Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bowling

Description

This WikiProject would aim to improve the quality of and expand the coverage of bowling-related articles on Wikipedia.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. – Alex43223 ^{T | C | E} 18:04, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
2. Mearnhardtfan 20:16, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
3. IstvanWolf 22:13, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
4. Useight 21:13, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
5. Howenstein115 14:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
6. user:1bookfan --DJ 23:07, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
7. groink Groink (talk) 10:23, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
8. MasterTTFV (talk) MasterTTFV (talk) 02:49, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
9. RCraig09 (talk) 15:12, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Note: My focus right now is solely on bowling articles related to Japan. I'm starting to develop the articles, starting with the orgs, and then building the tournament articles. I can also help out with American bowling articles, as I'm a walking encyclopedia when it comes to PBA bowling prior to 1990. Groink (talk) 10:23, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Comments

• What kinds of topics are envisioned? History of bowling, famous bowlers, bowling leagues, what? --Lquilter (talk) 16:21, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
  • My guess would be the existing articles in the Category:Bowling and its subcategories, and any new articles that might be found to meet the extant notability guidelines. John Carter (talk) 17:01, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
    • The main things I envisioned in the project were, as aforementioned, improvement and expansion of articles in the category, as well as the creation of new articles with expanded coverage of current and previous professional bowlers and related topics. – Alex43223 ^{T | C | E} 07:10, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
      • This group now has enough members for a viable task force. Would any of you be interested in becoming a task force/work group of Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports? John Carter (talk) 17:58, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
        • I only scored a spare! :( Simply south (talk) 19:19, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

So many people from one village! 18:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Simply south (talk • contribs)

There is an existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Bowling which could, frankly, use a lot of work. Please feel free to modify the page as you see fit. 18:21, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Sniper

Is there such a move as a sniper in ten pin bowling? I have heard that you get a sniper if you manage to knock the far left or far right pin down with a ball, whilst the rest stay upright, therefore only scoring 1 point on that half go. Simply south not SS, sorry 18:21, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Table for results in majors?

Just an idea I thought I'd pass by you all. Many tennis players have a table each, consisting of results in major tournaments year-by-year. I was thinking, maybe we could possibly come up with a similar table for bowlers' final positions in majors? PizzaofDoom (talk) 02:19, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

I'd be open to that. Is there an existing bracket template that would allow for a step-ladder format like this? Groink (talk) 04:17, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry about the delay. I'm not too sure as I don't have much experience with templates... it'd be good if we could get a few more people in on this who might know a thing or two about templates :). PizzaofDoom (talk) 11:34, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Bowling

Hey figure somebody who watches this page will see this and take note. Just went to wikipedia's Bowling page and was stunned that the History section was like 8 lines. Had just heard something interesting about how NBC's bowling program in the 50's(?) really made bowling a national pastime, wanted to see more about that, and so came to the disappointing Wikipedia Bowling entry. Reads like a brochure from the PBA. Yeah don't complain if you're not going to help... but please copy pasta something decent into the history section the page, or make a separate page (or main page) "History of Bowling." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.108.64.47 (talk) 04:29, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

All the entries here are supposed to be in chronological order, so I moved this section to the bottom. Anyway, regarding the Bowling article, one has to realize that bowling is not any one particular sport. It encompasses a variety of bowling styles, such as 10-pin, 5-pin, duck, candlepin, etc. each with its own Wikipedia article. IMO, the Bowling article cannot favor any one particular variation of bowling, therefore the article is vague by design, based on this idea. You're mentioning about bowling coverage in the 1950s - that pertains specifically to Ten-pin bowling, so you should expect to see something about that there. Groink (talk) 23:49, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

I have suggested a restructure of article headings for the Bowling page Talk:Bowling but perhaps this is the better place for the discussion- appreciate any feedback MasterTTFV (talk) 02:55, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Discord

Hey all, I hope everyone is safe and healthy. My name is HickoryOughtShirt?4 and I'm a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey. I was wondering if there was any interest in starting a WikiProject Sports channel on Discord? There's quite a few of us who are interested in sports, and I think it would be a good idea to help the WikiProject recruit more members. You guys can join us through here.HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 00:02, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Expansion of the glossary

At User:Utfor/Glossary of bowling is a list of terms not defined in the glossary of bowling. Utfor (talk) 13:31, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Reviving this project

I'm in the process of reviving this project. If you would like to help, please feel free!

I'm first wanting to improve the page before I reach out to people. I want to write to everyone currently listed as a member to see if they're willing to come back.

The main page is a mess right now. I've added an infobox, but there's more work to do. All the -class article categories are gone, and it's just a mess overall. We can take inspiration from other sport projects like WP:TENNIS, WP:FOOTBALL, etc.

Let's turn this gutter of a project into a perfect game! Chewsterchew (talk) 06:05, 25 September 2024 (UTC)