Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sports

At Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_172#Designating_current_seasons_in_infoboxes, I read clear consensus to use text rather than images to designate the current season. I went ahead and made the change at {{Infobox award}}, but since I'm not a sports person, I'll leave the implementation for sports templates such as {{Infobox football league}} to you all here. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:35, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

I've added a DNAU tag to this thread; feel free to remove it once you have finished implementation. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 20:49, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

I recently opened a discussion about images and color schemes in college sports navboxes (like Template:Big Ten Conference navbox) at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#Images and color schemes in college sports navboxes. This discussion applies to navboxes beyond just college football. We could use to more input to reach a clear consensus. Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 19:17, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Swindon Stadium#Requested move 2 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vestrian24Bio 12:58, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Mexican League#Requested move 28 January 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 10:25, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Sports shooter multiple champion. Opinion, please --Altenmann >talk 19:22, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

This article has been tagged as unsourced since 2009. If someone could add a reference I would appreciate it. Thanks.4meter4 (talk) 18:48, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Palestinian sports during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip#Requested move 14 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Abesca (talk) 16:50, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Template:NBA arena statues has been listed for discussion, which may result in the template being merged or deleted by consensus. You are invited to comment on the proposed action at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. SportsGuy789 (talk) 23:01, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

There is an open request for comment at Talk:Greyhound racing regarding the appropriate scope and structure of welfare, lifecycle, and regulatory coverage in the main article. Input from interested editors would be welcome.

Many thanks. JasonGen (talk) 00:51, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:ESPN (streaming service)#Requested move 22 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 04:44, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

The article Al Jaish Stadium has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Delete for lack of significant coverage. I did my own search as required, and found nothing but directories and only two hits on Google news. Tagged as Unreferenced for 12 years and for Notability concerns for 7 months.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion based on established criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 18:31, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Al Jaish Stadium was previously proposed for deletion, by me, last year. Does anybody want to send this to WP:AfD? Bearian (talk) 01:43, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Wasserman (company)#Requested move 10 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ROY is WAR Talk! 03:49, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Report discussion. DanielParoliere (talk) 10:53, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Just notifying members of this project that there is a Conflict of Interest edit request relevant to this WikiProject at the Sports analytics article. DrThneed (talk) 02:38, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

It seems recent changes to UK Athletics "Power of 10" statistics system have broken our links to athlete profiles. It is linked from the articles of most current British track athletes, mostly from {{Sports links}} and {{Power of 10}}, which pick up from Wikidata Property:P2090 "Power of 10 athlete ID"

For example, the link for Phily Bowden changed from:

https://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=92970       to

https://www.powerof10.uk/Home/Athlete/25aae67e-a27a-4dbf-b0d8-5905b0a0bb9b

The former links, which we have many (a thousand or more?) are broken. This comes after a period of a week of downtime on the site, which clearly was them retooling. It seems to be a permanent issue. So:

• Is this being discussed anywhere, or am I the first to notice?
• What shall we do about it?

If it was just a URL format change, I'd be commenting on the relevant template pages. But I can't see an obvious way to obtain the new athlete identifier (which seems to be a UUID) from the old integer one. Without that, it's not a job a bot could readily do. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 12:19, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Youth sports#Requested move 13 March 2026` that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 16:12, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Asking because I want to write an article on Sean Rose (what I've got so far is here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_talk:Sean_Rose) and I was wondering if there were any resources I might not know about. Red Fiona (talk) 14:07, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Has been going on for 8 weeks and just re-opened. If you have an opinion, please join. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:32, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship#Requested move 20 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ꕥ 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 ꕥ ^{→𝙼𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚖𝚎←} 12:29, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Multiple articles were recently created about football match fixing in different countries. I draftified Match-fixing in Tanzanian football for being AI generated, but generally I do not know if these articles are notable enough to be created in the first place. The other articles are Match-fixing in Ugandan football and Match-fixing in Kenyan football. Input on whether I should nominate for deletion is appreciated. Vegantics (talk) 14:06, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

When you have reliable sources with "Kenyan match-fixing" in the title, that's pretty much a slamdunk. Ravenswing 16:06, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

@Ravenswing Sounds good to me, thanks! Vegantics (talk) 16:31, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello — I work for Pro Athlete Community (PAC) and am disclosing my conflict of interest upfront per Wikipedia's COI policy. I am not able to write this article myself and am hoping an independent editor might be willing to create it.

PAC is a professional athlete membership network founded in 2022. It has received significant independent coverage I believe meets Wikipedia's notability standards.

Key independent sources:

- Sports Business Journal (Aug 5, 2025): https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/08/05/pro-athlete-community-launches-open-membership-application-to-current-former-athletes/

- Forbes (Aug 18, 2025): https://www.forbes.com/sites/vitascarosella/2025/08/18/pro-athlete-community-prepares-athletes-for-life-after-sports/

- Philadelphia Inquirer (Feb 26, 2026): https://www.inquirer.com/eagles/brandon-graham-pro-athlete-community-jaelan-phillips-20260226.html

- Bloomberg Business of Sports (Mar 27, 2026): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2026-03-27/bloomberg-business-of-sports-nick-swisher-podcast

- The Sun UK: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/38753233/man-utd-patrice-evra-success-retirement-five-companies/

- The GIST (exclusive, Nov 2025): https://www.thegistsports.com/article/wnba-legend-candace-parker-becomes-first-woman-co-chair-of-pro-athlete-community/

- Black Enterprise (Nov 2025): https://www.blackenterprise.com/candace-parker-pro-athlete-community/

I am happy to provide verified facts and answer questions on this Talk page. I will not edit any article directly. If anyone is willing to take this on, I'm grateful.

Disclosing paid relationship: I am employed by Pro Athlete Community in a marketing role.

Joaqo21 (talk) 20:28, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

The redirect Jim Miller (athlete) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 April 9 § Jim Miller (athlete) until a consensus is reached. 8BitBros (talk • edits) 06:01, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Bernabéu (stadium)#Requested move 26 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 12:43, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:James Fleming (sportsman)#Requested move 12 April 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ~2026-22502-79 (talk) 20:22, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

I've noticed a few cases recently where the (new?) link suggestion feature (I think this is a newcomer task) is making bad cross-sport link suggestions where terminology is common between sports. The repeat case I've seen is Win–loss record (pitching) being linked over the words 'win–loss record' in non-baseball articles. Is there a way we can deal with this at the source? Aspirex (talk) 22:20, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Many medal templates have been deleted, including {{OG1}}, {{OG2}} & {{OG3}}, and others have been listed for discussion, which may result in the templates being merged or deleted by consensus. You are invited to comment on the proposed action at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. CLalgo (talk) 08:37, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Megan Rapinoe has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. OrdinaryOtter (talk) 05:32, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

The article Clive Solomons Stadium has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unreferenced for 15 years. Tagged as such for a month. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. A Google News search found only a blank "trade" webpage. I didn't search Grokpedia, so you might find something there.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

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If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 14:29, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

I'm new to Wikipedia and want to help with sports or sports cards articles, whether its improving, creating, or linking new things, I just want to contribute so if you can give some some direction on where to start that would be great! Thank you! CT10191 (talk) 22:16, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

Pick a few specific sports you're interested in, and inquire at the related sports project. Good luck. —Bagumba (talk) 04:36, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

(Note: I originally posted this discussion at the Teahouse before realizing it would probably be a better fit for here.)

Hi everyone, I recently made the articles Yemen at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and Zimbabwe at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, since there seem to be several "nation at <multi-sport event>"-type articles missing despite the fact these nations competed. Another editor has raised concerns about them not being notable, and unfortunately neither of us are an expert on sports articles, so I wanted to ask here for further advice.

There's plenty of coverage on the 2020 Summer Paralympics themselves (it's definitely a notable event), but as for these specific countries' performances, there isn't very much. Neither one won a medal or had anything incredibly significant happen, they just competed as usual. This doesn't seem to be unusual for these sorts of articles, so I thought there was precedent - I brought up Liberia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and Zimbabwe at the 2024 Summer Paralympics as examples, although the other editor (correctly) mentioned this was a case of WP:OTHER. I had thought WP:NOLYMPICS suggested these would be notable (Significant coverage is likely to exist for nations participating at an individual Summer or Winter Olympic or Paralympic Games), although it only says SIGCOV is likely to exist. There don't seem to be any other guidelines on these types of articles.

Unfortunately I'm not really sure what to do here. There's definitely secondary sources for the Games themselves, but for Yemen/Zimbabwe's specific performances (or any other country that didn't win a medal, for that matter), I'm not sure. There are probably news outlets covering the results of certain events, but I don't see much point in including those, as they're just going to be copies of the official results anyways without any relevant commentary (hence why I directly cited the official results books as a source).

My question is this: do "<nation> at the <year> <event>" articles (and also, "<sport> at the <year> <event>" articles, since they're also mentioned in WP:NOLYMPICS) generally count as notable, assuming the event they're a part of is also notable, or can they only be created if the country in question has done something significant (other than just competing) during the Games? This specific case is about the Paralympics, but I would also be interested in other multi-sport events like the World Games, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, etc... as I've been trying to fill in Wikipedia's coverage of those as well.

(If it helps, I've also made similar articles for the World Games - the participation of Aruba, Jordan, Kuwait, Montenegro, Nepal, and North Macedonia in 2022, Iceland in 2017, and the "sport at event" articles for gateball in 2001, aikido in 2001, and tug of war in 2005 and 2013.)

Thanks in advance. Tymewalk (talk) 19:03, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

• Generally, as long as the nation did compete at the games, they have been considered notable. We have never deleted an article on a country at the Olympics / Paralympics and I don't see why we should start now. Usually it is possible to develop quality articles if deep enough searches are performed; see for example Tuvalu at the 2024 Summer Olympics (with only two athletes) which was developed into a GA. I'd be a "keep" if they were taken to AFD. Note that I am less certain on how acceptable articles like this are for the World Games, Commonwealth Games etc. – I just know that Olympics/Paralympics generally have been considered notable. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:02, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

  Thanks for the reply, I'll go ahead and keep making these kinds of articles then. Both countries (as well as the other countries which I plan to create pages for) did compete and are listed in the results books for the Paralympics, and the same goes for the World Games participants as well.

  Do you know of any sources which could be helpful in expanding coverage, outside of the official results? I see Inside the Games was used on the Tuvalu article, and I've seen that site turn up in searches for the World Games, but I would be interested to know if there's any other dedicated Olympics sites which could provide additional information. Tymewalk (talk) 20:56, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

  My personal opinion, just based on seeing dozens of these pages over the years while maintaining the infobox and related templates, is that if all you can find are results tables, it is best to just redirect to the main Games article (see my comment below). If you can find independent sources about a specific country's participation, it might be reasonable to create the article, but I'm not sure simply "they competed" is enough to merit an article (especially if they didn't medal). Primefac (talk) 21:24, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

  I asked this at the Teahouse as well (since someone there told me something similar), but should something be done about the existing articles which only cite primary sources then? There are a lot of these articles - aside from the Liberia 2020 and Zimbabwe 2024 examples, there are articles for the Paralympics (Eritrea at the 2024 Summer Paralympics), World Games (China at the 2022 World Games, Mexico at the 2017 World Games), Commonweath Games (Anguilla at the 2022 Commonwealth Games), Asian Games (Kuwait at the 2014 Asian Games), and presumably the same applies for other multi-sport events like these. The Olympics themselves tend to be better, but there are still articles which only cite sources from the International Olympic Committee or other sporting federations (Oman at the 2024 Summer Olympics for example). I don't have an exact count, but I would not be surprised if there's at least a couple hundred, seeing as how this applies to nearly every recurring sporting event like this. Tymewalk (talk) 15:47, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

  Again this is me speaking personally, but Eritrea had one person and no medals so I would redirect to Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. China, Mexico, and Kuwait all medalled so those should be expanded if possible. I'd say Anguilla could probably be redirected as well since there were no top-half finishers in any event, and despite having a lot of athletes they're all redlinked. I don't think we necessarily need to hunt down these sorts of stats-only pages, but when I find them in the wild I tend to redirect them (i.e. an "as I find them" sort of thing). Primefac (talk) 20:43, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

  We sometimes get these sorts if nation at event titles come up at RfD. If there is more coverage than just X participated then they are usually kept or retargetted to wherever that coverage is. If there is no information at all, or it seems likely there is scope for a full article they are usually deleted. If there is only a mention then it can go either way.

  In terms of target, sport at edition / event (e.g. Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Snowboarding at the Winter Olympics), edition (e.g. 2020 Summer Olympics) or country at event (e.g. Oman at the Summer Olympics) are the most common, but I've seen sport in country and country national sports team articles as targets as well. In pretty much all cases the best target is the one that has the most information relevant to the title rather than being consistent with similarly titled articles. Thryduulf (talk) 22:31, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

  While your "as long as" statement might be true for the Olympics, for other competitions I'm not sure that's 100% guaranteed. Looking at the navbox for Sri Lanka at the Asian Games, four of them are redirects, and all of those four were redirected to that year's Asian Games article following an AFD. Primefac (talk) 21:24, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

  Looking at the AFD discussion and how the article looked at the time it was deleted (this is the article for the 2002 Asian Games, but the same seems to apply for all four of them), I would argue this situation is slightly different than the average "country at games" article. These articles had next to no content whatsoever, only a mention of how many medals were won (not even who won the medals or which events they were won in), and added no information not already found in the medal table. There are other articles which, while they only cite official sources, provide these details, as well as additional details like scores and tournament results (for example, Indonesia at the 2002 Asian Games and Nepal at the 2002 Asian Games, two countries at the same event). I don't know if these articles would count as notable or not, but I think they're at least in a better state than the AFD'd Sri Lanka ones. Tymewalk (talk) 05:40, 1 May 2026 (UTC)