Talk:Rule 5 draft results

This article was nominated for deletion on Sept. 17, 2007. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

Article creation

I created this article to compliment the Rule 5 draft article. It's got the results of the Major League, Triple-A and Double-A phases for 2003-2005, plus the results of the 1998-2002 Major League phases. If we can find the results for more years, the page may have to be split up (one page per decade? Time period?) I'd like to flesh it out even more (with things like notations on who was traded immediately as a result of the draft or who was returned to their orignal clubs, for example). Any help filling it out would be appreciated, as even doing this much took a lot of effort. Sliver7 04:58, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good start. Where is data entry needed?

One good way to use Talk space in such a case is to specify component by component (Major, AAA, AA, ...?) the entire span of years --and perhaps the number of selections by year, if that is known. For which years is this part of the list complete in what sense --eg basic data entered, with reference, with wikilinks. In effect that will be equivalent to a navigation template full of links with more colors than blue (at least a start) and red (nothing). ... continued in new section (#Lead). -P64

Reference to use

I recently found that Baseball-Reference.com's transaction pages also include Rule 5 Draft data. Example: Transactions in 1998 includes data on the 1997 Rule 5 Draft (which I've just added to the main article page). Somehow I never noticed they had that data before. Still, it's not exactly in a user-friendly format. Anyone wanting to use this for other years is encouraged (nay, begged) to do so (and thanked profusely for it!). Also, while it includes transactions conducted in the minor league portions of the Rule 5 draft, it doesn't specify what phase (AAA, AA, whatever), so I didn't include it until I can find another source that gives more granularity. Sliver7 (talk) 03:08, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

copied from Wikipedia talk: WikiProject Baseball#Kirby Puckett Discrepancy
Even WP:LIST articles need at least short prefaces that explain what they are about. Articles on particular draft renditions such as 1982 Major League Baseball Draft, 1983, etc, desperately need to say what is the MLB draft, when was this one conducted, and (this incident suggests) what other drafts MLB conducted this year.

Rule 5 draft results needs something similar that explains how the list is incomplete. The template {{dynamic list}} is an overstatement for a list that is currently complete but needs periodic update; if that list article does cover all of the Rule 5 drafts to date, or lacks only completion of the latest rendition (2011/2012), then use {{update}} or {{update after}}.

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In this case, the list covers Major League, Triple-A, and Double-A 2003-2008; Major League Phase alone 2009-2011 and 1997-2002; nothing before 1997. What of it?

Here in talk space, a wikitable may be useful for reporting coverage in progress. For example, not completed:

Rule 5 draft results : List coverage
Draft year	Major League	Triple-A	Double-A

2009	17, 14
2008	21, 17	35, 0	1, 0
2007	18, 15	36, 0	6, 0
2006	19, 14	24, 0	3, 0

2002	28, 1
2001	12, 5

1997	11, 4
1996

Key: ##, ## gives
- the number of entries (rows) that are complete except for Notes (complete in cols 1 to 5)
- the number of Notes that are not blank

Extend this approach to show where data entry is needed, where finding sources is needed, whatever. --P64 (talk) 16:09, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]