the article body. of both articles. Zaathras (talk) 21:03, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Mm, but in practice, what has it amounted to? The number of "partnerships" sports teams enter with various entities (one another included) could go ten thousand deep. Damn near every sports team in the Boston area from the baseball Braves on forward have "partnered" with the Jimmy Fund charity or Boston Children's Hospital over the years, for instance. Ravenswing 21:13, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Ok is it still possible to add the partnerships team still? FYE31 (talk) 01:03, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

No. Why? Can you name a single, significant, tangible product of these "partnerships?" Ravenswing 07:18, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

I don't see this as comparable to the Jimmy Fund, that an agreement between a franchise and a charity. This is franchise to franchise, they have formed these in order to give the new women's league a leg up and save on operational costs. Zaathras (talk) 12:42, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

There is no reason to list a promotional partnership in the infobox, unless we're just deciding to list off ALL promotional partners of the team (like Coca-Cola, etc, which is a promotional partner/corporate sponsor as well). In saying that, I would think whatever promotional relationship the NHL shares with the PHF (thats sourced), could be expanded at National Hockey League#Corporate sponsors. Leventio (talk) 15:49, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Names of ice hockey championship articles

I would like to unify article name formats. Some are in plural, some are with dashes... See these three examples:

• 2008 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II
• 2017 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship – Division I
• 2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships – Division III

What do you think it should look like? Maiō T. (talk) 17:45, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

For one thing, it should look like what the organizers CALL it. Ravenswing 07:17, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Good idea, Ravenswing. I searched on the internet and found the following official tournament names:

• 2008 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II
• 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship Division I
• 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division III

Things start to get complicated. It won't be as easy as I thought. Any idea what to do with it? Maiō T. (talk) 10:22, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Sure. If, for instance, the 2023 WJC is labeled as a "Championship" instead of "Championships," go for a page move. Ravenswing 18:21, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

@Ravenswing: The 2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships article deals with six world championships (or divisions/groups/tournaments) so the plural is practically correct. We could create a new article that discusses only the Top Division; the name could be 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship (official tournament name as used by the IIHF). It already works for senior championships; compare 2023 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships and 2023 IIHF World Championship. What do you think? Maiō T. (talk) 12:47, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

@Ravenswing: It's done. Now we have one parent article: 2023 Junior Ice Hockey World Championships and four child articles:

• 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship
• 2023 IIHF U20 World Championship Division I
• 2023 IIHF U20 World Championship Division II
• 2023 IIHF U20 World Championship Division III

I hope Wikipedia users will like it. Maiō T. (talk) 14:25, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

No, they don't like it. The 2023 Junior Ice Hockey World Championships article has been renamed twice in the last few days to 2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. Maiō T. (talk) 18:44, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

@Ravenswing: In 2012, the IIHF slightly changed the name of the championship. So I have to rename all WJHC articles since 2012. The format of article names should look like those four (2023) wikilinks above. Maiō T. (talk) 18:44, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Unreferenced ice hockey BLPs

There are currently 100 ice hockey players listed at Category:All unreferenced BLPs. I highly encourage everyone to fix some of them if you get the chance, as unreferenced BLPs are a high priority issue. An always up to date Petscan list can be found here. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 17:30, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the tipoff! Ravenswing 01:33, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

The total of unreferenced ice hockey biographies is likely much higher. Too many editors created such stubs and never returned to improve said stubs. Flibirigit (talk) 05:28, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

WP:NHOCKEY Criteria

I just noticed that the criteria on WP:NHOCKEY no longer make any mention to top-tier leagues (NHL, KHL, SHL, etc). In the efforts to cut down on notability that is all gone, though references to the Belarusian, Italian, and Belgian leagues (among others) are still noted there. I know there has been quite a pushback against sport bio articles recently, but this is clearly going to cause issues seeing how the guidelines here don't reflect reality in the least. Kaiser matias (talk) 02:02, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

I would be in favor of abolishing it altogether, and leaving hockey articles -- biographical or otherwise -- to stand and fall on the GNG. Ravenswing 04:23, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

I also favour getting rid of NHOCKEY and simply using GNG. Flibirigit (talk) 05:25, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

No argument from on that either; more making sure the broader community was aware. Kaiser matias (talk) 23:02, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

How would getting rid of NHOCKEY improve the 'situation"? I find there are biases in media covering all topics. I think I would find it harder to be encyclopedic on a topic if we did not continue to allow more than necessary bio entries. Is it welcoming to new editors to challenge them from the start? Is an NCAA player really that much more notable? It seems much easier to dig up sources on NCAA players in my experience. I feel like some sport-based guideline is important in differentiating the importance of sources, as opposed to very general guidelines. Is there really a big push-back against almanac-like content? Alaney2k (talk) 21:27, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

If it's covered in the news, then it's notable. If not, then it's not notable. I fail to understand what possible bias your are talking about. Flibirigit (talk) 21:51, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

News editors obviously choose what to cover. It is not objective in terms of the sport. Their decisions are based on what is expected to be popular and bring readers to their paper/sites, etc. That does not necessarily match up with the importance of the topic/person within the sport. The Olympics are covered, but not necessarily the competitions that lead to qualification, etc. The pressure on traditional news media to compete for advertising only encourages less diverse coverage of sports (and other topics too). Also, there are less reporters available to write biographies on players. So I still believe some objective guidance based on wiki editor experience is still valuable. I'm not saying anything about strictness, I'm talking about players/builders/executives/competitions that may make a significant contribution to the sport, but not necessarily a high news media coverage. Currently there are Wiki articles about the several levels of IIHF competitions, but good luck finding news RS to meet GNG about competitions other than the top level. Alaney2k (talk) 13:14, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Yeah. I would think it far less challenging to new editors to simply meet the GNG, rather than a flurry of criteria that shifts from year to year. (I might also point out that neither NHOCKEY nor NSPORTS criteria generally has any guidance as to which sources are important or not, nor does NHOCKEY cover any hockey-related topic other than biographies.) Ravenswing 11:34, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Proposal at Template:Infobox ice hockey biography

There is a proposal at Template talk:Infobox ice hockey biography#Add Infobox Fields to add additional fields to the infobox. Please give your opinion there. – sbaio 16:13, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Page assessment

Hi
I'm fairly new to this, what is the process for having articles assessed to determine their class. Mitch Love is an article I expanded significantly upon, to the point I no longer believe it classifies as a stub. Jérémie Poirier is an article I wrote myself. Both likely rank as mid importance.
Sorry for asking if this isn't the right place. IceBergYYC (talk) 08:09, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Anyone is able to update the assessment. If you are uncomfortable doing so, please wait for another user to do it. Please see Wikipedia:Content assessment and Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Assessment for details.Flibirigit (talk) 10:40, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Discussion re: tables versus lists for first and last games

I'm bringing this discussion back to help because I disagree with the bullet-point lists which means nothing without notability. I honestly prefer tables that lists players, their first/final team, and notability. I disagree with both Ravenswing and Sbaio stances on the bullet-point lists on that because notability would mean something of those articles and they and others for voted for bullet-point lists don't see it that way. So I going to have a plan of change of consensus that will have player's notability and accomplishment lists on them with whatever lists we can do (I prefer tables to be honest with you). So these are two options. Either way, there is no way we're not leaving each player's notability unlisted in these season pages.

• Option 1: Retain the tables, listing the player, their final team, and notability.
• Option 2: Switch over to a bullet-point list of the players and their accomplishments, omitting final teams. This is how retirements are typically handled for notable players on NFL and NBA season pages.

Inviting @Ho-ju-96, The Kip, Masterhatch, Zzyzx11, Masterhatch, Ralphierce, GoodDay, Conyo14, Deadman137, Xolkan, Kilaseell, Pavexim, and Mushh94: to comment as semi-frequent to frequent season-page editors. I'm sure Ravenswing and Sbaio will respond to this. BattleshipMan (talk) 01:57, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

• I prefer 2, would also recommend not mentioning any team. Just the player's name would do. GoodDay (talk) 02:06, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

I also prefer this method, but adding in a milestone or NHL record probably doesn't hurt. Conyo14 (talk) 16:05, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

• Option 2 We don't need to list the final team a player played for as we already have the transaction article that covers this. We could link to the relevant retirement table for the season at the top of the section for most of the 21st century seasons. Deadman137 (talk) 02:49, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
• Option 2, because that was used in the past and someone just came over and changed it to tables without any consensus. In addition, the NHL season pages are already rather large (and probably one of the better maintained sports pages) so these extra tables do not really improve it. – sbaio 03:04, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
• Option 2, I like what the NBA and NFL does, plus adding the final team delegitimizes the accomplishments they had with a specific team. Conyo14 (talk) 03:58, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
• Option 3: Or ... we could always do it as we did for many years: bulletpoint, player, final team. Those who want to know the players' accomplishments can click on the links and read their articles. Ravenswing 05:00, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

  That is not an option. You are used to this layout for so many years and it's a time for a change. It will be better to show the player's achievements in first and last games and clicking on links to see those accomplishments is not that convenient. Even Sbaio agrees with Option 2. I still prefer option 1 and several other editors do too. If you want, you can add player's names, final teams and their achievements with the bulletpoints. BattleshipMan (talk) 14:14, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

  Ahem. What is an option or not is up for editors to decide generally. Neither you nor any one editor gets veto power over the process. Ravenswing 14:37, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

  Because notability would mean something in NHL season pages and clicking on player's links is not very convenient to know their achievements. If editors want a easier way to know each player's accomplishments without clicking links to said players, including notability in each season pages is a way to do that. Even some editors agree with it. BattleshipMan (talk) 04:26, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

  I only chose "option 2", because there were no other options. Do not make an assumption that I am in full agreement with your proposals. – sbaio 17:07, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

• OPTION 2 I just like it :D -- Cheers! Kilaseell - Message me! - 16:39, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
• Option 1 It's tells you more and such. But we will settle for Option 2 is if it get more votes. BattleshipMan (talk) 03:09, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
• Oprtion 4: Delete all the lists and tables as a collection of mostly unsourced WP:TRIVIA and WP:FANCRUFT violations. Flibirigit (talk) 10:58, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

  Who invited you? MLB, NBA, and NFL all do this AND it's all sourced. This also not trivia considering it's the NHL season article. Finally, this is not Fancruft as a large majority of the Wiki readers will enjoy seeing who has officially retired, milestones, first games for high picks, etc. Conyo14 (talk) 16:25, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

  That option is out of the question, per Conyo14's explanation to you and that is neither trivial nor fancruft. BattleshipMan (talk) 16:34, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

  Anyone is allowed to comment, and nobody has to be "invited" to a conversation. Flibirigit (talk) 17:51, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

  My comment is meant as satire, mainly because your viewpoint is signifying a larger issue you're trying to resolve. An issue I along with the editors at the NHL, NBA, MLB, and NFL don't see. It just seems you're grasping at straws, especially since every milestone, last game, first game, and special contribution is religiously sourced. I can not rule out your option, nor can any other editor, but I also think your basis of it seems unsourced. Conyo14 (talk) 19:24, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

  Your option is out of the question, Flibirigit. Any notable player who had such achievements like played 1,000 NHL games, trophies, how many Stanley Cup wins, All-Star games and such shouldn't be deleted because of your thoughts on this and it never fits for consensus. Not a lot of people will like your option here. BattleshipMan (talk) 06:15, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

  Conyo, exactly what "larger issue" am I trying to solve here? Please elaborate. Flibirigit (talk) 21:20, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

  First off, "delete all the lists and tables as a collection" I'd assume means the retirements section, but then we become inconsistent with the other sports articles. If you see the last games, first games, and milestones section as an issue with it existing, then it becomes a larger issue in consistency with other articles. Conyo14 (talk) 21:24, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

  I do not understand why you assumed that I referred only to retirements. I have no clue what is meant by "a larger issue in consistency with other articles". Please clarify. Flibirigit (talk) 21:38, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

  How can I be more clear? You have commented an option to delete all lists and tables. Like 2022 Major League Baseball season#Retirements, 2022 NFL season#Retirements, 2021–22 NBA season#Retirements has the same thing just in a different format. This section refers to first and last games, which we only say last games because what if the player died mid-season. By deleting this we become inconsistent with these articles. Is this what you want? Conyo14 (talk) 21:55, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

  I have said nothing about baseball, basketball or football. Why is it so important to you that ice hockey be like other sports? Flibirigit (talk) 00:11, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

  I think I'm done feeding you here. Deleting makes it inconsistent is all. Conyo14 (talk) 00:22, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

  Insisting that I am a troll is an unprovoked personal attack. I have said nothing personal about you, and have tried to understand where you are coming from. Flibirigit (talk) 00:33, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

• In the interest of working towards a consensus decision, I urge commenters not to disparage the viewpoints of others or to categorically rule them out as a possible consensus view. Please try to keep the discussion constructive. isaacl (talk) 17:57, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

  It won't be easy, but we'll try our best to keep it that way. BattleshipMan (talk) 06:15, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

  To list one specific example, I suggest not telling people their opinion is out of the question, as it gives the impression that you are defining what are the valid options. It's not too hard to skip saying this and just start with the substantive portions of your comment. isaacl (talk) 23:51, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

  @Isaccl: First of all, I don't agree with Flibirigit's option. That user's suggestion doesn't help improve anything and is not valid. All it will do is cause issues regarding information on which notable players who started first games in season and notable players who retired that season. It will create inconsistency with these NHL season articles. Also, we need some information about the notability of these players who earned achievements, such as playing above 1,000 NHL games, winning specific trophies, number of Stanley Cup wins and how many All-Stars they got. We need a good format for these NHL season articles to have all that, like some season articles in the MLB, NFL and the NBA. BattleshipMan (talk) 03:57, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

  Yes, I've read all your earlier comments already; repeating your points is unnecessary. There is of course no problem in disagreeing with others. Just skip over the part where you appear to be personally ruling out another person's view. isaacl (talk) 01:19, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

• I took a look at the other leagues noted here, and really do not like the setup for both the NBA and NFL. It is very cluttered and confusing, and not helpful at all. If we are going for anything, keep it like what the MLB pages has, short and simple. Kaiser matias (talk) 00:31, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

• I rather not have to click links to see player's accomplishments when they retired in those season pages. It's not very convenient. BattleshipMan (talk) 14:52, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

I don't agree with that, Battleshipman. It's the whole point of Wikipedia - ie, if you want more info, click on the link. PKT(alk) 15:45, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Round names capitalization

Dicklyon (talk · contribs) is once again running around and changing capitalization of playoff round names. This time he targets pages at Template:NHL seasons by team. I thought he was told to back off with these changes? – sbaio 17:09, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

In addition, minor league pages like Jersey Devils are also affected so I assume that this editor will go through every single ice hockey page with his abusive AWB tool. – sbaio 17:27, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

The tool appears to be doing it to athletes of all sports too. We should also watch for it to affect NHL coaches. Conyo14 (talk) 18:39, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

I believe this relates to the discussion taking place at WP:MOS/CAPS. -- GoodDay (talk) 20:12, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Yes, the discussion has been under way for a few days at WT:MOSCAPS#Finals capping again. Dicklyon (talk) 20:50, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

I already linked to the discussion-in-question, fwiw :) GoodDay (talk) 21:02, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Dicklyon is back at it again. Deadman137 (talk) 00:27, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Yes, still at it, fixing over-capitalization in Wikipedia, with a lot of that being in sports articles in recent months. I expect lots of editors to sample my edits and let me know if they see errors, and revert them if so. If you look at my last few weeks or months of edits, for tag "reverted", you'll see that I've thanked editors who found and reverted mistakes, and I've started discussions, or invited editors to existing discussions, when I didn't agree that what they reverted was a mistake. In the case of the ones you reverted, I've asked for some support for your "proper noun" assertions, but all I got from you was personal attacks. If others here see problems with my edits, or have support in guidelines or source evidence for Deadman's position, I'd like to hear about it. Dicklyon (talk) 08:46, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Quite a lot of people have problems with your edits, and have sourced evidence for the same. Ravenswing 01:16, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

This is why I have come up with a proposal to end all of this capitalization nonsense that can be found here. Inviting to participate in the discussion. @GoodDay, Oknazevad, Masterhatch, Ravenswing, Conyo14, Old Naval Rooftops, Sbaio, The Kip, Randy Kryn, BilCat, Nemov, Skipple, and Dmoore5556: Deadman137 (talk) 02:10, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Split of 2023 Juniors article

It appears that User:Maiō T. has moved the article 2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships to 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship and created a new "parent" article which is now at 2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. None of the previous years use this arrangement, and I certainly don't see it as an improvement. Any thoughts before reverting? 162 etc. (talk) 16:28, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

I've also requested reverts of other pagemoves recently made by this user. [1] 162 etc. (talk) 16:39, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Seems like there is a discussion above, though no apparent consensus for any pagemoves. 162 etc. (talk) 16:43, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

"World Junior Championship" is the official name of the championship. Maiō T. (talk) 17:58, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

On WP:NHOCKEY

To my eyes WP:NHOCKEY has a couple issues I'd like to discuss.
The first of which is the definition of "preeminent honors (all-time top-10 career scorer, First-Team All-Star)". Obviously, other "preeminent" honors exist, so are we saying that strictly a first-team all-star award/all time top 10 satisfy NHOCKEY, or can other honors satisfy this.

Secondly, the line "For coaches or managers of ice hockey teams, substitute "coached" or "managed" for "played" in the player guidelines." leaves a lot to be desired. How can a coach or manager be named a first-team all-star or top 10 scorer? IceBergYYC (talk) 20:55, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Some leagues name a coach as part of their hypothetical all-star teams. The intended top-ten meaning for coaches would be games won. Please note there is an active discussion earlier on this page about eliminating NHOCKEY. Flibirigit (talk) 21:16, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Beyond that, that language was there prior to participation criteria being deprecated. As far as expanding what is meant by "preeminent honors," absolutely bloody not. The whole reason for listing precisely what was meant by it is that editors hellbent on flooding Wikipedia with non-notable hockey bios had ever-ballooning definitions, and attempted to claim that college hockey "Rookie Squad of the Month" or "Academic Forward of the Week" citations qualified as "preemiment." (I do not, unfortunately, cite those examples at random.) Ravenswing 01:10, 8 May 2023 (UTC)