* 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
This is a test page for a possible re-design of WikiProject Rowing. Please click here for the real project page. 09er (talk) 16:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
AVOID emotional arguments, statements about editors of other nationalities, name calling, and anything that is not perceived as constructive, source-backed argument;
How can I contribute to this project How can I contribute to this project ?
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:
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.
... 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?
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: