Wikipedia:WikiProject Bodybuilding

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Title

WikiProject on Bodybuilding

Scope

The purpose of this project is twofold.
1. To greatly improve the quality of the existing Wikipedia articles pertaining to bodybuilding (especially the bio pages of notable bodybuilders)
2. To complete the Category:Bodybuilding so it encompasses all notable subjects within the bodybuilding realm. See Goals below for specific details

Parentage

WikiProject Sports

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Participants

Category:WikiProject Bodybuilding participants

User:GIen (well obviously!)
User:Fbb_fan - primarily focused on articles relating to female bodybuilders
Skookum1 - former BC/WA/OR/AB muscle photog, now "seriously into training" (better late than never...i.e. at 51...)
Dan100 (Talk) - primary areas of interest are better representation of female bodybuilders (although Fbb_fan has been doing a fantastic job on this!) and training articles
Riko - I'll do what I can to improve any article
Mipchunk - I can add little things here and there. I must admit my knowledge lies more in the realm of weight training (for athletic purposes) than in bodybuilding, but I'll do whatever I can to help.
Supplements Able to add information on a number of topics related to Bodybuilding.
Yankees76 I have limited time right now, however I can help with any subject related to the sport - from athletes and personalities to training, supplements, and nutrition - ask me if you need something.
Brad T. Cordeiro Big fan of scientific studies and journals, hope to add citations to unsourced information.
Frank Pena Interested in adding bio information, pictures, and contest history for male bodybuilders, pro and amateur alike. I am also interested in improving important contest articles.
DXRAW I'll do what I can to improve any article.
xCentaur I'm in
Quadzilla99 Giddyup.
Hesir I'm a fighter and not a bodybuilder, but I know weightlifting and supplements, so I can help out there.
Liface
Bodybuildinguk
Ecoleetage Glad to be of service!
Portillo
Maxim Stoyalov
Unak78 Like Hesir, I'm a martial artist and not a bodybuilder. I hope to be of help.
User:Niteshift36
YifatAmichay I love fitness since I was young, would love to help in any Way I can
Careless Torque
DENAMAX (talk · contribs) Maxim Stoyalov
MarvDj (talk · contribs) I am doing bb myself

Structure

TBD

Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

Goals

The goals of this project are twofold.

1. To greatly improve the quality of the existing wikipedia articles pertaining to bodybuilding (especially the bio pages of notable bodybuilders). As it stands these articles for the most part need attention as many are:

a) unreferenced

b) barely or completely uncategorized (for example I recently created the category Category:Professional bodybuilders as a sub category of Category:Bodybuilders. Not only that but I personally have created a tonne of Category:Bodybuilders subcategories according to the subject's geographical location.

c) pages which contain little information are not stubbed

d) almost every bio page has no image, or, even worse uses a copyrighted image from a magazine which is not being used correctly under the fair use doctrine. These images need to be replaced with a legitimate image (ideally), or removed at this time

e) Misformatted. The articles do not follow the guidelines of WP:MOS. Small things like External Links instead of External links, lists of titles or shows that use the <br/> code to insert each line instead of a * bullet point format.

f) Ensure consistency. Currently the bio pages use completely different styles and terminology. Some will say Bodybuilding titles, others Titles won, Bodybuilding career etc. One template needs to be decided on and used throughout.

g) Complete the List of professional bodybuilders - currently Category:Professional bodybuilders is a good place to start as I tried to be thorough when categorising this from the many geographical bodybuilder categories.

h) Finally we need to build them so they are Wikipedia:Featured article level. Our goal should to promptly built at least one bodybuilding article to featured article status (and no the Arnold article does not count!)

2. To complete the Category:Bodybuilding by writing new articles so the category encompasses all notable subjects within the bodybuilding realm. Scores of IFBB pro articles are missing, too many Red links when listing notable shows, and even the articles regarding notable supplements and/or supplement companies. As Jimbo says Let's build this encyclopedia - so let's Be bold and do it!

Projects

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Tasks

Reference concerned about number of completely unreferenced articles
Categorize - Bio articles are especially bad (or at least were - awesome work fixing the categorization of the Category:Professional bodybuilders articles (I went to do this today and it was done!) - also we should ensure the geographic bodybuilder subcategories are listed
Stubbing - {{Bodybuilding-stub}} is now official - so pages which contain little information need this added
Copyrighted images almost every bio page has no image, or, even worse uses a copyrighted image from a magazine which is not being used correctly under the fair use doctrine. These images need to be replaced with a legitimate image (ideally), or removed at this time
Formatting The articles do not follow the guidelines of WP:MOS. Small things like External Links instead of External links, lists of titles or shows that use the <br/> code to insert each line instead of a * bullet point format.
Consistency Currently the bio pages use completely different styles and terminology. Some will say Bodybuilding titles, others Titles won, Bodybuilding career etc. One template needs to be decided on and used throughout.
Complete List of professional bodybuilders - currently Category:Professional bodybuilders is a good place to start as I tried to be thorough when categorising this from the many geographical bodybuilder categories.
Expand We need to build articles so they are Wikipedia:Featured article level. Our goal should to promptly built at least one bodybuilding article to featured article status (and no the Arnold article does not count!)
New articles To complete the Category:Bodybuilding by writing new articles so the category encompasses all notable subjects within the bodybuilding realm. Scores of IFBB pro and amateur articles are missing, too many Red links when listing notable shows, and even the articles regarding notable supplements and/or supplement companies.

Adopt an article

For an extensive list of articles pertaining to WP:WB see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Bodybuilding/Articles

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

Example article: User:Example

General strategy and discussion forums

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bodybuilding

Other subpages

Wikipedia:WikiProject Bodybuilding/Articles

Templates

Infoboxes

Note:Please feel free to edit any of these templates - they are by no means completed

{{Infobox bodybuilder}}

For an example of this template see Lee Haney

{{WP:WB invite}}

Please accept this invite to join the new WikiProject Bodybuilding, a WikiProject dedicated to improving bodybuilding related articles. Simply click here to accept! ~~~~

{{WikiProject Bodybuilding Member}}

This user is a member of WikiProject Bodybuilding, a WikiProject which aims to expand coverage of bodybuilding related articles on Wikipedia. You are more than welcome to join us!.

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Bodybuilding, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.BodybuildingWikipedia:WikiProject BodybuildingTemplate:WikiProject BodybuildingBodybuilding articles

Lists

Articles

Wikipedia articles on Bodybuilding

For an extensive list of articles pertaining to WP:WB see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Bodybuilding/Articles

Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Bodybuilding

New Wikipedia articles related to Bodybuilding

Please feel free to list your new Bodybuilding-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. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Did you know?

Victor DelCampo Did You Know? for 7 June, 2008. Ecoleetage (talk) 20:24, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Erik Fankhouser Did You Know? for 15 June, 2008.
Colt Wynn Did You Know? for 20 June, 2008. Ecoleetage (talk) 16:43, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Brandon Curry Did You Know? for 23 September, 2008. Ecoleetage (talk) 03:34, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Afghan Muscles Did You Know? for 10 December, 2008. Ecoleetage (talk) 15:32, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Bodybuilding-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Bodybuilding.

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