Welcome to WikiProject Swimming! This WikiProject is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to competitive swimming and other aquatic sports.
Goals
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.
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.
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:
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)
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)
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)