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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 all four distinct versions of the sport: men's field lacrosse, box lacrosse (or indoor lacrosse), women's lacrosse, and intercrosse or soft-stick 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 articles describing the teams, former teams, champions and past champions, awards, etc.

List of leagues:

Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse - women's, Athletes Unlimited model
Major Series Lacrosse - box, Senior A, summer, Ontario
National Lacrosse League - box, winter/spring, United States and Canada
Premier Lacrosse League - field, touring model, United States and Canada
Western Lacrosse Association - box, Senior A, summer, British Columbia
Major League Lacrosse - defunct field league
Women's Professional Lacrosse League - defunct women's, United States

Teams

All team pages need improvement. They should have several prose sections, including history, championship descriptions, notable years, and notable players. Perhaps arena info or broadcasting. Tables should include championships, yearly records, roster of players, head coaches, maybe draft picks. Example: Philadelphia Wings (1987–2014). Or any NFL, NBA, MLB, or NHL team page.

WPLL team pages are stubs. Also, almost all WLA and MSL teams are stubs with very few citations. Finally, PLL team pages are mostly statistics, with very little prose content. An external link to the PLL's stat page would suffice for the individual stats table.

Players

{{Infobox lacrosse player}} should be used on all player pages.
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, PLL and MLL) if possible.
Any participation in international lacrosse should be mentioned as well.

Other

Create and improve pages on tournaments and championships - Mann Cup, Minto Cup, NCAA, Heritage Cup, World Lacrosse championships, other international tournaments, etc.

Expand international lacrosse articles.

Tasks

clean-up listing for Lacrosse

Recruit new members
Expand stub articles, especially high importance stubs
Create pages for Premier Lacrosse League team’s seasons and move information such as stats and rosters from the team main page to those pages.
Fix individual players articles. So many of them are outdated or badly written and need to be fixed.
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 articles Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse, season pages should include week-by-week standings updates(at least for the top four) and week-by-week draft selections and results.
Expand existing articles on Major League Lacrosse and Premier Lacrosse League teams.
Expand existing articles on Canadian Senior A summer box lacrosse leagues WLA and MSL) and teams (history, records, etc.).
Create pages for inductees and teams/associations referenced in National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame & Canadian Hall of Fame.
Create bio articles for any of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame members. Information about them can be found at their HOF bios.
Create NLL Team Season articles
Create articles on the current ILIndoor top 20 NLL players: [1]. Create new articles on current and former NLL players. Current players can be found at NLL rosters article.
Create and improve articles on Inside Lacrosse's 20 best field lacrosse players. Randy Staats, Zach Currier, Bryan Cole, and Justin Guterding are all top 10 pro outdoor players without articles.
Go through Unassessed lacrosse articles and add class and importance parameters (see assessment for details)
Tag lacrosse-related articles with {{WikiProject Lacrosse |class= |importance= }} on their talk page, filling in class and importance
Create new and expand existing articles on international lacrosse. Create an article for Lacrosse in Ireland
Find members of HOF who already have articles and properly link them
Images for articles in Category:Wikipedia requested images of lacrosse
Create and improve articles about Tewaaraton Award winners. They are all notable enough for articles. See {{Tewaaraton Trophy}} and tewaaraton.com.
Find a criteria for creating articles about lacrosse players for WP:ATH. A conversation on the talk page was started. Add opinions there to get to a consensus for what the criteria should be.
Expand articles on the Women's Professional Lacrosse League and each of it’s teams.

Assessment

Lacrosse articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				1			1
GA	2	8	7	11			28
B	4	1	8	12			25
C	4	17	34	46		14	115
Start	6	101	249	426		41	823
Stub	1	11	239	425		99	775
List		4	15	22		1	42
File					92		92
NA		1	15	12	1,338		1,366
Assessed	17	143	567	955	1,430	155	3,267
Unassessed				3		212	215
Total	17	143	567	958	1,430	367	3,482
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 9,356			Ω = 5.29

Note that pages tagged with a class of "Image" do not appear in this table.

The assessment system allows the WikiProject to monitor the quality of articles in its subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. The class and importance should be filled in on the parameters of the {{WikiProject Lacrosse}} template on the article's talk page.

These guidelines can help to determine what class should be assigned to an article.

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.
Yarnalgo (Talk) -- MLL / NLL / ~~International (sort of)~~
Bhockey10 (Talk) – WPLAX member since 2010. Mostly focus on College lacrosse teams, conferences, and organizations.
EmjayMiller (Talk) – College, high school & youth lacrosse in USA
Nurmsook - International tournaments
Bes2224 - MLL, NLL, PLL, 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 [2]; 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 - Radiating out from the Bandits, where I'm a season ticket holder, I'm creating player articles, importing various stats, and trying to improve NLL content in the spare time I have
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.
Mnnlaxer Main articles, international, basic templates, categories, assessment, whatever. See my user page for articles I've worked on significantly.
Twooeight - creating articles about the top lacrosse players, fixing articles with maintenance tags.
Sue Kastle - PLL and MLL. Creating/updating articles about seasons all-star games).
ThatWikiAl - PLL and NLL. Creating articles about top players, recording league statistics.
B1GLAX2 - College lacrosse. Updating season results and creating articles for significant rivalries.
DFC54 - College Lacrosse Team Pages and PLL
Jsfxmn - Various pages(mainly field lacrosse, will also work on women's lacrosse as I see it, very little box lacrosse) as I find them and work on them, if you see an article that needs work, tell me on my talk page, I'll see what I can do!
OnlyNano - creating articles
SammySpartan - College lacrosse, NLL, PLL
Buffalkill - Updating and improving stale articles

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
Xander756 - NLL
Mherr - NLL/MLL/High school and college 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.
Mitico (talk) - General interest
Strikehold (Talk) – College lacrosse, particularly teams in Maryland
Epeefleche - general interest
MrCasteMania - MLL and Youth Lacrosse
Da Drewster -
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
MattBinYYC- NLL, mostly the Calgary Roughnecks. Sporadic edits.
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
jc121383 - NLL

Articles

Article alerts

Did you know

18 Nov 2024 – Austin Staats (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by SammySpartan (t · c); see discussion

Proposed deletions

07 Dec 2024 – Mississauga Trilliums (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Blaixx (t · c): Clearly fails WP:GNG.

Categories for discussion

01 Dec 2024 – Category:Swarthmore Garnet Tide men's lacrosse players (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by BlasterOfHouses (t · c) was closed; see discussion
01 Dec 2024 – Category:Swarthmore Garnet Tide men's lacrosse (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by BlasterOfHouses (t · c) was closed; see discussion
01 Dec 2024 – Category:Swarthmore Garnet Tide men's lacrosse coaches (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by BlasterOfHouses (t · c) was closed; see discussion

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.

New articles

Shortcut

WP:LAX/NEW

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.

Good Articles (GAs)

Core articles

Events

People

Places

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.

Logos

League and team logos should contain this:
{{Non-free logo|sports logos}}

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
}}

Templates

National Lacrosse League

{{NLL}}:

{{NLL Arenas}}:

{{NLL seasons}}:

Roster templates

There are two player templates; one for actual rosters and another for lists.

The {{Player}} template should be used for rosters and roster templates, where the {{Lacrosse player list}} template should be used for lists.

{{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:

No.		Position	Player
num		pos	name (other)

No.		Position	Player

Other

{{Field Lacrosse Leagues}}:

Infoboxes

Place these infoboxes at the top of the respective articles

Lacrosse specific

{{Infobox lacrosse player}}
{{Infobox college lacrosse team}}
{{Infobox lacrosse team season}}
{{Infobox college lacrosse championship}}
{{Infobox international lacrosse competition}}
{{Infobox national indoor lacrosse team}}
{{Infobox national lacrosse team}}

Generic

Userboxes

Lacrosse

This user is a member of WikiProject Lacrosse.

This user loves lacrosse.

This user plays lacrosse.

NLL

BUF

This user is a fan of the
Buffalo Bandits

OTW

This user is a fan of the
Ottawa Black Bears

NE

This user reminisces of the
New England Black Wolves

BOS

This user reminisces of the
Boston Blazers

LV

This user is a fan of the
Las Vegas Desert Dogs

ALB

This user is a fan of the
Albany FireWolves

ROC

This user is a fan of the
Rochester Knighthawks

POR

This user reminisces of the
Portland LumberJax.

COL

This user is a fan of the
Colorado Mammoth

PC

This user reminisces of the
Panther City Lacrosse Club

NY

This user reminisces of the
New York Riptide

TOR

This user is a fan of the
Toronto Rock

CGY

This user is a fan of the
Calgary Roughnecks

SSK

This user is a fan of the
Saskatchewan Rush

CHI

This user reminisces of the
Chicago Shamrox.

SD

This user is a fan of the
San Diego Seals

SJ

This user reminisces of the
San Jose Stealth

ARZ

This user reminisces of the
Arizona Sting.

GA

This user is a fan of the
Georgia Swarm

ORL

This user reminisces of the
Orlando Titans

HFX

This user is a fan of the
Halifax Thunderbirds

VAN

This user is a fan of the
Vancouver Warriors

PHI

This user is a fan of the
Philadelphia Wings

PLL

UT

This user is a fan of the
Utah Archers.

NY

This user is a fan of the
New York Atlas.

BOS

This user is a fan of the
Boston Cannons.

CAR

This user is a fan of the
Carolina Chaos.

CLC

This user reminisces of the
Chrome Lacrosse Club.

DEN

This user is a fan of the
Denver Outlaws.

CAL

This user is a fan of the
California Redwoods.

PHI

This user is a fan of the
Philadelphia Waterdogs.

MD

This user is a fan of the
Maryland Whipsnakes.

MLL

PHI

This user reminisces of the
Philadelphia Barrage

CHS

This user reminisces of the
Chesapeake Bayhawks

BOS

This user is a fan of the
Boston Cannons.

SF

This user reminisces of the
San Francisco Dragons.

NY

This user reminisces of the
New York Lizards

OH

This user reminisces of the
Ohio Machine

HAM

This user reminisces of the
Hamilton Nationals

NJ

This user reminisces of the
New Jersey Pride.

DAL

This user reminisces of the
Dallas Rattlers

LA

This user reminisces of the
Los Angeles Riptide.

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Awards	NLL Cup MVP Rookie of the Year Defensive Player of the Year Transition Player of the Year Offensive Player of the Year Goaltender of the Year Sportsmanship Award Les Bartley Award GM of the Year Executive of the Year Tom Borrelli Award Teammate of the Year Weekly Awards Monthly Awards
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Related Articles: Box lacrosse Lacrosse Major League Lacrosse

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Major Indoor Lacrosse League	1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
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v t e Major League Lacrosse
Final season teams	Boston Cannons Charlotte Hounds Chesapeake Bayhawks Connecticut Hammerheads Denver Outlaws New York Lizards Philadelphia Barrage
Defunct teams	Atlanta Blaze Chicago Machine Dallas Rattlers Florida Launch Hamilton Nationals Los Angeles Riptide New Jersey Pride Ohio Machine San Francisco Dragons
Articles	Steinfeld Trophy All Star Game Awards Draft Stadiums Television coverage MLL–PLL merger
Seasons	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

v t e NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament
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Records & statistics	All-time team records All-time team appearances

v t e Premier Lacrosse League
Teams	Boston Cannons California Redwoods Carolina Chaos Denver Outlaws Maryland Whipsnakes New York Atlas Philadelphia Waterdogs Utah Archers
Seasons	2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Related	Major League Lacrosse MLL–PLL merger Awards PLL All-Star Game PLL Championship Series

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