Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball
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Welcome to WikiProject Basketball. This project exists to improve and connect current and historical coverage of the sport of basketball in its many forms around the world. Though invented in the United States by Canadian educator James Naismith, today basketball is truly a world game with thriving professional leagues on every continent.
This project serves as a bridge between several WikiProjects that touch the sport. WikiProject National Basketball Association is a project that focuses on coverage of the NBA, generally considered the world's top league. WikiProject College Basketball has a deep focus on the collegiate game (primarily but not exclusively in the United States). There is also a task force on Women's basketball that seeks to improve coverage of the women's game. Please feel free to join the efforts of these projects as well. There are also many projects that touch basketball, such as country-specific sports projects, WikiProject Olympics, college sports specific projects, etc.
Focus Edit
Given that specific focus on the NBA, college basketball and women's basketball in those projects, WP:Basketball focuses on overarching consistency for coverage of basketball (an important role as players and coaches move between leagues and borders with ease). Some examples of what the project covers are:
- Professional leagues around the world
- The Olympic Games and other international competitions
- Other forms of the sport such as Wheelchair basketball, 3x3 basketball, Street basketball and Water basketball
- Overall history of the sport
- Basketball rules and strategy
- High school basketball
- Basketball Museums and Halls of Fame
- Basketball venues
- Basketball in media (books, film, television, video games, comics, magazines, etc.)
- Barnstorming and entertainment-focused teams such the Harlem Globetrotters
- Minor league basketball (such as the defunct Continental Basketball Association)
- Industrial basketball (such as the American AAU)
- Any other topic clearly related to basketball that doesn't fit cleanly into one of the other WIkiProjects listed above.
When creating or editing an article that falls within this scope, please add the tag below to that article's Talk Page so that it is included in the project's worklists:
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Members Edit
You can find a list of all Members here. Joining WikiProject Basketball is easy – just add your username to the bottom of the list. When joining the project, you should watch this page. This allows you to keep up-to-date with discussions about the project on the talk page.
Manual of style Edit
Guidelines and help pages for writing articles and other contributions.
Articles Edit
Manual of style for a few common types of article:
- Club manual of style
- Team manual of style (NBA teams)
- National team manual of style
- National association manual of style
- Competition manual of style
- League season manual of style
- Club season manual of style
- Country season manual of style
- Match manual of style
- Player manual of style
- Stadium manual of style
Categories Edit
Info on in what category articles should be placed:
Templates Edit
Numerous templates exist, how to find them and how to use them:
Notability Edit
How to know if an article should be on Wikipedia or not:
- Notability guideline for players (official Wikipedia guideline)
- Notability guidelines for clubs (WikiProject guideline)
- Notability guidelines for leagues (WikiProject guideline)
Goals Edit
Improve browsing aids Edit
The search box doesn't always help the reader find what he is looking for, especially when he doesn't know what it is exactly that he wants to find. The following tools help readers see what we have available and enable him to travel through the subject in various ways. But they are incomplete and need your help to finish them and keep them up-to-date.
- Outline of basketball - topic outline, which serves as a structured index, structured glossary, and as a table of contents/menu/site map of the subject. The annotations are included to assist in topic selection. A Wikipedia outline is a type of tree structure, with the hierarchy maintained through headings and indented bullets. WP outlines are parseable, should someone want to develop outliner-style tools for these.
- Index of basketball articles - alphabetical index.
- Glossary of basketball terms - alphabetical glossary.
- Category:Basketball - a whole branch of categories, including articles, subcategories, sub-subcategories, etc.
- Portal:Basketball- a Reader's Digest-like approach, with article excerpts.
Guidelines are needed... Edit
Guidelines are needed for basketball-related articles, including:
- Teams (NBA, NBDL, International, WNBA and the like)
- Team info (template)
- Team history (abridged)
- A separate link to detailed history, if it is appropriate
- Current roster (template)
- Retired numbers & Hall of Famers
- Links to more info (template)
- All-time team records
- Award winners & league leaders
- Team records
- Players of note (non-HoFers)
- Team's HoF
- Broadcasters
- Managers & ownership
- Post-season series
- Stadiums (history extending beyond basketball)
- Biographies (from players to managers to owners)
- This seems to be a separate project
- NBA Finals
- Other postseason series (NBDL, International, etc.)
- Regular season playoffs
- Other postseason series (NBDL, International, etc.)
- Leagues & Divisions
- Defunct teams
- Defunct leagues
- National Teams
- Team info
- Team history
- Current roster
- All-time team records
- Team records
- Miscellaneous
Basketball-related articles on Wikipedia seem to be maintained well, but work is certainly needed.
To do Edit
To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball: Project related tasks
Article related tasks
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General strategy and discussion forums Edit
Templates Edit
- Infoboxes:
- Team roster templates:
- Pro teams:
- {{Hoops team start}}
- {{Hoops team player}}
- {{Hoops team footer}}
- Amateur/college teams:
- Pro teams:
- Others:
- {{Basketballbox}}
- {{Basketball kit}}
- {{International basketball}}
- {{International women's basketball }}
- {{Men's professional basketball leagues}}
- {{International youth basketball}}
- {{International youth basketball (Women)}}
- {{National Basketball Association}}
- {{Women's National Basketball Association}}
- {{NBA Arenas}}
- {{NBA50}}
- {{PBA}}
- {{Philippine Basketball Association seasons}}
- {{PBA25}}
Useful links Edit
Article alerts Edit
Articles for deletion
- 25 Sep 2023 – The Red Sneakers (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Just Another Cringy Username (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 23 Sep 2023 – Obij Aget (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TimothyBlue (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
Proposed deletions
- 27 Sep 2023 – Tasha McDowell (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Tutwakhamoe (t · c): Exclusively relies on the subject's profile in university as source. Searches only find trivial mentions or announcement of appointment (WP:ROUTINE). Lacks sufficient significant coverage to pass WP:NBIO.
- 22 Sep 2023 – Tom O'Toole (basketball, born 1913) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Mach61 (t · c) was deproded by Rikster2 (t · c) on 27 Sep 2023
Categories for discussion
- 29 Sep 2023 – Category:Xion Dukes Klosterneuburg players (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by 寒吉 (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Sep 2023 – Category:Jewish basketball players (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Edward-Woodrow (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Sep 2023 – Category:2002–03 in Yugoslav basketball (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Sep 2023 – Category:2000–01 in Yugoslav basketball (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Sep 2023 – Category:1999–2000 in Yugoslav basketball (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Sep 2023 – Category:1998–99 in Yugoslav basketball (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Sep 2023 – Category:1997–98 in Yugoslav basketball (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Sep 2023 – Category:1996–97 in Yugoslav basketball (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Sep 2023 – Category:1995–96 in Yugoslav basketball (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Sep 2023 – Category:1992–93 in Yugoslav basketball (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
Templates for discussion
- 22 Sep 2023 – Template:MC Oran sections (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Frietjes (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Sep 2023 – Template:KK Vršac sections (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Frietjes (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- 18 Sep 2023 – Template:Karşıyaka S.K. sections (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Frietjes (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- 18 Sep 2023 – Template:Hapoel Be'er Sheva sections (talk · edit · hist) TfDed by Frietjes (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Good article nominees
- 18 Sep 2023 – Audi Crooks (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by JTtheOG (t · c); start discussion
- 09 Apr 2023 – Elle Leonard (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TonyTheTiger (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 16 Sep 2023 – Brad Robbins (talk · edit · hist) move request to Brad Robbins (basketball) by Joeykai (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Articles for creation
- 29 Sep 2023 – Draft:Basketball at the 2026 Asian Games (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Sportsik1998 (t · c)
- 29 Sep 2023 – Draft:Columbus Ga Vipers (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Adluvbasketball (t · c)
- 27 Sep 2023 – Draft:Rastislav Šipkovský (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Rasto1114 (t · c)
- 15 Sep 2023 – Draft:Elsa Shala (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Eron Lushaj (t · c)
- 09 Sep 2023 – Draft:Hazem Elmashad (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Itache14 (t · c)
- 08 Sep 2023 – Draft:IWBF Asia Oceania Championships (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 02 Sep 2023 – Draft:Basketball at the 2023 Palarong Pambansa (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Michaelbueza (t · c)
- 31 Aug 2023 – Draft:Gotham Classic (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Gzelle4 (t · c)
- 09 Aug 2023 – Draft:Gedi Juozapaitis (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jenny fear (t · c)
- 10 Jul 2023 – Draft:Steve Hetzel (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Portland213 (t · c)
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