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 both field and box / indoor lacrosse.
Different kinds of lacrosse
- There are three distinct versions of the sport: men's field lacrosse, box lacrosse (or indoor lacrosse), and women's 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 pages describing (or at least listing) the teams, former teams, champions and past champions, awards, etc. Some of these may be on separate pages.
- List of pro or top-tier leagues:
- Major League Lacrosse (field)
- National Lacrosse League (indoor)
- Western Lacrosse Association (box; Senior A)
- Major Series Lacrosse (box; Senior A)
Teams
- All teams should have pages, including years of existence, championships won, any franchise movement, etc.
Players
- 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 and MLL) if possible.
- There is now an infobox ({{Infobox Lacrosse Player}}) that should be used on all player pages
- Any participation in international lacrosse should be mentioned as well.
Other
- We should have pages on all of the different tournaments and championships - Mann Cup, Minto Cup, NCAA, Heritage Cup, other international tournaments. Some of these already exist.
Assessment class
The assessment system allows the WikiProject to monitor the quality of articles in its subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. The following guidelines can help to determine what class should be assigned to an article. The class should be filled in on the "class" parameter of the {{Lacrosse}} template on the article's talk page.
For further details, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Lacrosse/Assessment.
Open tasks
- 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 existing articles on MLL teams.
- Expand existing articles on Canadian summer box lacrosse leagues (OLA, WLA, and MSL) and teams (history, records, etc.).
- Create pages for inductees and teams/associations referenced in US Hall of Fame & Canadian Hall of Fame.
- Possibly create page similar to List of family relations in the National Lacrosse League for HOF members
- Organize international lacrosse articles.
- Create NLL Team Season articles: currently all NLL teams' seasons from 2005 to current have been created.(credit: MrBoo) The Toronto Rock seasons & Philadelphia Wings seasons articles for each season since inception have been completed.
- Expand Florida Gators women's lacrosse and their coach Amanda O'Leary
- NLLInsider's Paul Tutka ran a series of his Top 50 Players currently in the NLL. Here are the player's that do not have articles on Wikipedia Anybody looking to create an article for a current NLL player, here is a nice place to start:
- No. 49 Jon Sullivan (lacrosse) Minnesota Swarm; # 45 Bruce Murray (lacrosse) Colorado Mammoth;
# 41 Jeff Shattler Calgary Roughnecks;# 39 Scott Ranger Calgary Roughnecks;# 37 Sean Pollock Minnesota Swarm;# 31 Chris White (lacrosse) Buffalo Bandits;# 24 Andy Secore Edmonton Rush;# 15 Scott Self Edmonton Rush. [1]
- No. 49 Jon Sullivan (lacrosse) Minnesota Swarm; # 45 Bruce Murray (lacrosse) Colorado Mammoth;
- Create bio articles for any of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame members. All are notable per WP:ANYBIO and information about them can be found at their HOF bios ([2])
Ongoing tasks
- Go through Unassessed lacrosse articles and add class and importance specifiers (see assessment for details)
- Review and resolve lacrosse articles that have been tagged as needing improvement at Wikipedia:WikiProject Lacrosse/Cleanup listing
- Tag lacrosse-related articles with {{Lacrosse}} on their talk page
- Create new articles on current and former players. Current NLL players can be found at NLL rosters article.
- Create lacrosse-specific categories as necessary
- Create new and expand existing articles on international lacrosse
- Expand stub articles on players
- Find members of HOF who already have articles and properly link them
- Images for articles in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of lacrosse
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)
- MrBoo (Talk) -- NLL
- lukeoz (Talk) -- Lacrosse in Australia and Australian Lacrosse League
- 10stone5 - Played college lacrosse. Interested in updating college lacrosse entries, but will also handle NLL whenever possible.
- 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.
- Shootmaster 44 - I can help with some of the Saskatchewan related lacrosse articles, as well as a bit with the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League.
- Xander756 - NLL
- jc121383 - NLL
- Mherr - NLL/MLL/High school and college lacrosse
- Mitico (talk) - General interest
- Yarnalgo (Talk) -- MLL / NLL /
International (sort of) - Strikehold (Talk) – College lacrosse, particularly teams in Maryland
- Bhockey10 (Talk) – College lacrosse
- EmjayMiller (Talk) – College, high school & youth lacrosse in USA
- Epeefleche - general interest
- Nurmsook - International tournaments
- MrCasteMania - MLL and Youth Lacrosse
- 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.
- Bes2224 - MLL, NLL, LXM, minor leagues
- 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 [3]; 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.
- TheScottDL - updated the 'Lacrosse Leagues' categories and added a Senior/Post-Collegiate area. Deleted 'Professional' category with MLL combined with all indoor leagues.
- DMighton -- Ontario Lacrosse Association and Amateur Championships
- schetm - Creating articles for active and former NLL players, starting with the Buffalo Bandits. Active as of May, 2015.
- Da Drewster -
- Taxman1913 - NLL and MLL
- 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.
Semi-Active
(users that have sparingly edited lacrosse content in the past six months)
- 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
- WestJet- NLL, mostly the Calgary Roughnecks. Already helped on Kaleb Toth and Tracey Kelusky articles.
- 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...
- MrShamrock. Huge Victoria Shamrocks fan, I got them covered. Will also contribute to other WLA teams and players' pages.
- LaxKeeper (Talk) - Fan of women's college lacrosse
Inactive
(users that haven't edited lacrosse content in over a year)
- CanbekEsen (Talk) -- I don't know much of lacrosse, but I'd be glad to copy-edit or clean-up any articles.
- Vincent Ree (Talk) -- Albany Attack mostly.
- JamesTeterenko (Talk) -- mostly interested in the Calgary Roughnecks of the NLL -- hopefully, I'll get some more pictures in the season
- Doradus (Talk) -- I don't have a ton of time to spend on Wikipedia these days, but I'll help where I can.
- Wwwhhh - Primarily Australian Lacrosse, but keen to help improve all articles.
- 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
- Racer38 - I can help with most lacrosse articles currently on Wikipedia.
- J71- Mostly BC box lacrosse, I can help with player pages as well.
- lesserm - Mainly Ohio and Midwestern lacrosse. Can help with MLL
- AmandaWins - I can help with basically anything, esp. clean-up, and college and high school lacrosse teams and rules.
- 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.
- Sekuloguy. I am a huge Long Island Lizards fan and can help on that article. I can also help on the MLL article.
- Amaryllis25 - I'd like to help on college entries and on women's lacrosse entries.
- The Founders Intent - I'd be glad to research things for folks.
- Panicpack-NLL/MLL/Western
- Bvalx2005
- BricoleurHistory of Lacrosse in British Columbia
Articles
Unreferenced BLPs
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.
Article Alerts
Today's featured articles
- 23 Jun 2024 – Cyclone Taylor (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb
Articles for creation
- 05 Jun 2024 – Draft:2024 Premier Lacrosse League Season (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jpjkemp11 (t · c)
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.
- Mitchell Jones (lacrosse) by Da Drewster (talk) 08:17, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
- Mike Manley (lacrosse) by Da Drewster (talk · contribs), May 31, 2016
- John LoCascio by Da Drewster (talk · contribs), May 26, 2016
- Jack Near by Da Drewster (talk · contribs), May 26, 2016
- Jeremy Boltus by Da Drewster (talk · contribs), May 26, 2016
- Curtis Manning (lacrosse) by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 20, 2015
- Jon Harnett by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 19, 2015
- Greg Harnett by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 19, 2015
- Travis Cornwall by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 18, 2015
- Peter McFetridge by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 18, 2015
- Karsen Leung by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 17, 2015
- Chris Seller by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 17, 2015
- Shawn Cable by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 17, 2015
- Ryan Avery (lacrosse) by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 16, 2015
- Pat Campbell (lacrosse) by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 16, 2015
- Scott Carnegie by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 15, 2015
- Devan Wray by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 10, 2015
- Nolan Heavenor by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 4, 2015
- 2014 National Lacrosse League Entry Draft by Da Drewster (talk · contribs) 05:31, 4 June 2015 (UTC) -->
- Frankie Scigliano by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 3, 2015
- Mike Poulin by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), June 2, 2015
- Shane MacDonald by Da Drewster (talk · contribs) 16:29, 1 June 2015 (UTC) -->
- Ben McIntosh by Da Drewster (talk · contribs) 22:13, 29 May 2015 (UTC) -->
- Scott Self by Da Drewster (talk · contribs) 08:06, 29 May 2015 (UTC) -->
- Mike Carnegie by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), May 29, 2015
- Andy Ogilvie by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), May 28, 2015
- Sean Pollock by Da Drewster (talk · contribs) 06:10, 27 May 2015 (UTC) -->
- Andy Secore by Da Drewster (talk · contribs) 02:32, 27 May 2015 (UTC) -->
- Dane Dobbie by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), May 26, 2015
- 2015 MAAC Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs) 22:33, 14 May 2015 (UTC) -->
- Quinnipiac Bobcats men's lacrosse by Da Drewster (talk · contribs) 01:50, 12 May 2015 (UTC) -->
- America East Conference Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs) 02:19, 11 May 2015 (UTC) -->
- 2009 America East Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs) 21:46, 10 May 2015 (UTC) -->
- 2010 America East Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs)
- 2011 America East Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs)
- 2012 America East Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs)
- 2013 America East Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs)
- 2014 America East Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs)
- 2015 America East Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs)
- 2015 Big East Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs)
- 2013 Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs)
- 2015 Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs)
- 2014 Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs)
- 2015 Big Ten Conference Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs)
- Big Ten Conference Men's Lacrosse Tournament by Da Drewster (talk · contribs)
- 2015 ACC Men's Lacrosse Championship by Da Drewster (talk · contribs)
- Chris Hall (lacrosse) by JamesTeterenko (talk · contribs), January 3, 2015
Featured content
Did You Knows (DYKs)
- ... that professional Canadian box lacrosse player Curtis Manning is also a physician? - 6 July 2015
- Harry George Woolley – 22 August 2010
- Doug Turnbull – 30 July 2010
- Clinton L. Riggs – 29 July 2010
- Elgin Gould – 28 July 2010
- R. V. Truitt – 22 July 2010
- Henry Ciccarone – 22 July 2010
- John Howard (lacrosse) – 21 July 2010
- Jim Adams (lacrosse) – 21 July 2010
- Al Heagy – 21 July 2010
- Bud Beardmore – 17 July 2010
- John Tillman (lacrosse) – 23 June 2010
- Jack Faber – 8 June 2010
- Mount Washington Lacrosse Club – 8 June 2010
- Scott Marr – 30 May 2010
- Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse – 7 April 2010
- 2010 World Lacrosse Championship – 7 April 2010
- 1941 Harvard–Navy lacrosse game – 19 August 2009
- Virginia Cavaliers men's lacrosse – 20 July 2009
- Northwestern Wildcats women's lacrosse – 1 June 2009
- Cyrus C. Miller – 23 May 2009
- Don Zimmerman – 22 May 2009
- Bill Schmeisser – 21 May 2009
- Army Black Knights men's lacrosse – 20 May 2009
- Dick Edell – 6 April 2009
- Johns Hopkins – Maryland rivalry – 2 April 2009
- Dave Cottle – 22 March 2009
- Brett Queener – 27 January 2009
- Diane Geppi-Aikens – 11 January 2009
- Loyola Greyhounds men's lacrosse - 18 November 2008
- Daryl Veltman – 2 November 2008
- David Huntley / Kevin Huntley (lacrosse) – 22 August 2008
- Michael Peyser / Gregory Peyser / Stephen Peyser – 4 August 2008
- Bouse Hutton – 30 July 2008
- Rosabelle Sinclair – 22 July 2008
- 2008 International Lacrosse Federation Under-19 World Lacrosse Championships – 14 July 2008
- Morgan State Bears lacrosse – 22 March 2008
- Bill Hayward – 26 September 2007
- Les Bartley – 18 May 2005
Good Articles (GAs)
- 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
- 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
- Bill Schmeisser
- Box lacrosse
- Don Zimmerman
- Field lacrosse
- Jack Faber
- Johns Hopkins – Maryland rivalry
- Pengrowth Saddledome
- Rose Garden (arena)
Resources
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.
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 }} {{Non-free logo|lacrosse-logos}}
Banner
Please add {{Lacrosse}} to the talk page of any and all lacrosse-related pages that you edit. You should also add class and importance parameters, described above.
Templates
National Lacrosse League
{{NLL}}:
{{NLL Arenas}}:
{{NLL seasons}}:
Major League Lacrosse
{{MLL Stadiums}}:
{{MLL seasons}}:
NCAA
{{NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championships}}:
Logos
League and team logos should contain this:
{{sports-logo|lacrosse-logos}}
Roster templates
There are two player templates; one for actual rosters and another for lists.
The {{Lacrosse player}} template should be used for rosters and roster templates, where the {{Lacrosse player list}} template should be used for lists.
The roster template is the same as the {{Player}} template, but has additional optional fields for captains, alternate captains, unrestricted free agents and franchise players.
The list template was originally copied from {{fs start}} et al., but those templates are specific to soccer, and they linked the positions to pages about the soccer positions. There was also no "transition" position, and the soccer term "goalkeeper" is usually "goaltender" in lacrosse. I removed the links so now you can put in any position you want. We can add the links again later if we want, since these are now lacrosse-specific.
{{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:
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Other
Infoboxes
Lacrosse players
- {{Infobox Lacrosse Player}}
- For each player, include this infobox at the top of the article (see the template page for all available fields):
{{Infobox Lacrosse Player |image= |position= |shoots= |height_ft= |height_in= |weight_lb= |nll_team= |mll_team= |former_nll_teams= |former_mll_teams= |nationality= |birth_date= |birth_place= |career_start= |nickname= }}
Lacrosse teams
- {{NLL Team Infobox}}
- For each NLL team, include this infobox at the top of the article (see the template page for all available fields):
{{NLL Team Infobox |team_name= |bg_color= |title_color= |division= |logo= |founded= |home_arena= |hometown= |team_colors= |head_coach= |general_manager= |plpa= |media= |website= |champs= |division_champs= |formerly= }}
- {{NLL Defunct Team Infobox}}
- For each defunct NLL team, include this infobox at the top of the article (see the template page for all available fields):
{{NLL Defunct Team Infobox |team_name= |bg_color= |title_color= |division= |logo= |played= |home_arena= |hometown= |team_colors= |champs= |division_champs= |later= }}
- {{MLL Team Infobox}}
- For each MLL team, include this infobox at the top of the article (see the template page for all available fields):
{{MLL Team Infobox |team_name= |bg_color= |title_color= |conference= |logo= |founded= |home_stadium= |hometown= |team_colors= |head_coach= |general_manager= |media= |champs= |conference_champs= |division= |division_champs= |website= }}
Categories
Note that some categories may be subcategories of more than one category.
Stubs
- {{Lacrosse-stub}}
- {{Lacrosse-bio-stub}}
Userboxes
Related groups of Wikipedians
- Category:Wikipedian National Lacrosse League fans
- Category:Wikipedian Toronto Rock fans
- Category:Wikipedian Rochester Knighthawks fans
- Category:Wikipedian Major League Lacrosse fans
- Category:Wikipedian New York Lizards fans
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