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Article requests :
Requested articles (Sports)
Requested articles (Association football)
Requested articles (Association football women)
Requested articles (Motor sports)
Requested articles (Estonian sportspeople)
Assess : newly added and existing articles, maybe nominate some good B-class articles for GA; independently assess some as A-class, regardless of GA status.
Cleanup :
* Sport governing body (this should-be-major article is in a shameful state)
* Field hockey (History section needs sources and accurate information - very vague at the moment.)
* Standardize Category:American college sports infobox templates to use same font size and spacing.
* Sport in the United Kingdom - the Popularity section is incorrect and unsourced. Reliable data is required.
* Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show."
Expand : Professional sports (crucial article explaining the salaried undertaking of sports)
* Sport industry (currently a sub-stub)
Photo : for pages listed in Category:Wikipedia requested images of sports and games and sub-categories.
Stubs : work on articles in Category:Sports stubs
Update : List of world sports championships
Other :
- Translate the page of sport in each country from corresponding article in other language Wikipedia to English Wikipedia which was marked in red.
- Categorize: Gather all (major/olympic) sports to be part of this project
- RfCs: answer requests for comment

Units for weight[edit]

Remind and check that everybody remembers to put kilograms or pounds on "weight", or perhaps use a magic template to kill two birds with one stone. Jidanni (talk) 20:02, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New parameter alias[edit]

Way back when the world was young, before TemplateData and template documentation pages, User:Glen created this template with |yesorretiredyear= as the name of the parameter for the "Active" data row, hoping for it to be self-documenting. (Actually, it was originally called |yesorno=, but was quickly extended to accept a year of retirement.)

In the decade and a half since that time, what's happened is that the details of the parameter name have been largely ignored, but the terrible name has stuck around. A quick, informal survey of the transclusions of this template showed that a few contain either "Yes" or "No" for the |yesorretiredyear= value, more contain a "Retired YYYY" value, but many, many more follow other conventions. For example, a date range, "Since YYYY", or more complex details.

Many other articles contain no Active data at all, even for fairly well-covered subjects, which I have to think may come down to the editors of those pages having no idea how to fill in a parameter named |yesorretiredyear= and just ignoring it.

So, in the spirit of WP:BOLD, I've added a parameter |active= to the infobox as the preferred alias for |yesorretiredyear=, though the legacy name is still accepted. |active= will take priority, though, and I've updated the documentation examples to reflect this fact, and to mention that |yesorretiredyear= is now a legacy alias. -- FeRDNYC (talk) 02:21, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]