Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Basketball

Continuity offense

Please add reliable sources. I don't know enough to help. Thanks in advance. Bearian (talk) 17:36, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

Sourcing problem on María Conde

Hi all. There's a small issue on the María Conde article that could use some expert attention (as I know nothing about basketball). Basically several apparently reliable sources (the Olympics, FIBA, Eurobasket) say her height is one thing, while several others (the WNBA, Basketball Reference) say it's two inches more. No idea which is right. See Talk:María Conde#Height. Thanks in advance for any help/thoughts. AntiDionysius (talk) 12:35, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

I stumbled across this article today - the field is specifically “listed height” as there is often disagreement over player heights (and weights) across sites. Since she is currently active for the Toronto Tempo of the WNBA, her official listed height with them (6’3) should be used. If her height is listed differently for her club in the Fall, then change it when the team info os switched at that time. Rikster2 (talk) 13:21, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Bojan Krivec

The article Bojan Krivec has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Poorly sourced BLP. Tagged for multiple issues for over a decade.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion based on established criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 01:24, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

2nd opinion on content removal at Jaxson Davis

Can I get a second opinion on the content removal at Jaxson Davis]-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:42, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Reading through the text, the removal seems reasonable at face value. A few points of concern:

• Subjective language is generally better attributed rather than used in wikivoice, especially when it speaks positively or negatively about the article subject, which appears to be the case here.
• Per WP:RSPSI, present-day SI should be used with caution, if at all.
• The last sentence included WP:OR editorializing as it's not possible to directly cite such a claim with a list of stats.

Left guide (talk) 23:31, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Dark mode problem in NBA Finals articles

{{Basketballbox}} is used on pages like 2024 NBA Finals and 2026 NBA Finals. This template passes a background color PER PAGE where it is used, without specifying the text color. This causes readability issues on dark mode, that have been reported (multiple times actually). I don't want to mess up any sort of style preferences (not sure how many colors there are in use). But I would advise to either remove the color, or add a text color to each of the 5000 or so articles that make use of this template, or simply redo the entire template with TemplateStyles so that colors are not spread out across 5000 usages of a template. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:53, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Recommendation - Remove "Nationality" field from Template:Infobox basketball biography

I am recommending that we just remove the "nationality" field from this infobox. As it stands, something like 90% of cases do not have it anyway because the place of birth matches it. It also seems to go against WP:INFONAT, which several editors have brought to the projects over time. It feels like this info can be better explored in the prose and avoid disagreements about what should be in it in the 10% cases where it exists. Rikster2 (talk) 16:05, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

It's become more trouble than it's worth for me. Basketball infoboxes used to not put country with birthplace, but the WP community unnecessarily forced the change to remove |nationality= when it "matched" the birth country, even when not every country has jus soli (a major oversimplification). Now, at other infoboxes, some are claiming nationality is confusing and |citizenship= should be used instead, while inconsistently applying it for dual citizenship and self-identification, both in the lead sentence (MOS:NATIONALITY) and infobox. —Bagumba (talk) 16:27, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

Definitely more trouble than it is worth. The original concept was to show what national teams the player is/was eligible for. This can be detailed in the prose. Rikster2 (talk) 17:45, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

Soccer, baseball, cricket and rugby athlete infoboxes don't show nationality/citizenship, but ice hockey does. Seeing this, I won't be sad seeing it go, WP:OSE (or OSDNE) and all. Howard the Duck (talk) 19:41, 24 June 2026 (UTC)