Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biathlon

RfC on the use of flag icons for sportspeople

An RfC discussion about the MOS:FLAG restriction on the use of flag icons for sportspeople has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons. We invite all interested participants to provide their opinion here. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:57, 24 December 2012 (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? 18:32, 4 March 2013 (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) 07:40, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

RFC on sports notability

An RFC has recently been started regarding a potential change to the notability guidelines for sportspeople. Please join in the conversation. Thank you. Primefac (talk) 23:07, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at NSPORTS

Hello all. In an effort to finally resolve the never-ending and annoying GNG v SSG issue, I've proposed a revision of the NSPORTS introduction. You are all invited to take part in the discussion. Thank you. Jack | ^{talk page} 06:20, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Discord

Hey all, I hope everyone is safe and healthy. My name is HickoryOughtShirt?4 and I'm a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey. I was wondering if there was any interest in starting a WikiProject Sports channel on Discord? There's quite a few of us who are interested in sports, and I think it would be a good idea to help the WikiProject recruit more members. You guys can join us through here.HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 00:10, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Misleading banner/main image

@Edgars2007, Sczipo, and Gasheadsteve: this bear image at the top of this WikiProject seems to be misleading. Much better eg File:Biathlon-Weltcup 2006 Antholz 1.jpg or File:Biathlon Schalke.jpg--Estopedist1 (talk) 14:24, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

No objections from me. I took the bear from some other project. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 14:51, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Y the image is changed. Just in case I copied old one here: [[File:Medved mzoo.jpg|thumb|WikiProject Biathlon's mascot, Dwight, watching you write articles for him.]]--Estopedist1 (talk) 13:38, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Need assistance on an issue

Hi,

I have encountered some edits on the 2020–21 Biathlon World Cup article by User:FabDab11 and User:Lukasss222 that may require an attention from the WP:BIATHLON community. In the edits in question these users (I suspect a single person is doing this from both accounts, but can't be sure at 100%) add the jersey pictograms (depending on color - yellow, red and blue) which are usually used in cycling event articles. He has done this on other wintersport season report articles as well. I want to hear your thoughts on this. Ivaneurope (talk) 15:33, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi,

From my point of view, if the pictograms introduced are also in other disciplines, having the same task - to show who is the leader in a given discipline, they should remain, as this makes it easier to find information in a given article. Lukasss222 (talk) 15:47, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Well, there are classifications, where the leader doesn't wear a specific colored bib - in the case of the Biatlon World Cup that would be the leaders of the Relay, Mixed Relay and Nation classifications. For these the jersey pictogram has been removed since for them there is no bespoke bib. Ivaneurope (talk) 16:12, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Cannabis and sports

New stub: Cannabis and sports. Any project members care to help expand? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 18:02, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Template:Red bib nominated for deletion

Watchers of this talk page may be interested in this TFD for {{Red bib}} and two related templates. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:47, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Mass draftification proposal regarding Olympians

You may be interested in this village pump discussion on draftifiying nearly a thousand Olympians. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:34, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

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One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Tank biathlon, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 June 2023 (UTC) on behalf of the AFI team

Magdalena Neuner listed at Requested moves

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