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[edit] WikiProject Basketball and WikiProject NBAWhat 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)
[edit] Difference Between The Two ProjectsCould there be a merger of the two projects? It isn't a big deal, just curious. Just H 04:37, 28 December 2006 (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 coverageThere 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)
[edit] StandardizationBasketball 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)
[edit] NBA team sectionI'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 contentThis 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)
[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball/TemplatesStarted this page. Hope someone helps out! :D --Howard the Duck 11:49, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Categorisation by playing positionsAs 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)
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 scandalThis 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)
[edit] Wikipedia Day AwardsHello, 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 templatesI'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:
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)
[edit] Request Amendments on WikiProject Basketball UserboxAlthough 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)
[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)
[edit] Portal:BasketballFYI, 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 sportsFrom 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
[edit] NASCAR 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)
[edit] More about women's basketballMore 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 infoboxHi. 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)
[edit] Proposed deletions (WP:PROD)
[edit] International LeaguesI 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)
[edit] Basketball players, coaches, etc. work groupThere 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 HarrisI'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)
[edit] Hungarian LeagueIs 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 InfoboxI 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 seasonNot 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)
[edit] Help request: GA backlogHello. 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 ChartsI 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)
This issue is about NBA depth charts and not even pertinent to that, so why is the NBA issue being applied to leagues on the other side of Earth? Also, I would point out that depth charts are arbitrarily being singled out for deletion for certain teams only, while on the other hand, they are being allowed for dozens of other teams. In other words, a few people demanding them to be deleted is outweighing dozens of people that keep adding them in and a few people on each team page that has them, that are maintaining them. This discussion is simply a bit bizarre. It would only be logical to delete depth charts per team as you see them if they are somehow completely egregious or completely out of date or somehow totally not being maintained. But to want properly maintained and properly updated depth charts to be "banned permanently" from the site simply because you may not agree with them, may not like them, or simply because you do not want people to see it, or simply because you have an issue with a player lower on the depth chart occasionally playing in a different spot seems to be a personal issue to me, not a universally site governing issue in even the least slightest way. Wiki Greek Basketball^^^ 16:54, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
So all roster templates should be deleted form this site also. After all, if a player is listed in a roster template as a point guard and plays a game at shooting guard then based on your argument for why depth charts have to be deleted then so to ALSO should the roster templates be deleted. While we are at it, why not just delete all the basketball team pages form the site as well? Seems that "no wiki editor can possibly manage them properly." Wiki Greek Basketball^^^ 19:32, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
On another note Sergiogr (I don't want any guff from any mods about directly using his name here with threats of "against site rules" because he has personally threatened and insulted me numerous times and the mods NEVER EVER do anything about it so at what point do they ban people that actually deserve it? Does it ever happen?) is trying to cause problems in this site out of spite or personal issues and who knows how many people he does this to. The only reason I even got into this discussion was because I went to a page of a team that had a depth chart and it had an error in it. I fixed it and immediately I was attacked with an all out barrage of attacks, insults, reports to mods, and dozens of my edits being reverted, not to mention some hateful messages by Sergiogr. Not to mention an incredibly immature "Depth charts are BANNED and NOT ALLOWED!" message. Consider me 100% till the end of time in favor of depth charts from that moment on. I cannot stand wikipedia net Nazis and we have a prime example of it here. It turns out this depth charts issue is bringing them out left and right. And to anyone that threatens me with another "I'll report you" which I keep getting, and the mods method of simply deleting a message complaining about it, know ahead of time I have been keeping a very detailed log of the hundreds of site violations by Sergiogr and this will be submitted if I get banned, not only that but also the name of the banning moderator to show how they banned legit contributors, yet allowed this Sergiogr to be so ridiculously out of control. I am very put off by what is going on here. I once made an edit to something like adding the height of a basketball player and he threatened me. I once updated the team a player played on and he attacked and threatened me, I could go on and on. Not to mention the insistence that users are always the same people or the most absurd of all that ANY person editing the Panathinaikos related sections is "an out of control fan boy" and should be banned. One of the most glaringly blatant reasons these depth charts have issues is because of people like this being allowed to run rampant all over this site with never ever being stopped. Like for instance constantly reverting pages like dozens of times an hour. Gee imagine that "the depth charts are outdated", then saying things like "see they can't keep the depth charts up to date". I have seen this guy literally revert a page 50 times in an hour because he was furious that "someone from my hometown had something posted about them that I personally am unaware of". The list is endless. He's probably had 20 people banned from this site over things as simple as well, let me say here he recently had a hissy fit over a date being changed from October 15 to October 15th, yeah I've been watching him like a hawk and it's just hundreds of examples like this and he's done it to numerous people and they were banned. Maybe just maybe instead of people spending their whole time in this site thinking up ways to "ban" things they should spend it stopping people that keep reverting things a million times. Would that be a little more constructive? I've made so many contributions here and I can't hardly make the simplest edit without having a mod all over me because I keep getting reported on as being "an out of control fan boy", etc. I'm sorry but this kind of thing is absolutely ridiculous. And on this NBA issue you don't even "know the other teams or leagues" and you are complaining incessantly and on an on about depth charts of teams and leagues you admit you know nothing about. That's borderline crossing the line of discourse here. Not one person has even given a slightly legit reason for depth charts to be "banned" in the first place. The best you can come up with is, "they are arbitrary", "editors are not mentally capable of handling them", and "it's data that can possibly change". At this point I am strongly considering spending a bunch of time to go through the histories of all the sports sections to see just how much vandalism and how much wiki Nazi editing has been going on here, because it's starting to look really suspicious to me. The mere fact that you are backing up this Sergiogr guy and acting like he's some legit editor, when he's one of the most abusive people on the site, really is telling to me, that you are then trying to dictate what is and is not allowed here. You haven't even been able to judge a blatant harasser and vandal like him properly. I just spent a lot of time working on fixing two team's depth charts. I can 100% assure you that there is nothing at all wrong with them and at this moment they are much more accurate than the roster templates on the pages. Now if this would be allowed to be continued they would be fine as they can be constantly updated, but guess what? it's impossible to do that when people like Sergiogr revert the ENTIRE PAGE EVEY SINGLE TIME they see ANYTHING AT ALL they don't like, and will do it literally a hundred times if needed. And if they get say 3 or 4 people trying to add info in and they can't revert it all because of that they simply report "abuse" to a mod that is a friend and have all 3 or 4 users banned. Now you tell me just exactly you deduct in your mind that is an example of "editors not being able to handle depth charts", because I am really extremely curious to know just exactly how you deduct in your mind that that's what that is. Wiki Greek Basketball^^^ 05:26, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
[edit] SolutionYahoo! Sports maintains a depth chart for each and every NBA team. Cite it from there and you're done. It doesn't have to be true, it only has to be cited. No citation = good bye depth charts. –Howard the Duck 14:09, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Wiki Greek Basketball^^^ 15:06, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Russian Super LeagueThe 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-BasketballGreetings. 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 TaskforceWhile 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) [edit] Help with Team GB articleHi there, I have been slowly trying to improve the article on the Great Britain national basketball team. If you guys could help clean it up, and add a national team roster template as well (where do they come from?) it would all be much appreciated in the world of British hoops. --Differentgravy (talk) 19:15, 31 July 2008 (UTC) [edit] Articles flagged for cleanupCurrently, 618 articles are assigned to this project, of which 106, or 17.2%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place the following template on your project page:
If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:21, 6 August 2008 (UTC) [edit] National teamsShould the title "national basketball team" refer to the men's national team while women's teams are called "women's national basketball team"? It seems a bit sexist to say that the Australia or any other national basketball team only refers to men. Should we create a disambiguation page for "Australia national basketball team" with links to men's, women's and any other teams (like U-19 etc)?--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 17:43, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Concerns about ignoring of naming conventions raised at WT:NCP#Sports "revolt"See Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (people)#Sports "revolt". Numerous WP:SPORTS child-projects are pretending that the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) guidelines don't exist. Needs to be resolved one way or the other. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 23:10, 25 August 2008 (UTC) [edit] Wikipedia:NOTED PLAYERSee Wikipedia:NOTED PLAYER for a proposal about making Notable Player sections into official guidelines. RGTraynor 17:23, 29 August 2008 (UTC) [edit] Jason McElwainFor anyone interested, Jason McElwain is now a GA nominee. Any help in making sure it meens GA standards is much appreciated. --Mr.crabby (Talk) 02:52, 8 September 2008 (UTC) [edit] Carlos BurgosIs anything in the Carlos Burgos article legit? He's certainly not playing for Central Florida. Zagalejo^^^ 17:46, 16 November 2008 (UTC) [edit] Gene Keady coaching tree - expert eyes requiredHi there - is anyone available to take a quick look at this article? I just declined a speedy on it but I am not sure what the connection between the coaches listed in it is. It may be some kind of original research/synthesis or on the other hand it may just need someone with expert knowledge to write a better lead section. Over to you!. Kind regards, Nancy talk 09:54, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
[edit] French don't understand Basketball rulessee here ^-^y Yug (talk) 07:00, 27 January 2009 (UTC) [edit] Mike MaloyHello there Basketballers! I have just created an article on the recently deceased Mike Maloy, who played as a pro in the ABA and in Europe. However, I am not a basketball fan (sorry!) and so my knowledge is at a minimum, and any help improving the article (including more categories and a proper, basketball-specific infobox which can list his pro stats) would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, GiantSnowman 16:09, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Coordinators' working groupHi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators. All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot (Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 04:55, 28 February 2009 (UTC) [edit] Lance StephensonI started an article on Lance Stephenson. It was nominated for speedy deletion. He's a McDonald's all-american, and a high school basketball player that has been on the radar for since he was a freshman. Could someone help me with the article?Racingstripes (talk) 23:38, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Article alertsThis is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles are entering Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, Peer review and other workflows (full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found here. If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to report bugs and request new features. We are also in the process of implementing a "news system", which would let projects know about ongoing discussions on a wikipedia-wide level, and other things of interest. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use the Message sent by User:Addbot to all active wiki projects per request, Comments on the message and bot are welcome here. Thanks. — Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 08:51, 15 March, 2009 (UTC) [edit] Xavier HenryI created an article for Xavier Henry. He is the top High School basket ball player, that's going to play for Memphis next year. Much like the Lance Stephenson article it was put up for speedy deletion. Could someone help me out?Racingstripes (talk) 00:17, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Rich Perez
[edit] Category for deletionCategory:National Basketball Association players with retired numbers has been co-nominated for deletion, along with the similar categories for the NHL and MLB. Please respond at the discussion page. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 22:47, 31 March 2009 (UTC) [edit] usabasketball.comSee Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#usabasketball.com. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 14:23, 21 April 2009 (UTC) [edit] Proposed change to WP:ATHLETEThere is a proposed change to WP:ATHLETE found here. Interested individuals are invited to comment. Grsz11 17:38, 27 April 2009 (UTC) [edit] Current discussionsFeel free to comment at Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/2008–09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team and Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Rob Pelinka/archive1.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 22:37, 18 May 2009 (UTC) [edit] GA Sweeps invitationThis message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in. We are always looking for new members to assist with reviewing the remaining articles, and since this project has GAs under its scope, it would be beneficial if any of its members could review a few articles (perhaps your project's articles). Your project's members are likely to be more knowledgeable about your topic GAs then an outside reviewer. As a result, reviewing your project's articles would improve the quality of the review in ensuring that the article meets your project's concerns on sourcing, content, and guidelines. However, members can also review any other article in the worklist to ensure it meets the GA criteria. If any members are interested, please visit the GA sweeps page for further details and instructions in initiating a review. If you'd like to join the process, please add your name to the running total page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles from the worklist or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. With ~1,300 articles left to review, we would appreciate any editors that could contribute in helping to uphold the quality of GAs. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 22:23, 19 May 2009 (UTC) [edit] John McAdamsI saw enough references in the Google archives to pull this one out of the speedy queue, but it needs help. - Dank (push to talk) 04:00, 24 May 2009 (UTC) [edit] Notable association?Hi. I don't know if your project is active, but just thought to give you a heads up that United States Basketball Association could use knowledgeable review for notability. It's been tagged since March 2009. I came upon it listed for copyright problems at WP:CP (they've been removed). If your project could either help clarify its notability or consider whether it should be handled through one of the deletion processes, that would be helpful. I'm not in any way involved in sports or sports-related articles (unless they have copyright problems), so this is better addressed by somebody else. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:25, 8 June 2009 (UTC) [edit] United States men's national U19 teamThe FIBA Under-19 World Championship 2009 starts this coming Thursday in New Zealand. I was wondering if an article should be started for the U19 national basketball team, as there is for the U19 and U23 United States national soccer teams. Music+mas (talk) 21:44, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] FIBA Under-19 World Championship 2009 squads pageI've started a page for the squads for the FIBA U19 W Championship 2009 (men's) as one of my user pages. I'm going to transfer the article into a full-fledged Wikipedia article once it's finished. I was wondering if anyone wanted to help me create this. You can find the page at User:Music+mas/FIBA Under-19 World Championship 2009 squads Music+mas (talk) 20:25, 6 July 2009 (UTC) [edit]I fear I may be abusing the language, because a succession box is a type of navigation template, but I think people know what I mean. I read somewhere that the use of succession boxes was preferred to navigation templates. I've searched, and I can't find the reference. While succession templates may make sense in some cases, I think in the case of awards, such as Naismith award, the navigation template is far better - better looking, more information using less real estate, and more useful to the reader. There are some cases where I would like to replace a succession box with a navigation template. Specifically, Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year. Before I do so, I'd like to hear from someone if this is a bad idea. --SPhilbrickT 22:32, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Are there enough articles on this subject to justify an Outline of basketball?Here's a discussion about subject development you might find interesting. The Transhumanist 00:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC) P.S.: See Wikipedia's collection of outlines at WP:OOK. [edit] National Alliance of Basketball LeaguesCan not find a major site for this league and the wikipage has no sources. Could do with some attention if anyone has some time. Thanks BritishWatcher (talk) 01:26, 13 August 2009 (UTC) [edit] 08 Stockholm Human Rights articleI'm assuming that as this isn't the NBA project, you will cover international basketball! I have expanded the above article using a couple of sources I found, but I don't read Swedish, so I am limited in what I can do! There were a lot of references to the club using Google Search (2990 hits for "08 Stockholm Human Rights"), so there may be many more suitable references, which others may be able to use. I have the impression from what I have seen that this is a very notable basketball club, so I think it would benefit from more knowledgeable editors looking at it and improving it. In particular, I am not at all sure that the Merit List section is correctly translated and formatted - perhaps a Swedish basketball fan might be able to improve this. To be honest, I only came across the article as it had the {{unreferenced}} tag with no date on the tag, which is a category of articles I often look at to find references. It now has the Regards, -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 09:10, 16 August 2009 (UTC) [edit] Infobox - why no Championships?Someone just tried to add a championship to an awards and honors section of an infobox. IMO, a championship is a notable accomplishment, but is neither an award or an honor. I started to move it to the appropriate section, then realized that InfoBox NBA and Infobox WNBA do not have an entry for championships, even though NCAA athlete has such a distinction. Is there a reason for this difference? I'm tempted to make a change, but my experience with templates is limited - I'm chary of making a change to a commonly used template and finding I've messed up a transcluded template used in many places. Not to mention that I'd hate to go to the effort, and find out there was a conscious decision to exclude the championship entry, and have the work reverted. If it does make sense to add an entry for Championships, is there someone more familiar with template construction who can help?--SPhilbrickT 11:00, 17 August 2009 (UTC) [edit] Basketball Template and Call for those who Can and Want to Write about Philippine BasketballI want to create a template for basketball team rosters of Liga Pilipinas, a regional league in the Philippines, but the only templates available are for PBA rosters, and I do not have any idea or clue about creating templates. Now my questions are: What should I do now, and How do I create a template... Please I need your help... Thank you very much!! Also is there anyone here who writes about Philippine basketball?? Just want to ask.. Thank you po.. BULARAN (talk) 03:36, 1 September 2009 (UTC) [edit] GAN backlog reduction - Sports and recreationAs you may know, we currently have 400 good article nominations, with a large number of them being in the sports and recreation section. As such, the waiting time for this is especially long, much longer than it should be. As a result of this, I am asking each sports-related WikiProject to review two or three of these nominations. If this is abided by, then the backlog should be cleared quite quickly. Some projects nominate a lot but don't review, or vice-versa, and following this should help to provide a balance and make the waiting time much smaller so that our articles can actually get reviewed! Wizardman 23:39, 5 September 2009 (UTC) [edit] Indonesia men's national basketball teamHello there! I just wrote an article on the men's team of Indonesia. It may still be considered stub-class, but I'm still thinking if it can be categorized along with all the other Asian teams, and besides, I don't know how to add that template.. Please help.. Thanks!! BULARAN (talk) 06:17, 19 September 2009 (UTC) [edit] Player height in the template--"official" or "actual"?I see a lot of edits where a player's height in the player template is changed without explanation or a cited source. Sometimes this is trivial vandalism, sometimes it's based on something else, and in some cases it can get quite contentious. Without doubt, the height used in the template should be based on a cited source (for example Basketball-Reference.com). But what of a situation such as Hakeem Olajuwon and Bill Walton, where a highly reliable source (in this case, a 1994 The New York Times article) reports that the listed heights for these players were intentionally misstated?
My own inclination is that the height used in the player template should usually be the "official" height stated in the cited database (7'0 for Olajuwon, 6'11 for Walton); conflicting reports about actual height can be footnoted and/or discussed in the article (as is currently done in the Olajuwon article but not the Walton article). But the answer is not obvious. I'd appreciate opinions. --Arxiloxos (talk) 16:56, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Convert template fixedWikid77 (talk · contribs) has fixed the convert template for conversions from ft-in to cm. Previously, the default setting of the template yielded conversions like
The default conversion now is
[edit] Larry Coon's Wikipedia pageHello, I've recently added a Wiki page for Larry Coon. My experience in creating articles on Wikipedia is limited and if more experienced Wiki users who know that Larry Coon is one of the most cited Salary cap experts can expound on the article, that would be great. Thanks. DD2K (talk) 14:24, 12 November 2009 (UTC) |
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