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Jerry Grote & the Colt 45s

I brought up a debate concerning Jerry Grote and the Colt 45s at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball. I'd like your input on the topic.--Johnny Spasm (talk) 00:19, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure the sort of canvassing you've done in this is entirely appropriate. I don't have a problem with raising the debate to the WT:BASEBALL page, but then putting a note on my talk page? I've not editted or otherwise shown interest in the topic or in related articles. Yes I'm a member of the project and have contributed to discussions, but don't you think if I'm likely to have an opinion that I think is worth expressing on it, that I'm likely to be watching the project's talk page already, and so I don't need the personalised invitation. Given the specifity of the debate, I shouldn't be invited to it.  Afaber012  (talk)  03:49, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
No intention to be inappropriate. I raised a debate, and sent a bunch of Wikipedia's baseball fans messages saying that I did.--Johnny Spasm (talk) 22:32, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

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Heyo! Could you stop by in an hour or so? Nearly done adding ABs finally! Staxringold talkcontribs 02:09, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

No worries. I've just had a quick look and I think its looking good. I did fix up a couple of minor things I noticed: the 2000 AL runner up column only had the #HR once but two sets of ABs, and I got the sorting for the NL table done as well. I'm happy to sign off on it being FL once the last of the ABs are done.  Afaber012  (talk)  03:23, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

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Claxton Shield PR

Yes, that is much more clear. I did some minor copyediting this time around. Please revert anything you don't agree with. I have a question about this sentence: "It varied from the 2009 Claxton Shield by expanding the season to include ten rounds." Would it be helpful to add how many rounds the 2009 season involved? Finetooth (talk) 00:22, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

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You are now a Reviewer

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Your GA nomination of 2010 Claxton Shield

Hello, I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know I am glad to be reviewing the article 2010 Claxton Shield you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. –Grondemar 19:04, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

I just posted my review for the article and placed it on hold pending addressing of my concerns. Sorry for taking so long. –Grondemar 05:15, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, are you still working on this? The article has been on hold for nearly a month now and hasn't been edited since July 11. –Grondemar 13:00, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
I re-reviewed and passed the article as a good article. Congratulations! –Grondemar 02:05, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Info box

Hey there, do we have an info box for Australian baseball representatives? Thanks, Spy007au (talk) 01:33, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

To my knowledge, the only infoboxes for people to do with baseball is the Major Leaguers one, and possibly minor leagues, etc. I don't know about one for Australian players, either as people who have represented Australia at Olympics/World Cups/WBCs, or as players in ABL/Claxton Shield. But now that you've prodded me to think about it, we probably should have one.  Afaber012  (talk)  07:21, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I agree, we should have one for Australian representatives. Dan027 is very good at engineering these. Suggest the info box includes, Olympics/World Cups/WBCs and friendlies, as well as ABL & Claxton Shield. Do you want to ask Dan027? Cheers, Spy007au (talk) 22:31, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Copa Libertadores

Hello

I want to bring up something that has been troubling me. On the GA nominations page, the Copa Libertadores page has been ignored for a pretty long time while the main reviewers perform reviews and other subjects. I don't want to sound like a nag but other nominees (which are about a week old) have been taken faster than my nomination.

Since this is a mass message to the most frequent reviewers (I only counted four main reviewers), could you at least tell me if an article needs to be a GA before nominating it to become a FA? Or at least point me to a reviewer that could review my nomination? Thanks.

Jamen Somasu (talk) 13:08, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Melbourne Aces

Looks like they've got some basic stuff up, hopefully every team should be officially announced by the end of the week, it's a shame just about everyone knows the names by now. JRA_WestyQld2 Talk 00:01, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Brisbane Bandits page is now half up. JRA_WestyQld2 Talk 04:11, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Ahem

New FAQ page. JRA_WestyQld2 Talk 11:20, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK problem

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Southern Cross Pitch, August 2010

THE SOUTHERN CROSS PITCH
The Australian Baseball Task Force Newsletter
Issue 4 – August 2010
"I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run."
— Babe Ruth
News and announcements
Featured content

The following articles have been promoted past start-class, or included in the task force's scrutiny, since the last edition:

  • GA-Class status:
2010 Claxton Shield
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1939 Claxton Shield, 1946 Claxton Shield, 1947 Claxton Shield, 1948 Claxton Shield, Claxton Shield, Australian Baseball League & Australian Baseball League (1989-1999)


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News from the diamond
  • Claxton Shield: Congratulations to the Victoria Aces for winning the trophy once again, the state's 22nd title. Commiserations to the other teams, particularly to South Australia who made the finals series only to be beaten two games to nil. Though the new league will be commencing this summer, the Shield will still be awarded to the champions, as was the case during the previous incarnation of the ABL.
  • Australian Provincial Championships: The Australian Capital Territory beat teams representing Country New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, as well as New Zealand in the Australian Provincial Championships held during April in Geelong.
  • Australia Women's Championships: Western Australia won their first title at the Women's Championships on the Gold Coast in April.
  • Australian Schools Championship: New South Wales took out their 11th title in the Schoolboys Championships, held during May in Perth.
  • World Junior Baseball Championship: Australia took out second place at the 2010 World Junior Baseball Championship in Thunder Bay, Canada. They went down to Chinese Taipei in the final, but not before beating tournament heavyweights Cuba and USA. It's the best result for an Australian team in the tournament's history, and the first Australian medal since 1995.
  • Australian Baseball League: On 19 May, the new league had its primary brand launch. Some of the details can be seen at the Australian Baseball Federation's website - www.baseball.com.au - or you can take a look at the brand spanking new website just for the new league: www.theabl.com.au. Earlier this month the new team's names and logos were announced, and work has already started on the new articles for the league and its teams.

 Afaber012  (talk)  21:51, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Category:Australian Baseball League

I posted a comment at Talk:Australian Baseball League, re possibility of a second category, to avoid confusion between the old and current ABL's. Thanks for the newsletter. Congrats on the new ABL! Eagle4000 (talk) 04:31, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Australian Baseball League

— Rlevse • Talk • 12:02, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Knowsley Road photographs

The first play-off game at Knowsley Road could be the last game to be played there. It's looking likely that not that many more games will be played at Knowsley Road, Belle Vue, the Willows or Wheldon Road and we have very few free-to-use images of them (although the ones we have, particularly of Wheldon Road are very good). I wouldn't like to see our material on these historic grounds go the same way as the very limited material we have for the historic Boulevard Ground, Thrum Hall or the Parkside Ground. If you will be at the next play-off game at Knowsely Road or if you are able to get any pictures of these grounds I would be very gratefull if you could upload them to commons. I can sort out the categories and such if you don't have any time. Alternatively if you know of anyone who could it would be much appreciated. I am unlikely to go to any away games next season because of my current circumstances so will not be able to contribute towards this, although I shall endevour to get some great images at home games (I've a load of the CC final to upload but there sat it a very long backlog).

Kind Regards, Mtaylor848 (talk) 20:42, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

I would say that is a little rude saying that the messaging was worse than spam. I did not send it indiscriminately but to users who were in the category of rugby league fans and users who had made many edits to any of the above articles recently. The fact that you are in Australia was unknown to me, not that it makes the question all that impertinent. In live in Yorkshire but have images of Portugal and the Netherlands to add. Mtaylor848 (talk) 10:02, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Like I said... actually I didn't say it but it fits: indiscriminate. If you used people in Category:Wikipedian rugby league fans, why didn't you contact another 100+ people? If you contacted people "who had made many edits to any of the above articles recently", why the hell did you contact me? I haven't heard of any of the places you mentioned above, let alone edited any of their articles, let alone made "many" edits "recently". If you'd posted at WP:RL instead, where there are a great many people actively working on and have interest in rugby league articles, you'd have reached not only a larger audience with a single post but an audience more likely to have either the resources you were looking for or the ability to source them.  Afaber012  (talk)  12:08, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Pending changes/Straw poll on interim usage

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Nomination for merging of Template:Linescore2

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Melbourne Aces Roster

Hi

I spent some time filling in the Melbourne Aces roster 2010-11, then a user Special Cases has undone my work (without citing why) and apparently given me a 'level 1 warning' (without citing why). Do you have any idea as to why this is the case? I referenced all material appropriately, and the rosters I have filled in for Sydney and Canberra haven't been removed...

I asked politely why on his talk page, and it was removed within minutes.

I'd like to know why as I am hesitant to contribute further if my work is simply going to be rejected. If I am apparently doing something wrong it's best for all parties if I am notified of WHAT I have done wrong, and HOW I can avoid the mistake.

Thanks --Qwertyqwas (talk) 08:34, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm not sure why he did that. For some reason he thought you were testing something, and that's not supposed to be done in articles/templates/etc where readers can see. It looks like he was using a program that at least semi-automates checking articles for vandalism and other inappropriate things, and presumably it popped your changes up as a false positive.
I've reverted it, and updated it so all the flags are shown now. (I did a google search on the names using "<name> site:baseball.com.au" and they all came up as players from local leagues, hence the Aussie flags.) I've got to admit that I was going to remove the flags when you put them in the Blue Sox' roster, as there'd been a discussion about putting flags in the MLB roster templates that decided against it, but after seeing the Cavalry's lineup the flags seem appropriate to me.  Afaber012  (talk)  10:40, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Southern Cross Pitch, November 2010

THE SOUTHERN CROSS PITCH
The Australian Baseball Task Force Newsletter
Issue 5 – November 2010
"Ninety percent of the game is half mental."
— Yogi Berra
News and announcements
  • Welcome to Qwertyqwas, the newest member of the task force. They've already made some great contributions, particularly to the various ABL roster templates and to the Sydney Blue Sox article. Keep up the good work!
  • The Bill Ponsford article has been selected for inclusion in Wikipedia:Version 0.8; a collection of articles packaged together for offline release.
  • As always, if you've got an idea for the newsletter or for the task force as a whole, please add it to the task force's talk page.
Featured content

The following articles have been promoted past start-class, or included in the task force's scrutiny, since the last edition:

  • B-Class status:

Australia national baseball team at the Summer Olympics & 2010 Claxton Shield finals series

  • C-Class status:

Australia at the Baseball World Cup


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News from the diamond
The ABL is back, with its official start on 6 November at Blacktown Olympic Park. The Sydney Blue Sox hosted the Canberra Cavalry, winning the openning game 1–0. At the end of round 1, the Adelaide Bite and Sydney Blue Sox are tied at the top, having swept the Melbourne Aces and Canberra Cavalry respectively, while the Perth Heat are in third, winning their series against the Brisbane Bandits 3 games to 1.
The San Francisco Giants won the 2010 World Series, defeating the Texas Rangers 4–1 for their 6th World Series title in franchise history and first in San Francisco. The Giants last won the Fall Classic in 1954, when as the New York Giants they swept the Cleveland Indians.
Congratulations to the  Australian Women's Team, who finished in 2nd place at the 2010 Women's World Cup in Venezuela in August. It surpassed the 4th place finishes at all three previous World Cups. Congratulations especially go to Laura Neads, Christina Kreppold and Kim McMillan for their selections in the tournament All Star team, and to Katie Gaynor for leading the tournament with the most RBIs. As a result of this silver medal, the team is now ranked 3rd in the world behind  Japan and  United States.
The final edition of the the Intercontinental Cup was held in Chinese Taipei in October.  Cuba won the tournament, beating  Netherlands in the final for their 11th IC title.  Italy took out the bronze for their first ever medal at an Intercontinental.

 Afaber012  (talk)  22:09, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

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ABL linescores & stats

Well done on updating the ABL linescores and stats so far! I just spent a good two and a half hours updating it; I doubt it takes you that long though. Hopefully next time I do it, it shouldn't take that long as I'll have a good idea of what needs to be done. Qwertyqwas  (talk)  17:15, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

I've had a bit of practice, with previous Claxton Shields, World Cups and the couple of Aussie national team pages. :) These are nice box scores to work off though - a lot of the ones I've worked off from years gone by make you work to find the details to put in, especially for things like the number of home runs/wins/losses/saves for the tournament. These ones give it to you on a silver platter!  Afaber012  (talk)  20:51, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

The small barnstar, for gnomish work

The Original Barnstar, for good deed #1 The Original Barnstar
This barnstar is for quickly finding a reference for 1997–98 Australian Baseball League season and working to improve the entire run of Season articles. GeorgeLouis (talk) 23:19, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:2009 Perth Heat roster

Template:2009 Perth Heat roster has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Mhiji (talk) 11:38, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Oeltjen

Why did you change all the dates in the Trent Oeljen article? All other Major League player articles use the other date style... it makes no sense to change them. Spanneraol (talk) 20:25, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Because according to WP:STRONGNAT, an article with strong national ties to a particular English-speaking country should use the common date format of that country. If just being Australian isn't a strong enough tie, he's represented Australia at top level international baseball tournaments including the World Cup and WBC, which made him notable and worthy of his own article on Wikipedia prior to his first MLB appearance.  Afaber012  (talk)  22:33, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Southern Cross Pitch, January 2011

THE SOUTHERN CROSS PITCH
The Australian Baseball Task Force Newsletter
Issue 6 – January 2011
"The Australian baseball public really deserve this."
— Comment from a fan at the ABL's opening night between Sydney and Canberra.
News and announcements
  • A belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. Things have been a little quieter around hear, no doubt due to the holiday season. With the first ABL postseason coming up, let's see if we can get things going again.
  • As always, if you've got an idea for the newsletter or for the task force as a whole, please add it to the task force's talk page.
Featured content

The following articles have been promoted past start-class, or included in the task force's scrutiny, since the last edition:

  • B-Class status:

2010–11 Australian Baseball League season

  • C-Class status:

Australian Baseball League (1989–1999)

News from the diamond
The regular season for the ABL has come to a close, and the Sydney Blue Sox have finished in first spot earning two guaranteed home finals series. They'll face the Perth Heat in the major semi, where the winner will go straight to the championship series and the loser will have a second chance. The Adelaide Bite will host the Melbourne Aces in the sudden death minor semi. Commiserations to the Brisbane Bandits and the Canberra Cavalry, both on missing out on the finals, and on not getting to play the makeup games from round 9, cancelled because of the Queensland floods.
Perth and Sydney split their season series 4–4, with the Heat sweeping 4–0 playing in Sydney. Adelaide convincingly won their season series with Melbourne 7–1, including a 4–0 sweep in Adelaide.


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 Afaber012  (talk)  01:37, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Talkpage

Can you believe the tripe I just got from a certain user on my talk page? JRA_WestyQld2 Talk 02:33, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Wow. Well, you did delete a reference to a woman, so it seems obvious that it comes from your deep-seated resentment of women! Does seem a bit of an over-reaction. I mean, sure ask the question about why it gets deleted, but to go that far?  Afaber012  (talk)  03:21, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Claxton Shield

Hey there, I'm not sure exactly how to do this, so are you able to link Northern Territory into the Claxton Shield Championships table? Thanks, Spy007au (talk) 22:49, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm assuming you meant the {{Claxton Shield results}} template? If that's the case its done now - I set up a redirect to the Buffaloes page. While I was there, I did the same for the ACT to Australia Provincial.  Afaber012  (talk)  07:33, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Excellent, thanks. Spy007au (talk) 08:59, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:2009 Perth Heat roster

Template:2009 Perth Heat roster has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars (talk) 02:28, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Afaber012. You have new messages at Killervogel5's talk page.
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Congrats!

The WikiProject Baseball Barnstar
for work on Australian articles
The Multiple Barnstar
For your hard work on 2010–11 Australian Baseball League season and on its promotion to good article — KV5 • Talk • 22:42, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
This user helped promote 2010–11 Australian Baseball League season to good article status.

Cheers! — KV5 • Talk • 22:42, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Southern Cross Pitch, May 2011

THE SOUTHERN CROSS PITCH
The Australian Baseball Task Force Newsletter
Issue 7 – May 2011]
"We did what you have to do to win. We got three very good starts, we played some outstanding defence and the bats came alive and we peaked at the right time."
— Perth Heat manager Brooke Knight after winning the Australian Baseball League Championship
News and announcements
  • We have a new baseball-exclusive Good Article to take our tally up to three: 2010–11 Australian Baseball League season.
  • New ABL-themed userboxes are now available to go on your user page. Each of the six teams have a standard one ready to go, while the Blue Sox have an additional one using the crowd chant as heard on Triple H FM. If fans of the other teams want a similarly adjusted userbox, let me know and I'll have it up as soon as I can.
  • As always, if you've got an idea for the newsletter or for the task force as a whole, please add it to the task force's talk page.
Featured content

The following articles have been promoted past start-class, or included in the task force's scrutiny, since the last edition:

  • Good Article status:

2010–11 Australian Baseball League season

  • B-Class status:

Australian Baseball League

News from the diamond
The inaugural ABL champions are the Perth Heat. They defeated the Adelaide Bite 2 games to 1 in the championship series, held at Baseball Park in Perth. In late breaking news, the Heat will now get the opportunity to compete in the Asia Series in November this year, against the winners of the Japan Series, Korean Series and Taiwan Series.
Congratulations to the Victoria Blue team, defeating New South Wales in the final at Narrabundah Ballpark in Canberra to claim the National Championship. Country New South Wales defeated Western Australia to claim the bronze medal.
  • Australian Provincial Championships:
After the finals were washed out at Blacktown Olympic Park in Sydney, Western Australia were declared champions at the conclusion of round robin play. They finished in a three-way tie with Country New South Wales and Victoria with a 3–1 record, but finished ahead having given up fewer runs. With its head-to-head win, Country New South Wales claimed silver and Victory bronze.


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 Afaber012  (talk)  07:38, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Melbourne Aces

Hi, obviously im not a wiki nerd, and just wanted to see the Melbourne Aces page in the same style as the MLB teams, that show both the Logo and the Cap insignia. Im very offended that you called my updates "vandalism". Can you then change the style to show both on all the ABL info boxes. As the logo isnt the same as the cap design in every team. I feel that this is a productive step towards a more informative ABL info box.

yeh ill let you do that, im not wasting another 2 hours trying to make it better, only to have it called vandalism.

BG29 (talk) 10:17, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

List of Major League players from Australia

Don't want to touch your baby too much, so I thought I'd just suggest here something about Kevin Jordan (baseball) being an Australian citizen when he was in the majors, but not when he debuted. Similar to like on Flintoff & Dunn. Quietly as well, he's the new manager for the Bandits this season. JRA_WestyQld2 Talk 16:25, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

First, I wasn't ignoring you, I was unexpectedly without a computer for a while, so haven't been able to contribute. Luckily there weren't any more issues brought up with the list and it's passed.
I was thinking about mentioning him somewhere, but I couldn't find anywhere else that considered him to be on the list. The ABF seems to agree about which number Aussie we're up to. The other part was that the list's scope was set out as players born in Australia or who have represented Australia in international competition - that way they've "declared" their sporting nationality. I don't know if he's a dual citizen or not, or if he ever made an announcement to the effect of wanting to play for Australia.  Afaber012  (talk)  20:38, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Almost forgot to thank you for the barnstar. It's not why I edit, but it is nice to get some recognition every once in a while. :-) Giants2008 (27 and counting) 15:29, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Triple Crown jewels

Your majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow these Triple crown upon Afaber012 for your contributions in the areas of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FC. Thank you for all your contributions to the project, particularly in articles related to Australian baseball! – SMasters (talk) 08:33, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
This user has a Triple Crown.

Question

I just undertook a revamping of Hitting for the cycle and split the list of players out from the article discussing the event in hopes of obtaining a more worldwide view of hitting for the cycle. Do you have any information on cycles hit in the top-level Australian leagues? There's a section for "other national leagues" right now that has to be hidden because I have no info. If you do, feel free to add! Cheers! — KV5 • Talk • 13:49, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Unfortunately not, or at least not in a way that is easily available. I can tell you that one potential source of info seems to indicate that it hasn't happened in the new ABL, but it'll take a more thorough search of other sources to be certain of that. In terms of the previous leagues and tournaments, there probably won't be a complete listing available, where examples of it happening - if it has - being stumbled across when looking for other stuff. I'll keep an eye out though.  Afaber012  (talk)  23:34, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
OK sounds good. Keep me posted. Cheers. — KV5 • Talk • 11:07, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

medal type

Hi Afaber012, thanks for fixing the third place tie in the baseball world cup tournament box. Any reason why you also changed the medal type back to 'world cup'? I think the 'world minor' type looks better as the colors come out more. Zwart (talk) 22:43, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

No problem. I set the template up a while ago and have used that type of fix for a couple of scenarios in the past where there were ties. (I think it was some of the Asian Championships but I'm not too sure.)
When I created the template, I had found the different types of medal icons, and me being the somewhat "everything must be organised and color coded" type of nerd, decided to use them with distinct purposes. The reality is that its purely my decision from however long ago, but to my knowledge when the template has been used the medal type has been applied consistently; other world cups with that template also use the coloured globe version. I made the change for that consistency reason. I don't mind if the coloured globe versions get pulled and the plain gold/silver/bronze world versions get used instead, but I think if its done it should be done across the board: change the template rather than just the one article.  Afaber012  (talk)  07:04, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
OK thanks for the explanation. I agree that we should aim for consistency. I did use the minor medal type in the table at the end of the article. Let's keep them both as they are. Zwart (talk) 20:19, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

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Page request

Hi, We are a Baseball Club on the Gold Coast. Can we request a page to be created...new to wikipedia. Thank you in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coomeracubs (talk • contribs) 00:38, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

From what I can see of the club (I'm assuming its the club at www.coomera.baseball.com.au) at the moment I would have to say no for a couple of reasons. One is that given the time I have available to me, I concentrate on the topics I'm familiar with. The second is that from what I can see from a quick googling of the club's name, I don't think it qualifies as a "notable" topic. By that I mean that there is a general notability guidleine that says the topic of an article should have "... received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject ...", which my very quick search didn't find. A more baseball-specific guideline also exists at the baseball notability guideline, which though not a definitive measurement of notability, gives a list of criteria that is used to work out which topics are expected to meet the general guideline. In terms of teams and clubs, it cuts off at the national level.
I appreciate the request, but I think that even if I were in a position to create the article, it'd likely be nominated to be deleted for the above reasons. I'm curious though how you came to me to make the request. For future reference, I'm one of many editors, and am part of a group called the Australian baseball task force, which itself is part of the Baseball WikiProject. If you have questions, comments, concerns, etc about baseball topics, posting at their talk pages can reach many users at once.  Afaber012  (talk)  08:39, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Minor club that doesn't even play in the top tier of the Greater Brisbane League. About as notable as the Bite Brigade :p JRA_WestyQld2 Talk 17:22, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
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