Wikipedia:WikiProject Referees

Referees Task Force of WikiProject Sports and WikiProject Biography

Welcome to the Referees Task Force, a task force of WikiProject Sports and WikiProject Biography. The task force is a group of pages in the "Wikipedia" article namespace which are devoted to the management of a specific topic or family of topics within Wikipedia; and, simultaneously, a group of editors who use those pages to collaborate on encyclopedic work. It is not a place to write encyclopedia articles directly, but a resource to help coordinate and organize the writing and editing of those articles. This group focuses on Referees and other sports officials.

Scope

Referees articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				3			3
GA	5	3	5	2			15
B	4	4	2	12			22
C	14	23	26	61			124
Start	67	238	328	503		4	1,140
Stub	36	351	705	1,400		1	2,493
List	2	12	4	4			22
NA			3	6	546		555
Assessed	128	631	1,073	1,991	546	5	4,374
Unassessed	1						1
Total	129	631	1,073	1,991	546	5	4,375
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 21,250			Ω = 5.60

This task force covers all referee articles, with a special focus on biographies of referees, past and present. It can be considered to be a subgroup of the WikiProject Sports and the WikiProject Biography. It covers the referees, umpires, assistant referees and any other official for every sport.

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding {{WikiProject Referees}} to the articles talk page.

Guidelines

• Wikipedia:Referee/Criticism An essay on how to keep articles on referees in line with our neutral point of view policies.

Participants

If you approach anyone from this list for advice or help, please check their contributions first to check if they've edited recently. This list may contain people who have not edited Wikipedia in a long time.

• Aircorn (talk · contribs)
• Hack (talk · contribs)
• Lepricavark (talk · contribs)
• US Referee (talk · contribs)
• WWGB (talk · contribs)
• Demt1298 (talk · contribs)
• Amadeus1999 (talk · contribs)
• MasterMatt12 (talk · contribs)

To do list

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Immediate goals

• Add banner {{WikiProject Referees}} to appropriate pages
• Develop some guidelines (assessment/notability/style etc)

Top importance referees without articles (i.e. refereed at the highest level in their chosen sport)

• Charles Appleton (referee) Rugby league
• Georges Jameau Rugby league
• Billy Thompson (referee) Rugby league

Article alerts

Proposed deletions

• 14 Jun 2024 – Sam Burke (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Hey man im josh (t · c) was redirected to List of Test cricket umpires (talk · edit · hist)
• 11 Jun 2024 – Makoto Okazaki (figure skater) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Bgsu98 (t · c) was deleted

Good article nominees

• 08 Jan 2024 – John Holder (umpire) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by StickeyWicket (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 03 Apr 2024 – Draft:IRah (film) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ravensfire (t · c)

Templates

Userbox

• {{User WikiProject Referees}}—a userbox indicating an editor is a participant of WikiProject Referees.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Referees.

Edit notice

• {{Sports official editnotice}}—an edit notice that can be applied to referee articles. Editnotices need to be added by an administrator or template editor.

Barnstar

• {{The Referee Barnstar|put your message here ~~~~}}—an award placed at another users talk page for improving Referee-related articles.

		The Referee Barnstar
		{{{1}}}

Related projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Sports and games