User talk:Mechengjoe

College Football Data Warehouse
You are currently replacing mostly WP:PRIMARYSOURCE citations with College Football Data Warehouse citations via archive.org for CFB team conference affiliations. Note, while Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Reliable sources is/was considered a WP:Reliable source, it is probably not more reliable than the existing citations. As an alternative to removal of current citations and date ranges, it's probably better to include both dates and citations. I thought there was a conflicting citations tag, but maybe not. Template:Better source needed and Template:Disputed inline are options. I'll play with one of your edits and see how we can surface the ambiguity. UW Dawgs (talk) 03:52, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. I've been gathering historic conference information for a research project I'm doing and figured I would add information where it didn't exist.  This is one of the sources I'm using but given what you've mentioned I'll refrain from overwriting existing sources and only adding it if the information doesn't already exist.  I'm also sorry for deleting the conflicting citations tag.  It was accidental and I'll make sure to avoid that in the future.  Mechengjoe (talk) 00:43, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Use multiple source, cross reference other pages before changing team pages
re Rhode Island Rams football as an example, you need to crosscheck other articles and attempt to find additional corroborating citations. I've refactored your edit accordingly. I would not take any conference affiliation data from CFDW alone at face value, or from the media guide of the school.

Examples:
 * Rhode Island Rams football
 * 1996 Rhode Island Rams football team and 1997 Rhode Island Rams football team (they don't exist in this case)
 * List of Rhode Island Rams football seasons (Category:Lists of college football seasons)
 * Category:Rhode Island Rams football seasons (Category:College football seasons by team)

Those articles tend to explain that the Atlantic 10 began in 1976 and fielded football in 1977, when it absorbed Yankee Conference football. Do a your own web search to confirm the same. I've reverted and refactored your RI edit per same.

Also, please include page numbers or ranges in your citations when using PDFs. See WP:PAGELINKS. Cheers, UW Dawgs (talk) 23:50, 20 October 2020 (UTC)