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Welcome to '''WikiProject Swimming'''!  This [[WikiPedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]] is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to competitive [[swimming (sport)|swimming]] and other aquatic sports.

;Goals
:* To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of swimming and water sports.
:* To improve Wikipedia's coverage of swimming and water sports by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
:* To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to swimming and water sports in Wikipedia.

; Scope
: The project generally considers ''any'' article related to competitive swimming, long course swimming, short course swimming, open water swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming, and participants, coaches and governing organizations of those disciplines to be within the scope of the project.

== Current work ==

This wikiproject is currently inactive. However I ([[User:It is a wonderful world|It is a wonderful world]]) will keep track of the progress on keeping the event articles up to date here, so people can easily see what needs doing. If anyone wants to collaborate with me to work on these articles and/or rejuvenate this project, feel free to ping me! It's always fun working with others.

X = Competition not held on that year

{{Icon|na}} = Not yet created

C = Created

{{Icon|stub}} = Results are added and up to date

{{Icon|c}} = Article and any notable event articles are somewhat complete but they need cleanup (normally sources need to be added)

{{Icon|B}} = Article and any notable event articles are complete and don't need significant cleanup

{{Icon|GA}} = Good article

{{Icon|gt}} = Good topic (article and event articles are all good articles)

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|[[Olympic Games]]
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|[[World Aquatics Championships|World Long Course Championships]]
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|[[World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m)|World Short Course Championships]]
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|[[Pan Pacific Swimming Championships|Pan Pacific Championships]]
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|[[LEN European Aquatics Championships|European Long Course Championships]]
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|[[African Swimming Championships|African Championships]]
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|[[Oceania Swimming Championships|Oceania Championships]]
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|[[United States Swimming National Championships|US National Championships]]
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|[[FINA Marathon Swim World Series|Open Water World Cup]]
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|[[Paralympics]]
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== Departments ==
=== Assessment ===
<div style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Swimming}}</div>

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's swimming articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the [[WP:1.0]] program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{tl|WP Swimming}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Swimming articles by quality|automatically generated worklist]].

=== Task forces and subpages ===
* [[/Water polo work group|Water polo work group]] (inactive)
* List of {{subpages}}

== Category tree ==
{{category tree|WikiProject Swimming}}

== Featured content ==
At this time, there is currently '''one''' swimming {{icon|FT}}[[WP:FT|featured topic]], meaning it represents Wikipedia's best work in covering a subject comprehensively and with items of consistently good quality:
{{Wikipedia:Featured topics/Quietly Confident Quartet}}

There are currently '''twelve''' swimming {{icon|FA}}[[WP:FA|featured articles]], meaning that they represent the best of Wikipedia:
*[[Neil Brooks]]
*[[Avery Brundage]]
*[[Peter Evans (swimmer)]]
*[[Mark Kerry]]
*[[Faith Leech]]
*[[Sandra Morgan]]
*[[Ian O'Brien]]
*[[Kevin O'Halloran]]
*[[Quietly Confident Quartet]]
*[[Ian Thorpe]]
*[[Mark Tonelli]]
*[[Bob Windle]]

There are also '''three''' {{icon|FA}}[[WP:FL|featured list]]s:
*[[List of Olympic records in swimming]]
*[[List of Australian Olympic medallists in swimming]]
*[[List of Swimming World Swimmers of the Year]]

== Helpful online references ==

* Australian Olympic Committee, [http://corporate.olympics.com.au/olympian-search  Olympian Search]  (free online database of Australian Olympic athlete profiles)

* Matthew De George, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=eXSQAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=%22Tim+McKee%22+%22Gunnar+Larsson%22&source=bl&ots=rpcSlFaTXK&sig=G2DYzgOmkcAKXiDO9Rc6rOB-XHo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gFjwVMqPI4rnsAT924HwBw&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22Tim%20McKee%22%20%22Gunnar%20Larsson%22&f=false  Duels in the Pool: Swimming's Greatest Rivalries]'', Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland (2013).  {{ISBN|978-0810891753}}.  (portions available online for free preview)

* Matthew De George, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=dDH7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=%22Geoff+Gaberino%22&source=bl&ots=EYwxMZ_hE7&sig=3BtMRVEL-F129gGlJ6ItCN9QbJQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ru_4VNLKJtSlyATquIL4DQ&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=%22Geoff%20Gaberino%22&f=false  Pooling Talent: Swimming's Greatest Teams]'', Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland (2014).  {{ISBN|978-1-4422-3701-8}}.  (portions available online for free preview)

* FINA, [http://www.fina.org/athletes  Athletes Biographies] (free online database of current notable international swimmers)

* FINA, [http://www.fina.org/content/press-corner-histofina  HistoFINA Olympic and World Aquatics Championships medalists] (free online PDF listing of all medalists)

* FINA, [http://www.fina.org/content/swimming-records  World and Olympic Swimming Records] (free online PDF listing of current world records, broken out several different ways)

* GBRathletics.com, [http://www.gbrathletics.com/commonwealth/  Commonwealth Games Medallists] (free online Commonwealth Games database service, including medallists and times)

* Graham Groom, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=NezwBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA494&lpg=PA494&dq=%22Patricia+Noall%22+swimmer&source=bl&ots=ja_wTD6Lbz&sig=i5ce4hZOzgVhKWfDqd08aFRp-5w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=26ZKVY26BdfroASZ6oDABw&ved=0CFgQ6AEwDg#v=onepage&q=%22Patricia%20Noall%22%20swimmer&f=false  The Complete Book of the Commonwealth Games]'', Lulu Press, Raleigh, North Carolina (2013).  (portions available online for free preview)

* International Swimming Hall of Fame, [http://www.ishof.org/by-last-name.html List of Honorees by Last Name] (free online database of ISHOF honoree profiles)

* International Swimming Hall of Fame, [https://web.archive.org/web/20141010202854/http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf  List of Medalists], includes medalists for the Olympics (1896–2004), FINA World Championships (1973–2005), Pan Pacific Championships (1985–2002), Pan American Games (1951–2003), World University Games (1959–2005), Short Course World Championships (1993–2004).  (freely archived from ISHOF original online PDF document)

* John P. Lohn, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=RWLKhp7HEkMC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=%22Tim+McKee%22+Larsson&source=bl&ots=k27Oq8_wPq&sig=FsaX8IcuFDskqs23-bShX110WlU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Rt3kVOLtDMKYgwTFq4DADg&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAjgU#v=snippet&q=Tracy%20Caulkins&f=false  Historical Dictionary of Competitive Swimming]'', Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland (2010).  {{ISBN|978-0810867758}}.  (portions available online for free preview)

* John P. Lohn, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=YUJVBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=%22Tim+McKee%22+%22Gunnar+Larsson%22&source=bl&ots=D0vWU8UvL4&sig=whNj6XVzYsWBd-tpQJ6hXZKSyJ0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gFjwVMqPI4rnsAT924HwBw&ved=0CFMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22Tim%20McKee%22%20%22Gunnar%20Larsson%22&f=false  The Most Memorable Moments in Olympic Swimming]'', Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland (2014).  {{ISBN|978-1442236998}}.  (portions available online for free preview)

* David Maraniss, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Q9W69_bGg3cC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=%22Lance+larson%22+Rome+1960&source=bl&ots=s6JzfVV8Hk&sig=7GpqX7xG08q9aoe-T4XCF0Q-3-w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lfIBVdmJBMOYgwS_14D4CQ&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22Lance%20larson%22%20Rome%201960&f=false  Rome 1960: The Olympics That Stirred the World]'', Simon & Schuster, New York, New York (2008).  {{ISBN|978-1-4165-3407-5}}.  (portions available online for free preview)

* National Collegiate Athletic Association, [http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/swimming_champs_records/2014-15/D1men14.pdf  NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving], NCAA, Indianapolis, Indiana (2014).  (free online PDF copy of NCAA championship records and results through 2014)

* Newspapers.com, [http://www.newspapers.com/ Keyword Search]  (online subscription archive for historical newspapers -- free memberships available through Wikipedia)

* ''The New York Times'', [http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html Article Archive]  (online subscription newspaper article archive)

* New Zealand Olympic Committee, [http://www.olympic.org.nz/nzolympic/medals/cwg/date  New Zealand Medals] (free online database of New Zealand medalists at Olympics and Commonwealth Games)

* Steven Olderr, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=IXIwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA242&lpg=PA242&dq=%22Frank+Heckl%22+swimmer+born&source=bl&ots=NyVwDhsVry&sig=Z9WXnf1Hna8dNlqVjKUWqKIGKaY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBmoVChMIjsKSsuy3xwIVxTs-Ch144gEa#v=onepage&q=%22Frank%20Heckl%22%20swimmer%20born&f=false  The Pan American Games: A Statistical History, 1951–1999]'', McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina (2009).  {{ISBN|978-0-7864-4336-9}}.  (portions available online for free preview)

* ''Sports Illustrated'', [http://www.si.com/vault  Vault]  (free online archive of 60+ years of American sports magazine articles)

* Sports-Reference.com, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305203242/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/search/search.fcgi?search=  Olympic Athlete Directory]  (free online Olympics database service, including Olympic athlete profiles, team lists and event results; '''caution''': please note that Sports-Reference incorrectly lists pre-1984 swimmers in preliminary heats of relays as medalists)

* SwimSwam, [http://swimswam.com/news News articles covering recent events and results]

* SwimVortex, [http://www.swimvortex.com/swimming-news/ News articles covering recent events and results]

* ''Swimming World Magazine'', [http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/NewsArchives.asp Swimming World News Archives]  (free online archive for last 20 years of swimming magazine articles)

* USA Swimming, [http://www.usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1454&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en  National Team Roster]  (free online database of current U.S. national team member profiles)

* USA Swimming, [http://www.usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1476&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en  World, American & U.S. Open Records]  (free online PDF listings of world, American and U.S. Open records, including record progressions)

== Participants ==
{{sisterlinks|Swimming}}

Note: Please add your name to the bottom of the Active list if you would like to participate.

===Active members===
# [[User:Voltmetro|Voltmetro]]
# [[User:EileenSanda|Eileen Sandá]] (Creating, editing and expanding articles about swimmers, mainly Faroese and Danish)
# [[User:Gap9551|Gap9551]] (General updates and improvements)
# [[User:Ianblair23|Ianblair23]]
# [[User:matthewm192|matthewm192]] {{flagu|Great Britain}} (making sure current articles are correct and up to date)
# [[User:SmartyPants22|SmartyPants22]]
# [[User:Phikia|Phikia]] (Creating, editing and expanding Wikipedia namespaces related to water polo)
# [[User:SarahTHunter|SarahTHunter]] (Creating bios of Paralympic swimmers)
# [[User:IAmHz|IAmHz]] (Expanding women swimmer biographies, mainly U.S. and Mexico in English and Spanish)
# [[User:It is a wonderful world|It is a wonderful world]] (Lots of swimming edits!)

==Article alerts==
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== WikiProject Swimming templates ==
=== Talk page tags ===
* {{tl|WikiProject Swimming}}
* {{tl|WikiProject Water polo}}

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| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[User:UBX/Swimmer 2|User swimmer]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
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| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:User diver|User diver]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
| {{User diver}}
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| <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:User synchronized swimmer|User synchronized swimmer]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
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