Talk:Michigan Wolverines football

Semi-protected edit request on 11 January 2024
Change "Head Coaching Record" from "1-0" to "4-0" to reflect that he coached game #3 as well as #10-12 67.83.132.155 (talk) 10:56, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
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Era
Hey @Cbl62! Not sure what dictionary you referenced, but per Mirriam-Webster, an era is "a fixed point in time from which a series of years is reckoned". In this history articles, every coach's tenure is an "era" of time, a way to split the article. See other new coaches, like Washington Huskies football, San Jose State Spartans football, Texas A&M Aggies football, or Mississippi State Bulldogs football. The clear consensus is to use "era". glman (talk) 02:25, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Google's search engine references Oxford Languages with the following definition: "a long and distinct period of history." Merriam Webster defines an era as "1. : a period of time beginning with some special date or event. the Christian era. 2. : an important or outstanding period of history." See also dictionary.com ("an extended period of time the years of which are numbered from a fixed point or event: the Christian era"). The example given by both dictionaries (i.e., "the Christian era", a period of over 2,000 years), is illustrative. Even dictionaries using a narrower time frame require a period of more than a year before something can be called an era. See Wiktionary ("A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year."). The assertion that Moore's one-day coaching tenure (with zero games having been played) represents an "era" is ludicrous. Cbl62 (talk) 02:44, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Regardless of the dictionary definition, which provides for both meanings of the word, it is clear that the consensus on Wikipedia is to split these sections and refer to them as eras, marked by the beginning of a new coach, regardless of their tenure, as supported by just a small sample of articles linked above doing this. glman (talk) 02:55, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Huh? Neither definition supports the notion that one day can be an "era". The most liberal definition you have is one that says "a period of more than a year". The fact that the term may be mis-used elsewhere doesn't show either that the usage is correct or that there is a "consensus". If you want to form a consensus for such misusage, open a discussion at the college football project talk page and invite me to participate. Cbl62 (talk) 13:48, 27 January 2024 (UTC)