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The list was promoted by Dabomb87 19:27, 17 April 2010 [1].

List of Nebraska Cornhuskers head football coaches[edit]

List of Nebraska Cornhuskers head football coaches (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Nominator(s): —NMajdan•talk 15:57, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Big 12 Coach list #7. Hopefully all necessary changes have been made.—NMajdan•talk 15:57, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments: Nothing too serious wrong with this article, in fact while there are a couple of phrases I wouldn't have used myself, I can't find any problems with the prose at all. I'm sure some more nit-picky reviewers will give you some stuff on that though! I do have a couple of small issues:

  • While I normally view on a big widescreen monitor on which I'm sure this would render fine, on the 1024 x 768 that I am using at the moment, the table requires a horizontal scrollbar. I can't find anything regarding what resolution we should be tagetting, but I'd suggest a fair few people will still access at this? Don't know if you can practicably make it smaller, and it's certainly not going to make me withhold my support, but it may be worth looking at.
    • There's not a whole lot I can do to make the table smaller. Before this comment, I removed the PT (Postseason Ties) column since Nebraska has never tied a postseason game, so all entries in this column when dashes or zero. The only other thing I can think of besides reducing the font size is to ditch the years in the NC column, although I believe that information is useful.—NMajdan•talk
      • As I said, its not a huge issue I don't think. Normally I wouldn't have spotted it at all, just happen to be on an old laptop at the moment.
  • In the NCs column, should "3— 1994,..." take an endash rather than an emdash? Also, emdashes should not be spaced if you do keep it. Of course, it could be that it really is an endash, and my tiny monitor is making it look bigger!
    • You're right, should be en dashes. Regarding the spaces, I have used that in other FLs so hopefully it is not a problem.—NMajdan•talk

That's all from me, another nice list. Harrias (talk) 10:11, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review!—NMajdan•talk 13:25, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support: no problem at all, I know how frustrating it can be to have an article sitting unreviewed for ages here! Harrias talk 13:40, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 07:07, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Could expand lead image.
  • "organized football began in 1890." reference for this?
  • "The Cornhuskers have played 1,219 games ..." as of when? Should at least put it into context.
  • Is the text following it ("during their 120 seasons") not enough?—NMajdan•talk
  • "The first coach was Frothingham..." seems odd to me that is the penultimate sentence in the lead of the list of head coaches...
  • Notes 1 and 4 are unreferenced.
  • Both covered in the general references.—NMajdan•talk
  • 2nd gen ref needs an en-dash.

The Rambling Man (talk) 19:20, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – "that represents University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the North Division of the Big 12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association." Should be another "the" before University. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 15:24, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed.—NMajdan•talk
Support – Meets FL standards. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 15:03, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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