Wikipedia:WikiProject Figure Skating

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WikiProject Figure Skating
Parent projects	Sports Women's sports Olympics Dance
Tasks	Priority list Full to-do list
Guidelines	Terminology and linking Article structure and style Tables and templates Notability guidelines
Assessment	Overview A-class review Article alerts Recognitions
Tools	Templates Barnstars Newcomers talk Earwig's Copyvio Detector
Task forces	Women's figure skating Yuzuru Hanyu
List of members

Welcome to WikiProject Figure Skating! This collaborative project has been formed to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles on the sport of figure skating, including its disciplines, athletes, competitions, technical elements, statistics, and ice show productions. The project was created on May 23, 2006, and was majorly restructured in spring 2024.

Figure skating is a complex sport with a long list of terms and subject to continuous changes in performed elements, competition rules, and judging systems, requiring a high degree of sensitivity and accuracy in wording. However, it is a sport that casual readers may only watch every four years at the Winter Olympics, not being familiar with its rules and terms. Our goal is to ensure a high degree of accuracy, while making the sport accessible to the widest possible general audience.

If you are intested in the topic and wish to make a positive contribution to the project, please join our list of members! If you are not sure what to write or where to begin, you may take a look at our contribution corner. If you notice some issues or have good ideas on how to improve an article, please address the project's discussion forum.

Announcements

Important policy changes

The following policy changes need to be implemented on all articles and lists within the scope of WikiProject Figure Skating. They are mandatory for promotion to featured class, A-class, and good class. Everyone is invited to help with updating.

Gender equality support initiative

Following the recommendations of the 2021 IOC Gender Equality Review Project, presented by the International Olympic Committee and supported by the International Skating Union, the term "ladies" should be changed to "women" for a "fair and balanced portrayal" of men and women in all sports-related articles. Only exception is the wording of direct quotes. This new policy applies to all articles within the scope of WikiProject Figure Skating, including competitions and disciplines prior to 2021.

Professional figure skating support initiative

Professional figure skating has experienced a continuous decline over the last two decades, especially professional competitions, but also ice shows and individual careers. Among the key reasons are the lack of support by skating organizations and little coverage by the media. Professional skaters being labelled as "retired" further aggrevates the negative trend, making it harder to market their works and remind the public that they are still active skaters. For better support, it was decided by WikiProject Figure Skating NOT to use the term "retirement" or derivatives when referring to active professional skaters, but clearly mark the periods of their amateur and professional careers instead.

Project updates

• WikiProject Figure Skating: The main page and various sub-pages are undergoing major restructurings, making the project more accessible and easier to navigate. The new main page layout makes editing much easier as well compared to the previous left and right panel.
• Figure Skating Manual of Style: The manual has been split into separate guides for article structure and style and terminology and linking. The style guide also provides information on the formatting of tables and the use of figure skating-specific templates (some sections are still in the making).
• Figure skating assessment: Our project has set up new guidelines for article assessment regarding their quality and importance status. There is also a new page for A-class reviews of figure skating-related articles.
• Figure skater biographies: The infobox template has been majorly revamped, with multiple parameters being added or removed. The tables for world records, programs, competitive highlights, and detailed results now all have precast templates, which are recommended to be used for a uniform, MOS-conform layout across all articles. For a detailed list of additions and changes, check the first section on the project's talk page.

Current reviews

For the latest updates on reviews and other alerts, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Figure Skating/Article alerts.

This list shows current reviews of articles and lists within the scope of WikiProject Figure Skating. You are encouraged to participate as a reviewer, following our project's assessment criteria and quality standards. To join a review, just click on the "review"-link behind the article title.

Featured article reviews

• Currently no reviews

Featured list reviews

• List of Olympic medalists in figure skating (review)
• World Figure Skating Championships cumulative medal count (review)

A-class article reviews

• Yuna Kim (review)

Good article reviews

• Yulia Lipnitskaya (review)

Featured topic or good topic reviews

• Currently no reviews

General peer reviews

• Currently no reviews

Latest promoted works

For the full list of promoted and recognized works, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Figure Skating/Recognitions.

WikiProject Figure Skating is continuously working on improving figure skating-related articles. To present the project's quality standards and express appreciation to the authors' great work, the latest promoted featured article, featured list, A-class article, and good article are displayed in this section.

Latest featured article

Lipinski at the 2014 Winter Olympics Tara Lipinski (born June 10, 1982) is an American retired figure skater, actress, sports commentator, and documentary film producer. She is the 1998 Olympic and 1997 World gold medalist, becoming the youngest Olympic and World champion in figure skating history and the youngest single skater to win the U.S. Championships (1997). She is also the first woman to complete a triple loop-triple loop jump combination in competition. In 1998, Lipinski turned professional, becoming the youngest skater to win the World Professional Figure Skating Championships and having won every professional competition she entered. She also performed in various ice shows before retiring from figure skating in 2002. Alongside sports commentator Terry Gannon and figure skater and friend Johnny Weir, Lipinski became NBC's primary figure skating commentator in 2014. (Full article...)

Latest featured list

Hanyu at the 2017 World Championships Throughout his career, Japanese figure skater and ice show producer Yuzuru Hanyu has won a total of 59 medals, including 37 golds. He is the first male single skater in 66 years to win back-to-back Olympic titles (2014, 2018) and the first to complete the Super Slam, having won all major international junior and senior titles in his career. He broke world records 19 times, the most in singles since the introduction of the ISU Judging System, and was the first skater to land a quadruple loop jump in international competition. As a professional, Hanyu became the first skater to produce and present a solo ice show (Prologue 2022) and a solo tour (Repray Tour 2023–24). In recognition of his achievements, he has received numerous awards and accolades, including the People's Honor Award (2018), Japan's Medal of Honor with purple ribbon (2014, 2018), and the Kikuchi Kan Prize (2022). (Full article...)

Latest A-class article
None promoted yet

Latest good article

Chen at the 2018 Trophée de France Nathan Chen is an American figure skater who competed in the men's singles discipline. Being referred to as one of the greatest men's skaters by news outlets, he is the 2022 Olympic champion and a three-time World champion (2018, 2019, 2021). He also holds the record for the highest winning percentage in competition in the modern era, being undefeated for more than three years from 2018 to 2021, which has been named one of the most dominant periods in the sport's history. Chen has been recognized for performing technically exceptionally difficult programs, becoming the first skater to have landed all types of quadruple jumps in competition with exception of the quadruple Axel. In 2023, he was nominated for a Laureus World Sports Award and named Most Valuable Skater at the ISU Skating Awards. He was also featured in the Time 100 list of most influential people among other accolades. (Full article...)

About figure skating

Illustration of selected special figures from "Lessons in Skating" by George A. Meagher

Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. The sport gets its name from compulsory figures or school figures, which skaters placed and traced clean turns evenly on round circles on the ice. The International Skating Union (ISU) regulates international figure skating judging and competitions.

Figure skating was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, with its introduction occurring at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance; the four individual disciplines are also combined into a team event, which was first included in the Winter Olympics in 2014. From novice through senior-level competition, skaters generally perform two programs (the short program and the free skate), which, depending on the discipline, may include spins, jumps, lifts, throw jumps, death spirals, and other elements or moves.

How to contribute

You are interested in improving articles about figure skating? Excellent!

• You need inspiration for your next contribution? Then you may check out our current list of tasks below.
• You already have an idea, but are not familiar with Wikipedia and editing yet? Here is a quick guide on how to get started.
• You are an experienced Wikipedian, but not familiar with the sport of figure skating? No problem! We always welcome editors to review our articles for accessbility and understandibility from a casual reader's point of view. Every improvement in copyediting or general style issues is highly appreciated as well.

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WikiProject Figure Skating.

You wish to join our project? Awesome!

• All you need to do is adding the userbox {{User WPFigureSkating}} or category [[Category:WikiProject Figure Skating participants]] to your userpage.
• You may also add your name to this list of members.

Priority tasks

For the full to-do list, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Figure Skating/Tasks.

1. Vital articles: Brush up the quality of figure skating articles in the project's top importance category, with special focus on the correct use of figure skating terminology and the latest policy changes.
2. Stubs: Improve the quality of figure skating articles in the project's stub class category by expanding their prose and supporting information with reliable secondary sources. Make sure to destub the article, when your changes have been completed.
3. Skater biographies: Implement the latest infobox guidelines and new set of table templates on skaters' biographies.
4. Sourcing: Help improving the sourcing of figure skating articles by adding reliable secondary sources and archiving them at the Wayback Machine or another web archive. When all sources in an article's reference section have been successfully archived, please add the {{Archived reflist}} template below the header on the article's talk page.
5. Assessment: Help assessing figure skating articles by adding the {{WikiProject Figure Skating}} template at the top of their talk page (if not yet done), and give them a rating by importance and quality, following the guidelines for figure skating assessment.

Getting started

You are not familiar with Wikipedia and editing yet? No problem! Here is a quick guide to the best help pages:

1. New contributor's help page: This is the number one place for newcomers to find quick help and answers to the most important questions.
2. Getting started: A good way to start is to get informed about Wikipedia's five pillars and basics of contribution.
3. Introduction to editing: This is a step-by-step tutorial for the two standard types of editing. You may also take a look at this guide on how to edit a page.
4. Experimenting in sandboxes: If you do not feel confident to edit articles directly yet, you can try out Wikipedia's sandboxes to create drafts. You can either use the general sandbox or create your personal sandbox, following this tutorial.
5. Learning from the best works: Check out our section of latest promoted works to see what a good or excellent article looks like.
6. Achieving best quality: To improve articles to the highest quality, take a look at this guide on how to write a great article. You may also check out the guidelines presented in Wikipedia's and our project's Manual of Style.

Are there still open questions?

• Visit the Teahouse for basic or the Help desk for more advanced questions about Wikipedia.
• For questions specific to figure skating, you can use our project's talk page.
• For quick feedback, you can also type {{Help me}} on your talk page, and someone will come to help out ;)

Barnstars

For the full list of barnstars, see Wikipedia:Barnstars.

Improving the quality of Wikipedia is a long and tireless work. To express appreciation to the volunteer editors and promote a pleasant, collaborative atmosphere among members, our project has compiled a set of barnstars for various skills and valuable contibutions.

If you feel that a fellow Wikipedian has deserved a barnstar for their great work, create a new section on their talk page with "A barnstar for you" or similar title, copy the markup code of a fitting barnstar into that section, and add a personal message. Make sure to sign it with ~~~~.

Example: {{subst:The Figure Skating Barnstar|1=Thank you very much for your efforts to keep the lists about figure skating statistics updated. ~~~~}} renders as:

	The Figure Skating Barnstar
	Thank you very much for your efforts to keep the lists about figure skating statistics updated. Username (talk) 12:33, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Figure skating barnstars

Icon	Barnstar	Description
	The Figure Skating Barnstar	This barnstar shall be awarded to users who made valuable contributions to WikiProject Figure Skating. Markup: {{subst:The Figure Skating Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}
	The Bronze Figure Skating Barnstar	This barnstar shall be awarded to users who created or significantly improved an article to good class within the scope of WikiProject Figure Skating. Markup: {{subst:The Bronze Figure Skating Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}
	The Silver Figure Skating Barnstar	This barnstar shall be awarded to users who created or significantly improved an article to A-class within the scope of WikiProject Figure Skating. Markup: {{subst:The Silver Figure Skating Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}
	The Golden Figure Skating Barnstar	This barnstar shall be awarded to users who created or significantly improved an article or list to featured class within the scope of WikiProject Figure Skating. Markup: {{subst:The Golden Figure Skating Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}

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