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90: 499: 117: 107: 161: 33: 127: 87: 137: 97: 361:, a featured topic with two fully featured subtopics; in sum, this topic encompasses 1 good article and 36 featured lists, which I believe is the second-largest complete featured topic on the English Knowledge. In addition, we have an informal topic drive going for lists of managers, some of which has already been completed and which will increase our featured content even further. 425:, arguably the greatest pitcher in the history of the game. There is plenty of source material out there, it's just a daunting task for an editor to consider starting (probably why so many "big" players have lesser articles). Beyond that I would say maybe work on notable events/moments/teams like the 318:
Wizardman: What motivated me was having a general interest growing up in the game. I got lucky and got to watch a good baseball team, so my enjoyment of the game moved into here, where I could learn about the different players of the game. Each baseball player has their own unique story which ends up
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Killervogel5: Baseball is a sport that is heavily dependent on its statistics and, as such, lends itself very well to the creation of high-quality lists. Part of the reason behind the large number of featured lists that we have is the project's informal featured topic drives, which are usually just
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As in previous issues of the Report, we tend to include all the pages under the purview of a project in our total just for simplicity's sake. If you exclude everything except mainspace articles and lists, the number of encyclopedic articles covered by WP Baseball is over 26,000, which is still an
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Killervogel5: Take a look at some of the all-time team rosters, and create articles for redlinked players. Fill in a season page for an old team season, including the game log and month-by-month summaries. Any contributor who wants to help out would be welcomed at the project talk
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took me weeks to complete. Since then, I've branched out from Phillies-only work into baseball in general, and from lists to biographies as well. Generally, my bio focus has been on Philadelphia players, but I tend to prefer more obscure players who don't get a lot of focus
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Wizardman: Aside from the redlinks in all-time rosters, while current baseball players and seasons are generally well-handled, former baseball players do not follow suit, even those with particularly illustrious careers. You would think
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Most projects we've previously highlighted had a larger number of featured articles than featured lists. WikiProject Baseball has 23 featured articles and a surprising 117 featured lists. Why are there so many excellent lists in
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being quite fascinating. I typically like working with biographies of retired players. No preference on who they played for or when, though most frequently they've been American League players from the World War II era.
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Killervogel5: I have joined the Awards and prizes WikiProject mainly based on my work with the MLB awards FT. Additionally, we have several subtopics that are dependent on
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What motivated you to become a member of WikiProject Baseball? What kind of baseball-related articles do you like to work on?
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Killervogel5: I've been editing baseball articles ever since I started using Knowledge (my first edit was creating
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generates a report for WikiProjects detailing which articles contain cleanup tags - more details can be found
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There aren't 33,000 articles, categories, templates etc seem to have been included in the mainspace count
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Submit your project's news and announcements for next week's WikiProject Report at the Signpost's
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collaborated and coordinated at the project talk page. Recently, we completed and promoted the
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What are WikiProject Baseball's most pressing needs? How can a new contributor help today?
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Staxringold: I would definitely agree with Wizardman on Hall of Fame biographies. Take
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needs help recruiting new members, creating articles, and improving articles about the
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Has your project developed particularly close relationships with any other projects?
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Killervogel5: We're gearing up for the start of the season, so let's play ball!
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Wizardman: We're always looking for new members and new areas to grow upon.
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this week. The project started on December 13, 2004 as a subproject of
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last Sunday, we thought it would be appropriate to focus on
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needs help creating new articles and expanding current ones
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