Talk:Sports in Saskatchewan

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Here are some tasks you can do: Contents 1 to do 2 New Article 3 An Invite to join Saskatchewan WikiProject 4 Notable Saskatchewan people in Sport 5 Footnotes problem 6 Overlinking [edit] to do add Governance such as provincial government, prov gov. departments regarding sports and/or health, federal governments, organisations, funding, lotteries add Bowling improve golf section, notable SK golfers, notable golf courses improve all team sport sections. Add notable individual sport people ie notable SK auto race drivers Add notable horse owners, jockeys or trainers from SK, History of Saskatchewan mentions the French counts established Rolandrie Ranch and a gentleman lifestyle at Whitewood, SK Add motorcycle or snowmobile notables or events. expand water sports section add notable events/people expand wrestling section to perhaps overlap boxing, body building and or Kung Fu/Karate/etc sports of SK increase Canada Games article such as Blackstrap mountain. Sports ethics in SK drugs in sport if any such pertains to SK, cheating related areas to SK: sports law, sports medicine - , Physical Education now called Kinesiology, School of Physical Therapy and etc.... Paralympic Athletics See this link for more help Sport more information about various leagues and the changes in age levels or sports prowess amateur, professional....junior, senior, midget, bantams, professional, high school, semiprofessional leagues, B,C levels have all major sports of Saskatchewan been covered adequately? Can more minor sports be added to other? coaching/referee-ing/builders/sponsors facilities a bit of history about each sport in SK per section notable events of each sport/section, notable difficulties/achievements in start up of sport to professional level in SK. & etc - tried to add provincial information similar to Sports in Canada article, but provincial level not nationalSriMesh | talk 06:43, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Article

This a new article in response to the comments discussed as per the WikiProject Saskatchewan newsletter. Please extend a note to any folks you know who may have an interest in Sports and or Saskatchewan to expand this newly created outline which begins to introduce the visitor to the many and varied sport articles and sections already on Wikipedia about Sports in Saskatchewan. The sections need to be filled out somewhat as per the to do list, but it gives a starting place to join together the awesome content by many wiki editors.SriMesh | talk 06:51, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An Invite to join Saskatchewan WikiProject

[edit] Notable Saskatchewan people in Sport

Comments about expanding this section....

• Should the person just need to be added to the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame but their birth origin is elsewhere, so not a native Saskatchewaninian.
• Should they be native Saskatchewan's who make an athletic name for themselves elsewhere?
• The list has been started with native born Saskatchewan folk, who also contributed to Saskatchewan sports as team player, athlete, or builder.SriMesh | talk 07:06, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

I recommend grouping them together by sport. Canuckle 22:50, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Footnotes problem

Wikipedia is not a source, yet 14 footnotes lead to other Wikipedia articles. I suggest this be fixed, and I offer here two possible solutions. If the claims are controversial (which they don't appear to be), we need a footnote referring to a reliable source external to Wikipedia. If non-controversial, appropriate links to the articles in question (assuming those are properly sourced) should suffice. Biruitorul 04:01, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

I have not seen a wikipedia rule stating that wikipedia is not a source - could you please refer me to the page where this cannot be a footnote, please? If I have information from another wikipedia article that is useful to this article how do I honour the first wikipedia article? SriMesh | talk 02:16, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

There is actually a long-standing rule stating that Wikipedia articles should not be used as sources for other Wikipedia articles, it's normally in Wikipedia:Citing sources, but someone removed it without consensus a while back, a change which went unnoticed until now. It's going to be restored soon, the article is protected, but one of the protecting admins stated such in Citing Wikipedia articles. Dreadstar † 19:30, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

See WP:SPS. Anything on Wikipedia is being published by individual editors and should not be used as a reference. 17Drew 19:36, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Overlinking

I believe this article is way overlinked, the sheer volume of links is almost overwhelming - I can't even evaluate the wikilinkage to see if there are duplicates or other issues. Please read WP:MOS Over/under-linking best ratio, and address the article accordingly. Thanks! Dreadstar † 18:15, 15 August 2007 (UTC)