Welcome to WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts. This is a Wikiproject formed to encourage a community of cohesive editing for Mixed martial arts articles. If you wish to join us, please add your name to the list on the participants page and please say hello on the talk page. Guidelines for creating and formatting MMA articles are below.
This WikiProject aims to describe a template for new articles about Mixed martial artists, unify currently existing articles and improve the overall quality of mixed martial arts related pages.
Goals
The goal of this project is to provide a unified structure, a toolkit of templates and a central discussion area for the creation and improvement of articles relating to Mixed Martial Arts; the ultimate goal being for Wikipedia to contain an authoritative set of articles of Good or Featured quality relating to all significant aspects of MMA and to contain an article for all fighters that are notable.
Notability of fighters is one of the biggest issues for the project. WP:MMANOT is a summary of what many of the experienced users for the project believe to be notable organisations and the definition of a notable fighter. Should a fighter not fulfil this criteria, it is unlikely that they warrant an article on Wikipedia.
Discussion is always welcome at the MMA notability page, linked above (or WT:MMANOT for the discussion page), as we attempt to establish a wider consensus for who or what is notable.
In addition to the below-mentioned {{MMAstatsbox}} and {{Championshiptitle}} template group, the following templates are suggested for use on MMA articles.
Barnstar
Please show another productive editor some love! To add, place: {{Template:MMA Barnstar
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on their talkpage.
Template:MMA Barnstar
The MMA Barnstar
I, {{{yourname}}}, hereby award [[User:{{{theirname}}}|{{{theirname}}}]] the The MMA Barnstar for their valued contributions to WikiProject MMA.
Please use {{mixedmartialart-bio-stub}} instead of {{stub}}, as this will create an appropriate categorization and banner that will direct editors to this project.
Please use {{mixedmartialart-stub}} instead of {{stub}}, as this will create an appropriate categorization and banner that will direct editors to this project.
Please add {{WikiProject Mixed martial arts}} to the top of talk pages of MMA articles, to help direct new editors to the project. Using {{subst:to do}} underneath that on talk pages will create an editable to do list as we have at the top of this page, which you can leave notes for yourself or other editors in. By default if no article class is specified, it will automatically be placed in Category:Unassessed mixed martial arts articles.
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The record column (shown above) should be added to the record table for clarity. As we get many unregistered users updating fight records, many of them neglect to update the record box numbers, which creates errors. By including the record column, these errors are ironed out and readers know the actual record of the specific fighter.
Never add future bouts. The purpose of the record table is to provide a quick account of a fighter's past career, not to speculate about his/her future. Upcoming bouts that have been officially announced can only be mentioned within the body text at the end of the Mixed martial arts career section, provided that they are notable (covered by reliable third-party sources.)
In the column Results, only use "Win", "Loss", "Draw" or "NC".
In the column Record, uses dashes (–), not hyphens (-), to separate wins, losses and draws.
In the column Opponent, do not add flag icons before the name of the opponent. Per MOS:ICON, the consensus in Wikipedia is that flag icons should not be used to emphasize nationality without good reason. Flag icons for sportspeople should only be used in a sporting sense, that is, only when they are representing a national squad/team or for representative nationality in a competition, not legal nationality. There is no international sport governing body in MMA and MMA events are mainly handled by individual promotions. As such, MMA fighters do not represent their countries in a sporting sense, so flag icons do not serve an encyclopedic purpose. Flag icons should not be added only because they look good, because aesthetics are in the eye of the beholder: one reader's harmless decoration may be another reader's distraction
In the column Method, per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters), do not capitalize the text within parentheses. For example, use "TKO (corner stoppage)" instead of "TKO (Corner Stoppage)"
In the column Method, do not wikify the finishing method. That should be done within the body text only.
In the column Event, if an event has its own article in Wikipedia, use the name of the article and do not add extra text or stylization. For example, use [[UFC 60]] instead of [[UFC 60|UFC 60: Hughes vs. Gracie]], use [[Dream 11]] instead of [[Dream 11|DREAM.11 Featherweight Grand Prix 2009 Final]].
In the column Event, do not use hyphens or dashes when referring to the subtitle of an event, for example, don't use "Deep – Gladiator", use instead normal English punctuation, "Deep: Gladiator". In the same way, make sure that events have not redundant subtitles, for example, do not use "XFS 2: Xtreme Fight Series 2", just leave "Xtreme Fight Series 2" or "XFS 2".
In the column Event, only wikify events that have an article at Wikipedia, not organizations. Organizations should only be wikified once within the body text of the article.
In the column Location, do not add flag icons as they are redundant since the country must be mentioned in the text and their usage in such conditions is against Wikipedia:Manual of Style (icons), they increase server load and can be annoying for people with slow connections or text-based browsers.
In the column Location, try to include, whenever possible, city and country according to how they are names in their respective articles in Wikipedia. For example, "Las Vegas, Nevada, United States" or "Tokyo, Japan". In some countries, like the U.S., the name of the cities may be the same in different local regions, such as Hollywood, Florida and Hollywood, Alabama, so, in order to avoid confusion, include the full city name as it is titled in its Wikipedia article. To maintain a similar format for all cities in the location column, try to include the similar existing redirects for cities that do not include the local region after the city name in their Wikipedia articles. For example, use the redirect Osaka, Osaka instead of Osaka.
The column Notes is meant to be used for information related to the bout, including but not limited to special rules, awards earned, failure to make weight and similar. Do not use it to put irrelevant text such as "MMA Debut", "UFC debut", "Cut from the UFC" or similar text not directly related to the bout.
See also
The "See also" section should include at least a reference to theList of male mixed martial artists or List of female mixed martial artists.
The article should be thoroughly referenced. The list of references can be automatically included in the References section by including a {{footnotes}} tag.
The promotions profile page on the fighter. See for example the UFC's, DREAM's, and EliteXC's list of fighters.
Categories
Please add categories as appropriate — there are generally categories for the sports and martial arts that fighters may have practiced, and please always select the correct nationality from Category:Mixed martial artists by nationality.
*adding a link to a category adds the article to the category - this page does not belong in that category!
Other categories to be included are:
[[Category:Insert year births|Insert year births]]
[[Category:Living people|Insert name]]
[[Category:insert country mixed martial artists|insert name]]
[[Category:Mixed martial artists from (insert US State)]]
