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Welcome to the Baseball WikiProject! We are a group dedicated to improving the coverage of topics related to baseball on Wikipedia. If you would like to join us, please add your name to the participant list.
Goals
- To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of baseball.
- To improve Wikipedia's coverage of baseball by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
- To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to baseball in Wikipedia.
Structure
- Departments, which work on specialized tasks, which include article assessment, article and content review, and collaboration.
- Task forces, which are more informal groups for collaboration on specific topics related to baseball.
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Scope
The scope of WikiProject Baseball is the sport of baseball and all related articles.
This WikiProject aims to create standards for the different sets of baseball-related articles, from statistics to histories to players, venues, and strategies.
Please insert {{Baseball-WikiProject}} on all talk pages associated with this project.
Announcements and open tasks
For a list of requests see our to do list
Maintenance
- Tag Talk pages with {{Baseball-WikiProject}}
- Rate articles. See Category:Unassessed Baseball articles or Baseball articles by quality.
- Tag stubs with {{baseball-stub}} or {{baseball-bio-stub}}
- Create organisational structure for categories
- Help peer review any articles currently up in the WikiProject's peer review department.
- Expand a stub
- Maintain Baseball Portal
- Add top-level information to Current sports events as it occurs. Player trades, game results, other notable events.
- Recruit new members by searching Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Baseball/Articles and Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Baseball/Articles/Stubs and seeing if anyone not involved with the project has made an edit of one of our designated pages. (See list: Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Participant List). Look at their talk page, and if they don't have lots of negative things (complaints about edits, vandalism, etc), edit and add {{subst:BBwelcome}} to the page.
- Add {{subst:WPBBwelcome}} to the talk pages of new users who join the project.
2007 MLB team articles
We are trying to create season articles for every MLB team for the current 2007 season.
Go to /2007 MLB team articles for a list of teams and people currently editing the articles.
2006 MLB team articles
There is also a page going for /2006 MLB team articles if you want to edit pages that all the information is ready.
- Contanct us at IRC #wikipedia-baseball
Guidelines
Players
- Naming convention
A proposal has been written here: User:Caknuck/Naming conventions (baseball players)
- Notability
Any player who plays in the top professional league in their country is notable. This includes Major League Baseball in North America and Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan, among others. Most minor league players are not considered notable, but some players are as determined by WP:BIO. Baseball executives, coaches, and managers are also notable.
- External links
- {{Baseballstats}} – provides links to stats sites
- {{Bbhof}} – baseballhalloffame.org template for HofF biography page.
- {{Japanesebaseball}} – japanesebaseball.com template for Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics.
- Lists
When creating an article for an MLB player, remember to add his name to the list of Major League Baseball players. Also, when adding them to the list, make sure he has actually played in the majors. (This is sometimes an issue with prospects who were added to the 40-man roster without receiving a callup to the majors.)
From players to managers to owners, more info at Players task force.
Teams
- Article structure
The guidelines in this section are intended to serve as a starting point for writing a good article; they are not meant to enforce a single structure on all articles, nor to limit the topics an article will discuss.
- Team info (template)
- Team history (abridged)
- Separate link to detailed history (when appropriate)
- Current roster (template)
- Retired numbers & HoFers
- Links to more info (template)
- Award winners & league leaders
- Team records (current records should be deleted on sight.)
- Players of note (non-HoFers)
- Team's HoF
- Broadcasters
- Managers & ownership
- Post-season series
Note: Defunct teams should be similarly structured to existing teams.
- Infoboxes
- Template:Infobox baseball team – For international teams
- Template:Minor league team – For minor league teams
- Template:MLB infobox – For MLB teams
Seasons
See separate talk page.
Postseason
- Infoboxes
- Template:Infobox WorldSeries – For World Series
- Navboxes
- Template:Mlbplayoffs – Small navigation box for MLB playoffs
Record lists
- Naming conventions
"List of league leaders in time-period stat" and "List of league stat champions". For example "List of Major League Baseball leaders in career stolen bases", "List of Nippon Professional Baseball leaders in single-season wins", and "List of Major League Baseball save champions".
- Table formatting
Example:
'''Bold text''' indicates an active player. (show for career lists only) Last updated [[July 11]], [[2007]] {| class="wikitable" !Rank (or "Year" for champion lists) !Player !Team (omit for career records) !Stolen Bases |- |1 or [[1903 Major League Baseball season|1903]] |[[Rickey Henderson]] |[[Team1]] |1406 |- |2 or [[1904 Major League Baseball season|1904]] |[[Lou Brock]] |[[Team2]] |938 |- |}
Multiple columns are recommended for very long lists.
- Categories
Category:Baseball records and Category:Baseball lists are likely appropriate.
Other
- Navboxes
- Template:MLB – Navigation box for Major League Baseball
- Template:Professional Baseball – Navigation box for worldwide baseball leagues
Project organization
Participants
For the list of active and inactive participants in this project, please see the participants list. Please feel free to add yourself to this list.
Userboxes
If you are part of this project, and would like to show your participation, you can add the following on your user page.
User Template
Put {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Templates/Member}} on your userpage to show:
Userbox
Put {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Templates/User}} on your userpage to show:
This user is a member of the WikiProject Baseball. |
Departments
Assessment
Baseball articles |
Importance | ||||||
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Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
Quality | |||||||
FA | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 | |||
A | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
GA | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 11 | ||
B | 14 | 73 | 50 | 26 | 20 | 183 | |
Start | 69 | 247 | 415 | 300 | 209 | 1240 | |
Stub | 6 | 91 | 184 | 948 | 644 | 1873 | |
Assessed | 91 | 415 | 662 | 1278 | 873 | 3319 | |
Unassessed | 0 | 20 | 61 | 26 | 8620 | 8727 | |
Total | 91 | 435 | 723 | 1304 | 9493 | 12046 |
- /Assessment – Our rating system
- Project statistics – Statistics for our rating system
- V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc
Article Improvement Drive
We have an Article Improvement Drive to improve all baseball articles to featured status (that's the goal). Click here to participate.
CAST YOUR VOTE for next week's article
Task forces
We have a number of task forces in this project. The following is a list of these task forces and their purpose. Anyone may join a task force and improve the quality of the articles they cover.
If you are interested in a different area which is covered by this project but has no specialty, consider proposing a task force on the talk page. There are many advantages to creating a task force, rather than starting a new project.
Topic Specific
- Players task force is a task force aimed at improving the quality of articles about players in the sport of baseball.
- Little League task force is a task force aimed at improving the quality of Little League articles, mainly the Little League World Series.
- Old-time Base Ball task force is a task force aimed at improving the quality of baseball articles which involved topics Pre-1900, before the modern era of baseball.
- League and team article standardization is a task force aimed at standarizing all professional baseball league and team articles, including indexing (categories).
Region Specific
- Japanese baseball task force is a task force aimed at improving the quality of Japanese baseball related articles.
- Korean baseball task force is a task force aimed at improving the quality of Korean baseball related articles.
- Taiwanese baseball task force is a task force aimed at improving the quality of Taiwanese baseball related articles.
Portal
We maintain the baseball portal on this project. Feel free to help out.
Resources
The following external resources can be helpful in writing an article. Do not copy and paste, and please remember to cite your sources.
- Major League Baseball
- Minor League Baseball
- ESPN Baseball
- Fangraphs
- Baseball Reference
- Baseball Almanac
- Baseball America
- Baseball Cube
- Baseball Library
- National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Similar WikiProjects
There are a couple of similar projects which overlap some of the content we cover, these are:
- WikiProject Australian Baseball
- WikiProject Minnesota Twins
- WikiProject New York Yankees
- WikiProject St. Louis Cardinals
- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports#Baseball for an up-to-date listing