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Contents 1 Scope 2 Guidelines 2.1 Infobox information 2.2 Beginning of annual LLWS articles 2.3 Trivia 2.4 Qualification 2.5 Winners/Championship Bracket 2.6 Consolation/Position Bracket 2.7 Miscellaneous 2.8 Bracket templates 2.9 Other templates 3 Open tasks 4 Members 5 Articles 5.1 Featured content 5.1.1 Candidates 5.2 New articles 5.3 Collaboration and review 6 Infoboxes 6.1 {{Infobox LLWS}} 6.2 {{Infobox LLWSQualifiers}} 6.3 {{Infobox LLWSQualifiers-Pre2001}} 7 Templates 8 Categories 9 Resources 9.1 Related projects

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This is the current page as of 00:43, Sunday April 1, 2007 (UTC). More information will appear in the coming days.

[edit] Scope

Little League, including the Little League Baseball World Series. Please insert {{Baseball-WikiProject|littleleague=yes}} on all talk pages associated with this project.

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[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Infobox information

Annual LLWS articles should use {{Infobox LLWS}}. See the Infobox section on applicable flags as well as standards thereof.

[edit] Beginning of annual LLWS articles

The following text will begin each article:

The (year) Little League World Series was held between (start date) and (end date) in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The (winning team) of (winning team's city) defeated (runner-up) of (runner-up's city) in the championship game of the (ordinal number) Little League World Series.

[edit] Trivia

Any interesting facts about that year's LLWS must be inserted here. An example would be if a future Major League Baseball player participated.

[edit] Qualification

• The templates {{Infobox LLWSQualifiers}} and {{Infobox LLWSQualifiers-Pre2001}} should be used. See the Infobox section on applicable flags as well as standards thereof.
• The template {{mainarticle|Qualification for the XXXX Little League World Series}} will be placed above any other text. This rule currently applies to all LLWS tournaments played after 2001.

[edit] Winners/Championship Bracket

Use {{Round4-with third}} for the winners/championship bracket. Enter information as seen on the front page of the LLWS summary located at the website below.

[edit] Consolation/Position Bracket

The same bracket as above must be used, and the information entered in the same manner as above.

[edit] Miscellaneous

The spellings of Taiwanese municiplaities differ between Wikipedia and the LL website. Consult Category:Cities in Taiwan as a starting point to clear up any spelling discrepancies.

[edit] Bracket templates

• • {{Round8-with third}} for all Elimination rounds from 2001 onwards.
  • {{Round4}} for LLWS Elimination rounds played between 1992 and 2000, as well as the following LLWS qualification tournaments
    • Europe, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, New England, Northwest, Southeast, West
  • {{Round4-with third}} for all Winners/Championship Brackets and Consolation/Position Brackets (1947 to 1991), as well as for the Transatlantic LLWS qualification tournaments
  • {{Semi-2-LLWS}} for the following LLWS qualification tournaments
    • Caribbean, EMEA
  • {{PagePlayoffBracket}} if there is a tie in the pool play standings which results in more than four semifinalists.

[edit] Other templates

• • {{LLWS}} for the LLWS navigation box
  • {{flagicon}} to display flags (use ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes)

[edit] Open tasks

	To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Little League task force:	edit  · history  · watch  · refresh
Here are some tasks you can do:

[edit] Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. JB82 (talk • contribs) former LL player (Challenger Division), founder of Project

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Candidates

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Little League-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

[edit] Infoboxes

[edit] {{Infobox LLWS}}

This is the basic syntax you need to get a complete routebox on the article page, just place this before any other text and fill in the variables

{{Infobox LLWS
|Year=
|Start_date=
|End_date=
|Teams_participating=
|Champion=
|Runnerup=
}}

2006 Little League World Series
Start date	August 18
End date	August 28
Teams participating	16
Champion	Northern Little League Columbus, Georgia
Runner-up	Kawaguchi City Little League Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan

For the above parameters, here's what you should fill in.

• Year: The year this particular LLWS was held
• Start_date: The date pool play began (please wikify)
• End_date: The date the championship game was played (please wikify)
• Teams_participated: The number of teams that participated in this LLWS (16 since 2001, 8 from 1948 to 1974 and 1976 to 2000, 4 in 1975, 12 in 1947)
• Champion: The winner of the championship game, preceded by flag of country
• Runnerup: The loser of the championship game, preceded by flag of country
  • NB: For US teams, put immediately before the state's flag. For Canadian teams, put immediately before the province's flag, except in the brackets; only the Canadian flag should be used.

By completing the infobox as follows, you'll get an infobox like the one to the right.

{{Infobox LLWS
|Year=2006
|Start_date=[[August 18]]
|End_date=[[August 28]]
|Teams_participating=16
|Champion={{flagicon|USA}}{{flagicon|USA-GA}} Northern Little League<br />[[Columbus, Georgia]]
|Runnerup={{flagicon|JPN}} Kawaguchi City Little League<br />[[Kawaguchi, Saitama]], [[Japan]]
}}

[edit] {{Infobox LLWSQualifiers}}

{{Infobox LLWSQualifiers
|A1=
|A2=
|A3=
|A4=
|B1=
|B2=
|B3=
|B4=
|C1=
|C2=
|C3=
|C4=
|D1=
|D2=
|D3=
|D4=
}}

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
Staten Island, NY Mid-Atlantic Mid-Island	Portsmouth, NH New England Portsmouth	Saipan Pacific Saipan	Matamoros, Tamaulipas Mexico Matamoros
Lemont, IL Great Lakes Lemont	Beaverton, OR Northwest Murrayhill	Barquisimeto Latin America Cardenales	Kawaguchi, Saitama Asia Kawaguchi City
Phoenix, AZ West Ahwautakee American	Columbia, MO Midwest Daniel Boone National	Surrey, BC Canada Whalley	Moscow Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Brateevo
Columbus, GA Southeast Northern	Lake Charles, LA Southwest South Lake Charles	Dhahran Transatlantic Arabian-American	Willemstad Caribbean Pabao

For the above parameters, here is what you should fill in:

• {{flagicon}} followed by a pipe link and the corresponding ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template for detailed instructions.
• The flag will be followed by that team's city, their representative region, and the name of the league. For example, if the team is from Columbus, Georgia and the league is named "Columbus Northern", simply type "Northern".
  • NB: Remember to put breaking spaces in between city, region, and league.
  • NB: A and B are the United States qualifiers, and C and D are the International qualifiers.

[edit] {{Infobox LLWSQualifiers-Pre2001}}

{{Infobox LLWSQualifiers-Pre2001
|US_Central_qualifier=
|Canada_qualifier=
|US_East_qualifier=
|Europe_qualifier=
|US_South_qualifier=
|Far_East_qualifier=
|US_West_qualifier=
|Latin_America_qualifier=
}}

United States	International
Davenport, IA Central East	Toronto Canada High Park
Goffstown, NH East Goffstown	Dhahran Europe Arabian-American
Bellaire, TX South Bellaire	Tokyo Far East Musashi-Fuchu
Vancouver, WA West Hazel Dell	Maracaibo Latin America Sierra Maestra

For the above parameters, here is what you should fill in:

• {{flagicon}} followed by a pipe link and the corresponding ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template for detailed instructions.
• The flag will be followed by that team's city, their representative region, and the name of the league. For example, if the team is from Columbus, Georgia and the league is named "Columbus National", simply type "National".
  • NB: Remember to put breaking spaces in between city, region, and league.

By completing the infobox as follows, you'll get an infobox like the one above.

{{Infobox LLWSQualifiers-Pre2001
|US_Central_qualifier={{flagicon|USA-IA}} [[Davenport, IA]]<br />Central<br />East
|Canada_qualifier={{flagicon|CAN}}{{flagicon|CAN-ON}} [[Toronto]]<br />Canada<br />[[High Park]]
|US_East_qualifier={{flagicon|USA-NH}} [[Goffstown, NH]]<br />East<br />Goffstown
|Europe_qualifier={{flagicon|KSA}} [[Dhahran]]<br />Europe<br />[[Saudi Aramco|Arabian-American]]
|US_South_qualifier={{flagicon|USA-TX}} [[Bellaire, TX]]<br />South<br />Bellaire
|Far_East_qualifier={{flagicon|JPN}} [[Tokyo]]<br />Far East<br />Musashi-Fuchu
|US_West_qualifier={{flagicon|USA-WA}} [[Vancouver, WA]]<br />West<br />Hazel Dell
|Latin_America_qualifier={{flagicon|VEN}} [[Maracaibo]]<br />Latin America<br />Sierra Maestra
}}

[edit] Templates

• Typing in {{LLWikiProject-Member}} on your user page will give you

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

• For a smaller userbox, just type in {{User WikiProject Little League}} to get

[edit] Categories

• Category:Little League

[edit] Resources

• Little League World Series annual history
  • For all LLWS played before 2004, type in http://www.littleague.org/series/history/year/XXXX.htm; replace XXXX with intended year (e.g., http://www.littleague.org/series/history/year/1989.htm will give you the 1989 LLWS tournament summary.
  • NB: Some of the information may be incorrect, e.g. the 1978 and 1979 line scores.
• LLWS history site from The Sporting News'
  • NB: This is an excellent site if you want to find out about who has participated in every LLWS, but the history therein only extends as far as 1999.
• A great site on historical qualification for the LLWS

[edit] Related projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball