Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Cincinnati Bearcats head football coaches/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was archived by PresN via FACBot (talk) 23:31, 19 February 2017 (UTC).

List of Cincinnati Bearcats head football coaches

 * Nominator(s): A Texas Historian (Questions?) 04:44, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

The first in a possible series of these lists. The Cincinnati Bearcats are a college football team in the American Athletic Conference (my particular focus). They've had 38 head coaches, plus a couple of interim head coaches, no coach, and no team, all of which are annoying to deal with when making a list like this. I've based this loosely on my previous FL of this type, Navy. Mrthespork did a decent amount of base work for this list. I came along and changed some formatting, added sources, and rewrote the lead. Thanks for any reviews, - A Texas Historian (Questions?) 04:44, 21 December 2016 (UTC)


 * '''Comments by Grondemar

This is a well-done list in line with the previous college football head coach featured lists. In fact, it inspired me to quickly put together List of Connecticut Huskies head football coaches before you beat me to it! I made some copyedits throughout the text; please review. I also have a few other comments:


 * Would it help to include some information on the history of conference affiliation? The list shows conference records from 1909–37, 1945–72, and 1994 onwards.  I know that the later period is the MAC followed by the Big East / AAC, but without looking at another article I have no way to interpret the starts and stops in conference play.
 * Since Cincinnati has never won a national championship, could the NC column be removed?
 * I note the table header still calls out "Selected awards", but aside from the dagger indicating election to the Hall of Fame there are no awards listed. I'd recommend either adding a column with the various awards or removing the words "Selected awards" from the table header.
 * Consider making the column "No." sortable, so someone can restore the original sort order without reloading the page.
 * Consider archiving your references through one of the archiving service; I usually use WebCite although it can be frustrating at times due to downtime. From personal experience, it can be really annoying to have to re-source a featured article or list years down the road because of dead links.
 * I changed the alt text on the Tuberville picture from "A headshot of a man in a suit, with an orange tie, looking slightly to the left of the camera" to simply "Tommy Tuberville". If you read the current version of WP:ALT, they are now discouraging the "thousand words" narrative descriptions of images in favor of a more-functional approach.

Otherwise, everything looks good to me. I look forward to supporting when the above minor issues are addressed. –Grondemar 20:07, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

you've had these comments here for ten days now, do you intend to address them and continue with this nomination or should we archive it? The Rambling Man (talk) 08:45, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'll try to get to them sometime today. If I don't, feel free to hit me with a fish. - A Texas Historian (Questions?) 13:28, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Fish? The Rambling Man (talk) 19:32, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, sorry, I'm getting to it. I'm almost finished on one of his points, and I'll get to the other ones soon. - A Texas Historian (Questions?) 05:46, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

This nomination is pushing 2 months, with one set of comments pushing 1 month old without being addressed; I'm going to close this nomination as stalled. Feel free to renominate once you take care of the issues. -- Pres N  00:38, 12 February 2017 (UTC)


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