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I have posted a messaged on User talk pages of anyone who has made a contribution to an Australian Baseball related article inviting them to join the project, anyone else seen editing -adding information, not just a slight correction- any articles related to Australian Baseball should be invited to join. -- Dan027 10:30, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
I believe these have now all been changed. Ive added the articles in Category:Australian Baseball players, in the near future a Australian Baseballers stub might be required, but at the moment there is only 21(that ive found) articles on Australian Baseball players. -- Dan027 10:30, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Is there any information available on this league? I can't find anything on google, most things I find mention the name or they are dead links. I'd like to see this article created, but I can't find any information as of yet..-- Borgarde 12:17, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey there Baseball fans. I prodded the above article because at the time I looked at it, it was quite small and made no real assertion to notabiliity.
What may have helped it's cause, would be an article for the league it is a member of? If you start the article creation process top-down - Baseball Baseball in Australia Pro Baseball in Australia Pro Baseball Leagues in Australia Pro Baseball League teams in Australia Amateur Baseball in Australia Amateur Baseball Leagues in Australia Amateur Baseball League teams in Australia
Then the previous article lends credability / notability to successive articles, and you don't have to spend as much time defending your work either through removing prod tags, or if an article goes straight to AfD (maybe because someone simply removes a prod tag rather than explaining why).
Since the bot was started which maintains the list at Wikipedia:New articles (Australia), articles are seen almost immediately by a lot more people even when they may be in a pretty minor stage so having the foundation articles already in place will provide a reason for what might easily be mistaken for a school competition team. Ga rr ie 04:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Please discuss here whether you think this project should become part of Baseball WikiProject. Having it a task force of the baseball wikiproject will allow a lot more integration with the project, and potential discussion on topics and activity. If it happened, the project page would be moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Australian baseball task force. Thoughts? -- Borgarde talk 11:15, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
If anyone on this Project is looking for a project, please add the annual final standings and play-off results to each " year in baseball" page. There is a page for each year that is supposed to be for baseball throughout the world, but it so far mainly focuses on US baseball. It would be much appreciated if someone could add Australian baseball info to the pages. Regards.-- Old Hoss 04:11, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
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I have created the following articles, perhaps a bit of help expanding would be nice:
I have also expanded substantially:
Finally, I hope to create notable articles for all the teams in the Greater Brisbane League, as half of them I created have already been deleted. As well as:
I also hope to create some decent templates for the bottom of baseball articles so it is a lot easier to link between Australian baseball articles
This is also a little reminder to myself to write up this stuff, but if anyone can help, it'd be appreciated. Also if you want some articles done, preferably notable players or any teams/associations in Queensland. Jot it down =] - JRA WestyQld2 ( talk) 03:19, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
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Over the last few months when I've had spare time and energy, I've been putting up bits and pieces of info on this article, to the point where I think most of the stuff that's there now has either come from me or been checked by me. I've put it up for the review process over on the main project's page, but thought I'd mention it over here as well. Given I've put up a lot of the stuff, I don't think I should be the one to assess whether it should be upgraded from Start-class to C-class or higher, assuming that's its good enough to move up at all. Also, if anyone else on here has any resources they know about that I can go through to put useful stuff up on here, or suggestions for things to either add or expand on, I'd welcome the input. - Afaber012 ( talk) 03:42, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
In my travels on here I've found a number of articles that list a baseball roster that might be for a tournament (eg the Claxton Shield rosters) but use the style of the MLB rosters, so things like disabled lists and so on are listed which have no relevance. With that in mind, I've created a new template that I'm about to put up on the Australia national baseball team article to replace the "manual" roster table that's there. I've still got to do a documentation page for it, but hopefully people will find it pretty simple to use. As always with the templates I come up with, any feedback/questions/criticisms are welcome, and I'll see what I can do. Afaber012 (talk) 03:44, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
I've got this article up for peer review at the moment, and one person who's reviewed it has suggested it "could reasonably be nominated for GA". Given that, I want to upgrade it to B-Class from its current C status. There's more things I want to do with it before I nominate it for GA status, so I don't think I'll do that yet. Does anyone have any objections to this? Afaber012 (talk) 02:25, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
I've been hearing information about a potential new Australian league in 2010. Has anyone got any good info on this? Or is it just more talk like in previous years? Borgarde ( talk) 10:04, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm wondering whether the AAA and AA (Junior & Youth, U/19 & U/17, however you want to refer to them) teams should have their own pages, or should they be combined into a single article? At the moment, only the AAA side has a page, and its a stub. From what I can tell, none of the other countries seem to have any page for their age teams. I just think that they should be combined, particularly given that the coaching staff is essentially the same for both, and that yesterday's AA team will (likely) be tomorrow's AAA team. In my (admittedly brief) research, there's even less information available on these teams than there is for the senior team, which would make it even more difficult to establish notability of either team. What does everyone else think? Afaber012 (talk) 00:39, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
A while back I created a template that lets you specify a team and it produces a coloured square to help identify different teams, primarily for tables of teams, league leaders, that sort of thing. It was from what happens with a number of the rugby league articles - in fact I basically copied the template they use. It would do a similar sort of job that the bb template does for international teams, replacing the flag with a coloured square. It's already got the (at the time) Claxton Shield teams set, the NSW Major League teams, and the MLB teams. It should be a simple matter to expand it for any other state level teams, and the new ABL-Mark II teams when they make their prescence known. How do people feel about this being used for the Australian baseball articles? Afaber012 (talk) 11:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't know if anyone else is working on this taskforce at the moment. If you are, even if you're not doing any work on articles at the moment but will be or would like to be soon, can you let me know? Just post your signature below this. I'm not demanding contributions or anything like that, it would just be nice to know for my own sake - basically if I'm going to make a major change to an article, template, etc, or create new ones, I'd like to know that when I ask for input, discussions, ideas, etc, whether I;m going to get an answer from anyone on here. Also, if no one else is around - or cares - I might see if I can come up with something to spruce up the task force's page and try to drum up some new recruits. Afaber012 (talk) 07:30, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
I've been having a look at the guidelines for the " Did You Know" section on the Main Page, and apart from ensuring that the particular little hook is cited by an outside source, the big requirement is that the article either be no more than a week old or that within that same time the article has to be expanded fivefold in terms of the prose in the article. With that in mind, I'd suggest that if there's an article you want to create, or a stub you want to expand, to actually make a sandbox page as a subpage of your user page and to build the article there. Once you've got it up to a good point, copy it across to the actual page and then nominate it as a DYK article. I've done it here for the new version of the ABL - partly for this, and partly because there's a lot more information we need to be able to make it a decent article and avoid it being nominated for deletion. Afaber012 (talk) 08:23, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Unless anyone's got any objections, I'm going to get the MiszaBot to start archiving this talk page for us. I don't think there's a need to have a whole bunch of sections - many of them with single posts - that are many months old, several over 2 years old. The way it gets setup would be to specify a minimum number of sections, and outside of that if a section hasn't been touched within a particular time frame, it gets shifted to the archive. Once an archive page gets to a certain size, it'll start a new archive page. (We could set it up to create archive pages based on dates, but I think we'd have to get a lot busier here for that to be warranted.)
If no one objects in the next couple of days, I'll set it up for minimum 8 sections, within 60 days. Afaber012 (talk) 01:34, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
I've updated it, if you have any requests, especially for new articles, stick them on, I'll see what I can do. I'm going to start the Alice Springs baseball tonight hopefully. JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 12:08, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
I think this needs a major revamp, would you agree? JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 12:34, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
created the article Matthew Gahan need some major attentiom i cant seem to dig anything up on this guy what about you guys? BigPadresDUDE ( talk) 00:29, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
As 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)
Hi Guys. I love to join the task force - project team. How is the team going? I try to find your project plan or prioritizing to do list. Do you have one? Where are you working on? What are the short time goals of the project? Is there a systematic method of working or some organisation in which why the project want to reach it goals. Please, give me a update ... I love to know where you stand. MascNL ( talk) 12:12, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
I was always wondering, wouldn't the Claxton Shield pages be grammatically and officially correct if they had the year at the start of the title, rather than the end (i.e 2008 Claxton Shield rather than Claxton Shield 2008). JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 22:28, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey guys, I'm back. Been busy dealing with a personal matter that came up, but I should be around more again. Afaber012 (talk) 07:26, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I'm thinking that as the season goes on, the Results section is going to get pretty big, with a minimum of 60 different scores listed just for the regular season, which I think will get a bit difficult to go through. I've also been looking at the 2009 Major League Baseball season and thinking about cherry–picking the sections that apply and putting them in as well. To that end, I think the Results section should probably go, replaced by a Standings section, with a see also link in there to a new 2010 Claxton Shield results page. I've got both of those setup in my sandbox. That way with the results we can put more details in without swamping the main page. What does everyone else reckon? Afaber012 (talk) 10:09, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
FYI (for your info), I just created a new article: Baseball Australia Hall of Fame. Eagle4000 ( talk) 08:05, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
I've just started doing some research for old Claxton Shields... Ok, well so far only the 1934 Claxton Shield but I'm intending to go through them all eventually. In trying to fill out the article, I've come across a series of four newspaper articles that give brief descriptions of the games that were held back then.
My point is if anyone else is looking for info for Australian topics through to the 1950s, Australian Newspapers, put together by the National Library of Australia seems to be a really good resource. They have newspapers from around the country from 1803 through to 1954. I've only just discovered the site, but it looks like worth checking out! Afaber012 (talk) 00:32, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
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I've got someone on my talk page, questioning the use of the little flag shaped icons used on the Claxton Shield pages, particularly the current seasons' page. He's wanting to get rid of them. Feel free to post your views here one way or the other, or to post them at my talkpage. I'm biased because I created them, but I think they're worthwhile as a replacement for logos we can't use with the same frequency because of copyright issues. Afaber012 (talk) 19:36, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
I have started a discussion of sorts about the future form of this article, please post your input on the talk page on the Perth Heat article. cheers -- Dan027 ( talk) 09:26, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
In the announcements of Victoria's win in this year's Claxton Shield, I noticed the claims that it was the 23rd Victorian title win. The problem is, counting the Claxton Shield wins, the IBLA win in 2002, and the four wins by Victorian teams during the ABL, I count only 22. I've found that there seems to be an inconsistency with the way the 1966 Shield is recorded. The ABF seems to have either made a mistake or changed its mind at some point in the last decade, because even it has two different versions. If you go to the 2001 Archives section of the Claxton Shield website [2] and look at the "Past Winners" [3] it shows the 1966 winners as South Australia. But if you go to the 2009 Archives [4] and look at the "Trophy Winnners" [5] it shows Victoria as the '66 winners.
I've not been able to find anything that explicitly states a decision to revisit the results of 1966 by the ABF or any other authority. But I was able to find a newspaper article from The Age [6] declaring South Australia to be the winners. I'm assuming the confusion comes from:
Apart from the article from the time, I've also found a few other sources that back up the SA win side of things, so it seems we should go with that too. I've put this here though because it would potentially affect a few different articles, not just the one. Afaber012 (talk) 23:05, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
I don't know if anyone else's noticed, but with the new bot compiling the ratings for importance and quality there's been several articles appearing here in the log every day switching from one rating to another. I've finally worked out why: they actually have more than one rating. The talk pages of almost all the articles in the task force have {{WikiProject Baseball}} and {{WP Australia}} (and sometimes other templates too), and usually the baseball templlate references Australia, and the Australia template references baseball.
We need to make sure whenever a new article is created or a pre-existing article is added to our purview that the australia-importance parameter in {{WikiProject Baseball}} is set to the same thing as baseball-importance in {{WP Australia}}. That way we reduce the load on the bot so its less likely to crash, looking at the template generated will provide more meaningful data for anyone trying to work out where next to focus their energies, and anyone monitoring the changes to the ratings (such as nerds like me) can see the actual changes rather than garbage cluttering up the list.
It'd probably also be a good idea if we notice any other doubling up in the project talk page templates to do the same thing for the other projects and task forces. Afaber012 (talk) 09:56, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
I've put this up for peer review at WP:BASEBALL, after splitting out the regular season and finals series sections into their own articles. You can get to the review page via the article's talk page and click on the "request has been made" link. As usual, if you've got suggestions feel free to make them, or even make the changes yourself. Let's see if we can get it up to good article status. Afaber012 (talk) 07:21, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
I've got this up for GA now, and have addressed all of the concerns brought up in the review bar one: description of the games themselves. I'm just not sure how to do it: a description of every single game would be more appropriate for the regular season or finals series articles, and would make the main article way too long. If I summarize, I'm not sure how to get the balance right in terms of brevity and length, but also what to consider noteworthy: what is and what isn't worthy of inclusion?
The other part of the problem is that I'm not entirely sure its appropriate to have that much detail and "feel" information in an encyclopedic entry. If anyone else has any ideas, I'd more than welcome them. Afaber012 (talk) 04:25, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm going to start creating some articles ahead of the new league. Cleared up whether all Shield players were eligible and it seems they are. I will start with the missing Australian national team players, then the more notable professional Clacko players, and so on. I'll update the to do list. JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 12:04, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
A few days ago the new ABL (I wish they'd decided to go with a new name) got its brand launch with a couple of TV ads and what I assume is an early version of its own website. With this and the fact that the ABL is due to start in November (6 months to go and counting...) I was wondering what people thought about how we'll handle the articles involved. Based on the discussion at the Perth Heat talk page - which hasn't been actioned yet, so possibly something someone could volunteer for... nudge, nudge, wink, wink - the teams, when their names are announced along with rosters, etc, will get their own pages, regardless of whether their name coincides with an existing Claxton Shield team or a previous ABL team name. On this basis, my guess is the way to go for the league itself would be to create a new page for it as well, with some reference going back and forth between the existing article and the new one.
Assuming I'm right, how do we go about disambiguating these two articles. My thought is that the new article would be the primary topic which would be called Australian Baseball League, while the existing article would be called Australian Baseball League (1989-1999). What do other people think? Do you agree with the naming? Agree with having two articles but not the naming? Disagree with having two articles? Afaber012 (talk) 07:42, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
I believe we reached the consensus to split the current ABL teams of the same name ( Brisbane Bandits, Perth Heat) into old articles with their lifespan and have the new franchises take over the current names. This would mean a move from the current Bandits page to Brisbane Bandits (1989–98) and Perth to Perth Heat (1989–2010). I know we had a bit of discussion on the Perth Heat article, but it seems if we keep uniform to other team name changes, it should be ok. The Perth Heat team did change to the Western Heelers for a couple of seasons, but retained most of it's Australian Baseball League format to the Claxton Shield. We can perhaps discuss this in length a bit more, but for now unless anyone has any massive complaints, I'll move this page when I get home tonight.
The other one is the actual Australian Baseball League article itself. I know Afaber has been working on the new one for a while, so I'll let him put up that article and we should move the old page to Australian Baseball League (1989-1999). JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 09:33, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
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I've posted to the talk page there about a change to the layout of the article I'd like to make. I'm more than happy to go through any concerns or suggestions. The idea would be that if the changes are made, and that they actually wind up making sense, that the same sort of format would be used for the other Claxton Shield/ABL season articles. Let me know what you think. Afaber012 (talk) 09:06, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
35 man rosters are up on the ABL website. JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 08:38, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
How does one go about getting the club logos onto the respective clubs' pages with regards to copyrights etc? I presume the ABL/MLB own the rights.
I'd like them to be up ASAP because they really stand out on a page without graphics and with increasing public awareness of the league, the pages are going to get more hits. A logo is essential to building a new brand and Wikipedia is a good platform to help with that. Qwertyqwas (talk) 10:40, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Qwertyqwas (talk) 14:25, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
I have added to Sandbox works on the other page what the Sydney Blue Sox infox would look like with the uniform added. I cannot workout, however, why the HOME and ROAD uniforms are not displayed side-by-side. The syntax of the code is the same as several other articles I have looked at. Qwertyqwas (talk) 12:05, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
First two look slick Afaber. Keep it coming! JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 11:53, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and might be removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help do so. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 05:39, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I've been thinking about the various articles the structure of the articles covering the 2010-11 season, and I've been looking at the hierarchy of the MLB season articles. I'm wondering if instead of the current structure of:
we go with something like
What do people think? Afaber012 (talk) 01:41, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Check out the article Women's baseball in Australia, good to see someone outside the project contribute. JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 08:05, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Schedule is up, I'll be busy with assessment until Wednesday, but will start to have a crack at it after. JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 08:30, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
With the promotion of Josh Spence to the Padres, taking the Aussie MLB player tally up to 29, I've been working on the List of Major League Baseball players from Australia, with a view to nominating it for Featured List status. So far I've been taking queues form the Japan list which seems pretty well put together, and the Puerto Rico list which is already a Featured List. So if anyone's got any thoughts, suggestions, comments or criticisms, you know where to find both it and me. Afaber012 (talk) 00:51, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone's seen new uniform tops for the Bandits, Bite or Aces for this coming season? I've already seen the new road jersey for the Heat to go along with new road-grey pants, and I've seen what I assume to be new home jerseys for the Blue Sox and Cavalry, as they are both the more traditional white ones similar to the Heat's from last year. Given this it would seem like the others will be getting new ones as well (and maybe updating some of the coloured ones from last season to have the more traditional city name on the road and the mascot/whatever on the home, like with the Heat's setup). I'm in the process of getting the graphics updated for the team pages and the team's season pages as well, but don't want to do the 3 others until I've got a source for them. Afaber012 (talk) 07:13, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
Not directly baseball related… but general Australian sport stuff which could help experience wise with Australian baseball improving. :) If there are any general Australian sport fans lurking around, Wikimedians to the Games is a collaboration drive to improve Australian Paralympic articles, with the most active contributors having an opportunity to go attend the Paralympic Games and to cover the Games behind the scenes with a press pass. The top two contributors will get their airfare and accommodation paid for. :) The drive official starts on 10 January 2012. -- LauraHale ( talk) 09:47, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
There seems to be quite a bit of confusion over in the Perth Heat article over who it is or should be with a number of redirects in the wrong place. i think this needs everyone's attention to sort out ASAP. -- Dan027 ( talk) 06:21, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
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I have posted a messaged on User talk pages of anyone who has made a contribution to an Australian Baseball related article inviting them to join the project, anyone else seen editing -adding information, not just a slight correction- any articles related to Australian Baseball should be invited to join. -- Dan027 10:30, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
I believe these have now all been changed. Ive added the articles in Category:Australian Baseball players, in the near future a Australian Baseballers stub might be required, but at the moment there is only 21(that ive found) articles on Australian Baseball players. -- Dan027 10:30, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Is there any information available on this league? I can't find anything on google, most things I find mention the name or they are dead links. I'd like to see this article created, but I can't find any information as of yet..-- Borgarde 12:17, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey there Baseball fans. I prodded the above article because at the time I looked at it, it was quite small and made no real assertion to notabiliity.
What may have helped it's cause, would be an article for the league it is a member of? If you start the article creation process top-down - Baseball Baseball in Australia Pro Baseball in Australia Pro Baseball Leagues in Australia Pro Baseball League teams in Australia Amateur Baseball in Australia Amateur Baseball Leagues in Australia Amateur Baseball League teams in Australia
Then the previous article lends credability / notability to successive articles, and you don't have to spend as much time defending your work either through removing prod tags, or if an article goes straight to AfD (maybe because someone simply removes a prod tag rather than explaining why).
Since the bot was started which maintains the list at Wikipedia:New articles (Australia), articles are seen almost immediately by a lot more people even when they may be in a pretty minor stage so having the foundation articles already in place will provide a reason for what might easily be mistaken for a school competition team. Ga rr ie 04:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Please discuss here whether you think this project should become part of Baseball WikiProject. Having it a task force of the baseball wikiproject will allow a lot more integration with the project, and potential discussion on topics and activity. If it happened, the project page would be moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Australian baseball task force. Thoughts? -- Borgarde talk 11:15, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
If anyone on this Project is looking for a project, please add the annual final standings and play-off results to each " year in baseball" page. There is a page for each year that is supposed to be for baseball throughout the world, but it so far mainly focuses on US baseball. It would be much appreciated if someone could add Australian baseball info to the pages. Regards.-- Old Hoss 04:11, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
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I have created the following articles, perhaps a bit of help expanding would be nice:
I have also expanded substantially:
Finally, I hope to create notable articles for all the teams in the Greater Brisbane League, as half of them I created have already been deleted. As well as:
I also hope to create some decent templates for the bottom of baseball articles so it is a lot easier to link between Australian baseball articles
This is also a little reminder to myself to write up this stuff, but if anyone can help, it'd be appreciated. Also if you want some articles done, preferably notable players or any teams/associations in Queensland. Jot it down =] - JRA WestyQld2 ( talk) 03:19, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
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Over the last few months when I've had spare time and energy, I've been putting up bits and pieces of info on this article, to the point where I think most of the stuff that's there now has either come from me or been checked by me. I've put it up for the review process over on the main project's page, but thought I'd mention it over here as well. Given I've put up a lot of the stuff, I don't think I should be the one to assess whether it should be upgraded from Start-class to C-class or higher, assuming that's its good enough to move up at all. Also, if anyone else on here has any resources they know about that I can go through to put useful stuff up on here, or suggestions for things to either add or expand on, I'd welcome the input. - Afaber012 ( talk) 03:42, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
In my travels on here I've found a number of articles that list a baseball roster that might be for a tournament (eg the Claxton Shield rosters) but use the style of the MLB rosters, so things like disabled lists and so on are listed which have no relevance. With that in mind, I've created a new template that I'm about to put up on the Australia national baseball team article to replace the "manual" roster table that's there. I've still got to do a documentation page for it, but hopefully people will find it pretty simple to use. As always with the templates I come up with, any feedback/questions/criticisms are welcome, and I'll see what I can do. Afaber012 (talk) 03:44, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
I've got this article up for peer review at the moment, and one person who's reviewed it has suggested it "could reasonably be nominated for GA". Given that, I want to upgrade it to B-Class from its current C status. There's more things I want to do with it before I nominate it for GA status, so I don't think I'll do that yet. Does anyone have any objections to this? Afaber012 (talk) 02:25, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
I've been hearing information about a potential new Australian league in 2010. Has anyone got any good info on this? Or is it just more talk like in previous years? Borgarde ( talk) 10:04, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm wondering whether the AAA and AA (Junior & Youth, U/19 & U/17, however you want to refer to them) teams should have their own pages, or should they be combined into a single article? At the moment, only the AAA side has a page, and its a stub. From what I can tell, none of the other countries seem to have any page for their age teams. I just think that they should be combined, particularly given that the coaching staff is essentially the same for both, and that yesterday's AA team will (likely) be tomorrow's AAA team. In my (admittedly brief) research, there's even less information available on these teams than there is for the senior team, which would make it even more difficult to establish notability of either team. What does everyone else think? Afaber012 (talk) 00:39, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
A while back I created a template that lets you specify a team and it produces a coloured square to help identify different teams, primarily for tables of teams, league leaders, that sort of thing. It was from what happens with a number of the rugby league articles - in fact I basically copied the template they use. It would do a similar sort of job that the bb template does for international teams, replacing the flag with a coloured square. It's already got the (at the time) Claxton Shield teams set, the NSW Major League teams, and the MLB teams. It should be a simple matter to expand it for any other state level teams, and the new ABL-Mark II teams when they make their prescence known. How do people feel about this being used for the Australian baseball articles? Afaber012 (talk) 11:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't know if anyone else is working on this taskforce at the moment. If you are, even if you're not doing any work on articles at the moment but will be or would like to be soon, can you let me know? Just post your signature below this. I'm not demanding contributions or anything like that, it would just be nice to know for my own sake - basically if I'm going to make a major change to an article, template, etc, or create new ones, I'd like to know that when I ask for input, discussions, ideas, etc, whether I;m going to get an answer from anyone on here. Also, if no one else is around - or cares - I might see if I can come up with something to spruce up the task force's page and try to drum up some new recruits. Afaber012 (talk) 07:30, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
I've been having a look at the guidelines for the " Did You Know" section on the Main Page, and apart from ensuring that the particular little hook is cited by an outside source, the big requirement is that the article either be no more than a week old or that within that same time the article has to be expanded fivefold in terms of the prose in the article. With that in mind, I'd suggest that if there's an article you want to create, or a stub you want to expand, to actually make a sandbox page as a subpage of your user page and to build the article there. Once you've got it up to a good point, copy it across to the actual page and then nominate it as a DYK article. I've done it here for the new version of the ABL - partly for this, and partly because there's a lot more information we need to be able to make it a decent article and avoid it being nominated for deletion. Afaber012 (talk) 08:23, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Unless anyone's got any objections, I'm going to get the MiszaBot to start archiving this talk page for us. I don't think there's a need to have a whole bunch of sections - many of them with single posts - that are many months old, several over 2 years old. The way it gets setup would be to specify a minimum number of sections, and outside of that if a section hasn't been touched within a particular time frame, it gets shifted to the archive. Once an archive page gets to a certain size, it'll start a new archive page. (We could set it up to create archive pages based on dates, but I think we'd have to get a lot busier here for that to be warranted.)
If no one objects in the next couple of days, I'll set it up for minimum 8 sections, within 60 days. Afaber012 (talk) 01:34, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
I've updated it, if you have any requests, especially for new articles, stick them on, I'll see what I can do. I'm going to start the Alice Springs baseball tonight hopefully. JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 12:08, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
I think this needs a major revamp, would you agree? JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 12:34, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
created the article Matthew Gahan need some major attentiom i cant seem to dig anything up on this guy what about you guys? BigPadresDUDE ( talk) 00:29, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
As 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)
Hi Guys. I love to join the task force - project team. How is the team going? I try to find your project plan or prioritizing to do list. Do you have one? Where are you working on? What are the short time goals of the project? Is there a systematic method of working or some organisation in which why the project want to reach it goals. Please, give me a update ... I love to know where you stand. MascNL ( talk) 12:12, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
I was always wondering, wouldn't the Claxton Shield pages be grammatically and officially correct if they had the year at the start of the title, rather than the end (i.e 2008 Claxton Shield rather than Claxton Shield 2008). JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 22:28, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey guys, I'm back. Been busy dealing with a personal matter that came up, but I should be around more again. Afaber012 (talk) 07:26, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I'm thinking that as the season goes on, the Results section is going to get pretty big, with a minimum of 60 different scores listed just for the regular season, which I think will get a bit difficult to go through. I've also been looking at the 2009 Major League Baseball season and thinking about cherry–picking the sections that apply and putting them in as well. To that end, I think the Results section should probably go, replaced by a Standings section, with a see also link in there to a new 2010 Claxton Shield results page. I've got both of those setup in my sandbox. That way with the results we can put more details in without swamping the main page. What does everyone else reckon? Afaber012 (talk) 10:09, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
FYI (for your info), I just created a new article: Baseball Australia Hall of Fame. Eagle4000 ( talk) 08:05, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
I've just started doing some research for old Claxton Shields... Ok, well so far only the 1934 Claxton Shield but I'm intending to go through them all eventually. In trying to fill out the article, I've come across a series of four newspaper articles that give brief descriptions of the games that were held back then.
My point is if anyone else is looking for info for Australian topics through to the 1950s, Australian Newspapers, put together by the National Library of Australia seems to be a really good resource. They have newspapers from around the country from 1803 through to 1954. I've only just discovered the site, but it looks like worth checking out! Afaber012 (talk) 00:32, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
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I've got someone on my talk page, questioning the use of the little flag shaped icons used on the Claxton Shield pages, particularly the current seasons' page. He's wanting to get rid of them. Feel free to post your views here one way or the other, or to post them at my talkpage. I'm biased because I created them, but I think they're worthwhile as a replacement for logos we can't use with the same frequency because of copyright issues. Afaber012 (talk) 19:36, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
I have started a discussion of sorts about the future form of this article, please post your input on the talk page on the Perth Heat article. cheers -- Dan027 ( talk) 09:26, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
In the announcements of Victoria's win in this year's Claxton Shield, I noticed the claims that it was the 23rd Victorian title win. The problem is, counting the Claxton Shield wins, the IBLA win in 2002, and the four wins by Victorian teams during the ABL, I count only 22. I've found that there seems to be an inconsistency with the way the 1966 Shield is recorded. The ABF seems to have either made a mistake or changed its mind at some point in the last decade, because even it has two different versions. If you go to the 2001 Archives section of the Claxton Shield website [2] and look at the "Past Winners" [3] it shows the 1966 winners as South Australia. But if you go to the 2009 Archives [4] and look at the "Trophy Winnners" [5] it shows Victoria as the '66 winners.
I've not been able to find anything that explicitly states a decision to revisit the results of 1966 by the ABF or any other authority. But I was able to find a newspaper article from The Age [6] declaring South Australia to be the winners. I'm assuming the confusion comes from:
Apart from the article from the time, I've also found a few other sources that back up the SA win side of things, so it seems we should go with that too. I've put this here though because it would potentially affect a few different articles, not just the one. Afaber012 (talk) 23:05, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
I don't know if anyone else's noticed, but with the new bot compiling the ratings for importance and quality there's been several articles appearing here in the log every day switching from one rating to another. I've finally worked out why: they actually have more than one rating. The talk pages of almost all the articles in the task force have {{WikiProject Baseball}} and {{WP Australia}} (and sometimes other templates too), and usually the baseball templlate references Australia, and the Australia template references baseball.
We need to make sure whenever a new article is created or a pre-existing article is added to our purview that the australia-importance parameter in {{WikiProject Baseball}} is set to the same thing as baseball-importance in {{WP Australia}}. That way we reduce the load on the bot so its less likely to crash, looking at the template generated will provide more meaningful data for anyone trying to work out where next to focus their energies, and anyone monitoring the changes to the ratings (such as nerds like me) can see the actual changes rather than garbage cluttering up the list.
It'd probably also be a good idea if we notice any other doubling up in the project talk page templates to do the same thing for the other projects and task forces. Afaber012 (talk) 09:56, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
I've put this up for peer review at WP:BASEBALL, after splitting out the regular season and finals series sections into their own articles. You can get to the review page via the article's talk page and click on the "request has been made" link. As usual, if you've got suggestions feel free to make them, or even make the changes yourself. Let's see if we can get it up to good article status. Afaber012 (talk) 07:21, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
I've got this up for GA now, and have addressed all of the concerns brought up in the review bar one: description of the games themselves. I'm just not sure how to do it: a description of every single game would be more appropriate for the regular season or finals series articles, and would make the main article way too long. If I summarize, I'm not sure how to get the balance right in terms of brevity and length, but also what to consider noteworthy: what is and what isn't worthy of inclusion?
The other part of the problem is that I'm not entirely sure its appropriate to have that much detail and "feel" information in an encyclopedic entry. If anyone else has any ideas, I'd more than welcome them. Afaber012 (talk) 04:25, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm going to start creating some articles ahead of the new league. Cleared up whether all Shield players were eligible and it seems they are. I will start with the missing Australian national team players, then the more notable professional Clacko players, and so on. I'll update the to do list. JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 12:04, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
A few days ago the new ABL (I wish they'd decided to go with a new name) got its brand launch with a couple of TV ads and what I assume is an early version of its own website. With this and the fact that the ABL is due to start in November (6 months to go and counting...) I was wondering what people thought about how we'll handle the articles involved. Based on the discussion at the Perth Heat talk page - which hasn't been actioned yet, so possibly something someone could volunteer for... nudge, nudge, wink, wink - the teams, when their names are announced along with rosters, etc, will get their own pages, regardless of whether their name coincides with an existing Claxton Shield team or a previous ABL team name. On this basis, my guess is the way to go for the league itself would be to create a new page for it as well, with some reference going back and forth between the existing article and the new one.
Assuming I'm right, how do we go about disambiguating these two articles. My thought is that the new article would be the primary topic which would be called Australian Baseball League, while the existing article would be called Australian Baseball League (1989-1999). What do other people think? Do you agree with the naming? Agree with having two articles but not the naming? Disagree with having two articles? Afaber012 (talk) 07:42, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
I believe we reached the consensus to split the current ABL teams of the same name ( Brisbane Bandits, Perth Heat) into old articles with their lifespan and have the new franchises take over the current names. This would mean a move from the current Bandits page to Brisbane Bandits (1989–98) and Perth to Perth Heat (1989–2010). I know we had a bit of discussion on the Perth Heat article, but it seems if we keep uniform to other team name changes, it should be ok. The Perth Heat team did change to the Western Heelers for a couple of seasons, but retained most of it's Australian Baseball League format to the Claxton Shield. We can perhaps discuss this in length a bit more, but for now unless anyone has any massive complaints, I'll move this page when I get home tonight.
The other one is the actual Australian Baseball League article itself. I know Afaber has been working on the new one for a while, so I'll let him put up that article and we should move the old page to Australian Baseball League (1989-1999). JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 09:33, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
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I've posted to the talk page there about a change to the layout of the article I'd like to make. I'm more than happy to go through any concerns or suggestions. The idea would be that if the changes are made, and that they actually wind up making sense, that the same sort of format would be used for the other Claxton Shield/ABL season articles. Let me know what you think. Afaber012 (talk) 09:06, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
35 man rosters are up on the ABL website. JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 08:38, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
How does one go about getting the club logos onto the respective clubs' pages with regards to copyrights etc? I presume the ABL/MLB own the rights.
I'd like them to be up ASAP because they really stand out on a page without graphics and with increasing public awareness of the league, the pages are going to get more hits. A logo is essential to building a new brand and Wikipedia is a good platform to help with that. Qwertyqwas (talk) 10:40, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Qwertyqwas (talk) 14:25, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
I have added to Sandbox works on the other page what the Sydney Blue Sox infox would look like with the uniform added. I cannot workout, however, why the HOME and ROAD uniforms are not displayed side-by-side. The syntax of the code is the same as several other articles I have looked at. Qwertyqwas (talk) 12:05, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
First two look slick Afaber. Keep it coming! JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 11:53, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and might be removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help do so. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 05:39, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
I've been thinking about the various articles the structure of the articles covering the 2010-11 season, and I've been looking at the hierarchy of the MLB season articles. I'm wondering if instead of the current structure of:
we go with something like
What do people think? Afaber012 (talk) 01:41, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Check out the article Women's baseball in Australia, good to see someone outside the project contribute. JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 08:05, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Schedule is up, I'll be busy with assessment until Wednesday, but will start to have a crack at it after. JRA_ Westy Qld2 Talk 08:30, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
With the promotion of Josh Spence to the Padres, taking the Aussie MLB player tally up to 29, I've been working on the List of Major League Baseball players from Australia, with a view to nominating it for Featured List status. So far I've been taking queues form the Japan list which seems pretty well put together, and the Puerto Rico list which is already a Featured List. So if anyone's got any thoughts, suggestions, comments or criticisms, you know where to find both it and me. Afaber012 (talk) 00:51, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone's seen new uniform tops for the Bandits, Bite or Aces for this coming season? I've already seen the new road jersey for the Heat to go along with new road-grey pants, and I've seen what I assume to be new home jerseys for the Blue Sox and Cavalry, as they are both the more traditional white ones similar to the Heat's from last year. Given this it would seem like the others will be getting new ones as well (and maybe updating some of the coloured ones from last season to have the more traditional city name on the road and the mascot/whatever on the home, like with the Heat's setup). I'm in the process of getting the graphics updated for the team pages and the team's season pages as well, but don't want to do the 3 others until I've got a source for them. Afaber012 (talk) 07:13, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
Not directly baseball related… but general Australian sport stuff which could help experience wise with Australian baseball improving. :) If there are any general Australian sport fans lurking around, Wikimedians to the Games is a collaboration drive to improve Australian Paralympic articles, with the most active contributors having an opportunity to go attend the Paralympic Games and to cover the Games behind the scenes with a press pass. The top two contributors will get their airfare and accommodation paid for. :) The drive official starts on 10 January 2012. -- LauraHale ( talk) 09:47, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
There seems to be quite a bit of confusion over in the Perth Heat article over who it is or should be with a number of redirects in the wrong place. i think this needs everyone's attention to sort out ASAP. -- Dan027 ( talk) 06:21, 22 January 2012 (UTC)