User talk:TonyTheTiger/sandbox/Hockey mafia issue

Uniform policy on templates
I seriously doubt that we will convince WP:HOCKEY, but I think it is possible to reach consensus among WP:MLB, WP:NFL, WP:NBA, WP:FOOTY, WP:CFB and WP:WPCBB in a template policy. I have singled out these team sports because they all have well-developed professional leagues with large live audiences and national television contracts. Participants in these leagues are automatically encyclopedically notable. The examples below are all for the men's sports. This policy could carry for women's sports as well, but I think because the men's sports have the television contracts that make them higher paying, the athletes are slightly more notable. This policy could also apply to other non-high profile professional sports like lacrosse, but it is most relevant to the men's sports named above. The high school and college templates below all link likely successful professional athletes in a way that a reader of article A is likely to be interested in article B. The professional templates serve to link actual professional athletes in a similar way. Below I am putting down my thoughts that we might possibly agree to:

Yes
 * High School
 * 1) Annual national "Player of the year" awards - E.g. Gatorade National Basketball Player of the Year, ESPNRISE Junior, ESPNRISE Sophomore
 * 2) National All-decade teams - E.g. ESPNRISE 2000s All-Decade boys basketball team, ESPNRISE 2000s All-Decade team

No
 * 1) Annual All-America teams (Parade or McDonalds All-American)
 * 2) No state level teams such as AP Indiana All-Century HS Basketball team navbox, FHSAA's All-Century Team
 * 3) Annual state award winners (Mr. Basketball, etc.)

Yes
 * College
 * 1) Annual consensus All-America teams (Basketball, football, baseball). In the event were there is no consensus list because one list is the recognized list of All-Americans, such as ice hockey or soccer, that one list is acceptable. - #E.g. 2009 NCAA Division I FBS College Football Consensus All-Americans, 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball Consensus All-Americans
 * 2) Annual national champion teams. - E.g., 2001 Duke basketball, 1994 Nebraska football
 * 3) Annual "Player of the year" awards - E.g., Golden Spikes Award, Heisman Trophy,
 * 4) Annual restricted player of the year (by position or size) - E.g. Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, Doak Walker Award, Johnny Bench Award, NABC Defensive Player of the Year, USBWA National Freshman of the Year
 * 5) Annual Championships MOP - E.g., CWSMOP, NCAA Basketball Tournament MOP men
 * 6) Annual Conference POY by sport - E.g., Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year, Chicago Tribune Silver Football
 * 7) HOF - Basketball Hall of Fame
 * 8) Conference All-time teams - SEC 50th
 * 9) Decade, Century teams - 1969-1994 All-America Team
 * 10) Current Conference Coaches - CurrentIvyBBCoaches, Big Ten football coaches
 * 11) Current Conference Starting QBs - SEC football quarterbacks, Big Ten football quarterbacks

Merge
 * 1) Specialized HOFs - Florida-Georgia Hall of Fame into University template for the sport
 * 2) Starting Quarterback lists - MichiganWolverineQuarterbacks into University template for the sport
 * 3) Merge head coach templates into University template for the sport (already being done in many cases)
 * 4) Merge retired number/wall of fame into University template for the sport - SeminolesRetired into Florida State Seminoles Football

No
 * 1) Annual Conference restricted Player of the Year (Big Ten Defensive Lineman of the Year)
 * 2) Player of the week or player of the month templates
 * 3) In sports where consensus All-American lists exist, no individual list team templates are acceptable.
 * 4) University retired number templates (to be merged into a general University sport template such as Michigan Wolverines football
 * 5) Annual statistical champion templates.

Yes
 * Professional
 * 1) Annual League first overall templates - E.g., NFL Number One Draft Picks, NBA NumberOne Draft Picks, MLB Number One Draft Picks
 * 2) Yearly League first round templates (two rounds for basketball) - E.g., 1998 NFL Draft 2003 NBA Draft
 * 3) All Decade teams - NFL2000s, The Sporting News Major League Baseball 2000s All Decade Team
 * 4) League All-time teams - MLBACT, NBA50, MLBATT, NBA35, NFL75
 * 5) Post season All-League selections (maybe merge decaded to cut down on template clutter) - 2007 All-Pro Team, (baseball using NL OF Silver Slugger Award and NL OF Gold Glove Award (Maybe add All-NBA Team, and NHL All-Star Team)
 * 6) POY and MVPs - AP NFL MVPs, NBA MVPs, AL MVPs, Ballon d'Or recipients
 * 7) Specialized POY - E.g. AP Offensive Players of the Year, NBA Defensive Players of the Year
 * 8) Championship MVP - Super Bowl MVPs, NBA Finals MVPs
 * 9) All-star MVP - NBA All-Star Game MVP Award, Major League Baseball All-Star Game MVPs
 * 10) All-star skills champions - Slam Dunk Contest Winners, Home Run Derby champions
 * 11) Select annual statistical champion templates - NBA scoring leaders, MLS top scorers, Premier League top scorers, NBA assists leaders
 * 12) HOF classes - 1998 Basketball HOF, 1994 Football HOF
 * 13) HOF by position - Baseball Hall of Fame third basemen
 * 14) National and international HOFs - Brazilian Football Museum Hall of Fame
 * 15) Selective career plateaus - 500 home run club, 10,000 rushing yards club
 * 16) Current Conference Coaches - NFLHeadCoaches, NBACoach, MLB managers by team
 * 17) Current Conference Starting QBs - NFL starting quarterbacks
 * 18) Current Players association reps- This seems to me as important as other current templates, but I don't see one. (I would include this if I saw one)
 * 19) Current Team captains reps- This seems to me as important as other current templates, but I don't see one. (I would include this if I saw one)
 * 20) Sequential Players association Presidents- NBAPAPresident

Merge
 * 1) Merge Annual Franchise first round - E.g., ColtsFirstPick, New York Yankees 1st round into franchises such as New York Yankees
 * 2) Merge Captain - E.g., New York Yankees team captains into franchises such as New York Yankees
 * 3) Merge head coach or manager (already been done in many cases, I believe) into franchises such as Oakland Athletics managers into Oakland Athletics
 * 4) Merge Specialized Starter lists into franchise templates - PatriotsQuarterbacks, Category:Lists of Major League Baseball Opening Day starting pitchers
 * 5) Merge owner into franchise templates - Chicago White Sox owners into Chicago White Sox
 * 6) Franchise hall of honor templates (merge into general franchise template) - E.g., merge Eagles Retired Numbers, Eagles Honor Roll into Philadelphia Eagles or Phillies Retired Numbers, Philly Baseball Wall of Fame and Philadelphia Phillies HOF into Philadelphia Phillies or Expos Retired Numbers into Montreal Expos

No
 * 1) Yearly Franchise draft picks - E.g. Colts1998DraftPicks
 * 2) Player of the week or month templates - E.g. 2002 Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week
 * 3) Franchise decades teams - Patriots2000s Could be merged into franchise template if necessary, but most players should be on franchise template.
 * 4) All-star teams - 2008 Pro Bowl AFC starters redundant with ALL-league teams and often midseason. Better just to use post season All-League teams.
 * 5) Regional HOFs - 2004 Philadelphia Sports HOF, Florida Sports Hall of Fame
 * 6) Single game WP:CRUFT - 4 HR game, NFL Quarterbacks with a Perfect Passer Rating

Yes
 * International
 * 1) Olympic Teams - United States Men Basketball Squad 2008 Summer Olympics, Brazil Squad 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 Olympic Champions Baseball
 * 2) Elite international competition teams - Japan 2009 World Baseball Classic roster, Italy Squad 2006 FIBA World Championship, Russia Squad 2002 FIBA World Championship

No
 * 1) Junior, U-17, Universade, international competition teams.