Wikipedia:WikiProject Swimming
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Welcome to WikiProject Swimming! This WikiProject is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to competitive swimming and other aquatic sports.
- Goals
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- To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of swimming and water sports.
- To improve Wikipedia's coverage of swimming and water sports by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
- To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to swimming and water sports in Wikipedia.
- Scope
- The project generally considers any article related to competitive swimming, long course swimming, short course swimming, open water swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming, and participants, coaches and governing organizations of those disciplines to be within the scope of the project.
Current work
[edit]This wikiproject is currently inactive. However I (It is a wonderful world) will keep track of the progress on keeping the event articles up to date here, so people can easily see what needs doing. If anyone wants to collaborate with me to work on these articles and/or rejuvenate this project, feel free to ping me! It's always fun working with others.
X = Competition not held on that year
C = Created
= Results are added and up to date
= Article and any notable event articles are somewhat complete but they need cleanup (normally sources need to be added)
= Article and any notable event articles are complete and don't need significant cleanup
= Good article
= Good topic (article and event articles are all good articles)
Competition | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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Olympic Games | X | X | ![]() |
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World Long Course Championships | ![]() |
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World Short Course Championships | ![]() |
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Pan Pacific Championships | X | X | X | X |
Commonwealth Games | ![]() |
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Asian Games | ![]() |
X | X | X |
European Long Course Championships | ![]() |
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European Short Course Championships | X | ![]() |
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African Championships | ![]() |
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African Games | X | ![]() |
X | X |
Oceania Championships | X | X | ![]() |
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US National Championships | ![]() |
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Chinese National Championships | ![]() |
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World University Games | X | X | X | ![]() |
World Junior Championships | ![]() |
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World Cup | ![]() |
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Open Water World Cup | ![]() |
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European Open Water Championships | X | X | X | ![]() |
World Para Championships | ![]() |
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Paralympics | X | X | ![]() |
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Departments
[edit]Assessment
[edit]Swimming articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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1 | 9 | 2 | 12 | |||
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1 | 12 | 17 | 46 | 5 | 81 | |
B | 3 | 21 | 47 | 82 | 24 | 177 | |
C | 13 | 43 | 138 | 348 | 153 | 695 | |
Start | 4 | 154 | 695 | 3,003 | 1,092 | 4,948 | |
Stub | 127 | 1,351 | 14,052 | 2 | 3,972 | 19,504 | |
List | 4 | 19 | 67 | 1,095 | 38 | 179 | 1,402 |
Category | 8,213 | 8,213 | |||||
Disambig | 7 | 7 | |||||
File | 107 | 107 | |||||
Project | 45 | 45 | |||||
Template | 2,008 | 2,008 | |||||
NA | 7 | 122 | 303 | 432 | |||
Other | 4 | 24 | 28 | ||||
Assessed | 25 | 378 | 2,333 | 18,754 | 10,747 | 5,425 | 37,662 |
Unassessed | 25 | 72 | 97 | ||||
Total | 25 | 378 | 2,333 | 18,779 | 10,747 | 5,497 | 37,759 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 144,865 | Ω = 5.71 |
The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's swimming articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WP Swimming}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.
Task forces and subpages
[edit]- Water polo work group (inactive)
- List of all subpages of this page
Category tree
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Featured content
[edit]At this time, there is currently one swimming featured topic, meaning it represents Wikipedia's best work in covering a subject comprehensively and with items of consistently good quality:
There are currently twelve swimming featured articles, meaning that they represent the best of Wikipedia:
- Neil Brooks
- Avery Brundage
- Peter Evans (swimmer)
- Mark Kerry
- Faith Leech
- Sandra Morgan
- Ian O'Brien
- Kevin O'Halloran
- Quietly Confident Quartet
- Ian Thorpe
- Mark Tonelli
- Bob Windle
There are also three featured lists:
- List of Olympic records in swimming
- List of Australian Olympic medallists in swimming
- List of Swimming World Swimmers of the Year
Helpful online references
[edit]- Australian Olympic Committee, Olympian Search (free online database of Australian Olympic athlete profiles)
- Matthew De George, Duels in the Pool: Swimming's Greatest Rivalries, Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland (2013). ISBN 978-0810891753. (portions available online for free preview)
- Matthew De George, Pooling Talent: Swimming's Greatest Teams, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland (2014). ISBN 978-1-4422-3701-8. (portions available online for free preview)
- FINA, Athletes Biographies (free online database of current notable international swimmers)
- FINA, HistoFINA Olympic and World Aquatics Championships medalists (free online PDF listing of all medalists)
- FINA, World and Olympic Swimming Records (free online PDF listing of current world records, broken out several different ways)
- GBRathletics.com, Commonwealth Games Medallists (free online Commonwealth Games database service, including medallists and times)
- Graham Groom, The Complete Book of the Commonwealth Games, Lulu Press, Raleigh, North Carolina (2013). (portions available online for free preview)
- International Swimming Hall of Fame, List of Honorees by Last Name (free online database of ISHOF honoree profiles)
- International Swimming Hall of Fame, List of Medalists, includes medalists for the Olympics (1896–2004), FINA World Championships (1973–2005), Pan Pacific Championships (1985–2002), Pan American Games (1951–2003), World University Games (1959–2005), Short Course World Championships (1993–2004). (freely archived from ISHOF original online PDF document)
- John P. Lohn, Historical Dictionary of Competitive Swimming, Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland (2010). ISBN 978-0810867758. (portions available online for free preview)
- John P. Lohn, The Most Memorable Moments in Olympic Swimming, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland (2014). ISBN 978-1442236998. (portions available online for free preview)
- David Maraniss, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Stirred the World, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York (2008). ISBN 978-1-4165-3407-5. (portions available online for free preview)
- National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving, NCAA, Indianapolis, Indiana (2014). (free online PDF copy of NCAA championship records and results through 2014)
- Newspapers.com, Keyword Search (online subscription archive for historical newspapers -- free memberships available through Wikipedia)
- The New York Times, Article Archive (online subscription newspaper article archive)
- New Zealand Olympic Committee, New Zealand Medals (free online database of New Zealand medalists at Olympics and Commonwealth Games)
- Steven Olderr, The Pan American Games: A Statistical History, 1951–1999, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina (2009). ISBN 978-0-7864-4336-9. (portions available online for free preview)
- Sports Illustrated, Vault (free online archive of 60+ years of American sports magazine articles)
- Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Athlete Directory (free online Olympics database service, including Olympic athlete profiles, team lists and event results; caution: please note that Sports-Reference incorrectly lists pre-1984 swimmers in preliminary heats of relays as medalists)
- SwimVortex, News articles covering recent events and results
- Swimming World Magazine, Swimming World News Archives (free online archive for last 20 years of swimming magazine articles)
- USA Swimming, National Team Roster (free online database of current U.S. national team member profiles)
- USA Swimming, World, American & U.S. Open Records (free online PDF listings of world, American and U.S. Open records, including record progressions)
Participants
[edit]Note: Please add your name to the bottom of the Active list if you would like to participate.
Active members
[edit]- Voltmetro
- Eileen Sandá (Creating, editing and expanding articles about swimmers, mainly Faroese and Danish)
- Gap9551 (General updates and improvements)
- Ianblair23
- matthewm192
Great Britain (making sure current articles are correct and up to date)
- SmartyPants22
- Phikia (Creating, editing and expanding Wikipedia namespaces related to water polo)
- SarahTHunter (Creating bios of Paralympic swimmers)
- IAmHz (Expanding women swimmer biographies, mainly U.S. and Mexico in English and Spanish)
- It is a wonderful world (Lots of swimming edits!)
Article alerts
[edit]Categories for discussion
- 06 Jun 2025 – Category:Burkinabé male swimmers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Hassan697 (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jun 2025 – Category:Burkinabé freestyle swimmers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Hassan697 (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jun 2025 – Category:Burkinabé swimmers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Hassan697 (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jun 2025 – Category:Burkinabé male freestyle swimmers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Hassan697 (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jun 2025 – Category:Burkinabé female swimmers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Hassan697 (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jun 2025 – Category:Burkinabé female freestyle swimmers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Hassan697 (t · c); see discussion
Featured list candidates
- 02 Jun 2025 – Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by It is a wonderful world (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 07 Apr 2025 – Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon 10 kilometre (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by It is a wonderful world (t · c); start discussion
- 23 Mar 2025 – Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by It is a wonderful world (t · c); start discussion
- 18 Feb 2025 – Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by It is a wonderful world (t · c); start discussion
- 11 Jan 2025 – Sultan Kigab (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by FuzzyMagma (t · c); start discussion
- 02 Jun 2025 – Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by It is a wonderful world (t · c) was promoted by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (t · c), see discussion
- 31 May 2025 – Joan Harrison (swimmer) (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by It is a wonderful world (t · c) was not promoted by Editør (t · c), see discussion
Articles for creation
- 16 May 2025 – Draft:Penang Chinese Swimming Club (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 161.142.158.177 (t · c)
- 15 May 2025 – Draft:Davide Belletti (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by M pascal (t · c)
WikiProject Swimming templates
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[edit]Userbox
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