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Merged teams
How treated merged teams? (e.g. Kintetsu Buffaloes for Oryx Buffaloes) -- Aphaia 02:57, 12 April 2007 (UTC)


 * It depends on the circumstances. But say a team gets bought out by a different company and changes name, or relocates city, then generally the article should be the same under the newest name. (e.g. Los Angeles Dodgers had a few different names before LA, and it has one article.) But if a team actually merged, and both teams left the league, I'd suggest a new article with the other two becoming defunct. Or if the two teams merged, but kept the name of one of the sides, the name kept would be the main article and the original topic should redirect to that page, with the team that was classed as defunct having it's own page. --Borgardetalk 09:13, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The case of LA Dodgers and Brooklin's one is a good example. The case I mentioned on the above is a bit complicated, say:
 * As for players, two teams were merged and some were traded for other teams.
 * Financially the one (Oryx Baseball Club) bought another (Kintetsu Buffaloes). The latter as company became defunct.
 * However, for consolation of the defunct team fan possible, the nickname remaining was Buffaloes, not Bluewave.
 * Officially it is said the new team, Oryx Buffaloes is the successor of Oryx Bluewave, but it is a challengeable thought for fans of both teams emotionally. --Aphaia 10:10, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I've left a message for people of the main project to comment, I don't know the histories that well, so maybe some other people may have opinions.--Borgardetalk 16:03, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

For teams that were merged into a new entity, I'd keep standalone articles for the two merged franchises ending with the merge, and start an article on the new team beginning at the merge. For teams that were absorbed by a single other team, I'd keep one article for the absorbed team, terminating at the merger, and another for the absorbing team, both before and after that point. For teams that were dissolved and subsequently reconstituted, I'd keep all the information on one page, broken apart by secion headers, as long as the length isn't prohibitive. -Hit bull, win steak(Moo!) 15:24, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

NPB infobox
I found an infobox that had already been made today, Template:NPB infobox. It seems to be based on Template:MLB infobox. I'm currently messing around with it to see if I can incorporate it into the articles. It looks better than the current template used. --Borgardetalk 09:34, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

anyone know what happened to this? It seems the new template is not being used yet. I agree the one based on the MLB infobox is an improvement over the current infobox. Aepplet (talk) 15:37, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Resources
Please post resources for Japanese baseball related topics, thanks. --Borgardetalk 12:11, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Roster table
Would it be possible to make tables for the current roster of each team, similar to the ones found on MLB teams' pages? I don't know too much about Japanese baseball, but it seems that many teams have a lot more players than in the MLB (e.g. Tokyo Yakult Swallows, who seem to have 35 pitchers), and I don't know if that would cause too much trouble for such a table. - CKHideki 19:18, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
 * For your information the official websites of NPB says Ichigun (literary "Army I") rooster can have up to 28 players including up to 4 foreign players (= without Japanese citizenship basically) and 25 among them can be in the bench of a given game. The difficulty is, differrent from MBL, the manager can change players of the rooster whenever he wants, if the player belongs to the team. Unless you are sure you can watch "the current roosters of the teams" everyday, I am afraid it is not feasible to have such tables. --Aphaia 11:06, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

It's done! Template:NPB roster, Example: Template:Chunichi Dragons roster, roster updates from, suggestions welcome! Aepplet (talk) 09:34, 25 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Nice work Aepplet. I added the roster to the team's season page as well. Borgarde (talk) 12:09, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

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 Japanese baseball info to the pages. Regards.--Old Hoss 04:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Takehiko Bessho
I was surprised to see Bessho doesn't have an article so i'm creating one: User:Jmfangio/Takehiko Bessho. Does anyone here know how to do all the "translation stuff". In other words - i have no idea how to write/display his name in Japanese - could someone give me some help with that? Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat 07:19, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Good point. I tried to add some from ja:別所毅彦. Also I was very surprised we had nor Tetsuharu Kawakami, "God of Batting". Both player and manager, he should obtain an article. --Aphaia 08:51, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Season article for NPB
I've created 2006 Nippon Professional Baseball season, and will expand it later tonight. I'm going to base it on the MLB season articles, for example 2006 Major League Baseball season. Any input from other users, or input to other seasons would be great. --Borgardetalk 06:50, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Naruse
I just made an article on Yoshihisa Naruse; it's an incredibly brief stub at the moment. There's tons of content on the Japanese article that could be migrated over, but I know not a word of Japanese, so I cannot make sense of it at all. If anybody has some time and is interested though, just wanted to make sure that it was known to be here. matt91486 (talk) 03:09, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Kansai Independent Baseball League and Eri Yoshida
New articles: Kansai Independent Baseball League and Eri Yoshida, high-school girl drafted to play in the otherwise all-male professional league. Contributions welcome. Fg2 (talk) 10:59, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

2009 Nippon Professional Baseball season
I've created basic season stub articles for all 12 teams for the 2009 Nippon Professional Baseball season. These are based on the MLB team season. See Template:2009 NPB season for links. I'll be updating the game logs as often as possible, and adding prose when I can, but I'm posting these here to let people know they exist. Also, I've included links to these pages on all the main team pages, following the existing structure of other baseball and sports teams. Borgarde (talk) 17:04, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

1st FA for this task force
Just to let you guys know, it looks like Posting system is this task force's first Featured Article! Let's keep growing the list. I think this topic as a lot of potential for some great FAs! -- T orsodo g Talk 03:49, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Japan sport task force
WikiProject Japan is looking to create a sport task force to help with the coverage of all sportsin Japan. If you are interested in participating, please go here and indicate your interest in helping out. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe 02:10, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Roster template
I'm working over on the Australian task force, and have been doing a lot with the Australia national baseball team article. In trying to get the article up to a similar standard to the other Australian sporting team articles, maybe even higher, I wanted to put in some reference to the current or most recent team. I knew there were roster templates, but none of the ones I found seemed quite right for an international team - most of them had references to disabled lists, transactions, etc. So I decided to create one of my own, located here. I've made everything I can think of in the template optional, so if they don't apply in certain circumstances, or aren't announced yet, they don't have to be specified: If any of the above aren't used, then the template will adjust itself accordingly - at least as far as I can tell from my testing of it. Also, there are other optional elements: I'm putting this on all 3 national task force pages (I know there are 4, but I don't think anyone else is active on the Australian one) so I can get some feedback - there's no international task force for baseball, and I've not gotten much interest when I've posted on the main project's talk page for international stuff. Assuming I get some positive responses I'll put it in the template namespace and we can start using it on national team pages, and maybe even for the tournament All Star teams that get selected at the WBC. Leave feedback here, or on my talk page, and let's see what happens. Thanks  Afaber012  (talk) 08:27, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 'TournamentName'
 * 'Date'
 * 'ProvisionalPlayers'
 * 'Manager'
 * 'Coaches'
 * 'DH'
 * Pitchers can be specified using either 'Pitchers', or a combination of 'Starters', 'Bullpen' & 'Closer' ('Closer' is optional)
 * The colour of the headers can be changed from the default greys, so they match the style of the MLB rosters, using 'FC1', 'BC1', 'FC2' & 'BC2' - FC=text colour, BC=background colour, 1=1st line, 2=2nd line
 * The header names for the three sections can be changed from the defaults, using 'ActiveAlt', 'ProvisionalAlt' & 'CoachesAlt'

Anyone have information on the NPB MVP award?
I have an article started in my sandbox, but it is basically only a list of the MVP winners. Does anyone have any other info on the award, such as its history, stats and who votes on the players? Any possibly sources? -- T orsodo g Talk 00:20, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Black Mist scandal questions
I have some questions at Talk:The Black Mist Scandal (Japanese baseball) if anybody can take a look --AW (talk) 03:10, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  02:45, 28 March 2010 (UTC)