Welcome to the WikiProject on baseball in Australia.

To try and boost the interest in Australian baseball at all levels, we want to get as many articles as possible to get onto the Main Page of Wikipedia. The more that get there, the more that get clicked on by curious and interested people, and so the more it should snowball from there.

With that in mind, we're launching an effort to get articles listed in the "Did you know?" section. The main things for an article to be featured there are that the article has to be either brand new or newly expanded fivefold within the last week, there has to be at least 1,500 characters of prose, the fact stated in the 'hook' that appears on the main page has to be cited with an external reference in the article itself, and the article has to be neutral particularly concerning articles on people.

One of the things that's mentioned in the rules is that if content is moved from a user's sandbox to the mainspace, that the 'new'-ness of the content is treated as being from the date it goes into the mainspace, not the initial creation. What that means is we can still work on articles in sandboxes, and when they have the right amount and type of content they can be moved over to the mainspace and be nominated straightaway. With that in mind, if you are thinking about expanding a stub into a larger article, or are going to create a new article for the project, we'd like you to:

1. create a sandbox page from your userpage (if you're not sure how to do this, you can either speak to  Afaber012  on his  (talk)  page, or have a look at his sandbox to see how he's done it)
2. if there's an existing stub, copy the content (don't worry about stub templates or category pages) and paste it into your new sandbox page
3. list the article here with a link to the sandbox page

Doing all this will mean the work you're doing can still be viewed by the rest of the task force and can get contributions from them, but are out of the way from the main content so they won't get marked for deletion, and are unlikely to be vandalized while being worked on.

We've launched a newsletter for the task force, called the Southern Cross Pitch. Whether you're a member of the task force, or just interested in keeping up to date on what's going on around here, feel free to sign up here!

• Improve Wikipedia's coverage of the sport of Baseball in Australia.
• Create guidelines for Australian Baseball articles.
• Improve and expand articles relating to the history of baseball in Australia.
• Improve and expand coverage of Australia's state league competitions.

• The project covers all articles about Baseball in Australia.
• The project is new, so please help expand.
• The project is separate to the main Baseball WikiProject to better organise the Australian articles and get them noticed more among the editors that are interested in Australian Baseball.

If you want to join this WikiProject, please add your name to the active list.

There are almost 300 articles for this task force to look after, which is a lot! Not everyone will have the knowledge and resources to be able to update and maintain all of them, but there are still ways you can help.

There are two boxes to the right of this message:

Article alerts are available, updated by AAlertBot. More information...

• Article Alerts - Below is the current list of alerts for the task force:

This can tell you about certain changes made to articles in terms of the processes they're going through. It provides lists of articles undergoing requests for deletion, candidates for "Featured" or "Good Article" status, and articles in "peer review".

If the pages are being discussed in terms of possible deletion, please voice your opinion, even if it means you think it should be deleted: we'd prefer a few articles on important topics to maintain, than trying to look after a huge number of articles on unimportant topics or topics for which little to no information is available.

If the articles are up as Good Article nominees or Featured Article candidates, it might be best not to be the leading voice for the article itself, but conducting a review of another article in the queue ahead of it would be excellent in helping to speed the overall process up: the faster the queue is dealt with, the sooner our article can be reviewed.

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

• Cleanup Listing - This can give you ideas for what to do next. It lists articles from this project that have been tagged as needing some form of maintenance. This includes articles that need expanding, more sources, updating and articles that aren't clearly notable. Have a look at the articles listed, if you can fix the problem its tagged with, and remove the tag. (Or if you think its already fixed, just go ahead and remove the tag.)

The following is a list of tasks you can do, for the full "to-do" list, or to add a request, click here

• Improve this Project page
• Replace the baseball-stub template with the Australian-baseball-stub template for Australian related articles
• Improve articles related to the Australian Baseball League (now defunct)
• Expand a stub

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:Australian baseball articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Featured lists

Good articles

Did you know? articles

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More information Australian baseball articles by quality and importance, Quality ...

Australian baseball articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				2			2
FL			1				1
GA	1	2	1	1		3	8
B	1	1	1	1			4
C	3	10	3	3		3	22
Start	2	26	49	61		45	183
Stub	1	17	14	108		40	180
List	1	1	4	7		1	14
Category			1		145		146
File				7	24		31
Project				3	10		13
Redirect		4	10	7	9		30
Template		1	1	2	44		48
Assessed	9	62	85	202	232	92	682
Total	9	62	85	202	232	92	682
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 2,122			Ω = 5.29

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• V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc

These templates are used to help identify various pages on Wikipedia as being a part of the Australian baseball task force.

Talk pages

• {{WikiProject Baseball | australia=yes}}

Baseball: Australian NA‑class

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Baseball, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of baseball on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BaseballWikipedia:WikiProject BaseballTemplate:WikiProject BaseballBaseball articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. This article is supported by the Australian baseball task force.

• {{WikiProject Australia | baseball=yes}}

Australia: Baseball NA‑class

WikiProject Baseball/Australian baseball task force is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.AustraliaWikipedia:WikiProject AustraliaTemplate:WikiProject AustraliaAustralia articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. This article is supported by the Australian baseball task force.

These templates should be added to the top of all Talk pages of articles in the project. This ensures that the article is included in WikiProject Baseball, WikiProject Australia and the Australian baseball task force. Other common parameters that are used for both are class and importance, while australia-importance is used in the baseball template, and baseball-importance in the Australia template.

User pages

• {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Templates/AustralianMember}}

This user is a member of the Australian baseball task force of WikiProject Baseball, which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's coverage of the sport of baseball in Australia. Please feel free to join us.

• {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Templates/AustraliaUser}}

This user is part of the Australian baseball task force of WikiProject Baseball.

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