A project was formed in 2006 to better organize information in articles related to running. It includes: track and field, trail running, road racing, marathoning, and ultramarathoning. This page and its subpages contain suggestions for enhancing such articles; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts on these topics. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to create, improve and organize articles relating to running. This includes but is not limited to the history of running as a competitive sport, as recreation, and as a basic means of bipedal locomotion. It includes: track and field, trail running, road racing, marathoning, and ultramarathoning.
As of March 2010, we have over 500 articles currently tagged as being within the scope of this project. As of August 2010, we have now identified 9,524 articles as relating to this project. In September 2010, we identified an additional 680 articles that need to be assessed in terms of qualitfy and importance.
Top = Core article or primary definition; central running topic/person or necessary for basic coverage of the topic (for example: sprint, long distance running)
High = Core daughter article or significant related topic/person, hard to write the article comprehensively and NPOV without this article, enjoys widespread notability and consensus (e.g., Barefoot running, Dipsea Race)
Mid = Daughter article or broad/basic definition, important for comprehensive coverage of the top issues, but not an integral definition (e.g., Jon Anderson (runner), Track Town, USA) For example, bio of runners that competed in the Olympics. Articles covering IAAF World Championship series are of at least mid importance.
Low = Non-core, the topic could be covered without this article (e.g., Walt Stack, Midnight Sun Run) Bio of runners who never competed in the Olympics.
Quality
Has attained FA
A-class or could attain with a bit of work
GA-class or could attain GA with a bit of work
B-equivalent, mostly cited and accurate, but has some issues, could be citations, OR, POV, or incomprehensive. Not too much work needed to bring to decent standard, but may still be a stub or start.
Some cleanup/work needed, below B-class, has some issues like lack of citations, OR, POV, incomprehensive. Sustained attention needed to bring to standard.
More work needed, multiple issues such as uncited, essay, POV, dubious accuracy or questionable notability. Lots of attention needed.
We have now shifted to a system where editors designate the importance and quality of each article using parameters on the {{Running project}} template on each article's talk page.
Assessment table
Photo taken during 2006 race. Grant Swamp Pass, 12,900ft (3,900m)The finish line of the 2008 Gobi March.
All articles within the scope of WikiProject Running have been classified by quality and importance, as summarized in the table below. Users can access a list of articles with a particular combination of quality and assessment ratings by clicking on the appropriate square in this table.
Popular pages lists top Running articles with the most frequent views. It is updated monthly.
It is expected that this rating and assessment scheme will require periodic and iterative maintenance, as new articles are created or identified, and existing articles are progressively improved (or, hopefully much rarer, demoted), requiring the status to be reassessed.
Of course, anyone is free to edit any of the articles they choose without regard to priority, however it is hoped that this will provide some basis for a more methodical approach to the longer-term overall improvement of content and coverage in the field.
Notice there is a proposed new notability standard for runners which can be found here. A vote is currently being conducted on the talk page to adopt this as an official guideline to replace WP:ATHLETE.
Articles for deletion
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