Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Article improvement drive

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The Baseball Article Improvement Drive is a new weekly collaboration to improve all baseball related articles to featured article status. It is based on WP:AID.

/History - For past winners.

/Removed - For removed nominations.

/Maintenance - ARCAID upkeep.

The current Article Creation and Improvement Drive article is New York Yankees.
Last week's winner was: None.
CAST YOUR VOTE for next week's article

[edit] Introduction

To vote or nominate you have to be a registered user with at least one contribution that is not a vote. Any and all articles may be nominated except:

• Articles that are currently at featured status
• Articles in edit wars

For participants:

{{User:Nishkid64/Userboxes/BBAID}}

This user participates in the Baseball Article Improvement Drive.

[edit] How to nominate

Here is the template for nominations:

===[[ARTICLE]]===
:''Nominated [[DATE]], [[YEAR]]; needs at least 3 votes by [[DATE + 14]], [[YEAR]]''

'''Reason'''

; Support:
# ~~~~

; Comments:
*

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1. Copy and paste the template to the bottom of the list of nominations on this page and fill it out. It is important to use UTC time; the current time and date now is 07:04, Friday April 6, 2007 (UTC).
2. Under "comments" section put explanation of what work is needed.
3. After submitting the new nomination, go to the nominated article and put {{BBAIDnom}}{{to do}} on the top of the article's talk page.

[edit] How to vote

Sign with "# ~~~~" on the end of the list of the article you want to vote for and then update the vote count in the subhead. Opposing votes are not counted; see approval voting. You can vote for as many articles as you like. If, after you vote, the vote count equals the "needs at least xx votes by", then add 3 to "needs at least xx votes" and add a week to date in vote count and "needs at least xx votes by" notice.

Example. You encounter this situation and decide to vote:

===[[History of the world]] (23 votes, stays until [[February 7]], [[2006]])===
:''Nominated [[December 8]], [[2005]]; needs at least 24 votes by [[February 7]], [[2006]]''

First you put "# ~~~~" on the end of the list of people who voted for that article and then change the vote count and date in following manner:

===[[History of the world]] (24 votes, stays until [[February 14]], [[2006]])===
:''Nominated [[December 8]], [[2005]]; needs at least 27 votes by [[February 14]], [[2006]]''

[edit] How the article is selected

Article with most votes on each Sunday in 00:00 GMT is selected as "The current Article Improvement Drive article". If two articles have same number of votes, the older nominee wins.

[edit] How an article is removed from the list

Articles need three votes per week to stay on the list. If current date (April 6, 2007) exceeds "stays until" date of particular article, that article entry is removed from this page and moved to page for removed nominations.

[edit] Nominations

[edit] Baseball

Nominated February 28, 2007; needs at least 3 votes by March 14, 2007

Reason If any article should be focused on first, it should be the one actually defining the game. This was a FA a long time ago, lets make it one again.

Support

1. Timpcrk87 14:29, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• I think it is close and with some dedicated work we can make it the best.
• Football (soccer) and Cricket are FAs, we can look to them for guidance on articles describing a sport.