User talk:DeFaultRyan/Archives/2010/August

Florida Gators season records table
DFR, I have no idea how you were able to assemble a complete CFB season table for the 1995 Gators in about 30 minutes, but you obviously know how to assemble these tables in a hurry. Over the last several weeks, I have been gradually working my way through the Gators decade pages from 1906 to 1999. First, I have uniformly formatted each page, layered in related "see also" articles and bibliographies, added lead paragraphs to each page, upgraded the wiki links for each season section, and I've been gradually adding individual season summaries text. I'm now about 60% of the way done with the season summaries. After that, I intend to layer in citations for each of the season summaries from the various external links and books referenced in the bibliography to complete the text. The next big task is that the season records tables were done in the older wiki table format, and need to be replaced with the current CFB records table elements. You seem to be pretty darn quick at assembling these. Would you be willing to take on the project of producing the new CFB records tables for these decade pages? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:40, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * (I assume you are talking about the schedule tables) After doing dozens of them (lots of Utah football schedules), I've just gotten gradually faster at it. CFB Schedule Entry and its siblings (CFB Schedule Start and CFB Schedule End) are a big help, and greatly speed up the process by allowing users to focus on simply adding the needed data, it takes care of all the formatting. (It would take me an eternity to do it all with manual wikitable markup.) I'll be happy to assist where I can, but it could take weeks because I'm spread pretty thin at the moment. For instance, I've been attacking conference standings templates - standardizing the existing ones and creating the missing ones. Perhaps there are a few more Gator project members to help split up the workload and expedite this semi-repetetive task? In any case, I'll throw some of my time slices that way, seeing as how the Florida decade articles are being actively refurbished right now. De  Fault  Ryan  00:15, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * You, sir, would be my hero. Sadly, all of the existing Florida Gators season tables were set up as the the old wiki tables.  (The Gators coaches tables all use the current CFB templates.)  When I saw the wiki tables in the season articles, my heart sank because I knew how much work it would be to upgrade them to current CFB template standards.  I am actively soliciting the help of two or three other Gator editors to help (despite the proliferation of University of Florida articles, there really aren't that many of us).  If we got four of five us to help, we could knock out two to three decades each, and be done with the whole damn thing in week or so.  As I am sure you know, it's a time-consuming thing.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 00:31, 31 August 2010 (UTC)