Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women's sport/Archive 1

Archive 1

Transgender?

What about 'Transwomen' and sports ? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 21:32, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Added a reference to it in scope. When I start fine tuning the project more, I will keep that issue in mind. --LauraHale (talk) 03:52, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hey Women's Sports Project! A big welcome from the College Football Project! We will be happy to coordinate with you and help you expand articles stemming from the List of female American football players or anything else you may need!--Paul McDonald (talk) 18:27, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Lehigh Valley Rollergirls

The Lehigh Valley Rollergirls article is currently nominated for deletion. One editor commented to ask that the deletion be mentioned here. Warofdreams talk 11:04, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Table Tennis

We recently had a donation of images from the International Table Tennis Federation to Commons. There are various images of female and male tennis table players in action, so perhaps it might interest some folks here. Check out the uploads, thus far, here: ITTF contributions SarahStierch (talk) 17:11, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Connecticut lacrosse league accused of gender bias

Thought this might be of some interest here: Connecticut lacrosse league accused of gender bias SarahStierch (talk) 16:19, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Women's sport will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in women's sports. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:06, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Quite a few " men's" pages in WMNSPORT

I have noticed quite a few pages with " men's" in the title have been added to WP:WMNSPORT by the bot User:LauraHale requested. I have suggested a review on the bot's page and mentioned it on her talk page.

I understand some of these may be correctly targeted because they discuss women's sport as well as men's, but I think most of them are due to the categories listed for the bot to process weren't completely female entries. Mark Hurd (talk) 10:43, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, there are a few goofy cases where that appears to have happened. :( When I've spotted them, I've been manually removing them myself. : / --LauraHale (talk) 11:35, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Portal:Athletics and Portal:Sailing

I made two requests here for promotion to Featured portals. Any suggestion or contribution is welcome. --Kasper2006 (talk) 03:26, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

My first women's sport article

It's not much: Alice Legh. Apparently there's more information about her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, but I don't have access to it :( Kaldari (talk) 07:02, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Here is Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. --Edgars2007 ^{(talk/contribs)} 08:58, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Kaldari (talk) 18:05, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Statement of gender

I've just made an edit on Ice Hockey World Championships denoting that it is a men's tournament – a simple and obvious distinction which had not been made explicit before. Having a cursory glance, our articles on Major League Baseball and the National Football League do not make this distinction either. Even Premier League (a featured article) fails to tell the reader the exclusive gender of its participants.

Such presentations (presumably unintentional ones made by male editors) serve only to (a) underline the bias of sporting culture in favour of men and (b) perpetuate the underlying idea that there is "sport" and "women's sport". While improving Wikipedia's coverage of women's sport is the foremost purpose of this project, we should also try to counteract these notions in articles on men's sport. In Synchronized swimming—a principally female sport—half the lead is dedicated to covering the position of men in the sport. Yet, it goes unspoken that women are excluded in the three above articles (and i assume many more) – a fact which by its very omission says that this exclusion is not important. If the exclusion were done by any other means rather than gender (race, culture etc), we would doubtless give this aspect much attention. SFB 20:53, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

The articles don't make the distinction in your examples because they allow women to play. Just no women have managed to attain the level required to play at that high a level. You need to be careful when making such changes as saying its a men's league when there are no rules barring women is inaccurate. -DJSasso (talk) 21:08, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

This is a frequent kind of error actually. What often happens is that amateur and pro leagues and their scholastic counterparts are generally set up to discourage or ignore attempts at female participation, resulting in no girls/women with the skills to compete at higher levels. As this has been written about many times in reliable sources, some kind of overall article on discrimination and women's sport[s] would be useful, and could be linked to from articles like the one Sillyfolkboy mentions. There's a lot of info available from old newspapers that clearly shows this sort of bias going back to the 1800s, and I've seen various modern pieces on the topic as well; i.e., it's not only a current concern but has a rich history. I think this would be about 1000% more encyclop[a]edically productive than either trying to add usually untrue allegations that particular professional leagues are sexist (rather than everything leading up to them) or creating article after article after article that consists of little but examples of such segregation on a local, per-sport basis, as has been done in Category:Women's sport in Australia. Most of those articles needs to merge, though I'm declining to participate in them any further due to conflicts with their principal author becoming too irritating. The content of this sort gathered so far would be best used in a wider and less parochial piece about the undeniable stunting of women's participation in sports. And a Women's sport in Australia article could, per WP:SUMMARY style, be more encyclopedic than a bunch of hopeless micro-stubs like Women's archery in Australia, Women's boxing in Australia, etc. Some of the sport-specific articles do report on notable, organized sporting as in Women's golf in Australia. But not every single recognizable sport needs a separate "Women's [sport name] in [place]" content fork, only those where cultural context generates a distinctive phenomenon of note. This is why we don't have separate "[race] [activity name] in [place]", "[sexual preference] [activity name] in [place]" or any other articles on random triple-intersections of demographic, verb and location. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 17:55, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Put the flogger down and step away from the dead horse. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:14, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

@DJSasso: That's not necessarily true. There are several instances where women have qualified to participate in professional leagues or tournaments and have been told they cannot participate solely because of their gender and instead have to compete in the women's league or women's tournament. The U.S. Open, for example, is known for explicitly excluding women from the main tournament (although I'm not sure if this is still the case). I believe this sort of gender discrimination is legal so long as an "equivalent" women's version exists. This is also why, for example, men are generally excluded from participating in women's leagues although they could potentially qualify. The trick, however, is that the women's leagues/tournaments are rarely "equivalent" in terms of money, prestige, media coverage, etc. Kaldari (talk) 18:15, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

The qualification criteria are a bit of a smokescreen to be honest. Even if women are technically allowed to participate, the fact that these competitions go on with just one gender in reality is enough to make a statement saying as such in the article. Leaving discrimination issues aside, it's an encyclopaedic failing not to mention gender at all when gender is a defining aspect of a competition. SFB 18:57, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

I was referring specifically to the ones linked to in the comment I was replying to. There are definitely competitions that do specifically bar women. But the ones in the comment I was replying to do not. -DJSasso (talk) 19:47, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Any comment on my rationale for adding a men's descriptor to the Premier League article and you subsequent reversion? SFB 22:52, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

club Women football by year?

International women's club football, as 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League and others simils are not in articles likes 2011 in association football, 2012 in association football, 2011 association football continental champions, 2012 in sports, also we have a rule of how post it in? is there a article to use as a example--Feroang (talk) 01:45, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Jade Bailey (footballer)

I am the creator of the article Jade Bailey (footballer) I came here hoping to ask for help in expanding it because you folks presumably know what you're doing. I don't know enough about footballers to do a good article here. I need 1500 characters to get it past http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Jade_Bailey_(footballer) . Would you care to help? Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 12:26, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Concussions in women's sport

I have this project called The Concussion Project, and one of the pages I created was Concussions in women's sport, though I later decided to merge, but then I moved it to User:ZappaOMati/sandbox/3. All I want to know is: Do any of you think this could be an article, or should it just stay merged with Concussions in sport? ZappaOMati 00:39, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

If there are sources for it to justify its own article, why not? :) --LauraHale (talk) 03:19, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Feedback requested on the best way to expand coverage of the history of women's basketball

I would like to expand the coverage of women's basketball history.

There seem to be three logical places for coverage of the history

1. Women's basketball
2. Basketball
3. History of basketball

In order to keep discussions together, I am posting this teaser on the talk pages of the three articles listed, plus the talk page of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's sport and Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball. I'll post a more complete post on Talk:Women's_basketball and urge anyone with any feedback to post it there.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 22:07, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

RfC on the use of flag icons for sportspeople

An RfC discussion about the MOS:FLAG restriction on the use of flag icons for sportspeople has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons. We invite all interested participants to provide their opinion here. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:34, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Women's football/soccer players articles up for deletion

You are invited to join the discussion at:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cari Roccaro
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toni Pressley (2nd nomination)

Hmlarson (talk) 17:42, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Sports is up for featured portal consideration

This is a courtesy message to inform the members of this project that I have nominated Portal:Sports for featured portal status. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Sports. The featured portal criteria are at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria. Please feel free to weigh in. Sven Manguard Wha? 18:41, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Naming of Men's/Women's National Football Teams under discussion

Discussion is ongoing at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/National teams#Proposed change: consistency in article title gendering.--Carwil (talk) 23:45, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

16 women's football / soccer teams navboxes up for deletion

As at least 16 of the templates up for deletion in this discussion are relevant to the history of women's soccer in terms of development of the sport and individual players, please consider contributing to this discussion: Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_June_3 Hmlarson (talk) 19:14, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

College Softball project notice

Hello, everyone. I've recently started the College softball task force, working to help expand Wikipedia's college softball coverage. If you have an interest in the sport, please consider visiting the project. Thanks, Ejgreen77 (talk) 08:17, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

ErnaLowSki.jpg

image:ErnaLowSki.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 06:25, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

File:ErnaLowSki2.jpg

File:ErnaLowSki2.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 05:42, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Emilia Appelqvist AFD

The Emilia Appelqvist article has been nominated for deletion, and the following discussion is now open for comment: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emilia Appelqvist. Any members with an interest in women's football are encouraged to participate. Thank you. Clavdia chauchat (talk) 23:05, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Laura Robson

Laura Robson has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.--FutureTrillionaire (talk) 00:31, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Task Force on women's basketball

I'm gathering feedback for the possibility of starting a Task Force on women's basketball, with the intent that it would be a task force of WikiProject Women's sport as well as WikiProject Basketball (and maybe college basketball). I've read Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide/Task_forces#Setting_up_a_task_force_structure, but I did not see whether one is supposed to get permission from the Wikiproject to form a task force, or if one should be bold and just do it. I posting this as a third way - if someone identifies that I am required to get permission, I'll start that process, if I do not hear back soon, I'll be bold.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 14:19, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

At WP:FOOTBALL they usually ask that at least five editors are involved to start a taskforce. I'm not sure if this is a requirement or a sort of rule of thumb. I suppose if you started things off with fewer than about five editors you might get some resistance. Although, in my experience the response from the 'parent project' (WP:FOOTBALL) to the women's football taskforce has been to completely ignore it! Only breaking out into open hostility now and again. I wish you well with your endeavour - being a task force of two separate wikiprojects is a very interesting idea. Is this possible? Clavdia chauchat (talk) 07:37, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

LFL Australia

Legends Football League is tagged under this WikiProject, and members are invited to comment in a discussion at Talk:Legends Football League#LFL Australia. ZappaOMati 00:55, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Alerts

I couldn't find a link to Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's sport/Article alerts on the Main page, many other projects have added this - though it can also be watchlisted by individual users to keep a handy eye on all AfDs, RMs, etc. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:08, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

3rd party eyes needed

We have a WP:FULLNAME related problem regarding the article first mention name of a Serbian tennis player. This is the last twist in a long pattern of "controversy" between advocates of national spellings and "Tennis names" which started with an attempt to remove ć from the players name in 2009 at Talk:Ana Ivanovic/Archive 4. That was rejected 13 vs 5, but inexplicably a RM in 2012 years later went 0-4 in the other direction, and there's been 2 unsuccessful attempts to undo that since. Anyway, that's background, this isn't about the title it's about the first sentence, the lead WP:FULLNAME part of the a MOSBIO guidelines.

All other Serbian tennis players Tamara Čurović, Jelena Genčić, Jovana Jakšić, Jelena Janković, Tatjana Ječmenica, Ana Jovanović, Karolina Jovanović, Natalija Kostić, Aleksandra Krunić, Vojislava Lukić, Teodora Mirčić, Sandra Načuk, Milana Špremo, Ana Timotić, Ana Veselinović, Dragana Zarić, Nataša Zorić have WP:FULLNAME in line with WP:OPENPARA, similar to the draft guideline at WP:SERBIANNAMES.

Ana Jovanović (Cyrillic: Ана Јовановић; born 28 December 1984) is a Serbian professional tennis player.

That excludes obviously former-Serbians, Australian Serbians, who follow a similar pattern to American citizens:

Martina Navratilova (Czech: Martina Navrátilová; born Martina Šubertová; October 18, 1956) is a retired Czech American tennis player and coach.

The extra spelling in Cyrillic is unique to Serbian and some Bosnian articles. In Serbia Latinica (Latin script) is only used by the popular media, tabloids, sports press etc., while government newspapers, the church continue to use Cyrillic, so every Serbian has to read and write both. The Serbian is absent from Croatian WP:FULLNAME.

Ivana Abramović (born September 3, 1983 in Zagreb) is a Croatian professional tennis player.

So the problem, the problem is the lead of Ana Ivanovic which was given duplicate names in this edit immediately following the move creating the lead

Ana Ivanovic (Serbian: Ana Ivanović Serbian Cyrillic: Ана Ивановић, born November 6, 1987) is a Serbian tennis player...

This is contrary to WP:FULLNAME. The RM didn't make any case for changing the lead, nor through going through the article and stripping out 157 more -ć, leaving the only -ć in brackets in the lead sentence. Also in my experience (if anyone knows different please give an example) we only ever do Martina Navratilova (Czech: Martina Navrátilová) type leads if someone has very clearly changed citizenship, not even green-card Dominican baseball players in the US have their Spanish accents removed in WP:FULLNAME.

At this point this is highly sensitized, by mentioning it here I'm leaving poop on WikiProject Women's sport's doorstep. But then there is a WikiProject Women's sport tag on the Talk page and this article "belongs" to WikiProject Women's sport as much as WikiProject Serbia and WikiProject Tennis. So there it is. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:56, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Cricket

I'm noticing that several pages about women's cricket (such as England women's cricket team) have got stuck in 2009. I hope that the publicity surrounding the current Ashes series will encourage more editing in this field, but I mention it here in case anyone on this project feels capable of bringing these articles up to scratch. Thank you, W. P. Uzer (talk) 07:46, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Hope Solo article

Hope Solo, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Hmlarson (talk) 06:01, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment

There is a discussion open about moving Australia national association football team to Australia men's national association football team. The move would include converting Australia national association football team to a disambiguation page that would include a link to the women's team article as well as the men's team article. Contributions to the discussion are much appreciated. Thank you. Hmlarson (talk) 01:46, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

I've now started a formal RfC here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports#RfC: How should articles on national sports teams handle gendered teams? I invite you to share your views. —Tom Morris (talk) 18:01, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Move request for Li Na - request for comments/wisdom welcome

Since there are several famous female athletes named Li Na, I just wanted this project to be aware of a move request at Talk:Li Na (tennis). Fyunck(click) (talk) 05:17, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Steph Davis

I'm working on the article Steph Davis, a female rock climber. Would love help! Wadewitz (talk) 22:18, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Pageview stats

After a recent request, I added WikiProject Women's sport to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's sport/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the Tool Labs tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 22:50, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

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Naming of articles in Category:Men's national field hockey teams

Hi everyone, I just found your project. You might be interested in Category talk:Men's national field hockey teams#Mass rename. Help would be appreciated. Multichill (talk) 13:14, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

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These two articles could do with some help

Can anyone help me with this Women's MMA and Women's tennis article. Dwanyewest (talk) 20:33, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Fort Worth Panthers

This is a women's soccer team in the Women's Premier Soccer League. That article has a red link: Fort Worth Panthers (WPSL). Fort Worth Panthers redirects to Fort Worth Cats (Texas League), which is about a defunct minor league baseball team, the Fort Worth Cats, which once used that name. Fort Worth FC might be a club of some sort, but it's certainly not the team's name, although the article claims that. Can you fix that? 71.23.178.214 (talk) 16:11, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Heather Clark pro Ice Hockey player?

Does anyone have any information about Heather Clark (fighter) or Heather Jo Clark apparently before she became an MMA fighter she played pro Ice hockey[1]. If so does anyone know the name of the team she played for and for how long so I can create an article. Apparently she may have played for EHC Visp and Vancouver Griffins can anyone confirm this? Dwanyewest (talk) 17:41, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Request for Comment

There is a Request for Comment about "Chronological Summaries of the Olympics" and you're invited! Becky Sayles (talk) 07:29, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

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Question at the Village Pump

There is a question at the Village Pump that should be of interest to this group:

Risk in identifying as a woman editor on Wikipedia

--Lightbreather (talk) 02:21, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Stacey Johnson (fencer)

I have begun a draft of Draft:Stacey Johnson (fencer), but it will be a while before I can get back to it, if anyone wants to pick it up. Cheers! bd2412 T 14:17, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Notice and invitation

1. There is a redirect discussion that may be of interest to this group.
2. Have you heard of the Kaffeeklatsch? It is a test area for women to hear and support each other. The idea came about as a result of a discussion at meta regarding my IdeaLab proposal (yet open) for WikiProject Women.

Now that the klatsch has survived an MfD and WMF legal has said that it does not violate the non discrimination policy,[2] I am looking for women editors who might like to join.

Although I have started a couple of discussions, they are not urgent. For now, the "Please introduce yourself" discussion is more important! I want to take it slow at first and build a small group before trying to address heavy topics or come up with big goals. For now, the klatsch is there as a sort of refuge. I hope you will consider joining, and invite other women editors, too, if you wish.

--Lightbreather (talk) 16:00, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Editor marginalising women's sport

International cricket doesn't include women according to this one editor https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_unusual_dismissals_in_international_cricket&action=history — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.7.156.156 (talk) 14:17, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Women and The Boat Race

I see that this year there is going to be a women's race as part of "The Boat Races", in 29 days time, but our The Boat Race article only mentions this way down the article under The_Boat_Race#Other_boat_races_involving_Oxford_and_Cambridge. The logo on the official web page now includes an "S" on "RACES", not the version used in the article. I'm no expert on rowing (I just watch the race each year, along with the London Marathon, the Grand National and a bit of The Championships as the totality of my sports tv-watching outside the Olympics). Someone interested in women's sport might like to update the article to reflect this year's changes, the addition of the women's race. PamD 09:25, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

OK, now found The Boat Race 2015 which does discuss the women's race, but I still feel women need a bit more prominence in The Boat Race. PamD 09:41, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Pam, just to reply to your post here, The Rambling Man created the combined The Boat Race 2015, as mentioned above, and several articles on the the individual women's races since 1927 (listed on Template:The Boat Race), Gareth E Kegg created the 1927 article. Andrew Davidson started Women's Boat Race and Women's rowing which I expanded as well as revising Rowing (sport)#Women. So some progress made and hopefully heading in the right direction. Whizz40 (talk) 17:58, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello PamD, I've also taken Women's Boat Race 2013 to GA and am hoping to do the same with Women's Boat Race 2014 in due course. Other Women's Boat Races have scant coverage, if you could help with that, brilliant. As for the main article, which is mainly poor, because the men's section covers 175+ years of history, it's little wonder that the women's race gets less coverage. Indeed, until this year, it was literally a minor blip that was viewed by a few, celebrated by a few, and remembered by a few. If you can help, please do. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:15, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Pam, just to add - thank you for flagging this. I enjoyed working on it and collaborating with other editors. It wasn't obvious, to me at least, what the right way to solve this was initially, and, as we saw, there was a discussion about moving Talk:The Boat Race#Requested move 13 March 2015, which didn't happen, but following the discussions at the UK Wikipedians' notice board, WikiProject Rowing and User Talk, the pattern of changes described above emerged as a result of this being brought to the attention of editors who had (hopefully) the right ideas about changes to make. I would add that most of the content around the boat races has been generated by The Rambling Man including the initiative to boldly combine the races in the Talk:The Boat Races 2015#Name and create the initial redirect for the Women's Boat Race, so much credit belongs there. But, my reason for mentioning this is I think this is a great example of how the collaborative processes on Wikipedia can work to produce improvements. Whizz40 (talk) 05:37, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Discussion notice

There is a discussion at meta, Grants:IdeaLab/Community discussion on harassment reporting, that may be of interest to members of the project. Lightbreather (talk) 14:20, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

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Dates: Friday-Sunday, 4 to 6 September 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual Sponsor: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center "The Smithsonian APA Center invites you to attend the 2nd annual Wikipedia APA an editathon for cultural presence, which will be held during the month of September 2015. We are thrilled to invite you to Wikipedia APA, an editing event for improving and increasing the presence of cultural, historic, and artistic information on Wikipedia pertaining to Asian Pacific American ("APA") experiences. The second Wikipedia editathon dedicated to APA content, this project will occur as physical events during September 2015... as well as remotely, with participants taking part from all throughout the world." Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR) Did you Know that 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? Not impressed? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! WiR will be hosting one of this world virtual edit-a-thon. The 3-day event will focus on improving Wikipedia's coverage of Asian Pacific American women and their works (books, paintings, and so on). For more information and to RSVP: → click here← --Rosiestep (talk) 03:23, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Re-organization of WikiProject Women

Main page: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women § Complete reorganization proposal

There currently is a discussion about the future organization of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women and several other women-related Wikiprojects and taskforces at the above link. Some aspects may be of interests to editors of this project and your participation in the discussion would be appreciated. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 12:11, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

What do you think can be done to improve women's sport articles?

A lost of womens sports seem to be quite niche so maybe more specialist magazines or old newspaper articles in regards to improving women's boxing. I think this link [3] might prove useful. Dwanyewest (talk) 11:03, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Question on the notability of women's ice hockey players

Please see here. Thanks, Ejgreen77 (talk) 22:57, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

• What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
• When? June 2015
• How can you help?

  1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here

  2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)

  3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

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Women's football/soccer player article up for deletion

The article about Australian player Jessica Humble has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to join the discussion at:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jessica Humble (2nd nomination)

Hmlarson (talk) 00:54, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Jamie Belmont

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jamie Belmont Joeykai (talk) 00:41, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon

You are invited...
	Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red Sponsor: Art+Feminism 1 to 31 March 2016

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--Ipigott (talk) 08:15, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Jenna Fife for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jenna Fife is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jenna Fife until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. — Cirt (talk) 21:23, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

@Cirt: Psst! This is what the automatically-generated article alerts page is for. If you don't have anything to add beyond a standard AfD template, there's no need to clutter the talk page with it.  Rebbing  02:26, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Does every single Wikipedia editor read those or know "article alerts" even exist ? — Cirt (talk) 02:27, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps not, but, if one of these templates were to be placed on the talk page for every WikiProject Women's sport-covered article that was nominated for deletion, the talk page would be filled with them. I get that you're passionate about saving this particular article, but I think it's both inappropriate and annoying to template a WikiProject's talk page like this. If you think the article is more important of attention than all the other women's sport-related articles at AfD, perhaps a short comment explaining its relevance would be better than this boilerplate message. Also, the documentation cautions: "Aggressive use of this template may be seen as canvassing, which is disruptive and may lead to the canvasser(s) being blocked."  Rebbing  04:16, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

I'm sorry you want this article to be disappeared from Wikipedia. I chose the templated notice instead of creating my own wording specifically so it would be NPOV wording. It is a simple matter to archive the notice after seven (7) days. — Cirt (talk) 11:18, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Sorry about this. I should have kept my mouth shut about your notice: it did its job; I wouldn't have gotten around to the AfD just from the article alerts. Also, I think I made clear in my recommendation that I would prefer the article be kept, but, applying policy, not my opinions, it fails our notability criteria. Cheers.  Rebbing  13:05, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words about my Quality improvement efforts to Wikipedia. — Cirt (talk) 15:43, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Ana Ivanovic move attempt

FYI, there is a request to move Ana Ivanovic to Ana Ivanović. Comment if you wish. Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:00, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

FWIW this relates to WP:SERBIANNAMES vs WP:TENNISNAMES, and there are two more related RMs at Talk:Marin Čilić and Talk:Agnieszka Radwańska. Please review relevant WP Croatia and WP Poland MOS before/if commenting, cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 10:44, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

women junior badmington champions

I just happened to see Draft:Takeisha Wang and was surprised to see she is not notable even though she gold medaled in Mixed Doubles n the 2013 Pan Am Junior Badminton Championships. I am surprised because I was under the impression that sporrtspeople were almost guaranteed to be notable if they played in anything major, but I admit to knowing very little about it. Ottawahitech (talk) 05:25, 25 November 2015 (UTC)please ping me

Invitation to an online editathon on Black Women's History

Invitation
	Black Women's History online edit-a-thon 1 to 15 February 2016 Hosted by Women in Red Sponsored by AfroCrowd Supporting Black WikiHistory Month

--Ipigott (talk) 10:24, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Female footballer article deletion discussion

An article related to this project is currently being considered for deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jenna Fife. Hmlarson (talk) 20:21, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

* See also: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brogan Hay Hmlarson (talk) 06:42, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes

Following a recent discussion at WP:VPR, there is consensus for an opt-in bot task that automatically assesses the class of articles based on classes listed for other project templates on the same page. In other words, if WikiProject A has evaluated an article to be C-class and WikiProject B hasn't evaluated the article at all, such a bot task would automatically evaluate the article as C-class for WikiProject B.

If you think auto-assessment might benefit this project, consider discussing it with other members here. For more information or to request an auto-assessment run, please visit User:BU RoBOT/autoassess. This is a one-time message to alert projects with over 1,000 unassessed articles to this possibility. ~ Rob^Talk 01:28, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Cassie Mitchell

Hi, I removed some inaccuracies from Cassie Mitchell, but it seems to me that this very remarkable woman deserves a much better (comprehensive) article highlighting her many impressive succeses (both as a scientist and professor and as a world record holder Paralympic athlete). I don't have enough time to do her justice (and perhaps get her article good and long enough to present it at WP:DYK during the Paralympics), but perhaps someone here is interested. Fram (talk) 14:28, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red--Olympics

Hello! Over at WP:Women in Red we have been discussing the possibility of having an Olympics themed event in August. If you have any ideas please feel free to join the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Ideas#August 2016. Knope7 (talk) 20:55, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. Could you also post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Women's football task force? Hmlarson (talk) 04:51, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

RM notification 21 November 2024

Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Megan Marcks#Requested move 3 September 2016, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, — Sam Sailor 01:03, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta

La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta, the equivalent of La Course by Le Tour de France for the Vuelta, is missing an article. It's the high profile women's single day race companion for the men's Tour of Spain -- 65.94.171.217 (talk) 06:57, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

New Page: Muslim Women in Sport

I am planing to create a new page that will discuss Muslim women's sports participation as well as barriers they face to participating. Does anyone have any suggestions about what subjects and topics to include? I am also looking for advice about the title of my page! My full proposal and bibliography can be found on my user page. Rjpg12 (talk) 15:37, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Don't know much about the topic myself, but here are some interesting articles related to football/soccer / sport in general:

• https://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/research-projects/middle-east/muslim-women-in-sport/
• https://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/research-projects/middle-east/muslim-women-in-sport/the-state-of-womens-football-in-muslim-countries/
• http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2015/06/14/jessica-houara-dhommeaux-hijab-france-womens-world-cup
• http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/hijabs-and-hat-tricks-muslim-women-lead-the-field-1.2479670

Hmlarson (talk) 15:58, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

List of first overall WNBA draft picks nominated for featured list

I placed the list of first overall WNBA draft picks as a nomination as a featured list. Any comments you could provide would be appreciated. Thanks --Pink Fae (talk) 17:32, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

An invitation to November's events

November 2016
	Announcing two exciting online editathons Women in Food and Drink and Women Writers as well as our strong support for articles on women in connection with Wikipedia Asian Month Faciliated by Women in Red

(To subscribe: Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 18:07, 23 October 2016 (UTC) via MassMessaging

December 2016 at Women in Red

File:Roza Shanina.jpg December 2016
	Two new topics for our online editathons Women in Aviation and Women in the Military Our geographical topic of the month is Caribbean Women During the period of 21 Nov - 8 Dec, we are also supporting BBC 100 Women Women in Red

(To subscribe: Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 22:43, 23 November 2016 (UTC) via MassMessaging

"Women are everywhere"

Hi, I'm an editor of the Italian Wikipedia. I'm trying to participate to an IEG with the project "Women are everywhere". You will find the draft at this link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_are_everywhere It would be great if you could have a look at it. I need any kind of suggestion or advice to improve it. Support or endorsement would be fantastic. Many thanks,--Kenzia (talk) 07:19, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

As they should be. The world revolvws around them godly wit the ability to give an take life as he buys new car hat etc to be notices as they say brain bring paid but what brings smiles the rib as mesmerized as I smile opening or pulling a chair out manner polite or caught knowing beauty each in knowledge by touch taste mind and heart a smile . . . Musiclinkup (talk) 17:13, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank u thank u that that that's not all as ill hope to bring grins laughfs smiles that hour glass as forever yep stuck unlike chuck God bless all yeah to Musiclinkup (talk) 17:19, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

Greetings WikiProject Women's sport/Archive 1 Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

• Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 18:19, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

January 2017 at Women in Red

January 2017
	Women Philosophers & Women in Education online editathons Faciliated by Women in Red

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February 2017 at Women in Red

February 2017
	Black Women & Women Anthropologists online editathons Faciliated by Women in Red

(To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 20:55, 28 January 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging

March 2017 at Women in Red

		Welcome to... Women's History Month worldwide online editathon Facilitated by Women in Red
		March 2017 Featuring: "Art+Feminism" and "The Women You Have Never Met" Feel free to add articles in other languages too (To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 22:53, 18 February 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging

AFD and discussion about women's sport notability guidelines

The AFD for Australian player article Georgia Plessas is open for comment: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Georgia Plessas. There is some discussion about women's sport notability guidelines in general. Hmlarson (talk) 18:50, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Featured list candidate: Feedback requested

List of international goals scored by Abby Wambach is currently a featured list candidate seeking additional feedback before it can be passed. All of the previously submitted comments for improvement have been incorporated. Please consider taking a look and adding a comment of support (or suggestions for improvement) to Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of international goals scored by Abby Wambach/archive1 so the review can be completed. Thanks. Hmlarson (talk) 01:51, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Helping review + re-publish women's international-level athlete articles

There are currently numerous articles about international-level women athletes that need review and re-publishing once references are confirmed. The deadline for this is April 24, 2017. Background information is available here: User:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up/Guidelines.

For those willing to help (any amount helps), the process goes fairly quickly once you get in a rhythm of reviewing and re-publishing. Please see User:Aymatth2/SvG clean-up/Guidelines#Lists for the lists. The main steps are to:

1. Open a draft article from the list
2. Check refs to confirm information in the article and make any copyedits to the article to clean up
3. Once confirmed, move the draft to the article mainspace and activate the categories by removing the :
4. Confirm the article's talk page is tagged with {{WP Women's sport}}

Thank you. Hmlarson (talk) 20:00, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Notice about adminship to participants at this project

Many participants here create a lot of content, may have to evaluate whether or not a subject is notable, decide if content complies with BLP policy, and much more. Well, these are just some of the skills considered at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.

So, please consider taking a look at and watchlisting this page:

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll

You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and even finding out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:40, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

April events at Women in Red

		Welcome to Women in Red's April 2017 worldwide online editathons. Participation is welcome in any language.
		"Psychology" "Book Artists" "CEE Countries"

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May 2017 at Women in Red

		Welcome to Women in Red's May 2017 worldwide online editathons. Participation is welcome in any language.
		"Organizations" "Sports" "Pacific islanders"

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Ice hockey task force initiated

I created a basic structure for the Ice hockey task force to get started created the new task forces. @Bill McKenna: and any other editors interested in helping build it out, please feel free to modify the pages/content and add your name to the Members page.. Hmlarson (talk) 19:55, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Template:Top level women's association football leagues around the world nominated for deletion

• Template
• Deletion discusion

Input is welcome. Hmlarson (talk) 16:01, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Category:Parade High School All-Americans (girls' soccer), (girls' basketball) nominated for deletion

See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 May 3 for discussion. Hmlarson (talk) 01:32, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

I don't know if this is the right place?

Is anyone interested in improving female boxer articles I believe every female professional boxer shoudl have their records on display and some decent third person articles as alot of the female boxing article leave alot to be desired. There is also a task force at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's sport/Boxing task force if anyone is interested, any suggestions? Dwanyewest (talk) 15:58, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's sport/Boxing task force is brand new. Please feel free to help build it out by adding task lists, resources, etc. and invite other editors who work on women's boxing articles. You can see the Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Women's football task force as an example. There's currently a bot running to help tag women's sport articles (w/ the new task forces if applicable) to help sort and assess and get started building these areas. Feel free to propose any ideas you might have or just add them to the task force if they're in line with existing guidelines. Once you've made changes, it might be a good idea to post here to bring other members' attention as well (as it's so new). Thanks! Hmlarson (talk) 19:08, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Hmlarson or anyone else I have started the conversation of improving female boxing articles at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women's sport/Boxing task force. Dwanyewest (talk) 20:39, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Bot request to tag women athlete articles with the Project tag

I would like to submit a request for EarwigBot to tag articles related to women athletes with {{WikiProject Women's sport}} and related subcategories. It looks like this was originally requested by maybe LauraHale via the XenoBot - but did not get activated (per the note on the main page of the project). The new request requires a list of categories and consensus. Please add your support and any comments below under the Discussion subheader.

The list of categories I have to start include:

• Category:Women's sports (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport}}
• Category:Women's basketball (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|basketball=yes}}
• Category:Women's National Basketball Association (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|wnba=yes}}
• Category:Women's boxing (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|boxing=yes}}
• Category:Women's association football (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|footy=yes}}
• Category:Women's cricket (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|cricket=yes}}
• Category:Women's cycle racing (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|cycling=yes}}
• Category:Female figure skaters --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|figureskating=yes}}
• Category:Women's field hockey (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|fieldhockey=yes}}
• Category:Female gymnasts (parent and subcats) and Category:Women's gymnastics (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|gymnastics=yes}}
• Category:Women's golf (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|golf=yes}}
• Category:Women's ice hockey (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|icehockey=yes}}
• Category:Women's martial arts (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|martialarts=yes}}
• Category:Women's mixed martial arts (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|mma=yes}}
• Category:Women's softball (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|softball=yes}}
• Category:Women's swimming (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|swimming=yes}}
• Category:Women's tennis (parent and subcats) --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|tennis=yes}}
• Category:Women's volleyball players --> tag with {{WikiProject Women's sport|volleyball=yes}}
• Please also tag category talk pages

Questions

• We could potentially request hockey and softball be added to the Project Template and create taskforces for those - any others?
• The Earwig Is it possible to automatically add: needs-infobox=yes and/or needs-photo=yes if there is no infobox or photo?

Notes

• The Category:Netball and Category:Women's netball categories need some work.
• The Category:Softball and Category:Women's softball categories need some work.
• The Category:Women's martial arts needs some work.

To add to WP template

• boxing=yes
• figureskating=yes
• fieldhockey=yes
• gymnastics=yes
• golf=yes
• icehockey=yes
• martialarts=yes
• mma=yes
• netball=yes
• softball=yes
• swimming=yes
• tennis=yes
• volleyball=yes

Pinging a few active members to spur discussion below Rebbing, Pink Fae, Guerillero, Bill McKenna, TitleIXHockey, Daphne Lantier, Nn94_14, Rzafar, Gobonobo, Rjpg12

• Add netball and softball wikiprojects? {{WikiProject Women's sport|netball=yes}} and {{WikiProject Women's sport|softball=yes}}? While not entirely female, they tend to be overwhelmingly so on Wikipedia. Also, Category:Sportswomen should probably be in their to tag. Some other sports that tend to have lots of coverage of women include figure skating and gymnastics. --LauraHale (talk) 19:26, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you LauraHale. Category:Sportswomen is a subcategory of Category:Women's sports so will be covered by first line. I've created a list that we can add to add other sports. They need to be added to the Template first. I'll ask Redrose64 to assist once we have final list. What do you think of cycling, martial arts, and tennis? I've seen quite a bit of articles recently nominated for deletion. Hmlarson (talk) 19:48, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

I'd also consider tossing on roller derby, and the Paralympics as sub-projects. I'd also love to see Deaflympics as a specific task force but that area is... well, difficult. Though it would be hugely nice. It would also be nice to have regional subprojects, for Oceania, Asia, Africa, South America, the Caribbean, Europe. These are vastly under-represented geographic areas in many ways. Having lists we can get from projects of women's articles about these regions makes it easier for people to organize efforts to improve regional content, under-represented sports, etc. (Handball and field hockey and netball and roller derby are popular in some of these countries, but lack of anglophone popularity at times pushes down coverage of major non-Anglo women's sports figures outside the English speaking world.) I haven't been following things, but the I could see the tennis thing. There are issues around notability, where men and women don't have parity but the parity issues are often geographic and, well, language issues. :/ --LauraHale (talk) 12:06, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

• Where's women's tennis? Athletes like Sharapova and Williams are the highest paid women in any sport and are some of the best known female athletes in the world. Daphne Lantier 20:30, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

• Added to lists. Thank you. Hmlarson (talk) 20:46, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

• @Hmlarson: Much appreciated. Daphne Lantier 05:12, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Discussion

• Support Hmlarson (talk) 17:55, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
• Support LauraHale (talk) 19:05, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
• Support with enthusiasm; one possible 'tweak' would be to differentiate ice hockey from field hockey. This isn't a big deal for readers in North America, but in parts of the world it might be significant. I'll work on US College ice hockey at once though. Bill McKenna (talk) 22:08, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

  Yes. We have the best hockey players in the world. Fact. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:42, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

• Support Daphne Lantier 05:12, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

I see that EarwigBot (talk · contribs) is doing this which is completely unnecessary: outside mainspace, the class is detected automatically, I know of no situations where explicitly adding |class=category is required. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:25, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

I fixed it, it was a mistake. The class wasn't being added for new banners (as intended) but was being added for existing banners because of a logic error. — Earwig ^talk 02:52, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

• The Earwig Why is it tagging articles who aren't female, nor have they had anything to do with female sports? The one I've listed, he been in all male sports, never a woman's league. I've seen a few others revert the bot as well for this very same thing... Corkythehornetfan (ping me) 17:18, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Corkythehornetfan it has also tagged many of the mens MIAA basketball categories with the women tag.UCO2009bluejay (talk) 17:53, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Corkythehornetfan I think I have fixed these, see my talk page for details. Let me know if you see any more. — Earwig ^talk 21:10, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

RFC on sports notability

An RFC has recently been started regarding a potential change to the notability guidelines for sportspeople. Please join in the conversation. Thank you. Primefac (talk) 23:09, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Primefac why was the discussion closed after two days? Hmlarson (talk) 20:43, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Hmlarson, looks like a procedural close. Too many discussions without a clear direction, I guess. Primefac (talk) 20:51, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Sports notability guideline#Proposal to close this discussion. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:34, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

I have followed earwigbot

Hi, I mostly wikignome sports articles so a couple of articles on my watchlist just got tagged by Earwig bot. How can I help the project? Because I've noticed that women's sport has way less coverage than men's. Red Fiona (talk) 14:35, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Awesome. There's currently an Women's sport edit-a-thon during the month of May that might be a good way of diving in. The requested articles lists might provide some inspiration. Consider adding your name to the Participants list and following this talk page to keep up with project-related news. Any particular sports you are interested in Redfiona99? Hmlarson (talk) 19:13, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Will do. I'm mostly a wiki-gnome on sports articles, but I'd like to improve the fencing articles. Also, if anyone needs German translating, I can do that. Red Fiona (talk) 18:26, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Netball task force

@Hmlarson: Since Netball is primarily a women's sport, I'm wondering if we really need a Women's netball taskforce. It seems that the scope of this taskforce would overlap pretty heavily with WikiProject Netball. Having a task force and a WikiProject covering the same scope causes confusion (for example, it isn't clear where to have discussions) and splits resources and attention. I think it would be better to focus energy on one or the other. What do you think? Kaldari (talk) 21:38, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

I'm fine with that personally. @LauraHale: thoughts? Hmlarson (talk) 01:53, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

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June 2017 offerings @ WikiProject Women in Red

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Women in Sport's history

If a woman was involved in sport not listed, i.e. baseball in WWII, what would be the appropriate task group? See Claire Lobrovich for example. Trilotat (talk) 01:06, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

@Trilotat: As you probably noticed, there are seventeen task forces, each dedicated to one sport or group of sports. Use of these is not obligatory; and since there are several hundred (perhaps several thousand) sports played by women, it is impractical to set up a task force for every single one. If none of the task forces are appropriate, simply omit them all. This means that the parameters that you might consider using are:

{{WikiProject Women's sport |class= |importance= |needs-infobox= |needs-photo= |attention= |small= |listas= }}

and you probably only need the first two plus |needs-photo=yes. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:48, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Trilotat (talk) 05:18, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Eleni Glouftsis part of this project?

Hi, i have just added Glouftsis to the women project, i was going to add her to the Women's sport project but as she is an umpire of AFL not AFLW i wasn't sure (or could she be included as a 'woman in sport', honorary women's sport project person?), thanks Coolabahapple (talk) 09:10, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

@Coolabahapple: I think woman in sports should also be included. Great point. Hmlarson (talk) 21:21, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

hi Hmlarson, thanksCoolabahapple (talk) 03:24, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

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RfC: Current sporting seasons > Football (soccer) 2017

A request for comment has been initiated related to the inclusion of women's football/soccer leagues in the Current Events portal. Input is welcome:

• Portal talk:Current events#RfC about Current sporting seasons > Football (soccer) 2017

Hmlarson (talk) 22:00, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Featured article candidate: Mia Hamm

The Mia Hamm article is currently a featured article candidate. Feedback is appreciated: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Mia Hamm/archive1. Thank you. Hmlarson (talk) 17:00, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at Simone Manuel

Hello! There is currently a dispute at Simone Manuel, an article under this WikiProject's scope, regarding the statement that Manuel is the first black woman to win a swimming gold in an individual event and whether or not Ranomi Kromowidjojo's racial background renders this statement incorrect for Manuel. Other editors are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Simone Manuel#Simone Manuel, the first black woman to win a gold medal? ~Cheers, TenTonParasol 22:47, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

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Over 25 AFDs for women athletes

Heads up that there are currently over 25 articles about women athletes up for deletion. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's sport/Article alerts#AfD and contribute to any discussion you see fit. Hmlarson (talk) 02:57, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Request for comment: WP:NFOOTY guideline

A request for comment is open regarding a proposed change to the WP:NFOOTY guideline here: RfC: Proposal for WP:NFOOTY guideline. Input is welcome. Hmlarson (talk) 22:44, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Joi S.J. Harris

I have a draft up at DRAFT:Joi S.J. Harris for SJ -- 67.70.35.17 (talk) 07:09, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Jessica Mendoza

Jessica Mendoza gets a decent amount of vandalism during the baseball season (she's on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball crew). I just reverted a series of edits from this afternoon (by a user who has only edited this one article): adding in an unsourced weight (then increasing it), plus adding some questionable sources (a baseball messageboard for one). Unlike a lot of this vandalism, some of this stuff is true but they cherrypicked quotes and sources which are quite negative, and it didn't provide anything close to an overall reasonable take. I'm out the door now, unfortunately, but I think this may be an ongoing thing and her page might deserve protection? I don't know how one would go about that, but figured I'd try here.Cleancutkid (talk) 23:05, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

I just discovered WP:BASEBALL, which may be better-equipped to deal with this on a long-term basis, so posted on their talk page as well.Cleancutkid (talk) 23:18, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Cleancutkid - you can request protection at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Hmlarson (talk) 06:11, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

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Discussion about minimum salaries for "fully professional" status according to WP:FOOTY

There is currently a discussion about the addition of France's Division 1 Féminine (France's top women's league) to the notability essay WP:FPL. The minimum salary deemed "fully professional" (which is used by WP:FOOTY to presume notability) is also being discussed. Input is welcome at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Fully professional leagues#French Women's League. Hmlarson (talk) 11:50, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at NSPORTS

Hello all. In an effort to finally resolve the never-ending and annoying GNG v SSG issue, I've proposed a revision of the NSPORTS introduction. You are all invited to take part in the discussion. Thank you. Jack | ^{talk page} 06:20, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

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trans sport

I was looking on the project's main page for information related to my previous thread, and noticed the following goal in particular:

• "Improve Wikipedia's coverage of transsexual and transgendered sport."

First of all and most importantly, "transgendered" is dated terminology and the "-ed" should be removed (see Transgender#Evolution of transgender terminology and its sources, for example).

It doesn't seem like the project is currently covering this, since we're missing Transgender people in sports, and most of the trans people listed in Category:Transgender and transsexual sportspeople don't show up here either (the ones who do are mostly trans women who have competed in women's sports, I think). While I think that trans sport coverage on wikipedia can and should be improved, and this project certainly covers some trans sports topics, I don't personally think that trans sports should be thought of as a sub-project of women's sports, which is a bit how the goal reads to me? Any thoughts from other editors?

Is it okay for me to remove the "-ed" on my own, or should project page stuff wait for consensus? Cleancutkid (talk) 23:00, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Cleancutkid - yes, please update it accordingly. Thanks for bringing it to attention. Hmlarson (talk) 20:50, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Proposal to re-name this WikiProject to WP Women in Sports

What do other editors think of re-naming this project to WikiProject Women in Sports? I believe the title better encapsulates women athletes and other women who work in sports such as broadcasters, officials, etc. Pinging LauraHale - who I believe created this project originally. Hmlarson (talk) 15:06, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

• Support. Hmlarson (talk) 15:06, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
• Comment: I feel like this can be fixed with a statement on the project page, rather than a renaming? It seems like the existing name covers

- everyone (and everything) involved with women's sports, including men (see Geno Auriemma, Tony DiCicco, Mark Sampson, etc.)

- including all women athletes, regardless of sport (see Katie Hnida and Janet Guthrie, who participated in "men's" sporting events)

- but does miss some significant women in sports, e.g. Erin Andrews, Christine Brennan, Jemele Hill, Katie Nolan, and Kathryn Smith. These 4 journalists and an NFL coach do not have the wikiproject included on their talk pages. These individual cases seem like they would be relatively rare, as many (most?) women with notable roles in the broader sports world have also been involved in women's sports at a high level (Doris Burke, Moya Dodd, Becky Hammon, Bibiana Steinhaus, Jennifer Welter, etc), which puts them under the project as it stands.

Personally, I am in favor of the project covering both Andrews and Auriemma, but think that that can be done as the title stands, perhaps with some detail given on the project page. If people think that a rename is necessary, though, I wouldn't be incredibly opposed.

[as a list for myself/future inclusion in this project, Category:Women sports announcers is a nice place to look for women in sports who aren't necessarily part of this project already.] Cleancutkid (talk) 22:16, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

I've updated some of the text on the main page. You've provided some good examples of "Women in sports" who are not technically "Women's sport". I think a re-name to Women in Sports would also be more in line with other projects such as WikiProject Women in Technology and Women in warfare and the military. How about we start with updating the project content to reflect "Women in Sports"? I'd also like to propose a change to the icon. Hmlarson (talk) 21:03, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Merging article

Hi all! I am currently working on merging Women at the Olympics with International Olympic Committee and gender equality in sports. It will be placed in the namespace Participation of women in the Olympics and the draft is at Draft:Participation of women in the Olympics. Any help with this project would be greatly appreciated. Jith12 (talk) 21:54, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Jith12. Hmlarson (talk) 21:04, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

No problem Hmlarson! I am really enjoying it. Both articles are in a pretty terrible state so it is probably best to put them into a new one and start fresh. The coverage of this topic really deserves better. Regards, Jith12 (talk) 21:16, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

List of sports video games featuring women players

I'd working on a draft of a new article entitled "List of sports video games featuring women athletes" (or something similar). So far, I have:

• Mia Hamm Soccer 64
• FIFA 16
• FIFA 17
• FIFA 18
• Imagine: Soccer Captain ref
• Dig & Spike Volleyball
• All Star Tennis '99
• 2004 Tiger Woods PGA Tour (Natalie Gulbis)
• ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 (figure skaters only)
• Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer (Lisa Andersen)
• Supremacy MMA
• Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
• NHL 13
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 (five players from WPGA)

Any others to add? Hmlarson (talk) 19:17, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Proposal to add NWHL to Hockey notability guideline

There is currently a proposal put forth by another editor to add the top American women's league, the NWHL, to the Hockey notability guideline: WP:NHOCKEY. As it stands now, the WP:NHOCKEY excludes most women players in top leagues, including the NWHL. Articles about women players for the most part rely on WP:GNG though "fails WP:NHOCKEY" is often noted in AFDs (articles nominated for deletion discussions). The discussion is here. Input is welcome. Hmlarson (talk) 20:37, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

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Gail Kim

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Move request for Ana Ivanovic

There is a request to move tennis icon Ana Ivanovic to Ana Ivanović. Join in if interested. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 00:52, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Request to merge

There is a request to merge Saudi Arabia women's national football team with Women's sport in Saudi Arabia Join in if interested. Thank you.--Mojackjutaily (talk) 16:57, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject

Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Women%27s_sport

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod ^talk 20:14, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Somebody help to clear doubts regarding a Samoan weightlifter

I have a big doubt regarding the fact that are there 2 different Samoan female weightlifters who were born on the same date (25 June 1993) Iuniarra Sipaia and Iuniarra Simanu? I created the article Iuniarra Sipaia because as she was linked with 2016 Oceania Weightlifting Championships, 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games and 2013 Pacific Mini Games. But when I looked at the list of Samoan female weightlifters I identified Iuniarra Simanu who was born on the same date as of Iuniarra Sipaia on 25th of June, 1993. Iuniarra Simanu has represented Samoa in the 2010 Youth Olympics, 2010 Commonwealth Games. [http://www.iwf.net/results/athletes/?athlete=simanu-iuniarra-1993-06-25&id=8523 When I looked at this website Iuniarra Simanu has not competed at the international competitions since 2012. But Iuniarra Sipaia has been participating at the International competitions, recently she participated at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. Can somebody clarify my doubts? Abishe (talk) 10:58, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

New expert attention category

This is a notice about Category:Women's sport articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. There might be as few as one page in the category, or zero if someone has removed the expert request tag from the page.  — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  01:00, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

New Year's resolution: Write more articles for Women in Red!

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Lacrosse article review

I'm looking for an women's lacrosse enthusiast to review the lacrosse article. The women's game has gotten less than ideal coverage in common sections in the past, so there is much to improve. It is a large topic and a long article, so not a lot of content needs to be added, but the common sections should avoid bias towards the men's game and the women's lacrosse section needs revising. Thanks. - Mnnlaxer | talk | stalk 03:22, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Not one person interested in looking at this article? - Mnnlaxer | talk | stalk 15:33, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Revisiting gendered categories

FYI

Wikipedia talk:Categorization#Revisiting gendered categories: Let's have a clear criterion of "has or can have a proper article" --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:21, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

It is not a !voting proposal or RfC, but a discussion draft, and has already had some constructive feedback (e.g. leading with "ghettoization" of articles was a distraction, as were suggesting statistical differences and reasons for them without providing sources). Seeking input on the overall idea.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  02:23, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

I never said that it was any of those things, nor did I imply that discussion should be conducted here (or anywhere other than the thread which I linked). I merely provided a link to an ongoing discussion, which is permitted under WP:MULTI and WP:APPNOTE. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:44, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women%27s_volleyball_leagues

Just the FYI, IF some one is able to rectify my errors, sorry, thx!, but the address^ above in the Subject box needs to cleaned up.

The two identical articles listed ( *User:ShelbyLH* & *Women's volleyball leagues* ) should be just the one: "Big West Conference volleyball."

Again, thank you!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by ShelbyLH (talk • contribs) 07:21, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

ShelbyLH (talk) 07:26, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deneva_Cagigas

If anyone has time right now (I don't unfortunately), there are more secondary references available for this article via a quick and easy Google News search, in addition to the secondary sources already included in the article. The AFD could use more eyes and input. WP:FOOTY includes only 1 top-division women's league in the world last I checked. WP:GNG is a more appropriate guideline for women's footballers. This player plays in the top league in Mexico, which has had a lot of news coverage + record-breaking attendances. Hmlarson (talk) 01:32, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

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Susi Kentikian nominated for featured article review

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International Women's Day Oxford 2018

In case you weren't aware, Mvolz (talk · contribs) has created Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/International Women's Day Oxford 2018. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:20, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

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Can I send invitations to new members for your project?

Hi, I have been working on recommending new members for your project for a while, and have sent some lists to Hmlarson who helped invite those recommended editors. I wonder if you mind me sending invitations directly for WikiProject Women's sport on your behalf to save time and efforts of yours? Thank you! Bobo.03 (talk) 16:48, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Bobo.03 Would it be possible to update the wording of the invite for Women's sports to the following?

Hi ______,

Welcome! You are receiving this message because we've noticed your edits may relate to WikiProject Women's sport. We'd like to invite you to learn more about the project, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in sports.

• In the Open Tasks page, there is a list of articles that need creation or improvement. Feel free to add to the list.
• Several task forces are available that focus on specific sports such as football (soccer), ice hockey, and basketball. See Task forces for a complete list.
• Recognized content lists articles that have been noted for their outstanding quality. They may have been listed on the homepage as a featured article, In the News, or Did you know item or assessed as a Featured List or Good Article.
• Popular articles is updated monthly with the top 1,000 project-related articles that received the most traffic for the previous 30-day period.
• You will find a group of editors who share similar interest with you on the Participants page. Add your username!
• Overall, this is a friendly place to discuss issues related to Women in sports, ask questions, and collaborate on improving articles or the project!

If you would like to participate, add your name to the Participants page. We hope you will have fun here, let us know if you need any help!

Hmlarson (talk) 22:59, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

@Hmlarson: Yes! I can use this next time! Thanks for providing this. Bobo.03 (talk) 01:27, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject Women's sport "needs-photo"

If this parameter is marked "yes", then the article is added to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of women athletes. It's a bit confusing, because athlete may refer to track and field athlete (Category:Wikipedia requested images of athletes). --Pelmeen10 (talk) 09:25, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

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WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

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At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

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Background

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Listing women's height and weight

Does anyone know why or when it was deemed necessary to add sportswomen's height and weight to articles, namely any listed in Category:Lists of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players? I don't think it matters at all; it's not in any men's articles. It certainly doesn't in women's basketball, except in infoboxes. Just curious as to why. — Wyliepedia @ 02:10, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Notability of female sports figures

In reviewing the restrictions of Wikipedia:Notability (sports) it seems as though it would be difficult to keep articles on professional female sports figures from being deleted. I translated and expanded Carly Hill for the WIR World Contest and it checked their reviews for citations. But I haven't the time or energy to defend it from deletionists; it feels a bit like a lost cause. – Reidgreg (talk) 14:59, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Reidgreg also created a draft for her. However, Women hockey players get no love. — Wyliepedia @ 02:03, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

I regret that the article was deleted. I think that it could have been saved had I used a different argument and put more time into that discussion. I think it's just a matter of showing that the article meets WP:N which I ultimately failed to do because I focused too much on the nominator rather than their argument. I don't think defending from deletionists is a "lost cause" at all though, it's unfortunate that we have to do it so often but it's definitely a winnable battle if the sources are there as in this case. --Habst (talk) 03:49, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

I copied the article text before it was deleted and saved it as Draft:Carly Hill. I'm not sure what to do about the notability unless someone wants to try taking the WP:systemic bias issue up and try to change the notability:sports guidelines to be more lenient toward women's sport. I know the guideline is meant to be impartial but it's effectively creating a glass ceiling. – Reidgreg (talk) 23:16, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Women in Green – call for participants

Hello all – I'd like to invite you to join Women in Green, WikiProject Women's article improvement department. The department has not been an active project in the past, but we are now working on kickstarting new collaborative work between editors to improve existing articles about women and women's works. If this sounds like something you're interested in, please add your name to Women in Green's list of active participants! You can check out more details of our discussions so far on the Women in Green talk page, plus our collaboration proposal here. Alanna the Brave (talk) 23:51, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Participation of women in the Olympics Peer Review

Hi everyone! I've nominated the article Participation of women in the Olympics for peer review because I want to get it to Good Article status. I nominated it last month, but I didn't get any responses. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Jith12 (talk) 23:15, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

July 2018 at Women in Red

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August 2018 at Women in Red

		An exciting new month for Women in Red! August 2018 worldwide online editathons: New: Indigenous women Women of marginalized populations Women writers Geofocus: Bottom 10 Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative Notable women, broadly-construed! For the first time, this month we are trying out our Monthly achievement initiative All creators of new biographies can keep track of their progress and earn virtual awards. It can be used in conjunction with the above editathons or for any women's biography created in August. Try it out when you create your first biography of the month.
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WNBA roster templates

Hello. We seem to have two Los Angeles Sparks roster templates. The first one {{Los Angeles Sparks roster}} is fine, but {{Los Angeles Sparks current roster}} at the bottom of pages is wrong. Where does this data come from? -SusanLesch (talk) 00:45, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

I'm going cross-eyed so am not sure but think the Washington Mystics have the same error. -SusanLesch (talk) 00:55, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Too bad but this project seems dormant. Kindly ping me if anyone comes back. -SusanLesch (talk) 13:59, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Fixed for now. Happy to hear from someone here. The problem seems to be that one template is in alpha order by last name, and the other one is in numerical order by player number. -SusanLesch (talk) 19:44, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

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		September is an exciting new month for Women in Red's worldwide online editathons! New: Women currently in academics Women + Law Geofocus: Hispanic countries Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative Check it out: Monthly achievement initiative All creators of new biographies can keep track of their progress and earn virtual awards. It can be used in conjunction with the above editathons or for any women's biography created in September. Try it out when you create your first biography of the month.
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Discussion at Talk:List of female racing drivers#Use of flags

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of female racing drivers#Use of flags. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:58, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

October 2018 at Women in Red

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Get ready for November with Women in Red!

		Three new topics for WiR's online editathons in November, two of them supporting other initiatives New: Religion Deceased politicians Asia Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative
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AfD

Not sure if the project will automatically be notified on the delsorting list, but in the event it isn’t, the following discussion may be of interest to the project: this AfD ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 16:28, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Adding that the above AfD includes a total of 7 articles about young female Youth Olympic participants, not just one that is up for deletion. ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 14:00, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

December 2018 at Women in Red

		The WiR December editathons provide something for everyone. New: Photography Laureates Countries beginning with 'I' Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative
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January 2019 at Women in Red

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VERBAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE

I have no other means but to bring this issue here, recently from a ip address, an edit had been done at the article of Saina Nehwal, Indian Olympian and famous Badminton player. The edit was nothing but a "Verbal and Sexual abuse" in "Hindi" to defame the sport person, publically. Please if anyone know how to request for the blocking of this ip-address please do it or anyother actions through wikipedia, please do it. Thank you Dey subrata (talk) 12:42, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

 Done GiantSnowman 12:53, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

February 2019 at Women in Red

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Need Pictures of two Female Aussie Cricketer

Anyone here, can you upload any pictures of Belinda Clark the first cricketer (considering men women) to score a double century and Amelia Kerr, scoring highest individual runs in women ODI !!! Please need it urgently for making some article acceptables as FL. Please do reply. Dey subrata (talk) 18:05, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

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Women's Sport User thingy for talk pages

I think something's gone wrong with the user box thingy. It's certainly displaying in a weird way. Red Fiona (talk) 22:42, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

May you join this month's editathons from WiR!

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WP:NSPORTS and Softball

There is an open discussion about the possibility of adding a notability guideline for women's softball players to NSPORTS; please see Wikipedia talk:Notability (sports)#Softball?. Thanks, Ejgreen77 (talk) 21:21, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Figure skating for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Figure skating is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Figure skating until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:14, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

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1999 FIFA Women's World Cup

I have completed my massive expansion of 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, and I would like to recruit some help in getting it through GAN, or potentially through FAC in time for the July 10 anniversary (or the 2019 final on July 7) if I decide to nominate it immediately. The prose might need a bit of light copyediting, but I think it's ready to go. SounderBruce 05:40, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

The FAC is up. Any feedback would be appreciated! SounderBruce 01:11, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

How to improve coverage of women in sports

Participants in this project may be interested in the discussion on the Women in Red talk page: How to deal with sports.--Ipigott (talk) 11:32, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

July events from Women in Red!

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Two month virtual editathon on Women in sports

WikiProject Women in Red is devoting the next two months (July and August) to a virtual editathon on Women in Sports. Please take this opportunity to write more articles about women who lag far behind men on Wikipedia's coverage of sports.--Ipigott (talk) 06:52, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Reference that may be helpful

Tricard, Louise Mead. American Women's Track and Field: A History, 1895 Through 1980, Volume 1. Google Books link

I have not read this book but it may give some insight into the history of women's track and field in the United States. I found it mentioned in the article Eleanor Silliman Belknap Humphrey, which is up for deletion because the subject does not meet notability standards. Tea and crumpets (talk) 00:33, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Portal:Women's association football

An article that you have been involved in editing—Portal:Women's association football—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Guilherme Burn (talk) 13:30, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Women cricketers

Hello there. Please see and add your vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christina Gough. Störm (talk) 06:52, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

CD Tacón / Las Blancas

The article CD Tacón, about a Spanish women's football team that seems to be in the process of becoming the women's team for Real Madrid needs updating. Particularly with mention of "Las Blancas", which may be the official name or a nickname for the (new?) team. Most of the sources seem to be in Spanish.

Relatedly the Las Blancas redirect to CD Tacón is being discussed at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 July 24#Las Blancas, where you are invited to comment. Thryduulf (talk) 07:55, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

August 2019 at Women in Red

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Portal links in categories

In an effort to improve cross-namespace navigation, and to increase traffic to the portal, I am planning to make a bot request to add a link to Portal:Women's sport ({{Portal|Women's sport}}) to ~1,000 categories:

• All non-redirect categories that start with Category:Women's sport, not including 5 categories that start with Category:Women's sport articles—i.e. about ~630 pages in total.
• All subcategories of Category:Women's sports by year (140 pages), Category:Women's sport by country and year (139 pages), and Category:Women's sport by country by year (67 pages).

If the category already contains a link to Portal:Sports, it should be replaced with the more precise link to Portal:Women's sport. While there are many other categories where a portal link would be appropriate, they should be considered on more of a case-by-case basis (e.g. for association football categories, it is better to link to Portal:Women's association football).

Before I initiate the request, I just wanted to make sure there are no concerns or objections from this project's members. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 18:33, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

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Lacrosse

Women’s lacrosse coverage is currently kind of lacking. As the biggest growing women’s sport at the moment, I think it’s an important time to help improve Wikipedia’s coverage of it. Twooeight (talk) 00:22, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

October Events from Women in Red

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Planned Edits to Women's Sports Article

Hello! I plan on editing the "Women's Sports" article as part of a class project. I will be restructuring the article, such as combining smaller sections together into larger ones; editing sections so they include the experiences of athletes in a greater number of non-Western countries; and adding new sections, like "Professional Sports," to further enrich the article. If you'd like to learn more about my plans, please visit my Sandbox, where I have included an annotated bibliography and more details on my plans. Thanks! Emilymohlin (talk) 03:20, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

November 2019 at Women in Red

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Assessment of importance

I started a topic on the WikiProject Women's sport/Assessment talk page, but I realized that probably no-one is checking that page out, so I repost here. I don't know if the discussion should be here or kept on the Assessment talk page.

== Importance scale assessment criteria missing ==

There is no way to asses an article's importance within this WikiProject's scope as there is no criteria list, at least not what I can find. For the quality scale assessment criteria, one is refereed to the general Wikipedia guideline on content assessment, which can be applied to all articles regardless of matter.

On that page further below it says, to my understanding, that the importance scale is instead determined by every individual WikiProject. Wikipedia:Content_assessment#Importance_assessment That is reinforced here Wikipedia:Importance

On WikiProject Women's sport/Assessment it says

"The importance parameter should be assigned according to the importance scale below."

But there is none. The link leads nowhere. How have people assessed the importance of articles under this WikiProject's scope? --Mango från yttre rymden (talk) 13:06, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

And I just found this food for discussion: Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Release_Version_Criteria#Priority_of_topic. There it is further reinforced that every WikiProject makes their own importance assessments relative to their subject/scope.

--Mango från yttre rymden (talk) 04:56, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

Probably they've based it on Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports/Assessment#Importance scale? Perhaps we could co-opt that as a starting point and then we can always tweak it if we need to make it more suitable/specific to us. P.s. Nice work on the Therese Sjögran article :) Bring back Daz Sampson (talk) 08:32, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

I see. That makes sense. It's actually mentioned on the top of the Women's sport/Assessment page, but quite vaguely so. Good suggestion, I definitely think so. It looks really good. And thank you! I will hopefully add some more about Sjögran.

I suspect quite a few people are reading this, as I've seen a pretty large influx of up-ranked articles to high importance about female football players in just the last few days, a rank that few overall has. --Mango från yttre rymden (talk) 15:11, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

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Melbourne University W.F.C.

I recently updated and expanded Melbourne University W.F.C.. I believe the article meets the notability guidelines required to justify a separate article. However @4TheWynne: has constantly reverted my edits and has engaged in an edit war. He insists on merging the article into Melbourne University Football Club. If anybody here has any contributions to make see Talk:Melbourne University Football Club. Djln Djln (talk) 12:42, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

This is a non-neutral representation of the dispute which ignores Djln's own editwarring. – Teratix ₵ 23:23, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

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Mass proposed deletion of articles about top-division footballers / soccer players in France, Sweden

Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Proposed deletion of women's footballer / soccer player articles.

Thank you. Hmlarson (talk) 19:45, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Awards in infoboxes

I signed up as a participant back in 2012. At the time, I said my main interest was women's basketball, and that's where I've added most of my sport's related edits. However, I recently decided to work on some sports awards, particularly the Honda Sports Awards, which cover 12 sports, so I am getting involved in bios related to other sports. As an aside, before I get to my main question, there is some confusion about the names of the awards, partly because there are fundamentally two main awards - one for an individual sport (Honda Sports Award), and one for all sports combined (Honda Cup). An additional issue is that the organization has changed over time, along with the name of the award, so it has been called the Broderick Award, the Honda-Broderick Award, the Honda Sports Award, the Collegiate Women's Sports Awards and more. I am in consultation with the organization, and working on sorting out the naming issue. At the moment, for recent awards, my preferred term is Honda Sports Award for individual sports and Honda Cup for the combined sports.

I note that there are four different places in an article where such an award might appear:

• A discussion of the winning of the award in the main body of the article
• a short entry in an infobox
• a short entry in a summary of awards and honors typically lower down in the main text
• a navigation box at the bottom of the page

Articles about women's basketball typically use one of two infoboxes:

• Infobox basketball biography
• Infobox college coach

Both have a parameter for awards

Bios of athletes in other sports use a variety of infoboxes, including:

• Infobox baseball biography
• Infobox sportsperson
• Infobox football biography

The first of these three has a parameter for awards, but the other two do not. I haven't yet contacted the principle editor of those templates, because I wanted to ask here first.

Does the editing community disagree that awards are appropriate in an infobox, or is it just happenstance that some specific templates do not have the parameter? In other words, if I ask an editor to consider adding the parameter, will I be trampling on some community decision?--S Philbrick(Talk) 12:14, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Sphilbrick - Awards are appropriate for an infobox - they are in football / soccer infoboxes using medaltemplates=, but it may be different across various sports wikiprojects.

Hmlarson (talk) 19:44, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Hmlarson, I use medaltemplates a lot, but for competitions where medals are awarded, not for awards like best athlete of the year and similar awards. S Philbrick(Talk) 20:20, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Sphilbrick I see what you mean. I think those lists could get really long in infoboxes for some athletes (I'm thinking of someone like Megan Rapinoe) and would be better suited within the:

1. Lead,
2. Content of the article / Honors and awards section
3. a template/navbox at the bottom of the article like this one: Template: Hermann

But, can you provide a few example articles that use the infobox fo baseball biographies with awards listed so we can take a look on how they're displayed and if there are certain standards for what awards are included? Hmlarson (talk) 20:32, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Hmlarson,

Because I'm more familiar with basketball, let me point you to Maya Moore, who is one of the more decorated players.

I note that infobox is quite long, but I doubt there are many others that long.

Two important observations:

1. While the Awards and honors section of the main article will have a lot of entries, such as the WNBA All-star for each year, those six entries are collapsed into a single row in the infobox, with parenthetical references to the years.
2. There is an unwritten rule that the infobox is for major awards. So, for example, a player of the week award might make the long list, but should not be in the infobox. "Best Female Amateur Athlete by Connecticut Magazine" makes the awards section, but not the infobox.

A less busy example is Jennifer Rizzotti S Philbrick(Talk) 21:21, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: I like being to see all of those awards on desktop, but on mobile - it creates the need to scroll a ton before getting to the article content. I wonder if there's a way to collapse for mobile? Hmlarson (talk) 22:17, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Hmlarson, First, let me mention that I'm enjoying this conversation. I was a little concerned that there wasn't much activity on this talk page and I wasn't sure how long it would take for some feedback.

I tend to be desktop oriented. I do know that the majority of page views are on mobile, so I do want to be cognizant of mobile issues.

When I look at Maya Moore in Mobile , I see a section with a title "quick facts" that is collapsed. It contains the info box. I don't have to scroll to see the main text, in fact I have to click on that box to see the info Box contents.

That said, I'm using something called Wikipedia beta, so maybe the handling in this app is different than in yours. Are you accessing it through a Wikipedia app or something else?

My recollection is that some of the articles about chemical compounds had very large info boxes. I just glanced at one and it wasn't as long as I had expected, but can you try Hafnium?

For me, it isn't a problem because the info Box contents are automatically collapsed. what do you see? S Philbrick(Talk) 22:53, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for collaborating, sphilbrick. I use web browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) on mobile. I don't think the majority of the general Wikipedia audience has an app to access the site - they get to individual articles through search engine results in web browsers. Are you able to test on a mobile phone using a browser? I see the entire infobox, the lead, and then the content sections are collapsed under their respective headers. Hmlarson (talk) 23:02, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Hmlarson, It took some doing but I confirmed the results you described. When I try accessing Wikipedia on my mobile using a browser, I still see the info box as collapsed. My guess is that my browser “helpfully” knows to open the Wikipedia app when accessing Wikipedia material. I asked my son-in-law to view an article, as he does not have the Wikipedia app installed, and he confirmed that the infobox is open and you have to scroll past it.

I know that MOS takes a dim view of collapsed sections, but I just re-read the guidance, and I think a collapsed section in an info box is acceptable given that it repeats information in the main text. it technically would be a problem if someone included an award only in the info box but that's not a good editorial decision so if it happens the cure is to add it to the text, not remove the collapse feature from the info box.

I notice that {{Infobox_swimmer}} does have a collapse option for that infobox. I know a little about template construction, but skills do not extend to creation of a collapse option for an awards section of a template. Let’s continue to discuss options, and we will need community input before tracking down a template editor who could make the change.

What I might really like is the ability to make it collapsed if it exceeds a certain size. I don’t see a need to collapse it for 99% of athletes who might have an award or two, just to make sure that the Maya Moores and Megan Rapinoes of the world aren’t too long. S Philbrick(Talk) 12:39, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick:Are you referring to the Medal Records / Medal template = section of {{Infobox_swimmer}}? Down below in the Parameter Instructions it mentions: "If "show-medals=yes", the medal table is displayed. Otherwise, it is hidden and will only be shown if the "show" link is used. It is recommended for swimmers with large numbers of medals that this parameter should be toggled "no" because of the disproportionate amount of article space the extended infobox will require." Hmlarson (talk) 18:22, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Hmlarson, Exactly. I assume if the athlete has only a handful of medals e.g. Janine_Belton, they are just shown, but if there are enough, then it is closed by default.

In full disclosure, I just edited Janine_Belton to test it, as it was set to the default despite only one medal, but it seems to work. I think the community could pick a number, say 10 and suggest that if the number of awards exceeds that number, the close by default option should be used, and if 10 or fewer, it could be set to be open. S Philbrick(Talk) 18:46, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Hmlarson, I had another thought.

I don't want to fixate on 10 as the right number but I'll use it as illustration and we can separately debate the right number. Seems curious to me that we might decide if an athlete has up to 10 medals (or awards) we would show them all, but if they have 11 we won't show any. An obvious alternative is to design the code so that it shows the first 10 (or whatever number we select) and hides the rest with a “show” button. The advantage of this approach is that we wouldn't have to make a decision which option to choose for each athlete which conceivably could change over time, we could “set it and forget it” for all info boxes. The challenge is I don't know how to write that code but I suspect a good template editor could figure it out. What do you think? S Philbrick(Talk) 12:23, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

SphilbrickThere have likely been numerous past discussions about this specific thing in various sports projects talk pages. Unfortunately, I don't have much time right now to contribute much further. If you end up opening up a wider discussion to gain consensus, let me know. Hmlarson (talk) 00:12, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Hmlarson, OK, I'll look. S Philbrick(Talk) 01:03, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Sphilbrick If you scroll down to the "Templates using this template section" on {{Infobox medal templates}}, check out the "Default" and "Accept no" for a bit more info most likely related to specific WikiProjects. Hmlarson (talk) 03:32, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Hmlarson, Thanks S Philbrick(Talk) 10:52, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Discord

Hey all, I hope everyone is safe and healthy. My name is HickoryOughtShirt?4 and I'm a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey. I was wondering if there was any interest in starting a WikiProject Sports channel on Discord? There's quite a few of us who are interested in sports, and I think it would be a good idea to help the WikiProject recruit more members. You guys can join us through here.HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 00:04, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

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Portland Rising

Would someone from this WikiProject mind taking a look at this at assessing? It was created a few days ago and didn't go through AfC. I don't know whether there's a specific WP:SNG for ultimate teams, or whether they are just assessed per WP:NTEAM. One thing that does seem a bit odd (unusual?) is the listing of pronouns for individual coaches or players. I don't really think I've seen that thing before in other articles about sports teams, but maybe it's something particular to women's ultimate teams or particular to the times. I'm also not sure if there's a need to use womxn instead of women which seems more common for articles about women's teams, woman athletes and women in general. Another thing is the "mission statement" in the lead which seems to be something that might be not suitable per WP:PROMOTION. Anyway, perhaps someone with a little more experience with content about women's sports teams could take a look at not only this one, but also some of the others in Category:Premier Ultimate League teams. They all appear to have been created by two or three editors and a few have been prodded already. For reference, I came across this via WP:ANI#User harassing specific Wikipedia Edit Thon and decided to take a look at some of the articles being discussed. I'm not suggesting any sort of mass deletion at AFD, but perhaps (once again) more eyes looking at these article can help sort out any issues they might have MOS:MOS-wise or otherwise. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:23, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

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NWSL expansion team

There is a discussion at Talk:National Women's Soccer League#NWSL in LA, where an editor is objecting to the notability of the league's Los Angeles expansion team being the first majority-woman owned professional sports team in the US. Input from project members would be helpful on reaching consensus. Seany91 (talk) 07:06, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Notable college basketball coach

All - Bea Gorton, the first women's coach at Indiana University, recently died (source). I was wondering if someone here might want to take on creating an article for her. She was a coach in the AIAW and went to the Final Four in 1973. Thanks Rikster2 (talk) 15:33, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

@Rikster2:, I just saw your request today. I created a stub about her, but I'm not that into basketball. Feel free to expand the article :). SportsOlympic (talk) 06:51, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! I added/formatted a bit. Rikster2 (talk) 15:49, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Snooker

The men's Snooker World Championships are currently being shown across the BBC in the UK with the final (made up of 5 sessions) on this weekend Saturday afternoon part one, Saturday afternoon part two, Saturday evening, Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening. I noticed that there wasn't much about the women's game in this project so I've added the project template to the individual talk pages of those in Category:Female snooker players and added WP:CUEGAMES and WP:SNOOKER to "related sports projects" in the WP:WikiProject Women's sport/Sidenav box. The sport is huge globally but perhaps not so much in the US, there is probably more that other editors can think of that can be done on the women's game. --The Vintage Feminist (talk) 03:06, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

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Women's football/soccer season articles nominated for deletion

Three season articles for Doncaster Rovers Belles L.F.C. have been nominated for deletion. You are invited to join the discussion at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2013 Doncaster Rovers Belles L.F.C. season. Bring back Daz Sampson (talk) 10:56, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Article assessment

At Women in Red, we are always happy to see all the new articles relating to women in sports but I have noticed there is something of a backlog in assessment. Of some 97,000 articles tagged Women's sport on their talk pages, some 7,000 (or 7%) remain to be assessed. I realize this will require considerable effort but it would be useful if contributors could devote some of their time to it, even if it's simply a matter of adding "class=stub". I have also brought this to the attention of WiR participants on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red. Let's see how it goes over the next few months.--Ipigott (talk) 11:43, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

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Women's chess

• Women's chess

I just made this article, anyone is welcome to contribute. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:07, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Discussion regarding "What is a fully professional league" + football / soccer inclusion criteria

A discussion regarding "What is a fully professional league" based on WP:NFOOTY inclusion criteria (relevant to this project) is going on here:

• What is a fully professional league (December 2020)

Input and ideas are welcome. Hmlarson (talk) 20:57, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

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Proposed change in sports notability policy

A proposal is pending that would prohibit the creation of sports biographies unless supported by "substantial coverage in at least one non-routine source". In other words, articles supported solely by statistical databases would not be permitted, and at least one example of WP:SIGCOV would be required to be included before an article could be created. Also, article creation based on Wikiproject Guidelines would be curtailed. If you have views on this proposal, one way or the other, you can express those views at Wikipedia talk:Notability (sports)#Fram's revised proposal. Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:08, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

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Media request

Hi everybody,

I’ve been following the group on here for a while and am really intrigued by the work you put in.

I’m a freelance women’s sport writer from the UK and was wondering if I may be able to speak to anybody about the project? My email’s adamgmillington@gmail.com or I can be contacted via twitter DMs @adamgmillington.

Quite interested about wiki volunteers in general but the women’s sport project really caught my eye.

Thanks Adammillington95 (talk) 07:52, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

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Editathon hosted by Women in Red

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Formula Woman

Should Formula Woman (2004) and Formula Woman (2021) share the same article? Are these two even related, except for the name? I will note that XFL (2001) and XFL (2020) do not share the same article, even though the championship league has the same name, and one is a revival of the other. -- 65.93.183.191 (talk) 04:32, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Cannabis and sports

New stub: Cannabis and sports. Any project members care to help expand? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:50, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

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Barbara Jo Rubin

My draft for Barbara Jo Rubin was recently put into mainspace. According to sources, Rubin is the first woman to win a professional horse race. Any help with the article would be appreciated. Thank you, Thriley (talk) 18:21, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

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Akane Yamaguchi

hi all, i have received on my talkpage a help request to improve the wikiarticle on the above badminton player. as i dont have experience in this field i have declined but thought someone here may be able to assist? thanks. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:30, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Paige Bueckers peer review

I have requested Paige Bueckers to be peer reviewed in hopes of bringing it to featured article status. Any feedback would be appreciated. Sportzeditz (talk) 15:33, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

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Paige Bueckers FAC

I have nominated Paige Bueckers for featured article consideration, and would appreciate any comments at the FAC page. Sportzeditz (talk) 17:11, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

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Lilian Staugaard at AfD

Hi. Please see this discussion. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 18:15, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

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Sports notability discussion

There is an interesting discussion at the Village Pump: Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Sports notability (with, currently, 13 subproposals - you might want to get a cup of tea before venturing over there). PamD 19:00, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

The outcome of this long-winded RfC has apparently struck out WP:NSPORTS in its current form. That's potentially quite good news for us as WP:NFOOTBALL, for example, tended to disadvantage women's football articles (particularly WP:FPL which was a nonsensical carnival of WP:BIAS). Heads up that there may be some unintended consequences, and/or a general uptick in the targeting of sports articles for deletion. Bring back Daz Sampson (talk) 12:01, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

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importance rating

Hey guys
I noticed on the talk page of the Netherlands women's national football that the article was rated as low importance by this project. Surprised by this I checked the rating of the US team, and found it was of high importance. I do not believe that a team that lost the last World Cup final and won the last European championship should rate 2 levels below the American team in importance. Dutchy45 (talk) 11:23, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

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GAR notices

Cambodia women's national football team has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.

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Mauritius women's national football team has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 17:07, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

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FAR for Cynna Kydd

I have nominated Cynna Kydd for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 14:56, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

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Requested move at Talk:Ateneo Lady Blue Booters#Requested move 25 August 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ateneo Lady Blue Booters#Requested move 25 August 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 16:38, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Good Article Editathon event in October 2022

Hello WikiProject Women's sport:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Editathon event in October 2022!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2022, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) editathon event – Wildcard Edition! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to any and all women and women's works during the event period. Want to improve an article about a Bollywood actress? Go for it. A pioneering female scientist? Absolutely. An award-winning autobiography by a woman? Yes! GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to receive a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

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Women in Red October 2022

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Women in Red November 2022

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Template for sports articles lacking sources containing significant coverage

The 2022 NSPORTS RfC added a requirement that all sports articles are required to have a source that contains significant coverage of the topic. To help identify sports articles that lack this I've created Template:No significant coverage (sports); please add it to any such articles that you encounter, and if you are looking for an article to improve the relevant categories may be useful. BilledMammal (talk) 13:00, 22 November 2022

• Two points. First, the RfC was limited to sports biographies, not "all sports articles." Second, the template has been nominated for deletion. See TfD discussion here. It would be prudent to await the outcome of the TfD before rolling this template out. Cbl62 (talk) 16:59, 22 November 2022 (UTC)(UTC)

Women in Red December 2022

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Requested move at Talk:Storm Sanders#Requested move 6 December 2022

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Merger proposal needs input

Formal request has been received to merge: Liga Femenina (Peru) into Peruvian Primera División Femenina; Proposer's Rationale: The Premier division of women's football in Peru is only one. Over time the tournaments have changed their format and name, but they are still the official women's football tournament. See the Copa Perú Femenino article also. Your input is requested >>>Here<<<. Thank you, GenQuest ^"scribble" 14:04, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Women in Red January 2023

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GAR for Nastia Liukin

Nastia Liukin has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:22, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Non/diffusing base category

Hi, I have been in discussions with an editor (user:Helpfulwikieditoryay) about sportswomen articles. They feel that the base category should be the nationality & sport with a gendered subcategory alongside it, but the convention is for only the gendered subcat: e.g Francesco Di Fulvio has only Italian male water polo players, Narumon Khanan has only Thai women's volleyball players, David Arnold (basketball) has only American men's basketball players and Eugénie Le Sommer has only French women's footballers (the last one is an outlier a bit as there is no complete set of Men's footballers, that is the default and Women's is an offshoot - half-hearted attempts have been made to remedy this but it has stalled due to the sheer numbers of male footballer articles involved). Regardless, it seems the footballers would still follow the pattern of other sports of the base category being nationality+gender+occupation, and not nationality+occupation with nationality+gender+occupation. This does stand opposed to the category display conventions for other occupations which have a non-diffusing ungendered nationality+occupation as a base, which I have suggested is because almost all sports are split by gender, so it is a more fundamental consideration for the person's identity than musicians / artists / politicians etc. However, I don't know that for sure. Is anyone able to confirm the reasoning behind this convention? Thanks, hope that made sense. Crowsus (talk) 13:14, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

I think it's probably because most WP:FOOTBALL editors still assume [men's] football is the default? i.e. men's football is simply "football". I've understood the convention in the same way you have, and have always put female players in n women's footballers rather than in both - and left the main category to the men. But user:Helpfulwikieditoryay might have a point, and I know there have been sensitivities in the past about women articles being "ghettoised" into subcats (authors I think it was). I assumed we might have to live with the status quo, at least until we get the national team article titles changed to Scotland men's national football team etc. But if there's an appetite to do it now then why not? BTW respect to both of you for talking it to talk, the back and forth was getting a bit annoying on my watchlist. Bring back Daz Sampson (talk) 13:59, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

I think we should do it. It seems like the consensus is strongly in favor of labeling men's footballers men, rather than just having them as "footballers and women's footballers," which obviously sounds weird, also confusing to navigate. We just haven't done it yet because it's a big task, but it will be done sometime, so better start now. I also agree a lot about labelling it Scotland men's national football team. It's actually a struggle to find women's teams on search engines because of these poor quality wikipedia titles. Even if you type in "women" in the search, it will often still give you the men's team because the men's wikipedia title is so neutral. This can be quickly fixed. One major thing that makes these titles wrong is you should not have to read the contents of the article beforehand to merely find out what the title is even talking about; the title should tell you. Scouring the article for the word "men" in order figure out what the subject title is even referring to is a poor quality encyclopedia. You have no idea if a Scotland national team is men or women, and that should be the first thing you know right in the title, since the sport is separate. Some people might get lucky and assume it's men (while many other people do not), but it's not an encyclopedia's job to let wild and assume people assume something. Especially since not labelling all the national teams "men's" is inconsistent with other countries that do label them, such as the United States men's national soccer team. Helpfulwikieditoryay (talk) 10:47, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red in February 2023

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Requested move at Talk:Galway W.F.C.#Requested move 27 December 2022

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Women in Red March 2023

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Proposal about mass draftifiying Olympians

You may be interested in this village pump discussion on draftifiying nearly a thousand Olympians. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:28, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Zarina Diyas

Zarina Diyas has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 20:39, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Mass TfD: College softball Pitcher of the Year navboxes

There is currently an open mass TfD that the members of this project may be interested in, please see here. An editor has proposed deleting an entire class of conference-level yearly softball award navboxes, including conference Pitcher of the Year navboxes for the SEC, Big Ten, Pac-12 and Big 12. Thanks, Ejgreen77 (talk) 16:03, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red April 2023

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Lia Thomas has an RFC

Lia Thomas, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Beccaynr (talk) 21:53, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:NCAA Basketball Championship (Philippines)#Requested move 19 March 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:NCAA Basketball Championship (Philippines)#Requested move 19 March 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:34, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Multiple Naisten Liiga playoff templates nominated for deletion

I have nominated multiple Naisten Liiga playoff templates for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -fuzzy510 (talk) 18:10, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red May 2023

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Requested move at Talk:Marine Pervier#Requested move 23 April 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Marine Pervier#Requested move 23 April 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – MaterialWorks 00:31, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red - June 2023

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Women in Red July event

Just letting you know that one of WikiProject Women in Red's July events is Sports. Women in Sport members are welcome to contribute. Oronsay (talk) 04:09, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red July 2023

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Women in Red 8th Anniversary

	Women in Red 8th Anniversary
	In July 2015 around 15.5% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. As of July 2023, 19.61% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women. That's a lot of biographies created in the effort to close the gender gap. Happy 8th Anniversary! Join us for some virtual cake and add comments or memories and please keep on editing to close the gap!

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I found help in another Wikiproject talkpage, in the meantime. No need for it, anymore.

Lauren Baltayan

A user who's only been around for a couple of months seems to have gone on a nomination spree and nominated this article about a notable female athlete for deletion. This was then supported by another user who's only been around for a few days. This athlete is clearly notable - she's won a senior professional tournament in the world tour. That alone makes her notable already. And she's also represented her country. And she's the youngest ever European (male or female!) to win a professional tournament. If this gets deleted it may set a very worrying precedent. Please give your opinion at the AfD page. Dr. Vogel (talk) 09:34, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red August 2023

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First female to play a full pop warner football season

it is listed in Wikipedia that a girl name Jasmine was the first female to play pop warner in 03. I request this changed to Grace Reid who played a full season and multiple bowl games in her division. She played for the Atlantic Highlands/Highlands Tigers, Monmouth county NJ, in the mid 90s. I believe it was 96 but it could be 95. I have contacted pop warner headquarters askings for the change. Not trying to take away from the other girls accomplishments but she is not the first female to play a full season of pop warner football. Thank you for your time MDReid85 (talk) 17:39, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Help! WUSA players up for deletion

Hello! I'm looking for help from people who know more about soccer in the United States. @Dwanyewest has been created articles for WUSA players, and I've been working to expand them. However, my familiarity with soccer/football is quite low, so I'm not always sure how to phrase things or what information is valuable (e.g., what does it mean to be All-American?). A number of articles are up for deletion (see Brooke O'Hanley, Megan Horvath, Carey Dorn, and Alexa Borisjuk), and we'd love your support keeping women on Wikipedia! Significa liberdade (talk) 16:36, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

September 2023 at Women In Red

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Requested move at Talk:Quidditch (real-life sport)#Requested move 1 September 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Quidditch (real-life sport)#Requested move 1 September 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —usernamekiran (talk) 03:46, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Netball in the Cook Islands

Netball in the Cook Islands has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:58, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Netball

Netball has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:42, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Major RfC on capitalization of all our articles

I thought this was a done deal back in this 2022 RFC but obviously not. A handful of editors did another rfc with no sports projects input at all. And it's being challenged because we just noticed it. This could affect almost every single tennis and Olympic article we have, and goodness know how many other sports. Some may have already been moved it you weren't watching the article. And not just the article titles will be affected but all the player bios that link to the articles. Sure the links would be piped to the right place if thousands of articles moved, but if the wording in a bio still said 2023 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles or Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke that would likely need to be changed by hand. There is also talk of removing the ndash completely.

Perhaps this is what sports projects want and perhaps not. Either way I certainly don't want projects ill-informed as the last RfC was handled. Express your thoughts at the following rfc. Fyunck(click) (talk) 21:02, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red October 2023

Women in Red October 2023, Vol 9, Iss 10, Nos 251, 252, 284, 285, 286 Online events: New: Alphabet run G & H | Women in STEM | Geofocus: Sub-Saharan Africa Continuing: Peace and Diplomacy (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman See also Women in Green's "Around the World in 31 Days" Good Article editathon Tip of the month: When creating an article, check to see if there is an entry in the sister project Wikidata. If your subject is listed, the Wikidata information can be useful Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Good article nomination for Femke Bol

The article Femke Bol was nominated as good article (sports). You can help review it. – Editør (talk) 22:29, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red - November 2023

Women in Red November 2023, Vol 9, Iss 11, Nos 251, 252, 287, 288, 289 Online events: New: Alphabet run I & J | Geofocus: Indian subcontinent | Women in Politics Continuing: Peace and Diplomacy (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman See also Wikipedia Asian Month November Contest Tip of the month: When translating articles from another language Wikipedia, don't forget to include attribution in your first edit summary. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Women in Red December 2023

Women in Red December 2023, Vol 9, Iss 12, Nos 251, 252, 290, 291, 292 Online events: New: Alphabet run K & L | Women who died in 2023 | Honoured Women Continuing: Peace and Diplomacy (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman Tip of the month: Avoid copyright problems by rewriting in your own words. You can check any article or draft with Earwig's copyvio detector. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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This may effort to delete (actually, merge, erasing "women) a cat may interest some people here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jewish_women%27s_basketball_players 2603:7000:2101:AA00:A043:72FB:85CE:2E30 (talk) 20:46, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

That is not what is happening. It is part of a wider merge in general for Category:Jewish sportspeople as per WP:OC. @Marcocapelle, pinging you here. Omnis Scientia (talk) 21:39, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2024 PWHL season#Requested move 7 January 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2024 PWHL season#Requested move 7 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 19:10, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Hillary Witt#Requested move 11 January 2024

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Women in Red February 2024

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Kate Heffernan

Hi all - User:Djln19 and I have been having some disagreements on this cricketer/netballer's article, would appreciate some other eyeballs on it rather than the two of us repeating the same arguments back at each other! See the talk page for the full explanations. I'm also posting this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket to get their thoughts too. Thanks Mpk662 (talk) 21:20, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Annika Sörenstam

Annika Sörenstam has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Schierbecker (talk) 04:02, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red March 2024

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In The News

Hello everyone,

I wanted to reach out to all the participants of this project to let you know about a recent discussion I've initiated regarding the inclusion (or more accurately, exclusion) of women's sports in the "In the News" section of the front page. Given your active involvement in discussions about women's sports, I warmly invite each of you to join the conversation and share your valuable insights on this matter. Your perspectives are crucial in shaping a more inclusive and representative platform. Thank you for your contributions.

Best regards, PrinceofPunjab^TALK 04:19, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red April 2024

Women in Red | April 2024, Volume 10, Issue 4, Numbers 293, 294, 302, 303, 304 Online events: New: Alphabet run S & T | Gender studies | Health Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements The second round of "One biography a week" begins in April as part of #1day1woman. Tip of the month: If you run into technical problems, you might find help on our Tools and technical support page Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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FL nomination

I have nominated Ireland women's cricket team record by opponent for featured list. I think, it is one of the topics of interest of this wikiproject. Please join the discussion on whether this article should be promoted or not. Thanks. Robo^Cric Let's chat 18:08, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Tara VanDerveer

Might I suggest you reassess the Women's Sports/Basketball importance of Tara VanDerveer. --John (User:Jwy/talk) 15:16, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red May 2024

Women in Red | May 2024, Volume 10, Issue 5, Numbers 293, 294, 305, 306, 307 Online events: New: Press women | Alphabet run U, V & W | Central and Eastern Europe Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements from other communities Wikimedia CEE Spring 2024 - contest with certificates of participation and prizes The Wikipedia Library: #1Lib1Ref - May 15th to June 5th Tip of the month: Use open-access references wherever possible, but a paywalled reliable source is better than none, particularly for biographies of living people. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

--Lajmmoore (talk 06:16, 28 April 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Seeking consensus at Talk:2024 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League#Results by round table.

Good day active members, there's a disagreement between a content if it should be added or not on 2024 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League. Feel free to join the discussion. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 • [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 22:44, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red June 2024

Women in Red | June 2024, Volume 10, Issue 6, Numbers 293, 294, 308, 309, 310 Online events: New: LGBTQ+ women | Wiki Loves Pride | Women in Music | Alphabet run X, Y & Z Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements from other communities Women in Green Good Article Edit-a-thon June 2024 - Going Back in Time The Wikipedia Library: #1Lib1Ref - May 15th to June 5th Tip of the month: Find a Grave is NOT a reliable source (as it is user-generated content). It can be used to look for biographical clues. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

--Lajmmoore (talk 07:03, 23 May 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Good article reassessment for Awesome Kong

Awesome Kong has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Spinixster (trout me!) 07:46, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup#Requested move 9 June 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup#Requested move 9 June 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 • [𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 04:51, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Bot request for article talk page tagging

Hello - just a heads up I've put in a request to tag all articles' talk page within a subcategory of Category:Women's basketball with this project's talk page banners. Hmlarson (talk) 04:04, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Ivory (wrestler)

Ivory (wrestler) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Spinixster (trout me!) 11:18, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Flag football

Hello! For those interested in creating articles, flag football has a massive opportunity. 2021 IFAF Women's Flag Football World Championship has several teams and there are multiple tournament and player pages that could also be created. Thanks! Tbennert (talk) 20:54, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red July 2024

Women in Red | July 2024, Volume 10, Issue 7, Numbers 293, 294, 311, 312, 313 Online events: New: Translation contest 2024 | Science Fiction and Fantasy | Women in Sports Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements from other communities Wiki Loves Sport 2024 22 July - 22 September Tip of the month: A foreign language biography does not guarantee notability for English Wikipedia. Check the guidelines before you start. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

--Lajmmoore (talk 14:26, 30 June 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Yuna Kim A-class assessment

Hello everyone, WikiProject Figure Skating has just started doing A-class assessments. Our first article submitted for review is Yuna Kim, and we're in need of a third reviewer. Here's the link to the assessment: Wikipedia:WikiProject Figure Skating/Assessment/Yuna Kim. The assistance of any member of this project would be muchly appreciated. You don't have to necessarily be a figure skating expert (although that would help, of course), but you should at least be knowledgeable about editing and contributing to Wikipedia. Thanks to all and best. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 16:35, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red August 2024

Women in Red | August 2024, Volume 10, Issue 8, Numbers 293, 294, 311, 313, 314, 315 Online events: New: | Women in film and stage | Indigenous women Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) | Translation contest 2024 (July, August, September) | Women in Sports (July, August) Announcements from other communities TBD Tip of the month: Check your athlete's notability before researching and creating her bio. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

--Lajmmoore (talk 19:55, 25 July 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

PLease revise as "active"

Women's sport has been discussed on the talk page of WP Women in Red. It has been suggested that the project is widely used and highly active. It should therefore no longer be listed as "inactive".--Ipigott (talk) 10:37, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:DeAnna Price#Requested move 12 August 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:DeAnna Price#Requested move 12 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 05:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Laura Robson

Laura Robson has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 14:08, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

RfC at WikiProject Sports

An RfC at WikiProject Sports is currently seeking a consensus on whether images of all venues in a tournament should be presented in a tournament article's § Venues section. Feel free to join in and share your thoughts! — AFC Vixen 🦊 15:27, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Imane Khelif

There are currently two RFCs at Talk:Imane Khelif. Interested editors are invited to participate at Talk:Imane Khelif/Archive 4#RfC lead and Talk:Imane Khelif/Archive 4#RfC on weight of "misinformation" in lead. TarnishedPath^talk 10:47, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

September 2024 at Women in Red

Women in Red | September 2024, Volume 10, Issue 9, Numbers 293, 294, 311, 316, 317 Online events: New: Women writers & their works | Geofocus: Islands A - H Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) | Translation contest 2024 (Jul, Aug, Sep) Announcements from other communities August 30 is the tenth anniversary of WikiProject Women writers! Tip of the month: Try her pen name when searching for sources, and remember to add her to any of these that apply: List of pen names, List of literary initials, and Category:Pseudonymous women writers. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

--Rosiestep (talk) 18:55, 26 August 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Good article reassessment for Mickie James

Mickie James has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Spinixster (trout me!) 03:04, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red October 2024

Women in Red | October 2024, Volume 10, Issue 10, Numbers 293, 294, 318, 319, 320 Online events: New: Women in STEM | Geofocus: Islands I-P | Women in archaeology Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements from other communities October is Women in Green's "Around the World in 31 Days" Good Article Edit-a-thon Tip of the month: Unsure how to expand a stub article? Take a look at this guidance Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

--Lajmmoore (talk 08:03, 29 September 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging