Wikipedia:WikiProject Swimming

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Welcome to WikiProject Swimming! This WikiProject is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to competitive swimming and other aquatic sports.

Goals
  • 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.
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 the project.
More information The Swimming WikiProject, General ...
The Swimming WikiProject
New user orientation
General
Project home (WP:SWIM) talk
Project category
Popular pages (WP:SWIM/PP)  
Recognized content (WP:SWIM/RC)  
Departments
Assessment
Assessment home (WP:SWIM/A)
 → Statistics table  
 → Log  
 → Category  
 → Visual aids  
 → WikiWork (WP:SWIM/A/WW) talk
A-Class review (WP:SWIM/ACR) talk
Newsletter
Newsletter home (WP:SWIM/N) talk
 → Newsroom (WP:SWIM/NR) talk
 → Past issues (WP:SWIM/N/I)  
 → Subscribe (WP:SWIM/N/S)  
Resources
Resources (WP:SWIM/RES) talk
→ Periodicals (WP:SWIM/PER) talk
Task forces
Sports
Editing guidelines
Article standards (WP:SWIM/STDS)  
Notability (WP:SWIM/NT)  
Medal Lists (WP:SWIM/STDS/L) talk
Project resources
Participants  
Article alerts (WP:SWIM/AA) arch.
Embassy (WP:SWIM/EM) talk
Precedents (WP:SWIM/P) talk
Aquatic Sports Cup (WP:SWIM/CUP) talk
Things to do
To-do list
General stubs  
Project maintenance categories  
→ Articles needing attention  
Redirect lists
Templates
{{WikiProject Swimming}} (doc) {{SWIM}} talk
Article templates (WP:SWIM/AT)
Stub templates (WP:SWIM/STUB)
Userbox list (WP:SWIM/UBX)
{{SWIM Announcements}} talk
{{WPSwimmingInvite}} talk
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Current work

This wikiproject is currently inactive. However I (It is a wonderful world) will keep track of the progress on keeping the event articles up to date here, so people can easily see what needs doing. If anyone wants to collaborate with me to work on these articles and/or rejuvenate this project, feel free to ping me! It's always fun working with others.

X = Competition not held on that year

= Not yet created

C = Created

= Results are added and up to date

= Article and any notable event articles are somewhat complete but they need cleanup (normally sources need to be added)

= Article and any notable event articles are complete and don't need significant cleanup

= Good article

= Good topic (article and event articles are all good articles)

More information Competition ...
Competition 2022 2023 2024 2025
Olympic Games X X X
World Long Course Championships C
World Short Course Championships X X
Pan Pacific Championships X X X X
Commonwealth Games X X X
Asian Games X X X
Southeast Asian Games X X
European Long Course Championships X X
European Short Course Championships X X
African Championships X X
African Games X X X
Oceania Championships X X X
US National Championships
Chinese National Championships
World University Games X X X
World Junior Championships X
World Cup
Open Water World Cup
European Open Water Championships X X X
World Para Championships X
Paralympics X X X
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Departments

Assessment

More information Swimming articles by quality and importance, Quality ...
Swimming articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
GA 2 9 3 14
B 10 44 14 68
C 3 33 156 36 228
Start 1 8 101 1,430 193 1,733
Stub 8 269 7,818 707 8,802
List 1 2 48 201 29 281
Category 5,895 5,895
File 155 155
Project 32 32
Template 1,049 1,049
NA 105 156 261
Other 2 28 30
Assessed 2 21 463 9,765 7,315 982 18,548
Unassessed 22 506 528
Total 2 21 463 9,787 7,315 1,488 19,076
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The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's swimming 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.

Task forces and subpages

Category tree

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Featured content

At this time, there is currently one swimming featured topic, meaning it represents Wikipedia's best work in covering a subject comprehensively and with items of consistently good quality:

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Quietly Confident Quartet
6 articles
Mark Kerry
Peter Evans
Mark Tonelli
Neil Brooks
Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics

There are currently twelve swimming featured articles, meaning that they represent the best of Wikipedia:

There are also three 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • USA Swimming, National Team Roster (free online database of current U.S. national team member profiles)

Participants

Note: Please add your name to the bottom of the Active list if you would like to participate.

Active members

  1. Voltmetro
  2. Eileen Sandá (Creating, editing and expanding articles about swimmers, mainly Faroese and Danish)
  3. Gap9551 (General updates and improvements)
  4. Ianblair23
  5. matthewm192  Great Britain (making sure current articles are correct and up to date)
  6. SmartyPants22
  7. Phikia (Creating, editing and expanding Wikipedia namespaces related to water polo)
  8. SarahTHunter (Creating bios of Paralympic swimmers)
  9. IAmHz (Expanding women swimmer biographies, mainly U.S. and Mexico in English and Spanish)
  10. It is a wonderful world (Lots of swimming edits!)

Article alerts

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Categories for discussion

Templates for discussion

  • 04 Mar 2026 – Template:Aquatics at the 2002 Commonwealth Games (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by SmartyPants22 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

Featured article reviews

Requested moves

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

WikiProject Swimming templates

Talk page tags

Userbox

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{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Swimming/Userbox}}
This user participates in WikiProject Swimming.
{{User Water polo work group}}
This user is a member of the
Water polo work group.
{{User swimmer}}
This user is a swimmer.
{{User water polo player}}
This user plays water polo.
{{User diver}}
This user is a diver.
{{User synchronized swimmer}}
This user is a
synchronized swimmer.
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