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To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests :
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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 :
- 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

American distance records[edit]

To be updated:

58 feet: March 15, 1900 by W.E. Dickey [1][2], equalling record previously set by George B. Clark and Frederic J. Wells (F.J. Wells) [3][4]
63 feet: Jan 18, 1902 by Charles H. Pyrah [5]
65 feet 7 inches, March 9, 1904, by A.M. McCormack [6] - article says previous best was 63 feet, so probably Pyrah's from 1902.
66 feet 9 inches, January 1905, by Edgar Adams [7]
68 feet: G.P. Cooke on February 11, 1905 [8] later tied by Edgard Adams [9]
69 feet: Nov 11, 1905 by Edgar Adams [10]
70 feet: Dec 1, 1906 by Edgar Adams [11]
75 feet 10 inches: Jan 28, 1911 by Millard Kaiser http://books.google.com/books?id=ERgfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA344&lpg=PA344&dq=Millard+Kaiser+plunge&source=bl&ots=PBrmo_IYpW&sig=Au9f1kY9Q8Ez-c-TgAN-md8AIt8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sKYNUMe3K8La0QHjz5WVBA&ved=0CEUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Millard%20Kaiser%20plunge&f=false
80 feet: 1912 by Willis[12]
82 feet 9 inches on March 1, 1920 by Fred Schwedt (first time the American record was the world record)[13]

--Milowent • ^hasspoken 19:41, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]