Talk:2009 in sports

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To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests :
Requested articles (Sports)
Requested articles (Association football)
Requested articles (Association football women)
Requested articles (Motor sports)
Requested articles (Estonian sportspeople)
Assess : newly added and existing articles, maybe nominate some good B-class articles for GA; independently assess some as A-class, regardless of GA status.
Cleanup :
* Sport governing body (this should-be-major article is in a shameful state)
* Field hockey (History section needs sources and accurate information - very vague at the moment.)
* Standardize Category:American college sports infobox templates to use same font size and spacing.
* Sport in the United Kingdom - the Popularity section is incorrect and unsourced. Reliable data is required.
* Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show."
Expand : Professional sports (crucial article explaining the salaried undertaking of sports)
* Sport industry (currently a sub-stub)
Photo : for pages listed in Category:Wikipedia requested images of sports and games and sub-categories.
Stubs : work on articles in Category:Sports stubs
Update : List of world sports championships
Other :
- Translate the page of sport in each country from corresponding article in other language Wikipedia to English Wikipedia which was marked in red.
- Categorize: Gather all (major/olympic) sports to be part of this project
- RfCs: answer requests for comment

What happened?

What has happened to this page? I spent a lot of time fixing and expanding the soccer/football section and now everything is gone. 207.233.69.81 (talk) 23:25, 23 April 2009 (UTC) california viola[reply]

Anniversaries

Are anniversaries really suitable for this article? (I don't normally edit these articles, but I've moved a few sporting events from the year articles to the correspond sports articles, and anniversaries are not appropriate in year articles.) — Arthur Rubin (talk) 13:19, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

International football/soccer

I expanded this section as there are many important tournaments taking place in 2009, in particular during the summer. California viola (talk) 06:38, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unspaced en dashes for date ranges ...

Like this: August 23–29. Please see WP:MOSDASH. Tony (talk) 15:24, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly, except it suggests a spaced en dash for an interval spanning months, such as August 23 – September 2. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 16:22, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for not correcting that when I reverted Tony's changes earlier. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 16:23, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's an easy rule: when either or both items have an internal space, the en dash is spaced. When neither item has a space, the en dash is unspaced. So: September–October 2009, but September 2009 – August 2010. And as Arther exemplifies above with dates. Tony (talk) 16:38, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What is the purpose of links for the dates in the article? Thank you. California viola (talk) 16:58, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea: it violates a MOSLINK principle that links should not be jammed up against each other. The practice appears to be a left-over from the old date-autoformatting system; the link itself is utterly useless. It would be far better to bold the dates as normal, but Arthur seems to be insisting on retaining them as bright-blue links. It's a pity, because they dilute the important links. Tony (talk) 17:42, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's left over from the specification at WP:YEARS, actually, which may follow from the date autoformatting. However, that is a general guideline, and project-specific guidelines may override general guidelines. Dabomb87's Summary of the Date Linking RFCs is unclear on the issue. I'm perfectly willing to leave it to consensus on the whatever WP:SPORTS task takes responsibility for formatting these articles, regardless of general consensus. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 22:43, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Question asked at WT:SPORTS. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 22:46, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]