Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball/Women's basketball/US College Division 1

The US College Division 1 page covers tasks and other information for articles related to US College Division I women's basketball

Updating head coaching record
One challenge when updating the head coaching record of a coach is that the NCAA database: NCAA data base, while a nice resource because it has the entire coaching record of all active coaches, it only includes the total record for the year not the conference record or conference standings.

The ultimate goal would be to arrange for an API to a statistical service to automatically populate fields, but until that goal is achieved, the second best approach is to go to the conference standings pages. In addition to the obvious challenge that this is a different link for each conference, it typically only includes the most recent year. This is not a problem if only the current year needs updating. I'm going to try an experiment and keep a list of links to some of the conference standings:


 * Big Ten 2019–20 Stats
 * Big Ten 2019–20 Standings

Tasks
For each of the following tasks, refer to Group 1,2,3 and 4 tables below (collapsed), to see which items are done, and which need to be done
 * 1) Create team pages when a team page does not exist
 * 2) Create year by year summaries for team page when the team page exists
 * 3) Create season pages for current year (last column in tables below)
 * 4) Add current year rosters, history, awards, records, and notable sections

Keep the D1 coach list current
Article: List of current NCAA Division I women's basketball coaches

Useful resources:
 * Hoopfeed Note the url structure means this may need annual updating.
 * Rebkell Head 2023 coaching changes thread Caution, often reports rumors, use as a resource, and verify with RS

Process:
 * 1) Following the men's page practice, the usual process is to make a change, and include an RS in the edit summary, so it can be checked if necessary.
 * 2) Make sure to update the beginning year fields. If a coach is removed, and no new coach has been named use Vacant as the entry.
 * 3) When making a change, note whether the coach name and team page are bluelinks, if so, those may need editing to reflect the change.
 * 4) If the new coach came from an existing D1 head coaching position, make sure to visit those entries to make the changes

D1 team page status report
As an experiment, I'm going to create tables of team pages with a status. To keep table size manageable, I'll group the conferences (alphabetically):

Group 1
 * ACC
 * America East
 * Atlantic 10
 * Atlantic Sun
 * B12
 * BE
 * B1G
 * Big West
 * Big Sky
 * Big South

Group 2
 * CAA
 * CUSA
 * Horizon
 * Independents
 * Ivy League
 * Mid-America (MAC)
 * Metro Atlantic Athletic (MAAC)
 * Mid-Eastern Athletic (MEAC)
 * Missouri Valley
 * Mountain West (MW)

Group 3
 * Northeast
 * OVC
 * PAC12
 * Patriot League

Group 4
 * SEC
 * Southern
 * Southland
 * Sun Belt
 * SWAC
 * The Summit
 * WAC
 * WCC

There are several elements typical in some articles; the table will indicate whether the element exists, and in some cases, how well developed it is: Elements:
 * Page status, whether an article exists, (or if it is just a redirect). A basic page would generally have at least a lead, an infobox, navboxes, and categories.
 * History—"Basic" means a paragraph or two, "Partial" means more, but still some gaps, a check mark means largely complete
 * Year by Year table
 * Current roster
 * Awards—a check mark means it exists (although it may not be complete)
 * Records—"Partial" means some records are noted, but not complete
 * Notable—may not be appropriate (as separate section) if the history is complete with all prior players and coaches

Team Year pages in existence
Not all schools have article for every year, in fact, most are not yet created. When creating an article such as historical standings, it may not look desirable to have a sea of red links, yet it would be nice to link to team years when available.

As a help to identifying which team year pages exists, and when a general link to a team page is needed, I've started WikiProject Basketball/Existing team year articles/ It is incomplete; I'm looking for feedback on usefulness and design, before filling out more entries.

The goal is to have all blue links:
 * A link to a team year, if available
 * A link to a women's basketball specific team page, if available, and no team year exists
 * A link to a school basketball team article, if no women's specific article
 * A link to a school, if not basketball specific articles

Resources

 * Master Table
 * List of current NCAA Division I women's basketball coaches
 * ISSUU Source for many media guides
 * NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament Sortable list of NCAA D1 Tournament result
 * NCAA statistic data for players and coaches plus birthdays for some coaches