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Welcome to the Japanese baseball task force of the Baseball WikiProject. We are supported by WikiProject Japan.

This task force was created because of the popularity of the sport in Japan, without the sufficient backing of content in Wikipedia. Japanese baseball articles currently are either very short, or not much content at all.

To join this task force, simply add your name to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Participant List and indicate you are interested in the Japanese baseball task force.

• Create articles for each league's yearly Climax Series with line scores.
  • Write descriptions for all games in all articles
• Create articles for the Pacific League's other playoff series in years past.
• Create articles for all of the Japan Series with line scores.
• Create articles for all NPB seasons.
• Create list of managers for all teams.
• Add ((NPB infobox)) to all team articles with correct information.
• Create uniform images for all teams (ie Chunichi Dragons).
• Create as many player articles as possible, especially ones with red links.
• General clean-up of players' articles and talk pages.

WikiProject Japan (Talk)
Founded: 18 March 2006 (18 years ago) Articles: 91,144 (180 featured)
Shortcuts WP:JA • WP:JP • WP:JPN • WP:WPJ • WP:Japan • WP:JAPAN
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Task forces Ainu • Baseball↔ • Bibliography • Biography • Business & economy • Cars • Cinema↔ • CJKV↔ • Culture • Districts and municipalities (guideline)↔ • Education • Flora and fauna • Food and drink • Gaijin tarento • Geography & environment • History • Infrastructure • Karate↔ • Law & government • Military history↔ • Music • Mythology • Owarai • Photo • Politics • Prefectures • Religion • Royalty and nobility • Science & technology • Shinto • Sport • Tokyo • Transwiki↔ • Update ↔ = joint task force
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Recognition ((WPJ-Barnsensu)) (recipients)   ((WikiProject Japan Barnstar 2.0)) (recipients)   ((The Japan Barnstar of National Merit)) (recipients)   ((The Most Noble Barnstar of National Honor)) (recipients)
Templates ((WikiProject Japan))   ((Japan current era date))   ((Japanese))   ((nihongo))   ((Nihongo2))   ((Nihongo3))   ((Nihongo foot))   ((Needhiragana))   ((Needkanji))
Userboxes ((User WikiProject Japan))   ((User WP Japan))
Project parentage Asia, Countries, East Asia, Geography
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Nippon Professional Baseball is the country's professional baseball league. Currently the quality of articles is very poor. If you need help editing one of these, please see one of the American MLB articles for help.

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Leagues

• Central League
• Pacific League

Teams

Current

• Chiba Lotte Marines
• Chunichi Dragons
• Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
• Hanshin Tigers
• Hiroshima Toyo Carp
• Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters
• Orix Buffaloes
• Saitama Seibu Lions
• Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
• Tokyo Yakult Swallows
• Yomiuri Giants
• Yokohama DeNA BayStars
• Japan national baseball team

Historical

• Kintetsu Buffaloes
• Orix Blue Wave
• Takarazuka Athletic Association (ja:宝塚運動協会)
• Tokyo Senators → Tsubasa-gun (ja:翼軍)
• Nagoya Kingo-gun (ja:名古屋金鯱軍)
• Nishitetsu-gun (ja:西鉄軍)
• Korakuen Eagles .... → Yamato-gun (ja:大和軍)
• Takahashi Unions (ja:高橋ユニオンズ)

Stadiums

• Zozo Marine Stadium
• Fukuoka PayPay Dome
• Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium Hiroshima
• Hanshin Koshien Stadium
• Meiji Jingu Stadium
• Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi
• Vantelin Dome Nagoya
• Kyocera Dome Osaka
• Sapporo Dome
• Belluna Dome
• Hotto Motto Field
• Tokyo Dome
• Yokohama Stadium

Seasons

For a list of the status of all NPB seasons, Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Japanese baseball task force/NPB seasons

Leagues

• Western League (Japanese baseball)
• Eastern League (Japanese baseball)

• Shikoku-Kyūshū Island League
• Baseball Challenge League
• Kansai Independent Baseball League

Banner

• Add japan=yes to the ((WikiProject Baseball)) banner on all Japanese baseball-related articles' talk pages.
• Add japan-importance=??? into the template to assess the article's importance to the project. Replace "???" with your personal assessment ("low", "mid", "high" or "top").
• Add player=yes into the template for any Japanese-player articles.

Example:

((WikiProject Baseball|japan=yes|japan-importance=mid)) will display:

Baseball: Japanese NA‑class

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Baseball, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of baseball on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BaseballWikipedia:WikiProject BaseballTemplate:WikiProject BaseballBaseball articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. This article is supported by the Japanese baseball task force (assessed as Mid-importance).

Stubs

• Add the ((Japan-baseball-stub)) template at the very bottom of a Japanese baseball-related stub article.
• If the article is a biography, please add the player's current or former position into the template ("pitcher", "outfielder", "infielder", "catcher" or "manager").

Example:

((Japan-baseball-pitcher-stub)) will display:

Infoboxes

• Add the ((Infobox baseball biography)) template to all Nippon Professional Baseball players and managers.

Japanese baseball articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 1 FL 1 1 GA 1 5 7 13 B 3 1 5 4 13 26 C 7 8 14 12 130 171 Start 19 41 63 77 864 1,064 Stub 1 18 58 253 1,429 1,759 List 1 6 1 43 51 Category 238 238 File 68 68 Project 6 6 Redirect 1 148 149 Template 63 63 Assessed 31 68 149 353 523 2,486 3,610 Total 31 68 149 353 523 2,486 3,610 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 16,662 Ω = 5.49

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:Japanese baseball articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. Featured articles Posting system Featured lists List of Nippon Professional Baseball players to hit for the cycle Good articles Don Blasingame John Bowker (baseball) Pete Burnside Climax Series Cross Game Curse of the Colonel Larry Doby Chris Martin (baseball) Matt Moore (baseball) Ramón Ramírez (Dominican pitcher) Nate Schierholtz Brian Traxler Kevin Youkilis Former good articles Freddy Galvis Randy Ruiz Did you know? articles 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment Kyle Abbott (baseball) Michel Abreu Jim Adduci (baseball, born 1959) Andrew Albers Hideto Asamura Tyler Austin Jimmy Bonner David Buchanan (baseball) Bullpen car Matt Clark (baseball) Climax Series Kevin Cron Curse of the Colonel Terry Doyle Naoya Emura Cecil Fielder Alfredo Fígaro Freddy Galvis Chris Gittens Gary Glover Matt Hague Ryota Igarashi Interleague play (NPB) Japan Series Most Valuable Player Award Kosuke Kato Yusei Kikuchi Gene Locklear Chris Martin (baseball) Kenichi Marumo Marcos Mateo Ryuya Matsumoto Héctor Mercado Koji Mitsui Matt Moore (baseball) Masaichi Nagata Jim Nettles Nippon Professional Baseball playoffs Katsunori Nomura Yasunori Oshima Kyle Regnault Ronny Rodríguez Jamie Romak Randy Ruiz Rōki Sasaki Rōki Sasaki's perfect game Darryl Scott Anthony Seratelli Kohei Shibata Cy Sneed Zelous Wheeler Kelsie Whitmore In the News articles 2009 Japan Series 2009 World Baseball Classic 2012 Japan Series 2013 Japan Series 2013 World Baseball Classic championship 2015 Japan Series 2017 Japan Series 2017 World Baseball Classic championship 2018 Japan Series 2019 Japan Series 2020 Japan Series 2021 Japan Series 2023 World Baseball Classic championship Frankie de la Cruz Pedro Feliciano Tony Fernández Adrian Garrett David Green (baseball) Satoshi Hirayama Frank Howard (baseball) 2016 Japan Series 2022 Japan Series 2023 Japan Series Sachio Kinugasa Loek van Mil Don Newcombe Katsuya Nomura Yasunori Oshima Joe Pepitone Lee Thomas (baseball) David West (baseball) Shintaro Yokota

• Project statistics – Statistics for our rating system
• V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc

If you want to show your support of this project, you can add the following userbox to your userpage.

• ((Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Templates/JapanUser)) will show:

This user is part of the Japanese baseball task force of WikiProject Baseball.

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

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