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I wasn't successful. It showed up some stuff for other countries' Amateur Athletic Association. Some local cities might have had a <city name> Amateur Athletic Association in AAU, but that's not some national league. —Bagumba (talk) 10:08, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I also did take a short peek on Newspapers.com, and while there are alot of hits for Amateur Athletic Association, what they are referencing is all over the place. Couldn't find anything on a national league but then again I didn't look too deep. Regardless, I've no objections to the prod. Alvaldi (talk) 11:12, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is a weird one. Lots of the results I'm seeing appear to be typos, where people clearly meant to say "Amateur Athletic Union." None of the references or external links in the article offer anything helpful. Zagalejo (talk) 18:33, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A lot of “21st century xxxx sportsmen” categories are being added to athletes whose careers ended in the 20th century. Is this appropriate? Once a sportsman, always one? Seems like unless the person is still active as a coach, executive, etc they shouldn’t appear in those categories, but perhaps others have a differing opinion Rikster2 (talk) 20:54, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If no other opinions, I will continue to remove the century sportsmen/sportswomen category for which the individual was not active. Rikster2 (talk) 18:06, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@DaHuzyBru: Name of the page should be used unless the team itself uses the shortened form. Looks like there is no consistency regarding the name, because even the team itself uses both forms. – sbaio10:08, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'd agree on this. Use the article title except disambiguating words. If people insist on pipe linking, open an WP:RM. This applies to all articles, not just basketball ones. Howard the Duck (talk) 12:38, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not a fan of trying to avoid wrapping as everyone's device is different – phones, laptops, different browsers etc. I understand that the official team logo has "S.E. Melbourne Phoenix", but general driveby readers shouldn't have to look elsewhere to find out what "S.E." stands for. I have never seen "R.G. Valley Vipers" be used to avoid that name wrapping. DaHuzyBru (talk) 12:11, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The two projects have different scopes. WP:College basketball covers (primarily American) college basketball, while WP:Basketball covers professional leagues other than the National Basketball Association (NBA), FIBA play and anything else about the sport not explicitly covered by the other 2 basketball projects (college basketball and NBA). It is expected there will be some overlap, with an example being a player who plays college basketball then has a professional career in Spain. Rikster2 (talk) 15:49, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I expect there to be some overlap. However, {{WikiProject Basketball|women=yes}} was blanketly added to all women's basketball, college and professional. Instead, {{WikiProject Women's sport|basketball=yes}} should have been added to pages without {{WikiProject Basketball}}, since there is no |women= parameter for {{WikiProject College basketball}}. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)15:57, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm only a light participant here. But I'n not aware of the Basketball project explictly stating it's more of a men's basketball project. In any event, each project can decide their own scope per WP:PROJSCOPE.—Bagumba (talk) 16:15, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Tom.Reding: Can you state explicitly what was done that you are unsure should have been done? Is it that women's college basketball topics don't also need to be tagged under WikiProject Basketball? —Bagumba (talk) 16:28, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, in those examples WP:Basketball is not needed. Those are purely college basketball topics and WP:College basketball is sufficient Rikster2 (talk) 17:49, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that it should be rewritten. I’m not sure who wrote it, but I don’t remember a consensus discussion around it. WP:Basketball doesn’t deal with college hoops at all. Rikster2 (talk) 18:04, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
given the fact that it was caused (partially) by my bot, I feel responsible. I'm willing to help in any capacity that I can. —usernamekiran (talk)16:56, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
College basketball in the Philippines, while initially influenced by the Americans, is not a part of WP:CBBALL, so it falls under this {WP:B-BALL) project. Philippine college basketball articles usually follow guidelines set by US projects, but some are adjusted to the Philippine experience. I'd suggest to keep off the Philippine college basketball articles for now, up until it is agreed that they are included in WP:CBBALL. Howard the Duck (talk) 00:50, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There may be confusion as the U.S. has the NCAA, but the Philippines also has the similarly named NCAA (Philippines). These are different organizations and act independently of each other. While the US NCAA can be said to be a governing body, the Philippine NCAA is more of like a "conference" in US sporting terminology, but with quite better powers than US conferences do. Howard the Duck (talk) 00:57, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Some have big 3 as part of their information, some as part of their infobox, some have none at all. I don't want to edit them just to start an edit war, but I do want consistency. What's the resolution on Big 3? Should it be present? Should it be in the infobox? Tell me so I know which pages should edit Remi1771 (talk) 00:32, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
