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Articles to add

Hello -- I noticed that you had Scott Erickson listed as one of your "articles to add". Please shunt this over to your list of "articles to expand". :D Hall Monitor 16:37, 20 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Erickson

Will do :-D

~TrafficBenBoy

a litt==Steve Busby== Hi TBB.

Thanks for the message.

Well, after some infructuous attempts (like you), I made a complete cleanup with some additions and corrections. Check it now.

Keep up the good work, and good luck. MusiCitizen 00:06, May 22, 2005 (UTC).

Hello. Some of us, including me and Googie man, have been discussing the creation of a Baseball portal (see Wikipedia:Wikiportal). Would you be interested in helping out on this? Danny 23:10, 27 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, that's a good start. Basically it means creating the page, filling it with articles, figuring out what we have and what we need, picking a featured article, and updating the current events. If we get enough people, it should be rather easy. Danny 23:36, 27 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, again! I got it started here: Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Baseball. Let me know what you think. Danny 02:49, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Can you add some facts to the Did you know section. Make them single sentence bullet points by starting each line with an asterix. They should link to the appropriate article, and the main topic should be bold. Thanks. Danny 02:52, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Also, maybe you can start making a list of things that need to be done:
Copyedit:
Requested articles:
Expand:
or something like that. Danny 02:57, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I made it a little shorter. We need about 4 or 5 of those. Also, try and find things that are interesting trivia, like: More players are using bats made out of maple, because of the success Barry Bonds has had using them. Danny 03:13, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I made a minor tweak but it looks great! Danny 03:17, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think once a week. We'll see how many people we can get interested in this. If there are enough, we can change them more often. Danny 03:41, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. How about some bullet points for our News section. Thanks. Danny 17:41, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thats odd. It looks like it fits to me. Feel free to edit it down. Just reduce the pixel size of the image. Danny 01:07, 30 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

We need to think of some other things to add to make the columns even. We have such good stuff that I dont want to take things out. Danny 01:23, 30 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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YAY For Dino's!!

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Thanks for voting. Spawn Man 01:56, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Side project

Since you're involved with pages for notable players, I thought I'd suggest you might tackle some of the names at Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 2006#Final ballots. Some of these Negro Leaguers are likely to be elected to the HoF in February, and it would be useful if their articles were ready by then. It's tough to guess how many will be elected, though some of the committee members have suggested as many as ten. A few of the prominent ones already had (brief) articles, and I started one for Biz Mackey (who seems to be the likeliest selection), but there are about two dozen remaining. (Anyone who's really ambitious can tackle the additional ones - Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 2006#Screening process - who didn't make the final ballot.) MisfitToys 22:43, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See my response to your question on my talk page. MisfitToys 00:51, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Baseball on Wikicities

Hello TrafficBenBoy, Googie Man here and I want to ask you something as a fellow baseball fan on Wikipedia. Jimbo and Angela have made a new webstie called Wikicities. This link in particular will take you to the baseball Wikicity. As you'll see it's similar to Wikipedia, but my hope is this will allow baseball fans to do more and different things, like reporting on games, in depth statistics, create mulitple pages for pictures, and whatever else baseball fans care to create. You've done great work on Wikipedia and I was hoping you could help get this baseball Wikicity off the ground. Please let me know what you think either at my talk page, or you can email me at terry@wikia.com. Thanks! Googie Man^(Talk), 19:12, 6 January 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Baseball on Wikicities, part II

Hi again TrafficBenBoy, thanks for your response to your email. So far I've gotten some questions on how Wikicities baseball will offer something substantially different from what you can do on Wikipedia, and I think it's a really good question. I believe that the answer to this question ultimately comes down to freedom. Wikipedia content must ultimately conform to encyclopedic standards. This of course has it's merits, but baseball fans aren't allowed to do things which most generally like to do, which is speculate on who is a better player or team, or expound upon their own theories. My hope is that Baseball Wikicities will become THE place for baseball fans to have a community. If someone goes to a game and wants to report on it, it would be great if they went to Wikicities and wrote a play by play write up. I'll bet that our visitors can write a better and more interesting write up than you can find on any other website too. I'm sure there are a lot of other possibilities I haven't even thought of yet. I hope to see you there TrafficBenBoy. Here's the link again [1]. Googie Man^(Talk), 20:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC).7 January 2006.[reply]

You helped choose {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} as this week's WP:ACID winner

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This week {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} was selected to be improved to featured article status.
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DYK

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Hello TBB

I’m sorry to say that this user want to delete all articles in Dates in baseball (please see), because he (or she) ‘’don't see baseball history by date as notable or useful” (¡?). I would like to know what do you think about it. Thanks in advance. MusiCitizen 20:36, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your support. Throw away this work could be a bad precedent for future projects. Dates in baseball, I think, serves as a complement to This Year in Baseball. A major issue is page size – the 2005 in baseball article, for example, is almost 100K (about three times the recommended page size), and doesn't even include any births yet (for obvious reasons). Cheers, MusiCitizen 13:26, 26 January 2006 (UTC) [ talk ][reply]

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