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{{short description|Wikimedia subject-area collaboration}}
{{WikiProject status|inactive}}
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 | caption = Statue of [[Betty Cuthbert]]<br /> outside the [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]]
 | shortcuts = [[WP:RUN]]
 | category = Running
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 | commons = Running
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 | notice-extended = {{tl|WikiProject Running}}, {{tl|running project}}
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A [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|project]] was formed in 2006 to better organize information in articles related to '''[[running]]'''.   It includes: track and field, trail running, road racing, marathoning, and ultramarathoning. This page and its subpages contain suggestions for enhancing such articles; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts on these topics.  If you would like to help, please inquire on the [[{{NAMESPACE}} talk:{{PAGENAME}}|talk page]] and see the [[Wikipedia:to-do list|to-do list]] there.  For more information on WikiProjects, please see [[Wikipedia:WikiProjects]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices]].

==Scope==
This [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]] aims primarily to create, improve and organize articles relating to [[running]].  This includes but is not limited to the history of running as a competitive sport, as [[recreation]], and as a basic means of bipedal locomotion.  It includes: track and field, trail running, road racing, marathoning, and ultramarathoning.

===Hierarchy definition===
* [[Running]] ([[:Category:Running]])

==To do list==
{{User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription}}
 {{Running To-do}}
In the mean time, you can find a list of running articles requiring attention [https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/cwb/alpha/Running.html here].

==Subpages==
* List of {{subpages}}.

==Notices==

===Featured list===

As of August, 2007, the [[List of winners of the Boston Marathon]] has earned [[Wikipedia:Featured lists|featured list]] status, meaning it has been identified as one of the best lists produced by the Wikipedia community.

In June 2009, the [[List of winners of the London Marathon]] earned [[Wikipedia:Featured lists|featured list]] status.
===Tagging===
As of March 2010, we have over 500 articles currently tagged as being within the scope of this project. As of August 2010, we have now identified 9,524 articles as relating to this project. In September 2010, we identified an additional 680 articles that need to be assessed in terms of qualitfy and importance.

==Assessment criteria==
Assessment of [[running]]-related articles:
*'''Importance'''
** Top = Core article or primary definition; central running topic/person or necessary for basic coverage of the topic (for example:  [[sprint]], [[long distance running]])
** High = Core daughter article or significant related topic/person, hard to write the article comprehensively and NPOV without this article, enjoys widespread notability and consensus (e.g., [[Barefoot running]], [[Dipsea Race]])
** Mid = Daughter article or broad/basic definition, important for comprehensive coverage of the top issues, but not an integral definition (e.g., [[Jon Anderson (runner)]], [[Track Town, USA]]) For example, bio of runners that competed in the Olympics. Articles covering IAAF World Championship series are of at least mid importance.
** Low = Non-core, the topic could be covered without this article (e.g., [[Walt Stack]], [[Midnight Sun Run]]) Bio of runners who never competed in the Olympics.

*'''Quality'''
**Has attained FA
**A-class or could attain with a bit of work
**GA-class or could attain GA with a bit of work
**B-equivalent, mostly cited and accurate, but has some issues, could be citations, OR, POV, or incomprehensive.  Not too much work needed to bring to decent standard, but may still be a stub or start.
**Some cleanup/work needed, below B-class, has some issues like lack of citations, OR, POV, incomprehensive.  Sustained attention needed to bring to standard.
**More work needed, multiple issues such as uncited, essay, POV, dubious accuracy or questionable notability.  Lots of attention needed.

We have now shifted to a system where editors designate the importance and quality of each article using parameters on the  {{tl|Running project}} template on each article's talk page.

==Assessment table==
[[Image:Hr scree.jpg|thumb|300px|Photo taken during 2006 race.  Grant Swamp Pass, {{convert|12900|ft|m|abbr=on}}]][[Image:Finish_Gobi.JPG|thumb|300px|The finish line of the 2008 Gobi March.]]
All articles within the scope of WikiProject Running have been classified by quality and importance, as summarized in the table below.  Users can access a list of articles with a particular combination of quality and assessment ratings by clicking on the appropriate square in this table.
{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Running articles by quality statistics}}
* There is a [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Running articles by quality log|bot-generated daily log]] which lists articles Reassessed, Assessed and Removed.

* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Running/Popular pages|Popular pages]] lists top Running articles with the most frequent views. It is updated monthly.

It is expected that this rating and assessment scheme will require periodic and iterative maintenance, as new articles are created or identified, and existing articles are progressively improved (or, hopefully much rarer, demoted), requiring the status to be reassessed.

Of course, anyone is free to edit any of the articles they choose without regard to priority, however it is hoped that this will provide some basis for a more methodical approach to the longer-term overall improvement of content and coverage in the field.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Running<br>articles !! colspan="4" | Importance
|-
! Top !! High !! Mid !! Low
|-
! rowspan="10" | Quality
|-
! FA
|   <!-- Top --> '''A'''
* [[List of winners of the Boston Marathon]] (featured list)
 || <!-- High --> '''B'''
 || <!-- Mid --> '''C'''
 || <!-- Low --> '''D'''
|-
! almost<br />ready for A
|   <!-- Top --> '''E'''
 || <!-- High --> '''F'''
 || <!-- Mid --> '''G'''
 || <!-- Low --> '''H''' 
*[[Mary Wittenberg]]
|-
! almost<br /> ready for GA
 |  <!-- Top --> '''I'''
 || <!-- High --> '''J'''
*[[Fanny Blankers-Koen]]
 || <!-- Mid --> '''K'''
 || <!-- Low --> '''L'''
|-
! B-equiv.
 |  <!-- Top --> '''M'''
 || <!-- High --> '''N'''
 || <!-- Mid --> '''O'''
 || <!-- Low --> '''P'''
* [[Steve Prefontaine]]
|-
! Some<br />
cleanup<br />
needed
 |  <!-- Top -->  '''Q'''
 || <!-- High --> '''R'''
 || <!-- Mid --> '''S'''
 || <!-- Low --> '''T'''
|-
! More work
needed:<br />
Uncited,<br />
essay,<br />
notability,<br />
or POV
 |  <!-- Top --> '''U'''
* [[Marathon]]
 || <!-- High --> '''V'''
* [[Athletics (track and field)]]
* [[Barefoot running]]
* [[Trail running]]
* [[Ultramarathon]]

 || <!-- Mid --> '''W'''
* [[Fell running]]
* [[Half marathon]]
* [[List of marathon races]]
* [[Long-distance track event]]
* [[Marathon Year Rankings]]
* [[Multiday race]]
* [[Olympic Games]]
* [[Road running]]

 || <!-- Low --> '''X'''
;non-biographical
* [[Association of International Marathons and Distance Races]]
* [[Athlinks.com]]
* [[Bay to Breakers]]
* [[Chicago Marathon]]
* [[Dead Runners Society]]
* [[Frederick Marathon]]
* [[International Association of Athletics Federations]]
** [[IAAF World Half Marathon Championships]]
** [[IAAF World Road Running Championships]]
* [[International Olympic Committee]]
* [[Long Slow Distance]]
* [[London to Brighton events]]
* [[Manchester Road Race]]
* [[Marathon world best progression]]
* [[Midnight Sun Run]]
* [[Orienteering]]
* ''[[Runner's World]]''
* [[Tapering (sports)]]
* ''[[Track & Field News]]''
* [[Western States Endurance Run]]
* [[World Marathon Majors]]

;biographies
* [[Saïd Aouita]]
* [[Abebe Bikila]]
* [[Zola Budd]]
* [[Sebastian Coe]]
* [[Robert de Castella]]
* [[Derek Clayton]]
* [[Hicham El Guerrouj]]
* [[Haile Gebrselassie]]
* [[Frank Horwill]]
* [[Alberto Juantorena]]
* [[Kipchoge Keino]]
* [[Jarmila Kratochvílová]]
* [[Carlos Lopes]]
* [[Liz McColgan]]
* [[John Ngugi]]
* [[Paavo Nurmi]]
* [[Kate O'Neill]]
* [[Steve Ovett]]
* [[Jesse Owens]]
* [[Pete Pfitzinger]]
* [[Henry Rono]]
* [[Jim Ryun]]
* [[Toshihiko Seko]]
* [[Frank Shorter]]
* [[Grete Waitz]]
* [[Michael Wardian]]
*[[Hoover J. Wright]]
|-
|}

==Participants==
[[Image:USMC Marathon.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Runners participating in the 2004 US [[Marine Corps Marathon]].]]
You may add yourself to the list here and/or add {{tlx|User WP Running}} to your profile page.

* [[User:Gosox5555|Gosox5555]] 00:06, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
* [[User:Ombudsman|Ombudsman]] 08:16, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:Can't sleep, clown will eat me|Can&#39;t sleep, clown will eat me]] 05:30, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:Myleslong|Myles Long]] 18:04, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:MisterHand|MisterHand]] 01:00, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:Sharpdust|Sharpdust]] 03:38, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:I Wonder|I Wonder]] March 28 2006
* [[User:wayzatarunning|wayzatarunning]] April 30 2006
* [[User:Dunne409|Dunne409]] 07:23, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:SilkTork|SilkTork]] 21:41, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:Kelly Katula|Kelly Katula]]
* [[User:Zachyzz|Zachyzz]] 15:53, 15 June 2006
* [[User:Longhornsg|Longhornsg]] 21:54, 7 July 2006
* [[User:Farakon|Farakon]] 09:24, 19 July 2006
* [[User:Meynardtengco|Meynardtengco]] 01:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:fordsbasement|Fordsbasement]] 10:34, 28 August 2006
* [[User:Tonyfuchs1019|Tonyfuchs1019]] 18:11, 22 September 2006
* [[User:KarateLady|KarateLady]] September 25, 2006
* [[User:Mipchunk|Mipchunk]] 19:35, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:TrackMonkey|TrackMonkey]] 01:19, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
* [[User:WillMak050389|<span style="color:#336699;">Will</span>]][[User Talk:WillMak050389|<span style="color:#660000;">Mak</span>]][[Special:Contributions/WillMak050389|<span style="color:gray;">050389</span>]] 22:17, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
*[[User:Shideharagaikou|Shideharagaikou]] 15:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
* [[User:DJREJECTED|DJREJECTED]] 02:13, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
* [[User:Borat fan|Borat fan]] 20:46, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
* [[User:Chrislamagne|Chrislamagne]] 17:24, 31 March 2007
* [[User:Geraldk|Geraldk]] 23:51, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
* [[User:Racepacket|Racepacket]]
* [[User:Marlith|<b><span style="color:Blue;">'''Marlith'''</span></b>]] [[User_Talk:Marlith|<span style="color:orange;"><sup><small>'''T'''</small></sup></span>]]/[[Special:Contributions/Marlith|<span style="color:orange;"><small>'''C'''</small></span>]] 03:48, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
* [[User:Redmarkviolinist|Redmarkviolinist]] 17:37, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
* [[User:NSH001|NSH001]] ([[User talk:NSH001|talk]]) 23:11, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
* [[User:Teh Rote|Teh Rote]] ([[User talk:Teh Rote|talk]]) 01:07, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
* [[User:Blooded Edge|Blooded Edge]]: I've always been very interested in professional sprinters, and look forward to helping this project in acheiving its goals.
* [[User:Sticky Parkin|<b style="color:#FF8C00;">Sticky</b>]] [[User talk:Sticky Parkin|<b style="color:#FF8C00;">Parkin</b>]] 00:39, 10 November 2008 (UTC) I run as an attempt at fitness and enjoy organising/trying to improve articles on wiki:)
* [[User:Riwo|Riwo]] 
* [[User:Runningguy|Runninguy]]
* [[User:Bearas|Bearas]] 6 April 2010
* [[User:Jakla|jakla]] 31 October 2010
* [[User:Bezza84|Bezza84]] ([[User talk:Bezza84|talk]]) 15:31, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
* [[User:Jowaninpensans|Jowaninpensans]] 6 August 2011
* [[User:CanadianWikiUser|CanadianWikiUser]] 30 January 2013
* [[User:Green_Pistachio|Green Pistachio]] 22 November 2013
* [[User:Legoboyvdlp]]
* [[User:Mad_runnerist|mad runnerist]] 20 August 2014
* [[User:TheEditor867|TheEditor867]] 24 April 2015 (UTC)
* [[User:LongDistance06]] 16 October 2015
* [[User:Whoisjohngalt]] 25 April 2016
* [[User:Curtisclaar|Curtisclaar]] ([[User talk:Curtisclaar|talk]]) 23:24, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
* [[User:Metro man 27]] ([[User talk: Metro man 27|talk]])
* [[User:Habst|Habst]] ([[User talk:Habst|talk]]) 06:19, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
* [[User:Jackalopeicus|Jackalopeicus]] ([[User talk:Jackalopeicus|talk]]) 12:1942 15 October 2019 (UTC)
* [[User:Jahamian876242|Jahamian876242]] ([[User talk:Jahamian876242|talk]]) 20:48, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
* {{User|Fuchsia the Sun}} 15:58, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
* [[User:CipherSleuth|CipherSleuth]] ([[User talk:CipherSleuth|talk]]) 17:59, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
* [[User:Oignonne|Oignonne]] ([[User talk:Oignonne|talk]]) 14:05, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

==Article Alerts==
'''Notice''' there is a proposed new notability standard for runners which can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(sports)#Athletics.2FTrack_.26_Field_and_Cross_Country here].  A vote is currently being conducted on the talk page to adopt this as an official guideline to replace [[WP:ATHLETE]].
{{/Article alerts}}

You can click [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Running/Popular pages|here]] to see a list of project pages with the most page views.

==Infoboxes==
*{{tl|Infobox athletics race}}
*{{tl|Infobox sportsperson}}

==Templates==
{| border="1" cellspacing="0"7
|-
! What to type !! What it makes !! What it's for
|-
| {{tl|running-stub}}<br>[[Template talk:running stub|Talk]]
| {{running-stub}}
| The official stub for running-related articles.
|-
| {{tl|running project}}<br>[[Template talk:running project|Talk]]
| {{WikiProject Running|category=no}}
| The ''project notice'', designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of this Wikiproject.
|-
| {{tl|User Running}}<br>[[Template talk:User running|Talk]]
| {{User Running}}
| Just a userbox to tell others what you love to do!
|-
| {{tl|User WikiProject Running}}<br>[[Template talk:User WikiProject Running|Talk]]
| {{User WikiProject Running}}
| Just a userbox to tell others what you love to do on wikipedia!
|-
| {{tl|Running To-do}}<br>[[Template talk:Running To-do|Talk]]
| {{Running To-do}}
| A centralized to do list for the project
|}

==Related projects and pages==
The parents of this WikiProject are [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports|WikiProject Sports]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Transport|WikiProject Transport]].

Similar WikiProjects include:
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cycling]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Swimming]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Triathlon]]

Related WikiProjects include

* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports Results]] has been established for discussion of unifying tables, records and results.  For [[Athletics (track and field)]], there are several different styles of tables for displaying results.  The [[Olympic Games]], [[IAAF World Championships in Athletics]], [[European Championships in Athletics|European Championships]] and [[Commonwealth Games]] each evidence different styles.
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Athletics]]

==External links==
*[http://toolserver.org/~tim1357/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py?template=WikiProject+Running Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Running]

[[Category:Sports-related WikiProjects|Running]]
[[Category:WikiProject Running]]