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I joined this WikiProject in late November 2010, but actually have been updating aforementioned career statistical pages for the past two seasons. The challenges that I've come across are random users (usually just IP users) editing/updating statistics for their favorite active players when they
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are all semi-protected. We also made a move to remove depth charts for NBA articles, which resulted in minor discussion. Most notably, I started doing the same for FIBA (which is like FIFA, except it is basketball, not football/soccer) that resulted in two edit wars, both on the same article. The
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I'm a sports enthusiast, predominantly basketball, and am also a mathematician. I enjoy keeping track of statistics: observing patterns, comparing current players with past players, and all-in-all, just working with numbers. Nightly, after each NBA game is done, I update the eight career
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I am a user with a bad reputation and bad spelling in another project. I mostly edit tropical cyclone articles, but due to recent conflicts I am trying to decease my activity. I first joined in August 2008 as an IP. I am currently helping out in a drive to improve
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Since I've only been a member for about a month, I have yet to discover many initiatives that have or have not failed. As I said before, I want to try to organize several editors to make game logs for each team and season, so I hope that doesn't
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Those article tend to be stub class (exceptions do apply), so it hurts the project. However, these articles get vandalized less (until the Lakers/Celtics/Heat win the championship), and thus there are no major
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You have no idea how much trouble this was. We were doing the original basketball project, but it was supposedly "dead," so a last-minute switch was made, and we were able to get it done.
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The most special thing about this project is our number of FL's and to some extent our FA's. I have also noticed that we do not have very high standards compared to some other projects,
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The future of WikiProject National Basketball Association looks bright, and I hope that by the time the NBA seasons ends, every proposed article on the FA list will have become an FA.
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What is your vision for the project? How do you see the project itself, as well as the articles within its scope, developing over the next years and future improvements to basketball?
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I too hope to have each proposed article become featured. Also, I want to make it a database of basketball statistics and information that is easily accessible and navigable.
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When did you first join WikiProject National Basketball Association? What are some of the challenges that the project has met since you joined, and how were they dealt with?
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What experiences have you had with the WikiProjects whose scopes overlap with yours? Has your project developed particularly close relationships with any other projects?
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What aspects of the project do you consider to be particularly successful? Has the project developed any unusual innovations, or uniquely adopted any common approaches?
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first debate involved a user and the second involved the user's sock. Because the user was blocked, I got my way, and the depth charts were removed from that article.
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page, (usually just adding in 3-pointers made without updating the attempts and/or average). I run into similar problems every so often on the other pages.
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reach milestones without making other changes on other pages. Predominantly, my biggest problem has been with people updating
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I would agree with YE's statement. Really, the only vandalism will be by those opposing certain teams or dynasties.
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Have any major initiatives by the project ended unsuccessfully? What lessons have you learned from them?
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I believe what makes this project successful is the number of dedicated editors and it keeps growing.
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Submit your project's news and announcements for next week's WikiProject Report at the Signpost's
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First, tell us a bit about yourself and your role in WikiProject National Basketball Association.
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If anybody would like to join me in recording game logs for each team and season, contact me on
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channel and it appears that this is going to be unsuccessful, but my efforts are not finished.
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and article alerts have resumed for participating WikiProjects. Check out
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The project maintains several "Year-by-Year chronicles" like
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This is my first WikiProject that I'm actively involved in.
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Get the latest headlines on your user page – just add
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Any article within the scope of biography falls into
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No, we have been fine. I am trying to create an NBA
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