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Notable versus Non-notable
As the project creator, I wanted to start off to clarify notability for players and other subjects. I've given each a seperate header below, please discuss: BrianZ(talk) 13:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Players
- I consider anyone in the Volleyball Hall of Fame notable. The article for the Hall of Fame has a lot of red links that can be fixed with this project. - Anyone who has ever medaled on more than one Olympic team and gone on to compete or coach the sport. This would rule out the guys that play in the Olympics, medal with one team and never play the sport competitively again. - Top money makers on the AVP Tour should be added as well to start. Once these players are more thorough, we can add the lower rank guys and girls. - International players that are popular in their countries can be added/translated too. This is a main reason for the project. There are alot of articles for players in foreign countries that we can translate to English but I only know one language. - I do not consider high school phenoms notable and should not be added until at least their senior year of college or when they play for the national team. BrianZ(talk) 13:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Subjects
Notable volleyball subjects include all world leagues and professional tours. Any amateur leagues or tournaments should not be included, i.e. Church leagues, Joe Shmoes USAV club team, etc. Variations on the sport are also notable
I do have a question for anyone reading. Do you feel we should have articles for rulebooks? I don't think so but I'm researching other sports projects to see what they have. BrianZ(talk) 13:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
College Coaches
I'm currently involved in a dispute over notability and could use some feedback. Vera Shaver (volleyball coach) is the page in question, and it is a part of Malone College Athletics. One Wikipedia editor believes this article should be "speedy deleted" because of notability. My stance is that she was a college coach and deserves at least a stub to match the other coaches of the program, if only to prevent redlining in coaches Navbox and team records. Naturally, this article will likely be expanded as time goes on. Opinions?--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:31, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
My other question: why just this one coach? There is a Navbox at the bottom of the page, and you can find other coaches that were only there one year. Why was this coach singled out for deletion? And if several of the other coaches are deleted, then we would have an incomplete information on this particular volleyball program. Plus, as time goes on, we may find that these coaches have moved on to other coaching positions at other colleges and the articles can be further built.
It's all just a part of being complete and thorough.--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:37, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the confidence in the delay. That will give some time for the Malone College sports information department to forward information and for other data to be compiled. This will prevent having to re-make pages and we can still have a complete "package" of pages for coaches.--Paul McDonald (talk) 20:48, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Questions To Ask A Volleyball Coach Video
Userbox
I propose this userbox:
DAB repair
Just a heads up to anyone who is in the business of creating a lot of articles for this project - try not to link to [[World League]] as it is nothing more than a DAB page. Instead, make the link point to Volleyball World League instead. I don't mind fixing the DAB links, but its so easily avoided. Cheers, PaddyM 16:34, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, that was me PaddyM, I'll do my very best to fix DAB links in the future. Thanks for the heads up. :) BrianZ(talk) 20:26, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Can i Join the project
i wanna help you guy to improve the volleyball articles and i made FIVB World League 2007 and 8 template
- FIVB World League
- Brazil Volleyball Squad 1984 Summer Olympics
- Brazil Volleyball Squad 1992 Summer Olympics
- Brazil Volleyball Squad 2004 Summer Olympics
- Brazil Squad 2002 FIVB Men's World Championship
- Brazil Squad 2006 FIVB Men's World Championship
- Brazil Squad 2006 Volleyball World League
- Brazil Squad 2007 Volleyball World League
- Brazil Squad 2003 Pan American Games
Wael.Mogherbi 00:22, 15 July 2007 (GMT)
Suggestion
we should make an infobox for the players contain all there biography information
so i suggest the next template
This sounds like a great idea, but I have a few questions. What kind of players are we talking about- olympic, famous,historical, or just any players..? And would we just allow anyone to contribute? How would we know when to delete their information? Or would we delete it at all? Kds57 (talk) 18:09, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Questions about articles
It would be good if this project could figure out some good standardizations between people and leagues and subjects so that coverage could be more balanced. I just made the Dax Holdren article, and I'm not sure what conventions to use to improve it further.
Also, in an unrelated question, does the beach volleyball world tour have an article on here anywhere? I wanted to link to it in regards to Holdren's past participation, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. matt91486 23:40, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
VBC Galina
I wonder if you guys could take a look at VBC Galina - newly created, I just saved it from a speedy deletion and sort of managed to assert notability. It still needs a lot of work, and I've no expertise at all in that area. Thanks -- alex.muller (talk o edits) 20:32, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
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Project still active?
If anyone on this project is still active, with the Olympics going on now it would be a great time to create some articles and improve some others because media sources will be especially easily obtained. This would most impact articles that can be found at Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but it would be great to get some articles on older players created as well. I'm up for helping if anyone wants to work on some bigger projects as well. matt91486 (talk) 17:33, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
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Are there enough articles on this subject to justify an Outline of volleyball?
Here's a discussion about subject development you might find interesting.
The Transhumanist 00:05, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
P.S.: See Wikipedia's collection of outlines at WP:OOK.
GAN backlog reduction - Sports and recreation
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Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons
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{{vb start}} & {{vb end}}
Hi folks, the templates {{vb start}} & {{vb end}} which are used to nest and restrict the width of the footer navboxes in articles were originally derived from the equivalent templates {{fb start}} & {{fb end}} used in football articles. The folks over at the football project have bitten the bullet and converted over their templates to be full width and to not require the use of these templates. You can see the discussion on this here. They are in the process of removing the many usages of the templates at the moment. Some of your project articles use the football templates, these could be changed to use the volleyball templates, but it would be good for consistency for your project to follow the lead of the football people and eliminate the use of these templates. Any comments? Keith D (talk) 23:40, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
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Template:Squad maintenance
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Cleanup on new articles
User Captain Spaceman have created Volleyball related articles that needs a cleanup:Special:Contributions/Captain_Spaceman. Bib (talk) 22:53, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
New template Template:Student athlete
Feel free to help fill in Template:Student athlete by adding new articles or creating articles for redlinks.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:55, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Your opinions and advice
A recently discussion Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Women's Sport. Your opinions and your advice are welcome. --Geneviève (talk) 22:57, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Inclusion/transclusion of Template:Volleyball
Hello there.
While editing the volleyball pages of the 2008 Summer Olympics, I noticed that the template Template:Volleyball was included in virtually every page, despite that the pages were not linked to from the template. I assumed this was a copy-paste mistake, so I started removing it. In my opinion, templates should only be included in pages that the template links to, however there might be another concensus here. Is there such a concensus?
After removing the template from some 20-30 messages articles, I got a notice message from Mohsen1248, questioning my removal of the template, and threatening to keep re-adding it if I keep removing it.
Before this blows into a full-scale edit war, I'd like to start a discussion on this issue here (on where the template should be included, not on edit-warring). I hope this is the right place for the discussion.
I have copy-pasted the discussion between me and Mohsen1248 below (from my talkpage).
Cheers.
HandsomeFella (talk) 16:38, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Btw, I think the template should be named Template:International volleyball.
Please stop removing Template:volleyball from individual page. it's common in wikipedia. the same situation in Handball, Basketball, Football, see 2010 FIFA World Cup, 2010 FIBA World Championship and etc. I will revert your edits. Mohsen1248 (talk) 14:49, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- This minor difference of opinion seems to have got heated really quickly! A bit of relaxation is needed. In my opinion, the guidelines at WP:NAVBOX are quite good ones. Specifically: "The articles should refer to each other, to a reasonable extent." The links on Template:Volleyball do not get reasonably referred to in 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix, for example (as a matter of fact, of the 35 links present in that template, only one article - FIVB World Grand Prix - is linked in the article at the moment). It is not foreseeable that more than two or three of these topics will ever be linked.
- A more satisfactory solution would be to create a new template based upon the articles in Category:2011 in volleyball - it's a lot more likely that someone reading an article about a specific year's event will want to know what else happened that year, rather than find general information on completely different competitions. SFB 18:34, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Volleyball will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in volleyball. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:13, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Template:Volleyball kit errors
Avignon Volley-Ball is pointing to the missing file File:Kit_body_FFFFFF.png and after a little bit of investigating, I noticed that the dead link is caused by the Volleyball kit template generating links to images which do not exist.
I reckon that the template should be changed so that it clearly throws an error if the images don't exist (and possibly create a link to upload an image for that kit colour).
Kind regards, Matt (talk) 03:20, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
RfC on the use of flag icons for sportspeople
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Requested move at Talk:Vak?fBank Türk Telekom
Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Vak?fBank Türk Telekom regarding the page "Vak?fBank Türk Telekom." Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, Tyrol5 [Talk] 02:02, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Portal:Sports is up for featured portal consideration
This is a courtesy message to inform the members of this project that I have nominated Portal:Sports for featured portal status. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Sports. The featured portal criteria are at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria. Please feel free to weigh in. Sven Manguard Wha? 18:40, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2013 Girls' School European Volleyball Championship Cup
All input from project members (and non-members) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2013 Girls' School European Volleyball Championship Cup is welcome. I nominated these articles based on what I noticed and could check, but I'm no volleyball expert. Fram (talk) 08:58, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
File deletions
We strongly support free files, all non-free images should be delete. Osplace 23:53, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
- file:Thailand Volleyball Association logo.png currently has a fair-use rationale attached, if you believe all non-free images should be deleted, you'll need to nominate it for deletion at WP:FFD -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 07:55, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
File:?JapanVolleyballlogo.jpg
File:?JapanVolleyballlogo.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 07:17, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
AustraliaVolleyballlogo.jpg
file:AustraliaVolleyballlogo.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 07:20, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
ThailandVolleyballlogo.jpg
image:ThailandVolleyballlogo.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 07:23, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
VietnamVolleyballlogo1.jpg
File:VietnamVolleyballlogo1.jpg (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 07:29, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
AustraliaVolleyballlogo.png
Image:AustraliaVolleyballlogo.png has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 07:39, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
VietnamVolleyballlogo.png
File:VietnamVolleyballlogo.png (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 07:51, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
Notability guide for volleyball
Since there is not a notability guide exclusively for volleyball under the Wikipedia:Notability (sports), I am proposing a draft here, that we should discuss. Feel free to give your own ideas. Please be open and bold when entering the discussion. Extensive participation is encouraged. Osplace 17:05, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Professional and college players
How are domestic volleyball leagues shown on TV? How many have most of their matches shown on free TV? Basic cable? Premium cable, etc? How about U.S. NCAA volleyball players? How about competitive national volleyball teams that can't quite win a medal?
The reason I'm asking this is if a volleyball league has most of its games aired on free TV, that means there's a large enough following for it; therefore, its players must be more notable than say, leagues showing on cable or not at all. -HTD 05:15, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
Individual award winners
One of the things that all Volleyball competitions have are Individual player awards, maybe players that have won numerous awards in mayor competitions should be included in the list, an example is Lise Van Hecke. --ShadowMkf Talk 05:14, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
National team participants
The computation of the FIVB World Rankings it seems that their most important tournaments are Olympics, Senior World Championships and World Cup (all three have the same weight), followed by World League and World Grand Prix. I can't find how continental championships get in the mix. Since we have this information, the lowest number of points a team can get from the "Tier I" tournaments is 20 (except for the 5 points for the World Cup laggards). I'd say winning "20" points in the rankings is a good idea for a minimum for being notable, if you guys are going into the "achievement" route. This eliminates the regional championships and games. With 20 ranking points as the minimum, we'd get:
- All teams in the World Championship
- All teams in the Olympics
- Top 8 teams in the World Cup
- Top 6 teams in the World League and World Grand Prix
- Top 3 teams in the continental championships
- None for everything else (regional and continental games, regional championships, qualifying for the world championship, Olympics and continental championships)
I dunno if you guys can accept Top 10 teams in the junior and youth championship. -HTD 15:14, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Spelthorne Volleyball Club
Hello, volleyball enthusiasts! I was trying to review the above article at Afc. It obviously needs some reliable sources, but I can't find anything about volleyball at WP:Notability (sports), and I wanted to add a comment about that. Can someone here give an opinion? --Anne Delong (talk) 17:01, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Nikolina Kovacic
Dear volleyball experts: This stale Afc draft is about to be deleted unless someone improves it. Is this a notable player? --Anne Delong (talk) 20:41, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Klonarda Nezaj
Dear volleyball experts: This article was created in Afc, but never submitted to be added to the encyclopedia. Is this a notable player, and should the article be saved from deletion as a stale draft? --Anne Delong (talk) 04:34, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
A discussion at WP:ANI that might be of interest
There is a discussion at WP:ANI, specifically this section, that may be of interest to project members. -- Atama? 19:46, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Some drafts to sort out
Could someone please advise on these:
- User:UAAP 77
- User:NCAA 90 (this editor also edits UAAP 77)
- User:Season 90/NCAA Season 90
- User:NCAA Season 91 (seems to be about basketball)
- Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/UAAP 77/Premiere Volleyball League
- Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Premiere Volleyball League
Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:34, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Carlos Moreno
Hello, volleyball experts. This old AfC submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable player, or should the page be let go? --Anne Delong (talk) 11:51, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
2014 FIVB Women's World Championship squads
Hello! I would like to help editing the (not yet existent) article 2014 FIVB Women's World Championship squads but I don't really know how to work with the template. If someone else wishes to help with this, please leave a message.Or somebody more experienced could actually do the whole article based on http://italy2014.fivb.org/en/competition/teams The competition has already started and it's a pity not to have the squads article up. Thanks! Cristixav (talk) 10:34, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Request for Comment
There is a Request for Comment about "Chronological Summaries of the Olympics" and you're invited! Becky Sayles (talk) 07:39, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Peru flag
Hi, I was recently editing this article and noticed that the Peru flag is inconsistent. The use of the VBW template shows the flag without the middle band. However using a different template on the page gives the flag with the band. I think it should be consistent throughout. What are your thoughts on this problem? Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 04:30, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
WikiProject X is live!
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Harej (talk) 16:58, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Recent changes to the graphics for Template: Medal
There is a template talk page discussion regarding the graphics used for medalists in infobox medals tables occurring at Template talk:Medal#?Changing from gold/silver/bronze to 1/2/3. As this discussion is within the scope of WP:Volleyball, you are invited to make your comments on the recent graphics changes there. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:56, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
NOTICE: Persondata has been officially deprecated
Persondata has been deprecated and the template and input data are subject to removal from all bio articles in the near future. For those editors who entered accurate data into the persondata templates of volleyball players and other bio subjects, you are advised to manually transfer that data to Wikidata before the impending mass deletion occurs in order to preserve accurate data. Here are three examples of Wikidata for notable swimmers: Ryan Lochte, Mary Wayte and Dara Torres. If you have any more questions about the persondata removal, Wikidata, etc., please ping me. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:03, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Players layout
We have a problem. Since User:DariaPolonia have been working in many many articles with different layout that the one we have been using, we need to talk about it. The layout should be discussed here and the result must be a section in the main WikiProject Volleyball page. I would like that User:DariaPolonia explain why she thinks that we should use the one shown here: Grzegorz Kosok. The other version is one like this: Brenda Castillo. I will soon comeback working here. Please start talking about it. Osplace 20:55, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Is not just about flags. The flag on Rabita Baku in Castillo's article is wrong. In the club section, the flag is displayed. If a casual reader actually reads the article, will notice that when mentioned, Rabita Baku is identified as an "Azerbajani or Azeri Club". This way, there is no need to add IOC codes. But I would like to recall the fix made to some articles like Jaqueline Carvalho. This is how the article looked like, and here is shown how the article was fixed. There, you have in both version the violation of WP:INFOBOXFLAG, but in the fix there is also WP:BOLDITIS. The correct use of bold is explained in the policy MOS:BOLD.
This is important: User User:DariaPolonia also changed Wikiproject Volleyball layout in Awards and replace it with Sporting achievements. We should just use one layout in all volleyball articles if you all agree the way is everything organized in his way is an improvement, then we all should also commit to change our previous articles. This is another example of missconception of our newbie. DariaPolonia fails using WP:OPENPARAGRAPH. Four lines, just one sentence? The second is using the clubs table, this impacts in the article size, between text. All text should be first, then tables and schemes, including the Bachelor Polonia Restituta decoration. This should be treated like this: first text talking about this, when he received this and the proper reference. Then you should add this ribbon later on with his personal achievements.
We all should concern about when are we going to get a Wikipedia:Featured articles? We are not in this way acting like we are this days. We should organize ourself, work with the same goal: All volleyball articles should be promoted to FA. Please take a look to Sandy Koufax and Damon Hill, both of them are FA. Do you know how many FA articles are FA? None, not a single one. And we are not probably getting anyone any time soon. We should strive to take the same direction. If we split, doing whatever I thing it should be better, we will just continue harming WP. We are not even compeling to follow MOS:LAYOUT. Osplace 02:31, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
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