WikiProject Figure Skating
Parent projects	Sports Women's sports Olympics Dance
Tasks	Priority list Full to-do list
Guidelines	Terminology and linking Notability guidelines
Assessment	Overview A-class review Article alerts Recognitions
Tools	Templates Barnstars Newcomers talk Earwig's Copyvio Detector
Task forces	Women's figure skating Yuzuru Hanyu
List of members

Welcome toWikiProject Figure Skating! This collaborative project has been formed to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles on the sport offigure skating, including its disciplines, athletes, competitions, technical elements, statistics, andice show productions. The project was created on May 23, 2006, and was majorly restructured in spring 2024.

Figure skating is a complex sport with a long list of terms and subject to continuous changes in performed elements, competition rules, and judging systems, requiring a high degree of sensitivity and accuracy in wording. However, it is a sport that casual readers may only watch every four years at theWinter Olympics, not being familiar with its rules and terms. Our goal is to ensure a high degree of accuracy, while making the sport accessible to thewidest possible general audience.

If you are intested in the topic and wish to make a positive contribution to the project, please join ourlist of members! If you are not sure what to write or where to begin, you may take a look at ourcontribution corner. If you notice some issues or have good ideas on how to improve an article, please address the project'sdiscussion forum.

The thoughts and prayers of the members of WikiProject Figure Skating go out to the victims of the2025 Potomac River mid-air collision, their families, and the figure skating community in the U.S. and around the world.

• Date: Sunday, January 11, 2026
• Time: 3:15 pm CT, after the2026 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
• Location:Enterprise Center, 1401 Clark Ave, St. Louis, Missouri, at Gate 2 off Clark Ave. We'll then decide what we're going to do and where to convene, at a near-by restaurant or coffee shop, or at one of the hotels we're staying at.Look for the sign!

Please come ready to chat about our favorite sport, the U.S. Nationals, the Olympics, and our experiences as editors and contributors to figure skating articles and biographies on Wikipedia.

Update: If anyone is still interested in meeting this afternoon, meet me in front of the Stiffel Theater, the pickup spot for drive shares. I have a sign!

The following policy changes need to be implemented onall articles and lists within the scope of WikiProject Figure Skating. They are mandatory for promotion tofeatured class,A-class, andgood class. Everyone is invited to help with updating.

• WikiProject Figure Skating: The main page and various sub-pages are undergoing major restructurings, making the project more accessible and easier to navigate. The new main page layout makes editing much easier as well compared to the previous left and right panel.
• Figure Skating Manual of Style: The manual has been split into separate guides forarticle structure and style andterminology and linking. The style guide also provides information on the formatting of tables and the use of figure skating-specific templates (some sections are still in the making).
• Figure skating assessment: Our project has set up newguidelines for article assessment regarding their quality and importance status. There is also a new page forA-class reviews of figure skating-related articles.
• Figure skater biographies: Theinfobox template has been majorly revamped, with multiple parameters being added or removed. The tables forworld records,programs,competitive highlights, anddetailed results now all have precast templates, which are recommended to be used for a uniform,MOS-conform layout across all articles. For a detailed list of additions and changes, check the first section on the project'stalk page.

This list shows current reviews of articles and lists within the scope of WikiProject Figure Skating. You are encouraged to participate as a reviewer, following our project'sassessment criteria andquality standards. To join a review, just click on the "review"-link behind the article title.

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WikiProject Figure Skating is continuously working on improving figure skating-related articles. To present the project's quality standards and express appreciation to the authors' great work, selectedfeatured article,featured list,A-class article, andgood article are displayed in this section.

Latest featured article

Lipinski at the2014 Winter Olympics Tara Lipinski (born June 10, 1982) is an American retiredfigure skater, actress, sports commentator, and documentary film producer. She is the1998 Olympic and1997 World gold medalist, becoming the youngest Olympic and World champion in figure skating history and the youngest single skater to win theU.S. Championships (1997). She is also the first woman to complete a tripleloop-triple loopjump combination in competition. In 1998, Lipinski turnedprofessional, becoming the youngest skater to win theWorld Professional Figure Skating Championships and winning every professional competition she entered. She also performed in variousice shows before retiring from figure skating in 2002. Alongside sports commentatorTerry Gannon and figure skater and friendJohnny Weir, Lipinski becameNBC's primary figure skating commentator in 2014.(Full article...)

Latest featured list

The gold, silver, and bronze medalists in the men's event at the2013 World Championships:Patrick Chan of Canada(center),Denis Ten of Kazakhstan(left), andJavier Fernández of Spain(right) TheWorld Figure Skating Championships are an annualfigure skating competition sanctioned by theInternational Skating Union. The first World Championships were held in 1896 inSaint Petersburg, Russia, and they have been held ever since with only four interruptions. A separate competition for women was established in 1905, with the men's and women's events held as separate competitions for several years.Pair skating was added in 1908 andice dance in 1952.Ulrich Salchow of Sweden holds the record for winning the most World Championship titles in men's singles (with ten), whileSonja Henie of Norway holds the record in women's singles (also with ten).Irina Rodnina andAlexander Zaitsev of the Soviet Union hold the record in pair skating (with six), although Rodnina won an additional four titles with a previous partner.Lyudmila Pakhomova andAleksandr Gorshkov of the Soviet Union hold the record in ice dance (with six). The2026 World Championships are scheduled to be held March 23–29 inPrague, Czech Republic, while the 2027 World Championships are scheduled to be held March 15–21 inTampere, Finland.(Full article...)

Latest A-class article

Kim at the2010 Winter Olympics Yuna Kim is a South Koreanfigure skater. Known for her well-rounded skills, achievements, popularity, and impact on the sport, she is one of the most highly recognized athletes in South Korea and regarded as one of the greatest figure skaters in history, being commonly referred to as "Queen Yuna". Kim started skating at five years old and competed inwomen's singles from 2001 to 2014. She is the2010 Olympic champion, the2014 Olympic silver medalist, a two-timeWorld champion (2009,2013) the2009 Four Continents champion, a three-timeGrand Prix Final champion (2006,2007,2009), the2006 World Junior champion, the2005 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and a six-timeSouth Korean national champion (2003–2006, 2013, 2014).(Full article...)

Latest good article

Alina Zagitova performing in 2024 Alina Zagitova is a Russian former competitivefigure skater. She is the2018 Olympic champion, the2019 World champion, the2018 European champion,2017–18 Grand Prix Final champion, and the2018 Russian national champion. She also won a silver medal in the team event at the2018 Winter Olympics. Having won all majorInternational Skating Union (ISU) Championship titles at the junior and senior levels, Zagitova is the youngest and second women's singles skater, afterYuna Kim, to have completed aSuper Slam. She is the second-youngest Olympic champion in women's single skating, behindTara Lipinski. She holds thehistorical world record score in the women's short program. She was known for back-loading her programs, meaning she performed all of her jumps in the second half of her program to receive a bonus on the jumps'base values. This led to the ISU implementing a rule limiting the number of jumps that could receive the base value bonus, unofficially known as the "Zagitova rule".(Full article...)

Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform onfigure skates on ice. The sport gets its name fromcompulsory figures or school figures, which skaters placed and traced clean turns evenly on round circles on the ice. TheInternational Skating Union (ISU) regulates international figure skating judging and competitions.

Figure skating was the first winter sport to be included in theOlympic Games, with its introduction occurring at the1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines aremen's singles, women's singles,pair skating, andice dance; the four individual disciplines are also combined into a team event, which was first included in the Winter Olympics in2014. From novice through senior-level competition, skaters generally perform two programs (theshort program and thefree skate), which, depending on the discipline, may includespins,jumps,lifts,throw jumps,death spirals, and other elements or moves.

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• All you need to do is adding the userbox{{User WPFigureSkating}} or category[[Category:WikiProject Figure Skating participants]] to your userpage.
• You may also add your name to thislist of members.

1. Vital articles: Brush up the quality of figure skating articles in theproject's top importance category, with special focus on the correct use offigure skating terminology and thelatest policy changes.
2. Stubs: Improve the quality of figure skating articles in theproject's stub class category by expanding their prose and supporting information withreliable secondary sources. Make sure todestub the article, when your changes have been completed.
3. Skater biographies: Implement the latestinfobox guidelines andnew set of table templates on skaters' biographies.
4. Sourcing: Help improving thesourcing of figure skating articles by addingreliable secondary sources andarchiving them at theWayback Machine or anotherweb archive. When all sources in an article's reference section have been successfully archived, please add the{{Archived reflist}} template below the header on the article's talk page.
5. Assessment: Help assessing figure skating articles by adding the{{WikiProject Figure Skating}} template at the top of their talk page (if not yet done), and give them a rating by importance and quality, following theguidelines for figure skating assessment.

You are not familiar with Wikipedia and editing yet? No problem! Here is a quick guide to the best help pages:

1. New contributor's help page: This is the number one place for newcomers to find quick help and answers to the most important questions.
2. Getting started: A good way to start is to get informed about Wikipedia'sfive pillars andbasics of contribution.
3. Introduction to editing: This is a step-by-step tutorial for the two standard types of editing. You may also take a look at this guide onhow to edit a page.
4. Experimenting in sandboxes: If you do not feel confident to edit articles directly yet, you can try outWikipedia's sandboxes to create drafts. You can either use thegeneral sandbox or create your personal sandbox, followingthis tutorial.
5. Learning from the best works: Check out our section oflatest promoted works to see what a good or excellent article looks like.
6. Achieving best quality: To improve articles to the highest quality, take a look at this guide onhow to write a great article. You may also check out the guidelines presented inWikipedia's andour project's Manual of Style.

Are there still open questions?

• Visit theTeahouse for basic or theHelp desk for more advanced questions about Wikipedia.
• For questions specific to figure skating, you can use our project'stalk page.
• For quick feedback, you can also type{{Help me}} on your talk page, and someone will come to help out ;)

Improving the quality of Wikipedia is a long and tireless work. To express appreciation to the volunteer editors and promote a pleasant, collaborative atmosphere among members, our project has compiled a set of barnstars for various skills and valuable contibutions.

If you feel that a fellow Wikipedian has deserved a barnstar for their great work, create a new section on theirtalk page with "A barnstar for you" or similar title, copy the markup code of a fitting barnstar into that section, and add a personal message. Make sure to sign it with~~~~.

Example:{{subst:The Figure Skating Barnstar|1=Thank you very much for your efforts to keep the lists about figure skating statistics updated. ~~~~}} renders as:

	The Figure Skating Barnstar
	Thank you very much for your efforts to keep the lists about figure skating statistics updated.Username (talk) 12:33, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

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