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[edit] WikiProject Basketball 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 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 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)
Inspired by some heated discussions here, I have now created "Areas of Interest" for WikiProject Basketball mainly based on elaborate categories at: dmoz Open Directory Project Basketball section, just to demonstrate how an NBA WikiProject will not be able to cover at all, as it remains fixated on one special league in one special location (United States) with a single additional team in Canada. I also join my voice to Gurulegend in proposing to make NBA a part of the WikiProject Basketball. I would also be willing to stick by a compromise that the Basketball area abstains from all NBA coverage for now so as not to trespass on the eforts of the NBA Project. We have so many areas as is, we may welcome the notion of being spared the huge task of following the NBA teams -- Werldwayd 12:37, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Difference Between The Two Projects

Could there be a merger of the two projects? It isn't a big deal, just curious. Just H 04:37, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

The NBA is for the NBA only; while this one comprises the Euroleague and every basketball league outside the NBA, even the NBA can be included here, too. --Howard the Duck 14:13, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
NBA is the NBA is the NBA. Regardless of the strength of that league, it is admittedly a limited part of the basketball movement. Basketball is something much more universal and not confined by any particular league, however dominant. Here are what NBA and an NBA WikiProject cannot cover at all (and it is not a matter of just the Euroleague!). Matters totally out of the scope of an NBA WikiProject would include subject matter on FIBA, the Olympic Basketball events, Basketball World Championships (that includes U21, U18 etc), National Basketball Teams, continental leagues (Euroleague, African, Asian, Latin American tournaments etc) and regional leagues (Caribbean basketball, pan-Arab championships, WABA, ASEAN), hundreds of country basketball leagues in almost every country. An NBA WikiProject cannot furthermore cover adequately basketball even within the USA. How about the WNBA? How about other professional leagues in the States (ABA, CBA, many others etc), college basketball (NCAA and lower NCAA basketball leagues 1,2 and 3, NAIA, JUCO) and amateur basketball leagues all over the country. Furthermore it is only a universal basketball WikiProject that can tackle for example wheelchair basketball, streetball, water basketball, mini-basketball, recreational basketball, history of basketball, rules of basketball. Need I go on? Coaching techniques, playing techniques, basketball injuries and health issues, travelling teams, church leagues, YMCA Basketball, GLBT basketball, ethnic and religious basketball leagues (e.g. Chinese-American league, Native American leagues, Muslim basketball, Jewish American basketball....). I propose in case there will have to be a merger, that NBA WikiProject joins WikiProject Basketball, or the truly universal WikiProject Basketball can take over all basketball matters and specifically and intentionally exclude for now the narrowly specialized NBA project regarding all matters NBA. This way there will be no overlapping in purposes. We can live with a duopoly - Basketball General and NBA Basketball in two separate WikiProjects -- Werldwayd 09:52, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I suggest merging these two projects and deleting the NBA project. The NBA project clearly does not to exist. This project already overlaps the NBA project. Also basketball isn't just about NBA, there are college leagues and many international leagues. If like this, there should be many other projects about different leagues such as WikiProject college basketball or WikiProject Euroleague or something. Creating a WikiProject on the NBA is clearly US biased. All the members in the NBA project could be a member of this project after. Brave warrior 00:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Let the NBA wikiproject continue, just as we have a TV wikiproject and an EastEnders wikiproject. One encompassing wikiproject and one or several daughter wikiprojects. --Howard the Duck 03:09, 7 August 2007 (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)
Make it very very very quiet LOL .-- Werldwayd 09:09, 17 June 2007 (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)
I was just coming here to suggest this, but I see I've beaten myself to it. D'oh. OK, I'll go ahead and create these, in the hopes that hoopsfans will help out with populating them... Alai 02:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I've created these as subcats of Cat:basketball players by position. All help in populating same is very welcome. Alai 19:35, 25 March 2007 (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)

I'll give it a try, but it'll be tough since there are so many games. Just H 04:38, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:19, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] National team templates

I'm planning to create template shortcuts like {{USAf}} or {{USAc}}. Since some "b" sports are taken over by bandy, I'm planning to name them {{USA-b}}. But I'll need help since there are a lot of countries. For example, {{USAf}} has the following code:

[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|{{{1|20}}}px]] [[United States men's national soccer team|USA]]<noinclude> [[Category:National football team templates|{{PAGENAME}}]] </noinclude>

We'd just replace "soccer/football" with "basketball", although some articles names are <Country> national basketball team, some are named <Country> men's national basketball team. --Howard the Duck 11:58, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

I've created some already; everyone is invited to help. --Howard the Duck 16:46, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
I've mentioned this in Howard's talk page, but I have created a generic template {{bk}} that can be used for all FIBA teams. There is no need to create and maintain a collection of single team templates.
For example, instead of {{USA-b}}, you would write {{bk|USA}} to achieve the same result. Also, since "bk" is built on top of the same system as the familiar {{flagicon}} and {{flag}} templates, all of the features of those templates are present. For example, you can add a second argument to create a historical flag variant, if you choose, such as {{bk|MEX|1934}} to render Flag of Mexico Mexico. You can use a nation's full name instead of three letter country codes if you want. {{bk|LTU}} and {{bk|Lithuania}} both produce Flag of Lithuania Lithuania.
I hope this helps your WikiProject! Andrwsc 18:28, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Ah I get it now, you won't need to create other templates anymore? Then you can go ahead and speedily delete those templates. --Howard the Duck 03:08, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
I have just deleted all the "XXX-b" templates, and the handful of pages that had used any of them have been updated to use the parameterized {{bk}} template instead. Andrwsc 21:51, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request Amendments on WikiProject Basketball Userbox

Although this is just an aesthetic matter, I think we should adopt the all- orange colour for the entire Userbox without any white areas. It is a matter of pride to have our colour (very similar to the colour of basket ball) and will certainly be a more attractive logo. Incidentally the Basketball Userbox was missing in the list found here: [WikiProject Userboxes / Sports] But I have now added it for better visibility for our group -- Werldwayd 08:29, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, go ahead and do it. --Howard the Duck 08:32, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Actually I am not that well-versed in designing of templates. I'd rather leave it to a professional's hand just for the fear of messing it up. Incidentally I see you have adopted the orange colour yourself LOL -- Werldwayd 08:42, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I think the basketball is color brown... although the FIBA ball has white strips. --Howard the Duck 08:47, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] {{Infobox Basketball Player}}

Why there is not any {{Infobox Basketball Player}}? In the wikiproject page it appears, but it is empty. I think an infobox for not NBA basketball players should be created, it could be like the NBA one, but without draft. MontanNito 19:44, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

If all you're going to do is take off the draft, then it's pointless to creat a new one. Just use the NBA, and just don't put a draft. The draft stuff is optional on the template. You could just rename the NBA player template to Basketball Player and add an option for league if you really wanted to. --Jaysscholar 01:49, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Some leagues do have draft and if I add a draft, it'll go directly to the NBA Draft page. --Howard the Duck 06:32, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Basketball

FYI, all the monthly content for Portal:Basketball is all showing up as redlinks. Is there anyone from this WikiProject that wants to take on putting something there? (I'm also cross-posting this at Wikipedia:WikiProject College Basketball. --BigΔT 20:46, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for comment: Numbers in sports

From Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics and Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers, we request your input on the following guidelines for sports facts included in articles about numbers (quoted below). For example, should the article about the number 23 include Michael Jordan's jersey number? How about the jersey number of a famous hockey player for whom the number was never retired? How about the #23 draft pick for the LA Lakers? I've also included the guidelines for NASCAR as an example of how the guidelines for a specific sport might look like. Knotslip12 20:12, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numbers

[edit] Transcribed from WP:NUM#Numbers_in_sports

[edit] Numbers in sports

Numbers that appear in the official rules of the game, such as the total number of players per team, number of game partitions (e.g., 9 innings in baseball) are worth mentioning in the number articles.

A record is worth mentioning if it is from a Major League player, or if it appears in the Guinness Book of World Records. Be sure to indicate the year the record was set in order to facilitate removal when a new record is set.

In sports where the number on a player's shirt is not determined by the position he plays, only numbers that have been retired by a Major League team are worth noting. But if a player's number is determined by the position he plays, this probably falls under the rules of the game consideration above.

[edit] NASCAR numbers

Car numbers of teams that have won the Daytona 500 or the NEXTEL Cup Series championship are worth noting in the articles on the corresponding numbers.

[edit] What to do about Barry Bonds?

Hello again from WP:NUM. We are wondering about Barry Bonds. Do you think the article about the number 700 should mention Barry Bonds's record? PrimeFan 18:59, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Wrong sport, sport. I've transcribed to talk page for WP:BASEBALL. Anton Mravcek 20:36, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More about women's basketball

More needs to be written about women's basketball as part of this project. Shruti14 ( talk • contribs ) 23:06, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Jaranda/Notabilty (sports)

Hi, I strongly recommed this project to give your notabilty guidelines for a new notabilty proposal that I'm creating on my userpage, once it is completed, I will move to wikipedia namespace for the community to decide. Thanks Jaranda wat's sup 23:01, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] EuroBasket infobox

Hi. I've created an infobox to be placed on the articles of every EuroBasket edition (if possible). You can see an output example here. What do you think about it? What changes/additions do you suggest? I'd like this infobox to be implemented in the future. Thank you. Parutakupiu 12:58, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Can you make it universal so that the other 4 intercontinental championships may use it? --Howard the Duck 13:10, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I think I can. In fact, my first idea was to do exactly that, in order to have only one infobox template for all continental tournaments. But then I preferred to start small and see what you people thought. But I'll try to code it for the remaining championships.
What about the statistics section. Do you find them useful? Should I add any other statistic to it? Suggest, please. Parutakupiu 16:51, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
OK, what I did was create individual subpages to the infobox template page to store headers specific for each continental championship (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania), then depending on which value you give to the continent= and year= infobox parameters, it calls that subpage and displays the appropriate header in the infobox. Parutakupiu 19:00, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
The only statistics that are valuable for me are the MVP, points, rebounds and assists. Can you also apply this to the world championships? I dunno if the Olympics people can allow this to be applied on their pages. --Howard the Duck 15:02, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
So you think steals and turnovers should be dropped? Oh yes, I forgot about the WC; will work on that also. As for applying this on Olympic basketball tournaments, I'm not sure. It's like they're not an isolated sporting event of their own, but part of an Olympic Games. You could ask that on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Olympics. Parutakupiu 16:33, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I think those 2 should be dropped, since they're not that many, and it is tough to look for stats in historical tourneys. --Howard the Duck 16:57, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Done! You think we can "officialize" the infobox? What name do you propose? Can't figure one that can be short but specific enough. Parutakupiu 17:37, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
How about Template:FIBA tourney? --Howard the Duck 04:28, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Hmmm... {{Infobox FIBA tourney}}? Yeah, it sounds good. I'll move it then. ;) Parutakupiu 18:08, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Can you remedy something? Since all tourney logos are all vertical, is there a way to prevent the infobox from being stretched vertically without using {{--}}? --Howard the Duck 03:46, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I limited the image height to 250px. You agree or smaller is better? Parutakupiu 15:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
It was actually worse, see FIBA Oceania Championship 2007, the infobox goes into the scores so it's obscured. If the logo can either be made smaller or if some infobox parameters can wrap with the logo, it'll probably solve the problem. --Howard the Duck 00:06, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Well, it seems to me that that is an article-specific problem. That article has less content (prose and sections) than similar ones and it even doesn't have a table of contents (TOC) which usually pushes sections downward leaving more space for the infobox. As an example, I've forced the TOC to appear on that article and the infobox no longer superimposes the scores. If you don't like this, all I can do is decrease the maximum image height. Parutakupiu 00:14, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletions (WP:PROD)

  • 6 September - expires 11 September
    • 1992 in basketball (PROD by User:TexasAndroid; currently has only a single item, a film, listed.) --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:17, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] International Leagues

I think it'd be great if we can increase coverage on some international leagues/clubs/players. I've been trying to create some articles for them, but all I'm really capable of doing is creating stubs. The French Wikipedia has some great articles on their basketball clubs that would be good to translate, but I don't read French, myself. I made a stub for the Swiss league yesterday. A lot of the basketball coverage here is really US-centric. matt91486 17:28, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually, quite a handful of people are updating their own articles (including me) but there is currently no unified system of what to do, unlike the NBA project. --Howard the Duck 17:35, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
That's wonderful that there is some others working around it; I figured there must be at least a few others, but because of the lack of an apparatus, it's really hard to tell - do you think there's a way we could try to centralize and organize work on it? matt91486 19:22, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Someone has been posting the WikiProject banner on the talk pages, however, there is no centralized basketball MOS and templates. I've tried imposing my will >:) on using some templates and they're mostly successful and has been emulated on other pages, such as the recent intercontinental championships articles. However, other pages that look rather fine and not hideous when templates aren't used I just leave them as is. --Howard the Duck 13:09, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Basketball players, coaches, etc. work group

There is now a proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Basketball players for a group which would work specifically on articles relating to biographies of individual players, coaches, and other related individuals. Any parties interested in working with such a group are encouraged to add their names there, so we can see if there is enough interest to start the group in earnest. Thank you. John Carter 13:21, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tony Harris

I've put together an article for the late Tony Lee Harris, but I've run into a problematic source. A press release for a Cyprus team claims to be about Tony Lee Harris, but it's obviously not his picture, and may be Tony Dwayne Harris. Some of the information seems to pertain to Tony Lee, though, and conform with the news reports generally. There's also a third Tony Harris! All are African-Americans, but with distinctly different appearances. Weirdly, the LatinBasket.com site seems to show this third guy's photo for the team that Tony Lee was supposedly signed to. How accurate is LatinBasket? Where do they get their info from (like, could they just have pulled the wrong one from somewhere, or do they get it from the team)? What other sources might there be? What to do about the Cyprus press release? (A Portuguese or even Spanish speaker would be helpful in gleaning from regional media.) Input at Talk:Tony Harris (FIBA basketball). --Dhartung | Talk 03:31, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

It seems that the "Tony Harris" mentioned in the news lately is Tony Lee Harris. --Howard the Duck 03:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, yes, but I'm past that question. The article doesn't have to have anything more than from current press sources to meet WP:N and WP:V, and without his career it's just less WP:ENC than it could be, so this isn't necessary to pursue. But it's passing strange that these sources from before his death seem to overlap or introduce uncertainties as to which Harris is meant. --Dhartung | Talk 09:05, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
The ex-Celtic is notable, I dunno about the other Tony Harrises. --Howard the Duck 11:29, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
From what I can tell, they have all played for professional teams, but I can't be certain that all those teams are in "fully professional leagues" per WP:BIO. It certainly seems so, but I don't follow international basketball. --Dhartung | Talk 00:35, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
If they played in other countries' leagues after 1989, more than likely it is a pro league; if they played in other countries' leagues before 1989, they're technically "amateurs" but they were paid a lot. --Howard the Duck 16:13, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hungarian League

Is the Hungarian pro league not a part of Euroleague? I haven't located the article for it on here if it exists; if not, does anyone else know enough about the league to see if we can put one together? matt91486 (talk) 04:08, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Infobox

I have created a new infobox (Template:Infobox NBAretired‎) for retired players because the current one is just not cutting it, yes it is very similar to Template:Infobox NFLretired, but I believe that it is way better than the current one. There are still many errors, like the link to stats and things like that, so if anyone could fix that it would be great. Please leave any suggestions or comments here about what you think about it.--Yankees10 (talk) 01:03, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2007-08 Miami Heat season

Not a member of the project, but I thought I would bring to your attention that this page needs serious attention. There is only 1 game on the game log.LessThanClippers (talk) 00:58, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

The Heat bandwagon is empty... :D Also, you can try WP:NBA, they're the more specific wikiproject for this article. --Howard the Duck 05:48, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help request: GA backlog

Hello. There has been a large backlog at the Good Article Nominations page for a while. Since most of my editing is in the Sports and Recreation category, that is the area that I am currently focusing on. To try to cut down on the backlog, I'm approaching projects with the request that members from that project review two specific articles over the next week. My request to WikiProject Basketball is to try to find time to review Matt Hardy and Joe Delaney. If these are already reviewed by someone else or you have time for another review (or you'd rather review something else altogether), it would be great if you could help out with another article. Of course, this is purely voluntary. If you could help, though, it would help out a lot and be greatly appreciated. The basic instructions for reviewing articles is found at WP:GAN and the criteria is found at WP:WIAGA. I recently began reviewing articles, and I've found it fairly enjoyable and I've learned a lot about how to write high quality articles. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 17:29, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Depth Charts

I believe that depth charts are very arbitrary. Players are often substitued in for positions and in different orders contrary to they way they are listedin the depth chart. Having the rosters is good enough. NBA rotations are much more complicated for a wikipedia editor to decide. It requires too much original analysis and opinion, especially when articles should be objective. —Preceding unsigned comment added by No compassion (talk • contribs) 17:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Support. NBA rotations are too fluid for us to neatly sort players in this manner. Zagalejo^^^ 18:14, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Support Depth charts give trivial information, as well.--Crzycheetah 21:56, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Russian Super League

The current article on the Russian Basketball Super League only deals with the Division A, not Division B. Do you think Division B should be given a separate article or somehow incorporated?> The same question would extend to the Russian High League, which is also currently article-less. matt91486 (talk) 22:23, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Templates with red links/2008-Jan-Basketball

Greetings. Thought I'd bring your attention to our project for identifying red links in templates. Note that there are still many, many basketball-related templates in the long list of unsorted templates at Wikipedia:Templates with red links, so anyone interested in picking through those and relocating basketball-related templates to the specialty page will be well-appreciated. Cheers! bd2412 T 08:13, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WNBA Taskforce

While reviewing some articles, I noticed that the WNBA player's articles are not organized well and not uniform. I am interested in joining or starting a taskforce to organize and uniformize the information on these articles. Can anyone help? TexicanG (talk) 07:16, 29 May 2008 (UTC)