Editing Encyclopedia:WikiProject Sports (section)

===Historical and annual summaries===
The purpose of these articles (e.g., [[History of baseball]], [[2009 in sports]]) is to summarise significant events that are relevant to the sport or period under review.  It is very important that the articles are not encumbered by excessive detail, particularly where a certain theme is being promoted.  This is in accordance with general Wikipedia guidelines and policies such as [[WP:NOT#STATS]], [[WP:UNDUEWEIGHT]] and [[WP:NOTDIRECTORY]].<br>
For that reason, the project has [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sports#Years_in_sports_articles|decided to exclude lists of births and deaths]].  Births have no conceivable importance to sports in the year of the person's birth, no matter how famous the person might become a generation hence. Deaths of active sportspersons are significant but must be recorded under a section about the relevant sport or the relevant time period.