Wikipedia:WikiProject Lacrosse

Welcome to the Lacrosse WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the sport of lacrosse.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

The goal of this project is to organize the efforts of those working on articles about and concerning the sport of lacrosse, including all four distinct versions of the sport: men's field lacrosse, box lacrosse (or indoor lacrosse), women's lacrosse, and intercrosse or soft-stick lacrosse. Each has its own article with a link from the main lacrosse article.

Leagues

All professional or highest level of play lacrosse leagues should have articles describing the teams, former teams, champions and past champions, awards, etc.

List of leagues:

• Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse - women's, Athletes Unlimited model
• Major Series Lacrosse - box, Senior A, summer, Ontario
• National Lacrosse League - box, winter/spring, United States and Canada
• Premier Lacrosse League - field, touring model, United States and Canada
• Western Lacrosse Association - box, Senior A, summer, British Columbia
• Major League Lacrosse - defunct field league
• Women's Professional Lacrosse League - defunct women's, United States

Teams

All team pages need improvement. They should have several prose sections, including history, championship descriptions, notable years, and notable players. Perhaps arena info or broadcasting. Tables should include championships, yearly records, roster of players, head coaches, maybe draft picks. Example: Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014). Or any NFL, NBA, MLB, or NHL team page.

WPLL team pages are stubs. Also, almost all WLA and MSL teams are stubs with very few citations. Finally, PLL team pages are mostly statistics, with very little prose content. An external link to the PLL's stat page would suffice for the individual stats table.

Players

• {{Infobox lacrosse player}} should be used on all player pages.
• Player pages should include the year(s) that the player has played, which team(s) he/she played for (in as many leagues as possible), and should include stats (at least for NLL, PLL and MLL) if possible.
• Any participation in international lacrosse should be mentioned as well.

Other

Create and improve pages on tournaments and championships - Mann Cup, Minto Cup, NCAA, Heritage Cup, World Lacrosse championships, other international tournaments, etc.

Expand international lacrosse articles.

Tasks

clean-up listing for Lacrosse

• Recruit new members
• Expand stub articles, especially high importance stubs
• Create pages for Premier Lacrosse League team’s seasons and move information such as stats and rosters from the team main page to those pages.
• Fix individual players articles. So many of them are outdated or badly written and need to be fixed.
• Expand women's lacrosse article. Include description of positions (cover point, 1-3 home, etc.), penalties section should be prose, & an explanation of equipment differences, etc.
• Expand articles Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse, season pages should include week-by-week standings updates(at least for the top four) and week-by-week draft selections and results.
• Expand existing articles on Major League Lacrosse and Premier Lacrosse League teams.
• Expand existing articles on Canadian Senior A summer box lacrosse leagues WLA and MSL) and teams (history, records, etc.).
• Create pages for inductees and teams/associations referenced in National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame & Canadian Hall of Fame.
• Create bio articles for any of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame members. Information about them can be found at their HOF bios.
• Create NLL Team Season articles
• Create articles on the current ILIndoor top 20 NLL players: [1]. Create new articles on current and former NLL players. Current players can be found at NLL rosters article.
• Create and improve articles on Inside Lacrosse's 20 best field lacrosse players. Randy Staats, Zach Currier, Bryan Cole, and Justin Guterding are all top 10 pro outdoor players without articles.
• Go through Unassessed lacrosse articles and add class and importance parameters (see assessment for details)
• Tag lacrosse-related articles with {{WikiProject Lacrosse |class= |importance= }} on their talk page, filling in class and importance
• Create new and expand existing articles on international lacrosse. Create an article for Lacrosse in Ireland
• Find members of HOF who already have articles and properly link them
• Images for articles in Category:Wikipedia requested images of lacrosse
• Create and improve articles about Tewaaraton Award winners. They are all notable enough for articles. See {{Tewaaraton Trophy}} and tewaaraton.com.
• Find a criteria for creating articles about lacrosse players for WP:ATH. A conversation on the talk page was started. Add opinions there to get to a consensus for what the criteria should be.
• Expand articles on the Women's Professional Lacrosse League and each of it’s teams.

Assessment

Lacrosse articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				1			1
GA	2	8	7	11			28
B	4	1	8	12			25
C	4	17	34	44		12	111
Start	6	101	248	425		43	823
Stub	1	11	239	435		99	785
List		4	15	22			41
File					93		93
NA		1	15	12	1,346		1,374
Assessed	17	143	566	962	1,439	154	3,281
Unassessed				4		213	217
Total	17	143	566	966	1,439	367	3,498
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 9,400			Ω = 5.30

Note that pages tagged with a class of "Image" do not appear in this table.

Further information: Wikipedia:WikiProject Lacrosse/Assessment

The assessment system allows the WikiProject to monitor the quality of articles in its subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. The class and importance should be filled in on the parameters of the {{WikiProject Lacrosse}} template on the article's talk page.

These guidelines can help to determine what class should be assigned to an article.

Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Active

(users actively editing lacrosse content and new users)

1. MrBoo (Talk) -- NLL
2. lukeoz (Talk) -- Lacrosse in Australia and Australian Lacrosse League
3. 10stone5 - Played college lacrosse. Interested in updating college lacrosse entries, but will also handle NLL whenever possible.
4. Paploo - I am a proud purple-and-teal-bleeding Rochester Knighthawks fan (a Lifetime Krew member, no less). I can help on the article, and would like to help on any past and present K-Hawk player articles.
5. Shootmaster 44 - I can help with some of the Saskatchewan related lacrosse articles, as well as a bit with the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League.
6. Yarnalgo (Talk) -- MLL / NLL / International (sort of)
7. Bhockey10 (Talk) – WPLAX member since 2010. Mostly focus on College lacrosse teams, conferences, and organizations.
8. EmjayMiller (Talk) – College, high school & youth lacrosse in USA
9. Nurmsook - International tournaments
10. Bes2224 - MLL, NLL, PLL, minor leagues
11. Davidjsc - I've updated the Western Lacrosse Association page with franchise movement. My area of interest in BC lacrosse; especially the BC field leagues from 1886-1931. I'll eventually post up my BC history articles which can be found at [2]; As a former league executive with the West Central Lacrosse League, I've been responsible for constructing and maintaining the entry for that league. I'm currently involved with the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame board of directors, as the person responsible for acquisitions and archives. Recently I proofed and updated the names on the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame page as there were errors and omissions.
12. TheScottDL - updated the 'Lacrosse Leagues' categories and added a Senior/Post-Collegiate area. Deleted 'Professional' category with MLL combined with all indoor leagues.
13. DMighton -- Ontario Lacrosse Association and Amateur Championships
14. schetm - Radiating out from the Bandits, where I'm a season ticket holder, I'm creating player articles, importing various stats, and trying to improve NLL content in the spare time I have
15. Taxman1913 - NLL and MLL
16. Daniel Case – Just returned to lacrosse after 30 years by reffing local HS games; finding that a lot of articles about gameplay could use work.
17. Mnnlaxer Main articles, international, basic templates, categories, assessment, whatever. See my user page for articles I've worked on significantly.
18. Twooeight - creating articles about the top lacrosse players, fixing articles with maintenance tags.
19. Sue Kastle - PLL and MLL. Creating/updating articles about seasons all-star games).
20. ThatWikiAl - PLL and NLL. Creating articles about top players, recording league statistics.
21. B1GLAX2 - College lacrosse. Updating season results and creating articles for significant rivalries.
22. DFC54 - College Lacrosse Team Pages and PLL
23. Jsfxmn - Various pages(mainly field lacrosse, will also work on women's lacrosse as I see it, very little box lacrosse) as I find them and work on them, if you see an article that needs work, tell me on my talk page, I'll see what I can do!
24. OnlyNano - creating articles
25. SammySpartan - College lacrosse, NLL, PLL
26. Buffalkill - Updating and improving stale articles

Inactive

(users that haven't edited lacrosse content in over a year)

1. CanbekEsen (Talk) -- I don't know much of lacrosse, but I'd be glad to copy-edit or clean-up any articles.
2. Vincent Ree (Talk) -- Albany Attack mostly.
3. JamesTeterenko (Talk) -- mostly interested in the Calgary Roughnecks of the NLL -- hopefully, I'll get some more pictures in the season
4. Doradus (Talk) -- I don't have a ton of time to spend on Wikipedia these days, but I'll help where I can.
5. Wwwhhh - Primarily Australian Lacrosse, but keen to help improve all articles.
6. RedSkull619 -- I can help with the MLL articles, mainly the Baltimore Bayhawks; I can also sort through for reworking on grammar and writing style for any article
7. Racer38 - I can help with most lacrosse articles currently on Wikipedia.
8. J71- Mostly BC box lacrosse, I can help with player pages as well.
9. lesserm - Mainly Ohio and Midwestern lacrosse. Can help with MLL
10. AmandaWins - I can help with basically anything, esp. clean-up, and college and high school lacrosse teams and rules.
11. Joe - I've created all the brackets and pages for the NCAA DI Tourney since 2003.
    • Added some earlier tournament brackets. Will add and 8 team bracket template.
12. Sekuloguy. I am a huge Long Island Lizards fan and can help on that article. I can also help on the MLL article.
13. Amaryllis25 - I'd like to help on college entries and on women's lacrosse entries.
14. The Founders Intent - I'd be glad to research things for folks.
15. Panicpack-NLL/MLL/Western
16. Bvalx2005
17. BricoleurHistory of Lacrosse in British Columbia
18. Xander756 - NLL
19. Mherr - NLL/MLL/High school and college lacrosse
20. MNLax8 - New to wikipedia. College player, experienced and knowledgable stringer. I'd like to help out with stick technology and stringing technology/technique, and can help with NCAA and MCLA college lacrosse.
21. Mitico (talk) - General interest
22. Strikehold (Talk) – College lacrosse, particularly teams in Maryland
23. Epeefleche - general interest
24. MrCasteMania - MLL and Youth Lacrosse
25. Da Drewster -
26. Smith03 (Talk) -- I have no real knowledge of the game but am willing to work on MLL and NCAA (college). glad to see someone start a project for it
27. MattBinYYC- NLL, mostly the Calgary Roughnecks. Sporadic edits.
28. Diogenes00 - Interested in NCAA D1 Lacrosse, specifically JHU. I'll try to add some of the better-known college players of the last 20 or so years...
29. MrShamrock. Huge Victoria Shamrocks fan, I got them covered. Will also contribute to other WLA teams and players' pages.
30. LaxKeeper (Talk) - Fan of women's college lacrosse
31. jc121383 - NLL

Articles

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 15 Nov 2024 – Kevin Frew (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 15 Nov 2024 – Ryan Cranston (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 14 Nov 2024 – Chris Ajemian (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 14 Nov 2024 – Nate Bauers (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 14 Nov 2024 – Matt Alrich (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 16 Nov 2024 – Joe Vasold (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by JTtheOG (t · c): concern
• 16 Nov 2024 – Spencer Steele (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by JTtheOG (t · c): concern
• 15 Nov 2024 – Matt Eckerl (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by JTtheOG (t · c): concern
• 15 Nov 2024 – Ross Johnson (lacrosse) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by JTtheOG (t · c): concern
• 15 Nov 2024 – Jim Borell (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by JTtheOG (t · c): concern
• 14 Nov 2024 – Michael Schofield (lacrosse) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by JTtheOG (t · c): concern

Unreferenced BLPs

For information on Biographies of Living Persons (BLPs), see WP:BLP.

It is very important that these articles are dealt with quickly because they can easily become candidates for deletion.

There are no unreferenced BLPs tagged by Template:WikiProject Lacrosse.

New articles

New articles older than one year are archived to here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Lacrosse/New articles archive.

Please feel free to list your new Lacrosse-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

Note: If you remove something from here, please archive it to the New Articles page.

• Army–Navy lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
• Cornell–Syracuse lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
• Hobart–Syracuse lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
• Johns Hopkins–Navy lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
• Johns Hopkins–Princeton lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
• Johns Hopkins–Syracuse lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
• Johns Hopkins–Virginia lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
• Loyola–Towson lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
• Maryland–Navy lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
• Maryland–Virginia lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
• Duke–North Carolina lacrosse rivalry by B1GLAX2 (talk) 05:13, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Good Articles (GAs)

Core articles

• Box lacrosse
• Field lacrosse

Events

• 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
• 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
• Johns Hopkins – Maryland rivalry

People

• Scott Bacigalupo
• Ryan Boyle
• Dan Cocoziello
• Christian Cook
• Jack Faber
• Alex Hewit
• Jon Hess (lacrosse)
• Jesse Hubbard
• Kevin Lowe
• Chris Massey
• Ryan Mollett
• David Morrow
• Joe Nieuwendyk
• Alan Pastrana
• B. J. Prager
• Bill Schmeisser
• Josh Sims
• Matt Striebel
• Trevor Tierney
• Peter Trombino
• Don Zimmerman

Places

• Scotiabank Saddledome
• Moda Center

Images

For images of lacrosse and lacrosse-related things check the Wikimedia Commons at commons:Category:Lacrosse. Also make sure to check commons:Category:Lacrosse in the United States which has a lot of good action shots.

Logos

League and team logos should contain this:
{{Non-free logo|sports logos}}

Fair use template for logos

Note that logos (teams, leagues, etc.) require a "Fair use" tag and rationale. Here's the page from Image:BaltimoreThunder.png as an example:

{{Non-free media rationale
|Description    = Logo of the [[Baltimore Thunder]] lacrosse team (now defunct)
|Source         = http://www.logoserver.com/MILLNLL.html
|Article        = Baltimore Thunder
|Portion        = Entire image
|Purpose        = for fair use:
*This image is a low-resolution image of the logo.
*This image does not limit the copyright holder's ability to profit from the original source, nor will it dilute the importance or
recognition of the logo in connection with its organization.
*This image enhances the article in which it's displayed, as it provides an immediate means of visual identification of the subject to
the reader more capably than the textual description alone.
*Use of the logo visually identifies the organization in a manner that mere prose cannot, and meets all criteria in WP:NFCC.
|Resolution     = Yes
|Replaceability = Not replaceable
}}

Templates

National Lacrosse League

{{NLL}}:

{{NLL Arenas}}:

{{NLL seasons}}:

Major League Lacrosse

{{Major League Lacrosse}}:

{{MLL Stadiums}}:

NCAA

{{NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championships}}:

Premier Lacrosse League

{{Premier Lacrosse League}}:

Roster templates

There are two player templates; one for actual rosters and another for lists.

The {{Player}} template should be used for rosters and roster templates, where the {{Lacrosse player list}} template should be used for lists.

{{Lacrosse player start}}
{{Lacrosse player list | no=num | pos=pos | nat=Canada | name=name | other=other }}
{{Lacrosse player mid}}
{{Lacrosse player end}}

Which looks like this:

No. Position Player num pos name (other)

No. Position Player

Other

{{Field Lacrosse Leagues}}:

Infoboxes

Place these infoboxes at the top of the respective articles

Lacrosse specific

• {{Infobox lacrosse player}}
• {{Infobox college lacrosse team}}
• {{Infobox lacrosse team season}}
• {{Infobox college lacrosse championship}}
• {{Infobox international lacrosse competition}}
• {{Infobox national indoor lacrosse team}}
• {{Infobox national lacrosse team}}

Generic

• {{Infobox sports team}}
• {{Infobox sports league}}
• {{Infobox college coach}}
• {{Infobox NCAA conference tournament}}

Categories

Note that some categories may be subcategories of more than one category.

WikiProject Lacrosse

Lacrosse stubs

Wikipedia requested images of lacrosse people

WikiProject Lacrosse articles

Lacrosse

Lacrosse by populated place

Lacrosse by continent

Lacrosse by country

Lacrosse by decade

Lacrosse by year

Lacrosse-related lists

Lacrosse trophies and awards

Lacrosse competitions

Lacrosse equipment

International lacrosse

Lacrosse drafts

Lacrosse logos

Lacrosse mass media

Lacrosse organizations

Lacrosse people

Seasons in lacrosse

Lacrosse terminology

Variations of lacrosse

Lacrosse venues

Lacrosse stubs

Stubs

• {{Lacrosse-stub}}
• {{Lacrosse-bio-stub}}

Userboxes

Lacrosse
{{User:MrBoo/Userboxes/WikiProject Lacrosse}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Lacrosse.
{{User:MrBoo/Userboxes/Lacrosse Fan}}	This user loves lacrosse.
{{User:UBX/Lax}}	This user plays lacrosse.
{{User:AmandaWins/lacrosse}}	This user plays lacrosse.

NLL
{{User:UBX/NLL-Bandits}}	BUFThis user is a fan of the Buffalo Bandits
{{User:UBX/NLL-Black Bears}}	OTWThis user is a fan of the Ottawa Black Bears
{{User:Da Drewster/NLL-Black Wolves}}	NEThis user reminisces of the New England Black Wolves
{{User:UBX/NLL-Blazers}}	BOSThis user reminisces of the Boston Blazers
{{User:UBX/NLL-Desert Dogs}}	LVThis user is a fan of the Las Vegas Desert Dogs
{{User:UBX/NLL-FireWolves}}	ALBThis user is a fan of the Albany FireWolves
{{User:UBX/NLL-Knighthawks}}	ROCThis user is a fan of the Rochester Knighthawks
{{User:UBX/NLL-Lumberjax}}	PORThis user reminisces of the Portland LumberJax.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Mammoth}}	COLThis user is a fan of the Colorado Mammoth
{{User:UBX/NLL-PCLC}}	PCThis user reminisces of the Panther City Lacrosse Club
{{User:UBX/NLL-Riptide}}	NYThis user reminisces of the New York Riptide
{{User:UBX/NLL-Rock}}	TORThis user is a fan of the Toronto Rock
{{User:UBX/NLL-Roughnecks}}	CGYThis user is a fan of the Calgary Roughnecks
{{User:UBX/NLL-Rush}}	SSKThis user is a fan of the Saskatchewan Rush
{{User:UBX/NLL-Shamrox}}	CHIThis user reminisces of the Chicago Shamrox.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Seals}}	SDThis user is a fan of the San Diego Seals
{{User:UBX/NLL-Stealth}}	SJThis user reminisces of the San Jose Stealth
{{User:UBX/NLL-Sting}}	ARZThis user reminisces of the Arizona Sting.
{{User:UBX/NLL-Swarm}}	GAThis user is a fan of the Georgia Swarm
{{User:UBX/NLL-Titans}}	ORLThis user reminisces of the Orlando Titans
{{User:UBX/NLL-Thunderbirds}}	HFXThis user is a fan of the Halifax Thunderbirds
{{User:UBX/NLL-Warriors}}	VANThis user is a fan of the Vancouver Warriors
{{User:UBX/NLL-Wings}}	PHIThis user is a fan of the Philadelphia Wings

PLL
{{User:UBX/PLL-Archers}}	UTThis user is a fan of the Utah Archers.
{{User:UBX/PLL-Atlas}}	NYThis user is a fan of the New York Atlas.
{{User:UBX/PLL-Cannons}}	BOSThis user is a fan of the Boston Cannons.
{{User:UBX/PLL-Chaos}}	CARThis user is a fan of the Carolina Chaos.
{{User:UBX/PLL-Chrome}}	CLCThis user reminisces of the Chrome Lacrosse Club.
{{User:UBX/PLL-Outlaws}}	DENThis user is a fan of the Denver Outlaws.
{{User:UBX/PLL-Redwoods}}	CALThis user is a fan of the California Redwoods.
{{User:UBX/PLL-Waterdogs}}	PHIThis user is a fan of the Philadelphia Waterdogs.
{{User:UBX/PLL-Whipsnakes}}	MDThis user is a fan of the Maryland Whipsnakes.

MLL
{{User:UBX/MLL-Barrage}}	PHIThis user reminisces of the Philadelphia Barrage
{{User:UBX/MLL-Bayhawks}}	CHSThis user reminisces of the Chesapeake Bayhawks
{{User:UBX/MLL-Cannons}}	BOSThis user is a fan of the Boston Cannons.
{{User:UBX/MLL-Dragons}}	SFThis user reminisces of the San Francisco Dragons.
{{User:UBX/MLL-Lizards}}	NYThis user reminisces of the New York Lizards
{{User:UBX/MLL-Machine}}	OHThis user reminisces of the Ohio Machine
{{User:UBX/MLL-Nationals}}	HAMThis user reminisces of the Hamilton Nationals
{{User:UBX/MLL-Pride}}	NJThis user reminisces of the New Jersey Pride.
{{User:UBX/MLL-Rattlers}}	DALThis user reminisces of the Dallas Rattlers
{{User:UBX/MLL-Riptide}}	LAThis user reminisces of the Los Angeles Riptide.

Related groups of Wikipedians

• Category:Wikipedians interested in the National Lacrosse League
• Category:Wikipedians interested in Toronto Rock
• Category:Wikipedians interested in Rochester Knighthawks
• Category:Wikipedians interested in Major League Lacrosse
• Category:Wikipedians interested in New York Lizards