Talk:1933 Washington State Cougars football team

Copyright prod
This article which was created by you has been tagged for copy/paste issues since December 2016. Today, a prod for copyright violation was also added by User:Rhadow. The same copy/paste and copyright concerns apply to the following roughly 75 Washington State season schedule charts (all created by you): 1900-1914, 1916, 1918-1921, 1923-1932, 1934-1946, 1948-1957, 1959-1963, 1965-1970, 1973-1973, 1976, 1979-1981, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, and 1995. These articles have been tagged for these issues for nine months. If remedial action is not taken promptly, the schedule charts will need to be removed. If you have other thoughts on next steps, please feel free to reply here. Cbl62 (talk) 15:23, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Hello Cbl62 -- I understand WSU fans would be disappointed with seventy-five fewer articles, but my suspicion is that these pages were created programmatically. No one typed in seventy-five seasons' worth of stats. A single citation of the team program would do. I suggest deletion of all the articles after we've established the precedent. On a related note, the choice to lead the title with the year leads to much more frequent appearance on a select list than would happen if the title appeared in the form Washington State Cougars football team 9999. What is important in the title is the team, not the year. The Michigan Wolverines have a similarly named set of articles. There are lots of occurrences of the same content on the web, likely WP:mirror. There is an undated occurrence, word-for-word, on the eCloud Library, which claims to be copyrighted material. If it is, then that set needs to go, too. That decision is above my pay grade. Rhadow (talk) 16:45, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Hello User:UW Dawgs and Jweiss11 -- No argument from me that the subject is notable. The problem is the source of the data. Rhadow (talk) 21:32, 8 August 2017 (UTC)


 * These articles were all created manually, not programmatically. If these copied schedule tables are a problem, just delete them, not the entire articles.  Deleting the entire articles will just create more work that will have to be redone later. Jweiss11 (talk) 23:29, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Agreed. The season articles are fine.  My issue is with the copy-pasted schedule tables. Cbl62 (talk) 00:17, 9 August 2017 (UTC)