Some Wikipedians have formed a task force to better organize information in biographical articles of baseball players. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this task force will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.
Note: This task is still at a very early stage. Contributions and suggestions in any area are more than welcome.
We now have a new Article Improvement Drive to improve all baseball articles to featured status. Click here to participate.
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Infobox baseball biography}} Talk |
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is an infobox template to be added to any MLB player's article. | ||||||||||
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WikiProject Baseball}} Talk |
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Added to the talk page of all baseball related pages. | ||||||||||
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Portal}} Talk |
Add this to the bottom of a page, right before the categories listing, to show a standardized link to the Baseball portal. | |||||||||||
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Baseballstats}} Talk |
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Add the page ID's after the equals sign to properly direct the links that you desire to have. If you do not specify an ID, the site will not be shown. |
Do not upload images from MLB.com or any other site unless you are certain the images are public domain or otherwise fair to use on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Copyrights for more information. |
This task force aims to increase the quality and quantity of Wikipedia's coverage of professional baseball players, focusing primarily on Major League Baseball. If there is interest, the scope may be widened to include, for example, Nippon Professional Baseball players.
This is a brief and incomplete list of the numerous tasks that the project has ahead of it. Pitch in where you can.
You can find articles on Baseball Players here:
See the project's talk page for more information.
Here are some resources that can be referenced (or directly used, if in public domain) when creating or improving the quality of baseball players' articles:
Preferably, photographs of players should be either public domain or released under a free license. The source of the photograph must be displayed.
In the United States, works are public domain if they were created prior to 1923. If an image is in the public domain, it should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons rather than Wikipedia.
If a person photographs a baseball player, that person can offer the image under a free license.
Wikipedia has a fair use policy. The Wikipedia fair use policy does not necessarily parallel the actual law with respect to fair use due to policy considerations as to the goals of Wikipedia.
The Wikimedia policy discourages use of photographs of living people under the rationale that the preference is to have a freely licensed image of the person, and it should be relatively easy to obtain a photograph of that person. However, if a person is deceased, then, since it is no longer possible to obtain a picture of that person, then it is acceptable fair use to use a photograph of a person.
For deceased baseball players, there are a variety of sources for photographs, included the MLB Hall of Fame. For active baseball players, it is possible to obtain photographs of that player. For those players that are no longer active in baseball but are living, then it is difficult under the current Wikipedia policy to obtain an acceptable image of that person.
Add {{ user WikiProject Base-play}} to your user page to get
This user
participates in the Baseball players task force. |
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
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Some Wikipedians have formed a task force to better organize information in biographical articles of baseball players. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this task force will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.
Note: This task is still at a very early stage. Contributions and suggestions in any area are more than welcome.
We now have a new Article Improvement Drive to improve all baseball articles to featured status. Click here to participate.
What to type | What it makes | What it's for | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
{{
Infobox baseball biography}} Talk |
|
is an infobox template to be added to any MLB player's article. | ||||||||||
{{
WikiProject Baseball}} Talk |
|
Added to the talk page of all baseball related pages. | ||||||||||
{{
Portal}} Talk |
Add this to the bottom of a page, right before the categories listing, to show a standardized link to the Baseball portal. | |||||||||||
{{
Baseballstats}} Talk |
|
Add the page ID's after the equals sign to properly direct the links that you desire to have. If you do not specify an ID, the site will not be shown. |
Do not upload images from MLB.com or any other site unless you are certain the images are public domain or otherwise fair to use on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Copyrights for more information. |
This task force aims to increase the quality and quantity of Wikipedia's coverage of professional baseball players, focusing primarily on Major League Baseball. If there is interest, the scope may be widened to include, for example, Nippon Professional Baseball players.
This is a brief and incomplete list of the numerous tasks that the project has ahead of it. Pitch in where you can.
You can find articles on Baseball Players here:
See the project's talk page for more information.
Here are some resources that can be referenced (or directly used, if in public domain) when creating or improving the quality of baseball players' articles:
Preferably, photographs of players should be either public domain or released under a free license. The source of the photograph must be displayed.
In the United States, works are public domain if they were created prior to 1923. If an image is in the public domain, it should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons rather than Wikipedia.
If a person photographs a baseball player, that person can offer the image under a free license.
Wikipedia has a fair use policy. The Wikipedia fair use policy does not necessarily parallel the actual law with respect to fair use due to policy considerations as to the goals of Wikipedia.
The Wikimedia policy discourages use of photographs of living people under the rationale that the preference is to have a freely licensed image of the person, and it should be relatively easy to obtain a photograph of that person. However, if a person is deceased, then, since it is no longer possible to obtain a picture of that person, then it is acceptable fair use to use a photograph of a person.
For deceased baseball players, there are a variety of sources for photographs, included the MLB Hall of Fame. For active baseball players, it is possible to obtain photographs of that player. For those players that are no longer active in baseball but are living, then it is difficult under the current Wikipedia policy to obtain an acceptable image of that person.
Add {{ user WikiProject Base-play}} to your user page to get
This user
participates in the Baseball players task force. |
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.