Talk:Rock climbing

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To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests :
Requested articles (Sports)
Requested articles (Association football)
Requested articles (Association football women)
Requested articles (Motor sports)
Requested articles (Estonian sportspeople)
Assess : newly added and existing articles, maybe nominate some good B-class articles for GA; independently assess some as A-class, regardless of GA status.
Cleanup :
* Sport governing body (this should-be-major article is in a shameful state)
* Field hockey (History section needs sources and accurate information - very vague at the moment.)
* Standardize Category:American college sports infobox templates to use same font size and spacing.
* Sport in the United Kingdom - the Popularity section is incorrect and unsourced. Reliable data is required.
* Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show."
Expand : Professional sports (crucial article explaining the salaried undertaking of sports)
* Sport industry (currently a sub-stub)
Photo : for pages listed in Category:Wikipedia requested images of sports and games and sub-categories.
Stubs : work on articles in Category:Sports stubs
Update : List of world sports championships
Other :
- Translate the page of sport in each country from corresponding article in other language Wikipedia to English Wikipedia which was marked in red.
- Categorize: Gather all (major/olympic) sports to be part of this project
- RfCs: answer requests for comment

Am I in the minority of editors who would like to see more inline citations/sources?[edit]

I was rather surprised to see so many paragraphs lacking in-line citations to external, reliable, verifiable sources, given the broad nature of this topic. These would be very helpful to the reader (parent of keen climbers here, who is striving to learn more about the sport, starting, of course, with the Wikipedia page on rock climbing!)

I wonder if the paucity of references might be related to the number of folk editing this article tending to be first-time Wikipedians mainly interested in this one topic, who have not done much training in how to edit?

Sooo, herewith, the link to the excellent training modules here: [1]https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/training/editing-wikipedia

When I have time, I will add more references.

Dawnbazely (talk) 13:58, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]