Welcome to WikiProject Swimming! This WikiProject is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to competitive swimming and other aquatic sports.
- Our goals
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- To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of swimming and water sports.
- To improve Wikipedia's coverage of swimming and water sports by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
- To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to swimming and water sports in Wikipedia.
- Our scope
- The project generally considers any article related to competitive swimming, long course swimming, short course swimming, open water swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming, and participants, coaches and governing organizations of those disciplines to be within the scope of WikiProject Swimming.
- Our structure
- Internally, the project has developed several structural features to help in managing its extensive work:
- Departments, which coordinate work on certain specialized tasks, such as peer review or project-wide collaboration.
Departments
Assessment
The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's swimming and water sports articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WP Swimming}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.
Automation
The automation department uses various automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks that would be extremely tedious to do manually; it collects requests for tasks, discusses whether they are suitable for automation, and attempts to match them with bot operators or users of semi-automated tools for implementation. All project members are invited to request tasks and to comment on the suitability of outstanding requests.
Peer review
The peer review department conducts peer reviews of swimming and water sports related articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.
Newsletter
The newsletter department produces the newsletter on the project keeping all members up to date on the latest affairs.
Task forces and subpages
- Water polo work group
- List of all subpages of this page
To-do
High priorities:
- Complete List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women), using List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men) as a template;
- Create List of Pan American Games medalists in swimming (men), using "List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)" as a template (note: a combined list for men and women using a somewhat old-fashioned style already exists: List of Pan American Games medalists in swimming);
- Create List of Pan American Games medalists in swimming (women), using "List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)" as a template;
- Fact-check 100% of the names, dates, distances, and locations for the swimming world record progression articles, starting with World record progression 100 metres freestyle, including inline footnotes to FINA records and newspaper accounts, if available.
- Add the current standardized Template:Infobox swimmer to all competitive swimmer biographies, using the current instructions and examples, starting with Olympic Games participants, and swimming medalists from the Commonwealth Games, European swimming championships, FINA world championships, Pan American Games, and Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
- Create "start"-quality biographical articles, with inline citations to support the text, for all swimming medalists from the Olympics (1896 to present).
- Create "start"-quality biographical articles, with inline citations to support the text, for all medalists from the FINA world championships, long course (1973 to present) and short course (1993 to present).
- Create "start"-quality biographical articles, with inline citations to support the text, for all swimming medalists from the Commonwealth Games (1930 to present), and Pan American Games (1951 to present).
- Create "start"-quality biographical articles, with inline citations to support the text, for all medalists from the European swimming championships (1926 to present), and Pan Pacific Swimming Championships (1985 to present).
- Improve all articles for Olympic gold medalists in swimming to "B"-quality biographical articles, with proper coverage of the subject and inline citations to support the text.
- Please add {{swimming-bio-stub}} to all stub-articles about swimmers.
- Add {{US-swimming-bio-stub}} to all stub-articles about United States swimmers.
- Add {{europe-swimming-bio-stub}} to all stub-articles about European swimmers.
- Add {{Australia-swimming-bio-stub}} to all stub-articles about Australian swimmers.
- Add {{Netherlands-swimming-bio-stub}} to all stub-articles about Dutch swimmers.
- Add {{PRChina-swimming-bio-stub}} to all stub-articles about Chinese swimmers.
- Per WP:MOS, use between numbers and units, e.g. 100 m, 2.2 s. in the case of "x" in a relay, use ×, i.e. 4×100 m.
Category tree
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Featured content
At this time, there are currently four swimming featured articles, meaning that they represent the best of Wikipedia:
There are also two featured lists:
Helpful online references
- Australian Olympic Committee, Olympian Search (free online database of Australian Olympic athlete profiles)
- Matthew De George, Duels in the Pool: Swimming's Greatest Rivalries, Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland (2013). ISBN 978-0810891753. (portions available online for free preview)
- Matthew De George, Pooling Talent: Swimming's Greatest Teams, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland (2014). ISBN 978-1-4422-3701-8. (portions available online for free preview)
- FINA, Athletes Biographies (free online database of current notable international swimmers)
- FINA, HistoFINA Olympic and World Aquatics Championships medalists (free online PDF listing of all medalists)
- FINA, World and Olympic Swimming Records (free online PDF listing of current world records, broken out several different ways)
- GBRathletics.com, Commonwealth Games Medallists (free online Commonwealth Games database service, including medallists and times)
- Graham Groom, The Complete Book of the Commonwealth Games, Lulu Press, Raleigh, North Carolina (2013). (portions available online for free preview)
- International Swimming Hall of Fame, List of Honorees by Last Name (free online database of ISHOF honoree profiles)
- International Swimming Hall of Fame, List of Medalists, includes medalists for the Olympics (1896–2004), FINA World Championships (1973–2005), Pan Pacific Championships (1985–2002), Pan American Games (1951–2003), World University Games (1959–2005), Short Course World Championships (1993–2004). (freely archived from ISHOF original online PDF document)
- John P. Lohn, Historical Dictionary of Competitive Swimming, Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland (2010). ISBN 978-0810867758. (portions available online for free preview)
- John P. Lohn, The Most Memorable Moments in Olympic Swimming, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland (2014). ISBN 978-1442236998. (portions available online for free preview)
- David Maraniss, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Stirred the World, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York (2008). ISBN 978-1-4165-3407-5. (portions available online for free preview)
- National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving, NCAA, Indianapolis, Indiana (2014). (free online PDF copy of NCAA championship records and results through 2014)
- Newspapers.com, Keyword Search (online subscription archive for historical newspapers -- free memberships available through Wikipedia)
- The New York Times, Article Archive (online subscription newspaper article archive)
- New Zealand Olympic Committee, New Zealand Medals (free online database of New Zealand medalists at Olympics and Commonwealth Games)
- Steven Olderr, The Pan American Games: A Statistical History, 1951–1999, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina (2009). ISBN 978-0-7864-4336-9. (portions available online for free preview)
- Sports Illustrated, Vault (free online archive of 60+ years of American sports magazine articles)
- Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Athlete Directory (free online Olympics database service, including Olympic athlete profiles, team lists and event results; caution: please note that Sports-Reference incorrectly lists pre-1984 swimmers in preliminary heats of relays as medalists)
- SwimVortex, News articles covering recent events and results
- Swimming World Magazine, Swimming World News Archives (free online archive for last 20 years of swimming magazine articles)
- USA Swimming, National Team Roster (free online database of current U.S. national team member profiles)
- USA Swimming, World, American & U.S. Open Records (free online PDF listings of world, American and U.S. Open records, including record progressions)
Participants
Note: Please add your name to the bottom of the Active list if you would like to participate.
Active members
- Voltmetro
- Dirtlawyer1 (Improving U.S. Olympic swimmer articles)
- Eileen Sandá (Creating, editing and expanding articles about swimmers, mainly Faroese and Danish)
- Gap9551 (General updates and improvements)
- hooperswim
- Ianblair23
- matthewm192 Great Britain (making sure current articles are correct and up to date)
- miwii69 (Competitive swimmer, currently updating Olympic swimmers' bios)
- Philipmj24 (Creating, editing and expanding articles related to the great sport of swimming)
- Swimnteach
- User:Pink-seoul-judo (Expanding bios of Japan and China swimmers, mainly Seto, Hagino and Zhejiang-based)
- User:Spike789
- User:Yanjipy (Editing articles related to swimming)
- User:MiniHiba (Competitive swimmer, I expand articles about British swimmers)
- Mooneymagic
- SmartyPants22
- Phikia (Creating, editing and expanding Wikipedia namespaces related to water polo)
- SarahTHunter (Creating bios of Paralympic swimmers)
- User:Akim_Ernest (Establishing FINA national association articles)
Currently inactive members
- Becky Sayles*
- Collun (swimmer)*
- ErikTheBikeman (Current competitive swimmer)*
- Hapticfever (NCAA swimmer)*
- JZCL (water polo goalkeeper)*
- Lidos (British lido historian)*
- Puffin (swimmer since age 3)*
- User:Rauterkus (Wiki and open source advocate, swim coach in Pittsburgh, PA, USA)*
- SMARTSKAFT | ¿*
- Sportygeek (para-swimmer, Masters swimmer, Melbourne Vicentre)*
- Trulystand700*
- wpktsfs (Swimmer, Waterpolo player)
- Zeizmic
- Ryanjo
- Chief Captain
- hmwith
- Elderleo
- SSSq (diving)
- Lemonflash (talk · contribs · count)
- Ketsuekigata (Former Swimmer, Lifeguard)
- Iarescientists (Swimmer, Water Polo player, Lifeguard)
- Dive614c (Diver, Swimmer)
- Swimmtastic
- ask123 (competitive swimmer, 10 years)
- Jort227 (Water Polo player)
- Marco Polo Monkey Goes Bananas over Marco Polo!!! (Water Polo)
- Fattyjwoods Competitive Swimmer in New Zealand
- Boroughswimmer Swimming Club Administrator Australia
- Bgwwlm
- Jrssr5 (former competitive swimmer)
- Polluxian (like to find and initiate articles on international swimmers)
- MacMad
- Staffwaterboy Talk♂ 23:49, 30 March 2008 (UTC) Im a Swimming Instructor also a Lifeguard
- Swimmtastic
- Printer222 (competitive swimmer)
- Yboy83 Populating and correcting pages for British swimmers, British records etc.
- jladams97 (former competitive swimmer)
- LizConno (former competitive swimmer & diver)
- Punters (swimmer and water polo player)
- Eriktoussaint (snorkeler and webmaster of snorkelinfo.net, The Netherlands)
- mynameinc (Creating and expanding articles about East German swimmers)
- DeMoN2009 (former club swimmer, still enjoy swimming)
- ebgundy (High School Coach)
- Campms2
- Tambra07 (former competitive swimmer, lifeguard, water polo player, and syncro swimmer)
- User: Nickcampbell18 (UK University Lifesaver, qualified lifeguard)
- Ojay123 (talk) 14:22, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
- Dspyang (Competitive Age Group Swimmer)
- MeisMyself (Competitive Age Group Swimmer)
- cgsailor94 (Live Events scoring specialist, triathlete)
- CanadianWagon
- Tjsomethin (Competitive Age Group Swimmer)
- Theohar
- Seeya Olympics Games
- mad runnerist
- AdamT777 (Competitive Swimmer for Santa Clara Swim Club)
Article alerts
Did you know
- 11 Jun 2022 – Emma Reaney (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by TonyTheTiger (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 27 Jun 2022 – Michal Gogola (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Emery Cool21 (t · c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)
Proposed deletions
- 05 Jul 2022 – Vedaant Madhavan (talk · · hist) was PRODed by MPGuy2824 (t · c): Non-notable swimmer. The only competition he has won in (i.e. Danish Open), isn't notable enough to have a wiki article. His father is notable, but notability isn't inherited.
- 24 Jun 2022 – Central African Republic at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships (talk · · hist) PRODed by Sportsfan 1234 (t · c) was deleted
Good article nominees
- 11 Jun 2022 – Emma Reaney (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by TonyTheTiger (t · c); start
- 10 Apr 2022 – Cindy Shatto (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Bungle (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
- 16 May 2022 – Ted Heaton (talk · · hist) has been put up for PR by Bungle (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 25 Jun 2022 – Draft:Sint Maarten at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by UnitedStatesian (t · c)
- 23 Jun 2022 – Draft:Katie Crowhurst (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SamC08 (t · c)
- 01 Jun 2022 – Draft:Simon Latimer (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Munster58 (t · c)
- 06 May 2022 – Draft:Katrina Matthews (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TurbulentMatter666 (t · c)
- 11 Apr 2022 – Draft:Gagarin Nathaniel (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 210.160.8.72 (t · c)
- 27 Jun 2022 – Draft:2022 Big Ten Men's Swimming and Diving Championships (talk · · hist) submitted for AfC by Thurl19 (t · c) was deleted
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