Wikipedia:WikiProject Cycling/Notability
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Cyclist notability
[edit]Cyclists are deemed notable if they meet any of the criteria below:
- Have raced for a fully professional team. This must be supported by evidence from a reliable source on a team by team basis for teams in classes that are not recognised as being fully professional, such as 'UCI Continental Teams'.
- Have raced in UCI senior world championships or at the Olympic games.
- Pre-professional (amateur era) cyclists to have raced at the top-level races are considered notable (no other level of amateur cycling confers notability).
Should a person fail to meet these additional criteria, they may still be notable under Wikipedia:Notability.
Team notability
[edit]- All teams that have raced in the highest level of cycling (at this moment UCI World Ranking) are assumed to meet WP:N criteria.
- All teams that have been fully professional are assumed to meet WP:N criteria. At this moment this includes all 'UCI Professional Continental Teams'. 'UCI Continental Teams' can be amateur, semi-amateur or professional, so for these additional sources are needed to show notability.
Race notability
[edit]- All races in a yearly competition of the highest level (For male road cycling this is Challenge Desgrange-Colombo (1948–1958), Super Prestige Pernod International (1958–1988), UCI Road World Rankings (1984–2004), UCI Road World Cup (1989–2004), UCI ProTour (2005–2008) and UCI World Ranking (currently).
- All races where teams on the highest level are allowed to compete. In male road cycling, according to the current rules ([1]), ProTour teams are allowed to race in UCI classes 1.Pro, 2.Pro, 1.1 and 2.1. In classes 1.2, 2.2 and lower, ProTour teams are not allowed, and only local Professional Continental Teams are allowed, so these races are not on the highest level. In female road cycling, UCI women's teams (the highest level) are allowed up to 1.2 and 2.2.
- All other races are assumed non-notable unless they can be shown to meet broader WP:N criteria.
The classification of a race may change, and notability is not temporary, so a race that is currently only for amateurs can still be considered notable, if for example it was included in the UCI Road World Cup in 1990.