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WikiProject Water sports

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Welcome toWikiProject Water sports. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of water sports and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic.

If you would like to help, pleasejoin the project, inquire on thetalk page and see theto-do list below.

Every subject that involvessport,games or other activities in conjunction with (under, on or over)water.

• RNLI Task Force

WikiProject Water sports has a few longstanding goals, which are in place to provide a direction for expansion.

• To ensure that all marine-activity related articles are always expanding and being improved.
• Establish a large, active member base.

To-do list forWikipedia:WikiProject Water sports:edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2020-08-29 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : You can help by tagging the talk pages of all articles inCategory:Water sports with our talk page banner:{{WikiProject Water sports}} Cleanup : CleanupSurfboard Expand : Rename/improve/expandripcurl,Grain Surfboards; find and add reliable references Photo : need better pictures of a windsurfing universal joint (hourglass and tendon type). One photo is currently inCoupling, but it's not an ideal photo. Split :Windsurfing related items: make dedicated articles forWindsurfing board (such as article forSurfboard),Mast (windsurfing), andFin (windsurfing) (such as article forSurfboard fin) Unreferenced : Improve/find references forHoward Rice

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Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

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Water sports articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			1	2			3
GA	1	1	1	12		2	17
B	4	13	29	295		8	349
C	9	21	48	243		64	385
Start	5	16	78	1,139		658	1,896
Stub		11	37	4,958		5,204	10,210
List	3	3	15	236	1	44	302
Category					1,550		1,550
Disambig					6		6
File					130		130
Project					12		12
Redirect			1	40	228		269
Template					145		145
Other					7		7
Assessed	22	65	210	6,925	2,079	5,980	15,281
Unassessed	1			22		440	463
Total	23	65	210	6,947	2,079	6,420	15,744
WikiWork factors (?)		ω =73,334			Ω = 5.71

Good article nominees

• 16 Nov 2025 –Open water swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Mixed 4 × 1500 metre relay(talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated byIt is a wonderful world(t · c); startdiscussion
• 16 Nov 2025 –Open water swimming at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships – Mixed 4 × 1500 metre relay(talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated byIt is a wonderful world(t · c); startdiscussion
• 23 Oct 2025 –Open water swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Mixed 5 km team relay(talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated byIt is a wonderful world(t · c); startdiscussion
• 17 Oct 2025 –Open water swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Team(talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated byIt is a wonderful world(t · c); startdiscussion
• 15 Oct 2025 –Open water swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Team(talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated byIt is a wonderful world(t · c); startdiscussion
• 15 Oct 2025 –Open water swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Team(talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated byIt is a wonderful world(t · c); startdiscussion
• 15 Oct 2025 –Open water swimming at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships – Mixed 4 × 1500 metre relay(talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated byIt is a wonderful world(t · c); startdiscussion
• 15 Oct 2025 –Open water swimming at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 5 km(talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated byIt is a wonderful world(t · c); startdiscussion
• 15 Oct 2025 –Open water swimming at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 3 km knockout sprints(talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated byIt is a wonderful world(t · c); seediscussion

Articles to be split

• 23 Aug 2025 –Rash guard(talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting byStarbright Meteorite(t · c); seediscussion

• Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford)

• 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
• Neil Brooks
• Peter Evans (swimmer)
• Theresa Goh
• Mark Kerry
• Tao Li
• Quietly Confident Quartet
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre butterfly
• Henry Taylor (swimmer)
• Mark Tonelli
• Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
• Yip Pin Xiu

• Fazisi
• Outline of canoeing and kayaking
• Surfboard
• Paddle float
• Paddle leash
• Whitewater canoeing
• 200 metre individual medley
• Wing foiling

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

{{WikiProject Water sports}} is our main tag for article pages. There's no need to use it if one of our sub-project's template is already there. The template looks like:

Water sportsTop‑importance

WikiProject Water sports is within the scope of theWikiProject Water sports, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage ofWater sports. If you would like toparticipate, you can visit theproject page, where you can join the project and see a list ofopen tasks.Water sportsWikipedia:WikiProject Water sportsTemplate:WikiProject Water sportsWater sports Top This article has been rated asTop-importance on theproject's importance scale.

To invite an editor to participate in WikiProject Water sports, please incite them to the project with the following template.

To place the template on a users talk page, just use:{{Watersports invite}}

Hello WikiProject Water sports. Given your interest inWater sports related articles, you are cordially invited to participate inWikiProject Water sports, a project dedicated on improving Wikipedia's coverage and detail regarding Water sports articles. If you would like to participate, you can visit theproject page, where you can join the project and see a list ofopen tasks that you can help with..

• List ofall subpages of this page

• Portal:Underwater diving

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Canoeing and Kayaking
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Rowing
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Sailing
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Swimming
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Swimming/Water polo work group
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Underwater diving

Main tool page:toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

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