Wikipedia:WikiProject Skiing and Snowboarding

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Skiing and Snowboarding. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

For a less encyclopedic look at mountains, athletes, movies, and the sport, visit our friends over at Hooked on Winter.

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Scope

We need to get a variety of good English language articles relating to skiing and snowboarding. This includes the companies, mountains, and athletes. Everybody is welcome to join, no matter how you get down the mountain (or up).

Participants

• zzz345zzz (talk · contribs) - Founder of the project. Coming back from a hiatus, just working on general cleanup and organization of the project.
• User:Docu - contributing a few stubs.
• User:Allison Stillwell - Definitely interested in helping with this project.
• EvilSuggestions 05:05, 5 June 2006 (UTC) Talk
• --Baoluo 07:40, 16 July 2006 (UTC) I think am interested in helping with this project. I think the various sections that pertain to uphill transportation at ski areas (e.g. chairlifts, gondolas, t-bars, etc) should be grouped in one section. All elevated passenger ropeways have more similarities than differences, and a cogent discussion of these characteristics would be better served by dealing with them together. I would also like work on compiling a list of ski resorts around the world. Does anyone know if it is premitted to add google earth stills to Wikipedia?
• EncMstr 23:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC) - I've acted as a participant, though gnomishly. (Baoluo, 1. see List of ski areas. 2. Google images are copyrighted, but we can link to them without a problem.)
• Balerion - I'll help out with mainly New England stuff. --Balerion 06:55, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Kingutd - I'll work on the Australian ski resorts.
• Jameschipmunk (talk · contribs) - I'll contribute to any of the Colorado ski areas
• PJ 15:13, 18 September 2006 (UTC) - I'll work here when I can, and on my winter wiki when I can't. Also, can we please get rid of that picture of the army dude racing? it hurts.
• Canadian-Bacon - I'll start with eastern Canadian resorts. If I have time I'll try and start working on the companies.
• Qyd (talk · contribs) - Canadian Rockies ski resorts
• DebateLord - Colorado skier happy to contribue to articles on CO resorts and help cleanup others as time permits. Will work on getting more pictures of resorts I visit this season.
• Brandon 14:29, 19 October 2006 (UTC) - I have contributed a lot to the Okemo Mountain article already and can add other facts about mountains where I ski (too many to list) if there are already articles. I also wrote the whole article for the Mountain Dew Vertical Challenge, if anybody knows what that is.
• WinterOfDiscontent (talk · contribs) - Happy to help where I can. I started the Dynastar stub and will do more where I can.
• Mike Starter of the Armada (company) Page. And helping with the Big White page
• Shaggorama - Mostly just maintaining Mt. Baldy Ski Lifts, but also write for snowboarding-related articles
• Jay - Love to write about the Pro Circut, USSA and UST, Northeastern resorts. I would love to write an article about Vail.
• User:Powderhound11 - From downunder, made the Scot Schmidt page, contributed to the Michael Milton page.
• User:Montchav - Been living and working in the French ski resorts, have tonnes of love for them, and plenty of reference materials to hand.
• Snowfreak91287♣ Grew up at Mount Snow, VT, edited MS page, live and frequently ski in New Hampshire.
• User:HazardousWaster - Could do French/Swiss alpine resorts, but more interested in technique and technology-related pages (got my eye on 'Carve turn') for both alpine (better word than 'downhill', given that 'downhill' is also a WC event, no?) and nordic skiing. University- (college) level racer.
• User:RideABicycle/Signature 21:30, 16 February 2007 (UTC) - Skier at Hunter Mountain (ski area), USSA/NYSSRA racer, lover of sport and interested in helping out. I'd love to just work on the to-do lists for now, especially race pages. I've noticed that all pages on Alpine Racing are weak, and they definitely need work.
• Seattle Skier (talk · contribs) - West Coast ski areas (especially lesser-known ones in AK, WA, OR, far northern CA), New England too; major contributor to Alpine skiing World Cup articles
• .B(Heat)M. (talk · contribs) - I will edit as many ski related sites as I can, I am very interested in the companies so may do that. Anything to do with England as well:)
• Baileypalblue (talk · contribs) -- Interested in resort pages for Utah, Vermont, New Hampshire, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the Southeast; that's a lot of material, so the assistance of others will be very much appreciated!
• Maelgwn (talk · contribs)
• Lostvalley 12:07, 3 July 2007 (UTC) - New England and Switzerland.
• User:Hartig1, Added a bit of information to a few athletes.
• User:kvrbc, Will be updating, and staring new pages for Canada West. Mountains that I am currently updating: Silver Star Mountain Resort, Red Mountain Resort, Whitewater Ski Resort. Please add photo's if you have any.

Division of Labor

Ok, we have some interest, time to get organized. Below is an outline of what categories are being worked on and by whom. Add yourself and what you are working on to the list. Also feel free to make suggestions to the participants below their category.

If you don't have any idea where to start, check out our "Where to Start" section for orphaned articles.

• Ski Areas
  • New England Ski Areas
    • Blue Hills Ski Area - Balerion (talk · contribs)
    • Wachusett Mountain Ski Area - Ubergenius (talk · contribs)
  • Australian Ski Areas - Kingutd (talk · contribs)
  • Colorado Ski Areas - Jameschipmunk (talk · contribs)
  • Oregon ski areas, will also work on articles northward and eventually southward — EncMstr (talk · contribs)
  • Eastern Canada, as well as Jay Peak - Canadian-Bacon (talk · contribs)
  • Western Canada - kvrbc (talk · contribs)
  • Alpine ski areas - Montchav (talk · contribs)
• Companies
  • Giro (company) - PJ
  • Anon Optics - I added a bunch of stuff to this page. i'm not sure if it's relevant for wikipedia, but take a look.- PJ 15:18, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Dynastar - I'll work on Dynastar - WinterOfDiscontent 12:22, 06 November 2006 (GMT)
  • mikeh0303 - Started the Armada page.
  • Atomic Brand - Infobox added as well as organized. Plan to add more. - User:RideABicycle/Signature 21:53, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Where to Start

Below are some examples of articles to expand, start or cleanup.

Athletes

Professional skiiers including park, pipe, race, big mountain, etc.

Finished Athletes

none

Athletes in need of cleanup

• Bode Miller - lots of info, needs some more organization
• Candide Thovex - good start, needs to be cleaned up

Athlete Stubs

• Daron Rahlves - good stats, etc, but article could be expanded
• Pep Fujas - started, still a stubEdit: Another page that got deleted before it got started Zzz345zzz
• Tanner Hall - good start, maybe expanded bio and pic
• Seth Morrison - started the page. needs a lot of work. PJ 17:10, 31 March 2006 (UTC) Edit: I don't know what happened to this page, but its gone Zzz345zzz
• Shane McConkey
• Simon Dumont
• Jeremy Transue - basic article w/ athlete box.

Athlete articles to be started

• Eric Pollard (skier)
• CR Johnson
• All skiers redlinked in 2007 Alpine Skiing World Cup, 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup, 2005 Alpine Skiing World Cup and so on (see also Wikipedia:Requested articles/sports#Alpine skiing).
• ski safety binding inventor and champion skier Hjalmar Hvam (1937)
• Kiki Cutter

Companies

Boards, boots, bindings, skis, other equipment.

Finished

none

Articles in need of cleanup

• Salomon Group - in bad need of cleanup -- I'll work on this one too. PJ 14:26, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
• LOOK - cleanup, infobox, logo?
• Big White Ski Resort - Cleanup needed and outsanding NPOV issues. --DebateLord 23:39, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Stubs

• Dynastar - Started, still a stub
• Rossignol - started, still a stub
• Marker (alpine bindings) - still a stub
• Head (company)- very stubby
• Armada (company) -super stubby!!!

Needs to be Started

• K2 Sports Group - see also K2 Sports and K2 Skis

Mountains

Mountains in N America, Europe, S America, and downunder. Also check List of ski areas to check out your favorite mountain's articles.

Finished

• Whistler-Blackcomb - looks really good, can be used as an example

Cleanup

• Catamount Ski Area - new article, needs wikification, and removal of WP:OR and unencyclopedic material.
• Okemo Mountain - really good article, pics and/or logo would look great
• Squaw Valley - needs infobox, cleanu
• Jackson Hole Mountain Resort - Has info box, needs pics / logo, etc. Could use a history section (especially about the tram)

Stubs

• Mt. Baldy Ski Lifts - needs expansion and better pics, but a good start
• Kicking Horse - article needs to be expanded, good info box
• Big Sky Resort - started, needs info box
• Alta Ski Area - needs infobox, stats, etc
• Snowbird ski resort - needs infobox, stats, etc - also could be moved to Snowbird Ski Resort
• Blue Hills Ski Area - got a soft spot for this one
• Jiminy Peak
• Tuckerman Ravine - infobox, etc
• Armada (company) - needs info and pics
• Windham Mountain
• Gubałówka - a mountain in Poland. Stub, images galore but needs expansion.
• Alta Badia
• Waterville Valley - a very short stub
• Pats Peak - a one liner stub
• Echo Mountain Park
• Cataloochee

Needs to be Started

• Cannon Mountain - ski area deserves its own page
• Stowe - also needs its own page
• Bella Coola (ski area)
• Stratton Mountain Resort Ski Area
• Tenney Mountain
• Reiteralm
• McIntyre Ski Area in NH
• All red links on List of ski areas

Useful Links About Ski Area History

• Chairlift.org
• New England Lost Ski Areas Project

Races

Finished

• 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup looks pretty good

Info Boxes

This is kind of a work in progress (I stole the basic format from an old MLB player's template)

NAME

Home Mountain	MOUNTAIN
Age	AGE
Height	x ft x in
Weight	xxx lbs.
Ski	COMPANY NAME
Other Sponsors	SPONSORS
Discipline	RACE, PIPE, BIG MT, ECT

Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{ski-stub}} Talk		The official ski stub for ski or skiing-related articles.
{{Infobox Alpine ski racer}} Talk	WikiProject Skiing and Snowboarding Personal information Occupation Alpine skier	The Alpine ski racer infobox. Copy and paste the following code (with field values) into the top of an article about an alpine ski racer to create a formatted summary box as the right sidebar. (For explanation of the categories, visit Template:Infobox Alpine ski racer.) {{Infobox Alpine ski racer |skiername= |image= |country= |disciplines= |club= |skis= |boots= |bindings= |sponsor= |datebirth= |birthcity= |birthcountry= |datedeath= |deathcity= |deathcountry= |height= |wcdebut= |retired= |website= |olympicteams= |olympicmedals= |olympicgolds= |worldsteams= |worldsmedals= |worldsgolds= |wcseasons= |wcwins= |wcpodiums= |wcoveralls= |wctitles= }}
{{Infobox ski area}} Talk	ski area name File:Link to logo image photo caption photo caption Location city name Nearest major city nearest city Vertical skiable vertical Top elevation top elevation Base elevation base elevation Skiable area skiable area Trails trail count Longest run run length Lift system lift summary Lift capacity skiers/hr Terrain parks terrain parks Snowfall annual snowfall Snowmaking snowmaking percentage Night skiing night skiing percentage Website website link	The ski area fact summary box. Insert this template with field values at the top of a ski resort article and creates a formatted summary box as the right sidebar.
{{Ski}} Talk		The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of this WikiProject.
{{Ski Member}} Talk		To be used in your user page, to show you joined the project.
{{Ski Invite}} Talk	You have been invited to become a member of Skiing and Snowboarding, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to skiing/snowboarding, athletes, resorts, events, brands, media, and mountains on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, add yourself to the participants list, where you can join the project and view an overview of available tasks.	To be used to invite other users who have shown interest in the area to join.
{{User WikiProject Ski}} Talk	This user is a participant in WikiProject Skiing and Snowboarding.	Indicates that you're a contributor to this project.
{{User:UBX/ski}} Talk	This user enjoys skiing.	Shows your enjoyment of skiing.
Category:WikiProject Ski	[[Category:WikiProject Ski|{{PAGENAME}}]]	Adds the page to our list of edited pages