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Welcome to WikiProject Netball! Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Netball. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you have a passion for netball and wish to make Wikipedia the world's foremost reference on netball like the rest of our participants, then add your name to the participants list below. Read the section below labelled How to help or enquire on our talk page. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
WikiProject Netball aims to create, expand and update all articles relating to netball, including:
International and domestic teams
International and domestic competitions
Netball biographies
Governing bodies
Major venues
Rules
Netball by year
Netball by country
The WikiProject also aims to develop and maintain templates, infoboxes, navboxes and categories to assist with content and article organisation. A Netball Portal will also be maintained.
The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's netball-related articles. Editors can also request an assessment of a netball-related article there.
Please use the project talk page to discuss any issues you would like to raise. Comments on the layout of the project and Portal are more than welcome.
Updating Recent deaths and Current sports events when notable netballers pass on (As newspaper obituaries are usually written when a netballer dies, it is also an opportunity to write up and improve the Wikipedia article on that player.)
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.
Categorize: Devise/refine category structure for Netball and apply to articles.
With netball the most popular sport played by women in Australia and New Zealand, both countries have a semi-professional domestic competition receiving wide media coverage. The women's game is played internationally at a high level, with Australia and New Zealand undoubtedly the world's strongest teams; whilst not attracting much public attention, there are representative men's netball teams. Netball involves many technical and physical skills. Players use their height advantage to either shoot for goals or defend them ... (more)
