Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Basketball Association/Archive 2

message: noticed there is a set of photos on flickr which are creative commons licenced of some NBA games, some of these could be uploaded here , have already added this --Astrokey44 00:34, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  images 

message: Quick question: is it Mamadou N'Diaye (with an apostrophe and capital D), Mamadou N'diaye (with an apostrophe and lowercase D), or Mamadou Ndiaye (no apostrophe)?  I've seen each form used on the Internet, and I'm wondering of one version is the "correct" form.  Thanks. Zagalejo 19:08, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nobody blocks your shots like your Mamadou

message: The baseball section of Wikipedia has each league's All-Star teams put in year-by-year categories; for example go to :Category:1997 National League All-Stars.  (I probably screwed up the syntax of that sentence anyway).  Anyone think it's a good idea to do the same for the NBA WikiProject?  ekedolphin 04:08, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It wouldn't be too hard to do, since all of that information is readily available.  If someone wants to make some categories, I can start filling them in. Zagalejo 18:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

text: The baseball project also has categories for the annual World Series winners.  (e,g, :Category:2003 Florida Marlins World Series Championship Team).  We could do something like that, too. Zagalejo 18:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: All-Star Roster categories, perhaps?

message: Few NBA blogs are notable enough for Wikipedia, this is IMHO one of them.  (Cases can be made for Deadspin and FreeDarko; but I don't know enough about the latter blogs to write an article on them).  --EngineerScotty 19:53, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added article about [[TrueHoop]] 

message: Are we going to "[m]ake Basketball a descendent project of Sports and make NBA a descendent project of Basketball," as Gurulegend said on the talk page there? --MC 21:13, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: * I oppose the move there is already Wikiproject for the NFL and college football and some people like myself have very little interest in international or college basketball. For those kind of people this project is great as it concentrates on what they love-the NBA. Quadzilla99 16:42, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball|WikiProject Basketball]] and this project  

message: I've just done my best to get rid of the POV and offensive unsubstantiated comments in the article about this player.
However, I know very little about the topic and would appreciate some help.
I'm particularly concerned about the nickname, which I've left in, but looks like a derogatory comment, rather than a nickname. --Dweller 11:03, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Renaldo Balkman]] 

message: Based on a post and discussion at TrueHoop, there seems to be some interest in adding relationships between players and agents to a wiki somewhere. I think it is a great idea to add this to Wikipedia.
Very few basketball agents (or any sports agents, really) have Wikipedia articles (two examples I found were Arn Tellem and Leon Rose).
Could we create a category called NBA players represented by agents and then subcategories like Clients of Rob Pelinka, etc.? Not sure how this would work, but it would be great to be able to get a list of players represented by a specific agent. What do folks think of this idea? Rolando (talk) 17:42, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think at the very least there should be pages for major agents. Maybe Bill Duffy, David Falk, and so on. Then, go on that, and build from there.
And there were several links posted by one of the commenters in Truehoop, which I reproduce here.
One of the most obvious problems, though, is that NBA players often change their agents, and the list would require constant maintenance, and since the news of firings/hirings are usually not widely published, then only a few knowledgeable fans would know about it. Hanuab 12:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

text: All true. From what I've seen, players will change agents when a new contract is coming up, or in the fallout from a scandal (think Joe Smith). In any case, the creator of TrueHoop, Henry Abbott, has created a wiki to track this kind of data--relationships--whether between agents and players, agents and teams, sneaker companies and colleges, etc. Some of the items there (e.g., Rodney Carney's agent Chris Emens, who seems to have one client) are not notable in the context of Wikipedia, but others (e.g. Bill Duffy, Marc Cornstein) may well be. Check it out at truehoopwiki.com]. P.S. in the interest of disclosure, Henry made me an admin and I am mostly responsible for what's there now. Hopefully that will change after this gets formally announced next week. Rolando (talk) 21:56, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, Henry told me about the wiki, but I didn't think it's up yet. I suppose it's OK then, to edit anything I can? Hanuab 00:05, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agent/Player relationships 

message: I started the NBA wikia. I could use some help I will also make a few people admins if they help out.--Team6and7 22:11, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Did a little editing myself. Hopefully, more people will sign up and edit. Hanuab 14:12, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Hanuab--Team6and7 23:18, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NBA wikia 

message: Is there any info when the "forward" and "guard" positions became specialized into PG/SG and PF/SF? Is someone considered the "first" pure player of these categories? Would be helpful to know, thanks. Onomatopoeia 14:33, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: PG/SG and PF/SF

message: I noticed that the entry for each season links to the succesive draft, e.g. the 2005-2006 season links to the 2006 draft. However, it may make more sense to link to the previous draft (e.g. to the 2005 draft) as it is these players who enter the league for a certain season. Tikiwont 14:34, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Draft Links 

message: Beginning cross-post.
:See Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team#Stablepedia. If you wish to comment, please comment there. ★MESSEDROCKER★ 02:53, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stablepedia 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:19, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: Is it a good idea to rename 1947, 1948 and 1949 NBA Playoffs to <year> BAA Playoffs, since the name "NBA" didn't exist until 1950? --Howard the Duck 08:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1947 NBA (?) Playoffs 

message: I added the NBA logo to the template to give it a little flavor. Quadzilla99 07:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My bad I'll remove it. Quadzilla99 00:31, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template 

message: A photo of :Kirk Hinrich of the :Chicago Bulls is needed to replace the promo photo in the infobox. Are there any locals who could manage to do this for the wiki? Thanks.--Alf melmac 12:48, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image needed 

message: I created a version of the invite template for the Wikiproject. Put this on the talk page of anyone you wish to invite the Wikiproject. Quadzilla99 23:04, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invite Template 

message: I also created this userpage template for members of the NBA Wikiproject. Quadzilla99 01:50, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Member Template

message: Just pointing this out to give the project members a chance to update the image used in the templates -- please see Wikipedia:Fair use#Policy, specifically #9.  You can't use fair use (copyrighted) images anywhere except the article namespace, and you can't use them in templates. // Laughing Man 04:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay I'll remove them I didn't know the NFL logo in the NFL template was a created by an editor. Quadzilla99 00:30, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  NBA logo in templates