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Think we could get categories of players by draft team and year? Then we could have a separate category for ones who played professionally despite not being drafted, as no list for that exists as far as I know. --fullcourt 23:30, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
I would love to try to start a list of undrafted players who played for a certain time in the NBA. It'd be hard to do every one. Kgppra17 11:27, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
If this is going to be a standard feature we should create a standard format for it. I'll start working on some templates I guess. --fullcourt 03:20, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed that on the Celtics' article, team's General Managers are now listed. I guess a single user took it upon herself to rea-add GMs to the infobox. The process seems lengthy and I already helped her out by fixing the Toronto box. New England 04:25, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Check out this:
Atlantic: Boston • New Jersey • New York • Philadelphia • Toronto Southwest: Dallas • Houston • Memphis • New Orleans • San Antonio |
See also: 2007 NBA Draft • All-Star Game • Playoffs • Transactions |
I created these a while ago and am finally unveiling them to you. Feel free to edit them (I'll still work on them myself, though) Soxrock 01:29, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
I disagree with including these sections as written on Point guard, Power forward (basketball), Shooting guard, Small forward, and Center (basketball).
Who says these players are notable? What criteria is being used to determine what makes a player notable?
Right now, it's all opinion. It's completely unsourced POV. I believe consensus needs to be reached on criteria for what is going to be considered notable, and players should be added to the lists with sources showing they meet these criteria. These sections are completely unacceptable per WP:A as they are currently written. --OnoremDil 15:47, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
You guys should also watch out for users including their favorite player elsewhere in the article. on the Small Forward one, an anon mentioned Lebron James in the middle of the body text (it was quickly removed). New England (C) (H) 13:15, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
Okay, I give up. Those sections are POV and original research. They shouldn't be in the aticle of the basketball positions. I will erase the names on Tweener (basketball) myself. Brave warrior 11:16, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
(Breathes Wikipedia air again) I just wanted to say that I rewrote Red Auerbach and it is now a GAC. Feedback and wikignoming are appreciated :D. —Onomatopoeia 07:04, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, Bob Cousy and Magic Johnson (2nd try) are new GACs now. Again, feedback and wikignoming are appreciated! Onomatopoeia 18:08, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm an admin who wanted to handle the requested move of National Basketball Association Playoffs to NBA Playoffs, listed as "uncontroversial". However, when I took a glance over Category:National Basketball Association, I discovered a huge mix of "NBA" versus "National Basketball Association" in page and category titles. Can the wikiproject please decide on one naming convention? A case could be made for both directions: while MoS generally calls for unabbreviated titles, the acronym is so famous that it's far more prominent than the spelled-out version. On the other hand, in similar Category:National Football League, spelled-out titles win by 10:1 ratio. Duja► 07:11, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
I would prefer NBA because it is more general and commonly used in real life. National Basketball Association is not used often and i know some people who don't even know NBA stands for that. Brave warrior 03:23, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
So is there any chance that this will be moved? --Howard the Duck 15:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
I suggest merging these two projects and deleting the NBA project. The NBA project clearly does not to exist. That project already overlaps the NBA project. Also basketball isn't just about NBA, there are college leagues and many international leagues. If like this, there should be many other projects about different leagues such such as WikiProject college basketball or WikiProject Euroleague or something. Creating a WikiProject on the NBA is clearly US biased. All the members in this project could be a member of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball after. Brave warrior 00:28, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Just take a look at the WP Projects page here. Sub-groups, or whatever you wish to call them, exist. Chensiyuan 01:18, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
I did every All-Defensive team on the Seasons pages that didn't have one.Kgppra17 11:30, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, as there is some new life in this WikiProject again, I would like to ask if there would be support to get our next (i.e. fourth) Featured Article. I propose Tim Duncan — a GA, short, concise article (34kb) with a lot of pics, high-relevance, refs already nicely formatted, reliable (i.e. WP:RS-worthy) info widely available on the Net, prose also decent at least. Feedback or further proposals are welcomed. —Onomatopoeia 12:35, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I created a page with succession boxes for the Europe live tour, since it seems like it's going to be an annual thing. Anyone who wants to check it out and expand the articles definitely should.Kgppra17 20:28, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
I know that other sports related projects have some sub-projects for teams (specifically NFL and MLB). I was wondering if A) I could start a subbject dedicated to working on Boston Celtics related pages, and B) If any members of this project are interested. New England Review Me! 18:13, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I'd help for the Celtics, but I'd think that some teams would get left out or underrepresented, whilst others would have tons of info (like the C's and Lakers, etc.).Kgppra17 22:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Is there any objective measure to find out what nick warrants an entry in one's Wikipedia article? E.g. Shaquille O'Neal has literally dozens, but many were en vogue for a short while only, and in the end very shortlived. Tim Duncan e.g. is "Big Fundamental", but the other nicks (TD, Timmy, Merlin) are a bit doubtful IMHO. Baron Davis has several (B-Diddy, Bulletproof Baron, Bodyguard), but nothing that really sticks. Should we limit this? Nicks which appear on player's nba.com bio page + basketball-reference.com page only? —Onomatopoeia 18:00, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Nicknames given out by Shaq, Kenny Smith (or any of the TNT crew), and blogs of record like the Wizznutz should be in there. Anything else is frivolous. Especially when it's just a guy's initials. Only MJ gets away with going by initials.Kgppra17 05:04, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi WikiProject NBA, after some last copyediting, Tim Duncan is now a FAC. Go to the FAC page, give feedback, edit/hold/pass and wikignome! —Onomatopoeia 13:16, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I would like to call people to join in an imortant discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Dates ranges in infoboxes/templates. This project has a number of infoboxes where this discussion is applicable. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat 02:49, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Red Auerbach has been quick-stripped of GA status under very flimsy circumstances, and I am appealing against it on WP:GA/R. —Onomatopoeia 15:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Since David Falk is an NBA-related article, I though I'd post this here, even though it's being reviewed in the Biography department. Feel free to join the discussion of the David Falk article here. Joseph Petek 05:07, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
I need to find a Public Domain image of José Juan Barea so it can be improved to Good Article, he is also active in the Pre Olympic so maybe if someone is going to assist to the PR vs. USA game in Las Vegas and can do me that favor it would be appreciated, thanks for your time. - Caribbean~H.Q. 00:45, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi all, thanks for those who voiced your opinions at the Tim Duncan FAC. I'm looking at TJ Ford and Dwight Howard as possible future GA candidates. There's still some work to be done for those two, so anyone interested? Chensiyuan 09:39, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Together, Soxrock and I are developing a basketball-centric wiki, at http://basketball.wikia.com/wiki/Main Page. It was just created today, so a lot of work needs to be done to improve it, but on behalf of Soxrock and myself, we would greatly appreciate it if we can get any help possible. Thank you, Ksy92003(talk) 00:28, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I just want to let you know that I moved the Season-by-season records section of the Los Angeles Lakers to Los Angeles Lakers seasons because it was really big and was messing the main Lakers page. --Crzycheetah 01:34, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Feel free to chime in on the David Falk FAC discussion page. Joseph Petek 19:06, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
As an FYI, the content of quite a few Wikipedia articles on former Laker players has been posted on lakerplayers.org without attribution. For example, http://www.lakersplayers.org/luciusallen.php (compare Lucius Allen) and http://www.lakersplayers.org/elgin-baylor.php (compare Elgin Baylor) are non-compliant with GFDL (I call it plagiarism). There are many other examples. If any members of the project feel motivated (particularly if you find your own contributions posted at that site), you might want to inform the site's webmaster of their blatant violation. I gave it a go a few months ago and received no response. Maybe there will be more impact if a group effort is involved. Myasuda 03:50, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
I would like to know why the Home arenas section comes first in team articles. What is the main reason behind this? It is a stubby section and will always be. Why is it more important than the history section? I suggest putting this section after the season-by-season section at least. --Crzycheetah 22:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Because the NBA season starts in less than a week, I assume the season-by-season records are staying and the W–L records will be periodically updated. If this is the case, can we employ Template:NBA season record in each of the thirty teams’ tables? I made a more detailed post about this back in April, but it was too far from the regular season and didn’t appear to have any consensus (and contained an error, now fixed thanks to AzaToth). It’s a bit obsolete now, but here it is. I currently have the template transcluded from my sandbox so that editors can preview some tweaks, but I’d appreciate it if nobody actually submits an edit. —LOL 21:52, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
This doesn’t look like a consensus, so instead of employing the template in all thirty teams at once, I’ll add it to each team’s article when they play their respective season opener. —LOL 20:21, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
I was looking at Template:Chicago Bulls, and I noticed that a few colleges aren't wikilinked. How would I link to those colleges within the current template style?
Also, has there been any consensus on what to do with nationality flags, both within the templates and elsewhere? Should Luol Deng, for example, be labeled with a Sudanese flag or a British one? Zagalejo^^^ 06:18, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
Seems to me the standings should be individual templates. The standings for the Central Division are maintained in (at least) three places: 2007-08 NBA season, 2007-08 Detroit Pistons season and Central Division (NBA). The smart thing to do is to have the standings as a template and only need to update them in one place. The only potential issue is that the standings have different information in each of the three places. X96lee15 13:41, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm running a dry-run here to test the different uniforms and how they conform to the templates. The templates will replace the copyrighted images such as this if the people here agree. Currently there are some patterns that are missing and I'll be uploading some images to largely eliminate those problems - even some of you guys can do it, all you need is MSPaint and PowerPoint. --Howard the Duck 16:23, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Hoopedia is the basketball Wiki, created by the NBA, yet there is no Hoopedia page on Wikipedia. Basketball110 (talk) 01:16, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
Josh Howard’s height is listed as 6′5″ by NBA.com and 6′7″ by ESPN, so there are conflicting edits between two users ([1][2]). For statistics, shouldn’t NBA.com always take precedence because it’s the primary source? —LOL (talk) 22:44, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
I have a question about the various 2007-08 NBA season articles (Warriors, Lakers, Magic, etc.) Does the "Leading scorer" section apply to the players of the team alone or to both teams in the game? On the Warriors article, players such as Carlos Boozer, Tim Thomas, T. J. Ford, Ray Allen, and Kevin Martin are listed, but perhaps they should be replaced with the Warrior players who scored the most for their team. Bash Kash (talk) 07:12, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Happy new year folks, I have rewritten the Dirk Nowitzki article. Still needs spit and polish, but I think a GAC is within reach. —Onomatopoeia (talk) 12:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
I assessed all team articles in order to learn the state of each article. Here is my assessment. If no one minds, I'll create a subpage here at WP:NBA in a couple of days and move my assesment page there. As you could see most of our Team articles are in bad condition and it would be great if we collaborated to improve one article each week. If you have any comments or suggestions, please provide them.--Crzycheetah 22:35, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
I have created a new infobox (Template:Infobox NBAretired) for retired players because the current one is just not cutting it, yes it is very similar to Template:Infobox NFLretired, but I believe that it is way better than the current one. There are still many errors, like the link to stats and things like that, so if anyone could fix that it would be great. Please leave any suggestions or comments here about what you think about it.--Yankees10 (talk) 01:07, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Half of the recent or current All-Stars don't have pictures on their pages. Some of those are in reach of GA, and with some effort, FA. Basketball110 03:03, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Hey folks, Dirk Nowitzki is undergoing a peer review. Please comment here, thanks for reading. —Onomatopoeia (talk) 12:03, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I'm working on the article of Donald Boven (who was in the news recently when Shaq nearly broke his consecutive foul-out record). Is there a template that has NBA player fields and college coaching fields? After his NBA stint, Don Boven went on to coach for his alma mater, Western Michigan University. Thanks a lot.--Eva bd 13:29, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't plan on being too involved with articles not dealing directly with the Cavaliers (being they're my hometown team) but I created an article for a list of their completed seasons based on the same lists we used in the NFL WikiProject. As you can see in the Cleveland Cavaliers seasons article, I feel I've been a sufficient backbone for all future team seasons list. Naturally, as I'm not going to contribute to this project full time, I'm going to expect anyone and everyone to contribute to the betterment of these lists. They won't be able to be up for "featured" status as all the redlinks have to be gone, but working on it, it can be done. So leave a note if you thinks it's good or bad. : ) Wlmaltby3 – talk/contribs 21:22, 16 January 2008 (UTC)