The RBI Baseball Database

[BeeJay]

Maybe you were able to ignore everything involving MrRBI, in which case I envy you.

[JoeDirt]

I get jokes

[TβG]

nice work on that, fknmclane.  what about free sticks

[fknmclane]

nice work on that, fknmclane.  what about free sticks

Works for me.  Go ahead and add it in there.

[Gantry]

nice work on that, fknmclane.  what about free sticks

Works for me.  Go ahead and add it in there.

Well said mclane, now you see that anyone can and should add their own pages as they think of them.  The Database is taking off..

[Gantry]

Gantry, it didn't exactly turn out the way I would have liked.  I set out to do a chronology of the dee-nee forums but instead went overboard and gave the mother of all summaries.  Is there any way to perhaps change the title of the page to simple Dee-Nee Forums?  I found that a chronology is impossible as just way too much goes on here everyday.

Excellent idea, I went ahead and made this the main page for "Dee-Nee Forums" and now all pages or links to terms like [[Forums]], [[Forum]] and your [[Dee-Nee Forum History]] go here.  It's definitely a great overview of the forums and deserve the spot for the main page.  Well done!

I also did a little work to the Anything Goes Section, you may want to follow that lead for the other boards.  I alphabetized the links and change the CLASSIC JOKES and CLASSIC THREADS headers to use the "===" convention:

Basically doing === CLASSIC JOKES === instead of ''CLASSIC JOKES'' make it a subheading under the == ANYTHING GOES == section.  This is good because it'll put those subheadings automatically into the table of contents up top, making navigation easier.  Hope that makes sense, give it a whirl for the other sections.

You are also getting the hang of wikilinking everything close, even if they don't have a page yet.  What I often do is start to create new pages based off red wikilinks from a page I just made.  In the case of your page, I'm going to make a Moses page because I see the empty link right now.  Sometimes the best way to get an idea for a new page without thinking about it...

Again, awesome job and keep up the good work!

[fknmclane]

Thank you sir.  The red links were my next step.

And thanks for making the jokes/threads part of the table of contents.  I wasn't quite sure how to get that done without cluttering the page up.

[Gantry]

Now you know, and knowing is half the battle...  You have gift son, all you gotta do is use it...

[fknmclane]

Bumpst...shouldn't this be stickied anyway, Gantry?

Put together some quick pages before dinner for Bob Brenly, Juan Berenguer and Jeff Reardon.

Gantry's easy to fill in formatted stubs make everything much more uniform and also easier to fill in.  Clicking random page is key for updating.

[BeefMaster]

How do I change the URL for a page?  I happened to notice in the team list that Cincinnati is spelled wrong - I fixed it on the team list page and just made the link point to the misspelled page, but it'd be better to have the page spelled right.  There's not much of anything on the "Cincinatti" page, so I could just create a new Cincinnati page, but it seems like there should be a "better" solution.

Depending on how much work I can dodge today, I'm going to make my first major forays into RBIDB editing.  I did a couple bits and pieces on a Twins wiki project (never really got off the ground, sadly), so I'm at least somewhat familiar with the system.  One of my Twins wiki pages was for Gladden, so he'll be my first attempt (other than minor edits, which I've already done a few of) in the RBIDB.

[Gantry]

Beef - you can use to the "move" tab to change the name of a page.  You only want to do that if the new page hasn't been created yet.  If the page has been created and you don't mind losing the content of the incorrectly spelled page, you can do a redirect.

#REDIRECT [[Cincinnati]]

That'll send all requests for "Cincinatti" to "Cincinnati" - if that doesn't make sense, let me know...

[Gantry]

Bumpst...shouldn't this be stickied anyway, Gantry?

Put together some quick pages before dinner for Bob Brenly, Juan Berenguer and Jeff Reardon.

Gantry's easy to fill in formatted stubs make everything much more uniform and also easier to fill in.  Clicking random page is key for updating.

Nice work mclane!  Not to piss in your Cheerios, but you are making even more work for yourself!  To use the template you can reference it by name and fill in the information.  Here is an example you can copy/paste:

{{Batter|
|Bats=Right
|BA=.267
|HR=18
|Power=819
|Contact=21
|Speed=126
}}

This fills in all the fields, including the wikilinks and "RBI Stats" heading.  I went ahead and adjusted the Brenly page, go ahead and give it a whirl on the Pat Sheridan page, which you also did.  Simply copy/paste the text above, fill in for the relevant player and you are all set!

Then, whenever you do a new page, copy/past the text from here or another player page.  Make it nice and simple.  Let me know how it treats you...

[BeefMaster]

Beef - you can use to the "move" tab to change the name of a page.  You only want to do that if the new page hasn't been created yet.  If the page has been created and you don't mind losing the content of the incorrectly spelled page, you can do a redirect.

#REDIRECT [[Cincinnati]]

That'll send all requests for "Cincinatti" to "Cincinnati" - if that doesn't make sense, let me know...

I just moved it.  All is well.  Thanks for the info.

Gladden page is done as well.  I got most of the info off the other page I made, so it wasn't nearly as much work as it appears.

[fknmclane]

Let me know how it treats you...

You just blew my mind. That's gonna take me a while to wrap my head around.  Hmm...

[Gantry]

Once you do it once, simply copy/paste that info in from another player.  Like everything else on the wikipedia, it's easy once you get the hang of it...

The good thing about using templates is that once I decide to create a nifty-looking table/graph for the player stats, everyone using the template will switch over immediately.  Short term is looks like barely the same amount of work but in the long term using templates is great when we switch beyond simple bullets for the RBI Stats...

[Gantry]

Gladden page is done as well.  I got most of the info off the other page I made, so it wasn't nearly as much work as it appears.

Nice work Beef!  I made a few changes, mostly cosmetic (added a "Gladden the Player" section to separate from the bullets in Bio) and adding more links. 

If you get a chance, try to use the advice I gave above for mclane to convert his RBI stats via the template.  It's a good habit to get down...

[Gantry]

FYI - Here is a pitcher template for RBI Stats:


{{Pitcher|
|throws=Right
|ERA=1.18
|Sf=178
|Sr=166
|Ss=141
|Cl=8
|Cr=5
|Dr=5
|En=50
}}

[BeefMaster]

Gladden page is done as well.  I got most of the info off the other page I made, so it wasn't nearly as much work as it appears.

Nice work Beef!  I made a few changes, mostly cosmetic (added a "Gladden the Player" section to separate from the bullets in Bio) and adding more links. 

If you get a chance, try to use the advice I gave above for mclane to convert his RBI stats via the template.  It's a good habit to get down...

I didn't see the quote about the ratings/stats template until I had already edited the page - the page had some filler for the ratings (the names of the ratings were there, but not the values), so I assumed that was what was supposed to be there.  The template will be used in the future.

[TβG]

this is a cool page i found that has to do with the detroit tigers.  i don't know if we want to steal any info or pics? from it or what, but here it is:

http://tigerscentral.com/history.php?year=1987

(strangely enough, i found it while looking for ted power pictures because of strassy's baseball card thread)

[Gantry]

That is a solid page, I'll link it on the Detroit Team page...

You can certain steal pics as they stole them from baseball cards anyway.  If you use a block of text simply link back as a reference...