User:09er/Sandbox/Rowing

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Welcome to the Rowing WikiProject!

Goals

* Improve Wikipedia's coverage of rowing. * Create guidelines for articles about rowing. * Raise the rowing (sport) article to featured status.

Scope

* The project covers all articles about rowing, including sport, watercraft, ocean rowing and the history of rowing, as well as articles on famous members of the rowing community

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This is a test page for a possible re-design of WikiProject Rowing. Please click here for the real project page. 09er (talk) 16:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

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1. Recruit active membership
2. Featured Articles
   1. Raise the rowing (sport) article to featured status.
      1. Put article through peer review
      2. Fix problems identified by peer review, see here
      3. Get article raised to 'good article status'
      4. Put through another round of peer review,see here
      5. Nominate for featured status
   2. Ditto for Henley Royal Regatta
   3. Ditto for The Boat Race
   4. Ditto for Steve Redgrave
3. Wikifying
   1. Add {{WikiProject Rowing}}to the talk pages of all rowing related articles.
   2. Stubs
      1. Tag {{Rowing-stub}} onto all rowing stub articles so we can keep track of them.
      2. Expand all the stub articles as much as possible.
4. Create a priority and assesment system
5. Rowing Portal
   1. Once we get enough members it would be worth trying to make a rowing portal.
   2. Maintain said rowing portal

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If you have never used Wikipedia, please take the time to read these articles:

• Introduction to Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Starting a new page
• Wikipedia syntax

To maintain article quality, please follow these rules:

• Provide sources for your edits. See also the Citations helpdesk below;
• ALWAYS make sure images you upload are under proper license Image Copyrights;
• Restrain the number of red links;
• Ensure external links are active/not broken;
• AVOID emotional arguments, statements about editors of other nationalities, name calling, and anything that is not perceived as constructive, source-backed argument;

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Many of the rowing articles on wikipedia are lacking inline citations and references. It is wikipedia policy that all articles contain references, so that the information can be verified. Inline citations are not a policy, as so few articles have them, but they are necessary for an article to be raised to 'good' or 'featured' status.

Can all involved please make an effort to add citations to any article they have significantly contributed to, preferably inline. Otherwise, according to wikipedia policy, there is nothing to stop uncited information from being deleted.

You may wish to read or skim through the following policy pages:

• Wikipedia:No original research
• Wikipedia:Verifiability

And the following guidelines and essays:

• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Wikipedia:Inline citation

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• Category:Rowing templates Contains a full list of templates for the project

Most articles are also lacking the {{talkheader}} template on their talk pages, so it's useful to add that as well.

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• Category:Rowing and all subcategories

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Things you should know about WikiProjects:

• WikiProject Best Practices

We share some articles with these projects:

• WikiProject Sports Olympics
• WikiProject Biography

And finally:

• WikiProject Water sports - our parent project
• WikiProject Sports - our grand parent project
• WikiProject Kayaking - sister project

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User:09er/Sandbox/Rowing/Navigation

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The project needs active members to remain operational. Please join up by adding:

*{{User|Your Username}} - Your area of interest.

Names should be listed in alphabetical order.

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Please feel free to list your new (or updated) rowing-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a limit of 5 days for the creation of an article or the heavy expansion of it. Please remember to add {{persondata}} to the biographical articles you create. Also please remember to add {{WikiProject Rowing}} to the talk page of the article.

Please place newest articles on the top

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Any member of WikiProject Rowing may assess Rowing-related articles by following the guidelines below. If you aren't sure about an article, ask about it on the assessment page. The {{WikiProject Rowing}} template has a class= parameter which provide an article assessment rating for each article:

{{WikiProject Rowing |class=???}}

Rowing pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	13
FL	1
GA	165
B	44
C	269
Start	1,635
Stub	7,165
List	157
Category	1,421
Disambig	7
File	9
Project	4
Template	232
NA	121
Assessed	11,243
Unassessed	254
Total	11,497
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 52,703			Ω = 5.67

• Article list by quality
• Quality changes log

Featured articles

None

Featured lists

None

Good articles

• Rowing (sport) January 2, 2007

Did you know?

• Eton Racing Boats June 4, 2006
• Bobby Pearce September 7, 2006
• Anatomy of a stroke December 25, 2006