Template talk:Kansas City Chiefs staff

Citations and sources are needed
Please be sure that all additions to the Kansas City Chiefs staff template are verifiable. Any new items added to or changed in this template should have inline citations for each claim made. As a courtesy to editors who may have added claims previously, before Wikipedia citation policy is what it is today, some of the existing unsourced and redlinked claims have been tagged citation needed to allow some time for sources to be added. N2e (talk) 01:19, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi, the "Coaching Staff" link in the template should be sufficient enough to comply with WP:V, as the coaches listed here are identical to the ones listed there.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  07:00, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks Eagles247! Those sources supply the basic verification that all claims on Wikipedia should have.  It is a primary source rather than the more preferred secondary source for supporting assertions made Wikipedia, but I have no problem with that.  I checked the sources and see that it support all of the claims made in this template as of today.
 * I do note that we might not need both of the two sources listed, as the strength and conditioning coaches are only listed in one of the two sources, and that source seems to cover the coaches as well, but I'll leave that for other editors to decide if the redundancy is a problem in your sports template. —N2e (talk) 14:21, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Citation clarity
One final thing. Per WP:REF, specific to citing a web page, I believe we ought to make it more explicit that these are reference sources for the claims made in the template. I'll make a first pass on attempting to address this, and we can discuss it here on the Talk page if others have suggestions that would improve the placement of full citations into the template. Cheers. N2e (talk) 14:25, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm fine with the changes you have made to the template.  Eagles   24/7  (C)  16:54, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't it be enough if we add a footnote instead of placing the whole reference into the template? See Template:Atlanta Falcons staff. Armchair QB  ( talk ) 00:14, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I have no problem with footnotes; in fact, I think footnotes are preferred in Wikipedia. It's just that, as the template used to be—and as most NFL staff templates still are while we are waiting for the idea to cook awhile before promulgating it—there was nothing that told the Wikipedia reader where the source was for the claims in the Template.
 * So if the footnotes will be picked up by the article page when the template is used, and as long as the web citations meet the minimum criteria for citing a web page, then I'm fine with what you suggest. It might still be a good idea to try it out here, and give it a few days or more before taking it to every NFL staff template.  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 02:40, 10 December 2011 (UTC)