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[edit] This project and WikiProject NBA

What role does this WikiProject fill which can't be done under the guise of the NBA Project? I do not wish to kill this off before it starts Wikifanatic, but could you please let us over at NBA WIkiProject know what you see as being the different roles. Thanks. Harro5 04:53, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Basketball isn't just an American sport. In recent years, it has extended all over the world, particularly in Europe. Thus, a WikiProject whose purpose is to explicitly help NBA-related pages technically (and in this case, in actuality, at least for now) will not edit other basketball-related pages. So this project has a point. But as a member of the NBA Project, I think this project, on the surface, seems to be almost in competition with the NBA Project. I think it would be much more effective (and much less repetitive) to merge these two projects, either by moving the entire NBA Project under the Basketball WikiProject, or expanding the scope of the NBA Project to include all things basketball. I favor the second implemention simply because the NBA WikiProject has more members, but this WikiProject Basketball has a more accurate name. Of course, this argument is effectively nullified by the current outline of this Project's purpose, so I would hope that you would either expand the scope of either Project to cover all aspects Basketball, or merge the Projects. Regards, King 21:47, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
I would remember you that even more NBA teams are signing players from European leagues, so the importance of Europe is growing year after year. And, remember, in all sports, the American way isn't necessairly the best, d'you remember the last Italy-Dream Team match? Spectacular isn't synonimous of good, not necessairly. By the way, if someone will create templates for European/non-NBA basketball teams I think I could add Italian basketball teams. necronudist 22:36, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
What about this template? You can see it properly compiled here. The translation (for me) is very simple...let me know! --necronudist 16:56, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
It should really be Sports > Basketball > NBA. ¦ Reisio 15:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Let's do it then. Make Basketball a descendent project of Sports and make NBA a descendent project of Basketball. gurulegend 05:38, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Is this still going to be done? --MC Snowy 21:04, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello? What's the answer to this? Should there be a message left about this on user pages of WikiProject Basketball and WikiProject NBA members? (I would but I don't know how to do this) Otherwise work will just be duplicated. And since I am a member of both, I'd rather have NBA a subproject of Basketball. —MC Snowy (Talk | contribs) 21:32, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
It does not appear to be an active idea anymore, perhaps this is something you might want to link at the NBA projects talk page. KOS | talk 13:29, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Come opine...

...on this AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amin Wright. - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 13:07, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Missing summary of NBA television coverage

There is no section in the NBA article about the NBA on television and I can't find a summary article either. There are huge numbers of articles about specific programmes, but what I was hoping to find (and other sports have) is a summary of the main contracts and what they are worth. Could this be added please, either to the NBA article or as a separate article? Merchbow 06:49, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is anybody here?

Is anybody still working this?? If so, lets get a To-Do List going and put some work in.--Jaysscholar 16:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

It is rather quiet here, have you had a to do list made? I didn't see one. KOS | talk 03:26, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Standardization

Basketball pages in Wikipedia currently have no or little standard. Even infoboxes aren't. Why don't we make this our first goal? Standardization of content a la Football project did? --Howard the Duck 04:28, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

That's a good idea, are you thinking of something along these lines? WP:FOOTBALL#Manual_of_style KOS | talk 03:26, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Wht the football project did was great, and I'm hoping we can do that here, too. --Howard the Duck 09:28, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm all for it. I think the first thing we should do is make a "to do list" to keep us focused on the projects' tasks that have a glaring need. Perhaps send out a few messages to the participants of the project and try and get a good discussion going on what to add to the to do list for now. Hopefully this will add some stability and organization to this project. Once we get a to do list created, I think we can focus on accomplishing the tasks at hand. Now I think a Basketball MoS is a good idea, and that might be something that we should collaborate on with the NBA project. KOS | talk 12:27, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Also, creation of standard infoboxes applicable for all leagues at all leagues is a priority. (We can use the hiddenstructure thingy). Another thing we need though, are more participants here. --Howard the Duck 12:55, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm in the process of creating a to do list, with coding stolen from Esperanza's to do list. I don't promise anything pretty, but it will at least be something to work with. KOS | talk 13:12, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. --Howard the Duck 13:24, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
All finished, It is here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Basketball#To_do. I've gone ahead and added a few things to the to do list, just so it is not empty. By all means let us discuss what should stay and what should go, and what should be added. KOS | talk 13:28, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Should we give all the current project members a message on their talk page, try and get some more discussion going? KOS | talk 11:16, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NBA team section

I've made 6 tables, to organize the NBA teams in this section: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Basketball#NBA_Teams I feel that will allow the project quick access to any of the NBA teams one might want to work on, not to mention it is more organized and just looks better. :) If anyone has better coding, or a more applicable table instead of the 6 I created please let me know. KOS | talk 13:31, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured content

This is the only basketball-related featured content I can find: List of NCAA Philippines basketball champions. --Howard the Duck 07:14, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Though this one is not featured it did pass GA, Talk:Kirk_Hinrich#GAC, perhaps this could be a article that the project could collaborate on to help reach FA status in the near future. KOS | talk 19:32, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
  • I think I'll spam the listed members of the project and see if they are interested in being more active. KOS | talk 19:32, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
I did not leave a message for User:CATCHACODE since that user has not made an edit since March, 7th, 2006. KOS | talk 20:24, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball/Templates

Started this page. Hope someone helps out! :D --Howard the Duck 11:49, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I've kinda tried working on a basketball team template - User:AndriusG/Sandbox/Euro bball team and here it is in action - User:AndriusG/Sandbox/BC Žalgiris, what does everyone think about it? What could be improved? Andrius 15:21, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Can you modify it so that teams with no homecourts can fit in? Otherwise, great job! --Howard the Duck 03:31, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categorisation by playing positions

As far as I can see, there's no categorisation of players by position: would that be a good idea? More specifically, I note that the Cat:United States basketball biography stubs are getting very large, and by position might be a way of splitting them up. Alai 23:49, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Seems like a good idea, the football articles have those sorts of categorisations. Andrius 07:21, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1951 basketball scandal

This sounds like good article potential, should anyone be interested. Biruitorul 23:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Box Scores??

Anybody want to start doing the 2006-07 NBA season like the FA Premier League and have box scores for the games? Might be a little much since there are so many games nightly in the NBA, but hey, this is Wikipedia. Here's some of the pages for the FA Premier to look at for an example:

--Jaysscholar 07:24, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

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