Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sports

message: 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 , but since I'm not a sports person, I'll leave the implementation for sports templates such as  to you all here.  talk 21:35, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a DNAU tag to this thread; feel free to remove it once you have finished implementation.  talk 20:49, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Implementation of consensus infobox changes for current seasons 

message: This is a list of all the basketball arenas for NCAA Division II arenas. Which arena would you like to see a Wikipedia page for that doesn't already have one? I've personally constructed two: Halenbeck Hall and O'Reilly Family Event Center, as well as the Arlin R. Horton Sports Center, an NCCAA Division II arena. Wjenkins96 (talk) 00:53, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Article for an NCAA Division II Basketball Arena 

message: Would appreciate more input concerning Major League Baseball season pages, as many changes are being proposed & implemented. GoodDay (talk) 02:13, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major League Baseball season pages 

message: Merger discussion here. A proposed merger of Pata (esports) and Porin Ässät. –   Poriman55     - Meddela mig! 19:23, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger discussion 

message: See/participate in discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Portland Men's Roller Derby. — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 06:33, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Portland Men's Roller Derby]] nominated at AfD

message: Anybody know how to fix up the Template:CFL team map 1995, for the moment I've hidden it from the 1995 CFL season page. GoodDay (talk) 00:30, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: "fix up" how? What's broken? Primefac (talk) 11:40, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The labels were all misaligned and the pog marks to represent the US-based South Division were appearing the same color as the North Division ones except for one. I reverted to before the last edit in September that apparently messed something up. It look fine now. oknazevad (talk) 11:49, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

text: I think you either get the choice of old name or new name, but I don't think both (in the same view) is appropriate. Primefac (talk) 11:40, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: That being the case, perhaps a split into two maps, one from before the re-name and one after (and perhaps even a third for the placeholder year) is needed. Though no teams have moved, a team changing its name is a big enough change to warrant a separate map, I'd say. oknazevad (talk) 11:50, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems a bit unnecessary since nothing else has changed. I've added in a #switch statement to trigger based off the page name. Primefac (talk) 12:23, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  1995 CFL team map 

message: Hi everyone! I don't really care about sports and don't know much about them, but what I DO care about is fighting vandalism on Wikipedia! I've been a recent changes patroller for several days and I've noticed that a lot of people edit sports articles to update statistics, like goals scored and stuff. I especially see a lot of people doing that for soccer (association football) players. I would like to learn how to verify those changes to make sure people are accurately reporting the new statistics rather than just typing in random numbers and hoping no one notices. Are there specific sites that y'all use to get this information? I would appreciate a little advice on how I can be more helpful in this area. Thanks! Gottagotospace (talk) 16:41, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Your best bet is to talk to the individual sport WikiProjects.  For instance, my sports-related activity is heavily on hockey, and the sites we use are www.hockeydb.com, www.hockey-reference.com and www.eliteprospects.com (the last mostly for juniors and European hockey).  With that, sports-reference.com has a whole family of reliable sites, including ones for baseball, soccer, football, basketball and collegiate football and basketball.  Some individual leagues also are good with their own stat sites.  ESPN maintains its own. With soccer being the world's most popular sport, naturally much of the traffic will be soccer-related.  That project is WP:FOOTY, and they can steer you towards the more reliable stat sites for their domestic leagues.   Ravenswing      17:55, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: My general hand-wavey response would be that if the stats are only changing by small values (+1/2 for appearances, reasonable increases for "points scored" etc) I would consider them to be acceptable; it's when values change drastically that I would start questioning. Yes, it does mean that some values might still be changed incorrectly without being caught, but that's why we have a lot of RC patrollers, and of course the folks who watch the pages are likely to catch things as well. Primefac (talk) 17:57, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Mm, but if Gottagotospace isn't knowledgeable enough to know the difference, how could they tell?  A gridiron football player scoring six points in a game, okay, he contributed.  A basketball player scores six points in a game, he had a turn off of the bench, or a pretty mediocre day if he was a starter.  A hockey player scoring six points in a game had an epic day that will show up in highlight reels.  A soccer player scoring six times in a game is an instant legend who broke or tied the record in almost every top domestic league in Europe.   Ravenswing      18:05, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the information! What about rugby? I know literally NOTHING about rugby except that Brits like it, the players get in huddles, there is a ball involved, and people get injured a lot. Gottagotospace (talk) 18:15, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Among other things, which rugby?  The WikiProject for rugby league is WP:RL.  The project for rugby union is WP:RU.  (Rugby league and union have slightly different rule sets.)   Ravenswing      00:33, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay so tl;dr, it's complicated, thank you :) Gottagotospace (talk) 00:46, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

text: That's fair, and why it's only a vague hand-wavey answer. Primefac (talk) 11:34, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent changes patroller who knows hardly anything about sports