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Well, it's been pretty quiet around here. But I don't want this project to die so I want to post here and just let everyone know that I'm still here. I understand that there's not much college baseball activity right now because the season is over. It's an afterthought right now, especially with football season just around the corner. My personal editing habits tend to revolve around the different sporting seasons. From August through January, I concentrate on college football. From February to April, I mostly edit college basketball articles. And from April until June I do college baseball. So hopefully we can get this thing rolling again once the 2008 college baseball season is closer. We did a lot of excellent work, getting much needed templates created, documenting conference and NCAA tourneys, etc. We will just build on it all. Keep up the good work, but if college football hogs most of your attention, well, I understand. Seancp 15:33, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Vandy started fall practice today. I'm pumped. In other news, it's very strange seeing David Price on campus taking classes, when I know that he won't be playing for us in the spring. Hopefully in the next couple months we'll see some activity on here again. Oughgh 05:28, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Vandy just released their 2008 schedule today. It looks like a doozy. Check it out at Template:2008 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball game log. Oughgh 18:15, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Hope everyone enjoys opening night! I look forward to revving this project up again! Who else is out there reading this? Seancp ( talk) 02:29, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I think it would be beneficial to come to a consensus on which poll we feel is the best representation of the college baseball rankings and use that to rank our opponents. For example, the Clemson Tigers men's basketball page uses the ESPN rankings to show opponents rank at the time the game is played. I see how some of you have created a "rankings movement" section to your team pages. I like that idea and intend to use it on my Clemson page. But what about ranking opponents? I think it would help give readers a sense of strength of schedule, and how good opponents are. Thoughts? -- Jober14 ( talk) 16:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
So last season we left off feverishly creating and updating historic tournament pages.
Will we just spend this season updating and following our favorite teams? I think this could open up an opportunity to standardize team pages and schedule tables etc. I've been working on the Clemson page and playing around with the tables and settings to get it looking good. I spent the winter creating and updating the Clemson Basketball page and have used some lessons learned from that to make the baseball page look more efficient. I think what would help right off the bat is if we made a standardized schedule/results table that is as easy to input results and data into as the basketball ones are.
Thoughts? -- Jober14 ( talk) 18:25, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there a coaching record template for college baseball coaches? If there isn't one, perhaps we can use the College basketball one? BlueAg09 ( Talk) 20:43, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
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I noticed a user made this infobox template for college softball teams when they updated the LSU Tigers softball article and I figured we could use a standard template like this for baseball teams, so I adapted it for our use. Here's the link: Template:Infobox College Baseball Team. See it in action: LSU Tigers baseball. Seancp ( talk) 14:04, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
There is a major revert war going on at the Rosenblatt Stadium page. The "Save Rosenblatt" crew reverts any changes that edit or remove their statements to make the article NPOV (in addition to fixing other grammatical errors and plain bad writing).
Was hoping we could get some sort of official intervention in there. I don't deny the new stadium issue deserves mention in the article, but that group is using Wikipedia as their soapbox. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.58.233.6 ( talk) 17:41, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
I am working on getting the Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball article completed, but I think it would be nice if we agreed on a standard format to use for all team articles, so that they would all be uniform. Does anyone have suggestions? Jhn31 ( talk) 19:47, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
I personally think the LSU article is nice. I guess I am biased since I did some of the work for it. It goes over a lot of the history and how the team got to the present. it isn't finished though, but all the sections I would add are there.
I think that with year-by-year results these articles get rather lengthy and would like to see that table be collapsible and by default collapsed.
I also included Team Records and individual records if a team or former player holds an NCAA records. I think these are important.
For Awards, I limited it to All-America Awards (Any publication), Golden Spikes, POY, and CWS All-Tourney Team. I think those are the highest profile awards. If it's a high profile award then it should be mentioned, but Player of the Week and All Conference teams would just be too long. I hate notable player lists because they just get out of hand and end up list tons of players that might not have accomplished anything.
It appears that a lot of other articles have adopted this basic format as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sgautr6 ( talk • contribs) 19:17, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
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Why is it so dead in here lately? It seemed like this project was going to take off this season but not even the usual suspects have been editing. What's going on? Jober14 ( talk) 19:47, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
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Is it really necessary for the second half of the article to be encased in a table?-- Music+mas ( talk) 17:07, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Cal State Fullerton is one of the top college baseball programs in the country. Their appearances in the College World Series are in the double digits. However, there is no Cal State Fullerton baseball page on Wikipedia. This program certainly deserves a page on Wikipedia. Is there anyone willing to help create a page entitled Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball (this link is simply a redirect to the Athletics section on the main University Wikipedia page) ? I've never created a new page from scratch before, so in the help I can get would be much appreciated. Music+mas ( talk) 22:56, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
I just created a page that is supposed to list all of the current NCAA Division I baseball coaches by conference. I was wondering if some of you on this project could help me out creating this page. Music+mas ( talk) 17:40, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Please see discussion here Corpx ( talk) 07:33, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
A few discussion points on assessment. I'm proposing a few benchmarks for assessment topics falling under our project and would love to hear what you think.
I propose rating each power conference (different from the traditional BCS conferences of football/basketball) team page as a "high" importance article. These articles include team pages for squads from the ACC, Big 12, Big West, C-USA, Pac-10, and SEC. These teams form the core of the college baseball landscape.
I also propose rating each high-major, mid-major, and low-major conference team pages as "mid" importance. These would include all team pages from conferences not included in the "Big 6." While these teams are not as essential, college baseball programs are still essential to the material covered in this project.
Exceptions could be made for non-power conference schools who have achieved particular notoriety. For example, programs which have reached a CWS in the past 10 years could be rated as "high." Another idea is a cutoff date for a CWS appearance earning a program "High" importance, possibly 1999 when the tournament field expanded to 64 teams. This would prevent teams such as Holy Cross, which won a National Title in 1952 but is of little notoriety today, from being given undue attention.
Example- Under these guidelines, "North Carolina Tarheels baseball" would be ranked "High" because of their power conference status. "Louisville Cardinals baseball" would be ranked "High" despite their high-major status thanks to their 2007 CWS appearance, which falls in the past 10 years. "Gonzaga Bulldogs baseball" would be rated "Mid" thanks to its status as a high-major D1 team.
I fully understand that college baseball team articles are limited at best and that assessment guidelines may not seem important right now. However, I think an assessment guideline for team articles would be helpful as more are created in the future.
I propose rating power conference team venues as "Mid" and non-power conference venues as "Low." In this case, I do not think exceptions should be made for the accomplishments of a program, as this does not apply as accurately to the team's venue.
Example- Under these guidelines, "Doug Kingsmore Stadium" would be rated "Mid" thanks to its being home to a power-conference team, the Clemson Tigers. "Jim Patterson Stadium," home of the Louisville Cardinals, would be rated low. Despite the team's recent success, the venue is still a non-power conference park.
I know the scope of college baseball venues is relatively limited, but, again, I think guidelines would be helpful for future expansion.
I propose rating the articles of top collegiate summer leagues as "High" importance. For me, this is a group of five- the Cape Cod League, Northwoods League, Coastal Plain League, New England Collegiate Baseball League, and Alaska League, in that order. These five leagues are home to premier players from power and high-major conferences every year and, therefore, merit this rating. I propose rating mid-level leagues (West Coast, New York, Cal Ripken, Texas Collegiate, etc.) as "Mid" and low-level leagues containing mostly JuCo players (Triple Crown, Rockingham County, etc.) as "Low."
As far as teams are concerned, I propose rating teams of the "Big 5" leagues as "Mid" and all other teams as "Low."
With ballparks, I would rate all as "Low" with the possible exception of the Cape and Northwoods venues. These leagues are considerably above the rest in terms of talent and fan support and their venues may merit this rating.
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Just noticed the inactive template. I know I still do a lot of work with the College Baseball project, but I didn't want to presume to speak for all members of the project by removing the template. I'll leave a message here for a few days, and if nobody responds here, I'll start PMing some of the more active people on the participants list. Let's keep WikiProject College Baseball alive! Kithira ( talk) 12:46, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
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Is anyone watching this good with templates? I'm thinking we could really use one similar to Template:cbb link and template:cfb link. Any volunteers or suggestions on who might be willing to take this on? Billcasey905 ( talk) 02:39, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Warner Royals baseball is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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I would like active contributors here to weigh in at Talk:SIUE Cougars regarding the school nickname. I had moved "SIUE Cougars" over to "SIU Edwardsville Cougars" today because that's how all of our college sports WikiProjects have been referring to them (and the school itself had been using that naming convention). Another editor reverted my move and said to discuss the change over at its talk page. Upon further research, it does appear that "SIUE Cougars" is now how the school brands itself / they have shied away from the old standard of spelling out Edwardsville. My question, then, boils down to this: Should we argue to keep SIU Edwardsville because it is less ambiguous, or do we cede to the school's efforts in its abbreviated form? I'm on the fence about it. If we do think SIUE Cougars is correct (at this point), then all of the athletic categories will need to be renamed. Jrcla2 ( talk) 04:54, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
I was looking at Template:NCAA Division I baseball conference tournament navbox and realized there is no entry for the Ivy League. The Ivy holds a championship series between its two division winners to determine the auto-bid to the NCAA Tournament, but this is not strictly speaking a tournament. I wanted to get editor's opinions, should this be included as a tournament or as a conference that does not sponsor a tournament? Also, I'm planning on tackling each existing conference tournament to fill in the red links on that navbox. I'd welcome any assistance. Billcasey905 ( talk) 18:14, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
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Now that there is a page for each and every year of the Division I Tournament, should the College World Series pages be merged into those? College basketball doesn't have a separate page for each Final Four so I'm having trouble seeing why each CWS should. If they were merged, I think an Infobox should be created akin to Template:Infobox college basketball tournament. Mizzou415 ( talk) 06:57, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Created a new navbox for the NCAA tournament at: Template:Infobox NCAA Baseball Tournament. To see it in action, see: 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. Mizzou415 ( talk) 19:40, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
I have created a ranking movements template for college baseball at {{ NCAA Division I baseball ranking movements}}. Please consider using it and adding comments and suggestions to the template talk page. -- ben_b ( talk) 08:25, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Please see Template_talk:Table_cell_templates#Standardize_Won.2FLoss_Colors. -- ben_b ( talk) 19:39, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey all, thought you might be interested in chiming in to this college baseball-related deletion discussion. Cheers, Kithira ( talk) 12:46, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
I've been browsing some of the Division I conference pages lately, and the format of the conference facilities sections is very inconsistent. I thought I'd sound out a couple of ideas on normalizing the sections and hear people's thoughts on them. Feel free to leave your comments within the below subsections or to add new sections or options. Kithira ( talk) 17:43, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
What should the name of each conference page's facilities section be?
Where in the article should the facilities section go?
In the table of the facilities section, in what order should the sports go?
If a conference does not sponsor a sport, should a column for that sport still be included if some of the conference's schools participate in other conferences?
How should single-sport members, in football and otherwise, be included?
I've noticed where some of the national championship season articles are being created now by various editors. You guys might want to look into creating a college baseball version of {{ NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Champion navbox}} for easier accessibility across all of those season articles. It will provide an easier overview of which national champion articles need to be created. Jrcla2 ( talk) 13:15, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Go with the NCAA record book. Jrcla2 ( talk) 14:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
In case this project is interested, there is a deletion discussion here regarding Template:Wolverine–Hoosier Athletic Conference navbox. Jrcla2 ( talk) 19:28, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
News stories ( here, here, here, and here) have been coming out to announce that the WCC will start holding a conference tournament in 2013. From 1999-2009, the conference held a three-game championship series (for details, see a page towards the end of this year's media guide) to determine its automatic bid. For the past three, the regular season champion has received the bid. My question is the following: when we create the page for the tournament, do we include the past championship series results in that article? Precedent suggests that we don't, and that we should treat a conference tournament and championship series as separate entities, even if they have been sponsored by a single conference. Thoughts?
A discussion on the Project College Football talk page has been created to discuss the proper format of the overview maps that are used for the US collegiate athletic conference pages.
If you're interested, please join the discussion here: Athletic conference overview maps and their lack of consistency Mdak06 ( talk) 22:03, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
Just a reminder to be sure to tag any images (photographs, logos, etc.) that are applicable to US college baseball with {{WikiProject Baseball|college=yes}}. Articles and categories are important, but File-Class college baseball articles should be populated as well. Some good ideas include past/present college coaches, stadiums, tournament logos, season logos, and players who are shown wearing their college uniforms (in other words, don't tag an image of Alex Rodriguez wearing his Yankees jersey...at that point, it's clearly a Yankees-task force file).
Right now, as a point of comparison, WP:CBB has 2,021 file-class articles and WP:CFB has 3,283. College baseball only has 337. Jrcla2 ( talk) 13:05, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello all, Blackbox77 and I recently had a discussion regarding how to name venue articles that include initials (such as Georgia Southern's J. I. Clements Stadium and Belmont's E.S. Rose Park), specifically whether or not to include a space between the initials. You can see our thoughts here. As you can see in our discussion, we'd both accept either outcome, but I lean towards including the space per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)#Middle names and abbreviated names, and he leans towards leaving the space out in order to respect the article's sources and to be less visually jarring. I know it's a small matter, but does anyone have a third opinion? Whichever choice we end up going with, I'd like to make J. I. Clements and E.S. Rose the same, for the sake of consistency in such similar cases. Thanks, Kithira ( talk) 04:43, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
What would people's opinion be of the shortened form of Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium? RFK Stadium? R.F.K. Stadium? R. F. K. Stadium? Or is this even related to the original issue? -- Blackbox77 ( talk) 20:05, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
I believe that this category needs to be renamed due to ambiguity, as Category:Troy Trojans players is itself a category for baseball players of the National League's Trojans. However, I am not sure what the naming convention would be to request a move, and thought I should get some input from your subproject. Any guidance would be appreciated - Dewelar ( talk) 18:59, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
A number of projects are ongoing during the offseason. How can you help? Take a look at these new article projects we're working on and adopt one or more.
Season page for each CWS champion. Mizzou415 has put in a significant amount of work. See the navbox below and select a redlink. For a template on how to begin, click a blue link and copy it. Better yet, pick a program below with multiple championships incomplete and knock them all out at once.
An article on each Division I program's home field. The navboxes below have redlinks remaining.
Create a page for each season of conference tournaments. Not all conferences have a navbox for their tournament yet. Feel free to create one if you wish to fill it in. Those with a navbox are linked below with the number of redlinks, those without a navbox link to the tournament page. Looking for years your team won? Check the main page of each tournament for a listing by school. Completed conferences (ACC, Big 12, C-USA, Great West, SEC, SoCon) are not included.
These conferences have coaches' navboxes with redlinks remaining. Please create an article for each current head coach. Feel free to create a coaches' navbox if you wish to fill one in.
Don't see anything that raises your interest? Check out the article requests at Wikipedia:WikiProject College baseball#Requests
Hey all, I'm sorry that I'm way too busy in real life to do anything about this myself, but Fred Stillwell Stadium and Stillwell Baseball Stadium should probably be merged, or one be deleted. Again, sorry that I can't deal with it myself. Kithira ( talk) 22:17, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
There is a discussion occurring at the Manual of Style talk page concerning date formats for sports seasons and year spans here: Sports seasons: 1967–68, not 1967/68. For those of you college sports editors who thought this was a settled issue, you may want to chime in. via Dirtlawyer1 ( talk). Billcasey905 ( talk) 14:09, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
{{ Texas State Bobcats baseball coach navbox}} only has one head coach on it (I created that head coach article). I'm worried that someone might come along and nominate this navbox for deletion since it only contains a single link-able article. If anyone at this WikiProject feels motivated, it'd be much appreciated if maybe two or three more of these head coaches' articles get made. Thanks :) Jrcla2 ( talk) 18:55, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
A series of baseball infoboxes have been TFD'd. Please review and comment here - Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 November 14. Billcasey905 ( talk) 13:35, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Self-nom involving the Cal Poly program page. Kithira ( talk) 03:47, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
From 1947 through 1980, it's pretty straightforward that all of the players listed on those articles were deemed consensus All-Americans. However, it becomes less clear to me from 1982 and later as to whether every single player on these lists are consensus choices.
Thus far, I've created consensus All-American baseball navboxes from 1947 through 1984, but before I go any further I wanted to confirm I'm doing it correctly. Now that a lot more players are being represented on the navboxes, should they even be on there? Looking at 2012 College Baseball All-America Team, for example, I count 32 players. You can't possibly tell me that there are 32 consensus AA players. Which of them belong on the navbox? (that question applies from 1981 through 2012). Jrcla2 ( talk) 18:42, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
I think BillCasey's proposition sounds reasonable to me, but I want to hear others' opinions on it first. If we determine that being selected as an AA to 50% or more of the selectors is considered consensus/unanimous (however we want to phrase it), then that would be fine by me. To address Dirtlawyer's concern of whether that's original research, my answer is no, I don't believe it would be. We would be establishing a new WikiProject College Baseball guideline that can be enacted from here on out, using logical discussion to determine why we choose the consensus/unanimous status the way we do. I personally think having AA navboxes with 32 players on them is absurd and it diminishes the achievement of when, say, Oregon relief pitcher Jimmy Sherfy is considered the same level All-America status as Florida catcher Mike Zunino (Sherfy had one selector choose him whereas Zunino had all four). Jrcla2 ( talk) 20:19, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Hey all, I was planning on doing some work with the NCAA Tournament articles when I came across an issue regarding the three NCAA Tournament infoboxes (that I know of) currently in use: (1) Infobox NCAA Baseball Tournament, (2) Infobox NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament (1999-Present), and (3) Infobox NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament (1954-1975). In my opinion, it's a tad redundant to have both (1) and the combination of (2) and (3) in use (compare the 2012 and 2005 pages, for example), and I propose to create infoboxes after the style of (1) that apply to each era in the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.
Essentially, it seems to me that (1) best provides "summary or overview information about the subject"– the admittedly brief description of an infobox's purpose per MOS:Infoboxes. However, I think that the district/regional/super regional College World Series berths would be important enough to include, as well. Would any of you agree? If so, what do you think the ideal solution would be? (I'm not sure how the coding could work, but would it be possible to customize a field for each CWS berth (i.e.- adjust the infobox between District I/Northeast Regional/Norwich Regional, as needed), in order to avoid making a separate infobox template for each era?) Kithira ( talk) 17:01, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
If anyone is interested, John G. Smith (baseball) is the only remaining red link on {{ Idaho Vandals baseball coach navbox}}. Since that program is defunct, it'd be ensuring that navbox's completion for a long time (I doubt Idaho will pick baseball back up anytime soon). Just a thought. Jrcla2 ( talk) 18:51, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
It'd be tough to find a complete list, I'd imagine. If we're looking for some sort of direct evidence that Idaho did have more than two baseball coaches, the newspaper archives for Eastern Washington/Idaho are phenomenal. On Google News, I found a ton of stuff mentioning Idaho from the Spokane Daily Chronicle, Spokesman-Review, Moscow-Pullman Daily News, and Lewiston Morning Tribune when doing the Gonzaga and Washington State program pages. Kithira ( talk) 20:15, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
I just read an article ( here) that claims Long Beach State's official nickname for their baseball team is 'Dirtbags', even though every other sport at the school goes by '49ers'. Should we CfR all categories and move the coach navbox to reflect this? I'm thinking this is one of those rare instances in naming convention much like Murray State's baseball team specifically goes by 'Thoroughbreds'. Jrcla2 ( talk) 23:28, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Please be aware of this discussion at MOS: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Years; reverts. This discussion grew out of a feature article review for an NBA basketball player Juwan Howard. Before jumping into the discussion, I suggest that you read the relevant MOS section, MOS:YEAR. As I'm sure you can see, this has the potential to significantly change the currently used year span conventions in the college coach, MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL and soccer player infoboxes. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 05:30, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Discussion here, I'd appreciate any thoughts. Kithira ( talk) 15:45, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
Note this discussion: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 April 5#Category:US college sports venues. Billcasey905 ( talk) 00:09, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
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In response to some recent edits to Jack Leggett, I wanted to pose a couple of questions about the yearly record tables that appear in program and coach articles.
(1) Should conference tournaments appear in the postseason column? – My answer is yes, as the column makes no specification of NCAA postseason, and the template page itself says only to "insert the abbreviated name of the postseason tournament followed by the last round the team reached" (by saying "the postseason tournament" rather than "the NCAA tournament," the implication is that conference tournaments are fair game; if this were adopted straight from basketball, my argument wouldn't hold, as the NIT would be a separate tournament but not a conference tournament). Furthermore, I think that qualification for a conference tournament is often a valid measure of a team's season, and always a useful piece of information to include. Yes, some conferences allow all teams in, but this generally isn't so. In any case, I think it's less our job to judge the cases in which making a conference tourney accurately reflects a team's season, and more our job to reflect the measure as it is officially determined by the conferences.
(2) When teams have made the NCAA tournament, should we name the rounds with their city or more general name (for example, "Atlantic Regional"/"Clemson Regional" or "NCAA Regional")? I've leaned towards the former here, but I'd be very willing to switch to the latter. My arguments for are (1) it's better to provide more detail, where possible, and (2) when we name conference tournaments, we say "ACC Tournament," not simply "Conference tournament." As I said, though, I'd be very willing to hear arguments against this (for example, an argument that saying simply "NCAA Regional" is more clear for readers not acquainted with college baseball).
If you think these are minor issues, you're probably right. But I've had differences of opinion with a couple editors on them, and I figured I'd bring them up for discussion rather than just sticking to my practices. I'll be happy to implement whatever decisions we come to. Cheers, Kithira ( talk) 16:40, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
Done, over at Bill Kinneberg. (Thanks for the template help!) I've added it only for the two seasons in which all members made it in, but I could also see an argument for all-but-one years or even 75% or more years for this and other cases. On an unrelated note, if the current changes to naming/footnoting hold up, I'm planning to get them done when I go through and update for 2013 in a couple weeks. (Feel free to do so for any pages at any time beforehand, of course.) Kithira ( talk) 03:35, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
While we're in the midst of conference tournaments, two league's are using brackets for which we do not have templates. The Atlantic 10 is using a 7 team bracket while the Horizon League is using a 5 team format. Anyone who is able and willing to create a template for these brackets would be much appreciated. Billcasey905 ( talk) 10:25, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello, everyone. I've recently started the College softball task force, working to help expand Wikipedia's college softball coverage. I thought I'd post a notice around at some of the other college sports projects to give everyone a heads up. If you have an interest in the sport, please consider visiting the project. Thanks, Ejgreen77 ( talk) 08:04, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
This article has been nominated for deletion. Please help to improve the article so it will not be deleted. Billcasey905 ( talk) 12:43, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
http://memegenerator.co/Good-Guy-Wikipedia-Editor. Jrcla2 ( talk) 04:22, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College Basketball#Should these schools have their naming conventions updated? I've begun a discussion that directly pertains to this WikiProject and you are encouraged to weigh in. Thanks. Jrcla2 ( talk) 13:57, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Article names for UT Martin Skyhawks programs are almost universally titled "UT Martin," but the categories are all titled Category:Tennessee–Martin Skyhawks. It seems to me we should settle on one or the other, but wanted to solicit input on which way to go before the mass renaming or cfr. Basketball uses Tennessee–Martin exclusively, baseball links use UT Martin exclusively, and football seems to mostly use UT Martin, with Tennessee–Martin used for season pages from 2010 and 2011. So, three responses seem possible - leave it alone, change all to UT Martin, or change all to Tennessee–Martin. Thoughts? Billcasey905 ( talk) 13:28, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
The notability of Christopher Duffy (baseball) is being discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher Duffy (baseball). Mizzou415 ( talk) 23:39, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
There is an open move discussion that the members of this project may be interested in, please see: Talk:Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball#Requested_move_2. Thanks, Ejgreen77 ( talk) 23:25, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
There is an open move discussion that the members of this project may be interested in, please see: Talk:Tennessee–Martin Skyhawks men's basketball#Requested_move. Thanks, Ejgreen77 ( talk) 18:34, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Hey all, hope the offseason hasn't hit you too hard yet. I've uncovered some sources that I think shed more light on the NCAA's reorganization from University/College Divisions to Divisions I/II/III in the 1970s.
Previously, I had taken [this August 1973 source] describing that changes as an indication that the Div I/II/III structure took effect for the spring of 1974 ( UC Irvine Anteaters baseball is one example of my using this in an article). However, this article, from June 1975, still refers to the year-end baseball polls as University Division and College Division; this'd indicate that the change didn't take effect until 1976, at the earliest. When I combine this 1975 source with this source (the DIII tourney record book saying that the event started it 1976), I'm now thinking the University/College Division structure ran through the end of the 1975 season.
Let me know if you guys think this sounds right, if you've got other sources, or if you've seen things on other college sports wikiprojects that could help us out. Kithira ( talk) 00:19, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Please join the discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navigation template for college basketball teams. Discussions on these templates will likely impact any future college baseball navigation templates. CrazyPaco ( talk) 09:24, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
The College Football and College Basketball projects have adopted a standardized team navbox format (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football/Archive 11#Team_navboxes). This project has utilized precedents from the other projects for many things, specifically coach, venue, and tournament navboxes, and this would seem to be a natural progression. I've converted Template:USC Trojans baseball navbox and Template:Texas Longhorns baseball navbox to the format so that we can discuss if this project should make this our standardized team navbox format as well. Please take a look at them and compare to the format used in most current college baseball team navboxes, such as Template:LSU Tigers baseball navbox and Template:UCLA Bruins baseball navbox, or see Category:American college baseball team navigational boxes. Should we convert to the format used in the College Football and Basketball projects, or maintain our own format strictly for college baseball? Billcasey905 ( talk) 21:09, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
has been nominated for deletion. Come on over and participate in the discussion. ...William 15:49, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
See Talk:UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen#Requested move II. An editor has requested that "UMass" be changed to "Massachusetts." Jrcla2 ( talk) 14:15, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
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Template:College Home Run Derby champions was just created. Personally I don't think this should exist. It doesn't have a primary article, so there is no overall explanation of the honor; it's only used on 1 article so there isn't navigation among anything; it's vague (college home run derby...one college? multiple colleges? Division I? NAIA?); and it's not an "award" like it's listed in 'Category:American college baseball award navigational boxes'. I feel like this should be TfD'd. Jrcla2 ( talk) 13:51, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
I'm just curious how Collegiate Baseball became the default poll used in conference standings templates. I'm unaware of any major media outlets that use this poll. I would think that the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' poll might carry a bit more weight. D1Baseball.com uses the NCBWA writers poll on their website, which is the closet thing the sport has to an AP poll, as both are composed by members of the media. Collegiate Baseball and Baseball America don't have as many people participating in their polls, which I would think tends to devalue their rankings somewhat. Anyone have thoughts on this? GarnetAndBlack ( talk) 06:32, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Can someone create 2014 College Baseball All-America Team? The first set of voting came out today (by Collegiate Baseball – here is the list.) Jrcla2 ( talk) 15:47, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
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I created as an essay on notability as a subpage to this project so we can hopefully come to some sort of consensus as a project. Head on over to the talk page for a discussion on the areas of notability in question. Mizzou415 ( talk) 06:30, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi all. I just created {{ Rider Broncs baseball coach navbox}} so that Clair Bee had this navbox, but he's the only blue link coach at the moment. Two really good (notable) coaches that might be nice to hit are Sonny Pittaro (33 years as HC) or Barry Davis (baseball), who is the current coach plus is found on {{ Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference baseball coach navbox}}. Jrcla2 ( talk) 20:09, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Started up a discussion about what to do with the pages currently named "Big East Conference..." if anyone's interested in adding their thoughts. Kithira ( talk) 21:05, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
A question I wanted to pose, unrelated to the Big East/American discussion currently going on. When it comes to conference award pages (i.e.- Coach, Player, Pitcher, Rookie of the Year), would it be best to condense all of a conference's awards into one page? I'm thinking of something like Southeastern Conference football individual awards, but with much more information than just name and team. One page with major subsections that look like the current single-award pages, minus the infoboxes.
A few benefits that I think could come out of this: (1) It's easier for the reader to access information. Rather than have to track down links and navigate between pages, all the information about a conference's awards are in one spot. The condensed article is longer, certainly, but with a good lead/table of contents, this shouldn't be an issue. (2) It's much less likely to run into a notability battle. For a minor conference PoY page with a lot of redlinks, it'd be much easier to question notability than with a page that combines a conference's awards. (3) It allows us to consolidate the information and offer more to the reader: notes about a team sweeping one year's awards, winning X out of Y in one decades; a table of teams ranked by the total number of major awards they've won; etc.
I'm not saying this'd all happen tomorrow, or even soon, since there's a lot of work to be done on these pages, but I wanted to see what everyone's thoughts were before I do more work on them. For a mega-conference like the SEC, we could think about keeping individual award pages separate, but I thought this might be a good standard procedure for most conferences. Kithira ( talk) 17:38, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
According to {{ St. Bonaventure Bonnies baseball coach navbox}}, Hughie Jennings coached from 1895 through 1899.
But, according to {{ Georgia Bulldogs baseball coach navbox}}, he coached 1896 through 1899.
There is no way he could have coached in upstate New York and in Georgia at the same time. One of these two navboxes is wrong. Jrcla2 ( talk) 15:14, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2010 Old Dominion Monarchs baseball team. Thanks, Ejgreen77 ( talk) 22:47, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
A discussion I've restarted at the main athletic program page, if anyone's interested. Kithira ( talk) 22:08, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
I have had Harry Lancaster on my to do list for what feels like years. He was an assistant basketball coach for Adolph Rupp at Kentucky for a long time and I'd like to add him to the various national championship templates he would appear on. He was also UK's head baseball coach for 15 years and served as the school's AD so he is a redlink on both of those templates too. Realistically, I don't see getting to his article any time soon, but I wondered if anyone here might have some energy around writing an article that would help multiple college sports projects? Thanks for your consideration. Rikster2 ( talk) 15:51, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Wondering everyone's thoughts on adding two more Top 25 rankings to 2015 NCAA Division I baseball rankings and Template:NCAA Division I baseball ranking movements – Perfect Game USA and D1Baseball (which is in the process of a significant makeover). Perfect Game USA has been a pretty big name in the amateur baseball ranks for a while now, better known for their showcases for high school players but they do a very good job of college baseball coverage and have a new staff with a lot of guys this year. They lost their lead writer, Kendall Rogers, one of the most respected college baseball writers in the business, to D1Baseball.com this fall, and they also added Baseball America's lead man in Aaron Fitt. As two of the best, if not the two best, college baseball writers, it is safe to assume their Top 25 and college baseball content will be good. D1Baseball as I'm sure most of you know is right now a schedules and scores site, but with the two new guys in the fold they are planning a relaunch. Do you guys think six rankings is too much? Is the loading times too much? Are these not notable enough? Mpejkrm ( talk) 16:58, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
I just started a discussion at Talk:TCU Horned Frogs and Lady Frogs#Name change in order? to determine if the TCU women's programs – specifically basketball – still go by the "Lady Frogs" name or if they have transitioned to "Horned Frogs." Not a baseball discussion per se, but these articles are intimately tied with all existing college sports projects. Please chime in. Thanks! Rikster2 ( talk) 13:59, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
WP:College baseball editors may be interested in the discussion taking place here: WT:CFB#Widespread changes to college sports program articles. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 03:35, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
WP:College baseball members, please review these discussion threads: [2] and [3]. The changes proposed would affect the way we currently format all single-season NFL articles, and ultimately single-season articles for NBA and other major sports teams, too. Your feedback on the relevant talk pages is invited. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 15:43, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Hey all,
Wizardman decided to delete a few program page redirects (such as Cincinnati Bearcats baseball, Memphis Tigers baseball, Rutgers Scarlet Knights baseball), reasoning that having a redirect rather than a program page is deceiving. While I understand the argument, I have to disagree, as I believe redlinks on season pages, coach and program templates, and lists tend to look worse than a redirect. What are everyone's thoughts? Mpejkrm ( talk) 12:11, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
How is it possible to get colors from Module:College color/data onto Template:Infobox MLB player? For example, Nathan Kirby's infobox should have Virginia colors. Joeykai ( talk) 16:48, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
Persondata has been deprecated and the template and input data are subject to removal from all bio articles in the near future. For those editors who entered accurate data into the persondata templates of notable baseball players and other bio subjects, you are advised to manually transfer that data to Wikidata before the impending mass deletion occurs. Here are two examples of Wikidata for notable notable baseball players: Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. If you have any more questions about the persondata removal, Wikidata, etc., please ping me. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 13:08, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
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I think this needs to be very carefully examined. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 01:18, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
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Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#**Coach navbox tenure years being changed**, which directly affects this WikiProject. Thanks! Jrcla2 ( talk) 14:20, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Former Miami (FL) coach Whitey Campbell died this week ( see ref). I just wanted to make the project aware in case anyone is interested in creating an article for him as he is one of only 2 red links on Template:Miami Hurricanes baseball coach navbox. Rikster2 ( talk) 00:12, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tyler Adkison is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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I could use some help fleshing out season records and any applicable baseball playing/coaching info for newly created Ken Sidwell. Thanks! Jrcla2 ( talk) 15:34, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim Case (baseball). Thanks, Ejgreen77 ( talk) 10:58, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
I have proposed some changes to Template:Infobox college coach, specifically removing external links. Please see the discussion here. Thanks, Jweiss11 ( talk) 14:58, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
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Please comment here in regards to navboxes in coaches articles. I pinged a few, but I'm sure I forgot many of you! Corkythe hornetfan 19:11, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
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The Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball#Rivalries and Ole Miss Rebels baseball#Mayor's Trophy and Governor's Cup sections both contain duplicate information about the same subject. Instead of the two separate sections, there should be a separate article ( Mississippi State–Ole Miss baseball rivalry) that covers the topic of the two trophy games and the rivalry itself. RebelBulldog ( talk) 01:05, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
Based on what User:BU Rob13 has already done for WikiProject College football and WikiProject College Basketball, would there be any objections to attempting a similar tagging project for this project? Category:College baseball players in the United States, Category:College baseball coaches in the United States, Category:College baseball seasons in the United States and their associated subcategories would be the target categories. Ejgreen77 ( talk) 03:30, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
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Everyone in this WikiProject needs to go to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Djln categories' creation and his use of HotCat immediately. User:djln is ruining the college basketball WikiProject and I have no doubt WP:CollegeBaseball is on his radar. Jrcla2 ( talk) 15:52, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
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Does anyone object to me changing the |stateabb =
and |state =
parameters by completely removing them to simplify it and replace it with |location =
to match the
Template:Infobox NCAA football school and a couple of others... If nobody objects to this with in a couple of days of this post, I will update the template and manually update the articles. Corkythe
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Just a heads-up that they changed their mascot from the Crusaders to the River Hawks in 2016. All of the baseball articles/categories have the old name. Link. Rikster2 ( talk) 12:14, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
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Well, it's been pretty quiet around here. But I don't want this project to die so I want to post here and just let everyone know that I'm still here. I understand that there's not much college baseball activity right now because the season is over. It's an afterthought right now, especially with football season just around the corner. My personal editing habits tend to revolve around the different sporting seasons. From August through January, I concentrate on college football. From February to April, I mostly edit college basketball articles. And from April until June I do college baseball. So hopefully we can get this thing rolling again once the 2008 college baseball season is closer. We did a lot of excellent work, getting much needed templates created, documenting conference and NCAA tourneys, etc. We will just build on it all. Keep up the good work, but if college football hogs most of your attention, well, I understand. Seancp 15:33, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Vandy started fall practice today. I'm pumped. In other news, it's very strange seeing David Price on campus taking classes, when I know that he won't be playing for us in the spring. Hopefully in the next couple months we'll see some activity on here again. Oughgh 05:28, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Vandy just released their 2008 schedule today. It looks like a doozy. Check it out at Template:2008 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball game log. Oughgh 18:15, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Hope everyone enjoys opening night! I look forward to revving this project up again! Who else is out there reading this? Seancp ( talk) 02:29, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I think it would be beneficial to come to a consensus on which poll we feel is the best representation of the college baseball rankings and use that to rank our opponents. For example, the Clemson Tigers men's basketball page uses the ESPN rankings to show opponents rank at the time the game is played. I see how some of you have created a "rankings movement" section to your team pages. I like that idea and intend to use it on my Clemson page. But what about ranking opponents? I think it would help give readers a sense of strength of schedule, and how good opponents are. Thoughts? -- Jober14 ( talk) 16:31, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
So last season we left off feverishly creating and updating historic tournament pages.
Will we just spend this season updating and following our favorite teams? I think this could open up an opportunity to standardize team pages and schedule tables etc. I've been working on the Clemson page and playing around with the tables and settings to get it looking good. I spent the winter creating and updating the Clemson Basketball page and have used some lessons learned from that to make the baseball page look more efficient. I think what would help right off the bat is if we made a standardized schedule/results table that is as easy to input results and data into as the basketball ones are.
Thoughts? -- Jober14 ( talk) 18:25, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there a coaching record template for college baseball coaches? If there isn't one, perhaps we can use the College basketball one? BlueAg09 ( Talk) 20:43, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
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I noticed a user made this infobox template for college softball teams when they updated the LSU Tigers softball article and I figured we could use a standard template like this for baseball teams, so I adapted it for our use. Here's the link: Template:Infobox College Baseball Team. See it in action: LSU Tigers baseball. Seancp ( talk) 14:04, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
There is a major revert war going on at the Rosenblatt Stadium page. The "Save Rosenblatt" crew reverts any changes that edit or remove their statements to make the article NPOV (in addition to fixing other grammatical errors and plain bad writing).
Was hoping we could get some sort of official intervention in there. I don't deny the new stadium issue deserves mention in the article, but that group is using Wikipedia as their soapbox. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.58.233.6 ( talk) 17:41, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
I am working on getting the Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball article completed, but I think it would be nice if we agreed on a standard format to use for all team articles, so that they would all be uniform. Does anyone have suggestions? Jhn31 ( talk) 19:47, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
I personally think the LSU article is nice. I guess I am biased since I did some of the work for it. It goes over a lot of the history and how the team got to the present. it isn't finished though, but all the sections I would add are there.
I think that with year-by-year results these articles get rather lengthy and would like to see that table be collapsible and by default collapsed.
I also included Team Records and individual records if a team or former player holds an NCAA records. I think these are important.
For Awards, I limited it to All-America Awards (Any publication), Golden Spikes, POY, and CWS All-Tourney Team. I think those are the highest profile awards. If it's a high profile award then it should be mentioned, but Player of the Week and All Conference teams would just be too long. I hate notable player lists because they just get out of hand and end up list tons of players that might not have accomplished anything.
It appears that a lot of other articles have adopted this basic format as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sgautr6 ( talk • contribs) 19:17, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
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Why is it so dead in here lately? It seemed like this project was going to take off this season but not even the usual suspects have been editing. What's going on? Jober14 ( talk) 19:47, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
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Is it really necessary for the second half of the article to be encased in a table?-- Music+mas ( talk) 17:07, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Cal State Fullerton is one of the top college baseball programs in the country. Their appearances in the College World Series are in the double digits. However, there is no Cal State Fullerton baseball page on Wikipedia. This program certainly deserves a page on Wikipedia. Is there anyone willing to help create a page entitled Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball (this link is simply a redirect to the Athletics section on the main University Wikipedia page) ? I've never created a new page from scratch before, so in the help I can get would be much appreciated. Music+mas ( talk) 22:56, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
I just created a page that is supposed to list all of the current NCAA Division I baseball coaches by conference. I was wondering if some of you on this project could help me out creating this page. Music+mas ( talk) 17:40, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Please see discussion here Corpx ( talk) 07:33, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
A few discussion points on assessment. I'm proposing a few benchmarks for assessment topics falling under our project and would love to hear what you think.
I propose rating each power conference (different from the traditional BCS conferences of football/basketball) team page as a "high" importance article. These articles include team pages for squads from the ACC, Big 12, Big West, C-USA, Pac-10, and SEC. These teams form the core of the college baseball landscape.
I also propose rating each high-major, mid-major, and low-major conference team pages as "mid" importance. These would include all team pages from conferences not included in the "Big 6." While these teams are not as essential, college baseball programs are still essential to the material covered in this project.
Exceptions could be made for non-power conference schools who have achieved particular notoriety. For example, programs which have reached a CWS in the past 10 years could be rated as "high." Another idea is a cutoff date for a CWS appearance earning a program "High" importance, possibly 1999 when the tournament field expanded to 64 teams. This would prevent teams such as Holy Cross, which won a National Title in 1952 but is of little notoriety today, from being given undue attention.
Example- Under these guidelines, "North Carolina Tarheels baseball" would be ranked "High" because of their power conference status. "Louisville Cardinals baseball" would be ranked "High" despite their high-major status thanks to their 2007 CWS appearance, which falls in the past 10 years. "Gonzaga Bulldogs baseball" would be rated "Mid" thanks to its status as a high-major D1 team.
I fully understand that college baseball team articles are limited at best and that assessment guidelines may not seem important right now. However, I think an assessment guideline for team articles would be helpful as more are created in the future.
I propose rating power conference team venues as "Mid" and non-power conference venues as "Low." In this case, I do not think exceptions should be made for the accomplishments of a program, as this does not apply as accurately to the team's venue.
Example- Under these guidelines, "Doug Kingsmore Stadium" would be rated "Mid" thanks to its being home to a power-conference team, the Clemson Tigers. "Jim Patterson Stadium," home of the Louisville Cardinals, would be rated low. Despite the team's recent success, the venue is still a non-power conference park.
I know the scope of college baseball venues is relatively limited, but, again, I think guidelines would be helpful for future expansion.
I propose rating the articles of top collegiate summer leagues as "High" importance. For me, this is a group of five- the Cape Cod League, Northwoods League, Coastal Plain League, New England Collegiate Baseball League, and Alaska League, in that order. These five leagues are home to premier players from power and high-major conferences every year and, therefore, merit this rating. I propose rating mid-level leagues (West Coast, New York, Cal Ripken, Texas Collegiate, etc.) as "Mid" and low-level leagues containing mostly JuCo players (Triple Crown, Rockingham County, etc.) as "Low."
As far as teams are concerned, I propose rating teams of the "Big 5" leagues as "Mid" and all other teams as "Low."
With ballparks, I would rate all as "Low" with the possible exception of the Cape and Northwoods venues. These leagues are considerably above the rest in terms of talent and fan support and their venues may merit this rating.
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Just noticed the inactive template. I know I still do a lot of work with the College Baseball project, but I didn't want to presume to speak for all members of the project by removing the template. I'll leave a message here for a few days, and if nobody responds here, I'll start PMing some of the more active people on the participants list. Let's keep WikiProject College Baseball alive! Kithira ( talk) 12:46, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
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Is anyone watching this good with templates? I'm thinking we could really use one similar to Template:cbb link and template:cfb link. Any volunteers or suggestions on who might be willing to take this on? Billcasey905 ( talk) 02:39, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Warner Royals baseball is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Warner Royals baseball until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.
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I would like active contributors here to weigh in at Talk:SIUE Cougars regarding the school nickname. I had moved "SIUE Cougars" over to "SIU Edwardsville Cougars" today because that's how all of our college sports WikiProjects have been referring to them (and the school itself had been using that naming convention). Another editor reverted my move and said to discuss the change over at its talk page. Upon further research, it does appear that "SIUE Cougars" is now how the school brands itself / they have shied away from the old standard of spelling out Edwardsville. My question, then, boils down to this: Should we argue to keep SIU Edwardsville because it is less ambiguous, or do we cede to the school's efforts in its abbreviated form? I'm on the fence about it. If we do think SIUE Cougars is correct (at this point), then all of the athletic categories will need to be renamed. Jrcla2 ( talk) 04:54, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
I was looking at Template:NCAA Division I baseball conference tournament navbox and realized there is no entry for the Ivy League. The Ivy holds a championship series between its two division winners to determine the auto-bid to the NCAA Tournament, but this is not strictly speaking a tournament. I wanted to get editor's opinions, should this be included as a tournament or as a conference that does not sponsor a tournament? Also, I'm planning on tackling each existing conference tournament to fill in the red links on that navbox. I'd welcome any assistance. Billcasey905 ( talk) 18:14, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello all – free HighBeam 1-year accounts are being given out at Wikipedia:HighBeam/Applications. This might come in useful for this WikiProject's devoted editors. Jrcla2 ( talk) 20:05, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Now that there is a page for each and every year of the Division I Tournament, should the College World Series pages be merged into those? College basketball doesn't have a separate page for each Final Four so I'm having trouble seeing why each CWS should. If they were merged, I think an Infobox should be created akin to Template:Infobox college basketball tournament. Mizzou415 ( talk) 06:57, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Created a new navbox for the NCAA tournament at: Template:Infobox NCAA Baseball Tournament. To see it in action, see: 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. Mizzou415 ( talk) 19:40, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
I have created a ranking movements template for college baseball at {{ NCAA Division I baseball ranking movements}}. Please consider using it and adding comments and suggestions to the template talk page. -- ben_b ( talk) 08:25, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Please see Template_talk:Table_cell_templates#Standardize_Won.2FLoss_Colors. -- ben_b ( talk) 19:39, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey all, thought you might be interested in chiming in to this college baseball-related deletion discussion. Cheers, Kithira ( talk) 12:46, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
I've been browsing some of the Division I conference pages lately, and the format of the conference facilities sections is very inconsistent. I thought I'd sound out a couple of ideas on normalizing the sections and hear people's thoughts on them. Feel free to leave your comments within the below subsections or to add new sections or options. Kithira ( talk) 17:43, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
What should the name of each conference page's facilities section be?
Where in the article should the facilities section go?
In the table of the facilities section, in what order should the sports go?
If a conference does not sponsor a sport, should a column for that sport still be included if some of the conference's schools participate in other conferences?
How should single-sport members, in football and otherwise, be included?
I've noticed where some of the national championship season articles are being created now by various editors. You guys might want to look into creating a college baseball version of {{ NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Champion navbox}} for easier accessibility across all of those season articles. It will provide an easier overview of which national champion articles need to be created. Jrcla2 ( talk) 13:15, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Go with the NCAA record book. Jrcla2 ( talk) 14:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
In case this project is interested, there is a deletion discussion here regarding Template:Wolverine–Hoosier Athletic Conference navbox. Jrcla2 ( talk) 19:28, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
News stories ( here, here, here, and here) have been coming out to announce that the WCC will start holding a conference tournament in 2013. From 1999-2009, the conference held a three-game championship series (for details, see a page towards the end of this year's media guide) to determine its automatic bid. For the past three, the regular season champion has received the bid. My question is the following: when we create the page for the tournament, do we include the past championship series results in that article? Precedent suggests that we don't, and that we should treat a conference tournament and championship series as separate entities, even if they have been sponsored by a single conference. Thoughts?
A discussion on the Project College Football talk page has been created to discuss the proper format of the overview maps that are used for the US collegiate athletic conference pages.
If you're interested, please join the discussion here: Athletic conference overview maps and their lack of consistency Mdak06 ( talk) 22:03, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
Just a reminder to be sure to tag any images (photographs, logos, etc.) that are applicable to US college baseball with {{WikiProject Baseball|college=yes}}. Articles and categories are important, but File-Class college baseball articles should be populated as well. Some good ideas include past/present college coaches, stadiums, tournament logos, season logos, and players who are shown wearing their college uniforms (in other words, don't tag an image of Alex Rodriguez wearing his Yankees jersey...at that point, it's clearly a Yankees-task force file).
Right now, as a point of comparison, WP:CBB has 2,021 file-class articles and WP:CFB has 3,283. College baseball only has 337. Jrcla2 ( talk) 13:05, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello all, Blackbox77 and I recently had a discussion regarding how to name venue articles that include initials (such as Georgia Southern's J. I. Clements Stadium and Belmont's E.S. Rose Park), specifically whether or not to include a space between the initials. You can see our thoughts here. As you can see in our discussion, we'd both accept either outcome, but I lean towards including the space per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)#Middle names and abbreviated names, and he leans towards leaving the space out in order to respect the article's sources and to be less visually jarring. I know it's a small matter, but does anyone have a third opinion? Whichever choice we end up going with, I'd like to make J. I. Clements and E.S. Rose the same, for the sake of consistency in such similar cases. Thanks, Kithira ( talk) 04:43, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
What would people's opinion be of the shortened form of Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium? RFK Stadium? R.F.K. Stadium? R. F. K. Stadium? Or is this even related to the original issue? -- Blackbox77 ( talk) 20:05, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
I believe that this category needs to be renamed due to ambiguity, as Category:Troy Trojans players is itself a category for baseball players of the National League's Trojans. However, I am not sure what the naming convention would be to request a move, and thought I should get some input from your subproject. Any guidance would be appreciated - Dewelar ( talk) 18:59, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
A number of projects are ongoing during the offseason. How can you help? Take a look at these new article projects we're working on and adopt one or more.
Season page for each CWS champion. Mizzou415 has put in a significant amount of work. See the navbox below and select a redlink. For a template on how to begin, click a blue link and copy it. Better yet, pick a program below with multiple championships incomplete and knock them all out at once.
An article on each Division I program's home field. The navboxes below have redlinks remaining.
Create a page for each season of conference tournaments. Not all conferences have a navbox for their tournament yet. Feel free to create one if you wish to fill it in. Those with a navbox are linked below with the number of redlinks, those without a navbox link to the tournament page. Looking for years your team won? Check the main page of each tournament for a listing by school. Completed conferences (ACC, Big 12, C-USA, Great West, SEC, SoCon) are not included.
These conferences have coaches' navboxes with redlinks remaining. Please create an article for each current head coach. Feel free to create a coaches' navbox if you wish to fill one in.
Don't see anything that raises your interest? Check out the article requests at Wikipedia:WikiProject College baseball#Requests
Hey all, I'm sorry that I'm way too busy in real life to do anything about this myself, but Fred Stillwell Stadium and Stillwell Baseball Stadium should probably be merged, or one be deleted. Again, sorry that I can't deal with it myself. Kithira ( talk) 22:17, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
There is a discussion occurring at the Manual of Style talk page concerning date formats for sports seasons and year spans here: Sports seasons: 1967–68, not 1967/68. For those of you college sports editors who thought this was a settled issue, you may want to chime in. via Dirtlawyer1 ( talk). Billcasey905 ( talk) 14:09, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
{{ Texas State Bobcats baseball coach navbox}} only has one head coach on it (I created that head coach article). I'm worried that someone might come along and nominate this navbox for deletion since it only contains a single link-able article. If anyone at this WikiProject feels motivated, it'd be much appreciated if maybe two or three more of these head coaches' articles get made. Thanks :) Jrcla2 ( talk) 18:55, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
A series of baseball infoboxes have been TFD'd. Please review and comment here - Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 November 14. Billcasey905 ( talk) 13:35, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Self-nom involving the Cal Poly program page. Kithira ( talk) 03:47, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
From 1947 through 1980, it's pretty straightforward that all of the players listed on those articles were deemed consensus All-Americans. However, it becomes less clear to me from 1982 and later as to whether every single player on these lists are consensus choices.
Thus far, I've created consensus All-American baseball navboxes from 1947 through 1984, but before I go any further I wanted to confirm I'm doing it correctly. Now that a lot more players are being represented on the navboxes, should they even be on there? Looking at 2012 College Baseball All-America Team, for example, I count 32 players. You can't possibly tell me that there are 32 consensus AA players. Which of them belong on the navbox? (that question applies from 1981 through 2012). Jrcla2 ( talk) 18:42, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
I think BillCasey's proposition sounds reasonable to me, but I want to hear others' opinions on it first. If we determine that being selected as an AA to 50% or more of the selectors is considered consensus/unanimous (however we want to phrase it), then that would be fine by me. To address Dirtlawyer's concern of whether that's original research, my answer is no, I don't believe it would be. We would be establishing a new WikiProject College Baseball guideline that can be enacted from here on out, using logical discussion to determine why we choose the consensus/unanimous status the way we do. I personally think having AA navboxes with 32 players on them is absurd and it diminishes the achievement of when, say, Oregon relief pitcher Jimmy Sherfy is considered the same level All-America status as Florida catcher Mike Zunino (Sherfy had one selector choose him whereas Zunino had all four). Jrcla2 ( talk) 20:19, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Hey all, I was planning on doing some work with the NCAA Tournament articles when I came across an issue regarding the three NCAA Tournament infoboxes (that I know of) currently in use: (1) Infobox NCAA Baseball Tournament, (2) Infobox NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament (1999-Present), and (3) Infobox NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament (1954-1975). In my opinion, it's a tad redundant to have both (1) and the combination of (2) and (3) in use (compare the 2012 and 2005 pages, for example), and I propose to create infoboxes after the style of (1) that apply to each era in the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.
Essentially, it seems to me that (1) best provides "summary or overview information about the subject"– the admittedly brief description of an infobox's purpose per MOS:Infoboxes. However, I think that the district/regional/super regional College World Series berths would be important enough to include, as well. Would any of you agree? If so, what do you think the ideal solution would be? (I'm not sure how the coding could work, but would it be possible to customize a field for each CWS berth (i.e.- adjust the infobox between District I/Northeast Regional/Norwich Regional, as needed), in order to avoid making a separate infobox template for each era?) Kithira ( talk) 17:01, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
If anyone is interested, John G. Smith (baseball) is the only remaining red link on {{ Idaho Vandals baseball coach navbox}}. Since that program is defunct, it'd be ensuring that navbox's completion for a long time (I doubt Idaho will pick baseball back up anytime soon). Just a thought. Jrcla2 ( talk) 18:51, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
It'd be tough to find a complete list, I'd imagine. If we're looking for some sort of direct evidence that Idaho did have more than two baseball coaches, the newspaper archives for Eastern Washington/Idaho are phenomenal. On Google News, I found a ton of stuff mentioning Idaho from the Spokane Daily Chronicle, Spokesman-Review, Moscow-Pullman Daily News, and Lewiston Morning Tribune when doing the Gonzaga and Washington State program pages. Kithira ( talk) 20:15, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
I just read an article ( here) that claims Long Beach State's official nickname for their baseball team is 'Dirtbags', even though every other sport at the school goes by '49ers'. Should we CfR all categories and move the coach navbox to reflect this? I'm thinking this is one of those rare instances in naming convention much like Murray State's baseball team specifically goes by 'Thoroughbreds'. Jrcla2 ( talk) 23:28, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
Please be aware of this discussion at MOS: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Years; reverts. This discussion grew out of a feature article review for an NBA basketball player Juwan Howard. Before jumping into the discussion, I suggest that you read the relevant MOS section, MOS:YEAR. As I'm sure you can see, this has the potential to significantly change the currently used year span conventions in the college coach, MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL and soccer player infoboxes. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 05:30, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Discussion here, I'd appreciate any thoughts. Kithira ( talk) 15:45, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
Note this discussion: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 April 5#Category:US college sports venues. Billcasey905 ( talk) 00:09, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
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In response to some recent edits to Jack Leggett, I wanted to pose a couple of questions about the yearly record tables that appear in program and coach articles.
(1) Should conference tournaments appear in the postseason column? – My answer is yes, as the column makes no specification of NCAA postseason, and the template page itself says only to "insert the abbreviated name of the postseason tournament followed by the last round the team reached" (by saying "the postseason tournament" rather than "the NCAA tournament," the implication is that conference tournaments are fair game; if this were adopted straight from basketball, my argument wouldn't hold, as the NIT would be a separate tournament but not a conference tournament). Furthermore, I think that qualification for a conference tournament is often a valid measure of a team's season, and always a useful piece of information to include. Yes, some conferences allow all teams in, but this generally isn't so. In any case, I think it's less our job to judge the cases in which making a conference tourney accurately reflects a team's season, and more our job to reflect the measure as it is officially determined by the conferences.
(2) When teams have made the NCAA tournament, should we name the rounds with their city or more general name (for example, "Atlantic Regional"/"Clemson Regional" or "NCAA Regional")? I've leaned towards the former here, but I'd be very willing to switch to the latter. My arguments for are (1) it's better to provide more detail, where possible, and (2) when we name conference tournaments, we say "ACC Tournament," not simply "Conference tournament." As I said, though, I'd be very willing to hear arguments against this (for example, an argument that saying simply "NCAA Regional" is more clear for readers not acquainted with college baseball).
If you think these are minor issues, you're probably right. But I've had differences of opinion with a couple editors on them, and I figured I'd bring them up for discussion rather than just sticking to my practices. I'll be happy to implement whatever decisions we come to. Cheers, Kithira ( talk) 16:40, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
Done, over at Bill Kinneberg. (Thanks for the template help!) I've added it only for the two seasons in which all members made it in, but I could also see an argument for all-but-one years or even 75% or more years for this and other cases. On an unrelated note, if the current changes to naming/footnoting hold up, I'm planning to get them done when I go through and update for 2013 in a couple weeks. (Feel free to do so for any pages at any time beforehand, of course.) Kithira ( talk) 03:35, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
While we're in the midst of conference tournaments, two league's are using brackets for which we do not have templates. The Atlantic 10 is using a 7 team bracket while the Horizon League is using a 5 team format. Anyone who is able and willing to create a template for these brackets would be much appreciated. Billcasey905 ( talk) 10:25, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello, everyone. I've recently started the College softball task force, working to help expand Wikipedia's college softball coverage. I thought I'd post a notice around at some of the other college sports projects to give everyone a heads up. If you have an interest in the sport, please consider visiting the project. Thanks, Ejgreen77 ( talk) 08:04, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
This article has been nominated for deletion. Please help to improve the article so it will not be deleted. Billcasey905 ( talk) 12:43, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
http://memegenerator.co/Good-Guy-Wikipedia-Editor. Jrcla2 ( talk) 04:22, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College Basketball#Should these schools have their naming conventions updated? I've begun a discussion that directly pertains to this WikiProject and you are encouraged to weigh in. Thanks. Jrcla2 ( talk) 13:57, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Article names for UT Martin Skyhawks programs are almost universally titled "UT Martin," but the categories are all titled Category:Tennessee–Martin Skyhawks. It seems to me we should settle on one or the other, but wanted to solicit input on which way to go before the mass renaming or cfr. Basketball uses Tennessee–Martin exclusively, baseball links use UT Martin exclusively, and football seems to mostly use UT Martin, with Tennessee–Martin used for season pages from 2010 and 2011. So, three responses seem possible - leave it alone, change all to UT Martin, or change all to Tennessee–Martin. Thoughts? Billcasey905 ( talk) 13:28, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
The notability of Christopher Duffy (baseball) is being discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher Duffy (baseball). Mizzou415 ( talk) 23:39, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
There is an open move discussion that the members of this project may be interested in, please see: Talk:Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns baseball#Requested_move_2. Thanks, Ejgreen77 ( talk) 23:25, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
There is an open move discussion that the members of this project may be interested in, please see: Talk:Tennessee–Martin Skyhawks men's basketball#Requested_move. Thanks, Ejgreen77 ( talk) 18:34, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Hey all, hope the offseason hasn't hit you too hard yet. I've uncovered some sources that I think shed more light on the NCAA's reorganization from University/College Divisions to Divisions I/II/III in the 1970s.
Previously, I had taken [this August 1973 source] describing that changes as an indication that the Div I/II/III structure took effect for the spring of 1974 ( UC Irvine Anteaters baseball is one example of my using this in an article). However, this article, from June 1975, still refers to the year-end baseball polls as University Division and College Division; this'd indicate that the change didn't take effect until 1976, at the earliest. When I combine this 1975 source with this source (the DIII tourney record book saying that the event started it 1976), I'm now thinking the University/College Division structure ran through the end of the 1975 season.
Let me know if you guys think this sounds right, if you've got other sources, or if you've seen things on other college sports wikiprojects that could help us out. Kithira ( talk) 00:19, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Please join the discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navigation template for college basketball teams. Discussions on these templates will likely impact any future college baseball navigation templates. CrazyPaco ( talk) 09:24, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
The College Football and College Basketball projects have adopted a standardized team navbox format (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football/Archive 11#Team_navboxes). This project has utilized precedents from the other projects for many things, specifically coach, venue, and tournament navboxes, and this would seem to be a natural progression. I've converted Template:USC Trojans baseball navbox and Template:Texas Longhorns baseball navbox to the format so that we can discuss if this project should make this our standardized team navbox format as well. Please take a look at them and compare to the format used in most current college baseball team navboxes, such as Template:LSU Tigers baseball navbox and Template:UCLA Bruins baseball navbox, or see Category:American college baseball team navigational boxes. Should we convert to the format used in the College Football and Basketball projects, or maintain our own format strictly for college baseball? Billcasey905 ( talk) 21:09, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
has been nominated for deletion. Come on over and participate in the discussion. ...William 15:49, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
See Talk:UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen#Requested move II. An editor has requested that "UMass" be changed to "Massachusetts." Jrcla2 ( talk) 14:15, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
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Template:College Home Run Derby champions was just created. Personally I don't think this should exist. It doesn't have a primary article, so there is no overall explanation of the honor; it's only used on 1 article so there isn't navigation among anything; it's vague (college home run derby...one college? multiple colleges? Division I? NAIA?); and it's not an "award" like it's listed in 'Category:American college baseball award navigational boxes'. I feel like this should be TfD'd. Jrcla2 ( talk) 13:51, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
I'm just curious how Collegiate Baseball became the default poll used in conference standings templates. I'm unaware of any major media outlets that use this poll. I would think that the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' poll might carry a bit more weight. D1Baseball.com uses the NCBWA writers poll on their website, which is the closet thing the sport has to an AP poll, as both are composed by members of the media. Collegiate Baseball and Baseball America don't have as many people participating in their polls, which I would think tends to devalue their rankings somewhat. Anyone have thoughts on this? GarnetAndBlack ( talk) 06:32, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Can someone create 2014 College Baseball All-America Team? The first set of voting came out today (by Collegiate Baseball – here is the list.) Jrcla2 ( talk) 15:47, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
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I created as an essay on notability as a subpage to this project so we can hopefully come to some sort of consensus as a project. Head on over to the talk page for a discussion on the areas of notability in question. Mizzou415 ( talk) 06:30, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi all. I just created {{ Rider Broncs baseball coach navbox}} so that Clair Bee had this navbox, but he's the only blue link coach at the moment. Two really good (notable) coaches that might be nice to hit are Sonny Pittaro (33 years as HC) or Barry Davis (baseball), who is the current coach plus is found on {{ Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference baseball coach navbox}}. Jrcla2 ( talk) 20:09, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Started up a discussion about what to do with the pages currently named "Big East Conference..." if anyone's interested in adding their thoughts. Kithira ( talk) 21:05, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
A question I wanted to pose, unrelated to the Big East/American discussion currently going on. When it comes to conference award pages (i.e.- Coach, Player, Pitcher, Rookie of the Year), would it be best to condense all of a conference's awards into one page? I'm thinking of something like Southeastern Conference football individual awards, but with much more information than just name and team. One page with major subsections that look like the current single-award pages, minus the infoboxes.
A few benefits that I think could come out of this: (1) It's easier for the reader to access information. Rather than have to track down links and navigate between pages, all the information about a conference's awards are in one spot. The condensed article is longer, certainly, but with a good lead/table of contents, this shouldn't be an issue. (2) It's much less likely to run into a notability battle. For a minor conference PoY page with a lot of redlinks, it'd be much easier to question notability than with a page that combines a conference's awards. (3) It allows us to consolidate the information and offer more to the reader: notes about a team sweeping one year's awards, winning X out of Y in one decades; a table of teams ranked by the total number of major awards they've won; etc.
I'm not saying this'd all happen tomorrow, or even soon, since there's a lot of work to be done on these pages, but I wanted to see what everyone's thoughts were before I do more work on them. For a mega-conference like the SEC, we could think about keeping individual award pages separate, but I thought this might be a good standard procedure for most conferences. Kithira ( talk) 17:38, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
According to {{ St. Bonaventure Bonnies baseball coach navbox}}, Hughie Jennings coached from 1895 through 1899.
But, according to {{ Georgia Bulldogs baseball coach navbox}}, he coached 1896 through 1899.
There is no way he could have coached in upstate New York and in Georgia at the same time. One of these two navboxes is wrong. Jrcla2 ( talk) 15:14, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2010 Old Dominion Monarchs baseball team. Thanks, Ejgreen77 ( talk) 22:47, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
A discussion I've restarted at the main athletic program page, if anyone's interested. Kithira ( talk) 22:08, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
I have had Harry Lancaster on my to do list for what feels like years. He was an assistant basketball coach for Adolph Rupp at Kentucky for a long time and I'd like to add him to the various national championship templates he would appear on. He was also UK's head baseball coach for 15 years and served as the school's AD so he is a redlink on both of those templates too. Realistically, I don't see getting to his article any time soon, but I wondered if anyone here might have some energy around writing an article that would help multiple college sports projects? Thanks for your consideration. Rikster2 ( talk) 15:51, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Wondering everyone's thoughts on adding two more Top 25 rankings to 2015 NCAA Division I baseball rankings and Template:NCAA Division I baseball ranking movements – Perfect Game USA and D1Baseball (which is in the process of a significant makeover). Perfect Game USA has been a pretty big name in the amateur baseball ranks for a while now, better known for their showcases for high school players but they do a very good job of college baseball coverage and have a new staff with a lot of guys this year. They lost their lead writer, Kendall Rogers, one of the most respected college baseball writers in the business, to D1Baseball.com this fall, and they also added Baseball America's lead man in Aaron Fitt. As two of the best, if not the two best, college baseball writers, it is safe to assume their Top 25 and college baseball content will be good. D1Baseball as I'm sure most of you know is right now a schedules and scores site, but with the two new guys in the fold they are planning a relaunch. Do you guys think six rankings is too much? Is the loading times too much? Are these not notable enough? Mpejkrm ( talk) 16:58, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
I just started a discussion at Talk:TCU Horned Frogs and Lady Frogs#Name change in order? to determine if the TCU women's programs – specifically basketball – still go by the "Lady Frogs" name or if they have transitioned to "Horned Frogs." Not a baseball discussion per se, but these articles are intimately tied with all existing college sports projects. Please chime in. Thanks! Rikster2 ( talk) 13:59, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
WP:College baseball editors may be interested in the discussion taking place here: WT:CFB#Widespread changes to college sports program articles. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 03:35, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
WP:College baseball members, please review these discussion threads: [2] and [3]. The changes proposed would affect the way we currently format all single-season NFL articles, and ultimately single-season articles for NBA and other major sports teams, too. Your feedback on the relevant talk pages is invited. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 15:43, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Hey all,
Wizardman decided to delete a few program page redirects (such as Cincinnati Bearcats baseball, Memphis Tigers baseball, Rutgers Scarlet Knights baseball), reasoning that having a redirect rather than a program page is deceiving. While I understand the argument, I have to disagree, as I believe redlinks on season pages, coach and program templates, and lists tend to look worse than a redirect. What are everyone's thoughts? Mpejkrm ( talk) 12:11, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
How is it possible to get colors from Module:College color/data onto Template:Infobox MLB player? For example, Nathan Kirby's infobox should have Virginia colors. Joeykai ( talk) 16:48, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
Persondata has been deprecated and the template and input data are subject to removal from all bio articles in the near future. For those editors who entered accurate data into the persondata templates of notable baseball players and other bio subjects, you are advised to manually transfer that data to Wikidata before the impending mass deletion occurs. Here are two examples of Wikidata for notable notable baseball players: Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. If you have any more questions about the persondata removal, Wikidata, etc., please ping me. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 13:08, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
There is an ongoing RfC whether to permit non-Wikipedia links in Wikipedia navboxes @ Wikipedia talk:Categories, lists, and navigation templates#RFC: Should Sister Project links be included in Navboxes?. Given this WikiProject's ongoing interest in navboxes, some of you may be interested in commenting. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 16:03, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
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I think this needs to be very carefully examined. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 01:18, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
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21:28, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#**Coach navbox tenure years being changed**, which directly affects this WikiProject. Thanks! Jrcla2 ( talk) 14:20, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Former Miami (FL) coach Whitey Campbell died this week ( see ref). I just wanted to make the project aware in case anyone is interested in creating an article for him as he is one of only 2 red links on Template:Miami Hurricanes baseball coach navbox. Rikster2 ( talk) 00:12, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Pacific-12_Conference#Requested_move_5_December_2015 regarding the proposed move of Pacific-12 Conference to Pac-12 Conference.— Bagumba ( talk) 00:16, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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The Summit League be moved to
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tyler Adkison is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tyler Adkison until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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I could use some help fleshing out season records and any applicable baseball playing/coaching info for newly created Ken Sidwell. Thanks! Jrcla2 ( talk) 15:34, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim Case (baseball). Thanks, Ejgreen77 ( talk) 10:58, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
I have proposed some changes to Template:Infobox college coach, specifically removing external links. Please see the discussion here. Thanks, Jweiss11 ( talk) 14:58, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2016_May_23#Alec_Wulff regarding redirects of all of a college team's players to a season article.— Bagumba ( talk) 05:54, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
Please comment here in regards to navboxes in coaches articles. I pinged a few, but I'm sure I forgot many of you! Corkythe hornetfan 19:11, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
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The Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball#Rivalries and Ole Miss Rebels baseball#Mayor's Trophy and Governor's Cup sections both contain duplicate information about the same subject. Instead of the two separate sections, there should be a separate article ( Mississippi State–Ole Miss baseball rivalry) that covers the topic of the two trophy games and the rivalry itself. RebelBulldog ( talk) 01:05, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
Based on what User:BU Rob13 has already done for WikiProject College football and WikiProject College Basketball, would there be any objections to attempting a similar tagging project for this project? Category:College baseball players in the United States, Category:College baseball coaches in the United States, Category:College baseball seasons in the United States and their associated subcategories would be the target categories. Ejgreen77 ( talk) 03:30, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
Please see here and down. Thanks, Ejgreen77 ( talk) 04:00, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
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Everyone in this WikiProject needs to go to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Djln categories' creation and his use of HotCat immediately. User:djln is ruining the college basketball WikiProject and I have no doubt WP:CollegeBaseball is on his radar. Jrcla2 ( talk) 15:52, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
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Does anyone object to me changing the |stateabb =
and |state =
parameters by completely removing them to simplify it and replace it with |location =
to match the
Template:Infobox NCAA football school and a couple of others... If nobody objects to this with in a couple of days of this post, I will update the template and manually update the articles. Corkythe
hornetfan (ping me)
00:19, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Just a heads-up that they changed their mascot from the Crusaders to the River Hawks in 2016. All of the baseball articles/categories have the old name. Link. Rikster2 ( talk) 12:14, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
![]() | There is a current request to move Texas Tech Red Raiders and Lady Raiders → Texas Tech Red Raiders. Please visit the discussion at Talk:Texas Tech Red Raiders and Lady Raiders#Requested move 31 December 2017. Thanks, Corky 21:30, 31 December 2017 (UTC) |
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You are invited to join a discussion around potential changes to this school's athletic display name at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College Basketball#Loyola Ramblers display name. Thanks. Rikster2 ( talk) 12:44, 18 April 2018 (UTC)