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Athletics

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Olympics

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Multi-sport events

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To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Redlinks on nations at World Games and Universiade.
Assess : Rate each tagged article by quality and importance to the WikiProject if it has not been done. (Overview at Category:Unassessed Multi-sport events articles)
Cleanup : clean-up listing for Multi-sport_events
Expand : 2009 Beach South American Games. All article related to preview Asian Games, such as 1962 Asian Games, 1958 Asian Games, etc. - Also Papua New Guinea at the 2015 Pacific Games and Fiji at the 2015 Pacific Games: athletes for most sports still to be added. -- Other articles that need expansion are the nations and events of the 2019 African Games. Help appreciated.
Other : Articles on multi-sport events, less the Olympic and Paralympic Games, need to be tagged on their talk pages with {{WikiProject Multi-sport events}}.

Sports

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To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

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 :
- Add reliable sources. Experienced editors have free access to books on sports from McFarland.
- 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

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AIN

Edit request 20 April 2025

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Description of suggested change:

Source: IWGA Documents->IWGA Operating Policy - Individual Neutral Athlete (AIN) Mike Rohsopht (talk) 18:43, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done: I highly suggest you find a way to make that source link usable on the image file page, though. Primefac (talk) 19:03, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request 18 July 2025

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Description of suggested change: I propose updating the AIN entry to ensure that the flag file "Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics Flag.svg" is used only for Olympic-related contexts, rather than as the default flag for all events.

The issue is that the Olympic-specific flag ("Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics Flag.svg") appears to be set as the default flag, which may cause it to be used in non-Olympic contexts (e.g., other sporting events). To address this, I suggest modifying the entry to explicitly assign the Olympic flag to Olympic contexts.

The current structure implies that "Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics Flag.svg" is the default flag, which is inappropriate for non-Olympic events like the 2025 Summer World University Games, which has its own flag.

Diff:

Mike Rohsopht (talk) 15:19, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Every country needs a default flag. I suspect AIN is going to be used primarily on Olympics-related articles. If there is a flag that is not the Olympics flag, then we can/should add it in as an additional option. Primefac (talk) 00:49, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request 26 July 2025

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Description of suggested change: see https://rhineruhr2025.com/en/schedule#/nation-schedule/AIN Diff:

Mike Rohsopht (talk) 11:16, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Primefac (talk) 11:25, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 13 August 2025

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Description of suggested change:

Afghanistan competes in the World Games using the tricolor flag used by the Islamic Republic, rather than the white flag favored by the Taliban (see https://sports.cctv.com/2025/08/07/ARTIGwmxzibubVz9evSxSfby250807.shtml)

Diff:

Sangjinhwa (talk) 03:56, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Primefac (talk) 08:34, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the default flag was already the tricolor flag.--Mike Rohsopht (talk) 10:14, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch, it is; I have reverted my change. Primefac (talk) 22:23, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request 29 November 2025

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Description of suggested change: The current version of the flag is being replaced with the official version of the Portuguese flag, for instance,Portugal, Template:Country data Portugal. The reason being that File:Flag of Portugal.svg is an outdated rendering of the Portuguese flag, unlike File:Flag of Portugal (official).svg (More info at: Template talk:Country data Portugal)

Diff:

GumballNine1Nine (talk) 10:05, 29 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Primefac (talk) 10:29, 29 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 17 March 2026

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Replace Venezuela's PNG flag with SVG for consistency Diff: As performed on sandbox DimensionalFusion (talk) 09:38, 17 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done Primefac (talk) 10:26, 17 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]