Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Little League task force

Welcome to the Little League WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Little League.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

This is the current page as of. More information will appear in the coming days.

Scope
Little League, including the Little League Baseball World Series. Please insert ''' on all talk pages associated with this project.

Infobox information
Annual LLWS articles should use Infobox LLWS. See the Infobox section on applicable flags as well as standards thereof.

Beginning of annual LLWS articles
The following text will begin each article:
 * The (year) Little League World Series was held between (start date) and (end date) in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The (winning team) of (winning team's city) defeated (runner-up) of (runner-up's city) in the championship game of the (ordinal number) Little League World Series.

Trivia
Any interesting facts about that year's LLWS must be inserted here. An example would be if a future Major League Baseball player participated.

Qualification

 * The templates Infobox LLWSQualifiers and Infobox LLWSQualifiers-Pre2001 should be used. See the Infobox section on applicable flags as well as standards thereof.
 * The template will be placed above any other text. This rule currently applies to all LLWS tournaments played after 2001.

Winners/Championship Bracket
Use Round4-with third for the winners/championship bracket. Enter information as seen on the front page of the LLWS summary located at the website below.

Consolation/Position Bracket
The same bracket as above must be used, and the information entered in the same manner as above.

Miscellaneous
The spellings of Taiwanese municiplaities differ between Wikipedia and the LL website. Consult Category:Cities in Taiwan as a starting point to clear up any spelling discrepancies.

Bracket templates

 * Round8-with third for all Elimination rounds from 2001 onwards.
 * Round4 for LLWS Elimination rounds played between 1992 and 2000, as well as the following LLWS qualification tournaments
 * Europe, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, New England, Northwest, Southeast, West
 * Round4-with third for all Winners/Championship Brackets and Consolation/Position Brackets (1947 to 1991), as well as for the Transatlantic LLWS qualification tournaments
 * Semi-2-LLWS for the following LLWS qualification tournaments
 * Caribbean, EMEA
 * PagePlayoffBracket if there is a tie in the pool play standings which results in more than four semifinalists.

Other templates

 * LLWS for the LLWS navigation box
 * flag and/or flagicon to display flags (use ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes)

Members
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.


 * 1)  former LL player (Challenger Division), founder of Project
 * 2)  Creating/Finishing articles on regions
 * 1)  Creating/Finishing articles on regions

New articles
Please feel free to list your new Little League-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.


 * 1951 Little League World Series
 * 1950 Little League World Series
 * 1949 Little League World Series
 * 1948 Little League World Series

Collaboration and review

 * Collaboration of the week


 * Peer review

Infobox Little League World Series
This is the basic syntax you need to get a complete infobox on the article page, just place this before any other text and fill in the variables

For the above parameters, here's what you should fill in.
 * Year: The year this particular LLWS was held
 * Start_date: The date pool play began (please wikify)
 * End_date: The date the championship game was played (please wikify)
 * Teams_participated: The number of teams that participated in this LLWS (16 since 2001, 8 from 1948 to 1974 and 1976 to 2000, 4 in 1975, 12 in 1947)
 * Champion: The winner of the championship game, preceded by flag of country
 * Runnerup: The loser of the championship game, preceded by flag of country
 * NB: For US teams, put 🇺🇸 immediately before the state's flag. For Canadian teams, put 🇨🇦 immediately before the province's flag, except in the brackets; only the Canadian flag should be used.

By completing the infobox as follows, you'll get an infobox like the one to the right.

Qualifiers table
 For the above parameters, here is what you should fill in:
 * flagicon followed by a pipe link and the corresponding country name, or ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code if you prefer. See WikiProject Flag Template for detailed instructions.
 * The flag will be followed by that team's city, their representative region, and the name of the league. For example, if the team is from Columbus, Georgia and the league is named "Columbus Northern", simply type "Northern".
 * NB: Remember to put breaking spaces in between city, region, and league.
 * NB: A and B are the United States qualifiers, and C and D are the International qualifiers.

Qualifiers table (Pre 2001)
For the above parameters, here is what you should fill in:
 * flagicon followed by a pipe link and the corresponding ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code. See WikiProject Flag Template for detailed instructions.
 * The flag will be followed by that team's city, their representative region, and the name of the league. For example, if the team is from Columbus, Georgia and the league is named "Columbus National", simply type "National".
 * NB: Remember to put breaking spaces in between city, region, and league.

By completing the infobox as follows, you'll get an infobox like the one above.

Templates

 * Typing in   on your user page will give you


 * For a smaller userbox, just type in   to get

Categories

 * Category:Little League

Resources

 * Little League World Series annual history
 * For all LLWS played before 2004, type in  http://www.littleague.org/series/history/year/XXXX.htm ; replace XXXX with intended year (e.g.,  http://www.littleague.org/series/history/year/1989.htm  will give you the 1989 LLWS tournament summary.
 * NB: Some of the information may be incorrect, e.g. the 1978 and 1979 line scores.
 * LLWS history site from The Sporting News'
 * NB: This is an excellent site if you want to find out about who has participated in every LLWS, but the history therein only extends as far as 1999.
 * A great site on historical qualification for the LLWS

Related projects

 * WikiProject Baseball