Talk:Husky Stadium

1987 Collapse
Is Husky Stadium the only facility where the construction of a seating area collapsed during construction?--BigMac1212 18:15, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I would think that that probably has happened before, but idk. --Kraftlos 02:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Problem with Image
All I got was a red X, and when I right-click to bring it up, it won't. Could someone please fix it. BiggKwell 05:29, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Map it
Does that map it thing at the bottom really help? It think its a bit confusing. Husky Stadium was just a temporary host for about a year or so, it really can't be considered a successor to the Kingdome. --Kraftlos 01:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

New Image
I'm new to Wikipedia, so please excuse my ignorance regarding the rules for photos. The image of Husky Stadium currently in use detrimentally portrays the stadium as it was shot when it appears to have been 1/8 full (likely during the pre-game). How about a photo with a full stadium? 76.22.0.91 07:58, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Bias and Consistency
The opening introduction seems a bit biased. One typically does not use the terminology "beating" to describe the results of a sporting event when one is trying to be unbiased. Additionally, why quote the USC quarterback about "seeing" purple, when the prior comments were focused on the noise? It just seems a bit unprofessional. 140.254.45.26 21:23, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I've attempted to remedy this problem and will continue to work on it. Cumulus Clouds 20:44, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Major editing needed
This article is in sorry shape, it's needed more (and better) references for a long time, an overhaul of the subject divisions and checked for violations of NPOV. It could also benefit from better pictures of the stadium, which I will try to get. City of Manchester Stadium (FA), Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium (GA) and TCF Bank Stadium (GA) may be used as guides for improvements that can be made to this article. Again, I will continue to work on making necessary improvements. Cumulus Clouds 20:44, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Additional image
I recently uploaded an image that might be a good addition to the article: it shows the stadium under construction in 1920. I leave it to someone else to decide whether to use it, and if so how to rejuggle the positions of the current images: Commons:File:Seattle - Husky Stadium under construction - 1920.jpg. - Jmabel | Talk 02:39, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

2011-2013 Renovation Accuracy and Source
The accuracy of the claim that the renovation will be the most expensive in NCAA stadium history appears to be in error. The link to the Seattle PI article appears to be broken. The current renovation of California Memorial Stadium ($321 Million) eclipses the $250 Million stated in the article for Husky Stadium as being the most expensive among NCAA football stadiums. Source: http://stadium.berkeley.eduGeeedub (talk) 03:48, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Requested move 03 October 2014

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: moved. The proposer has provided some fairly clear evidence that the University of Washington venue is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Number  5  7  11:33, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

– rvt attempted DAB based on clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC with Husky Stadium (disambiguation) already in place. Might better belong in 'Requests to revert undiscussed moves.' --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 18:07, 12 October 2014 (UTC) – UW Dawgs (talk) 18:42, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Husky Stadium (University of Washington) → Husky Stadium
 * Husky Stadium → Husky Stadium (disambiguation)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). EdJohnston (talk) 02:48, 4 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Weak support, sounds like a reasonable move. Gregkaye ✍ ♪  14:10, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose. No rationale supporting how this topic is the primary topic has been presented by the nominator. The current state of the disambiguation page is clear, given several spelling variations of the word "Husky". Steel1943  (talk) 19:34, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Husky Stadium was recently moved to Husky Stadium (University of Washington) without discussion. The original request was for an administrator to simply revert that move, due to administrators needing to move articles over redirects due to technical constraints to preserve article history. For whatever reason, that did not occur.
 * Support as requestor.

Here are the two relevant criteria for WP:PRIMARYTOPIC:
 * A topic is primary for a term, with respect to usage, if it is highly likely—much more likely than any other topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term.
 * A topic is primary for a term, with respect to long-term significance, if it has substantially greater enduring notability and educational value than any other topic associated with that term.

Usage is clearly demonstrated for Husky Stadium (University of Washington) in PageView and Edit statistics.

Long-term significance
 * Husky Stadium (St. Cloud) has been open for ten years and is home to collegiate and high school football and soccer matches
 * Is not available for Husky Stadium (Houston Baptist University), as it just opened this fall (WP:CRYSTAL)
 * Husky Stadium (University of Washington) has been home to NFL and college football, college track, the 1990 Goodwill Games, Presidential speeches, one of the first installations of both AstroTurf and FieldTurf, arguably created the audience wave, documented by ESPN as the loudest college football venue, while completing a $260M renovation last year, and being more than 10x larger than the other two facilities.

Following clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, WP:DABNAME then determines the correct DAB article name as Husky Stadium (disambiguation) as noted above. UW Dawgs (talk) 00:47, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The Wave
During the January 1, 1963, Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, between Washington and Illinois, UW was losing and Husky fans had little to cheer about. As the day wore on, the stadium became oppressively hot. When the ubiquitous football game blimp flew slowly over the field in the late afternoon, it cast a cooling shadow in the stands, and sweltering fans stood up to cheer. As the blimp moved along, the standing and cheering rolled along with the shadow like a wave. Whether this inspired the UW founders of The Wave many years later is unknown.

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"Home stadium" name in football season articles
The current name of the UW football stadium is "Husky Stadium". But over the years it has also been called "Washington Stadium" or "University of Washington Stadium". It has bothered me, for example, that the "Home stadium" name on the page for the 1920 season is "Husky Stadium" (1920_Washington_Sun_Dodgers_football_team). The program for the inaugural game calls it "Washington Stadium". Even worse, the team was not even called the Huskies until 1922. It seems to me that the "Home stadium" field should be accurate to the era. I am considering updating the links for the football season pages. For example, in the 1950 season page use University of Washington Stadium.

But changing most of the links could be controversial. I don't know, it might even break some Wiki standard. So, I hoped to get input if this is the right thing to do before I put in the research. Jeff.jay.dahlin (talk) 02:04, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The common name at the time should be used; the same applies for sponsored stadium names, which is why older Seahawks and Sounders articles use Qwest Field. I see no issue with changing the older season articles to use the names of that era.  Sounder Bruce  02:11, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Be WP:BOLD and do it! PK-WIKI (talk) 02:58, 16 February 2024 (UTC)