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The list was promoted by The Rambling Man 18:39, 24 October 2009 [1].

List of Oklahoma Sooners football seasons[edit]

Nominator(s): ?NMajdan•talk 17:12, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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I have created this list based on the current FL List of Alabama Crimson Tide football seasons. I believe it now meets all the criteria after a peer review helped me clean up the prose a bit.?NMajdan•talk 17:12, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • You need to provide ALT text for the images you used.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 19:57, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Done. Thought I already did but I went ahead and gave more detail. My first time adding alt text.?NMajdan•talk 20:05, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • I improved the alt text a bit, you should imagine describing the image to someone on the phone who can't see the image.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 20:13, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - please put Conference championship game results in table format.—Chris!c/t 21:54, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support —Chris!c/t 03:16, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Giants2008 (17–14) 20:13, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comments –
  • What makes http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/ a reliable source? And is it even needed, considering most of what it's citing has other sources? The number of bowl appearances probably doesn't even need a cite as it is verified by the list itself.
  • What makes http://www.soonerstats.com/ reliable? The home page says "this site ... is just a hobby". Note that this is different from soonersports.com, the team's official site.
  • "They have also recorded 42 total conference championships, have twelve undefeated, untied seasons and have the longest winning streak in Division I FBS history with 47 straight victories." To make the grammar better, the final pair of "have"s should be removed.
  • Why is World War II linked? This is so common that I can't see the purpose.
  • En dash needed for "win-loss".
  • "In 1947, Oklahoma promoted Bud Wilkinson, then an assistant coach at Oklahoma, to head coach." The "at Oklahoma" bit is a redundancy, as it adds nothing.
  • No need for two Southwest Conference links in the lead.
  • In the table, should Independent be linked? NCAA Division I FBS independent schools appears to be an appropriate article. Of course, I root for Army and Notre Dame, so I know what an independent school is by now. :-)
  • Another thing I note is that there are quite a few red links scattered throughout. They don't bother me that much, but this has been a topic of discussion lately on the FL criteria page. To avoid any questions, consider adding some stubs on particular seasons or bowl games.
  • Period needed at the end of note 4.
  • En dashes needed for page ranges in references 6 and 8.
  • Italics should be used for publishers in cases where references are from printed publications, like in refs 6 and 11.
  • 1991 Gator Bowl is a disambiguation page. Apparently there were two Gator Bowls that year. Giants2008 (17–14) 22:46, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thanks for the comments. I have made some of the suggested changes above and I will comment on the rest. http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/ is pretty much the one-stop shop for all college football data. It is used extensively by many other articles and is a great resource. Per the references part of the site, the creator has used hundreds of various resources to compile the data in his site. Same thing for SoonerStats. It is the Oklahoma Sooner equivalent of CFBDW. The site has compiled the data from nearly every football media guide OU has produced as well as various books. You're right, I am using SoonerStats as a secondary source as its sometimes nice to have multiple sources in case one goes dead. Regarding the red links. I can remove them if needed. But I don't think creating 25+ separate articles should be a requirement for this FL to pass. Regarding the italics for publishers on one of the refs, I'm using the citation templates so if it needs to be italicized, it should be done in the template. 1991 Gator Bowl is a disambig page, but the specific article for that game doesn't exist, so I thought the disambig page, which points to both games of that year, was better than a red link.—NMajdan•talk 00:03, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Actually, it's better to link to the redlink article that doesn't exist, as it not only points to the correct location, but increases its ranking on the list of pages that don't exist but should be. You could also stub the new one :-D. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 22:01, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support – I'm going on the assumption that the two sources discussed are reliable enough, based on Dabomb's commentary. The publishers for printed publications were taken care of by yours truly to expedite matters, and all my other comments were done earlier. Giants2008 (17–14) 20:13, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:58, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)
Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)
  • You might add asterisks (where necessary) after the conference finish to be consistent with List of Alabama Crimson Tide football seasons.
    • There's already an asterisk in the year column. Adding it to the other column is just duplicating the same information.—NMajdan•talk
  • "Switzer began similarly to Wilkinson, with eight consecutive conference championships and national championships in 1974 and 1975." Am I missing something? Eight championships in two years?
    • Two separate thoughts. I will reword. He won eight consecutive conf championships in addition to winning natl championships in 1974 and 1975.—NMajdan•talk
  • The citations are inconsistent. Also, don't mix citation template families; use either {{citation}} or the cite XXX (e.g. cite web, cite book, cite news) family, but not both.
    • Seriously? As long as I'm either using templates or not, I really don't see why which template matters.—NMajdan•talk
      • Yes, and they are two different families. In any case, I fixed the one inconsistency. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:46, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • The alt text is pretty good, but there are a few problems. For example, don't mention the provenance of the images, such as "Black-and-white photograph of". Also, some of the details cannot be verified by looking at the image alone; for example, you can't tell just by looking at File:1915 Sooner Football team.png that the men standing there are players and coaches (or that sixteen are players and two are coaches). See Wikipedia:ALT#Verifiability for more information. Dabomb87 (talk) 20:17, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • I will rework the ALT text. The first reviewer who helped me originally with the ALT text is the one that added the "black and white" part, so I thought it was ok. If not, then I apparently need to also modify the ALT text on some other lists I am working on. Also, is it too much of a stretch to assume in an athletic picture that the two individuals wearing suites are coaches and the other sixteen wearing identical uniforms are players? Just curious. Thanks for the review.—NMajdan•talk 22:38, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Alt text is subject to Wikipedia's policies on original research and verifiability, just like everything else. So yes, it would have been a bit of a stretch. To you and me, it may seem a natural extension of what we know, but not to everybody else. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:46, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sources I invite reviewers to comment on the sources given above, but I myself lean toward reliable. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:58, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]


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