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[edit] Recruitment

I have posted a messaged on User talk pages of anyone who has made a contribution to an Australian Baseball related article inviting them to join the project, anyone else seen editing -adding information, not just a slight correction- any articles related to Australian Baseball should be invited to join. --Dan027 10:30, 26 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Replacing stub tags

I believe these have now all been changed. Ive added the articles in Category:Australian Baseball players, in the near future a Australian Baseballers stub might be required, but at the moment there is only 21(that ive found) articles on Australian Baseball players. --Dan027 10:30, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] International Baseball League of Australia

Is there any information available on this league? I can't find anything on google, most things I find mention the name or they are dead links. I'd like to see this article created, but I can't find any information as of yet..--Borgarde 12:17, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

The broken links are abit of a problem, ive found alot of links and thought id hit the jackpot, alot of searching over many hours just to find the smallest pieces of information. I have one decent source at the moment, there are a number of news paper articles out there aswell.--Dan027 09:42, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
The page states that each year was basically a different competition. One was based with Australian teams and the other with International teams on the Gold Coast. I don't know how to link this into the article, right now I've left it as a stub, incase someone else finds it and has more information. I'll keep searching though to find something to improve it --Borgarde 10:45, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
A source stating the $5millon Nillsson paid for the leagues rights [1].--Dan027 10:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] East Belmont Saints

Hey there Baseball fans. I prodded the above article because at the time I looked at it, it was quite small and made no real assertion to notabiliity.

What may have helped it's cause, would be an article for the league it is a member of? If you start the article creation process top-down - Baseball Baseball in Australia Pro Baseball in Australia Pro Baseball Leagues in Australia Pro Baseball League teams in Australia Amateur Baseball in Australia Amateur Baseball Leagues in Australia Amateur Baseball League teams in Australia

Then the previous article lends credability / notability to successive articles, and you don't have to spend as much time defending your work either through removing prod tags, or if an article goes straight to AfD (maybe because someone simply removes a prod tag rather than explaining why).

Since the bot was started which maintains the list at Wikipedia:New articles (Australia), articles are seen almost immediately by a lot more people even when they may be in a pretty minor stage so having the foundation articles already in place will provide a reason for what might easily be mistaken for a school competition team. Garrie 04:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Baseball WikiProject?

Please discuss here whether you think this project should become part of Baseball WikiProject. Having it a task force of the baseball wikiproject will allow a lot more integration with the project, and potential discussion on topics and activity. If it happened, the project page would be moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Australian baseball task force. Thoughts? --Borgardetalk 11:15, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Is there any reason why it can't function as a task force of the Baseball WikiProject (and WP:AUS through WP:AUSSPORT for that matter) from its present location? I do agree, however, that this project is certainly too narrow to maintain the infrastructure it presently has. The assessments/tagging situation in particular requires resolution, as it is plainly ridiculous to have this project tagging in addition to WP:BASEBALL and WP:AUS.
I would suggest deprecating {{Australian Baseball-WikiProject}} in favour of {{WP Australia|baseball=yes}}, which could provide separate assessments for this project, as well as being integrated with the parent project systems.--cj | talk 13:06, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
It should still be integrated with the baseball project. There is no reason why it can't be part of both. Japanese baseball task force is part of wikiproject japan. The page would exist at the baseball wikiproject's page to keep the topics of interest around the sport of baseball, and then there would still be links to WikiProject Australia and with the assessments the Baseball-WikiProject template would still be used to provide baseball assessments, and then the australia w/ baseball=yes could be used also.--Borgardetalk 09:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
um? 3 days is hardly long enough to come to such a consensus, why cant a task force still keep its article rating system? --Dan027 09:14, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
It still has it's article rating system. It now has one for the baseball project AND the australia one in one banner. For instance, Melbourne Reds are probably considered Low on the main project, but on this one high. By adding "{{Baseball-WikiProject|class=Start|importance=Low|australia=yes|australia-importance=High}}" you are effectively doing the exact same thing. I'll help with the reassessments ASAP so all articles are assessed.--Borgardetalk 13:23, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Project for you

If anyone on this Project is looking for a project, please add the annual final standings and play-off results to each "year in baseball" page. There is a page for each year that is supposed to be for baseball throughout the world, but it so far mainly focuses on US baseball. It would be much appreciated if someone could add Australian baseball info to the pages. Regards.--Old Hoss 04:11, 25 August 2007 (UTC)