Template talk:Current sport

message: I have protected this template against editing by non-admins.  The reason is that this template is being repeatedly vandalized, and it is currently on many articles related to the 2006 Winter Olympics. Johntex\talk 02:15, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have unprotected this template, as the risk for such vandalism has subsided now that the Olympics are over.  The template is not used on near as many articles. --Aude (talk | contribs) 23:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Protection February 2006

message: Well what do you guys think of adding the option of "small" like the protected templates have? In here I've played with it. I've also moved the image out in case of a protection so the images wont be over eachother. if small=yes the big thing disappears.  Chandlertalk 14:12, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idea for the template 

message: Saying "Information may change as the event progresses" seemed silly, since the score always changes.  I changed it to "Information will change as the event progresses", but that had an unnecessarily bald-faced air to it.  I finally settled on "Scoring and other results will change as the event progresses", which seems like a decent compromise. —Steve Summit (talk) 16:02, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have changed it back. The template is used more generally than just for games, and scores. It also diverges from the other  templates to have different text. -- Yellowdesk 19:31, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Information may change as the event progresses." 

message: So, seeing as lower down templates are being deleted, e.g. Current motor sport etc, I think we shouldn't have a football on the template page, but something more neutral and generic. The same goes for the future sport template. D.M.N. (talk) 20:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template should be changed 

message: In using the image parameter, I propose to have a set of images coded with an #switch statement to maintain some sort of consistency. Otherwise, for example, one tennis article may have a different image than another tennis article. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:22, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  A consistent set of images 

message: :Category:Current sports events has almost 600 articles listed. I was wondering if it might be possible to have :Category:Current American football events, :Category:Current basketball events, etc.? We could use the template to place them in the new categories based on what image is being used. --Pinkkeith (talk) 16:35, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: *The use of this template is completely beyond reasonable. Hundreds of sports teams and leagues that might have one or two edits a day, or week, are marked with this template. Tens of thousands of other articles have more edits than most of the articles marked with .  This is by way of introduction to my view that addition of  additional categorizations for a superfluous template is an exercise in un-needed subdivision. In general this template fails to  improve to the quality  of any article it is placed on, by failing to actually add specific information to the content of the article or its lede, or its citations--all of which are are more able to clearly state the nature of the article's recent updating (or lack thereof) than this generic template.  -- Yellowdesk (talk) 01:45, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Categories

message: Why don't use Parser Functions to determine the usage of image and text in this template? It can save more times for user to look back at the image. I can try to do it if someone agree. --Aleenf1 09:11, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parser Functions 

message: Should the wording be changed from "information may change" to "information will change?" I mean, an article about a current sports event necessarily will change, won't it? faithless (speak) 04:11, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change of wording?  

message: I've had another user protest the inclusion of this template at pages like 2012 Championship League and 2012 Masters (snooker) while the events are ongoing, on the basis that the template's documentation doesn't specify how many edits per day are needed before this template applies, and he doesn't feel their editing frequency, for match updates, qualifies (see edit summaries, and User talk:Armbrust#Template:Current sport, where Armbrust suggest that the template shouldn't be used except where there are 30+ edits per day). My perception is that articles like this, with their level of editing while the events are happening, are precisely what this template is for. Thirty changes per days seems like an excessively high bar to me; basically, this template is relevant when it is likely that a reader will see substantially different information on the same day, e.g. between morning and evening readings, because the event has been updated.
I think this relates strongly to, but does not entirely overlap, the guidelines thread immediately above.  The overall issue is that this template doesn't seem to have any criteria at all, internal to its documentation or externally in guidelines, for its use. As a result, it is an editwarring target. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 21:18, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What constitutes "chang&#91;ing&#93; rapidly"? 

message: Surely this should be "latest updates" or "most recent updates"? "Last" implies something far more finite and is therefore grammatically incorrect. Leaky caldron (talk) 09:32, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last updates?