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Thanks for your involvement in the development of Brandon Graham (American football) which has become a WP:GA in recent months. -- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:05, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for your involvement in the development of Jake Long which has become a WP:GA in recent months.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:09, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for your involvement in the development of Zoltan Mesko (American football) which has become a WP:GA in recent months.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:12, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
I think you are going way overboard on the Michigan roster articles. I'm not 100% on this, so I'm not about to go on a speedy frenzy, but I posted a thread to the college football talk requesting input on the appropriateness of these articles. I'd appreciate any explanation you could provide. — ShadowRanger ( talk| stalk) 18:49, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
— ShadowRanger ( talk| stalk) 19:36, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Congratulations to you as well on your diligent work in filling out the template so that there is now at least a stub for all 131 seasons of Michigan football. Hopefully, we (and others) can now work on filling them in. Cbl62 ( talk) 04:38, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
I noticed you've been changing the "Awards and honors" section to "Awards." Since the sections include team captaincy, I think "Awards and honors" is the more accurate heading. Team captaincy is an honor but not an award. Cbl62 ( talk) 22:44, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
What ever happened with Template_talk:NCAATeamSeason#New_fields?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 18:33, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
Based on your involvement in Northwestern football articles, I thought you might want to expand Zak Kustok.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 03:11, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
I appreciate your help cleaning up the recent UM coaches articles, but it would help if you could allow some space when I'm just starting them. I was still working on the Jed Hughes article and when I had done a substantial rewrite with lots of additional information, I lost everything when I tried to save them and ran into an edit conflict. Unfortunately, I hadn't saved my work before hitting the "save page" button. Ouch. Cbl62 ( talk) 03:29, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
It seems that you know how to tinker with the code. Can you address my Template_talk:NCAATeamSeason#Logo and image query?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 05:48, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
I think it is you that tends to do a lot infobox overhauling. Tyrone Wheatley may need to be converted to a coaching box. See the bottom of http://suathletics.syr.edu/news/2010/2/9/FB_0209103322.aspx for details of things that may be included.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 07:25, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
I stumbled across a new template that I have copied from the OSU article to 2009_Michigan_Wolverines_football_team#vs._Ohio_State. Do you think we should be using that. Do you know how to get all the information for the box?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 05:27, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
My view on "See also" sections is pretty consistent with the guide. The purposes is to provide a "bulleted list, preferably alphabetized, of internal links ( wikilinks) to related Wikipedia articles." It shouldn't be overdone. I hate when I see a "See also" section with more than 2-4 links. But I think it's very helpful to direct the reader to a few articles that are related and likely to be of interest to the reader. It's especially helpful where the linked article is a more fully developed article on a directly related or broader subject/category. In the case of players on the 1901 team, the individual articles can't tell the whole story of that amazing team, and the "see also" tool is a good way to link to the broader discussion. As set forth in the guideline, a "See also" section is "ultimately a matter of editorial judgment and common sense." That's my view. What's your objection to it? Cbl62 ( talk) 01:49, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Just read your little comment that you placed here.[ [1]] A few things; 1) I only made one claim of vandalism so shouldn’t your title really have read “False claim of vandalism”?, 2) You’re a “tenured” editor? Wow, can I read your dissertation?, 3) Don’t you think you’re being maybe just a touch “pot calling the kettle black” by calling me out for disrespect when you post stuff like this? [ [2]]?, and 4) While Buckeye fans enjoy “spelling out the four letters of their home state”, what they are really thrilled about is the six game winning streak over the guys who wear those fancy winged helmets! (Seriously though, I think you’re doing a good job on college football articles, keep up the good work!) 138.162.0.43 ( talk) 14:04, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:02, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I've noticed you've recently been doing a lot of work on articles for Florida football coaches. First, let me say that your effort to build out the bodies of these articles is excellent and your citation work is diligent and painstaking. I did want to point out, though, some non-standard usage and formatting you've introduced into the template-based elements of these articles.
In Template:Infobox college coach, the Title, College, and Conference fields are intended to be used to reflect current coaching positions. You've repurposed Title and Conference as a career summary for retired coaches and repurposed College to note undergraduate degree. For retired and deceased coaches, these fields should be blank. Also, in the CoachTeams field, standard practice is to display the school's short name. In many cases, such as on Bob Woodruff (American football), you've listed the school's full name.
In the coaching records tables, you've added ordinal numbers in the ranking fields. The prevailing standard is to simply list the cardinal number. In cases where a team finished with a tied placing in conference, you've noted, e.g. "3rd-Tie", instead of the standard "T–3rd" or "T-3rd".
In succession boxes, when indicating a range of years, you've put spaces between the start year, the en dash, and the end year. There should be no spaces as "en dashes are unspaced, except when there is a space within either one or both of the items"; see Wikipedia:ENDASH#En dashes.
Done I have edited all of the Gators coaches succession boxes for consistency on this point.
I've been doing a lot of work the past few months to clean up and improve articles for football coaches across the NCAA and much of this effort has focused on conforming to and enforcing usage and formatting standards in the relevant templates. If you could keep the standards I've mentioned in mind as you continue editing, I would greatly appreciate it. And keep up the good work! Thanks. Jweiss11 ( talk) 07:21, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, you nominated lots of cateogries like
category:1881 College football season for deletion, I assume you will change the C to a c. At the moment there are two to several articles in each one. If I delete the cat, you won't know which articles to change, so it is a good idea to change articles first. Otherwise if you promise to fix the mess anyway, you can ask to delete the lot now.
Graeme Bartlett (
talk) 07:24, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Good morning, Jweiss11. Hope all is well. Just noted your handiwork on the Charley Pell records box. Glad you found the Jacksonville State conference records—I could not. Would be grateful if you could provide a footnote, linked or otherwise, for your source. Drives me crazy when I can't follow the source. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 12:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
Good morning, Jweiss11. I have a small problem. After our last series of conversations about infobox formatting, I have been uniformly using the short form of university names in the college football coaches infoboxes as well as those of other University of Florida coaches for other sports. Unfortunately, the example infobox at [3] shows the infobox with the full university names displayed. Personally, I have no strong preference either way, but would like to be able to format all Gators coaches pages uniformly. Can we kick this upstairs to the WikiProject College Football for a formal determination? If the policy is the use of the short-form university names, then the example infobox should be changed to reflect current formatting policy. I hate these sorts of formatting issues because they invariably become a huge waste of time as editors make repeated formatting changes to the same article (often mindlessly using a bot or one of the auto-ed scripts). I would greatly appreciate your help as one of the college football project leaders. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
Nice job adding the team captains to the UM football team infoboxes. My only comment/suggestion is that it may look less cluttered in the later years if you have a single entry for "captains." With three and even four captains in later years, it looks a bit cluttered to have three or four separate entries in the infobox. My suggestion is a single "Captains" section where all three or four names are listed. Cbl62 ( talk) 08:01, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your efforts with and attention to this article.
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-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 21:07, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Ah, you beat me to it! [4] 74.178.230.17 ( talk) 00:49, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
Good catch here, I forgot I added a ref to the article! Eagles 24/7 (C) 21:01, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
When viewing Harry W. Ewing (in Internet Explorer v8.0)after your edits of the infobox the years and colleges do not line up. Basically the “(assistant)” moves from next to Nebraska to below Nebraska. When looking at your edits of the article in Firefox v3.5.6 and Safari v.4.0.5 it looks fine.
The version of the article before your edits looks fine in Internet Explorer v8.0, but in Firefox v3.5.6 and Safari v.4.0.5 they years and schools do not line up.
I thinking this may be a flaw in the template but I wanted to check what browser are you using before seeing if someone at Wikipedia:WikiProject College football could fix this problem. 09er ( talk) 14:04, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
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The DYK project ( nominate) 16:04, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
I noted your edits to Taleb. My mission is to enter into the historical record individuals who have made significant contributions to the economic study of creative industries. This sub-specialty started around mid-20th century so that although most of the key players are still living, they have surpassed retirement age. I would like to give them their due recognition on the Internet before they are gone. Currently their work is not adequately represented on the Internet despite extensive coverage in academic literature (which are not freely accessible via the Internet). Please take a look at my first such article, Arthur De Vany. Allenwlee ( talk) 18:48, 19 May 2010 (UTC)Thanks.
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MDSanker, Hello. I've noticed you've been working on adding the missing Tennessee Volunteers football teams. Excellent! I want to point out a few items about formatting and content.
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for endashes. See
Dash for more on this.In the past few months I've created articles for every missing Michigan Wolverines football team (see Category:Michigan Wolverines football seasons). Many of them are still stubs, but I've aimed to imbue them with best-in-class formatting and layout. You can refer to them as examples for the points above, etc.
Thanks for your efforts, and let me know if you have questions about the college football stuff. Jweiss11 ( talk) 17:20, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
Jweiss11 thank you for trying to help I am trying to get as much Vanderbilt and Tennessee sports updated as I can, It may take me a while to do this. I would like you to stop changing the content to fit what you want to say. If you where a Tennessee alum or even a fan I would not have a problem with it. You seem to be a Michigan person and that seems to be strange that you want to change a Tennessee and Vanderbilt page to fit your way of thinking. The real thing that make your edits bad and me wanting to change them is: the commits you leave on them. As if you are the only person who has a clue. 5–5–0 5–5 –0 5-5-0 A dash is a dash is a dash. All are the same however you do it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MDSanker ( talk) 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Okay I should not have said Vandalizom it was unfair comment. If you like I can start the pages and you can follow with cleanup’s. I will not take it personel I have taken your adivece and I think the pages are looking cleaner. The only problem I had was when you where saying that what you wrote looked better. I see what you where referring to. MDSanker 31 May 2010 (UTC)
....(delink date in lead)
No, dates are not typically linked in leads nor are they elsewhere. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dates. Jweiss11 ( talk) 00:24, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
An IP user has made a bunch of changes in the above article today. They look a little odd to me, and the IP user does not have a long history. Any idea if they are legit? Cbl62 ( talk) 20:19, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
I don't understand the edits you've been making to my recent articles on college football coaches. For example, in this diff on June 13, you added season links (e.g., changing 1963 to 1963). But in this diff] on June 10, you deleted the same sort of season links that I had previously added (e.g., changing 1988 to 1988). Is there a method to what you are doing? Cbl62 ( talk) 06:43, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
I replied to your message on my user page, and have brought the topic up at WP:CFB. Thanks for leaving me the message about it. Strikehold ( talk) 00:25, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey, Jonathan. Just a courtesy note. I noticed that you often contribute to the article regarding George Clark. I spent some time wikifying and copy editing the article yesterday. During this process, I went to research links and citations and discovered that this page was a direct copy and paste from a four-page article printed in the Coffin Corner: Vol. 7, No. 2 (1985). The article, entitled, "Potsy Clark: A Success Story" was written by Bob Carroll. http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/07-02-218.pdf. (The current article includes my copy-edit changes.) I went ahead and manually tagged the article for investigation. I don't want the article deleted, but was not comfortable with overlooking the copyright violation. Cindamuse ( talk) 06:56, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).
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Eagles 24/7 (C) 05:02, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Sorry about that! I'll change it back. [: Pengkeu ( talk) 11:04, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Jweiss11--Greetings. Saw you chewing on the "head coaches" category problem. Virtually, all of these "head coach" categories were created by a single editor who has since been banned by administrators from working on categories. He created all sorts of subdivisions within these and other areas, and was in the process of creating head college basketball coach categories when he got banned. These subdivisions might work for major programs wherein virtually all head coaches are notable, but not so much for smaller programs and minor sports. For smaller programs and minor sports, it creates severely underpopulated subcategories. FWIW, I recommend the use of a navbox for head coaches for each program and all-inclusive "coach" categories for head coaches, coordinators and assistants. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 15:15, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for checking/fixing my work. Have a new category in mind, but I'm unsure of the appropriate parent category or the most-appropriate naming convention.
I'm trying to mirror the function of this page List of undefeated Division I football teams as a category for team-season pages, while encompassing all Divisions of college football (as the number of teams is reasonably finite).
I am think of using this category as a parent
Category:College football seasons
With this naming convention
College football undefeated seasons
which mimics the naming structure on this existing Catgory
College football conference champion seasons
Feedback, or direction to an appropriate discussion page, appreciated. Pasadena91 ( talk) 21:42, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the head's up. I have added my comment to yours. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 20:31, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
I am going through the Michigan football record books and adding school records to individual season articles. I have already gone through the Big Ten and NCAA record books and media guides. I will help you get any season to WP:GA that you want to add detailed game summaries to before October 1 (I am competing in the WP:CUP).-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 15:01, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
I just lost a big edit due to an edit conflict. Please don't edit when I'm working on an article. Cbl62 ( talk) 09:41, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I saw you had a speedy tag on Category:Intercollegiate athletic coaches in the United States, but I couldn't find it in the Speedy Rename section. So I just subsumed it into this new "college athletes" nomination. Hope that's cool.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 10:30, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
This template is relying on re-directions for particular season years:
Template:Infobox NCAA football rankings
Could you edit it, such that the <<Prev and Next>> links follow the expected convention of:
1936~1955 =>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19xx_NCAA_football_rankings
1956~1972 =>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19xx_NCAA_University_Division_football_rankings
1973~1977 =>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19xx_NCAA_Division_I_football_rankings
1978~2009/+ =>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19%7C20xx_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_rankings
Pasadena91 ( talk) 17:30, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Nice catch on connecting Lewie Hardage, Oklahoma football coach, to Lewis Hardage, Florida baseball coach and assistant football coach. Always nice to reclaim a lost Gator! Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 23:02, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the help cleaning up this article. One issue though is the nickname "William." I realize that CFDW refers to that as a nickname. But I've searched several newspaper databases and find zero references to him as William. He's either referred to by his initials or as "Ray." I did find one article ("Michigan's Ray Courtright Proud of Family and Team", The Christian Science Monitor, 1940-04-26) that discusses Courtright and his son, "William," who was also a successful athlete. I suspect that CFDW has made a mistake on this one, perhaps confusing coverage of his son with coverage of Ray. This is also supported because "William" makes no sense as a "nickname" for someone whose name is Raymond E. or Raymond O. Courtright. Did you find any source other than CFDW supporting "William" as a nickname? Cbl62 ( talk) 22:16, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Fjbfour, thanks for creating all those Big Ten football standing templates. One little thing: when you transclude them onto articles, be sure not have a blank line after the template code. The blank line causes the article to display extra spacing at the top of the page or section. Thanks again. Jweiss11 ( talk) 00:03, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
I have beefed up 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team. It could use some feedback at Wikipedia:Peer review/1997 Michigan Wolverines football team/archive1. Also, I had trouble finding game details for the Little Brown Jug game. I hope to take this to WP:FAC so if you get a chance this is one of the more important articles that you might be able to help out.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 07:24, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for uploading File:1997 Notre Dame at Michigan football ticket stub.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 23:24, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey there, Jweiss11. Sorry I didn't responded sooner. Since your ticket stub includes a small copyright symbol next to the helmet, my best guess would be to use the Template:Non-free logo. Most of the time I usually just upload pictures or screenshots and so this is a more interesting upload than I'm used to. I would check out the image File:Filenes ad on a ticketstub.png because it contains a Red Sox logo on the stub similar in fashion to what you have just uploaded. For some reason your licensing for your upload should fall under the Creative Commons like both the Red Sox stub and my movie stub, but I'm not sure how to do this. If you are able to edit the licensing of your image, try placing cc-by-3.0 between two curly brackets on each side into the edit box for the licensing section. I hope that I helped you in some sort of way and I wish I could tell you exactly what needs to be done, but like yourself, I'm not used to this kind of uploading. Thanks contacting me, I always enjoy a wikipedia challenge. And if you ever need any other help in the future, feel free to contact me again. - TFunk ( talk) 17:25, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Can you please respond here in regards to which license you'd like to release the modified version of File:1997_Notre_Dame_at_Michigan_football_ticket_stub.jpg in which I removed the copyrighted helmet design so that we can get it inserted into 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team, or if you don't like that option we'll have to upload a smaller version of the fair-use image to keep it within policy. I feel a copyright free version of the ticket would be better, since fair-use justification of the ticket is unlikely to pass and it would have to be removed. Anyway please join in the conversation on my talk page so we can get this resolved asap for the peer review. — raeky T 12:25, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
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— Rlevse • Talk • 12:03, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for sharing the reaction of Dr. Noskin and his fraternity brothers. One of the things I enjoy most about Wikipedia is hearing from the subject of an article I've written or the subject's family. It's happened maybe 10 times, most recently with Steve Strinko with whom I've exchanged a number of emails. Hopefully, Dr. Noskin didn't feel I dwelled too much on his less glorious moments, like the interceptions record. I try to be balanced. Cbl62 ( talk) 18:14, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
I know you created many of the Michigan football season articles. I am currently slogging through the national, conference and eventually team record books. I would kind of like to do the similar statistical thing I did for the football articles that I did for basketball. However, most of them don't exist. Are you interested in creating most of them?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 22:24, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Above, I mentioned an attempt to add some blue to Template:Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams while scoring DYKs. Well, of the 23 new or newly expanded blue links, I had hoped 17 of them would reach DYK levels. I have succeeded on 12, I think. However, five of them are sort of close and could use some assistance. I have exhausted my resources on 1962–63 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, which I started on 9/4 and 1968–69 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, 1969–70 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, 1970–71 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team and 1971–72 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, which I began working with on 9/5. If you know anything about these teams or how to find anything out about them, assistance would be appreciated. As you know the window is short for finding DYK content.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 21:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Jweiss, I started a conversation over on the WP:College basketball talk page regarding the replacement of all succession boxes with navboxes. Given your previous comments on point, I thought you might want to weigh in—it may be an opportunity to impose greater uniformity on the formatting of coaches articles. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 21:15, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
I was wrong in a lot of thing as I was taking the pages as my creation or like it was just mine for everyone to read and not bother with. I was very wrong in that. I did not think about the cut and paste of the AP material. I will watch it in the from now on. So ageain thank you for your help. MDSanker(talk) 22:10, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Why is it an improvement to remove {{ USCity}}?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 08:21, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
While working on the infobox at 1995–96 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, I ran in to a discrepancy. The following sources have the following records:
This leads to a discrepancy between the infobox at the explanation on the "adjusted" link. Do you know why?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 22:38, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Jweiss, please take a look at what I've done with the navboxes and succession boxes at the bottom of the Urban Meyer article. I would propose to use this as the pattern for all CFB coach pages:
I think this would go a LONG WAY toward eliminating the bottom-of-the-page graphic clutter created by the ever-expanding proliferation of succession boxes and navboxes for awards, etc. Please let me know what you think. If I can get your backing, I would gladly propose this as a new consensus on the CFB project page. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 11:23, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
It's probably not needed, but I don't know that it's hurting anything. Maybe we could make the parameter default to "off", so the user needs to explicitly say "homecoming=yes", rather than the current other way around. De Fault Ryan 20:20, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey I noticed you added the coaches poll to a bowl game for this season. Where did you find them? I have been looking for the pre-bowl Coaches poll rankings for the 1992-1994 seasons so I can produce the Bowl Coalition Poll rankings. Bcspro ( talk) 14:44, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Well I am pretty sure (not 100% sure) that the Bowl Coalition Poll was (as was the Bowl Alliance) an average of the points from the AP and Coaches Poll prior to the bowl games. If you can produce the points from the coaches poll it should help me out a great deal. Bcspro ( talk) 17:38, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
I was afraid of that. Thanks anyway. Bcspro ( talk) 14:42, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
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FYI. Please follow Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1997 Michigan Wolverines football team/archive1.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:14, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Kehres deserves a much better article. Pretty remarkable record. Time permitting, I plan on working on it further. I'd forgotten about the list in my sandbox. At one point, I created that list to identify particularly notable coaches who needed articles, kind of a "to do" list that I never finished. Good to hear that you're filling in some of those. Cbl62 ( talk) 05:19, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Do you have any information to help fill in the infobox and text regarding offensive and defensive schemes for 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team. Looking at the infoboxes for 2009 Michigan Wolverines football team and 2010 Michigan Wolverines football team, it seems we should have similar for this important article.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 16:42, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I just wanted to clarify on your talk page -- though my comments directly followed yours, they were not intended to be directed at you. In fact, it was more in reference to the boogeyman claim that you were "biased" as a result of your edit count. Also, just an FYI -- I started an article, Rich Rodriguez Talisman -- you may wish to contribute! Obamafan70 ( talk) 21:15, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Got your note. I agree there needs for a minimum number of wins for a coach to be included in the list of active coaches approaching 200 wins. My inclusion of Spurrier was probably premature, and so I've removed him for now. I suggest 185 wins as a minimum. In divisions with a post-season tournament, 15 wins is the most wins a coach can have in one season. So, a minimum of 185 would cover all coaches who are within one full season of the 200-win mark. Spurrier will probably hit the 185-win mark before the end of the year, but he's not there yet.
As for including columns for First Year and Last Year, I agree those are handy. If you want to add them, I have no objection.
As for the method for designating active coaches, the best way would be to have a separate column with asterisk, check mark or other designation for active coaches. That would allow sorting active and retired coaches. If a separate column would create too much clutter, the asterisk has the advantage of being searchable. Bolding is not searchable and is therefore not as desirable in my opinion. The only thing with adding another column is a concern that the chart may become too cluttered. Cbl62 ( talk) 13:59, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
I liked your criticism of the Mike Hart article and am giving heed that I will be using the aforementioned objection in the future when dealing with associated vandals, freelance rabblerousers, and other friendly malcontents. I am giving you credit here first and will attempt to do so in the future when applicable. Obamafan70 ( talk) 14:59, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments regarding Kevin Donley and his year-by-year season records. I do not have a preference about where in Wiki this information is housed. As you pointed out, this information started as sections on the Kevin Donley article. When the article seemed long to me, I decided to split the season information to what seemed to me to be reasonable hosts, the articles that discuss the football team, if present; or the athletic teams in general, if present; or finally, on the college page itself, if the other two did not exist. I have done a lot of work compiling this information, and it would be TRAGIC if this information were lost due to some other editor's lack of appreciation for the content. I agree that a separate page for each season might be the answer. But I do not have time at present to investigate each season in order to add content beyond the game-by-game results. Therefore, if I were to segregate this information to separate articles, I fear someone would simply delete the pages due to lack of additional content. Can you assure me of a way to keep such a page from being deleted?
Absent such assurance, I would like the game-by-game results to remain where they are for now. I see a logical connection to where they are now housed. Jlhcpa ( talk) 21:35, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
I just discovered that from 2000 to present you can determine the number of games played according to NCAA records. See http://web1.ncaa.org/football/exec/roster?year=2000&org=418 for example where 2000 in the url determines the year and 418 is associated with Michigan.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 17:55, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Jweiss11, would you be so kind as to opine on the Ryan Mallett article talk page? The aforementioned user seems to think that winning the world's largest crystal football award is "spam". References are provided; perhaps you could weigh-in. I'm just seeking some independent counsel and voice on this to build consensus and so as to prevent a possible spat. Regards, Obamafan70 ( talk) 22:23, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your editorial contributions. You may want to post this on your user page somewhere.
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-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 22:03, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your editorial contributions. You may want to post this on your user page somewhere.
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-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 22:07, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Take a peek at User:Paulmcdonald/Victor Santa Cruz. I haven't incorporated the changes in the coach template box yet, but I wanted you to look at progress so far.-- Paul McDonald ( talk) 16:41, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Issue noted at T:TDYK.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 08:46, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Jweiss, I saw your recent edit to the new "Florida Gators head football coaches" navbox, and I have no objection to only using the most commonly used "full name" (i.e. first name/nickname and last name) of the coaches. I hope you still have no objection to using the common full name and years of service. I spent some time getting the college basketball group on board with this, and I have been gradually "upgrading" all of the college baseball, basketball and football coach navboxes on the Florida Gators coach articles so I may then delete the redundant succession boxes. Please confirm that you are still on board with this, because I am hopeful that this will become the unquestioned college football project standard. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 17:01, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know that there is a standard on these articles. I had just copy-and-pasted the 2007 stuff over. I'll follow the standard. OCNative ( talk) 06:32, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
JW, I need a disinterested second opinion regarding college athlete notability. I have been working for several months to clean up the WP bios of former Florida Gators athletes, including about 230 former Florida Gators football players. The vast majority of these former Gators clearly satisfy one or more of the notability criteria for WP inclusion, while approximately 10 to 20 of the football bios fall in what I perceive to be a "gray area of notability." And while my principal motivation is improving these articles so they reflect a common standard of formatting and at least some minimum common standard of content, I really don't want to spend a lot of time on articles that may (and perhaps should) be subject to a successful AfD. A archetypical example of this is the Dexter Daniels article. Daniels was an SEC first-teamer, but received no All-America honors or other SEC or national football awards, and played in a total of four NFL games in a single season, none as a starter. His professional career was brief and otherwise forgettable, and affords no interesting content to include in the article. Is this really the sort of college sports article we want to include in WP, based on some sort of "he played in one professional game" minimum notability standard? Please feel free to respond at your leisure. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 14:27, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject College Football for a Signpost article to be published next month. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Also, if you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 21:21, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hey, thanks for cleaning up after me when I walked through the Southern Oregon coaches...-- Paul McDonald ( talk) 04:57, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Fjbfour, I've listed the nav boxes for the 24 non-nat'l championship Nebraska teams for deletion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion. I think this is the way to handle it. Thanks. Jweiss11 ( talk) 20:02, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. It does need work. For now, I've tried to at least add a number of the feature stories that have been published about him to reduce the likelihood of a notability challenge. 03:41, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
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I was glad to help. I saw it sort of languishing there and wanted to make sure it wasn't overlooked. Interesting story about the sons. Cbl62 ( talk) 19:10, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
I've been working on whipping the 1918 Michigan Wolverines football team article into shape. Think I'm done for now. If you have suggestions, go ahead and make any changes you think appropriate. Cbl62 ( talk) 17:11, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I haven't been around wikipedia for very long so I'm not sure why you removed category: Horizon League from several HL pages, including Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament, 2011 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament, and Template:HorizonLeagueBB. I'm afraid I may be using categories incorrectly or something. If you could let me know why this category was removed from these pages, I'd appreciate it. City boy77 ( talk) 17:27, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
Huh? Could you explain this edit to me? I mean, U of I is a member of the Big Ten. HuskyHuskie ( talk) 00:40, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
Hey, on the film Necessary Roughness: we had a discussion at the CFB project a while back and came to the conclusion that fictional films were outside the scope... I pulled the tag, but then saw that you put it on and wanted to get back to you.-- Paul McDonald ( talk) 20:06, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Do you really think a separate article is necessary? There isn't very much content. Grsz 11 18:27, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
We've discussed this before and disagree. Not much to be gained from revisiting it. On articles you create, I will defer to you. On articles I create, I suggest you defer to me. Sound OK? Cbl62 ( talk) 16:12, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
I am not sure how you "properly" update the list of wins. No sourcing information is provided relating to the various coach's W-L-T shown in the total. Without some standard methodology, how are multiple editors able to participate in keeping this schedule current? I chose to sync with the individual coach narrations exactly because of the fact that it was a consistent approach that could be followed by multiple editors. As a season progresses, I presume somebody has enough interest to keep the individual coaching records updated. If those pages get outdated, then the master table will be outdated, agreed. But as soon as the coaching page gets corrected/updated, that data is then available for the 200 wins table. If issues exist, such as the one you pointed out for Mack Brown, then I believe that should become a project for someone to resolve. (What you seem to be telling me is that the 200 wins table has better information than some of the coach's biographies? That seems wierd to accept such a premise.) I don't know how Wiki can be relied upon if you are telling me two different pages can have two different presentations. It seemed logical to me to go to the separate coaching pages and rely on them, with an implied acceptance of the information on those pages. If those pages are wrong, they need to be fixed. As another example, a handful of coaches have biographies that do not include tables of their coaching career, year by year. Such a table should be created so that all coaches have their records as part of their biographies. I am considering taking on that project so that all coaches have a W-L-T table as part of their biographies.
Having said all the above, how do you suggest that multiple people can be involved in the updating process for this page? I am willing to do it from time to time, though I am not committed to taking it over exclusively. As you have already seen, I have a specific interest in a select group of coaches on the list. But I do not yet understand a process that allows for multiple people to do the updating. It seems like the update process needs to be known and simpler. Jlhcpa ( talk) 04:55, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
I've now finished drafting the William Wilson Talcott article. It's one of the most fascinating stories I've encountered in researching Michigan football history. The makings of a great movie. If you have the time to look it over for a copy edit, feel free. Cbl62 ( talk) 07:20, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
I have also recently added career records for Dennis Douds and Bob Ford (American football). Feel free to comment and/or make changes if you find any improvements. Jlhcpa ( talk) 19:59, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
On a few pages, I added box scores and game summaries using the American football templates and then were removed by other users for the sake of format. Why? Comedian1018 ( talk) 03:44, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Hey Jweiss11, since you recently improved this template, I had a request. In the "Current position" section, can you add another conditional field for pro/non-college positions? Chris Scelfo, former Tulane HC and current Falcons TE coach, is what made me notice this—i.e., he's still most notable as a college coach, but is currently a pro positional coach. Can you add a field that says "Organization" or "Team", something along those lines? Thanks! Strikehold ( talk) 00:53, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Please see comments at: Talk:Lew Carpenter. Thank you for the input. I think the Lew Carpenter article is heading in the right direction. Jrcrin001 ( talk) 01:34, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Very nice. My obsession can end soon...though I have a couple of things I will add. Thanks! -- Esprqii ( talk) 20:42, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
I created the 2011 season page for Michigan, but noticed a reoccurring problem with that page and other 2011 pages (Stanford and Indiana) in relation to the 2010 infoboxes. While the 2011 pages will link back to the 2010 seasons and forward to the 2012 seasons, the 2010 boxes refuse to link forward to the 2011 seasons, even if the page has already been created. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks. SCS100 ( talk) 00:10, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. I will be more careful in the future.-- FeanorStar7 ( talk) 09:26, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
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I know you deal mostly in college football but is there a template similiar to the college football depth chart for pro football teams?
Comedian1018 ( talk) 23:30, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
JW, you've hit another home run with the public domain/fair use photos you have been adding to the college coach articles. Do you happen to know the date and source for the Charlie Bachman photo? I would like to add a meaningful caption. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 15:48, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
As an example: I have just cleaned up most pages that linked to the 2010 NAIA Football Championship Series page. What's left is userpage links. What else needs to be done in order to recommend that this page be deleted? Can I request that action now, or is there some Wiki policy that says the page must exist forever with its REDIRECT to the correct page? I want to understand the way to approach this as the other redirects get cleaned up for the other pages. I owuld like them deleted as soon as the necessary cleanup has occurred. Thanks. Jlhcpa ( talk) 23:57, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Someone started, Michael Shaw (American football). I am wondering if we should WP:CSD it or develop it.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 17:49, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the tips. Appreciate it.-- SportsMaster ( talk) 19:08, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for your involvement in the development of Brandon Graham (American football) which has become a WP:GA in recent months. -- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:05, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for your involvement in the development of Jake Long which has become a WP:GA in recent months.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:09, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for your involvement in the development of Zoltan Mesko (American football) which has become a WP:GA in recent months.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:12, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
I think you are going way overboard on the Michigan roster articles. I'm not 100% on this, so I'm not about to go on a speedy frenzy, but I posted a thread to the college football talk requesting input on the appropriateness of these articles. I'd appreciate any explanation you could provide. — ShadowRanger ( talk| stalk) 18:49, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
— ShadowRanger ( talk| stalk) 19:36, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Congratulations to you as well on your diligent work in filling out the template so that there is now at least a stub for all 131 seasons of Michigan football. Hopefully, we (and others) can now work on filling them in. Cbl62 ( talk) 04:38, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
I noticed you've been changing the "Awards and honors" section to "Awards." Since the sections include team captaincy, I think "Awards and honors" is the more accurate heading. Team captaincy is an honor but not an award. Cbl62 ( talk) 22:44, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
What ever happened with Template_talk:NCAATeamSeason#New_fields?-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 18:33, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
Based on your involvement in Northwestern football articles, I thought you might want to expand Zak Kustok.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 03:11, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
I appreciate your help cleaning up the recent UM coaches articles, but it would help if you could allow some space when I'm just starting them. I was still working on the Jed Hughes article and when I had done a substantial rewrite with lots of additional information, I lost everything when I tried to save them and ran into an edit conflict. Unfortunately, I hadn't saved my work before hitting the "save page" button. Ouch. Cbl62 ( talk) 03:29, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
It seems that you know how to tinker with the code. Can you address my Template_talk:NCAATeamSeason#Logo and image query?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 05:48, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
I think it is you that tends to do a lot infobox overhauling. Tyrone Wheatley may need to be converted to a coaching box. See the bottom of http://suathletics.syr.edu/news/2010/2/9/FB_0209103322.aspx for details of things that may be included.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 07:25, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
I stumbled across a new template that I have copied from the OSU article to 2009_Michigan_Wolverines_football_team#vs._Ohio_State. Do you think we should be using that. Do you know how to get all the information for the box?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 05:27, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
My view on "See also" sections is pretty consistent with the guide. The purposes is to provide a "bulleted list, preferably alphabetized, of internal links ( wikilinks) to related Wikipedia articles." It shouldn't be overdone. I hate when I see a "See also" section with more than 2-4 links. But I think it's very helpful to direct the reader to a few articles that are related and likely to be of interest to the reader. It's especially helpful where the linked article is a more fully developed article on a directly related or broader subject/category. In the case of players on the 1901 team, the individual articles can't tell the whole story of that amazing team, and the "see also" tool is a good way to link to the broader discussion. As set forth in the guideline, a "See also" section is "ultimately a matter of editorial judgment and common sense." That's my view. What's your objection to it? Cbl62 ( talk) 01:49, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Just read your little comment that you placed here.[ [1]] A few things; 1) I only made one claim of vandalism so shouldn’t your title really have read “False claim of vandalism”?, 2) You’re a “tenured” editor? Wow, can I read your dissertation?, 3) Don’t you think you’re being maybe just a touch “pot calling the kettle black” by calling me out for disrespect when you post stuff like this? [ [2]]?, and 4) While Buckeye fans enjoy “spelling out the four letters of their home state”, what they are really thrilled about is the six game winning streak over the guys who wear those fancy winged helmets! (Seriously though, I think you’re doing a good job on college football articles, keep up the good work!) 138.162.0.43 ( talk) 14:04, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:02, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I've noticed you've recently been doing a lot of work on articles for Florida football coaches. First, let me say that your effort to build out the bodies of these articles is excellent and your citation work is diligent and painstaking. I did want to point out, though, some non-standard usage and formatting you've introduced into the template-based elements of these articles.
In Template:Infobox college coach, the Title, College, and Conference fields are intended to be used to reflect current coaching positions. You've repurposed Title and Conference as a career summary for retired coaches and repurposed College to note undergraduate degree. For retired and deceased coaches, these fields should be blank. Also, in the CoachTeams field, standard practice is to display the school's short name. In many cases, such as on Bob Woodruff (American football), you've listed the school's full name.
In the coaching records tables, you've added ordinal numbers in the ranking fields. The prevailing standard is to simply list the cardinal number. In cases where a team finished with a tied placing in conference, you've noted, e.g. "3rd-Tie", instead of the standard "T–3rd" or "T-3rd".
In succession boxes, when indicating a range of years, you've put spaces between the start year, the en dash, and the end year. There should be no spaces as "en dashes are unspaced, except when there is a space within either one or both of the items"; see Wikipedia:ENDASH#En dashes.
Done I have edited all of the Gators coaches succession boxes for consistency on this point.
I've been doing a lot of work the past few months to clean up and improve articles for football coaches across the NCAA and much of this effort has focused on conforming to and enforcing usage and formatting standards in the relevant templates. If you could keep the standards I've mentioned in mind as you continue editing, I would greatly appreciate it. And keep up the good work! Thanks. Jweiss11 ( talk) 07:21, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, you nominated lots of cateogries like
category:1881 College football season for deletion, I assume you will change the C to a c. At the moment there are two to several articles in each one. If I delete the cat, you won't know which articles to change, so it is a good idea to change articles first. Otherwise if you promise to fix the mess anyway, you can ask to delete the lot now.
Graeme Bartlett (
talk) 07:24, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Good morning, Jweiss11. Hope all is well. Just noted your handiwork on the Charley Pell records box. Glad you found the Jacksonville State conference records—I could not. Would be grateful if you could provide a footnote, linked or otherwise, for your source. Drives me crazy when I can't follow the source. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 12:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
Good morning, Jweiss11. I have a small problem. After our last series of conversations about infobox formatting, I have been uniformly using the short form of university names in the college football coaches infoboxes as well as those of other University of Florida coaches for other sports. Unfortunately, the example infobox at [3] shows the infobox with the full university names displayed. Personally, I have no strong preference either way, but would like to be able to format all Gators coaches pages uniformly. Can we kick this upstairs to the WikiProject College Football for a formal determination? If the policy is the use of the short-form university names, then the example infobox should be changed to reflect current formatting policy. I hate these sorts of formatting issues because they invariably become a huge waste of time as editors make repeated formatting changes to the same article (often mindlessly using a bot or one of the auto-ed scripts). I would greatly appreciate your help as one of the college football project leaders. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 12:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
Nice job adding the team captains to the UM football team infoboxes. My only comment/suggestion is that it may look less cluttered in the later years if you have a single entry for "captains." With three and even four captains in later years, it looks a bit cluttered to have three or four separate entries in the infobox. My suggestion is a single "Captains" section where all three or four names are listed. Cbl62 ( talk) 08:01, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your efforts with and attention to this article.
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-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 21:07, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Ah, you beat me to it! [4] 74.178.230.17 ( talk) 00:49, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
Good catch here, I forgot I added a ref to the article! Eagles 24/7 (C) 21:01, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
When viewing Harry W. Ewing (in Internet Explorer v8.0)after your edits of the infobox the years and colleges do not line up. Basically the “(assistant)” moves from next to Nebraska to below Nebraska. When looking at your edits of the article in Firefox v3.5.6 and Safari v.4.0.5 it looks fine.
The version of the article before your edits looks fine in Internet Explorer v8.0, but in Firefox v3.5.6 and Safari v.4.0.5 they years and schools do not line up.
I thinking this may be a flaw in the template but I wanted to check what browser are you using before seeing if someone at Wikipedia:WikiProject College football could fix this problem. 09er ( talk) 14:04, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
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I noted your edits to Taleb. My mission is to enter into the historical record individuals who have made significant contributions to the economic study of creative industries. This sub-specialty started around mid-20th century so that although most of the key players are still living, they have surpassed retirement age. I would like to give them their due recognition on the Internet before they are gone. Currently their work is not adequately represented on the Internet despite extensive coverage in academic literature (which are not freely accessible via the Internet). Please take a look at my first such article, Arthur De Vany. Allenwlee ( talk) 18:48, 19 May 2010 (UTC)Thanks.
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MDSanker, Hello. I've noticed you've been working on adding the missing Tennessee Volunteers football teams. Excellent! I want to point out a few items about formatting and content.
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for endashes. See
Dash for more on this.In the past few months I've created articles for every missing Michigan Wolverines football team (see Category:Michigan Wolverines football seasons). Many of them are still stubs, but I've aimed to imbue them with best-in-class formatting and layout. You can refer to them as examples for the points above, etc.
Thanks for your efforts, and let me know if you have questions about the college football stuff. Jweiss11 ( talk) 17:20, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
Jweiss11 thank you for trying to help I am trying to get as much Vanderbilt and Tennessee sports updated as I can, It may take me a while to do this. I would like you to stop changing the content to fit what you want to say. If you where a Tennessee alum or even a fan I would not have a problem with it. You seem to be a Michigan person and that seems to be strange that you want to change a Tennessee and Vanderbilt page to fit your way of thinking. The real thing that make your edits bad and me wanting to change them is: the commits you leave on them. As if you are the only person who has a clue. 5–5–0 5–5 –0 5-5-0 A dash is a dash is a dash. All are the same however you do it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MDSanker ( talk) 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Okay I should not have said Vandalizom it was unfair comment. If you like I can start the pages and you can follow with cleanup’s. I will not take it personel I have taken your adivece and I think the pages are looking cleaner. The only problem I had was when you where saying that what you wrote looked better. I see what you where referring to. MDSanker 31 May 2010 (UTC)
....(delink date in lead)
No, dates are not typically linked in leads nor are they elsewhere. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dates. Jweiss11 ( talk) 00:24, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
An IP user has made a bunch of changes in the above article today. They look a little odd to me, and the IP user does not have a long history. Any idea if they are legit? Cbl62 ( talk) 20:19, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
I don't understand the edits you've been making to my recent articles on college football coaches. For example, in this diff on June 13, you added season links (e.g., changing 1963 to 1963). But in this diff] on June 10, you deleted the same sort of season links that I had previously added (e.g., changing 1988 to 1988). Is there a method to what you are doing? Cbl62 ( talk) 06:43, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
I replied to your message on my user page, and have brought the topic up at WP:CFB. Thanks for leaving me the message about it. Strikehold ( talk) 00:25, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey, Jonathan. Just a courtesy note. I noticed that you often contribute to the article regarding George Clark. I spent some time wikifying and copy editing the article yesterday. During this process, I went to research links and citations and discovered that this page was a direct copy and paste from a four-page article printed in the Coffin Corner: Vol. 7, No. 2 (1985). The article, entitled, "Potsy Clark: A Success Story" was written by Bob Carroll. http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/07-02-218.pdf. (The current article includes my copy-edit changes.) I went ahead and manually tagged the article for investigation. I don't want the article deleted, but was not comfortable with overlooking the copyright violation. Cindamuse ( talk) 06:56, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
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Sorry about that! I'll change it back. [: Pengkeu ( talk) 11:04, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Jweiss11--Greetings. Saw you chewing on the "head coaches" category problem. Virtually, all of these "head coach" categories were created by a single editor who has since been banned by administrators from working on categories. He created all sorts of subdivisions within these and other areas, and was in the process of creating head college basketball coach categories when he got banned. These subdivisions might work for major programs wherein virtually all head coaches are notable, but not so much for smaller programs and minor sports. For smaller programs and minor sports, it creates severely underpopulated subcategories. FWIW, I recommend the use of a navbox for head coaches for each program and all-inclusive "coach" categories for head coaches, coordinators and assistants. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 15:15, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for checking/fixing my work. Have a new category in mind, but I'm unsure of the appropriate parent category or the most-appropriate naming convention.
I'm trying to mirror the function of this page List of undefeated Division I football teams as a category for team-season pages, while encompassing all Divisions of college football (as the number of teams is reasonably finite).
I am think of using this category as a parent
Category:College football seasons
With this naming convention
College football undefeated seasons
which mimics the naming structure on this existing Catgory
College football conference champion seasons
Feedback, or direction to an appropriate discussion page, appreciated. Pasadena91 ( talk) 21:42, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the head's up. I have added my comment to yours. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 20:31, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
I am going through the Michigan football record books and adding school records to individual season articles. I have already gone through the Big Ten and NCAA record books and media guides. I will help you get any season to WP:GA that you want to add detailed game summaries to before October 1 (I am competing in the WP:CUP).-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 15:01, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
I just lost a big edit due to an edit conflict. Please don't edit when I'm working on an article. Cbl62 ( talk) 09:41, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I saw you had a speedy tag on Category:Intercollegiate athletic coaches in the United States, but I couldn't find it in the Speedy Rename section. So I just subsumed it into this new "college athletes" nomination. Hope that's cool.-- Mike Selinker ( talk) 10:30, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
This template is relying on re-directions for particular season years:
Template:Infobox NCAA football rankings
Could you edit it, such that the <<Prev and Next>> links follow the expected convention of:
1936~1955 =>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19xx_NCAA_football_rankings
1956~1972 =>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19xx_NCAA_University_Division_football_rankings
1973~1977 =>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19xx_NCAA_Division_I_football_rankings
1978~2009/+ =>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19%7C20xx_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_rankings
Pasadena91 ( talk) 17:30, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Nice catch on connecting Lewie Hardage, Oklahoma football coach, to Lewis Hardage, Florida baseball coach and assistant football coach. Always nice to reclaim a lost Gator! Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 23:02, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the help cleaning up this article. One issue though is the nickname "William." I realize that CFDW refers to that as a nickname. But I've searched several newspaper databases and find zero references to him as William. He's either referred to by his initials or as "Ray." I did find one article ("Michigan's Ray Courtright Proud of Family and Team", The Christian Science Monitor, 1940-04-26) that discusses Courtright and his son, "William," who was also a successful athlete. I suspect that CFDW has made a mistake on this one, perhaps confusing coverage of his son with coverage of Ray. This is also supported because "William" makes no sense as a "nickname" for someone whose name is Raymond E. or Raymond O. Courtright. Did you find any source other than CFDW supporting "William" as a nickname? Cbl62 ( talk) 22:16, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Fjbfour, thanks for creating all those Big Ten football standing templates. One little thing: when you transclude them onto articles, be sure not have a blank line after the template code. The blank line causes the article to display extra spacing at the top of the page or section. Thanks again. Jweiss11 ( talk) 00:03, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
I have beefed up 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team. It could use some feedback at Wikipedia:Peer review/1997 Michigan Wolverines football team/archive1. Also, I had trouble finding game details for the Little Brown Jug game. I hope to take this to WP:FAC so if you get a chance this is one of the more important articles that you might be able to help out.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 07:24, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
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Hey there, Jweiss11. Sorry I didn't responded sooner. Since your ticket stub includes a small copyright symbol next to the helmet, my best guess would be to use the Template:Non-free logo. Most of the time I usually just upload pictures or screenshots and so this is a more interesting upload than I'm used to. I would check out the image File:Filenes ad on a ticketstub.png because it contains a Red Sox logo on the stub similar in fashion to what you have just uploaded. For some reason your licensing for your upload should fall under the Creative Commons like both the Red Sox stub and my movie stub, but I'm not sure how to do this. If you are able to edit the licensing of your image, try placing cc-by-3.0 between two curly brackets on each side into the edit box for the licensing section. I hope that I helped you in some sort of way and I wish I could tell you exactly what needs to be done, but like yourself, I'm not used to this kind of uploading. Thanks contacting me, I always enjoy a wikipedia challenge. And if you ever need any other help in the future, feel free to contact me again. - TFunk ( talk) 17:25, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Can you please respond here in regards to which license you'd like to release the modified version of File:1997_Notre_Dame_at_Michigan_football_ticket_stub.jpg in which I removed the copyrighted helmet design so that we can get it inserted into 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team, or if you don't like that option we'll have to upload a smaller version of the fair-use image to keep it within policy. I feel a copyright free version of the ticket would be better, since fair-use justification of the ticket is unlikely to pass and it would have to be removed. Anyway please join in the conversation on my talk page so we can get this resolved asap for the peer review. — raeky T 12:25, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
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— Rlevse • Talk • 12:03, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for sharing the reaction of Dr. Noskin and his fraternity brothers. One of the things I enjoy most about Wikipedia is hearing from the subject of an article I've written or the subject's family. It's happened maybe 10 times, most recently with Steve Strinko with whom I've exchanged a number of emails. Hopefully, Dr. Noskin didn't feel I dwelled too much on his less glorious moments, like the interceptions record. I try to be balanced. Cbl62 ( talk) 18:14, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
I know you created many of the Michigan football season articles. I am currently slogging through the national, conference and eventually team record books. I would kind of like to do the similar statistical thing I did for the football articles that I did for basketball. However, most of them don't exist. Are you interested in creating most of them?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 22:24, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Above, I mentioned an attempt to add some blue to Template:Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams while scoring DYKs. Well, of the 23 new or newly expanded blue links, I had hoped 17 of them would reach DYK levels. I have succeeded on 12, I think. However, five of them are sort of close and could use some assistance. I have exhausted my resources on 1962–63 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, which I started on 9/4 and 1968–69 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, 1969–70 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, 1970–71 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team and 1971–72 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, which I began working with on 9/5. If you know anything about these teams or how to find anything out about them, assistance would be appreciated. As you know the window is short for finding DYK content.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 21:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Jweiss, I started a conversation over on the WP:College basketball talk page regarding the replacement of all succession boxes with navboxes. Given your previous comments on point, I thought you might want to weigh in—it may be an opportunity to impose greater uniformity on the formatting of coaches articles. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 21:15, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
I was wrong in a lot of thing as I was taking the pages as my creation or like it was just mine for everyone to read and not bother with. I was very wrong in that. I did not think about the cut and paste of the AP material. I will watch it in the from now on. So ageain thank you for your help. MDSanker(talk) 22:10, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Why is it an improvement to remove {{ USCity}}?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 08:21, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
While working on the infobox at 1995–96 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, I ran in to a discrepancy. The following sources have the following records:
This leads to a discrepancy between the infobox at the explanation on the "adjusted" link. Do you know why?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 22:38, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Jweiss, please take a look at what I've done with the navboxes and succession boxes at the bottom of the Urban Meyer article. I would propose to use this as the pattern for all CFB coach pages:
I think this would go a LONG WAY toward eliminating the bottom-of-the-page graphic clutter created by the ever-expanding proliferation of succession boxes and navboxes for awards, etc. Please let me know what you think. If I can get your backing, I would gladly propose this as a new consensus on the CFB project page. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 11:23, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
It's probably not needed, but I don't know that it's hurting anything. Maybe we could make the parameter default to "off", so the user needs to explicitly say "homecoming=yes", rather than the current other way around. De Fault Ryan 20:20, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey I noticed you added the coaches poll to a bowl game for this season. Where did you find them? I have been looking for the pre-bowl Coaches poll rankings for the 1992-1994 seasons so I can produce the Bowl Coalition Poll rankings. Bcspro ( talk) 14:44, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Well I am pretty sure (not 100% sure) that the Bowl Coalition Poll was (as was the Bowl Alliance) an average of the points from the AP and Coaches Poll prior to the bowl games. If you can produce the points from the coaches poll it should help me out a great deal. Bcspro ( talk) 17:38, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
I was afraid of that. Thanks anyway. Bcspro ( talk) 14:42, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
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FYI. Please follow Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/1997 Michigan Wolverines football team/archive1.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:14, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Kehres deserves a much better article. Pretty remarkable record. Time permitting, I plan on working on it further. I'd forgotten about the list in my sandbox. At one point, I created that list to identify particularly notable coaches who needed articles, kind of a "to do" list that I never finished. Good to hear that you're filling in some of those. Cbl62 ( talk) 05:19, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Do you have any information to help fill in the infobox and text regarding offensive and defensive schemes for 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team. Looking at the infoboxes for 2009 Michigan Wolverines football team and 2010 Michigan Wolverines football team, it seems we should have similar for this important article.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 16:42, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I just wanted to clarify on your talk page -- though my comments directly followed yours, they were not intended to be directed at you. In fact, it was more in reference to the boogeyman claim that you were "biased" as a result of your edit count. Also, just an FYI -- I started an article, Rich Rodriguez Talisman -- you may wish to contribute! Obamafan70 ( talk) 21:15, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Got your note. I agree there needs for a minimum number of wins for a coach to be included in the list of active coaches approaching 200 wins. My inclusion of Spurrier was probably premature, and so I've removed him for now. I suggest 185 wins as a minimum. In divisions with a post-season tournament, 15 wins is the most wins a coach can have in one season. So, a minimum of 185 would cover all coaches who are within one full season of the 200-win mark. Spurrier will probably hit the 185-win mark before the end of the year, but he's not there yet.
As for including columns for First Year and Last Year, I agree those are handy. If you want to add them, I have no objection.
As for the method for designating active coaches, the best way would be to have a separate column with asterisk, check mark or other designation for active coaches. That would allow sorting active and retired coaches. If a separate column would create too much clutter, the asterisk has the advantage of being searchable. Bolding is not searchable and is therefore not as desirable in my opinion. The only thing with adding another column is a concern that the chart may become too cluttered. Cbl62 ( talk) 13:59, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
I liked your criticism of the Mike Hart article and am giving heed that I will be using the aforementioned objection in the future when dealing with associated vandals, freelance rabblerousers, and other friendly malcontents. I am giving you credit here first and will attempt to do so in the future when applicable. Obamafan70 ( talk) 14:59, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments regarding Kevin Donley and his year-by-year season records. I do not have a preference about where in Wiki this information is housed. As you pointed out, this information started as sections on the Kevin Donley article. When the article seemed long to me, I decided to split the season information to what seemed to me to be reasonable hosts, the articles that discuss the football team, if present; or the athletic teams in general, if present; or finally, on the college page itself, if the other two did not exist. I have done a lot of work compiling this information, and it would be TRAGIC if this information were lost due to some other editor's lack of appreciation for the content. I agree that a separate page for each season might be the answer. But I do not have time at present to investigate each season in order to add content beyond the game-by-game results. Therefore, if I were to segregate this information to separate articles, I fear someone would simply delete the pages due to lack of additional content. Can you assure me of a way to keep such a page from being deleted?
Absent such assurance, I would like the game-by-game results to remain where they are for now. I see a logical connection to where they are now housed. Jlhcpa ( talk) 21:35, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
I just discovered that from 2000 to present you can determine the number of games played according to NCAA records. See http://web1.ncaa.org/football/exec/roster?year=2000&org=418 for example where 2000 in the url determines the year and 418 is associated with Michigan.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 17:55, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Jweiss11, would you be so kind as to opine on the Ryan Mallett article talk page? The aforementioned user seems to think that winning the world's largest crystal football award is "spam". References are provided; perhaps you could weigh-in. I'm just seeking some independent counsel and voice on this to build consensus and so as to prevent a possible spat. Regards, Obamafan70 ( talk) 22:23, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
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-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 22:07, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Take a peek at User:Paulmcdonald/Victor Santa Cruz. I haven't incorporated the changes in the coach template box yet, but I wanted you to look at progress so far.-- Paul McDonald ( talk) 16:41, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Issue noted at T:TDYK.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 08:46, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Jweiss, I saw your recent edit to the new "Florida Gators head football coaches" navbox, and I have no objection to only using the most commonly used "full name" (i.e. first name/nickname and last name) of the coaches. I hope you still have no objection to using the common full name and years of service. I spent some time getting the college basketball group on board with this, and I have been gradually "upgrading" all of the college baseball, basketball and football coach navboxes on the Florida Gators coach articles so I may then delete the redundant succession boxes. Please confirm that you are still on board with this, because I am hopeful that this will become the unquestioned college football project standard. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 17:01, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know that there is a standard on these articles. I had just copy-and-pasted the 2007 stuff over. I'll follow the standard. OCNative ( talk) 06:32, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
JW, I need a disinterested second opinion regarding college athlete notability. I have been working for several months to clean up the WP bios of former Florida Gators athletes, including about 230 former Florida Gators football players. The vast majority of these former Gators clearly satisfy one or more of the notability criteria for WP inclusion, while approximately 10 to 20 of the football bios fall in what I perceive to be a "gray area of notability." And while my principal motivation is improving these articles so they reflect a common standard of formatting and at least some minimum common standard of content, I really don't want to spend a lot of time on articles that may (and perhaps should) be subject to a successful AfD. A archetypical example of this is the Dexter Daniels article. Daniels was an SEC first-teamer, but received no All-America honors or other SEC or national football awards, and played in a total of four NFL games in a single season, none as a starter. His professional career was brief and otherwise forgettable, and affords no interesting content to include in the article. Is this really the sort of college sports article we want to include in WP, based on some sort of "he played in one professional game" minimum notability standard? Please feel free to respond at your leisure. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 14:27, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hey, thanks for cleaning up after me when I walked through the Southern Oregon coaches...-- Paul McDonald ( talk) 04:57, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Fjbfour, I've listed the nav boxes for the 24 non-nat'l championship Nebraska teams for deletion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion. I think this is the way to handle it. Thanks. Jweiss11 ( talk) 20:02, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. It does need work. For now, I've tried to at least add a number of the feature stories that have been published about him to reduce the likelihood of a notability challenge. 03:41, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
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-- Cirt ( talk) 06:07, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
I was glad to help. I saw it sort of languishing there and wanted to make sure it wasn't overlooked. Interesting story about the sons. Cbl62 ( talk) 19:10, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
I've been working on whipping the 1918 Michigan Wolverines football team article into shape. Think I'm done for now. If you have suggestions, go ahead and make any changes you think appropriate. Cbl62 ( talk) 17:11, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I haven't been around wikipedia for very long so I'm not sure why you removed category: Horizon League from several HL pages, including Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament, 2011 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament, and Template:HorizonLeagueBB. I'm afraid I may be using categories incorrectly or something. If you could let me know why this category was removed from these pages, I'd appreciate it. City boy77 ( talk) 17:27, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
Huh? Could you explain this edit to me? I mean, U of I is a member of the Big Ten. HuskyHuskie ( talk) 00:40, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
Hey, on the film Necessary Roughness: we had a discussion at the CFB project a while back and came to the conclusion that fictional films were outside the scope... I pulled the tag, but then saw that you put it on and wanted to get back to you.-- Paul McDonald ( talk) 20:06, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Do you really think a separate article is necessary? There isn't very much content. Grsz 11 18:27, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
We've discussed this before and disagree. Not much to be gained from revisiting it. On articles you create, I will defer to you. On articles I create, I suggest you defer to me. Sound OK? Cbl62 ( talk) 16:12, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
I am not sure how you "properly" update the list of wins. No sourcing information is provided relating to the various coach's W-L-T shown in the total. Without some standard methodology, how are multiple editors able to participate in keeping this schedule current? I chose to sync with the individual coach narrations exactly because of the fact that it was a consistent approach that could be followed by multiple editors. As a season progresses, I presume somebody has enough interest to keep the individual coaching records updated. If those pages get outdated, then the master table will be outdated, agreed. But as soon as the coaching page gets corrected/updated, that data is then available for the 200 wins table. If issues exist, such as the one you pointed out for Mack Brown, then I believe that should become a project for someone to resolve. (What you seem to be telling me is that the 200 wins table has better information than some of the coach's biographies? That seems wierd to accept such a premise.) I don't know how Wiki can be relied upon if you are telling me two different pages can have two different presentations. It seemed logical to me to go to the separate coaching pages and rely on them, with an implied acceptance of the information on those pages. If those pages are wrong, they need to be fixed. As another example, a handful of coaches have biographies that do not include tables of their coaching career, year by year. Such a table should be created so that all coaches have their records as part of their biographies. I am considering taking on that project so that all coaches have a W-L-T table as part of their biographies.
Having said all the above, how do you suggest that multiple people can be involved in the updating process for this page? I am willing to do it from time to time, though I am not committed to taking it over exclusively. As you have already seen, I have a specific interest in a select group of coaches on the list. But I do not yet understand a process that allows for multiple people to do the updating. It seems like the update process needs to be known and simpler. Jlhcpa ( talk) 04:55, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
I've now finished drafting the William Wilson Talcott article. It's one of the most fascinating stories I've encountered in researching Michigan football history. The makings of a great movie. If you have the time to look it over for a copy edit, feel free. Cbl62 ( talk) 07:20, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
I have also recently added career records for Dennis Douds and Bob Ford (American football). Feel free to comment and/or make changes if you find any improvements. Jlhcpa ( talk) 19:59, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
On a few pages, I added box scores and game summaries using the American football templates and then were removed by other users for the sake of format. Why? Comedian1018 ( talk) 03:44, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Hey Jweiss11, since you recently improved this template, I had a request. In the "Current position" section, can you add another conditional field for pro/non-college positions? Chris Scelfo, former Tulane HC and current Falcons TE coach, is what made me notice this—i.e., he's still most notable as a college coach, but is currently a pro positional coach. Can you add a field that says "Organization" or "Team", something along those lines? Thanks! Strikehold ( talk) 00:53, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Please see comments at: Talk:Lew Carpenter. Thank you for the input. I think the Lew Carpenter article is heading in the right direction. Jrcrin001 ( talk) 01:34, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Very nice. My obsession can end soon...though I have a couple of things I will add. Thanks! -- Esprqii ( talk) 20:42, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
I created the 2011 season page for Michigan, but noticed a reoccurring problem with that page and other 2011 pages (Stanford and Indiana) in relation to the 2010 infoboxes. While the 2011 pages will link back to the 2010 seasons and forward to the 2012 seasons, the 2010 boxes refuse to link forward to the 2011 seasons, even if the page has already been created. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks. SCS100 ( talk) 00:10, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. I will be more careful in the future.-- FeanorStar7 ( talk) 09:26, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
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I know you deal mostly in college football but is there a template similiar to the college football depth chart for pro football teams?
Comedian1018 ( talk) 23:30, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
JW, you've hit another home run with the public domain/fair use photos you have been adding to the college coach articles. Do you happen to know the date and source for the Charlie Bachman photo? I would like to add a meaningful caption. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 15:48, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
As an example: I have just cleaned up most pages that linked to the 2010 NAIA Football Championship Series page. What's left is userpage links. What else needs to be done in order to recommend that this page be deleted? Can I request that action now, or is there some Wiki policy that says the page must exist forever with its REDIRECT to the correct page? I want to understand the way to approach this as the other redirects get cleaned up for the other pages. I owuld like them deleted as soon as the necessary cleanup has occurred. Thanks. Jlhcpa ( talk) 23:57, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Someone started, Michael Shaw (American football). I am wondering if we should WP:CSD it or develop it.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 17:49, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the tips. Appreciate it.-- SportsMaster ( talk) 19:08, 26 December 2010 (UTC)