User talk:Football79

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I see you created an article that definitely belongs in the project. Therefore, you should goto the talk page and put WikiProject College football there. Then the page will become part of the project. If you want to attempt to rate the pages and classify them as well, you can do that too. See the Assessment page. But generally, DI-AA pages should be Low importance. Thanks for your efforts. MECU ≈ talk 18:31, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry I called them DI-AA. I guess I remembered looking at one of them that used to be I-AA but is now I-A. Anyways, the info you're putting on there is all very basic. There definitely needs some expansion and writing. Some of them would be very short (was it FAU that just started 4 years ago?) compared to schools that have 100+ years of history. But every page needs a starting place. I have intentions to write the Navy and Air Force pages sometime. I hope you've discovered the Master Team Table within the project located at: WikiProject College football/MasterTeamTable. If you have a favorite team that you'd kind of like to adopt as well, you could get more in-depth with their pages and create season pages for them as well. Just use the year page format. Anyways, keep up the great work. MECU ≈ talk 02:11, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

CFB WikiProject
Football, I've noticed you've created several college football articles. They are very much appreciated. You could say us a lot of time if after you created the article you placed WikiProject College football on the Talk page. This puts it in our category so we know it exists. Once again, thanks for all your help!--NMajdan •talk 01:42, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for the cleanup on the Joe Rose and Jimmy Johnson links in the Don Shula page.

If I knew how they give out stars, I would give you one. CodeCarpenter 20:19, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Big Ten Football category
Why have you removed nearly all of the pages, contrary to rules calling for discussion first? Rkevins82 04:36, 18 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not going to throw the book at you (nor can I). I just saw a raft of deletions and wondered why. To complete the category deletion process, though, you do need to open a discussion page for Category:Big Ten football. No worries. I saw the method to your madness after several articles. Go Gophers, beat Texas Tech! Rkevins82 19:11, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

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College football team infobox
I'm confused what you're talking about. Can you please provide some links to what you're talking about, especially the disclaimer on the football helmet project? Thanks. -- MECU ≈ talk 02:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if using the helmets would be appreciated by the helmet project, and we would have to use them under fair use, which is contentious since it would be considered "replaceable" and therefore violate FUP #1. Also, with him saying "Re-distribution of the images en masse on CD or other media is absolutely prohibited." makes me further believe they wouldn't appeciate it. Even if he were to license his images freely, we would still have to use them under fair use because the designs are most likely owned by the universities (or maybe NCAA, but likely the Uni), though I would believe that we would then be able to use these images on Wikipedia, because it's the logo/design that's copyrighted and there would be no way to get around that. You or I taking a picture would still have the same restrictions. So, my thought is to contact the site owner and specifically ask him to release the images under a free license. Do not have him upload to Commons since the logo would be copyrighted. Be sure to let him pick a free license (I recommend CC-BY-SA-2.5, but any free license will do). See Requesting copyright permission for help with this, especially under "Images". Until we receive his agreement to freely license the images, I won't work on putting the images into the infobox. I believe you have a high chance of success of getting his permission, especially if you tell him we want only 1, the current helmet of each DI-A school, to be used on 1 page only (the "  football" article). If you had him upload the images he allows, with a disclaimer that he is the owner, it is also located at his website, but other images on the website are not licensed under the same license. I would be happy to help you gather all these images, apply the fair use tag, make sure his license is acceptable and write the "stock" fair use rationale we would need. It would be best to have him upload the images, because if you or I did, we would need the email from his forwarded to Wikipedia which could cause snafus. Anyways, contact him, ask him to license his images freely, specifically ask him to say "I release under " (ie, GDFL, CC-BY-SA-2.5, etc). Good luck! -- MECU ≈ talk 13:43, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Howdy again. I happened across New England Patriots and looked at the helmet image at Image:New England Patriots helmet rightface.png and they claimed fair use. If it's good enough for the NFL, it's gotta be good enough for us. Thinking about it more, we'd have to have it under fair use even if that website owner released the images because of the logo. They even have it built in as mandatory to their template at Template:NFL team, where just using this template on a page requires the helmet logo to display. Someone thought ahead and build a naming convention for the images once uploaded. So, if you haven't already asked for permission of the website owner, we could just go this route which I'd be fine with. You should bring this up at the WP:CFB and this could be a large off-season project, if you want help with it. If not, you can do it all yourself too or I'd be glad to help you if you want to keep it simple. My thought would be to upload all the helmet images for pages that have the school infobox page on them, then add it to the template. Since we're dealing with fair use we can't have orphans for more than 7 days. Adding it to the template should be fairly easy to do, especially with the example from the NFL template. Anyways, lemme know your plans and if you want help. (Sorry for kind of over reacting before.) -- MECU ≈ talk 15:31, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to intrude, but I came across this article whilst poking about in hopes of finding some agreement to use the helmet images created at The Helmet Project. Is this what you and MECU are discussing? If so, I'm all for it and would be glad to help as well. I think it would really spiff up the College Football project and lend a sense of continuity to the articles. Pepto gecko 04:59, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Big Ten newsletter, February 2007
Hello all Big Ten Wikipedians, here's the manual newsletter (becuase I suck with templates :P) on February. As it says on the Wikiproject, this month's main article is the Big Ten Conference, primarily because that article needs so much help right now. Everything seems to be going well so far. I'd be helping more but I had other things I was doing. Glad to see a lot of members joining though. I'm thinking of starting an assessment division of our own, but I'm not sure yet. Give me your opinions on if we should start tagging people as well btw. If you guys wish to start tagging college presidents of them, that would be a good start. The project is still partially in development, so any advice helps. Go Bucks! (and spartans, badgers, wolverines, illini, etc.)-- Wizardman 01:27, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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Gophers in CHoF
I don't know of any list. I just know that thoese two are in it. I am surprise the CFL HOF dose not do any kind of list by colleges. Perhaps someone could send an email to the hof and see if they could help Smith03 13:19, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I sent the CF HOF an email about it yesterday. I will let you know what if anything I hear back on Smith03 17:52, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

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Template question on Gopher football page
Hi - I got your message about the seasons template that you removed and I later put back. I probably should have come straight to you instead of just posting a message about it on Minnesota Golden Gophers football's talk page. I asked about it there and when nobody objected, I put it back on the page. I understand what you're saying about it, but I think it works better to use that page as the main jumping off point to all information about the team instead of the category page. On that page, everything is listed in alphabetical order instead of being arranged how we would like it. I also suspect that most people using Wikipedia don't use the category pages - I had been on here for 6 months before I ever looked at one.

Having said that, maybe there's another way to accomplish that other than including the template on the page. I'm certainly open to suggestions to make the articles good and easy to navigate. Gopherguy | Talk 15:11, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

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When you are adding categories, you don't have to put their name after each category; that is what the DEFAULTSORT above the categories is for. Jackal4 (talk) 20:59, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

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Category:Players of American football from Minnesota
Why not just "American football players from Minnesota"?► Chris Nelson Holla! 23:17, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

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