Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Little League task force

Little League, including the Little League Baseball World Series. Please insert {{Template:WikiProject Baseball}}''' on all talk pages associated with this project.

{{WikiProject Baseball|littleleague=yes|class=NA|category=no}}

{{WP1|Little League}}

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Little League articles by quality statistics}}

Annual LLWS articles should use {{tl|Infobox LLWS}}. See the Infobox section on applicable flags as well as standards thereof.

The following text will begin each article:

:The (year) Little League World Series was held between (start date) and (end date) in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The (winning team) of (winning team's city) defeated (runner-up) of (runner-up's city) in the championship game of the (ordinal number) Little League World Series.

Any interesting facts about that year's LLWS must be inserted here. An example would be if a future Major League Baseball player participated.

• The templates {{tl|Infobox LLWSQualifiers}} and {{tl|Infobox LLWSQualifiers-Pre2001}} should be used. See the Infobox section on applicable flags as well as standards thereof.
• The template {{mainarticle|Qualification for the XXXX Little League World Series}} will be placed above any other text. This rule currently applies to all LLWS tournaments played after 2001.

Use {{tl|Round4-with third}} for the winners/championship bracket. Enter information as seen on the front page of the LLWS summary located at the website below.

The same bracket as above must be used, and the information entered in the same manner as above.

The spellings of Taiwanese municiplaities differ between Wikipedia and the LL website. Consult :Category:Cities in Taiwan as a starting point to clear up any spelling discrepancies.

• {{tl|Round8-with third}} for all Elimination rounds from 2001 onwards.
• {{tl|Round4}} for LLWS Elimination rounds played between 1992 and 2000, as well as the following LLWS qualification tournaments
• Europe, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, New England, Northwest, Southeast, West
• {{tl|Round4-with third}} for all Winners/Championship Brackets and Consolation/Position Brackets (1947 to 1991), as well as for the Transatlantic LLWS qualification tournaments
• {{tl|Semi-2-LLWS}} for the following LLWS qualification tournaments
• Caribbean, EMEA
• {{tl|PagePlayoffBracket}} if there is a tie in the pool play standings which results in more than four semifinalists.

• {{tl|LLWS}} for the LLWS navigation box
• {{tl|flag}} and/or {{tl|flagicon}} to display flags (use ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes)

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Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. {{User|JB82}} former LL player (Challenger Division), founder of Project
2. {{User|Branson03}}
3. {{User|Bdog9121}} Creating/Finishing articles on regions

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Little League task force/Recognized content}}

Please feel free to list your new Little League-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

• 1951 Little League World Series
• 1950 Little League World Series
• 1949 Little League World Series
• 1948 Little League World Series

; Collaboration of the week

; Peer review

This is the basic syntax you need to get a complete infobox on the article page, just place this before any other text and fill in the variables

{{Infobox Little League World Series
|Year=
|Start_date=
|End_date=
|Teams_participating=
|Champion=
|Runnerup=
}}

{{Infobox international baseball tournament

| image =

| dates = August 18–August 28

| num_teams = 16

| champion_other = {{flagicon|USA}}{{flagicon|Georgia (U.S. state)}} Northern Little League
Columbus, Georgia

| second_other = {{flagicon|JPN}} Kawaguchi City Little League
Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan

}}

For the above parameters, here's what you should fill in.

• Year: The year this particular LLWS was held
• Start_date: The date pool play began (please wikify)
• End_date: The date the championship game was played (please wikify)
• Teams_participated: The number of teams that participated in this LLWS (16 since 2001, 8 from 1948 to 1974 and 1976 to 2000, 4 in 1975, 12 in 1947)
• Champion: The winner of the championship game, preceded by flag of country
• Runnerup: The loser of the championship game, preceded by flag of country
• NB: For US teams, put {{flagicon|USA}} immediately before the state's flag. For Canadian teams, put {{flagicon|CAN}} immediately before the province's flag, except in the brackets; only the Canadian flag should be used.

By completing the infobox as follows, you'll get an infobox like the one to the right.

{{Infobox Little League World Series
|Year=2006
|Start_date=August 18
|End_date=August 28
|Teams_participating=16
|Champion={{flagicon|USA}}{{flagicon|Georgia (U.S. state)}} Northern Little League
Columbus, Georgia
|Runnerup={{flagicon|JPN}} Kawaguchi City Little League
Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
}}

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United States

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For the above parameters, here is what you should fill in:

• {{tl|flagicon}} followed by a pipe link and the corresponding country name, or ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code if you prefer. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template for detailed instructions.
• The flag will be followed by that team's city, their representative region, and the name of the league. For example, if the team is from Columbus, Georgia and the league is named "Columbus Northern", simply type "Northern".
• NB: Remember to put breaking spaces in between city, region, and league.
• NB: A and B are the United States qualifiers, and C and D are the International qualifiers.

class="wikitable"
United States

! International
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For the above parameters, here is what you should fill in:

• {{tl|flagicon}} followed by a pipe link and the corresponding ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template for detailed instructions.
• The flag will be followed by that team's city, their representative region, and the name of the league. For example, if the team is from Columbus, Georgia and the league is named "Columbus National", simply type "National".
• NB: Remember to put breaking spaces in between city, region, and league.

By completing the infobox as follows, you'll get an infobox like the one above.

class="wikitable"
United States

! International
{{flagicon|Iowa}} Davenport, IA
Central
East

| {{flagicon|CAN}}{{flagicon|Ontario}} Toronto
Canada
High Park
{{flagicon|New Hampshire}} Goffstown, NH
East
Goffstown

| {{flagicon|KSA}} Dhahran
Europe
Arabian-American
{{flagicon|Texas}} Bellaire, TX
South
Bellaire

| {{flagicon|JPN}} Tokyo
Far East
Musashi-Fuchu
{{flagicon|Washington}} Vancouver, WA
West
Hazel Dell

| {{flagicon|VEN}} Maracaibo
Latin America
Sierra Maestra

• Typing in {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Templates/LLMember}} on your user page will give you

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Templates/LLMember}}

• For a smaller userbox, just type in {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Templates/LLUser}} to get

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Templates/LLUser}}

• :Category:Little League

• [http://www.littleleague.org/series/history/year Little League World Series annual history]
• For all LLWS played before 2004, type in http://www.littleague.org/series/history/year/XXXX.htm; replace XXXX with intended year (e.g., http://www.littleague.org/series/history/year/1989.htm will give you the 1989 LLWS tournament summary.
• NB: Some of the information may be incorrect, e.g. the 1978 and 1979 line scores.
• [http://www.sportingnews.com/archives/littleleague/ LLWS history site from The Sporting News]'
• NB: This is an excellent site if you want to find out about who has participated in every LLWS, but the history therein only extends as far as 1999.
• [http://www.unpage.org/ A great site on historical qualification for the LLWS]

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball

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