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History at NBA team pages

Serious cleanup is needed in history sections of NBA teams as one editor has been a lot of stuff that has a number of issues (particularly grammar and sources). I am not able to make regular edits so help from active editors would be appreciated. – sbaio 19:06, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sbaio: Can you maybe indicate the top 3–5 that you believe need the most help? If so, I'll see what I can do, thanks. Left guide (talk) 04:38, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Left guide: I cannot look through all pages at this moment, but I think that top five would probably be Atlanta Hawks, Boston Celtics, Golden State Warriors, New Orleans Pelicans and San Antonio Spurs. And that is after taking a quick look at editing history of MacaroniDrown (talk · contribs) who has been making these changes. – sbaio 15:40, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Nic Barlage for deletion

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Left guide (talk) 04:43, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of reliable sources noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Sports Publishing/Skyhorse and Triumph Books. Thank you. Left guide (talk) 23:45, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Basketball Reference links

FYI: I went to Wikidata to add rookie Adem Bona's BR link (was missing from his infobox), and found there was already a BR entry there, but to a different "International Stats", which was just a blank page.[1] Maybe because he played in Turkey before college? I then found that Kobe also has an "international" page, but his shows Olympic stats.[2]. —Bagumba (talk) 04:22, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

NBA Academy bios

Do NBA Academy players get the talk page tag of this project. I just created Oscar Goodman (basketball) and am not sure whether it is premature to tag him here.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 13:51, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say no, and draw the line at G League players, who at least include players drafted by NBA teams, on two-way contracts, or assigned from the NBA. I don't think we should make the scope any player slightly related to the core NBA, like how older WNBA players were tagged under NBA proj.—Bagumba (talk) 18:39, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This project excludes WNBA?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 19:02, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I dont see Talk:Caitlin Clark tagged. —Bagumba (talk) 03:24, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of teams and map added to basketball season pages

An editor has started adding sections for teams and map of teams in NBA and other basketball season pages (for example, 1985–86 NBA season#Teams and 1985–86 NBA season#Map of teams). There is no need to repeat the same information when there are standings tables and the number of teams is usually consistent. That is just a useless decoration. – sbaio 14:21, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The map is useful.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:21, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Other basketball leagues do this, but those have promotion and relegation, so there are always changes from the previous season. One country that has a similar closed system is Australia, and in articles there is a separate teams section, e.g. 2024 NRL season#Teams. Having a closed system is not a reason on why US sports season articles not do this, as sports season articles do it.

One sorta similar thing are candidates sections in elections articles, you'd see the same list anyway at another part of the article albeit in a usually different order. I'd rather keep this article and just have the division, coaches and arenas column, and remove the capacity column, and keep colors to a minimum.

The map is pretty useful, and shows a snapshot in that moment in time how the divisions actually looked like, something a table can't do.

Again, these are US articles, and I don't expect them to follow how the rest of the world does. Howard the Duck (talk) 16:46, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Frontsfan2005: should be seeking a consensus at respective sports WikiProjects, before making such additions to season pages. GoodDay (talk) 17:40, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]