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Silence is deafening

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)

Fall Practice

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)

2008

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)

Hey Oughgh, good to see you back! I'm looking forward to a great 2008 college baseball season. However, as you probably know, my attention is being monopolized by the 2007 LSU Tigers football team. I'll be editing college baseball stuff when I get a chance during football season, but I really won't get back into it until the season gets closer. I saw you created the 1994 SEC Baseball Tournament article! Excellent! Thanks mate, keep up the good work! Seancp 22:48, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

It's OK, I don't expect people to really be working on this project right now. I just work on a tournament article here and there when I have time while watching the MLB playoffs. And I hear you have a half-decent football team right now... Oughgh 02:42, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Opening Night

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'm here! Clemson's opening night is postponed on account of rain. Double header scheduled tomorrow to open the season. As soon as I get some time I'm going to create the 2008 Clemson Baseball Season page --Jober14 (talk) 02:58, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Awesome!!! Good to see you again! :) If you want a reference/starting point for your 2008 Clemson page then check out the 2008 LSU Tigers baseball team page. Seancp (talk) 03:07, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm here as well! I got a chance to watch my Dores wallop those silly Beavers this afternoon, it's going to be a great season. I had been thinking about making a 2008 Vandy page, so I'll definitely model it after the LSU page soon, looks great! Oughgh (talk) 04:10, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Rankings Standardization

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)

I agree that showing the rank of the opposing team would be very helpful and informative. In the college football project, the authors have the option of using either the coaches poll, the AP poll, or both. It just has to be noted at the bottom of the schedule which poll was chosen. See: [[1]] (look at the bottom of the schedule box). Since there are at least 5 different respected college baseball polls, it would be stupid to use all of them in the game log to show a team's ranking. I don't have a particular love for any of the polls, so I don't want to make a suggestion of what poll we should use. Maybe we should just let each editor pick the poll out of the 5 most respected polls and then make sure that it's noted somewhere near the game log. Seancp (talk) 21:34, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes that was along the same lines I was thinking. I've already edited my 2008 Clemson Tigers baseball team page to reflect that. I am also using the ESPN Coaches poll because atleast with the coaches you can be fairly consistant on who is voting and what their relationship to the world of college baseball is. --Jober14 (talk) 22:32, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

What's New?

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)

I don't know that there is enough interest in creating baseball season pages that would justify putting the work into developing a standardized schedule/results table that is easy to input results and data into. As it is now, there are only three 2008 college baseball season pages: LSU, Clemson and Vanderbilt. Maybe we can direct our energy elsewhere until there are enough editors maintaining season pages to justify a standard template.

That being said, I do think we need to discuss some priorities for this season. What would you like to see get prioritized? Personally, I'd like to see the NCAA tournament articles get finished. But I know that they are a lot of work. I plan to at least complete the 1991, 1993, 1996 and 1997 NCAA tourney articles this year. Other than that, I haven't really given much thought as to what we should be working. So please.....what are some ideas??? Seancp (talk) 20:39, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

One idea I just had was that maybe we should consider starting baseball articles for some prominent college baseball programs that don't have an article. For example, Arizona, Cal St. Fullerton, Florida State, Georgia, Rice, Stanford, Oklahoma State, etc. This page has a good bunch of new article ideas: Wikipedia:WikiProject College baseball/Articles Seancp (talk) 20:49, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to see more done for Conference Tournaments and Conference Baseball pages in general. Maybe just expansions of baseball stubs in a conference main article. I'd really like to finish up ACC Baseball Tournament pages. But no copy of the actual bracket structure exists for some years, and trying to figure it out using old game logs gets very very confusing and frustrating.

Stadiums: I think expanding pages on stadiums would be a good fit. Clemson is getting ready to embark on a $10 Million expansion of Doug Kingsmore Stadium and I'd like to chronicle it and past changes.

Traditions: I think if we could find a place to put in traditions practiced by fans and teams it would bode well for our project. College baseball has some of the most unique traditions around. Mississippi State basically has a junk yard in their outfield of old cars, etc and there's nothing like it around.

I'll think of more things, but right now these jump out at me: --Jober14 (talk) 21:02, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Coaching record template

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)

Yea, I think the college basketball one has pretty much everything we would need. Seancp (talk) 22:41, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Incentive

		The Florida Gators Barnstar
		For good and thorough work pertaining to articles about the Florida Gators.

• The Official Florida Gators Wikiproject will award this Barnstar to editors who help to expand articles pertaining to the Florida Gators Baseball Pages. Jccort (talk) 19:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

New Infobox Template

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)

Oops, I didn't realize someone had already created one. There was just a capitalization difference. The previously created one can be found here: Template:Infobox College baseball team. Seancp (talk) 14:15, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

OK, so I put the new one I created up for speedy deletion. Please use this one from now on: Template:Infobox College baseball team

Rosenblatt Stadium Page

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)

Format for team articles

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)

Standard Format

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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Dead as a Door Nail

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)

I've pretty much retired from Wikipedia editing. I got tired of dealing with the BS of deletionists and other idiots on the site. It just wasn't worth the hassle anymore. Seancp (talk) 19:56, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

I hear ya! I have the same issue with a couple of South Carolina fans who have decided to camp out in all of the Clemson Sports pages. Jober14 (talk) 20:23, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

I just watch all the sports project pages, and many of these projects seem to be getting nowhere. Just carry on editing, and if you need any advice, as on the members talk pages. That's what I would do. DeMoN2009 (Not a member of this project) 20:03, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Also, try looking for editors who contribute to College baseball articles, and then steer them in the direction of the project page. DeMoN2009 20:05, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Revival

Can we get an updated list of who is really interested in trying to get this project going again? If so, please sign your name below.--The Sports Diatribe (talk) 16:20, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

• Jober14 (talk) 18:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
• Seancp (talk) 14:16, 13 May 2009 (UTC) - I won't be editing as much as I used to, but I'll be around occasionally to spice up some articles.

Glad to see you aren't fully retired seancp--The Sports Diatribe (talk) 13:28, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

• I just added my name to the list of participantsMusic mas (talk) 16:54, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

2009 UC Irvine Anteaters baseball team

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)

I fixed it. Jober14 (talk) 20:52, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Cal State Fullerton page

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 had the same problem with the USC baseball page. It was absolutely ridiculous that they didn't have a better page. I completely redid the page. If you like the format of it, let me know and I will start working on Fullerton.--The Sports Diatribe (talk) 15:44, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

You did a great job redoing the article. I'd be glad to help out if you start the Cal State Fullerton page as well. Music mas (talk) 17:08, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

I began the CSF Page, but I don't really know anything about the program (except that they better lose Game 1 of the CWS to my Diamond Hogs) Brandonrush Woo pig sooie! 18:40, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

List of current NCAA Division I baseball coaches

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)

I like the idea, but let's wait a bit and see how things shake up after the season. This is going to be an extremely hard page to keep up-to-date. We really need to get an up-to-date list of things that members of the project would really like to see. The project has a lot of cleanup work that needs to be done and I think we need to focus on that first and foremost, and then collectively start cranking out new articles like the Cal. St. Fullerton baseball page.--The Sports Diatribe (talk) 15:57, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Adding college to MLB player template

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Assessment Proposals

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.

Team Pages

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.

Venue Pages

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.

College Summer Leagues

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.

You are forgetting about the Valley League in the Shenandoah Valley. In NW Virginia, college baseball players live, work and play in wonderful towns. Mike Lowell was a player there in 1993.

Mattabaseball

I agree it is a good league, easily the best in the South after the CPL. I think it is a top 10 league comparable to Texas and the West Coast, but does not have the talent level of the Cape, NWL, CPL, NECBL, or Alaska. Kithira (talk) 16:24, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Thoughts?

Please sound in with your opinions on these proposals. All above-mentioned assessments would be the WikiProject College baseball rating, NOT the more general WikiProject Baseball rating. Again, I realize the relatively limited scope of our project, but in the midst of the quiet offseason right now, I thought I would bring up this topic. Thanks, Kithira (talk) 02:34, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

I believe I have given more than ample time for any objections and will start instituting these changes now. Kithira (talk) 16:29, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

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2 proposed page moves

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Template

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)

That would be a godsend! I, for one, would have no idea how to make it happen, though. I'd be happy to implement and help you use it. Kithira (talk) 05:56, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Let me know how Template:cbsb link works, I used template:cfb link as a basis, with Template:cbb link and Template:csoc link as support as well. Hope it works. Billcasey905 (talk) 23:04, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! When I get the chance, I'll try it out on the venue articles. Kithira (talk) 23:06, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

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Nomination of Drew Rangers baseball for deletion

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SIUE Cougars vs. SIU Edwardsville Cougars?

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Conference Tournaments

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)

Oops, thought I'd gotten all the missing conferences when I added the Big West and Pac-12 as not having tournaments. And yes, an Ivy League Baseball Tournament article would be merited. The size of the championship doesn't negate the fact that it is a championship, in the first place. I unfortunately won't be able to help more than the few I put together two months ago, as I'm on a bit of a WikiBreak. When I come back this summer, I'll be happy to check out the tournament articles. Good luck! Kithira (talk) 06:19, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Free HighBeam accounts

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)

Thanks for the heads up. Mizzou415 (talk) 14:14, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Should Division I Tournament and CWS pages be merged?

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)

Support move- Though my initial thought is to keep them separate, I can't at the moment think of an argument for that, so I'd support a merge per the precedent of the college basketball pages. Kithira (talk) 13:19, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Support - My initial thought was to keep them separate as well, but having seen the exampble below I feel better about it. I'd just like to be sure redirects are created for each one. There are also a few years in the 1950s where there was no recognized NCAA tournament, so I think those pages should remain in place where they are. Finally, I completely support a new navbox in place of the one that just lists Super Regional winners. Billcasey905 (talk) 18:42, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

I went ahead and merged most of the content from 2011 College World Series into 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, largely mirroring the format of 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, just to get an idea of what it would look like. I did not yet delete the CWS page though. Mizzou415 (talk) 17:31, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Agreed, the 2011 example looks great. Kithira (talk) 22:57, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Division I Tournament Navbox

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)

Rankings Movement Template

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)

Standardize Won/Loss Colors

Please see Template_talk:Table_cell_templates#Standardize_Won.2FLoss_Colors. --ben_b (talk) 19:39, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Les Miller Field Deletion Discussion

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)

Standardize conference pages' facility sections

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)

Thanks for the comments. Now that it's been two weeks, I'll close the discussion and implement the consensus options over the next few days. Kithira (talk) 14:30, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Naming

What should the name of each conference page's facilities section be?

• Option #1: Change section names to simply "Facilities," as the "conference" in "Conference facilities" is implied (see, for example, Conference USA#Facilities).
• Option #2: Change section names to "Conference facilities," which better reflects that the table includes only school venues used for conference-sponsored sports (see "Single-sport members" below).

I support Option #1. The word "conference" isn't needed. "Facilities" is sufficient to describe the section. Treydavis3 (talk) 18:47, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Option 1. "Conference" is implied by the title of the article. cmadler (talk) 14:01, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Option 1. Concur with above. Billcasey905 (talk) 22:53, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Order of section within article

Where in the article should the facilities section go?

• Option #1: Move sections below the sections on individual sports, but above sections such as "Championships," "Media," and "Hall of Fame." This option assumes a reader is more likely to seek information about conference history/membership/sports than facilities. (see, for example, Mid-American Conference#Facilities).
• Option #2: Move sections towards the top of the article, in the "Membership" section. This is where most tables of individual school data are found. (see, for example Atlantic Coast Conference#Facilities).

I support Option #1. I don't think facilities belong in the "Membership" section. Facilities don't really have anything to do with membership. I think the facilities chart belongs in its own section right below the sections on the individual sports like in the MAC article. Treydavis3 (talk) 18:47, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Order of sports within facilities section

In the table of the facilities section, in what order should the sports go?

• Option #1: Order sports by their importance, something like football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer. This option puts first what the reader is most likely looking for. However, would the order of importance be the same for each conference? For example, Big 10 hockey, when it arrives, is surely more important than Big 10 baseball. Ivy League#Athletic facilities is another place where order would have to be sorted out.
• Option #2: Order the sports alphabetically (baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer), thus avoiding any worries about ranking the sports.
• Option #3: Order the sports chronologically, so to speak. By the order of the seasons in the academic year, we'd have football, soccer, basketball, hockey, baseball, thus avoiding having to rank the sports.

I support Option #1. I think the sports should be sorted by importance to make info the reader is most likely looking for easier to find. I also think the order should be the same for each conference. That's the idea behind standardization. Therefore, the sports should be sorted by national importance, not the importance to each conference. Thus, football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer for every conference. If the conference doesn't sponsor hockey, then obviously it should be left out. As far as soccer goes, I think the soccer facilities should only be included if the majority of the schools have articles for their soccer stadiums. If there are a bunch of red links for soccer stadiums, then it's not important enough to be included in the table. Treydavis3 (talk) 19:08, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

I support Option 1 in theory, but it's hard in practice. How far down do we go? For Eastern Michigan Eagles, for example, we have articles for the facilities used by the baseball, basketball, football, golf, swimming & diving, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field, wrestling, gymnastics, and volleyball. Only cross country, rowing, soccer, softball, and tennis are currently lacking facility coverage. I'd imagine the coverage is even more thorough at larger schools. cmadler (talk) 14:14, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Comment- The rule of thumb I've used is if at least half of the participating schools have a facility for a sport, I include the sport (e.g., 4 of 8, 5 of 9). If a sport doesn't have that amount of facility coverage, it can still be accessed elsewhere (university navbox, athletic program page, etc.). Kithira (talk) 19:13, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Sports not sponsored by conference

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?

• Option #1: Include the column. With football, for example, mark "Football stadium" and "Capacity" as they are, with a footnote saying that the schools' football teams participate in other conferences (see, for example, America East Conference#Conference facilities).
• Option #2: Include the column. With football, for example, mark "Football Stadium" as "See other conference."
• Option #3: Include columns only for sports sponsored by the conference (see, for example, Atlantic Sun Conference#Conference facilities).

Option 3. cmadler (talk) 14:16, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Option 3. If a conference does not sponsor a sport, facilities for that sport should not be included. Billcasey905 (talk) 22:55, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Single-sport members

How should single-sport members, in football and otherwise, be included?

• Option #1: Give single-sport members a marked-off section at the bottom of the facilities table, listing only the venues of the conference sport in which they compete (see, for example, Colonial Athletic Association#Conference facilities).
• Option #2: Include single-sport members in the table, listing only the venues of the sport in which they compete (see, for example, Big East Conference#Sports facilities).

Option 2, for better sorting. cmadler (talk) 14:25, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Option 2 Billcasey905 (talk) 22:56, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Leaving/future members

• Option #1: Denote departing members with a pink background. Have a separate section at the bottom of the table marked "Future Members" with the incoming schools' facilities (see, for example, Big East Conference#Sports facilities).
• Option #2: Denote departing schools with a pink background and incoming schools with a gray background (see, for example, Southland Conference#Facilities).

I support Option #2. When you sort ascending or descending with Option #1 like the Big East table, then there is nothing that differentiates a current member from a future member. I think pink should indicate departing members and gray should indicate future members throughout every conference article. Treydavis3 (talk) 19:14, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Option 2 for better sorting. cmadler (talk) 14:26, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Option 2 Billcasey905 (talk) 22:56, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Navbox idea

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)

I don't have the expertise to do it myself, but I like the idea. Kithira (talk) 13:21, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

I can make it if you want me to. I'll see what I can do. Jrcla2 (talk) 13:40, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

I'm about halfway through creating right now, should have it up in the next ten minutes. Billcasey905 (talk) 13:45, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Looks like we were on the same wavelength Bill. Just did it. Template:College World Series Champion navbox Mizzou415 (talk) 14:02, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

OK, which title should we use? Doesn't matter to me, just shouldn't have two. Billcasey905 (talk) 14:04, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

The NCAA Record Book calls it the "Division I Baseball Championship", so I'd say we go with Template:NCAA_Division_I_Baseball_Champion_navbox rather than Template:College World Series Champion navbox.

Go with the NCAA record book. Jrcla2 (talk) 14:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Navbox for deletion discussion

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)

West Coast Conference Tournament/Championship Series

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?

My initial thought is to treat a championship series and a 4 team tournament as separate entities. Most conference media guides treat them this way as well. The WCC (and Big West) could benefit from a List of Champions page similar to the Pac-12's that would capture the full list of conference champions, regardless of how they were determined. Billcasey905 (talk) 15:42, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Discussion about overview maps for US collegiate athletic conferences

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)

Tagging photos

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)

Quick question on venue naming

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)

It's the standard to put a space in between the initials unless there is a specific reason for not doing so (see KJ Matsui for example). The stadium names should have the space. Jrcla2 (talk) 13:11, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

For consistency, I think we should include the space. See List of NCAA Division I FBS football stadiums - there are only two that are relevant, but Houchens Industries – L. T. Smith Stadium and Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium include the space. List of NCAA Division I FCS football stadiums has two more examples - Bob Waters Field at E. J. Whitmire Stadium and D. B. Milne Field. Billcasey905 (talk) 14:01, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks very much, I just took care of it. Kithira (talk) 14:56, 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)

Not sure it's exactly related but it would be commonly known as "RFK Stadium" with no spaces or periods. Jrcla2 (talk) 21:18, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Troy Trojans baseball players

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)

I'm not sure about a naming convention to clear up this ambiguity offhand. I have seen categories including links to other teams or schools with similar names when necessary. On the college team category, we could add a line at the top to the effect of, "For Troy Trojans (MLB team), see Category:Troy Trojans players" and vice versa. Billcasey905 (talk) 16:19, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Oppose renaming. I'll add descriptions and hatnotes to the categories. It's standard in these types of situations. Jrcla2 (talk) 23:58, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Current projects: How you can help

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.

CWS Championship seasons

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.

• Arizona - 3
• Minnesota - 3
• California - 2
• Michigan - 2
• Oklahoma - 2

Venues

An article on each Division I program's home field. The navboxes below have redlinks remaining.

• {{Atlantic Sun Conference baseball venue navbox}} - 1
• {{Atlantic 10 Conference baseball venue navbox}} - 1 (Bulldog Park in progress at User:Kithira/Sandbox/BulldogPark. I feel that I've resolved the issue that led to its deletion by adding references from CSTV and the Indianapolis Star, but I'd appreciate others thoughts on whether I should try to restore it. Kithira (talk) 17:32, 8 August 2012 (UTC))
• {{Great West Conference baseball venue navbox}} - 3
• {{Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference baseball venue navbox}} - 2
• {{Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference baseball venue navbox}} - 2
• {{Patriot League baseball venue navbox}} - 1
• {{Southwestern Athletic Conference baseball venue navbox}} - 5
• {{The Summit League baseball venue navbox}} - 1

Conference Tournaments

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.

• America East Conference Baseball Tournament
• Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Tournament
• {{Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournament navbox}} - 31
• {{Big East Conference Baseball Tournament navbox}} - 20
• Big South Conference Baseball Tournament
• {{Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament navbox}} - 28
• List of Big West Conference baseball champions - 3
• Colonial Athletic Association Baseball Tournament
• Horizon League Baseball Tournament
• Ivy League Baseball Championship Series
• Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
• {{Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament navbox}} - 31
• Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
• Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament
• {{Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament navbox}} - 10
• Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament
• Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament
• Patriot League Baseball Tournament
• Southland Conference Baseball Tournament
• Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
• The Summit League Baseball Tournament
• Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament
• List of West Coast Conference baseball champions - 11, 4-team tournament begins in 2013
• Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament

Coaches

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.

• {{Atlantic Coast Conference baseball coach navbox}} - 4
• {{Big 12 Conference baseball coach navbox}} - 2
• {{Big Ten Conference baseball coach navbox}} - 5
• {{Conference USA baseball coach navbox}} - 4
• {{Pacific-12 Conference baseball coach navbox}} - 4
• {{Southern Conference baseball coach navbox}} - 9
• {{Southland Conference baseball coach navbox}} - 8
• {{Western Athletic Conference baseball coach navbox}} - 8

Don't see anything that raises your interest? Check out the article requests at Wikipedia:WikiProject College baseball#Requests

Stillwell Stadium

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)

MOS: Sports season formats, player tenures and season spans

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)

Template needing link creation

{{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)

Infobox TFD's

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)

Thanks for the heads-up, Bill. There has been a rush of TfDs regarding sports infobox templates recently, virtually all of them nominated by non-sports editors with no experience in using the templates in question. I would suggest that we all need to start monitoring the TfD discussion page more closely.

I have commented on the TfD proposed merge of the template for Infobox college baseball teams. I would suggest that you do so, as well. I lack any practical experience in using the other baseball-related templates that were also nominated, and I will leave those TfDs to editors who have greater knowledge than me. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:41, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Or you could just watchlist the templates that are of interest to you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:55, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Another more reasonable option since watching every template could involved hundreds of watch list entries for each project you are in is to get User:AAlertBot setup for the project. -DJSasso (talk) 19:15, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Andy, thank you for your helpful suggestion. However, I already have nearly 1,600 articles, templates, user talk pages, etc., on my watch list, and I have reached the point where it is difficult to monitor any particular class or category of articles because of the volume. I am exploring the possibility of creating two or more additional alternate user accounts solely for the purpose of creating segmented watch lists that would allow me to add more articles and monitor additional categories of articles more efficiently and more effectively. If you have any constructive advice on point, I am all ears. Thanks. Regards, Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:43, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Project-related move proposal

Self-nom involving the Cal Poly program page. Kithira (talk) 03:47, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

All-America players question

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)

Per the NCAA statistics policies, http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/ForSIDs/policies.pdf, "The NCAA compiles consensus All-America teams in the sports of Division I-FBS football and Division I men’s basketball," so there is technically no such thing as a consensus All-American in baseball. Perhaps the navboxes could instead be for "unanimous" All-Americans and include those selected by all of the selectors. Mizzou415 (talk) 19:19, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Mizzou415 is right about the NCAA's definition, but a google search shows that conferences and the media recognize consensus All-Americans in all sports. The standard seems to be the same everywhere (or at least in baseball, softball, soccer, and hockey - the ones that I looked at) - a player must be named to at least half of the recognized selectors. In baseball, there are four selectors, so being named to at least two teams appears to be the standard for being deemed a consensus selection. In 2012, that would reduce the number to 19. That still seems like a lot, even though each selector names at least 15 players. I guess I've just convinced myself that Mizzou415 is right, and we should just use unanimous selections. Billcasey905 (talk) 19:34, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

I believe Mizzou is correct, inasmuch as the NCAA does not recognize an "official" list of "consensus All-Americans" in college baseball. I can't say that I'm up to date on current baseball selectors, but if memory still serves me, I believe that there were only one to three selectors for baseball All-Americans that received any recognition in any given year for all of the 20th Century. Determining "consensus" to my way of thinking would simply be an exercise in seeing which players received recognitions from a majority of major selectors. Query: Does that constitute original research? Seems to me that the NCAA has some role in recognizing All-Americans in other sports, such as swimming, etc. I'm going to do a little more sniffing around the NCAA website, and see what I can find . . . . Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:42, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Are the size of the navbox/fears of too loose a definition the only issues with having 19? 32's of course too much, but in a sport with ~15 positions that could reasonably fit into a list (C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, OF x 3, UTIL, DH, P x 5), is 19 that much off? I realize that having four different selectors dilutes the figure of 15 down a bit, but if baseball, like some other sports, had only one selector, wouldn't we be putting in 15 anyway? And is that a substantial enough difference from 19 to justify tightening the definition of a definition of consensus that's accepted across sports?

I'm not at all knowledgeable about All-American lists, and as I said above, I'm perfectly happy with the solution of including unanimous selections. Just figured I'd put an argument forward to see what you guys think. Cheers, Kithira (talk) 19:53, 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)

Well, to my way of thinking, the basic question is how many selectors is enough. My minimums would be 1/1, 2/2, 2/3, 3/4. I did a quick review of several recent years, and that typically yields 10 "consensus" All-Americans, which does approximate the traditional number of positions on a baseball team. I'm not sure how I feel about using a 50% threshold of selectors. Are all of the current selectors considered equally important or significant? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 20:41, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Not sure of the importance of each. If we chose to go 3/4, then of the 2012 AAs, only 11 of them would be considered consensus (down from 19, which was down from 32). I think cutting it to a 3-out-of-4 selectors threshold might be a smidge too high of a standard. Jrcla2 (talk) 21:09, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

I agree that it should be a majority and not just 50%. The other option would be to do it like basketball and football, where there is a set number of spots/positions (e.g., 3 SP, 1 RP, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, 3 OF, UT, DH) and whichever players received the most selections would be the consensus rep for that position. Potential problems would be a lot of 1-1, 1-1-1 and 2-2 ties, not every selector uses the same pre-determined positions, and sometimes a player makes different teams at different positions. Mizzou415 (talk) 21:20, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

It occurs to me now that under both the system I just proposed and the 50% system, every person named to either team from 1981-1990 would be deemed a consensus selection. I'm starting to lean toward just having a unanimous selection navbox from 1981 on.Mizzou415 (talk) 21:32, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

I don't think a unanimous selection is the way to go, since most of them would have a single-digit number of AAs. In 2004, for example, there would only be 6 players listed; that doesn't really make sense for a sport where 11 players are on a team. I alter my original proposal to be the following:

• 1947–1980: All listed players (only one selector anyway, this seems to make sense)
• 1981–1990: All listed players (too stringent to make it unanimous [2/2] since only two selectors; there aren't too many players yet anyway)
• 1991–2000: Use the 2-out-of-3 selectors criterion, that way it retains its consensus status
• 2001–present: Use the 3-out-of-4 selectors criterion, that way it retains its consensus status Jrcla2 (talk) 14:24, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

I support that. Kithira (talk) 14:48, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

I would favor unanimity from 1981-1990 but otherwise am fine with that. From Merriam-Webster, a consensus is either "a general agreement" or "the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned." By definition, I don't think a 50-50 split can constitute a consensus. Another option would be to not call the navboxes "Consensus" teams from 1947-1990, but rather just call them "19xx College Baseball All-Americans" and include all selections, then switching to consensus selections in 1991. Mizzou415 (talk) 16:57, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

I support Jrcla's last proposal above, with a small caveat: please name the navboxes appropriately. The template pages should also include explanatory text regarding the criteria for each year's selections. Here's an example of navbox explanatory text: Template:Footer USA Swimming 1968 Summer Olympics. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:01, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm on board with this as well, put me down as support. Billcasey905 (talk) 18:02, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Ok, everyone seems to agree to this. I will rename the existing navboxes and then add notes to each one per DL so that future editors know how the players represented were chosen. Jrcla2 (talk) 20:39, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

NCAA Tournament Infoboxes

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)

I agree that {{Infobox NCAA Baseball Tournament}} is probably the best bet. I've been adding that infobox as I merge the College World Series articles into the the NCAA Tournament articles, but the merges are time consuming and I've set that effort aside in order to complete some other things instead. Maybe the best solution is in the table of CWS participants (see 1954) we add a column for District for the years in which the District Format was used. Would that solve things? Billcasey905 (talk) 18:09, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

That would certainly save the trouble of changing the existing template. For me, though, the CWS participants are important enough to list clearly at the top of the page (i.e.- in the infobox), rather than halfway down the page, as with the 1954 article. If there's a consensus that not showing CWS participants in the infobox isn't an issue, though, I think your solution will work well. Kithira (talk) 19:01, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure I see a need to include all 8 CWS teams in the infobox but maybe I'm just used to looking at the NCAA Basketball Tourney infobox, which only includes the Final Four. Of course, the Final Four is the big event in basketball as the CWS is the big event in baseball, so I can see it both ways. Mizzou415 (talk) 03:09, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

That makes sense - maybe we can borrow the way the basketball tournament infobox is set up and under the runner-up list the remaining CWS teams? Shouldn't be too hard to code that in, just one additional entry. Billcasey905 (talk) 19:27, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Anything that we can pull off from a coding standpoint works for me. My only other idea would be, if possible, to borrow the coding from {{Infobox league season}}, where you can insert the name of a "cup" (it'd be a regional, for our purposes) and its winner, thus allowing us to provide the District Number/Region/Regional Location and the team that advanced from it. (for an example of the league season infobox, see 2009 NECBL season) Kithira (talk) 19:44, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

I'll take a look, but it will probably be this weekend before I get there. Billcasey905 (talk) 19:55, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

No rush at all. Thanks. Kithira (talk) 23:44, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

John G. Smith

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)

I don't know that a navbox with only two links in it is even worth having. You could put the links in the see also without the need of the navbox. -DJSasso (talk) 20:15, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Can't say I'm surprised that you're chiming in when it comes to anti-navbox sentiments. Seems to be your M.O. Jrcla2 (talk) 20:19, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Have a little good faith. There are plenty of navboxes I like. Its the useless ones that are the problem. The ones that have hundreds of links and the ones that have next to no links and the ones that link unrelated things together. Wikipedia:Not everything needs a navbox. The whole point of a navbox is to group together related links from within an article to a single place to make things easier to navigate. But if there are only two links in the navbox there isn't much point as they aren't really helping anything except potentially causing template creep. -DJSasso (talk) 20:22, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Considering the Wayne D. Anderson, the first name on the navbox, played baseball at Idaho while the Vandals were in the PCC, I'd wager there are additional coaches for that navbox. I'll take a look in the next few days. Billcasey905 (talk) 20:44, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Might want to look it up even sooner Bill. He's already bad-faith TfD'd it. You'll soon learn DJSasso has all of the sports' WikiProjects on his watchlist but only comments on non-hockey ones when it comes to deleting navboxes. Jrcla2 (talk) 21:31, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Not even slightly true. I comment on lots of topics in baseball. And it wasn't a bad faith Tfd. It was a single-use template which is the #1 reason for deletion of any templates. I tried to be good faith and mention it probably shouldn't be navbox, and then you threw out bad faith comments so I said fine, I will take it the Tfd route and see what others think. -DJSasso (talk) 14:04, 6 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)

Long Beach State Dirtbags baseball?

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)

I'd wondered about that myself, and I'd support renaming the categories, templates, and pages. There's precedent with Murray State and Hawaii, and this example release from LBSU's athletic website has them self-referring as the Dirtbags. I'd imagine they'd go by the official name.

In the interim, should the intro of Long Beach State 49ers baseball be updated to reflect that it's an official nickname? Kithira (talk) 00:29, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm thinking yes. In the intro, I would assume the article should be referred to as Dirtbags, with a very clear explanation that it is the only program at the school who don't use 49ers. Jrcla2 (talk) 05:50, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

I've CfR'd all of the categories (as well as added descriptions to each to clarify the naming reasoning), moved/fixed the coach navbox, moved the main article and clarified its intro. Jrcla2 (talk) 14:03, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

MOS discussion regarding linked MLB seasons in player infoboxes

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)

Proposal to rename List of NCAA Division I baseball stadiums

Discussion here, I'd appreciate any thoughts. Kithira (talk) 15:45, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

CFD on team venue cats

Note this discussion: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 April 5#Category:US college sports venues. Billcasey905 (talk) 00:09, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

College names in athletes' infoboxes

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Yearly record tables question

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)

I generally think conference tournaments should be included in postseason notes. In going through conference tournament pages recently, I've found that most leagues do not invite all teams to the party, so it is significant to qualify for the tournament vs not. It shows the strength of a team in relation to its primary competition - conference opponents.

On question two, I don't have a strong opionion. I think having the link point directly to the team's spot in the bracket is important, but I don't have a feeling either way on what text is piped - so long as the round is clear (Regional, Super Regional, CWS, etc). Billcasey905 (talk) 19:08, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

(1) I understand the topic starter's argument, but what about those conferences in which all teams, regardless of regular season record, are invited to play in the tournament? Are we to include these as well? For some conferences, there isn't even a real post-season significance in advancement because winning their tournament does not imply an automatic bid to an NCAA Regional.

(2) For the second issue, I think simply using "NCAA Regional" would make things cleaner and is more logical. These tables are meant as short-hand notes for the season, and not everything we know about it. Using terms like "Atlantic Regional" are better left in prose for team articles and season articles. It should be noted that location does not imply any particular significance for the round of tournament play. I think this is why we don't include location on other NCAA sports tables. Thanks for notifying me of this conversation. Brian Reading (talk) 20:29, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Okay, here's where I stand as of right now. On (2), I'll accept the revision to NCAA Regional and NCAA Super Regional. On (1), how about a note inside a ref tag (that would display as an endnote) denoting seasons in which all of a conference's teams qualified for a tournament? Kithira (talk) 21:28, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Would seem reasonable if you know how to make it happen. Brian Reading (talk) 18:15, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Kithira, would you set one up so we can look at it? We could use {{efn}}} and {{notelist}} to make these appear in a separate list from references. Billcasey905 (talk) 18:17, 8 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)

Bracket templates

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)

Softball project notice

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Shawn Stiffler

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)

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Discussion you're encouraged to participate in

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)

UT Martin or Tennessee–Martin

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)

My vote's for UT Martin. Its use for school athletic logo and the official athletic site are tough to ignore, even if ESPN goes with Tennessee-Martin. Kithira (talk) 02:18, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

I tend to agree with UT Martin, too. Obviously, the usage should be the same across all sports and all relevant categories. Austin Peay is another one, whether the name should be "Austin Peay Governors" or "Austin Peay State Governors." Some things use one way, some things use another. I tried to get some opinions for both these teams at the football project a while back, but couldn't get any takers. Texas–Arlington is another one that could use a look, too. An editor went through and moved all the pages to "UT Arlington Mavericks" a couple months ago, but all of the categories are still at "Texas–Arlington Mavericks." Ejgreen77 (talk) 02:59, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Notability of consensus All-Americans

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)

Requested move: Louisiana–Lafayette

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)

Requested move: UT Martin

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)

1970s NCAA reorganization

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)

It's entirely possible that Division III championships were established later for baseball. But, I did find this article referring to Division II in 1975. Also see here for the initial vote to split, and here for a reference to a 1974 Division II CWS. The most convincing thing to me, though, is in the intro to the D3 Record book on page 2 of this. All that this indicates to me, though, is that the Division setup existed beginning with the 1974 season. There's still no indication of a championship prior to 1976. Billcasey905 (talk) 18:00, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for posting this, it definitely seems convincing. Writer of the article I found mustn't have been up to speed on things. Kithira (talk) 06:09, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

College basketball navigation templates

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)

Team navboxes

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)

I think I'd prefer something in between the USC navbox and the UCLA navbox. I don't anticipate that many past season pages are going to be filled in (nor should they, as I'm not sure non-championship, or at least non-CWS seasons are really sufficiently notable), so the boxes are going to have a lot of red and are a little tough to navigate. But I do think the navboxes could be cleaned up a bit and the duplicative tournament/CWS links can be done away with. For an example of the format I would personally prefer, I converted Template:Wichita State Shockers baseball navbox. Mizzou415 (talk) 06:25, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

I'd second the Wichita State-style. Brian Reading (talk) 17:02, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

There's a relevant discussion on the College Basketball Wikiproject page that could inform this discussion. Based on a recent AfD, CWS seasons have been deemed notable, but others have been deleted. Billcasey905 (talk) 14:29, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Billcasey905, thanks for your efforts here. I did a little cleanup on the USC and Texas navboxes. Using underlining as an indicator for CWS seasons doesn't make sense stylistically because all linked items navboxes are underlined. Italics or some other sort of indicator would be better. Jweiss11 (talk) 14:44, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

San Diego sports curse

has been nominated for deletion. Come on over and participate in the discussion....William 15:49, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Yet another request for move - please weigh in

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)

Invitation to User Study

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Template:College Home Run Derby champions

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 inclined to agree with you, although each of these things could be remedied assuming the D1 Home Run Derby Championship is notable enough for a standalone article. I saw quite a bit of coverage for the 2013 edition, but that was the first time I was even aware the event existed. My very quick google search indicates 2013 got a lot of coverage in Omaha, but not much outside that area. Billcasey905 (talk) 20:04, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Rankings in college baseball articles

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)

I think just because its the oldest. I don't see any issue with moving to a different poll across the project. Personally, I'd lean towards a media poll rather than a coaches' poll so I think I'd prefer NCBWA to the Coaches'. I'm interested in other thoughts too. Billcasey905 (talk) 10:54, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Very good question to raise. Personally, I think the Baseball America poll is the best, and Collegiate Baseball the worst, but I wholeheartedly agree that a media poll is the best way to go. I don't have a preference either way. One stray thought-- is there a precedent at college football or college basketball regarding this? Kithira (talk) 00:33, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

I believe that most college football conference standings templates use the AP Poll rankings. I always found that a bit odd, since that poll wasn't even used in the BCS poll formula, but the only real alternative there is the Coaches poll, and I guess I understand why people might be a bit skittish about polls voted on by people who work for schools taking part in the ongoing competition (it's common knowledge that most head coaches don't actually do their own voting once the season has begun, they are simply too busy with other things). I'm not a fan of using Baseball America's poll, because it's a poll that is put out by one small group from a single media outlet, so if I had to pick one, I'd say either NCBWA or ESPN/USA Today Coaches poll. GarnetAndBlack (talk) 07:27, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

So, it seems the NCBWA is the least objectionable, based on what I'm seeing above? Anyone see things differently? I believe the football and basketball projects generally use the AP poll, with football switching to BCS standings once that begins coming out. We'll have to see what they do next year. Any feelings on pre-NCBWA poll? Billcasey905 (talk) 01:06, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

2014 College Baseball All-America Team needed

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)

 Done Billcasey905 (talk) 23:21, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm waiting to see if Michael Katz becomes a consensus AA, then I'd write his article. Jrcla2 (talk) 13:16, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

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Notability

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)

Rider Broncs coaches

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)

I'd be happy to do Davis (the pair of NCAAT appearances seal notability, for me), just won't get to it till tomorrow. If anyone would like to jump on Pittaro or do Davis earlier, that's completely fine with me. Kithira (talk) 01:48, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

All set, feel free to add or change anything. Kithira (talk) 22:47, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Big East/American Page Naming and Content

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)

Conference awards

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)

Tried things out over at America East Conference baseball awards. If anyone would like to improve things or doesn't think it's a good idea, let me know, I'm not too attached to it if people think something else would be better. Kithira (talk) 22:08, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

I like what you did. I support it. Jrcla2 (talk) 00:56, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Hughie Jennings coaching tenures

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)

Yeah, noticed that myself but was too sick of sorting out the SBU sources to look at it again right away. Here's why I left it up: at least in the St. Bonaventure case (haven't looked deeper into UGA), they're calling him a head coach, but I think they mean something very different from what we do today. In the late 1890s, Jennings was playing a major league season that started in May, so he couldn't have been there for more than a bit of either team's season, if he was at all. I'm guessing that situation was more that while a student at SBU in the offseason, he loosely coached the team. Quite possibly spent part of the offseason or preseason at Georgia, too. (Cy Young did something similar at Harvard a few years later.) Is this a really loose standard for a school to count someone as a head coach? Absolutely, but I'm guessing that's what both SBU's and Georgia's sports info people are doing in order to claim a Hall of Famer in their baseball lineage. So, strangely enough, he probably did coach in two places that offseason.

Now, say we assume I'm right (and I'll put a big disclaimer on everything I've just said, I haven't researched it much), the question is how we handle a case like this. I lean towards going with what the media guide says, even if there are some cases like this where we hit snags. I don't love the idea of essentially turning a blind eye to schools puffing up their baseball history with the names of major leaguers, but I don't see how we could consistently vet media guides. In the vast majority of cases (i.e.- ones that don't involve a Hall of Famer), there simply wouldn't be the sources to go against the school's media guide with any confidence. All that being said, I'm definitely willing to discuss things. Kithira (talk) 22:07, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

I know that in college football, and perhaps a bit in college basketball, schools sometimes referred to part-time coaches (even student managers) as their official head coaches. The early incarnations of these sports means there wasn't as solidified a system as there is today. Admittedly I'm in WikiProject College Baseball primarily to coordinate standardization with the basketball and football projects, so I'm not going to delve into this situation more than I already have, but if you find during your research some good sources that indicate he was at both schools, I think that fact ought to be written out in the prose of his article so that people in the future understand how it was possible. Good luck! Jrcla2 (talk) 12:55, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Sounds good to me, thanks for bringing it up! Kithira (talk) 20:40, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

AfD: 2010 Old Dominion Monarchs baseball team

Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2010 Old Dominion Monarchs baseball team. Thanks, Ejgreen77 (talk) 22:47, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

WKU/Western Kentucky naming

A discussion I've restarted at the main athletic program page, if anyone's interested. Kithira (talk) 22:08, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Anyone interested in creating a coach article?

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)

Rogerd, any interest as a big UK editor? Billcasey905 (talk) 16:37, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

I tried to do it some time ago, but there is wasn't a lot of information about him online. I know he was also AD from 1969–1975, too. I will try again to find something this weekend. --rogerd (talk) 17:07, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

I did some google searching everything pertinent I found is in User:Rogerd/sandbox. I guess that is enough for a starting article, although I am troubled that I haven't yet been able to find his birth date. I'll put it together soon. --rogerd (talk) 19:44, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

I can give it a go, if you'd like. Would need some help with the basketball section, I'm guessing. Kithira (talk) 22:19, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

I can definitely help fill in his basketball career. Rikster2 (talk) 02:27, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Sounds good, I'm just finishing up a program page this morning, but I'll get straight to that when I'm done. Kithira (talk) 11:15, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Not a finished product, but a start for you to revise things and add the basketball content. Feel free to make any and all changes, won't hurt my feelings. :-) Cheers! Kithira (talk) 14:43, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Looks great, I'll jump in when I can. I see that there another missing baseball head coach/basketball assistant, Dick Parsons (who is still living). I may take a crack at it. --rogerd (talk) 20:59, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Oh God, I just looked back at this and realized you'd offered. God I'm sorry, I saw the "r" user names and thought it was all the same person posting stuff, I'm really, really sorry about that. Kithira (talk) 23:07, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

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More rankings

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)

Anybody have any input? I'm thinking of going ahead and adding the PG rankings, but D1baseball just relaunched their site and it looks very good, and they have their rankings. Want to see what everyone else thinks. Mpejkrm (talk) 15:17, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Does anybody know how to work Template:NCAA Division I baseball ranking movements? I just tried putting the PG in there, it seemed like it was working fine but it didn't work on the team pages. Anybody have any idea? Thanks. Mpejkrm (talk) 18:26, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

I've decided against adding it to the template, because it screws everything up and would require going back through every single page that ever had the template and putting in the ranking movements. Unless someone wants to take on that task. Way too much work for me. Mpejkrm (talk) 02:35, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to discussion of TCU athletic program article name change

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)

Potential problem edits re college sports national championships

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)

Formatting of season schedule tables

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)

Redirects vs. Redlinks for Program Pages

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)

I tend to agree with you Mitch. Of course, the best solution would be to create an actual article. Even a stub is better than a redirect or a redlink. Billcasey905 (talk) 13:31, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

A redirect is better than a redlink. A page (even a stub page) is better than a redirect. A redirect can also be easily expanded out into a page. #Wikipedia101 Ejgreen77 (talk) 22:18, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Of course, the best solution would be an actual article, no question. However, having the redirects makes it difficult for someone to just step in and make an article. Having the redlinks would at least encourage swift article creation as opposed to having redirects for very notable teams for 6 years because no one could tell that there wasn't an article. Wizardman 23:22, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

I think redirects are best. Even in cases where there isn't a baseball section on the athletic program page, it's best to give the reader whatever information is there. Kithira (talk) 16:59, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

College colors in infobox

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)

@Frietjes: would probably be the person to talk to about something like this. Ejgreen77 (talk) 16:53, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

working on it ... just switch the baseball color templates to a single module, the next step is to emulate what is done in infobox basketball biography. by the way, shouldn't a college player be using template:infobox baseball biography? Frietjes (talk) 14:34, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Persondata has been officially deprecated

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)

RfC: proposal to permit non-English Wikipedia links in navboxes

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)

Proposed new WikiProject College Sports (USA)

The creation of a new WikiProject has been proposed: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Collegiate sports (USA). The proposed purpose of this new WikiProject is

to bring a level of standardization of format to Wikipedia articles concerning college sports in the USA. This would include any articles about specific college sports . . .; those sports' seasons . . . and their championships. . . It would include articles about the several collegiate sports governing associations (National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, National Christian College Athletic Association, United States Collegiate Athletic Association, National Junior College Athletic Association) and the various college conferences/leagues (i.e. Big Ten Conference, Ivy League, etc.). It would also include the articles concerning the sports programs of the member institutions of the associations . . . any specific single-sport article for said institution (such as SIU Edwardsville Cougars baseball or SIU Edwardsville Cougars softball), and any single-season article for said sports (such as 2014 SIU Edwardsville Cougars softball team). There is currently no standard format for creating and/or maintaining these pages. The major areas of concern have been and continue to be articles describing collegiate conferences and member institutions' athletic programs. Two articles describing two very similar schools or leagues can be a different as night and day, and when efforts have been made to standardize, those changes have often been met with resistance.

I think this needs to be very carefully examined. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 01:18, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Naming question

 Note: You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Long Beach State Dirtbags baseball#Official vs. Common nickname regarding the name of the article. Thanks! Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:28, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Discussion at WT:CFB

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)

Whitey Campbell

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)

Move Pacific-12 Conference to Pac-12 Conference

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)

Y'all are invited...

 Note: It has been requested that The Summit League be moved to Summit League per WP:THE and WP:COMMONNAME on the article's talk page. Please join the discussion. Thanks! ❄ Corkythehornetfan ❄ 23:19, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Tyler Adkison for deletion

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.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Jrcla2 (talk) 19:22, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Ken Sidwell

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)

AfD: Jim Case (baseball)

Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim Case (baseball). Thanks, Ejgreen77 (talk) 10:58, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Template:Infobox college coach

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)

Redirects of college players to team

FYI

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)

Requesting comments

Please comment here in regards to navboxes in coaches articles. I pinged a few, but I'm sure I forgot many of you! Corkythehornetfan 19:11, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

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Mississippi State–Ole Miss baseball rivalry

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)

The following are to-do's for linking to the new article. Use strikeout (i.e.:<s>strikeout</s>) for completed items:

• Create redirects to new article from redlinks with categories (Category:College baseball rivalry trophies in the United States, Category:Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball, and Category:Ole Miss Rebels baseball):

• Mayor's Trophy (Mississippi)
• Governor's Cup (Mississippi)

• Disambiguation pages:

• Create Mayor's Trophy disambiguation page for Mayor's Trophy (Mississippi) and Mayor's Trophy (New York) for Mets–Yankees rivalry#Mayor's Trophy
• Correct piped link at the Governor's Cup disambiguation page from the Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball article to new article

• Create a summary section linking to new main article from each article:

• Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball#Rivalries
• Ole Miss Rebels baseball#Rivalries
• Southeastern Conference#Rivalries 2

• Add link to new article in See also sections at:

• Egg Bowl#See also

• Create "Rivalries" group with link to new article in team navboxes:

• Mississippi State navbox
• Ole Miss navbox

• Add link to new article within athletics article rivals section:

• Mississippi State Bulldogs#Rivals
• Ole Miss Rebels#Rivals

• Add link to new article to team season articles found in each team's season category:

• Mississippi State:

• 2005
• 2007
• 2008
• 2012
• 2013
• 2014
• 2015
• 2016

• Ole Miss:

• 2014

• Add link to new article from venue articles:

• Dudy Noble Field, Polk–DeMent Stadium
• Smith–Wills Stadium
• Swayze Field
• Trustmark Park

• Create summary (sentence) relating to venues at neutral site host cities in sports sections:

• Jackson, Mississippi#Sports
• Pearl, Mississippi#Sports

Auto-tagging of articles

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)

No issues that I can see. Sounds like a great idea. Billcasey905 (talk) 13:06, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Doing (currently in trial). Note that initial tagging will not include adding the college parameter to articles already tagged with {{WikiProject Baseball}}, as that would be more technically complicated to combine all into one task. After the initial tagging of entirely untagged pages is completed, I can look at how many articles potentially need another run for that sort of thing. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 17:42, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Please do add the college parameter to articles with the existing {{WikiProject Baseball}} template. I imagine it will be a pretty significant number. Ejgreen77 (talk) 12:14, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, looks like 1,000 need the parameter. That run's happening now. Thoughts on these categories: Category:American college baseball templates, Category:College baseball teams in the United States, Category:College baseball trophies and awards in the United States? Note, I am not saying these are a good idea, and you should check every single subcategory before suggesting any of these. It's possible that some of the subcategories contain pages you wouldn't want tagged. (Except the templates - that one seems obvious.) ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 17:51, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Those categories look good to me. Ejgreen77 (talk) 04:00, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Mass TfD's for coaching navboxes

Please see here and down. Thanks, Ejgreen77 (talk) 04:00, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

You're invited...

 Note: You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#Navigation boxes in coaching articles (again) regarding the issue of whether or not the navboxes in coaching articles should be collapsed or stay as is. Please comment there and not here. Thanks, Corkythehornetfan (ping me) 03:52, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Please read - this user may affect WP:CollegeBaseball next!

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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Location parameter in the infobox

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. Corkythehornetfan (ping me) 00:19, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Susquehanna University

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)

You're invited...

 Note: You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#Colors in infoboxes, which involves templates in your WikiProject, regarding the issue of whether or not to include the school colors in the infoboxes of Template:Infobox NCAA football school, Template:Infobox college coach, and adding the college color module to Template:Infobox NFL biography. Please comment there. Thanks, Corky 03:32, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Loyola Ramblers display name

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)