Maps, Directions, and Place Reviews
Starting off!
Sweet we have our first member after around an hour. Welcome Doug Bell! I'm going to add some of the {{Wikiproject Golf}} templates around the place for a while, and then see where we are. Grover 07:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Golf Ball Marking Ideas Video
New Category
I've just started a new category Category:Wikiproject Golf articles to make it a bit easier. Every page that has the {{Wikiproject Golf}} template on it will be in this category. Grover 05:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Feature Article
Hi all. I thought trying to get an article to featured article standards may enhance production here. The obvious article to try is Golf, but if there are any other suggestions, shoot away. Grover 09:00, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Golf Course Notability
What guidelines should be in place for a golf course to be notable? For starters, I think:
- Has been a venue of a major tournament on either the PGA Tour, the LPGA Tour, or the Champions Tour.
- Golf courses on the Top 100 Golfers Digest list.
Time for a discussion! Grover 02:03, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
I agree with Grover's criteria. I think courses played in Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup competitions should be notable as well (like Robert Trent Jones Golf Club). Also, to expand your idea Grover, I think courses from Golf Magazine's Top 100 You Can Play and Golf Digest's 100 Greatest Public Courses should be notable.
-Heatfan55 21:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Mowsbury, I was simply adding two ideas about golf course notability. Interpreting my comments by saying "on this basis there are no notable courses outside North America apart from...(a few)" is absurd. I thought this section was for listing ideas about golf course notability. I can't list them all. Carl's points are very relevant to this discussion. This is a list of ideas about courses to be added (not deleted)!!!! -Heatfan55 18:26, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey guys, just quickly this golfing link is a fantastic idea and i am a huge supporter of what you guys are trying to do. i actually help run the largest amateur tournament in Australia the master of the amateurs. This is another tournament we can add in. is there anything articles i can help put in to help increase global attention to the golfing world? cheers
WP:GOLF
WP:GOLF now redirects here as a shortcut - o The Giant Puffin o 20:52, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
I have no desire to talk about the game of golf. I have been drawn to this page by the unwanted inference in the affairs of the sport of Park Golf. For too long Parkers have lived in the shadow of the more mainstream game. I hereby declare the independence of the sport of Park Golf, and announce my intention to unite with fellow Parkers in opposing any interference in our beloved sport. We should have the right to govern our own wikipedia page, away from the shadow of a taskforce that is simply the trojan horse of the game of non-Park Golf. Parkers the world over aspire to develop their sport in a way that they alone see fit. They demand independence. Vive la revolution! Vive la park golf!(PS. I am aware that the French refer to non-Park Golf as le golf, however the Park Golf Governing Council have instructed French Parkers to refer to their game as "la Parc Golf", in a move that is designed to demonstrate our new found freedom and independence). You know like Korea and Corea and that whole thing innit?!
Looks like Park Golf has it's own page afterall: Park_golf
Golf shafts
Please, someone check Golf shafts and rewrite if necessary. Thanks. Carlosguitar 17:10, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Standardizing winners board
If I might suggest: I've just been through the articles on the majors, and I've noticed that each one has a completely different board on for the list of winners, also displaying different information -- in some cases, lacking clearly, such as the board of winners for The Masters, which doesn't lists the venues. I would suggest standardizing this, possibly by creating a standard template for winners' boards to be used on all articles on golf tournaments. Of course, that entails the task of researching some of the information missing, and standardizing the form of display of other relevant pieces of information (such as the winning score, which shows in different formats in 3 of the 4 articles I saw).
Right off the bat, I could suggest that we not use an entire column to display the winner's nationality: simply place the flagicon next to the winner's name, like it is done in other similar boards, for other sporting events -- that would save valuable space that could be used for columns containing relevant information that really can't be otherwise displayed. Just my two cents. Redux 20:45, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
I've been creating and/or updating all the LPGA Tour event pages and working on this since last season. You might check out the format for the winner's tables on some of these pages, for example the LPGA Championship or the Sybase Classic. I've been trying to standardize the winner's tables for all events, to include: year (linking to year in golf, not just linking the year straight), name, country, score, venue, purse, winner's share. There's plenty of room for all this info and I think having both the flag and the country name is informative.. The hover feature also does not work in all browsers or platforms. In most cases this info is available so it makes sense to include it all. I've been working on this since last season. I think it makes sense to standardize these results tables for all the tours, mens and womens, if possible. Crunch 21:37, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Kobe Golf Club
I recently created an article on the Kobe Golf Club, the first golf course in Japan. I took the liberty of tagging it as a golf stub, and since I'm more familiar with Japan than golf, any help you could provide in expanding the article would be most appreciated. The same goes for Arthur Hasketh Groom, the founder of Kobe Golf Club. -- Exitmoose 01:14, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Jack Nicklaus on hold
The Jack Nicklaus article is on hold for GA status because it needs some referencing improvements. Details are on the talk page. Any help would be appreciated - o The Giant Puffin o 22:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
A few ideas
I've been looking around at some other wikiprojects lately for a few ideas that would be good for our WikiProject. I would love some feedback on these ideas.
- As well as the newsletter, a welcome message for new members and a message used for invitations to join.
- After the Jack Nicklaus article reaches featured status (hopefully :)), I think it would be good for our project to hold a "Collaboration of the Month" or something of the nature. It would let us improve more articles in a shorter amount of time.
- This may be more in the future than now because this is more of a small WikiProject at the moment, but it would be great if we could start assessing articles. This would be a big step forward for the project.
Again, I would love some feedback, and new, innovative ideas we could add. Grover 07:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Saint George's Hill
Maybe someoen will be interested in developing this article Saint George's Hill === Vernon White (talk) 23:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Ryder Cup articles now complete
I was surprised to see that we only had articles for the 2006, 2004 and 1999 Ryder Cups, so I spent some time in the past couple of days to create the rest. (see category:Ryder Cup) They all have complete results, using the same formatting style as the original three articles, but not much else. What they need is some interesting prose added to them - there are tons of great Ryder Cup stories that we need to get into Wikipedia. I have included three different references with each article, so hopefully that will make it easier to write something by paraphrasing and not incurring any copyright violations. Hope this helps your Wikiproject! Andrwsc 00:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Golf Tournament
I have made this template but it doesn't seem to work, if anyone can fix it and get it to work i would be extremely grateful. - Bones999 (talk) 18:36 , 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I have fixed the template now so please add it to all the relevant pages. Bones999 (talk) 18:51 , 28 March 2007 (UTC)
I have added an idea to this template's talk page about adding FedEx Cup point values to the infobox. I think it would improve the infobox and each PGA tournament page, and I welcome thoughts on if my idea is good or bad. Thanks. --Mtjaws (talk) 21:12, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Template:Wikiproject Golf
I think you should add a rating parameter to the templates like there are on other templates, i would add it myself but i feel it should be discussed first. (talk) 16:26 , 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Assessment and Sidebar
Two things I need to bring up.
- There is a new assessment department for the project. Thanks to everyone who was involved with both converting the template and creating and co-ordinating the articles.
- I have experimented with a sidebar which i've put on the main project page. It is only a prototype, and im not sure if it is put onto the page in the right way. If anyone could help with this I hope it will be looking alot better very soon and be appearing on all the project's pages.
- And also one more thing. I'm sorry the newsletter didn't get out this month, I was too busy with schoolwork and 'real life'. The newsletter should be up and running next month.
Grover 12:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Rules of golf
I certainly agree to Alexander Phipps that there should be a section that should be included in this article, Rules of golf, outlining the very Basic Rules of Golf such as the 18-Holes, the Four-Player Limit, Teeing and Putting, Play the Golf Ball as it Lies, Ball Marking, the Flagstick, Obstructions, Loose Impediments, Playing the Wrong ball, and others. Furthermore, a section should also be included discussing the Scoring system of golf. Bu b0y2007 04:07, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Tagging Articles
I've just asked Snowolf if he could get his bot Snowbot to tag talk pages with the {{Wikiproject Golf}}. All he now needs is verification that this is what we want to do. Is this ok for everyone? Grover 10:44, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club
Greetings, I'm not a member of your project, but I recently started an article on the above Golf Club (after I made a new infobox that I think works better than the Club box). But I am not a golfer, so I was wondering if someone could take a look and make sure everything looks OK before I move on to create other notable courses in Oregon. Thanks. Aboutmovies 07:17, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Golfer Infoboxes
Ok this should be sorted out soon before more and more infoboxes are put in articles. There are currently two different types of golfer infoboxes used on articles. See Jack Nicklaus and Greg Norman. The one on the Greg Norman page is the standard one, and has been agreed on by another wikiproject, WikiProject Golfers. The other, on the Jack Nicklaus page, is not actually a template as yet. Although I believe that this template looks much better, and holds much more information, some have raised the concern that it is too big, as infoboxes should be a short summary of the player. I'm hopeful for some sort of concensus on this issue. Please, even if you are glancing through the talk page, take 2 minutes to look at the two articles and come to a decision, or make a comment here. Grover 10:48, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
- I like the look of the new (Jack Nicklaus) infobox but agree that it needs to be re-programmed to be a true template and shortened, so I suggest the following:
- program the "Jack Nicklaus" template so it's a true Wikipedia template.
- remove the Best Finishes in Majors Heading and just have a Major Wins heading that shows major wins only
- clarify what Professional Wins means. I think it's sufficient to just a total number including on all tours. (as Grover mentioned, the info box is just a summary) --Crunch 16:25, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
- I modified the infobox on the Jack Nicklaus page slightly, making it more compact. Tell me what you think. Grover 02:15, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
- That's a good start. A few suggestions: We can probably do without the "weight" field, because it fluctuates a lot and is also not reported for a lot of golfers (notably women). Case in point -- see the photo of Jack Nicklaus and then the stated weight of 185 lbs. Something is not accurate there. (He looks closer to 200 IMHO). Also, is there a way to not have the tours and major wins in parentheses? I think it would be cleaner and easier to read that way? Thanks for working on this. --Crunch 12:55, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
- I noticed that one way to reduce the size of this template is to reduce the size of the image. This template on other pages doesn't look almost as big as the Jack Nicklaus one because their images are much smaller. Anyway I experimented with a smaller image size but it made the image harder to see. SO if someone has Photoshop or something and can crop the image suitably to only include his head that would be fantastic. The image URL is Image:JackNicklaus.jpg And in regard to your comments above, i'm still thinking of a way to remove those parentheses, and yes, I think the weight field needs to go. Grover 12:04, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
- Can't you just also use the tag "Image:whoever.jpg|150px|center" to size an images to the whatever size you want -- in this case 150 pixels? --Crunch 12:18, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah I did try that but I think it made the picture unsuitably too small to look at. So if someone could crop it to include only the top half, the image would be much smaller but still visible and easy to see. Grover 06:46, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
- I also prefer the Jack Nicklaus style box. I also don't think it's all that big -- compare the {{Infobox NFL player}} template -- but horizontal aspect pictures would definitely fit better and use less space. A few other thoughts though:
- I also agree the weight field should be eliminated.
- We should have a line that indicates World Golf Hall of Fame members. I like the way the NFL template mentioned above does it; we could have a wghof_id parameter which could be used to construct a URL to their WGHOF profile (In Nicklaus' case, 1086).
- To make the current design a real wiki template, I think each major would need to be its own parameter, so we can create the columns correctly. We would also need parameters for LPGA, LET, and senior majors. Should senior majors be a different section, or should we just have one "Major championships" section? Also, for amateur golfers, should we show U.S. Amateur and British Amateur wins as majors?
- I almost don't want to bring this up since it's often a contentious issue, but should the label be "British Open" or "The Open"? Or, should we allow it to be different based on the nationality of the player (the way I usually treat it in the regular wiki text; use British Open for US-based articles and The Open for UK-based articles). If we go the latter way (my preference), we could have different parameters (e.g. "britishopen_wins" and "open_wins") so the label can be different for each.
- Nicklaus is a special case, since he won so many things. Most golfers though only have 1-2 major wins, so with the current design you would have a section heading with only one or two rows underneath, and the right-hand side would be mostly whitespace (just one year listed). This may be be all that bad, but I would make sure the tournament title does not wrap; i.e. use "PGA" instead of "PGA Championship", as that creates even more whitespace. Either that or let each line use the full width of the box, but that would look worse on Nicklaus' page (though perhaps for him we could put the years on an indented second line).
- Similarly, I think the Awards section should be a freeform text area that can take the full width of the box. The values can use the "br" HTML tag to create new lines between awards. Most golfers only win awards once or twice, so the full width should be used for the name of the award, and not the years won. Also, there are so many different awards between all the tours that creating individual parameters for them is too much. Carl Lindberg 17:17, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry for not being a part of this discussion for so long. I just graduated high school though, so now I have the summer to do some happy editing. I think it is inevitable that the infobox formats will differ for certain golfers because of how much they have or have not won in their careers. I'll be back tomorrow to make some proper suggestions. Supertigerman 05:48, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
- I changed the Byron Nelson page format for the time being. I truly believe that all 4 major championships should be represented in the infobox, just as all 4 are represented in the tennis infobox. This way, people can see the best finish in each major easily and do not have to scroll down and decipher the results timeline. On Nelson's page the word Won is bolded, along with the number of wins in that major. The major which he has not won, lists his best performance and the year. What do you think of this format?
There are 3 categories of golfers with respect to performance in Major Championships:
- Those who have achieved the Career Grand Slam
- Those who have won at least 1 major but not all
- Those who have played in majors but never won
I feel the infoboxes will have to differ for each. Take Jack Nicklaus. Notice the heading of the section on his page simply states "Major Championship Wins (18)" because he has won them all. For the 5 players who have achieved the career grand slam, I would suggest that their headings be "Major Championship Wins (# of wins)". For those who have won at least 1 major, but not all, have a two-line heading, the first: "Best Results in Major Championships" and the second: Wins (#of wins). For the third category of golfers, there would be a one-line heading: "Best Results in Major Championships", and the result and the years would be below for all 4 majors. Your thoughts on this would be appreciated. Supertigerman 18:23, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
- I definitely think that the infobox should be adapted to better incorporate the majors and awards sections, but it is probably not necessary to include the best results in majors for players that have not won the career grand slam. I think separate headings for majors and awards would be a good idea, and you only need to fill in the ones that player has actually won. This should mean that it is not a problem that women golfers have different majors from men because you just fill in the ones that are relevant. There is no need to overcomplicate the infobox, but if we want one standard infobox to be used for all golfers I think there has to be a slight change so that infoboxes for players who have won multiple majors or awards are not too clustered. Christophee 22:37, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
A Question
I doubt if I'm allowed to do this or if I'm even going to get any support but I'm asking anyway. I've recently found a well-organized but deserted wiki that was attempting to create a directory of golf courses. I'm sure everyone here has no interest in helping with such a thing while focusing on this, but if anyone is, please leave a message here and I'll send you the site link. 72.79.34.176 20:27, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
I dont speak so much English what es golf
Can someone tell me please--Wayne Neptune 03:37, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
I Would Like to join.
I would love to join this project because i have played golf all my life, but i don't know how or where to join. Would somebody please help me.
--Metalasis 21:50, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
July Newsletter?
It seems there's no July newsletter. --(Review Me) R ParlateContribs@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 23:28, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
AT&T National
New Wiki editor, so I'm not sure about this, but should the AT&T National still be listed as a "Future Sporting event" page, since it is now in progress? 18:49, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Also, for the "purse" bullet in the tournament infoboxes, would it not look better to insert a space between "US" and "$", before the purse amount? Just a thought. 18:52, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Pebble Beach
I've made substantial edits to Pebble Beach Golf Links and would love it if someone would look it over. I borrowed the info box from the article on Pumpkin Ridge - I think that's a nice thing to have on all pages. I'd like to see a "signature holes" section and small recaps of significant tournaments on course pages, but I haven't read any of your discussions on these things (just discovered this WikiProject yesterday). I left the Scorecard section alone, but I have mixed feelings about that. One, the format of the table at, for example Pumpkin Ridge is much nicer, but two, scorecards change every year and I'm not sure how useful it is to have them on course pages here. (I imagine this is being debated?) I have a book on Oak Hill and may make that my next project, so feedback on what I did to Pebble Beach welcome. SJS1971 14:56, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Our Pace Of Play - Is This WikiProject Stalling?
Seems like there haven't been a lot of posts here lately. I've gotta think that a project about golf should be very active. Anyway, I'm new, and I'll add little bits here and there. Pages I've created/added to: 1982 U.S. Open Golf Championship, 1986 Masters Tournament, and Pebble Beach Golf Links. Yep, I'm cherry picking the big ones to start on, but I figure that's the way to keep my enthusiasm at the beginning. Next up: 2000 PGA Championship, of course. SJS1971 18:16, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Disc golf
Does this project cover or intend to cover disc golf? If not, please remove the project tag from talk pages of bios in Category:American disc golfers (may be renamed to Category:Flying disc players, since there is not justification for game- and country-specific subcats yet). -- SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] <(-¿-)> 14:30, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Golf course architect
Someone should start an article for golf course architect, golf course design and golf course designer. They are currently all redirects. --evrik (talk) 19:28, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
New European Tour Templates
I have recently created two new templates relating to the European Tour. They are Template:European Tour Order of Merit winners and Template:Sir Henry Cotton Rookies of the Year. I was hoping that you guys could help me by adding these templates to the relevant golfers' articles. Thank you. Christophee 00:19, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Goals
Grovermj sent me this: "I thought that a way to further improve the golf articles on Wikipedia is for the whole project to work together towards a goal. An example of this could be a certain number of good articles in so many months, or to create the project's first ever featured article. If you are interested, come to the talk page and discuss it. And hopefully through this the project can continue to work towards several goals in the near future."
I agree with him, we should make an article like Jack Nicklaus featured or work on making articles better. Anyone have any thoughts? michfan2123 14:56, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I am currently tagging unassessed stub articles as stubs. If I am not sure of an article's status, I skip it, I am trying to bring down the unassessed number. michfan2123 15:25, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I think we should focus on Jack Nicklaus to become a featured article. We could maybe focus on different golfer every two or three months. Eddie6705 17:05, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Indeed, the Top importance golf articles should be the primary focus to become featured articles. Jack Nicklaus would be the most logical choice, since he is to date the greatest golfer of all time. I admit I get a little jealous of the other sports when I see that Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky, the greatest in their respective sports, are featured articles. Supertigerman 19:54, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I would be happy to both improve the Jack Nicklaus article to featured status and bring down the unassessed number, maybe to 60% by the end of the month. Hopefully we can get the first featured article for golf on Wikipedia! Grover 22:47, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
I think so far that these are all good ideas. My personal focus in this project has to date been focused on articles that appeal to current or prospective players such as the main Golf article, golf course, rules articles and equipment articles. These are areas which, IMO, need very little to achieve GA status, and I would appreciate input from anyone with a similar focus. In equipment especially, the only additions generally required are external refs and a few images. There are some reorgs still going on in some pages, and I would greatly appreciate input or assistance on these. Liko81 18:31, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Ok so I guess that improving Jack Nicklaus is a popular choice. Maybe the best way to improve it would be to use the peer review and check off things that have been done/dont need to be done etc. I think it's also worthwhile to create an article for T:DYK, and I have one in mind for this, The Australian Golf Club. Finally, i've been working on the Golf article for the last week or so, and it is very close to WP:GA status, I think. But, one thing at a time :)
Grover 00:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
I'll go along with this. My focus so far has been creating and expanding articles on LPGA tournaments, current and historical, and secondarily on LPGA players, current and historical. This is a big need because in some cases the information is not available in any unified place anywhere else in print or online. Wikipedia can turn out to be the best source for this information. But I support working to get Jack Nicklaus to featured status. It probably has the best chance. --Crunch (talk) 23:23, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Infoboxes
I was updating the European Tour template and i saw that some of the tournaments dont have inboxes. Should they? if so i'm willing to make them. Eddie6705 (talk) 21:01, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
2007 OMEGA Mission Hills World Cup
What do you guys think? 2007 OMEGA Mission Hills World Cup michfan2123 (talk) 16:15, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
AfD: Toronto Golf Club
The above-noted article has been nominated for deletion. Please offer your opinions at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toronto Golf Club. PKT (talk) 12:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
The Australian Golf Club
I've just created the article The Australian Golf Club, and put it up for T:DYK. Hopefully it gets through! Grover (talk) 10:41, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
New Year Resolutions
My personal new year resolutions for Wikipedia are:
- Finish assessing all our articles by halfway through next month, then tag some more! :)
- Get Golf to WP:GA status by about the same time, and continue to roll out good articles, like Arnold Palmer, Johnny Miller and Ben Hogan, for example.
What are everyones goals for the new year? Grover (talk) 11:32, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
My personal goals are to start bio pages for every golfer who won at least one PGA Tour event in the 1950s and 1960s (1970-2007 is complete); and to start pages for former PGA Tour events held in the 1950s and 1960s (1970-2007 is complete).--Hokeman (talk) 17:09, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to get a page up for every LPGA event that ever took place. However, since the pages I'm creating here are better than the records the LPGA has, this is a daunting task. --Crunch (talk) 17:34, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
New announcement
I am pleased to announce that every golfer who won a PGA Tour event since 1970 now has a page in Wikipedia; also every current and former PGA Tour event played since 1970 now has a page in Wikipedia.--Hokeman (talk) 14:37, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Golfer Infobox
I've started trying to convert the infobox, which is now on alot of pages, into an actual standardised template. I've started in userspace, any help would be appreciated, because i've never used the more technical, harder stuff before. Grover (talk) 08:43, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
List of The Open Championship venues at WP:FLC
Someone's nominated this after a few days work on it. Comments and help on improving the article would be appreciated. Grover (talk) 07:48, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
All WP: Golf articles assessed
YES!!! michfan2123 (talk) 23:29, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I've gotten a bot to tag every page in Category:Golf, so the unassessed number has gone from 0 to up above 1000 again :). Sorry to "revert" your hard work hehe, but it had to be done sometime. :) Grover (talk) 09:24, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Seve Ballesteros at WP:GA
After some work i've nominated Seve Ballesteros for good article status. I'm 99% sure that it's ready, as it is fully referenced (apart from one tag which i'll fix tomorrow) and is fairly complete. Since the WP:GAC process is extremely backlogged, there is alot of time to improve the article more. On that note, I think some of us should contribute to that backlog, it is pretty big, especially in the sports section, and it'll have the added advantage of getting Seve reviewed much quicker :) Grover (talk) 11:41, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
2008 in Golf
For the section on tour leaders, is this just for the end of the season or can it be updated weekly to show the current leaders? Eddie6705 (talk) 14:16, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
I assume you're referring to 2008 in golf. This article is intended to be a record of events that happened in golf in 2008, so the Tour leaders are the leaders as of the end of the season. --Crunch (talk) 17:31, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Yes i know but can i update it now, such as put Lee Westwood as leader of the European Tour? Eddie6705 (talk) 18:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Well the idea is that it's a record of how things turned out at the end of the year. The concern about putting the current leaders is that it would have to be kept current with the current leaders for all of the tours as they continually change. I'm not sure there are people who can do this. You might have the leader of the Eueropean Tour or of the PGA but who wants to keep it current with the leader of the Futures Tour or of the Sunshine Tour? --Crunch (talk) 18:51, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Well i don't mind keeping them all up to date. The only one i can see a problem with is the LPGA tour of Japan. Eddie6705 (talk) 23:40, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Seriously, Eddie, I don't think you're understanding what the article 2008 in golf is all about. It's an historical record of what happened in golf in 2008. Not a play-by-play. Putting in the current leaders as they change makes no more sense than putting in round-by-round leaders in a tournament and changing it each day of the tournament. Please do not change the purpose of the article. If you want to create another article "Current Professional Golf Tour Leaders" that might be great. In fact, maybe you could make a navigation template box out of it. I will add an introduction to all the "years in golf" articles to clarify their purpose because apparently it is not clear. Thank you for understanding. --Crunch (talk) 00:18, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Another try at re-energising this project
I'd like to propose a GA "contest". It would run over 2-3 months, and the editors with the most good articles created by the end of the timespan would get an award. This would serve to increase the output of the project by introducing some friendly competition. What are your thoughts? (if anyone is listening :P) Grovermj 08:39, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I understand what good article means and what the process is. My question was not with Wikipedia's criter for a Good article but with this Project's criteria for what articles are deemed suitable for working on to elevate to that level. A lot of articles would be close to Good level, for example, simply with the addition of some references, an infobox, or properly-tagged images. I don't think we can ever get a group together to work on one article but it would be good to get a varied list of articles that are close to being at the Good level so members can choose the ones they want to work on. Make sense? --Crunch (talk) 12:14, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Good points. I've been focusing on documenting things here on Wikipedia that haven't been documented anywhere else. I think that's a good thing. For that reason I'm spending a lot of time creating articles on, for example, Futures Tour events or obscure golf courses that once upon a time hosted a PGA event. It's a lot of extra work to add the references etc. that would get these up to Good status. I don't expect that a lot of other people would care to devote that amount of time. --Crunch (talk) 12:36, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Ok, does anyone have any ideas?? Grovermj 00:18, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
What sport is it?
In this article: [1] I noticed it doesn't even mention what sport is being written about. Even if it is obvious it should be stated at the beginning of the article. The word "golf" never appears in this article. It only shows up at the very bottom under "categories". The same holds true for the other years of the President's Cup, but the word "golf" only appears in the name of the "Golf Club" where the tournament was played and never states it is the sport of golf being written about. Just thought you might want to know this. Honestly I am not a golf fan and did not know what the President's Cup was and could not tell the subject was golf until I saw a few names I recognized like Jack Nicholas and Tiger Woods. Thanks for your attention in this matter. --Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.203.52.46 (talk) 00:25, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Recent developments in golf equipment
I would like to add a section about the recent developments in golf equipment and their affect on the game of golf. Along with this, I would like to include information about the regulations that the USGA and the R&A have imposed on driver technology and the characteristics of golf balls. I am wondering if anyone has any sugguestions on what would be the best article to add this section to. I was thinking either the "golf equipment" article or the equipment development section of the "history of golf" article. Please feel free to give any other suggestions on what you think would make this section more useful.Techwriter32 (talk) 02:23, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Incentive
- The Official Florida Gators Wikiproject will award this Barnstar to editors who help to expand articles pertaining to the Florida Gators Golfing, and famous UF Golfers. Jccort (talk) 19:53, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Golf: Articles of unclear notability
Hello,
there are currently 15 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)
I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:25, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Source request
I was updating the article on the ballistic pendulum, and ran across a couple of references to its use in late 19th/early 20th century golf research. In particular, the 1911 Britannica mentioned that physicist C. V. Boys used one to measure the elasticity of golf balls. I suspect the following things:
- Those were early wound-rubber core balls he was testing
- That he was using a ballistic pendulum to measure the momentum transfer between elastic and inelastic collisions, and comparing the difference to get information on the elasticity.
I would appreciate it if anyone could provide me with some more information on Boys' research; either a link to an online source (I found other mentions, but no additional data, with a Google book search) or, if you have a hardcopy resource, either a quick summary or e-mail me some scans I can use as a source. scot (talk) 01:57, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Casey Martin vs. PGA Tour
Is this "WikiProject Golf" run by the PGA tour? Because I find it humorous that the wikipedia page concerning the Casey Martin supreme court case, which was apparently sponsored or created by this WikiProject, reveals almost nothing about the case itself other than describing in great detail Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion which agreed with the PGA Tour. It even says, "The case is principally memorable for its dissent by Justice Antonin Scalia." Are you kidding me? This is a landmark Supreme Court case for persons with disabilites. That would be like saying, "Brown vs the Board of Education was memorable because one of the justices made a spelling mistake in his opinion." Someone please change that page to be more impartial and actually take a minute to explain the case and not just the PGA Tour's argument. --Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.68.229.247 (talk) 01:18, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't a golfer infobox be a priority for the project?
I'm a long-time contributor to Wikipedia (though I don't log in very often). With Rocco Mediate competing at the 2008 U.S. Open, I did some clean-up to his article a couple of hours ago (see contributions).
I came to your wikiproject page to find out how to use whatever infobox template was appropriate, with the idea of applying it to Mediate's article, which has a template-less, hand-crafted infobox. I saw that you have such a template listed (at Wikipedia:WikiProject Golf#Templates), but almost no one uses it, I assume because of the issues described here.
For now I'll just be bold and update the template section to note the template's current status. Please consider coming up with a {{Infobox golfer}} that project members actively use so that the rest of us can help you with cleaning up the hand-crafted infobox mess the current golfer articles are in. Thanks. 66.167.138.139 (talk) 02:31, 16 June 2008 (UTC).
Template for deletion
In case you're not aware of it, one of the project's templates is up for deletion: Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2008_June_27#Template:America.27s_Top_10_Golf_Courses. Dreadstar + 17:32, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
- The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
- The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
- A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.
Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.
Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot (Disable) 21:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Articles flagged for cleanup
Currently, 3490 articles are assigned to this project, of which 310, or 8.9%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place a template on your project page.
If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:24, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Template
Was just checking the Australan golf categories and the template wouldnt respond to anything about class= - suggest that whoever made or modified the template for golf needs to check it to make sure it is working - cheers SatuSuro 11:11, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Seeking someone with access to PGA Magazine
Could someone with access to the September 2006 issue of PGA Magazine please take a look at ALINE Systems and verify that the PGA Magazine citation in this article is relevant. Work toward better using the citation in the context of the article would be appreciated too, but verifying the reference would be quite useful in and of itself. Thanks. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 18:30, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Categories for courses - a MESS
I just joined Wikipedia, and so I start by adding a category to some golf courses, only to discover that it's a nightmarish mess! Category:Golf clubs and courses in Delaware exists alongside Category:Golf clubs and courses in the United States, which exists alongside Category:Golf clubs and courses. Is the categorizing system really this crazy? Shouldn't, for example, the Delaware one AUTOMATICALLY place the article into the United States one and the non-specific one? Isn't there some tool or robot that could do that? First Fairway (talk) 17:10, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Golfer's nationalities
This concerns a number of golfers from the twenties. The USGA's official US Open site [2] lists a number of golfers including Jim Barnes andTommy Armour with quotes such as "Jim Barnes, an Englishman representing the Pelham (N.Y.) Country Club" and "Tommy Armour, a Scot who had recently turned professional," but they are listed as Americans throughout Wikipedia. I would guess that the official US Open site is as good a source as you get but I think this might need a good discussion before any changes are made.Topcardi (talk) 00:51, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Golf
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.
We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.
A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.
We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:15, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
List of The Open Championship champions at FLC
List of The Open Championship champions is currently at FLC. I've made some comments but am currently undecided whether to support or not. I'm not hugely knowledgable about golf myself, and would feel in a better position to decide whether to support or oppose if at least one person from this wikiproject had at least looked at the list and left a comment at FLC. In particular do you think that prize money should be included or not? Thanks. --Jameboy (talk) 22:32, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Tournament article naming
Many tournament articles include the sponsors name in the title. As per WP:MOSNAME, and since sponsors come and go, these articles should have the generic name of the tournament, and a redirect page be created for the full name including sponsor. Thoughts?
e.g Quinn Insurance British Masters has been renamed from Quinn Direct British Masters for the 2008 edition, despite more often being referred to simply as the British Masters. To avoid endless renaming and the potential double redirects this causes, the tournament article should be titled British Masters, and any variants, Dunhill British Masters etc., should then redirect to it. --bigissue (talk) 13:36, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Article nominated for deletion
The article on Srixon has been nominated for deletion. As this project wishes to keep individual pages for the major equipment manufacturers, please have your say here - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Srixon. --bigissue (talk) 09:10, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
New Golfer Infobox
Since the previous discussion on the golfer infobox seemed to stall before finalizing on a standard template, I have taken the liberty of creating a fairly generic one - Template:Infobox Golfer Biography - and applied it to Peter Jacobsen. Any comment/suggestions? --bigissue (talk) 22:00, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Infobox Golf Tournament
I could see no real need for two seperate infoboxes for tournaments, so have reworked the Template:Infobox Golf Tournament to make most fields optional, and added the additional ones that effectively makes Template:Infobox Former Golf Tournament redundant. Veiws? bigissue (talk) 14:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Help request: DYK nomination - Golf in Scotland
Hi. Could some kind soul please cast an eye over:
- Template_talk:Did_you_know#Articles_created.2Fexpanded_on_December_1
I feel that the hook could do with "tightening up" (perhaps a total re-write or "ALT" hook proposal?), and the article needs a lot of work with copy editing, refs, expansion etc etc. Pretty photographs or other good images would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. --Mais oui! (talk) 14:28, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
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