Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball

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The Baseball WikiProject was formed on December 13, 2004, as a subproject of WikiProject Sports. The sport of baseball can trace its history back to the 1700s; it has survived scandal, the Great Depression, even World Wars, but has always remained the same game that our fathers loved to play.

As of September 2, 2013, there are over 55,000 articles within the scope of WikiProject Baseball, of which 265 are featured and 268 are good articles.

Because baseball has such a diverse history and has survived for so long there is much than can be done to help improve its related pages on Wikipedia. Over the past few years editors have developed models that can be used to develop high quality articles that can give readers full understanding of not only players, but coaches, franchises and even individual seasons. Though new concepts are being created daily, we have not lost sight of the past and a group is dedicated to developing articles about "Old-time Base Ball".

We hope that you can be a constructive member of our group and we welcome assistance in any area of our project. Everybody is welcome to add their name to the list of participants and visit discussion about the project. The Baseball WikiProject always strives to follow the Policies and guidelines of Wikipedia. We also have an internet relay chat channel at #wiki-baseball ^connect.

In our sundown perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball....
Let us go forth awhile and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms....
The game of ball is glorious.
— Walt Whitman

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WikiProject Baseball

Main project page	+ talk
Special projects	talk
Resource Library	talk
Article Improvement Drive	talk
Requested articles and todo	talk
→ Articles needing attention	talk
→ Cleanup listing	talk
→ Nominations for deletion	talk
→ Article alerts	talk
Article assessment (Log)	talk
→ Featured articles (62)	talk
→ Featured lists (211)	talk
→ Good articles (560)	talk
Outreach	talk
→ Newsletter	talk
Portal	talk
Notability guidelines	talk
Style advice	talk
→ Naming conventions	talk
→ Player style advice	talk
→ Season article format	talk
Handling transactions	talk
Popular pages	talk
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Major League Baseball
Team specific
Atlanta Braves	talk
Boston Red Sox	talk
Chicago Cubs	talk
Cincinnati Reds	talk
Los Angeles Angels	talk
Los Angeles Dodgers	talk
Minnesota Twins	talk
New York Mets	talk
New York Yankees	talk
Philadelphia Phillies	talk
San Diego Padres	talk
Seattle Mariners	talk
St. Louis Cardinals	talk

General Subprojects
Players	talk
College baseball	talk
Leagues and teams	talk
Little League	talk
Old-time Base Ball	talk
Negro league baseball	talk
Hall of Fame	talk
Umpires	talk

Geographical
Australia	talk
Japan	talk
Korea	talk
Taiwan	talk

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Article Improvement Drive

In order to concentrate our collaboration efforts we have selected certain articles to work on together. Currently our Article improvement drive is concentrating on improving the No-hitter article.

If you are interested in collaborating on improving an article to good article status, see the drive page for more information.

Tasks

If you are wondering where to start, take a look at these tasks:

Team-specific tasks
Volunteer to help out with your team's article for this season.

Player-specific tasks
Find fair use photos for deceased players, free photos for living players Follow the guidelines listed at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (baseball players)

Ongoing tasks

Clean-up any of the articles listed on the Cleanup listing
Update player biographies by adding more history and current information.
Clean-up and finalize article about the past season of MLB, including 2017 Major League Baseball season, 2017 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, 2017 World Series, and team articles.
Rate articles. See Category:Unassessed Baseball articles or Baseball articles by quality.
Help peer review any articles currently up in the WikiProject's peer review department.
Add infoboxes to articles that need infoboxes.
Improve articles that need attention.
Address requests in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of baseball people.

Task forces

There are currently thirteen teams with their own WikiProjects, as well as nine task forces which concentrate on specific areas. It is recommended, though not required, that new projects are discussed before creation.

DYK? Articles

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Baseball articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

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WikiProject Baseball

Ty Cobb sliding into third base

Quick links

Portal →	Baseball
Shortcuts →	WP:BASEBALL (main page) WT:BASEBALL (talk page)
Template →	{{WikiProject Baseball}}
Member userbox →	{{User WikiProject Baseball}}
Notability guidelines →	Wikipedia:Notability (sports) § Baseball
Invitation →	{{WikiProject Baseball invitation}}

Goals

The project aims primarily to:

Create and improve articles whose content is connected to the sport of Baseball.
Set up consistent structural and graphical layouts for displaying information on these articles.

Other goals include:

Bring as much content about Baseball to featured status.
Maintenance of the Baseball Portal.

Statistics

Articles assessed for quality: 99.9% complete

Baseball articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	4	19	18	21			62
FL		10	70	131			211
FM					25		25
A				1			1
GA	6	60	169	325			560
B	21	124	261	431		4	841
C	30	299	1,098	2,379		18	3,824
Start	54	359	2,871	17,831		488	21,603
Stub		56	944	22,107		174	23,281
List	2	135	452	1,054		26	1,669
Category					17,983		17,983
Disambig					56		56
File					6,900		6,900
Portal					302		302
Project					303		303
Redirect	1	2	80	408	4,622		5,113
Template					5,349		5,349
Draft					8		8
NA					6		6
Other					29		29
Assessed	118	1,064	5,963	44,688	35,583	710	88,126
Unassessed				1		27	28
Total	118	1,064	5,963	44,689	35,583	737	88,154
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 266,641			Ω = 5.31

Index · Statistics · Log

3.2% List-Class
44.7% Stub-Class
41.5% Start-Class
7.3% C-Class
1.6% B-Class
1.1% GA-Class
0% A-Class
0.5% FA-Class
0.1% remaining

Quality operations: A bot-generated daily log which lists articles Reassessed, Assessed and Removed.

Popular pages: List of top articles with the most frequent views, updated monthly.