Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football/Archive-May2009

Duplicate Ivy League templates
I've just found Template:The Ivy League which duplicates the older Template:Ivy League Dougweller (talk) 08:06, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the good catch. I'm cleaning it up. DeFaultRyan 14:24, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ Fixed the one reference to it, faux-redirected to the original, and marked for speedy deletion. DeFaultRyan 14:31, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I considered deleting it myself, but besides thinking that it might be useful to check here, I've been mildly involved with the editor (removing a fake unblocked template he added with a sock), so thought it best to let someone else do this bit of dirty work. :-) Dougweller (talk) 19:36, 1 May 2009 (UTC) (an Ivy Leaguer myself)

Does your WikiProject care about talk pages of redirects?
Does your project care about what happens to the talk pages of articles that have been replaced with redirects? If so, please provide your input at User:Mikaey/Request for Input/ListasBot 3. Thanks, Matt (talk) 01:39, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Posted a respone. Some redirects (typos, capitalizations, etc) we don't care about. Go ahead and redirect them. Others are more substantial, and get turned into real articles (e.g. 1980 Alabama Crimson Tide football team) and should be left tagged. Just my $.02. DeFault<b style="color:blue;">Ryan</b> 14:52, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Assessment drive?
Over the last two or so weeks I was able to assess little over two hundred articles. In the process I was able to find one GA, Germany Schulz, and one FA, Gerald Ford. Since it is the off season I wonder if anyone is interested in stating a drive to get rid of back log of unassessed college football articles? Right now we have about 1400. I figured if we can get 14 people to do 100 articles in the next month. 09er (talk) 15:29, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I could possibly help out a bit, just a matter of getting a good opportunity to sit down and focus on it. – LATICS   talk  22:10, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I've been tagging/rating/cleaning like mad for a little while now. Just that new, unassessed articles keep popping up faster than I can do them. I'll continue, of course. <b style="color:red;">De</b><b style="color:green;">Fault</b><b style="color:blue;">Ryan</b> 06:20, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

So far so good - nearly have the unassessed backlog down below 1000! Keep up the good work everybody. This will be a lot easier to mantain once we finally clear the backlog. <b style="color:red;">De</b><b style="color:green;">Fault</b><b style="color:blue;">Ryan</b> 19:46, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 997! We are in 3 digits. 09er (talk) 18:02, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

I've got an bot request to automatically scan the whole unassessed category, looking for articles that have already been assessed by other projects, and assess them to match the other assessments. I imagine it should go through tonight or tomorrow and it should be able to check a bunch off the list automatically. For now, try to focus on articles that are unlikely to be rated in another project. <b style="color:red;">De</b><b style="color:green;">Fault</b><b style="color:blue;">Ryan</b> 18:50, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * IT'S ALIIIIIVE... Bot is currently approved and running. Backlog is currently down to 819 and dropping fast. In a few hours the automatic should be done, and we should have a much smaller list to finish off. I'll bet that this auto-assess should prune at least half the list for us. <b style="color:red;">De</b><b style="color:green;">Fault</b><b style="color:blue;">Ryan</b> 18:40, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

I think the bot is done now. Final tally is it got the backlog down to 483. Nice! Now it won't take too long at all to finish off the rest. <b style="color:red;">De</b><b style="color:green;">Fault</b><b style="color:blue;">Ryan</b> 21:34, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * It is a 1/3 of what it was at the start of April. 09er (talk) 14:37, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Now under 300. Wheeee! <b style="color:red;">De</b><b style="color:green;">Fault</b><b style="color:blue;">Ryan</b> 20:42, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * We are now at 96! 09er (talk) 03:42, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * ZERO! 09er (talk) 15:26, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * WOOHOO! Should be pretty easy to stay on top of it now! <b style="color:red;">De</b><b style="color:green;">Fault</b><b style="color:blue;">Ryan</b> 15:28, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Collaboration for J. C. Watts
Hi! I want to ask for someone from the Wikiproject to collaborate with me on the article about J. C. Watts by helping with football content. It is is pretty close to GA, but an ardent football fan quickfailed it recently for not having enough football coverage. The article falls in the scope of this Wikiproject and I would be very glad if someone contribued. Thank you! Hekerui (talk) 00:50, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Which player infobox template?
I mentioned a year ago that there are two player infobox templates (Infobox NCAA Athlete and Infobox CollegeFootballPlayer) but not a single recommendation which one to use. Could we please decide that one here? I'm prefering the latter, since it looks similar to Infobox NFLactive, which is only helpful to Wikipedia users. --bender235 (talk) 20:14, 1 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The CollegeFootballPlayer is a nice looking template, but I tend to lean towards the older one (NCAA Athlete) because it has spots for bowl games and other awards. Also, if a player is one of the rare superstars at the FCS or lower level (think an Armanti Edwards), it also has the space for tournament information.  If someone could alter the other template to allow that, it would be better.  --Bobak (talk) 19:12, 4 May 2009 (UTC)


 * How about adding a spot for bowl games to Infobox CollegeFootballPlayer? --bender235 (talk) 18:51, 25 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I added the parameter. It is optional and only shows up if the bowl game parameter has something in it for the player. Cardsplayer4life (talk) 03:01, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Uniforms and Template:NCAAFootballSchool
With the recent changes to Template:NCAAFootballSchool to allow for the uniform images to be displayed, the uniform field (and some stray raw code) will still show up if there isn't anything entered for it (see, for example, George Washington Colonials football). Any chance someone with better template knowledge than me can fix this problem by making the uniform field conditional? Strikehold (talk) 12:59, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ Try it now. <b style="color:red;">De</b><b style="color:green;">Fault</b><b style="color:blue;">Ryan</b> 14:38, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * That did it. Thanks. Strikehold (talk) 14:49, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you as well. I'm working as quickly as possible to get the Div 1 football uniforms on each wiki-page. I'm extremely pleased someone found a way to hide the code until it is replaced with a pic. Awesome job!!! user:JohnnySeoulUser_talk:JohnnySeoul/Special:Contributions/JohnnySeoul 03:04, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Lists of Michigan Wolverines football passing leaders
nominated Lists of Michigan Wolverines football passing leaders for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. -- Scorpion <sup style="color:black;">0422  15:53, 30 May 2009 (UTC)