Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Minnesota Twins

Welcome
I am glad to see this project took off. Some things we might want to do:
 * 1) Work on a player article as a colaberation to get it to GA or FA(possibly Kirby Puckett or Torii Hunter to give us an outline to post for player articles
 * 2) Work on a historical team page to get an outline for these (2002 Minnesota Twins or 1991 Minnesota Twins)
 * 3) Create a dump page at Wikiproject Minnesota Twins/Current Team where we can move anything that is about the current team.
 * 4) Create a new stadium sub page at Wikipoject Minnesota Twins/New Stadium if something doesn't all read exist so when there is enough for a "real article" we just move it to a mainspace page.

Thought I'd leave this here to see what people thought before adding it. Thanks, Wikipedia's   False Prophet   holla at me   Improve Me 17:08, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

When did Twins return to 'TC' hat?
The 1987 Twins article states that was the first year they wore the modernized uniforms. However, the old TC hat returned some time much later after years of wearing the M hat. Does anyone know when it happened and could you correct that in that article? DandyDan2007 11:22, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I think it was around 2001 that they brought it back, not totally sure though.--E tac 08:30, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It was at the beginning of the 2002 season. Natedawg519 (talk) 02:04, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Additional sections for MLB team season articles format
Something you might be interested in... I proposed adding some additional optional sections to the season articles format page. You can find the discussion here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball/MLB team season articles format. Comments are welcome. —Mike 23:01, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

"When we have enough"
There seems to be a bunch of things on this WP page thay say things like "when we have enough". I think this WikiProject is large enough to go ahead and add some of these things. jj137 ♠  Talk 23:15, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

For those of you who still participate
A while back, I started up this project. Since, for several reasons (some personal, some involving the site itself), I have moved on from being a regular editor. I encourage anyone who still wants to participate in this project to step up and take over the project and build the history and information on the Twins. False Prophet (talk) 19:39, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Project nomination
Hi project members. I wanted to let you know that I've created List of Minnesota Twins managers, a history of the managers throughout franchise history, including the time in Washington. I've nominated this list for FL and also for a DYK; I'd appreciate your support and help with this article. Thanks! KV5 •  Squawk box  •  Fight on!  22:43, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to banner discussion
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Carl Pohlad
The Carl Pohlad article is lacking. Can we build a proper article for the man? He's all over national news right now (died in the last 24 hours). I'm afraid I'm not of much use anymore, don't have the time, but I was hoping for a better article when I got online today after hearing the news. Be on the lookout for good sources with bio info... Keeper ǀ  76  05:24, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

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Kent Hrbek
Seems there is an Atlanta Braves fan attempting to push the POV that Hrbek dragged Gant off first during the '91 series. I've put the issue up on the Neutral Point of View Noticeboard for discussion and I'd appreciate any input. Rapier1 (talk) 16:36, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

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Sports Notability
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DYK
FYI, I've worked some on Danny Valencia, who has been rated a "B" (I've yet to seek higher) and is being reflected today at DYK on wikipedia's main page.--Epeefleche (talk) 04:34, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Minnesota Twins articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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RFC on sports notability
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User script to detect unreliable sources
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