Wikipedia:WikiProject Badminton
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Welcome to WikiProject Badminton. Some Wikipedians have formed a project to expand and organize information better in articles related to the sport of badminton.
Introduction
Scope
The scope of the project is everything to do with badminton, particularly the players and tournaments. The project can also provide a centralized location for discussion and possibly the creation of a portal, if needed.
Goals
- To write about all the famous badminton players and tournaments around the world.
- To gather complete and accurate information for all badminton related articles.
- To divide the subject of badminton into appropriate subtopics, to make things easier to find.
- To standardize all badminton related articles.
- To provide a manual of style.
- To improve all the stubs article into standard articles.
Members
Please feel free to add your name in here.
Standard color code for badminton tournaments
The international tournaments are categorized by Badminton World Federation under different levels. The standard color code for different tournaments - to highlight them for different purposes in the relevant Wikipedia articles - is as follows:
| S. No. | Tournament categories | Color Code |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BWF Event | ffd700 |
| 2 | Super Series Premier/Finals | ddcfe2 |
| 3 | Super Series | 98fb98 |
| 4 | Grand Prix Gold | ffff80 |
| 5 | Grand Prix | 9ae8e8 |
| 6 | International Challenge | f0ec9e |
| 7 | International Series | d5d5d5 |
| 8 | Future Series | e9e9e9 |
| 9 | Multi-sport event | bad195 |
| 10 | Continental Championships | cdfff4 |
| 11 | Invitation Tournament | ffe0af |
- BWF Event
- Super Series Premier/Finals
- Super Series
- Grand Prix Gold
- Grand Prix
- International Challenge
- International Series
- Future Series
- Multi-sport event
- Continental Championships
- Invitation Tournament
PS: Tournaments with same ranking points are categorized together.
As of now, following are the BWF events[1]:
| BWF Individual Events | World Championships, Olympic Games, Asian Games & Commonwealth Games. |
| BWF Team Events | Sudirman Cup, Thomas Cup, Uber Cup , Commonwealth Games - Mixed Team Event, European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships, European Mixed Team Badminton Championships, African Continental Championships (Team event), Oceania Mixed Team Championships, Pan American Badminton Championships (Team event) & African Badminton Cup of Nations (Team Event). |
Note: To check the grading of the tournament, editors are advised to visit this web page: BWF World Rankings: Tournaments. If the tournament is not listed on this web page, i.e. if it was not graded by the BWF, then they should check here: Tournament Calendar. And put the tournament under relevant category accordingly. The above two links contain the grading/category of all international badminton tournaments organized since 2009.
To do
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Categories
- See Category:Badminton for a list of sub-categories.
Templates
Talk page banner
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| {{WikiProject Badminton}} |
Example of output:
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Badminton related articles | |||||||||||||
UserBox
For all participants to use I have created a userbox to both declare your allegiance to the project and to increase the visibility of the project to the community.
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Badminton. |
using {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Badminton/Userbox}}
Extras
All the other templates can be found in Category:Badminton templates. Please don't hesitate to discuss with project collaborators if you have question/problem about the usage.
You can add {{Infobox Badminton player}} for article about the badminton players. For coverage about the badminton tournaments, you can find the suitable bracket templates in Category:Tournament bracket templates. However, usually you can use the following:
- {{32TeamBracket-Tennis3}} – Please use
- {{16TeamBracket-Compact-Tennis3}}
- {{8TeamBracket-Tennis3}}
- {{4TeamBracket-Tennis3}}
Useful links
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- ^ "BWF World Rankings: Tournaments". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
