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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.

Contents

[edit] Scope

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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 {{WikiProject Baseball}} on all talk pages associated with this project.

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[edit] Announcements and open tasks

For a list of requests see our to do list

Maintenance


Easy set-up instructions for yearly team articles: Place this template on a new page, changing the proper values for the year, full team name, three letter abbreviations, and full league name. (For the full league name, add "American League" or "National League" for any date up to 1968, and AL East, NL East, AL Central, NL Central, AL West, or NL West for any date 1969-present.) It will automatically add the necessary content. Note: It does not place an infobox. It would be easier if you create that yourself. Everything else should be there. Also, this is not flawless. You may have to make a few minor changes to capital/lowercase letters.

{{subst:User:Jj137/MLB|year|full team name|3 letter abbreviation|full league name}}

2007 MLB team articles
We have created season articles for every MLB team for the 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.

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Players

Naming convention

Follow the guidelines listed at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (baseball players)

Notability
This section is a WikiProject essay on notability. It contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more WikiProjects on how they interpret notability within their area of expertise. It is not a policy or guideline, and editors are free to, but not obliged to follow it during XfD's.

WikiProjects are encouraged to write essays on notability that meet or exceed the expectations of notability or the applicable sub-guideline (BIO, ORG, NUMBER, ACADEMICS, and rest of the sub guidelines). Please update the page as needed, or discuss it on the talk page.
Baseball figures are considered notable if they
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.

[edit] 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. Defunct teams should be similarly structured to existing teams.

  1. Team info (template)
  2. Team history (abridged)
    1. Separate link to detailed history (when appropriate)
  3. Current roster (template)
  4. Retired numbers & HoFers
  5. Links to more info (template)
    1. Award winners & league leaders
    2. Team records (current records should be deleted on sight.)
    3. Players of note (non-HoFers)
      1. Team's HoF
    4. Broadcasters
    5. Managers & ownership
    6. Post-season series

Note: When using team abbreviations, please refer to WikiProject Baseball/Team abbreviations.

Infoboxes

[edit] Seasons

Templates for season articles

See separate talk page.

[edit] Postseason

Infoboxes
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[edit] 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.

[edit] Other

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[edit] Project organization

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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:

WikiProject Baseball This user is a member of WikiProject Baseball, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's coverage of the sport of baseball. Please feel free to join us.

Userbox
Put {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Templates/User}} on your userpage to show:

This user is a member of the
WikiProject Baseball.



[edit] Departments

[edit] Assessment

Baseball
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 9 4 15
A 2 1 3
Good article GA 1 4 14 9 28
B 23 105 120 27 56 331
Start 70 302 692 640 621 2325
Stub 5 100 390 2783 2122 5400
Assessed 99 515 1226 3463 2799 8102
Unassessed 1 73 61 34 8784 8953
Total 100 588 1287 3497 11583 17055

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

Region Specific

[edit] Portal

We maintain the baseball portal on this project. Feel free to help out.

[edit] Resources

The following external resources can be helpful in writing an article. Do not copy and paste, and please remember to cite your sources.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

There are a couple of similar projects which overlap some of the content we cover, these are:

See above, at task forces for sub-projects in our scope.

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports#Baseball for an up-to-date listing