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You made it. This is the place to plan a massive Wikiproject about Baseball, including every aspect of the game. If you ever picked up a bat and glove, watched a game, or lost in Little League, this is the place for you.

Some Wikipedians have formed a WikiProject to better organize information in articles related to baseball. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Similar WikiProjects 3 Participants 4 Structure 5 Goals 6 Naming Conventions 7 Assessment 8 Article Improvement Drive 9 Open Tasks 9.1 2007 MLB team articles 9.2 2006 MLB team articles 10 Task forces 10.1 Baseball Players 10.2 Little League 10.3 Old-time Base Ball 10.4 Leagues and teams 11 Resources 12 Templates 12.1 Navigational boxes 12.2 Infoboxes 12.3 Article talk page banner 13 A Wiktionary baseball effort 14 User Template & Userbox 14.1 User Template 14.2 Userbox

[edit] Scope

The sport of baseball and all related articles. Please insert {{Baseball-WikiProject}} on all talk pages associated with this project.

Portal	WikiProject Baseball is maintained by WikiProject Baseball, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of baseball and baseball-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page, or contribute to the discussion
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.
WikiProject Baseball To-do: edit  Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Baseball: The current Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Article improvement drive article is New York Yankees. Requests: Attention: 1873 New York Mutuals, 1947 Little League World Series, Bobby Cox, China national baseball team, National Association as a major league Expand: 2007 Major League Baseball season, Kansai Big Six Baseball League, Players League Stubs: 2005 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Batboy, Catch (baseball), Check-swing, International Baseball Federation, Korean Baseball Organization, Korean Series Images: Quality watch: 8 FA-Class Baseball articles - 6 GA-Class Baseball articles.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

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

• WikiProject Australian Baseball
• WikiProject Taiwanese Baseball
• WikiProject Minnesota Twins

We also use task forces within this project, they are located further down this page.

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.

[edit] Participants

For the list of active and inactive participants in this project, please see the participants list.

[edit] Structure

[edit] Goals

This WikiProject aims to create standards for the different sets of baseball-related articles, from statistics to histories to players, venues, and strategies. Specifically, we need standards for:

1. Teams (Major league, minor league, and other)
   1. Team info (template)
      • "Main rivals" should be deleted on sight!!
   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
2. Stadiums (history extending beyond baseball)
   • This seems to have been already tackled(?)
3. Biographies (from players to managers to owners)
   • This seems to be a separate project
4. World Series
   1. Other postseason series
      1. Regular season play-offs
5. Leagues & Divisions
6. Defunct teams
   • These seem to be really neglected
7. Defunct leagues
8. Miscellaneous

Hopefully, each of these article types will get their own template infobox to be applied and will be organized. Baseball articles in Wikipedia seem to be, in general, fairly extensive and well-written already. It's just a matter of organization.

[edit] Naming Conventions

For a list of naming conventions see, Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Naming Conventions

[edit] Assessment

Baseball articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		1	4	2	1	8
	A		1				1
	GA	1		4	1		6
	B	10	55	27	15	7	114
	Start	29	126	160	191	71	577
	Stub	4	85	85	675	363	1212
	Assessed	44	268	280	884	442	1918
	Unassessed	0	41	94	27	9275	9437
	Total	44	309	374	911	9717	11355

• /Assessment – Our rating system
• Project statistics – Statistics for our rating system
• V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc

[edit] Article Improvement Drive

We now have a new Article Improvement Drive to improve all baseball articles to featured status. Click here to participate.

[edit] Open Tasks

For a list of requests see our to do list

[edit] 2007 MLB team articles

We are trying to create season articles for every MLB team for the upcoming 2007 season.

Go to /2007 MLB team articles for a list of teams and people currently editing the articles.

[edit] 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] 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.

[edit] Baseball Players

Players task force is a task force aimed at improving the quality of articles about players in the sport of baseball.

[edit] Little League

Little League task force is a task force aimed at improving the quality of Little League articles, mainly the Little League World Series.

[edit] Old-time Base Ball

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.

[edit] Leagues and teams

League and team article standardization is a task force aimed at standarizing all professional baseball league and team articles, including indexing (categories).

[edit] Resources

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

• Major League Baseball
• Minor League Baseball
• Baseball Reference
• Baseball Almanac

[edit] Templates

[edit] Navigational boxes

• Template:MLB – Navigation box for Major League Baseball
• Template:Mlbplayoffs – Small navigation box for MLB playoffs
• Template:Professional Baseball – Navigation box for worldwide baseball leagues

[edit] Infoboxes

• Template:Infobox baseball team – For international teams
• Template:Minor league team – For minor league teams
• Template:MLB infobox – For MLB teams
• Template:Infobox WorldSeries – For World Series

[edit] Article talk page banner

• {{Baseball-WikiProject}} – for articles covered by the Baseball WikiProject; template is also used for article assessments

[edit] A Wiktionary baseball effort

I've had a personal effort going in the Wiktionary to add baseball lingo. There are over 300 entries now, but it is far from a comprehensive baseball dictionary. Please add more as you see fit. Brholden 22:39, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

• "Baseball" Category in the Wiktionary

[edit] User Template & Userbox

If you are part of this project, and would like to show your participation, you can add the following on your user page.

[edit] User Template

Put {{BaseballWikiProject-Member}} on your userpage to show:

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.

[edit] Userbox

Put {{User WikiProject Baseball}} on your userpage to show: