Wikipedia:WikiProject Running

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WikiProject Running

Statue of Betty Cuthbert outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Shortcut	WP:RUN
Category	Running
Wikimedia Commons	Running
Parent project(s)	Sports
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Running}}, {{running project}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Running}}

A project was formed in 2006 to better organize information in articles related to running. It includes: track and field, trail running, road racing, marathoning, and ultramarathoning. This page and its subpages contain suggestions for enhancing such articles; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts on these topics. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

This WikiProject aims primarily to create, improve and organize articles relating to running. This includes but is not limited to the history of running as a competitive sport, as recreation, and as a basic means of bipedal locomotion. It includes: track and field, trail running, road racing, marathoning, and ultramarathoning.

• Running (Category:Running)

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

1. tag all running related articles with {{WikiProject Running}}
2. adding assessment and importance parameters when missing
3. find references for articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Running/Unreferenced BLPs
4. adopt an article and promote it to GA

In the mean time, you can find a list of running articles requiring attention here.

• List of all subpages of this page.

As of August, 2007, the List of winners of the Boston Marathon has earned featured list status, meaning it has been identified as one of the best lists produced by the Wikipedia community.

In June 2009, the List of winners of the London Marathon earned featured list status.

As of March 2010, we have over 500 articles currently tagged as being within the scope of this project. As of August 2010, we have now identified 9,524 articles as relating to this project. In September 2010, we identified an additional 680 articles that need to be assessed in terms of qualitfy and importance.

Assessment of running-related articles:

• Importance
  • Top = Core article or primary definition; central running topic/person or necessary for basic coverage of the topic (for example: sprint, long distance running)
  • High = Core daughter article or significant related topic/person, hard to write the article comprehensively and NPOV without this article, enjoys widespread notability and consensus (e.g., Barefoot running, Dipsea Race)
  • Mid = Daughter article or broad/basic definition, important for comprehensive coverage of the top issues, but not an integral definition (e.g., Jon Anderson (runner), Track Town, USA) For example, bio of runners that competed in the Olympics. Articles covering IAAF World Championship series are of at least mid importance.
  • Low = Non-core, the topic could be covered without this article (e.g., Walt Stack, Midnight Sun Run) Bio of runners who never competed in the Olympics.

• Quality
  • Has attained FA
  • A-class or could attain with a bit of work
  • GA-class or could attain GA with a bit of work
  • B-equivalent, mostly cited and accurate, but has some issues, could be citations, OR, POV, or incomprehensive. Not too much work needed to bring to decent standard, but may still be a stub or start.
  • Some cleanup/work needed, below B-class, has some issues like lack of citations, OR, POV, incomprehensive. Sustained attention needed to bring to standard.
  • More work needed, multiple issues such as uncited, essay, POV, dubious accuracy or questionable notability. Lots of attention needed.

We have now shifted to a system where editors designate the importance and quality of each article using parameters on the {{Running project}} template on each article's talk page.

All articles within the scope of WikiProject Running have been classified by quality and importance, as summarized in the table below. Users can access a list of articles with a particular combination of quality and assessment ratings by clicking on the appropriate square in this table.

Running articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1	1	4			6
FL		1	3	1			5
GA	1	7	17	57		1	83
B	1	13	46	140		9	209
C	9	50	180	537		113	889
Start	3	53	522	3,875	2	1,717	6,172
Stub		2	72	8,198		5,941	14,213
List	1	4	39	47		20	111
Category					4,184		4,184
Disambig					3		3
File					45		45
Project					4		4
Template					123		123
NA			10	289	176		475
Other			4	4	30		38
Assessed	15	131	894	13,152	4,567	7,801	26,560
Unassessed				1		16	17
Total	15	131	894	13,153	4,567	7,817	26,577
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 120,187			Ω = 5.58

• There is a bot-generated daily log which lists articles Reassessed, Assessed and Removed.

• Popular pages lists top Running articles with the most frequent views. It is updated monthly.

It is expected that this rating and assessment scheme will require periodic and iterative maintenance, as new articles are created or identified, and existing articles are progressively improved (or, hopefully much rarer, demoted), requiring the status to be reassessed.

Of course, anyone is free to edit any of the articles they choose without regard to priority, however it is hoped that this will provide some basis for a more methodical approach to the longer-term overall improvement of content and coverage in the field.

You may add yourself to the list here and/or add {{User WP Running}} to your profile page.

• Gosox5555 00:06, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Ombudsman 08:16, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Can't sleep, clown will eat me 05:30, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Myles Long 18:04, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• MisterHand 01:00, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Sharpdust 03:38, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• I Wonder March 28 2006
• wayzatarunning April 30 2006
• Dunne409 07:23, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• SilkTork 21:41, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Kelly Katula
• Zachyzz 15:53, 15 June 2006
• Longhornsg 21:54, 7 July 2006
• Farakon 09:24, 19 July 2006
• Meynardtengco 01:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Fordsbasement 10:34, 28 August 2006
• Tonyfuchs1019 18:11, 22 September 2006
• KarateLady September 25, 2006
• Mipchunk 19:35, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• TrackMonkey 01:19, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• WillMak050389 22:17, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Shideharagaikou 15:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• DJREJECTED 02:13, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Borat fan 20:46, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Chrislamagne 17:24, 31 March 2007
• Geraldk 23:51, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Racepacket
• Marlith ^T/C 03:48, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Redmarkviolinist 17:37, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• NSH001 (talk) 23:11, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Teh Rote (talk) 01:07, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Blooded Edge: I've always been very interested in professional sprinters, and look forward to helping this project in acheiving its goals.
• Sticky Parkin 00:39, 10 November 2008 (UTC) I run as an attempt at fitness and enjoy organising/trying to improve articles on wiki:)[reply]
• Riwo
• Runninguy
• Bearas 6 April 2010
• jakla 31 October 2010
• Bezza84 (talk) 15:31, 21 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Jowaninpensans 6 August 2011
• CanadianWikiUser 30 January 2013
• Green Pistachio 22 November 2013
• User:Legoboyvdlp
• mad runnerist 20 August 2014
• TheEditor867 24 April 2015 (UTC)
• User:LongDistance06 16 October 2015
• User:Whoisjohngalt 25 April 2016
• Curtisclaar (talk) 23:24, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• User:Metro man 27 (talk)
• Habst (talk) 06:19, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Jackalopeicus (talk) 12:1942 15 October 2019 (UTC)
• Jahamian876242 (talk) 20:48, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• CipherSleuth (talk) 17:59, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Oignonne (talk) 14:05, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notice there is a proposed new notability standard for runners which can be found here. A vote is currently being conducted on the talk page to adopt this as an official guideline to replace WP:ATHLETE. Proposed deletions

• 13 Apr 2026 – Trần Thị Ngọc Anh (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by LibStar (t · c): Fails WP:SPORTSCRIT and WP:NOLY.

Good article nominees

• 22 Nov 2025 – Keely Hodgkinson (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Canary757 (t · c); start discussion

Articles to be split

• 21 Jan 2023 – Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 37.222.245.42 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 14 Apr 2026 – Draft:Siveej Kodapully Sivaraman (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Indirakonthuruthy (t · c)
• 11 Apr 2026 – Draft:Veloci Running (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tstrothman (t · c)
• 04 Apr 2026 – Draft:Jan Busam (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by HunJo54 (t · c)
• 08 Mar 2026 – Draft:EMU 6-Day Race (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jtamas7 (t · c)
• undated – Draft:Mary MacDonald (wheelchair athlete) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
• 17 Feb 2026 – Draft:Kettering 5k & Half Marathon (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Twopeasinapod8898 (t · c) was declined by Meadowlark (t · c) on 18 Apr 2026

You can click here to see a list of project pages with the most page views.

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What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{running-stub}} Talk	This running-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. v t e	The official stub for running-related articles.
{{running project}} Talk	Running This article is within the scope of WikiProject Running, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of running on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.RunningWikipedia:WikiProject RunningTemplate:WikiProject RunningRunning ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. To-do list: edit history watch purge tag all running related articles with {{WikiProject Running}} adding assessment and importance parameters when missing find references for articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Running/Unreferenced BLPs adopt an article and promote it to GA	The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of this Wikiproject.
{{User Running}} Talk	This user just LOVES to run!	Just a userbox to tell others what you love to do!
{{User WikiProject Running}} Talk	This user participates in WikiProject Running.	Just a userbox to tell others what you love to do on wikipedia!
{{Running To-do}} Talk	tag all running related articles with {{WikiProject Running}} adding assessment and importance parameters when missing find references for articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Running/Unreferenced BLPs adopt an article and promote it to GA	A centralized to do list for the project

The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject Sports and WikiProject Transport.

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