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This page lists article in serious need of improvement. It also helps coordinate collaborative efforts through the project. Most of articles in serious need of improvement are quite important, and have serious issues, like being stubs, spammish, POV, or just plain poorly written. At the Help Requested section, users can coordinate efforts to expand certain articles.

Happy editing!

Articles in dire need of improvement

Pacific Northwest Hockey League – Sparse and unreferenced Buffalkill (talk) 17:29, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested help

AHL Final Standings

I just finished going through each AHL season fixing some of the major inconsistencies in style as well as all of the incorrect NHL affiliations. What I am left with though is a large undertaking facing the shift in formatting that we seemingly made the past decade or two... Starting in 2003, we have been colour coding our tables based on who made the playoffs (blue and green). However, in 2009, we also started colour coding teams that didn't make the playoffs (red). Requesting help to complete the tri-colour colour coding all the way from 1936 to present (or opinions on a better solution/removing the colour coding entirely).–uncleben85 (talk) 20:08, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

PWHL Team/Article names

Scope: WikiProject Women's sport/Ice hockey; PWHL family of pages
Proposed changes: Updating article names
Requester: –uncleben85 (talk) 16:17, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion

I agree. I also think we should change the team names in individual players' infoboxes from "PWHL ____" to just the city name. Wheatzilopochtli (talk) 23:06, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also agree. If that's how the league is going to brand the teams – for the time being – then we should follow suit. --Mike Vitale 04:01, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No objection. I knew when I created the articles that the names would be placeholders. Ravenswing 05:02, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense to me! Other justin (talk) 15:57, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So it seems like the PWHL is set on having no monikers or nicknames this season, instead identifying each team by their chosen city/location identifier. I propose that we switch the article names to the format of "PWHL _____" to match both the League's current marketing (https://www.thepwhl.com/ for example, under Teams) and each team's individual marketing (https://www.instagram.com/pwhl_newyork, for example). So the proposal is effectively moving the placeholder "Toronto PWHL team" to the apparent (if yet temporary) "PWHL Toronto", for each team.

Michigan goal

Scope: Michigan goal
Proposed changes: Over this article's short life, several users have questioned whether "Michigan goal" should be the primary title. The name is US-biased. WP:COMMONNAME says that Wikipedia "generally prefers the name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in a significant majority of independent, reliable, English-language sources)". English-language sources in the US tend to favor "Michigan goal", whereas in Canada, "lacrosse goal" is more common (albeit ambiguous with the sport of lacrosse); in Europe, "Zorro goal" is more common. The term "high wrap" was used by the first person to score a goal in this way, although outside of historical articles, it is rarely used in contemporary writing. I'd appreciate if any project authors could join the current discussion about the article's name to help form consensus about an article title. Thanks!
Requester: White 720 (talk) 12:37, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion

Unreferenced players

Scope: ensure articles about living hockey players are properly referenced.
Proposed changes: I hope you don't mind a request from the unreferenced articles wikiproject. Yesterday, through the November unreferenced articles drive, we managed to clear the backlog of unreferenced BLPs. Today, several hockey players made it into the queue, and we could use your help! If you are able to knock any of them off the list by putting in appropriate inline citations and then removing the {{BLP unreferenced}} tag, that would be super. The list as it stands is:

Requester: SunloungerFrog (talk) 09:57, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, one down; I just referenced Butch Deadmarsh's article. (Interesting that all these players are early 1970s Buffalo Sabres fringe players; that's what caught my eye.) I'll plug away on the others, but Richer's particularly non-notable, with the deprecation of participation standards; I'm thinking that ought to be a redirect to the Sabres 1973 season article. Ravenswing 19:32, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ravenswing many thanks for your help! It is hugely appreciated. Hockey is way out of my field of expertise. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 22:37, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]