Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Oklahoma State Cowboys 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 promoted by Dabomb87 23:16, 26 January 2010.

List of Oklahoma State Cowboys head football coaches

 * Nominator(s): —NMajdan &bull;talk 20:56, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because I feel it now meets all the criteria.—NMajdan &bull;talk 20:56, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I didn't see anything in the article about OSU's former name and moniker. When most of the people listed in the article were head coach, they were coaching the Oklahoma A&M Aggies. This sentence: The team has had 22 head coaches since organized football began in 1901 with the nickname Cowboys. makes it sound like the team has been the Cowboys since its inception in 1901. For almost 25 years, the team was exclusively the Aggies and for almost the same length of time, the team was called both the Aggies and Cowboys. NThomas (talk) 01:23, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Great suggestion. I didn't even think of that. I will add a little bit about the previous school name and nickname.—NMajdan &bull;talk 13:17, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The changes look great. Good work. NThomas (talk) 05:34, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Support from NThomas (talk) 06:07, 20 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment - "The Cowboys have (plural) played in more than 1,000 games during its (single) 108 seasons" - needs fixing -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:12, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Done.—NMajdan &bull;talk

Comments - Did any of the coaches win a National Coach of the Year Award or a Conference Coach of the Year award. If so, I think that would be worth mentioning and/or integrating into the list. But that is just my opinion and if that is not needed, then the list looks good to me. Remember (talk) 15:53, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * None won any National coaching award. Don't know about Conference as those are usually hard to trace down.—NMajdan &bull;talk 16:16, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * It should be easy enough to find. Just look for a list of Conference Coach of the Year winners and look for OSU winners. According to this, Bob Simmons won in 1997. Just look for a source. Mm40 (talk) 23:16, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Have you looked for a source for Simmons winning? I quickly found this, but I'd like a higher-quality source. Mm40 (talk) 03:19, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Simmons' award is mentioned here.  Giants2008  ( 27 and counting ) 23:14, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * My support below is assuming you'll add this before promotion. Mm40 (talk) 19:35, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * NMajdan, please don't forget to resolve this issue. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * This is in regards to adding the Coach of the Year mention to coach Simmons, correct? If so, this is complete.—NMajdan &bull;talk 03:20, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Comments. I'm not quite sure I want to support yet, I'll recheck at some point. Note that I've commented on a few issues below. Mm40 (talk) 03:19, 23 January 2010 (UTC) Support assuming you'll add the Conference Coach of the Yeah for Simmons. Also, you mix Citation and the templates, such as cite news or cite web. One should be used throughout. Mm40 (talk) 19:35, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I have added the coach of the year award. Also, I do not see any issue with mixing templates, so I disagree. You should not mix templates with plain text citations, but it should not matter which template you are using.—NMajdan &bull;talk 15:05, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, cite XXX and citation use different citation styles, so mixing them creates inconsistencies, which we do not want. Anyway, I have fixed this. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:23, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't that then be resolved by the template designers? I think we're getting awfully picky if only certain templates can be used together. Nonetheless, thanks for your assistance.—NMajdan &bull;<span style="font:9px Verdana,sans-serif; color:#000;">talk 03:20, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The mysteries of the assorted citation templates are beyond me. The only thing that we care about at FA and FL, in terms of citation formatting, is consistency, and for whatever reason using citation and cite web/book/whatever together doesn't do that. I agree that we should do a better job of standardizing citation styles, but getting anything done in the realm of style of formatting is a huge time-waster. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 03:38, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Support - looks like a pretty solid job to me. Afro  ( Not a Terrible Joke ) - Afkatk 18:30, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
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