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Dinghy racing
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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.

Name Areas of interest Location Date joined
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

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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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Water sports articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 2 3
GA 1 1 1 18 2 23
B 4 13 29 296 8 350
C 9 22 53 250 67 401
Start 5 16 76 1,149 671 1,917
Stub 11 38 4,988 5,400 10,437
List 3 3 14 237 1 44 302
Category 1,555 1,555
Disambig 6 6
File 130 130
Project 12 12
Redirect 3 40 231 274
Template 149 149
Other 10 10
Assessed 22 66 215 6,980 2,094 6,192 15,569
Unassessed 2 226 228
Total 22 66 215 6,982 2,094 6,418 15,797
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 74,907 Ω = 5.70
See also: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Water sports articles by quality log

Alert Article Alerts

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Articles for deletion

  • 03 May 2026 – Inshore powerboat racing (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)

Good article nominees

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

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Candidates

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GA 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:

WikiProject iconWater sports Top‑importance
WikiProject iconWikiProject 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.Water sportsWikipedia:WikiProject Water sportsTemplate:WikiProject Water sportsWater sports
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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Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
Water sports
Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
WikiProject Water sports
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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.



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