Talk:List of rowing blades

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Rowing

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To-do list:

Featured Articles:

Raise the rowing (sport) article to featured status.
1. Get article relisted to 'good article status'
2. Put through another round of peer review, see here
3. Nominate for featured status
Ditto for Henley Royal Regatta, The Boat Race , Steve Redgrave

Stubs: see here..

Tag {{Rowing-stub}} onto all rowing stub articles so we can keep track of them.
Expand stubs to at least start class.

Image requests: see here..
Article requests: see here..

Write bios for World Rowing champions (see the redlinks in the templates)

Document FISA database errors

Backgrounds[edit]

Can someone help with the background so the white doesn't disappear. --evrik 17:21, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Format[edit]

This image is the template:

Image by Gary van der Merwe ^(Talk) 16:27, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Solid colors[edit]

Black
Gray
Green
Magenta
Maroon
Scarlet
White
Yellow
Purple

For solid color blades, should we reuse the same image? --evrik 19:41, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say so, I imagine there are clubs which also share blade colours with stripes if you look hard enough. --Richard B

Category for inclusion[edit]

This list could become huge if we include every rowing club. Should we limit it to clubs with Wiki articles? Richard B 19:44, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

dunno. I say we break apart the article into smaller articles if the page gets that big. One way to keep the size down is to not add any unless there is an article, but I don't think we have to limit it. --evrik 19:55, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I think if a citation for the blade design is provided - it should be allowed. Not sure how we format all the cites. Gary van der Merwe ^(Talk) 19:45, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- We could break the page up into sub-pages, especially if we get access to Gary van der Merwe's images. --evrik 14:33, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The page was getting long, so I made a split ... --evrik ^(talk) 17:17, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

SO this is where they come from![edit]

I've been adding a lot of these to Wikipedia Commons, the central library for Wikimedia projects. If you make any more blades, could you possibly upload them to Commons instead of to English-lang Wikipedia? That way we don't end up with duplicates, and all the different language Wikipedias can use them. (There's no difference in using a Commons pic - it just gets called from a different place.) That would be great. Cheers, JackyR | Talk 20:13, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All of my blades (i.e. all of the Cambridge University college blades) are on Commons. Richard B 21:16, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Jolly good. I'm obviously thinking of something else! JackyR | Talk 19:38, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I've added all of mine to the commons ... ya know ... it would be great if we could translate the page. --evrik 14:31, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is appalling the number of prestigious collegiate crews that are not shown in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.225.229.218 (talk • contribs) 17:47, 21 June 2007

- Then I suggest you start adding them? Leviance | Talk

Blades from my old site[edit]

Very surprised to see my old site linked to from this page. For what it worth - I am prepared to release all content on that site under the GFDL. Gary van der Merwe ^(Talk) 07:40, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's great! How do we get all the image files from you? --evrik 14:16, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately I no longer have the original vector files. But you can just download the rasters of the site. I'll try get a copy of the whole directory from the host (my old school). Gary van der Merwe ^(Talk) 15:34, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template Documentation[edit]

I've added a bit of help on how the ridge is drawn over here: Commons:Image:Rowing_Blade_Template.svg. I've also edited the template to include a bunch of comments to help edit it. But when I click on the link, I still get the old version. Please make sure you start with the new version.

I hope to add more documentation.

Gary van der Merwe ^(Talk) 17:29, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More Blades[edit]

I have created many more blades, but as specified above, they do not fit on these pages, but I think I should mention them here in case articles are written about these clubs. I have made a page of them at User:Jonowatkins/Rowing Blades. Jono Watkins 23:13, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just add them to these pages. --evrik ^(talk) 02:26, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I would, but referring to previous discussion they don't have articles, so they don't belong here (yet). -- Jono Watkins 00:43, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

UK University Colleges[edit]

On List of rowing blades/School and university

I have made a start in adding which university a college belongs to so the we make it clear. I suspect few users will be familiar with which college is part of Oxford, Cambridge, Durham. I shall complete this in due course but if anyone else has the time, please could you help.

If you add new ones please could you also specify.

Thanks

Teach46 (talk) 09:08, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Right, I've finished this so we can all breathe easier and sleep well at night! Seriously, if you're adding a Club of any sort please could you do it in a way that is clear to all where the club is. Thanks.--Teach46 (talk) 17:19, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Blade requests[edit]

Would anyone with the skills to make these wonderful blade images mind working on a few requests, namely the University of London, and its member colleges? Grunners (talk) 13:20, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've successfully edited one to make St Leonard's School blades. However, despite instructions I do not find it easy! My wishlist includes the missing blades on Rowing clubs on the River Wear specifically Durham Constabulary Rowing Club, Durham High School for Girls, Sunderland City Rowing Club and Sunderland University Rowing Club. I am more than happy to source an image for each of these so that someone can work on them but I have tried with the first on the list and it's beyoned my editing skills, my software, my time or, indeed, all three. Help please!--Teach46 (talk) 20:14, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Template updated[edit]

Wow, it been 5 years since I created the template for this. IcantBeliveHowTimeFlies.

I've updated the template to work around a rsvg rendering bug that was causing the ridge and loom to render incorrectly. I've also updated all the existing images in Category:SVG_rowing_blades to include this fix.

I've added some images to Image:Rowing_Blade_Template.svg#Some_Documentation_of_this_file with points and various useful transforms. I have some other ideas on things that could be documented, and I hope to get to that soon.

It's great to see how Category:SVG_rowing_blades has grown, but alot of those are not on these lists, so I hope to add those soon.

Gary van der Merwe ^(Talk) 19:48, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]