Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football/Archive-Aug2009

Notability concern: Individual teams by season
I note that there are currently pages for the 1941, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1988, 2000, 2003, and 2006-2009 Oregon State Beavers football teams. It is not obvious to me that individual teams by season are inherently notable. I expect, though, that members of this WikiProject would have more informed opinions on this issue than I do. What do you think? Cnilep (talk) 21:20, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It comes up every now and then, see here for some discussion on it CFBSEASON Ryan2845 (talk) 21:24, 1 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I can't speak for every member of this project, but I believe standing consensus here is that all seasons for a major college team are notable. Each individual season, even when marked by mediocre or poor performance, has wide-ranging effects on other notable topics, for example, head coaches, notable players, and "more" notable teams that win conference championships and contend for the national title. And there is really no more appropriate location to place that information. Also, any season like this will have received extensive coverage in the media and other reliable sources, which satisfies the general notability standards. Many of the teams you cited participated in a postseason bowl game.


 * Those articles you give as examples aren't well developed, but when expanded these can be extremely useful and interesting articles (which, though not the only factor in notability, is indeed a consideration. WP:BIO, for example, says "The topic of an article should be notable, or "worthy of notice"; that is, "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded.""). See for example, the Featured Articles 2005 Texas Longhorns football team and 2007 USC Trojans football. Good Article 2008 Maryland Terrapins football team is for a team that won neither a conference championship or a national championship, but all three contain information that could not reasonably be included elsewhere due to WP:WEIGHT considerations.


 * This issue has been discussed several times at AFD, and usually concludes in concordance with my above statements. See for example: Articles for deletion/2008 Oregon Ducks football team, Articles for deletion/2005 California Golden Bears football team, Articles for deletion/1906 Auburn Tigers football team, Articles for deletion/1902 LSU Tigers football team, Articles for deletion/2006-2008 Southern Oregon Raiders football teams (resulted in "no consensus", but this is a lower-level team), Articles for deletion/2005 Northern Iowa Panthers football team (second-highest level team, resulted in "keep"). Strikehold (talk) 21:40, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Bobby Dodd infobox
So I just added to Bobby Dodd's article. I managed to fill in most of the fields, but I have a question. He was nominated to the College Football Hall of Fame twice, as a player (1959) and as a coach (1993). Is there any way to represent that in the infobox? Also, is there a listing of awards by coach somewhere? I'm sure he's won something or other, I just don't know what. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 22:37, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

In other news I'm thinking of nominating it for Good Article. Any general advice on it before I do so? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 06:49, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and nominated it. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 04:50, 6 August 2009 (UTC)