Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball

Welcome to WikiProject Basketball. This project exists to improve and connect current and historical coverage of the sport of basketball in its many forms around the world. Though invented in the United States by Canadian educator James Naismith, today basketball is truly a world game with thriving professional leagues on every continent.

This project serves as a bridge between several WikiProjects that touch the sport. WikiProject National Basketball Association is a project that focuses on coverage of the NBA, generally considered the world's top league. WikiProject College Basketball has a deep focus on the collegiate game (primarily but not exclusively in the United States). There is also a task force on Women's basketball that seeks to improve coverage of the women's game. Please feel free to join the efforts of these projects as well. There are also many projects that touch basketball, such as country-specific sports projects, WikiProject Olympics, college sports specific projects, etc.

Focus
Given that specific focus on the NBA, college basketball and women's basketball in those projects, WP:Basketball focuses on overarching consistency for coverage of basketball (an important role as players and coaches move between leagues and borders with ease). Some examples of what the project covers are:


 * Professional leagues around the world
 * The Olympic Games and other international competitions
 * Other forms of the sport such as Wheelchair basketball, 3x3 basketball, Street basketball and Water basketball
 * Overall history of the sport
 * Basketball rules and strategy
 * High school basketball
 * Basketball Museums and Halls of Fame
 * Basketball venues
 * Basketball in media (books, film, television, video games, comics, magazines, etc.)
 * Barnstorming and entertainment-focused teams such the Harlem Globetrotters
 * Minor league basketball (such as the defunct Continental Basketball Association)
 * Industrial basketball (such as the American AAU)
 * Any other topic clearly related to basketball that doesn't fit cleanly into one of the other WIkiProjects listed above.

When creating or editing an article that falls within this scope, please add the tag below to that article's Talk Page so that it is included in the project's worklists:



Members
You can find a list of all Members here. Joining WikiProject Basketball is easy – just add your username to the bottom of the list. When joining the project, you should watch this page. This allows you to keep up-to-date with discussions about the project on the talk page.

Manual of style
Guidelines and help pages for writing articles and other contributions.

Articles
Manual of style for a few common types of article:


 * Club manual of style
 * Team manual of style (NBA teams)
 * National team manual of style
 * National association manual of style
 * Competition manual of style
 * League season manual of style
 * Club season manual of style
 * Country season manual of style
 * Match manual of style
 * Player manual of style
 * Stadium manual of style

Categories
Info on in what category articles should be placed:


 * Category structure

Templates
Numerous templates exist, how to find them and how to use them:


 * Template list

Notability
How to know if an article should be on Wikipedia or not:
 * Notability guideline for players (official Wikipedia guideline)
 * Leagues that are fully professional to confer player notability
 * Notability guidelines for clubs (WikiProject guideline)
 * Notability guidelines for leagues (WikiProject guideline)

Improve browsing aids
The search box doesn't always help the reader find what he is looking for, especially when he doesn't know what it is exactly that he wants to find. The following tools help readers see what we have available and enable him to travel through the subject in various ways. But they are incomplete and need your help to finish them and keep them up-to-date.


 * Outline of basketball - topic outline, which serves as a structured index, structured glossary, and as a table of contents/menu/site map of the subject. The annotations are included to assist in topic selection. A Wikipedia outline is a type of tree structure, with the hierarchy maintained through headings and indented bullets.  WP outlines are parseable, should someone want to develop outliner-style tools for these.
 * Index of basketball articles - alphabetical index.
 * Glossary of basketball terms - alphabetical glossary.
 * Category:Basketball - a whole branch of categories, including articles, subcategories, sub-subcategories, etc.
 * Portal:Basketball- a Reader's Digest-like approach, with article excerpts.

Guidelines are needed...
Guidelines are needed for basketball-related articles, including:


 * 1) Teams (NBA, NBDL, International, WNBA and the like)
 * 2) Team info (template)
 * 3) Team history (abridged)
 * 4) A separate link to detailed history, if it is appropriate
 * 5) Current roster (template)
 * 6) Retired numbers & Hall of Famers
 * 7) Links to more info (template)
 * 8) All-time team records
 * 9) Award winners & league leaders
 * 10) Team records
 * 11) Players of note (non-HoFers)
 * 12) Team's HoF
 * 13) Broadcasters
 * 14) Managers & ownership
 * 15) Post-season series
 * 16) Stadiums (history extending beyond basketball)
 * 17) Biographies (from players to managers to owners)
 * 18) * This seems to be a separate project
 * 19) NBA Finals
 * 20) Other postseason series (NBDL, International, etc.)
 * 21) Regular season playoffs
 * 22) Leagues & Divisions
 * 23) Defunct teams
 * 24) Defunct leagues
 * 25) National Teams
 * 26) Team info
 * 27) Team history
 * 28) Current roster
 * 29) All-time team records
 * 30) Team records
 * 31) Miscellaneous

Basketball-related articles on Wikipedia seem to be maintained well, but work is certainly needed.

General strategy and discussion forums

 * List of
 * /General
 * /Strategy

Templates

 * Infoboxes:
 * Infobox basketball club
 * Infobox WNBA team
 * Infobox basketball biography
 * Infobox PBA team
 * Infobox national basketball team
 * Infobox basketball club
 * Team roster templates:
 * Pro teams:
 * Hoops team start
 * Hoops team player
 * Hoops team footer
 * Amateur/college teams:
 * Basketball team start
 * Basketball team player
 * Basketball team mid
 * Basketball team blank column
 * Basketball team end
 * Others:
 * Basketballbox
 * Basketball kit
 * International basketball
 * International women's basketball
 * Men's professional basketball leagues
 * International youth basketball
 * International youth basketball (Women)
 * National Basketball Association
 * Women's National Basketball Association
 * NBA Arenas
 * NBA50
 * PBA
 * Philippine Basketball Association seasons
 * PBA25

Useful links

 * dmoz Open Directory Project Basketball section
 * Eurobasket.com including all international leagues
 * FIBA site
 * International Wheelchair Basketball Federation
 * Yahoo Directory Basketball section