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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
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Ditto for Henley Royal Regatta, The Boat Race , Steve Redgrave

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

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

Document FISA database errors

Sailing Start‑class

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Scuba diving Start‑class

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Ship and boat have a lot of material that applies to both, notably the distinctions between them. All of it should be moved to Watercraft and referenced by both of the others. --Jerzy (t) 20:33, 2004 Dec 23 (UTC)

Actually, most of my recent addition (other than what i moved from ship) probably belongs in Hull (watercraft), where i've now moved it. --Jerzy (t) 03:42, 2005 Feb 15 (UTC)

Could we please have a history of watercraft? We have a sketchy history of boats, but nothing comparable for ships, and nothing for watercraft as a whole. --Simetrical 20:38, 2004 Dec 23 (EST)

Merge

Can watercraft be merged with boat in order to simplify the articles (boat, boating, ship, watercraft) and provide a more clear article (with 1 meaning for each) ? Would allow to add more specific and better information for each rather than give a general view/modification of text for each individual article.

Also, boating can then be described as the activity of moving a watercraft over water (something which is hard if it were only to describe boats)

Definition should also be changed to A watercraft or boat is ... KVDP (talk) 09:31, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[]

Oppose. The article makes clear that 'watercraft' and 'boat' are not the same thing - all boats are watercraft, but a watercraft is not necessarily a boat. Merging the articles would serve no purpose but to confuse this --Saalstin (talk) 13:55, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[]

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+{{WikiProject Rowing|class=Start|importance=}}
+{{WikiProject Sailing|class=Start|importance=}}
+{{WikiProject SCUBA|class=Start|importance=}}
 [[Ship]] and [[boat]] have a lot of material that applies to both, notably the distinctions between them.  All of it should be moved to [[Watercraft]] and referenced by both of the others. --[[User:Jerzy|Jerzy]][[User talk:Jerzy|(t)]] 20:33, 2004 Dec 23 (UTC)