この文書の要旨: An athlete is presumed notable if the person has actively participated in a major international amateur or professional competition at the highest level such as the Olympics, and has received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject.

This guideline is used to help evaluate whether or not a sportsperson, sports league, or an amateur/professional sports league organization will meet the general notability guideline, and thus merit an article in Wikipedia. The article must provide reliable sources showing that the subject meets the criteria. It is not enough to make vague claims about the person's importance?the sourcing in the article itself must document notability.

If the article does meet the criteria set forth below, then it is likely that sufficient sources exist to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article. Failing to meet the criteria in this guideline means that notability will need to be established in other ways.

Please note that the failure to meet these criteria does not mean an article must be deleted; conversely, the meeting of any of these criteria does not mean that an article must be kept. These are merely rules of thumb which some editors choose to keep in mind when deciding whether or not to keep an article that is on articles for deletion, along with relevant guidelines such as Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Reliable sources.目次

1 Applicable policies and guidelines

2 Basic criteria

3 スポーツに関わる人物の特筆性

3.1 一般的な方針


4 プロスポーツ選手

4.1 アメリカンフットボール/カナディアンフットボール

4.2 サッカー

4.3 陸上競技

4.4 Australian Rules Football

4.5 野球

4.6 バスケットボール

4.7 クリケット

4.8 カーリング

4.9 自転車競技

4.10 フィギュアスケート

4.11 ゴルフ

4.12 アイスホッケー

4.13 モータースポーツ

4.14 Rugby league

4.15 Rugby union

4.16 大相撲

4.17 卓球

4.18 テニス

4.19 トライアスロン


5 アマチュアスポーツ

5.1 カレッジスポーツ

5.2 ゲーリックゲーム

5.3 体操競技

5.4 ハイスクールアスリート


6 組織、大会の特筆性

6.1 オリンピック、パラリンピック

6.2 シーズン記事

6.3 試合、シリーズ

6.4 ライバル関係


7 脚注

8 関連項目

Applicable policies and guidelines

All information included in Wikipedia, including articles about sports, must be verifiable. In addition, standalone articles are required to meet the General Notability Guideline. This guideline provides bright-line guidance to enable editors to determine quickly if a subject is likely to meet the General Notability Guideline. Information about living persons must meet the more stringent requirements for those types of articles.

Subjects that do not meet the sport-specific criteria outlined in this guideline may still be notable if they meet the General Notability Guideline or another subject specific notability guideline.
Basic criteria詳細は「:en:Wikipedia:Notability」を参照

A person is presumed to be notable if he or she has been the subject of multiple published[1] non-trivial[2] secondary sources which are reliable, intellectually independent,[3] and independent of the subject.[4]

Trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources may be used to support content in an article, but it is not sufficient to establish notability. This includes listings in database sources with low, wide-sweeping generic standards of inclusion, such as the College Football Data Warehouse.

Primary sources may be used to support content in an article, but they do not contribute toward proving the notability of a subject.

Some sources must be used with particular care when establishing notability, and should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Local sources must be clearly independent of the subject, and must provide a level of coverage beyond WP:ROUTINE. Listings of statistics must clearly satisfy the requirement for significant coverage.

スポーツに関わる人物の特筆性
一般的な方針

特別な節をもうけたものを除き次のとおり。
プロアマ問わずオリンピックのような国際的な最高レベルの大会に出場した選手。

個々のスポーツについては下の基準を参照。

プロレスのようにエンターテイメント性を持つものはen:WP:ENTERTAINERを参照すること。
プロスポーツ選手
アメリカンフットボール/カナディアンフットボール

アメリカンフットボール、カナディアンフットボール選手の特筆性
NFL、カナディアン・フットボール・リーグ、アリーナフットボールリーグ、AAFC、USFLその他のトップレベルのリーグで1試合以上に出場している。

w:AF2（アリーナフットボールリーグ2部）のようなマイナーリーグの選手には特筆性はない。カレッジフットボールでの特筆すべき活躍がある場合は除く。

（Xリーグ1部、NFLヨーロッパ、ワールドリーグ、XFL、w:World Football League、ジャーマン・フットボール・リーグの扱い、誰でも良いとなると多すぎるように思われます。アメリカンフットボール・ワールドカップやノートルダム・ジャパン・ボウル2009のアメリカンフットボール日本代表選手であれば特筆性があると考えられます。）
サッカー

Association football (soccer) figures are presumed notable if they meet the following:
Players, managers and referees who have represented their country in any officially sanctioned senior international competition (including the Olympics) are notable as they have achieved the status of participating at the highest level of football. The notability of these is accepted as they would have received significant coverage as outlined above in the general notability criteria.