Talk:2014–15 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season

Postseason boxes
Per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_College_Basketball, we need to do a better job of standardizing these postseason result tables on all of the pages. They are generally too wide, and contain some unnecessary information. The talk page suggested only using the brackets for the conference tournaments, as much of the information is a bit extraneous for an overview article like this one. Remember, if people want more details, they can always click on the linked article about the conference tournament. For the NCAA/NIT/etc., results, a bracket can't be used, but that doesn't mean we can't trim it down a bit to make it fit easily on screens. For example, the name of the bracket/region isn't necessary (and is pretty confusing on the NIT results) because it doesn't really mean anything anyway. And the site of the game isn't important enough to place here either -- if a reader really wants to know, he/she can check the team's article, or the overall NCAA Tournament article. Where Kentucky played its NCAA Tournament games isn't really relevant in the scope of summarizing an SEC season. If we make these changes, the important information will still be displayed without getting too wide or extraneous. This is my proposal:

However, I'm open to debate -- maybe I've gone too far, or maybe I haven't gone far enough. We need to reach a consensus and apply this format (or a different one, if we so decide) to all of the pages while there still aren't that many pages like this. Once we make an agreement, let's stick to it. I'm messaging everyone I see active on these conference recap pages to come here and give input, and once people give their opinions, we should all strive to make everything match.

To recap, we need to decide:
 * whether we use tables or brackets for recap the conference tournaments
 * how to format the tables used to recap the NCAA Tournament, NIT, CBI, CIT, and if we decide to use them, the conference tournaments.

I strongly suggest streamlining the tables as much as possible so they don't become too wide to fit on screens while still showing the important information. And we should all remember that any extra information is still going to be displayed on specific team's Wikipedia pages and on the specific tournament Wikipedia pages. Jhn31 (talk) 22:25, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm going to have to disagree with you for one simple reason. Most of the women's basketball teams DO NOT have a respective individual season page. Probably close to half of the women's basketball team pages that have been created were done by myself or other members of the Women's Basketball task Force. In cases where a team does NOT have their own respective page, the information you are mentioning here is needed on the conference talkback page. It may work for men's basketball, since every team has a page, but the overall concept doesn't work for women's basketball since not every team has a page. In this case, the current format is fine and should be the way to go. That is unless you plan on putting an individual game summary in it's place, since that has all the information you are wanting to delete, but that would actually take more space than what is currently used.Bigddan11 (talk)

Since there was already a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_College_Basketball, why not continue it there, a more general location, as opposed to fragmenting another thread here? Obviously, editors here are invited.—Bagumba (talk) 22:47, 21 March 2015 (UTC) The link should be Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_College_Basketball—Bagumba (talk) 23:08, 21 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I support your proposed table for the national tournament results. As for the conference tournament, I heavily prefer a bracket. It more concise and understandable. ~ Richmond 96   T  •  C   22:51, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Consensus on this issue should be reached at WP:CBBALL.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:01, 23 March 2015 (UTC)