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Welcome to the Little League WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Little League.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

This is the current page as of 08:58, Wednesday, April 24, 2024 (UTC). More information will appear in the coming days.

Scope

Little League, including the Little League Baseball World Series. Please insert {{WikiProject Baseball|littleleague=yes}} on all talk pages associated with this project.

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Index · Statistics · Log

Little League articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA				1			1
B	1					5	6
C	1	1				7	9
Start	3		2	7		52	64
Stub			1			70	71
List		4		4		17	25
Category					34		34
File					23		23
Project					7		7
Template					2		2
NA					1		1
Assessed	5	5	3	12	67	151	243
Total	5	5	3	12	67	151	243
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 802			Ω = 5.31

Guidelines

Infobox information

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

Beginning of annual LLWS articles

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.

Trivia

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

Qualification

• The templates {{Infobox LLWSQualifiers}} and {{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.

Winners/Championship Bracket

Use {{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.

Consolation/Position Bracket

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

Miscellaneous

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.

Bracket templates

• • {{Round8-with third}} for all Elimination rounds from 2001 onwards.
  • {{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
  • {{Round4-with third}} for all Winners/Championship Brackets and Consolation/Position Brackets (1947 to 1991), as well as for the Transatlantic LLWS qualification tournaments
  • {{Semi-2-LLWS}} for the following LLWS qualification tournaments
    • Caribbean, EMEA
  • {{PagePlayoffBracket}} if there is a tie in the pool play standings which results in more than four semifinalists.

Other templates

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

Members

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

1. JB82 (talk · contribs) former LL player (Challenger Division), founder of Project
2. Branson03 (talk · contribs)
3. Bdog9121 (talk · contribs) Creating/Finishing articles on regions

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Infoboxes

{{Infobox Little League World Series}}

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=
}}

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Tournament details
Dates	August 18–August 28
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	Northern Little League Columbus, Georgia
Runner-up	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 immediately before the state's flag. For Canadian teams, put 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<br />[[Columbus, Georgia]]
|Runnerup={{flagicon|JPN}} Kawaguchi City Little League<br />[[Kawaguchi, Saitama]], [[Japan]]
}}

Qualifiers table

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United States	International
US1	INT1
US2	INT2
US3	INT3
US4	INT4
US5	INT5
US6	INT6
US7	INT7
US8	INT8

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

• {{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.

Qualifiers table (Pre 2001)

{| class="wikitable"
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United States	International
Davenport, IA Central East	Toronto Canada High Park
Goffstown, NH East Goffstown	Dhahran Europe Arabian-American
Bellaire, TX South Bellaire	Tokyo Far East Musashi-Fuchu
Vancouver, WA West Hazel Dell	Maracaibo Latin America Sierra Maestra

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

• {{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"
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! United States
! International
|- 
| {{flagicon|Iowa}} [[Davenport, IA]]<br />Central<br />East
| {{flagicon|CAN}}{{flagicon|Ontario}} [[Toronto]]<br />Canada<br />[[High Park]]
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| {{flagicon|New Hampshire}} [[Goffstown, NH]]<br />East<br />Goffstown
| {{flagicon|KSA}} [[Dhahran]]<br />Europe<br />[[Saudi Aramco|Arabian-American]]
|-
| {{flagicon|Texas}} [[Bellaire, TX]]<br />South<br />Bellaire
| {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Tokyo]]<br />Far East<br />Musashi-Fuchu
|-
| {{flagicon|Washington}} [[Vancouver, WA]]<br />West<br />Hazel Dell
| {{flagicon|VEN}} [[Maracaibo]]<br />Latin America<br />Sierra Maestra
|}

Templates

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

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

LLThis user is a member of the Little League task force of WikiProject Baseball.

Categories

• Category:Little League

Resources

• 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.
• 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.
• A great site on historical qualification for the LLWS

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• Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball

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