Talk:2006 Gator Bowl

Long lead
The lead has seven paragraphs right now. It should be trimmed to at least four paragraphs per WP:LEAD.-- Crzycheetah 00:24, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, so according to that guideline, the paragraphs need to be combined, then. JKBrooks85 (talk) 07:35, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

FAC comments
Comments posted here in an attempt to prevent a large unwieldy FAC page.

Looking at this page as a limey ignoramus, there are plenty of things that make it hard to follow for someone who knows little about the sport. Some of this is difficult to avoid, but well placed wikilinks can be particularly valuable.


 * First up is the question "why is this game important?" Postseason is an easter egg link to bowl game, so the link which ought to explain it isn't obvious. Now this isn't your fault, but bowl game doesn't help to give an immediate understanding as its lead is full of ifs and buts. If someone could improve the lead to that article it'd help, because its the sort of thing people like me will need in order to understand this one. So after reading bowl game a couple of times, I see that it is a game between two teams who have won at least six matches. So this isn't a championship game, but it is more than just a friendly match. It seems odd to have a special occasion for 12th versus 15th, but that must be a culture thing.
 * It is darned odd, and there are a lot of people advocating for a different system, but that's another argument entirely. I've switched the order of a few sentences in order to bring the season-finale aspect upward and removed that easter egg by putting bowl game in plaintext. I'll see about revising that article.


 * "A 10–2 regular season" - through familiarity with ice hockey I know what this means, but a lot of people won't. Is there a suitable wikilink that could be added?
 * I've put a Wikilink, but I'm not sure how useful it will be.


 * Acronyms should always be spelled out on first usage.
 * Could you point me toward the ones you were looking at? I checked the most obvious ones: ACC, BCS, etc. and didn't see anything.


 * There's quite a bit of passive voice in the article. i.e. "Louisville had won its last five games before the Gator Bowl and had participated in the Liberty Bowl at the end of the previous season." could become something like "Participants in the Liberty Bowl at the end of the previous season, Louisville entered the Gator Bowl on a five game winning streak" In other words, getting rid of words like "had" and "was" where omitting them would not hamper understanding.
 * I completely agree. Passive voice seems to come more naturally to me when I'm writing, and I've been trying to break myself of that habit. I still have far to go.


 * The 2006 Gator Bowl was played on January 2, 2006 at 12:30 p.m. EST - over-specific, particularly as it lasted more than a minute.
 * How about "started"?


 * Tech was only able to answer with a field goal, - a bit informal for an encyclopedia
 * Reworded.


 * What do the AP - Coaches - BCS boxes mean in the infobox?
 * They're the different polling systems used to determine national ranking; there are Wikilinks for each one, but do you think it's worth the time to explain the polls further?


 * "In the 2005 college football season, the Atlantic Coast Conference had an automatic bid to the Gator Bowl that allowed the Gator Bowl Association to have the first pick of bowl-eligible ACC teams after the winner of the ACC Championship Game was given a spot in a Bowl Championship Series game." - A 50-plus word sentence that means nothing to me without clicking on at least three wikilinks.
 * This one's tough for me to express unless I can count on the reader to either have some sort of knowledge about the sport already or be willing to click on Wikilinks. I've broken it into two sentences and added a new Wikilink, so take a look and let me know what else I should do to make this more readable.


 * The Virginia Tech Hokies football team began the 2005 college football season having won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship the previous year. - Would "began the 2005 college football season as reigning Atlantic Coast Conference champions" parse in American English?
 * Much better than my clumsy prose. Fixed.


 * Any doubts about the Hokies' effectiveness were put to rest in their second game of the season - sounds POV, and isn't stated in the reference.
 * Reworded.


 * In a poll of media members covering the Big East prior to the 2005 season, Louisville was picked to win the Big East championship its first year in the conference. Might be best to use a word like "predicted" to make it clear that the actual winner isn't chosen by media poll.
 * Excellent suggestion. Done.


 * "At kickoff, the weather was mostly cloudy with a temperature of approximately 76 degrees. The wind was from the south-southwest at 11 miles per hour (18 km/h)." Sounds remarkably specific. Would it not be sufficient to simple state that conditions were fair/poor and that it was windy/not windy? Oldelpaso (talk) 09:23, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd agree with you, but for two things: first, those specific measurements were given in the game's box score; second, the terms you've given are somewhat relative. A person living along the coast may consider a 30 km/h wind to be normal. Someone living inland may consider that same wind to be brisk. I try not to translate the source, merely to repeat the information with an appropriate citation. If you think I'm off-base, please let me know!

Thanks so much for giving me a perspective outside of the U.S. It's really helpful in deciding which aspects of the article are understandable for people with different levels of knowledge about college football. JKBrooks85 (talk) 01:45, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

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Louisville-related article
As this bowl game involves the Louisville Cardinals football team, it is a Louisville-related article. WikiProject Louisville encompasses all Louisville-related articles. Whether other bowl games have similar project tags is irrelevant. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 12:13, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

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