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Welcome to the Rowing WikiProject!

Goals
  • Improve Wikipedia's coverage of rowing.
  • Create guidelines for articles about rowing.
  • Raise the rowing (sport) article to featured status.
Scope
  • The project covers all articles about rowing, including sport, watercraft, ocean rowing and the history of rowing, as well as articles on famous members of the rowing community

Contents

[edit] Participants and areas of interest

The project needs active members to remain operational. Please join up by adding:

*{{User|Your Username}} - Your area of interest.

Names should be listed in alphabetical order.

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Citations

Many of the rowing articles on wikipedia are lacking inline citations and references. It is wikipedia policy that all articles contain references, so that the information can be verified. Inline citations are not a policy, as so few articles have them, but they are necessary for an article to be raised to 'good' or 'featured' status.

Can all involved please make an effort to add citations to any article they have significantly contributed to, preferably inline. Otherwise, according to wikipedia policy, there is nothing to stop uncited information from being deleted.

You may wish to read or skim through the following policy pages:

And the following guidelines and essays:

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Rowing: edit · history · watch · refresh
  1. Recruit active membership
  2. Featured Articles
    1. Raise the rowing (sport) article to featured status.
      1. Put article through peer review
      2. Fix problems identified by peer review, see here
      3. Get article raised to 'good article status'
      4. Put through another round of peer review,see here
      5. Nominate for featured status
    2. Ditto for Henley Royal Regatta
    3. Ditto for The Boat Race
    4. Ditto for Steve Redgrave
  3. Wikifying
    1. Add {{WikiProject Rowing}}to the talk pages of all rowing related articles.
    2. Stubs
      1. Tag {{Rowing-stub}} onto all rowing stub articles so we can keep track of them.
      2. Expand all the stub articles as much as possible.
  4. Create a priority and assesment system
  5. Rowing Portal
    1. Once we get enough members it would be worth trying to make a rowing portal.
    2. Maintain said rowing portal

[edit] Categories

[edit] Templates

Most articles are also lacking the {{talkheader}} template on their talk pages, so it's useful to add that as well.

[edit] New or updated rowing articles

Please feel free to list your new (or updated) rowing-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a limit of 5 days for the creation of an article or the heavy expansion of it. Please remember to add {{persondata}} to the biographical articles you create. Also please remember to add {{WikiProject Rowing}} to the talk page of the article.

Please place newest articles on the top

Article Created On (by) Did You Know...
Atlanta Rowing Club June 7th, 2008 (Lemcke) ...that Atlanta Rowing Club is the host club for the Head of the Hooch Regatta, the second largest regatta in the United States.
Charles E. Courtney May 25, 2008 (09er) ... that the United States Congress adjourned so members could watch the single scull race on the Potomac River between Charles E. Courtney and Ned Hanlan in 1880?
University rowing (UK) - added list of university boat clubs 2nd April, 2008 Grunners (talk)
Biglin Brothers major update July 7, 2007 (09er) ... That in 1865 a riot broke out in Poughkeepsie, New York after the Biglin Brothers defeated a local crew for the four-oared rowing championship of America?
The National Schools Regatta May 31, 2007 (The Spith) ...that The National Schools Regatta was first raced in 1947 as the "Colts and Third Eights Regatta", when Desmond Hill, the master-in-charge of rowing at St Edward's School, invited the third VIIIs of Shrewsbury, Bedford and Radley to race against St Edwards in Godstow?
The Wingfield Sculls February 19, 2007 (jameselder100)
Ellis Ward February 19, 2007 (09er) ... that Ellis, along with his brothers Henry, Josh and Gilbert won the professional four-oared championship of America in 1865.

[edit] Article assessment

Rowing
articles		 Importance
None Total
Quality
Good article GA 1 1
B 22 22
Start 254 254
Stub 851 851
List 11 11
Assessed 1139 1139
Unassessed 6 6
Total 1145 1145

Any member of WikiProject Rowing may assess Rowing-related articles by following the guidelines below. If you aren't sure about an article, ask about it on the assessment page. The {{WikiProject Rowing}} template has a class= parameter which provide an article assessment rating for each article:

{{WikiProject Rowing |class=???}}

[edit] Recognized content

Featured articles

None

Featured lists

None

Good articles
Did You KnowDid you know?

[edit] Related projects