Wikipedia:WikiProject Water sports

Scope

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

Task Forces

• RNLI Task Force

Goals

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.

Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia: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 in Category:Water sports with our talk page banner: {{WikiProject Water sports}} Cleanup : Cleanup Surfboard Expand : Rename/improve/expand ripcurl, Grain Surfboards; find and add reliable references Photo : need better pictures of a windsurfing universal joint (hourglass and tendon type). One photo is currently in Coupling, but it's not an ideal photo. Split : Windsurfing related items: make dedicated articles for Windsurfing board (such as article for Surfboard), Mast (windsurfing), and Fin (windsurfing) (such as article for Surfboard fin) Unreferenced : Improve/find references for Howard Rice

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Article Statistics

More information Water sports articles by quality and importance, Quality ...

Water sports articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			1	2			3
GA	1	1	1	14		2	19
B	4	13	29	296		8	350
C	9	21	49	246		66	391
Start	5	16	78	1,143		668	1,910
Stub		11	37	4,969		5,337	10,354
List	3	3	15	237	1	44	303
Category					1,555		1,555
Disambig					6		6
File					130		130
Project					12		12
Redirect			1	40	228		269
Template					148		148
Other					8		8
Assessed	22	65	211	6,947	2,088	6,125	15,458
Unassessed	1			22		299	322
Total	23	65	211	6,969	2,088	6,424	15,780
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 74,326			Ω = 5.71

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Article Alerts

Articles for deletion

• 14 Mar 2026 – Choi Chang-hwan (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Flyingphoenixchips (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 06 Mar 2026 – Lennart Mathiasen (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Uffda608 (t · c) and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 07 Mar 2026 was deproded by ~2026-14049-06 (t · c) on 12 Mar 2026
• 06 Mar 2026 – Knud Albjerg (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Uffda608 (t · c) and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 07 Mar 2026 was deproded by ~2026-14049-06 (t · c) on 12 Mar 2026
• 05 Mar 2026 – Erik Christensen (canoeist) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Uffda608 (t · c) and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 06 Mar 2026 was deleted
• 05 Mar 2026 – Villy Christiansen (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Uffda608 (t · c) and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 06 Mar 2026 was deleted

Good article nominees

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

Articles to be split

• 23 Aug 2025 – Rash guard (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Starbright Meteorite (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 04 Mar 2026 – Draft:Tige Boats (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mepperson94 (t · c)

Featured articles (FA)

• Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford)

Good articles (GA)

• 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

New articles

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

Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

Article Template

{{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 sports Top‑importance

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

User Invite Template

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 in Water sports related articles, you are cordially invited to participate in WikiProject 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 the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks that you can help with..

Categories

• List of all subpages of this page

Related portals

• Portal:Underwater diving

Related projects

• 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

Tools

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• 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.