Wikipedia:WikiProject Darts

Welcome to WikiProject Darts. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of darts and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Goals

Write articles on:

• Darts and its history, terminology, culture, techniques, equipment, variants, and other aspects
• Notable darts players
• Notable darts tournaments
• Notable darts organisations
• Notable dart games (cricket, 301, etc.) and their rules

Improve darts articles:

• So they comply with Wikipedia policies and guidelines
• So they can become Good Articles and eventually Featured Articles
• Peer review them for further enhancement

Categorize articles:

• So they are easily accessible

Scope

This project is focused on darts, steel- and soft-tip, modern and historical, as a game and a sport. Also in-scope are articles on games derived from darts, such as darts simulation games (also within the scope of WP:WikiProject Video Games), as well as lawn darts (which could also be within the scope of a future WP:WikiProject Lawn Games).

Pub games more broadly are out-of-scope, as are larger-scale games/sports that are distantly historically related, such as archery and javelin toss.

Guidelines

The following is for help when creating or editing any type of darts articles, it includes information on how to write a good article with the correct layout, information, spelling, etc.

Layout

These are guidelines for laying out certain types of darts articles:
(Note: These guidelines are only for help when creating or fixing an article)

• Player
• Tournament
• Individual tournament
• Darts organisation

Adopt an article

Darts articles are struggling with mutiple problems so why don't you adopt one (preferably a notable darts topic), you can adopt any sort of darts topic, player, tournament, organisation etc. The following are steps for adopting an article:

1. Put your name and the name of the article you are adopting in the list below
2. Put a tag beside it to show what stage you are at.

{{Done}} —  Done — If you are completely finished

{{Doing}} —  Doing... — If you are currently working on the article

{{n.b.}} — * — If you have a problem and need help, also state the problem you have

3. Put this on the talk page {{Maintained|~~~}} which will show that you are working on the article
4. Get to work!
5. When you are finished, you should get feedback here Wikipedia:Requests for feedback and make changes

The following is a list of current adoptions:

• User:joesayers - Mervyn King -  Doing...
• User:Bazzabloodybenson - Owen Bates -  Doing... - currently drafting

Achievements

Good articles

• 2001 BDO World Darts Championship
• 2002 BDO World Darts Championship
• 2003 BDO World Darts Championship
• 2001 PDC World Darts Championship
• 2002 PDC World Darts Championship
• 2002 World Matchplay
• Jocky Wilson Cup
• RTL7 Masters
• World Series of Darts (2006 tournament)
• World Series of Darts Festival

DYK articles

• Les Wallace 2006-09-06 ⇒
• Nine dart finish 2004-11-11 ⇒

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Darts-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.
Entries older than 30 days are removed

• 2022 PDC Players Championship 1 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (6 March 2022)
• 2013 BDO World Darts Championship (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (5 October 2012)

Article alerts

• Steve McNally (darts player) - AFD

Review and assessment

Assessment

Darts articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total GA 2 8 10 B 2 1 1 3 3 10 C 4 7 10 21 11 53 Start 5 33 51 219 161 469 Stub 6 2 16 211 286 521 List 1 4 6 13 24 NA 24 470 494 Assessed 17 46 82 492 470 474 1,581 Unassessed 1 1 390 392 Total 17 47 82 493 470 864 1,973 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 5,733 Ω = 5.39

Visit our assessment department where we assess article by quality and importance, and also to keep record of the project's progress. Our assessment department

Peer review

This table shows which darts related articles are currently undergoing peer review, you can help by commenting on the article at the review page.

Categories

This is the layout of all main darts categories:

• Category:Darts

• Category:Darts non-player personalities
• Category:Darts video games
• Category:Darts organisations

• Category:Professional Darts Corporation

• Category:Professional Darts Corporation tournaments - Many subcategories
• Category:Professional Darts Corporation players
• Category:Premier League Darts venues

• Category:British Darts Organisation

• Category:British Darts Organisation players
• Category:British Darts Organisation tournaments

• Category:Darts players

• Category:Darts players by nationality - Many subcategories
• Category:World darts champions

• Category:Darts tournaments - Many subcategories
• Category:Years in darts - Many subcategories
• Category:Darts stubs

• Category:Darts biography stubs

New categories

Please list any new Darts-related categories here, at the bottom. Listings may be removed after an appropriate span of time. It is advised to discuss the idea of creating new major categories on the talk page before creating them (categories cannot be renamed as easily as articles). Entries older than 30 days are removed.

• Category:British Darts Organisation (28 August 2010)
• Category:British Darts Organisation tournaments (28 August 2010)
• Category:British Darts Organisation players (28 August 2010)

Templates

Darts templates

• Category:Darts navigational boxes
• {{Infobox darts player}}
• {{Darts player form}}
• {{Infobox Darts Tournament}}
• {{Infobox Individual Darts Tournament}}
• {{PDC Top 20}} (only use if player is in the top 20 of the PDC Order of Merit)
• {{Darts organisation}}

Stub templates

Code		Where to use
{{darts-bio-stub}}		On stub articles about people related to darts.
{{darts-stub}}		On stub articles related to darts, for people use above template.

WikiProject templates

Talk page banner

Code	What it looks like	Where to use
{{WikiProject Darts}}		On talk pages of darts articles, categories, templates, etc. Further information on template page.

User invite template

Code	What it looks like	Where to use
{{subst:WikiProject Darts Invite}}		On the talk page of users, who actively contribute to darts-related articles but are not members of the project. Important: Do not sign the message or add a header as this is done automatically.

Barnstar

Code	What it looks like	Where to use
{{subst:The Darts Barnstar|message ~~~~}}	The Darts Barnstar {{{1}}}	On talk pages of users who have greatly contributed to darts-related articles. This is just a reward for users.

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. You would also want to watch this page for updates. Please also add this to your user page to show you are a WikiProject Darts editor: {{User WikiProject Darts}}

1. Mr.Kennedy1 (T • C) - WikiProject developer; for now I will mainly develop the project itself (N.B. user has now retired)
2. Raphie (T • C) - Will mainly for now just tweak current articles but I have created quite a lot of the articles from scratch and will have no problem creating more when the time arises
3. Falkybassist (T • C) - I'm more of a wikignome, but I'll edit things I know about
4. SMcCandlish (T • C) - I'm here mostly as a wikignome, and was responsible for a lot of earlier category cleanup and such. I won't be editing darts articles directly very much, but can help with project structure and templates, policy compliance and other geekwork; cf. my work at WP:CUE
5. CFuller (T • C)
6. Freedomflag (T • C)
7. Joesayers (T • C)
8. Nick C (T • C)
9. Wonderwizard (T • C)
10. Wjemather (T • C)
11. The Skeleton (T • C)
12. Mfb72 (T • C) & Seedybob2 (T • C) - I started a lot of the articles in the earlier days of wiki, will jump in and make some edits from time-to-time. Tending to use Mfb72 these days.
13. Bradleyspencer1983 (T • C)
14. Armbrust (T • C) Proposed WikiProject Darts, and mainly active on PDC-related tournament article.
15. AMCKen (T • C)
16. EinarKM (T • C) - Darts player and enthusiast. Current member of the Icelandic National Darts Team.
17. Philezra (T • C) - I have a lot of footage between 1977 and 1994 so can add information not readily available
18. Half price (T • C) - I can't guarantee I will add much, but I am a darts fan and have contributed to darts articles.
19. Vulgar Display Of Power (T • C) - I will look at tournaments for PDC and BDO events and provide cleaner tables and brackets, and from time to time, add new articles for players that have competed in major tournaments. I will also try to update player information, just as tournament progress, rankings, etc., as I go along. Further contribution from other members will be well appreciated.
20. Wookiee73 (T • C)
21. Andy4226uk (T • C) - Am going to try and clean up the existing articles and am willing to help with new articles.
22. Billythereaper (T • C) - I hardly miss a BDO dart thrown on TV, and enjoy updating the tournament tables as soon as things happen!!
23. RW91motorfaces (T • C)
24. Rocketmachine (T • C) - I always watch darts whenever it is on the TV and collect We Love Darts magazine. I would be more than happy to update league and tournament tables.
25. — Ched :  ?  12:47, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
26. Boddefan2009 (T • C)
27. ThinksAmoral (T • C) - Always looking out for minor changes such as player nicknames, darts used, and walk-on songs.
28. AgileTest (T • C) - I was hoping to add Audio Darts, the blind version of darts to this body of knowledge. There are now several leagues.
29. Mammalia (T • C)
30. KAS^{( talk)} (Contribution) I Love Darts 17:16, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
31. Fearanti
32. Philtaylor101
33. Bzweebl (talk • contribs)
34. Skyblueshaun (Talk • Contributions)
35. LexXxus180
36. Miszatomic - i'll do minor checks, edits and honors
37. User:Perferctamundo (contribs) I like darts and will make improvements from time to time
38. User:Jahn1234567890 (contribs)
39. User:Navops47 (User talk:Navops47) - Interested in records, statistics and official compliance within articles in relation to world, national, regional governing bodies system of rankings, categorization of events by level and what constitutes a darts event Major according to the world governing body.
40. User:Kaffe42 (T • C)
41. Oxygene7-13 - Dunno what exactly I'll be contributing but watching darts before Barney made his first appearance on the telly! (I'm Dutch by the way...)
42. Briancrowley12 - I love darts, playing it and watching it. I also love statistics of darts wether it’s averages or checkout percentages for example. I like adding in results to tournaments and player performances.
43. JRRobinson – I love doing articles on ALL things darts, mainly PDC tournaments and players who don't have pages. There needs to be parameters made on players, as so many are being deleted, when they shouldn't be.
44. GlenTheYid - I follow all of the PDC Tournaments (both televised and non). I have created 2022 PDC Players Championship 1 and I will be adding more when time permits.
45. XeverPL - Although I watch the tournaments of both federations (PDC and WDF), I am much more interested in the development of the World Darts Federation. For several months I have been trying to update and develop websites dedicated to WDF tournaments.
46. TheDugster100 - Darts enthusiast and regular contributor and updater of darts tournaments on Wikipedia
47. GalacticalCosmics - I fix, update or edit darts pages whenever I get spare time.
48. DarthBob - I am mainly trying to update Performance timelines on player's pages, I created PDC European Tour table for all possible Tour card holders and would like to continue with Players Championship performances (and World Series of Darts). If I see a player with incomplete results, I add them.
49. Szpity88 - I love statistics, mostly I want to edit results, and draw, qualifier winners, etc.
50. MaxLikesStuff - Started editing darts stats recently, gonna continue making sure everything is up to date!
51. Bazzabloodybenson - New returnee to wiki, will do some player profile tidy ups and create some new ones. PS Is anyone here? It seems a bit quiet! Is there somewhere the templates for tournament matrices etc are kept? Or any guidance on how/when they should be used? Would be good to get some consistency around here :)

Resources

• PDC – News and stats for PDC tournaments
• WDF – News and stats for BDO tournaments
• Dart Connect – The latest results from darts tournaments worldwide
• Darts Database – Website for statistics
• Darts Orakel – Up to date player statistics
• Darts Rankings – Live player rankings* Master caller – Historical data relating to all the early Embassy World Championships - the match statistics and prize money breakdowns are listed going right back to 1978 and all tournament averages could be input into BDO World Championships
• Darts news on Sky Sports – News for all darts tournaments

Relations to other WikiProjects

Parent WikiProjects

• WikiProject Sports
• WikiProject Games

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Flag Template (maintains flag icon templates for use in tournament charts, etc.)
• WikiProject Biography (provides guidelines on bio articles, including of sportspeople)

External links

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.