Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Swimming

Hal Henning is a new article that needs to be assessed. Could someone from this WikiProject take a look at it? -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:17, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

I upgraded this to B-class. It seems to be quite well written. IAWW (talk) 08:18, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

I was editing the article on Stephanie Balduccini to include information on the medals she won at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games and wondered if they would be included on the infobox. Does everyone know that? Haddad Maia fan (talk) 21:56, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

Hey @Haddad Maia fan, I can't find a guideline on this, but I would assume that if a competition is notable, then any medals should be listed in the infobox. Since we have the article Swimming at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games, I think this competition is definitely notable and should be added to the infobox. Thanks for working on a swimmer's page! I feel like this area of Wikipedia has few active content creators. Feel free to ping me if you want any more second opinions etc IAWW (talk) 08:09, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

The article Yousef Al-Nehmi has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unsourced BLP. I deprodded this, tried to find sources, and gave up, so here we are again.

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I was editing the article on the Paralympic swimmer Carol Santiago and noticed it was very short and outdated, so I decided to make it better, but I feel it would be better to have second opinions on this Haddad Maia fan (talk) 15:20, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

If anyone can take a look at this article, it would be of great help, as a lot of information of her career is missing on the article Haddad Maia fan (talk) 11:26, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

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Hi all, I would like to seek consensus on how the tables on the swimming national records pages should be formatted (e.g. in List of Gabonese records in swimming).

Currently the tables use Template:Swimmingrecordlisttop, Template:Swimmingrecords, and Template:End. However that has the following disadvantages:

• They are not editable in the visual editor, which I believe is especially important for articles like this where most the edits come from temporary or new accounts fixing updating the records
• They are more verbose (see this diff, where changing the tables to the current standard format added 11,000 bytes to one of these page)
• Captions don't work (see this report of this issue). It doesn't look like anything is going to be done to fix this. This means there is no obvious spot to put a citation to the World Aquatics pages which actually contain the records.
• Other accessibility features don't work, for example as far as I'm aware it's impossible to make these tables MOS:DTAB compliant.
• The formatting gets ugly in cases where records are tied. E.g. at List of Venezuelan records in swimming, where the men's 50 m record is tied between two performances, the event name is repeated twice rather than having a merged cell which is standard in results tables. A column with no title is then used for an "=" sign to denote the records are tied.

As far as I can tell, using the current formatting has no advantages other than being the current status quo. I suggest we move these tables to use standard formatting, which will fix all the issues above. IAWW (talk) 12:34, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Pinging @Montell 74 who's heavily involved in these pages. IAWW (talk) 12:34, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Hey @User:It is a wonderful world, as you are the most active editor on this project I took the liberty of tagging you here to request your feedback on help on the draft I recently started, which is Draft:Rita Hasselbach Assad. I am always in favor of a second opinion when creating new drafts and articles.

Any help would be greatly appreciated Haddad Maia fan (talk) 23:04, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Haddad Maia fan, I'll take a look at this as soon as possible. It's my top priority on wiki. It may take up to a week though because I am extremely busy in real life right now. IAWW (talk) 13:40, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Hey @User:It is a wonderful world, did you happen to have a moment to take a look at my draft? Haddad Maia fan (talk) 11:23, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Haddad Maia fan, I finally got a chance to take a look at it. Thanks for being so patient. I hate to say it, but I don't see this passing at Articles for Creation and becoming an actual article, because it doesn't cite enough sources to meet the general notability guidelines. I spent a good hour searching for sources, but I couldn't find anything major that would bring the article up to meet these guidelines. IAWW (talk) 12:07, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:List of diving facilities#Requested move 12 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 14:45, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

I have nominated Kevin O'Halloran for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria, or help improve the article. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regard to the article's featured status (see review instructions). Z1720 (talk) 17:03, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Is there consensus for the recent changes and page moves by FlocculentAltaria to expand and move swimming sidebar templates in Category:Swimming at the Summer Olympics sidebar templates? For example, {{Aquatics at the 2020 Summer Olympics}} was created when {{Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics}} already existed, and {{SwimmingAt2012SummerOlympics}} was expanded and moved to {{AquaticsAt2012SummerOlympics}}.

There is no article for "Aquatics at the 2024 Summer Olympics", which is newly linked to as the main topic for the {{Aquatics at the 2024 Summer Olympics}} sidebar. This omission violates WP:SIDEBAR, item 4.

At this time, the 2012 through 2024 templates are a big mess, but before I undid everything, I wanted to see if this was maybe part of a project that had consensus but was being poorly or incompletely implemented. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:50, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

There is no consensus. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 16:09, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

I'll make a few points:

• This Wikiproject is quite dead (I think I'm the only active editor wanting to work on swimming articles in a coordinated manner). The discussion would be better raised at WikiProject Olympics, which has a more active community and probably also more relevant.
• I agree with your reasoning @Jonesey95 that we should seek consensus one way or another before reverting to avoid wasted effort.
• My opinion is that yes, these should be split up as they are at the world championships articles, however instead of them being under "Aquatics", which isn't a category used in any sourcing as far as I'm aware for Olympics articles, I think Swimming, Marathon Swimming, Diving, and Artistic Swimming should be separated to use their own templates and have their own overview articles; this is the way the events are typically treated in the sources, and certainly the way they are treated by the International Olympic Committee themselves.
• A similar discussion has been had before, here, where @JoshMartini007 and Sportsfan didn't support breaking up Marathon Swimming and Swimming. Hence I think it's unlikely consensus will be found for these changes.

IAWW (talk) 18:45, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

the sidebar move should be reversed as there was no consensus for it. Frietjes (talk) 20:05, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

There is consensus here. Now, how to revert the changes to the swimming pages listed at Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:AquaticsAt2004SummerOlympics, Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:AquaticsAt2008SummerOlympics, and Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Aquatics_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics?

I have cleaned up some of the templates, linking to this discussion. I was disruptively reverted without an edit summary by Legamerprech at {{Aquatics at the 2028 Summer Olympics}}. That editor is welcome to contribute here. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:37, 25 July 2026 (UTC)

OK, I think I have cleaned up everything, but I may have missed a few. What a mess. Legamerprech and FlocculentAltaria, please respect consensus around these templates and around not splitting marathon swimming articles. Discuss here any significant changes that you would like to make, so that other editors do not have to clean up after your bold but misguided edits. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:56, 25 July 2026 (UTC)