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As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject Virginia Tech, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Virginia Tech. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks!

Go Hokies (talk) 22:32, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame

Hello, Deanrah,

Thanks for creating Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame! I edit here too, under the username Boleyn and it's nice to meet you :-)

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Boleyn (talk) 21:31, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

new rivalry articles

Note, the articles you recently created for unclear reasons[1] have been moved per our alphabetical and "endash" naming convention as seen in Category:College football rivalries in the United States:

Harvard-Brown football rivalry => Draft:Brown–Harvard football rivalry
Yale-Brown football rivalry => Draft:Brown–Yale football rivalry
Washington-Oregon State football rivalry => Draft:Oregon State–Washington football rivalry

As 1) our notability policy at WP:NRIVALRY states Sports rivalries are not inherently notable. Articles on sports rivalries, such as Yankees–Red Sox rivalry, should satisfy the general notability guideline., 2) each seems insufficiently cited to pass WP:GNG, and 3) the WP:CFB project linking conventions would involve extensive updates to ~200 YYYY team articles and a handful of templates for each of the three, therefore all three have been moved to Wikipedia:Drafts to allow time for improvement and to establish notability with additional citations. You are welcome to return them to WP:MAINSPACE (hopefully after establishing notability), but in their current state they would go to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. UW Dawgs (talk) 01:27, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The reason these articles have been created is that UW Dawgs tried to delete these games from a list of the most played games (currently titled most played "rivalries") which I reversed since the criteria seemed to be that no rivalry page existed. The list creates the impression that all games played over 100 times are included. All the games have been played over 100 times, and it is crucial that the games be included, or the page should be trashed. Best yet is to rename it "College football series played over 100 times." Deanrah (talk) 02:27, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You created these 3 'rivalry' articles and they need to pass our WP:GNG policy, independent of the topic and current title any other article. The above comment seems to reiterate that they were created/titled only for the purpose of inclusion in other article(s). UW Dawgs (talk) 02:57, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

UW Dawgs Please don't remove the games without articles from List of most-played college football rivalries in NCAA Division I. The fact that the games without Wikipedia pages were not previously documented in the list caused significant errors in a report on most-played series/rivalries. The talk page asked for the games to be included, and I did that, and then they were removed. I ask your help in changing the title of the page to most played "series" which is clearly a synonym for rivalries in the case of the NCAA documents. Our Wikipedia page is now much more accurate than what they have in the NCAA record book. Deleting the games that aren't considered noteworthy from the list would be regrettable and create inaccurate reporting in the open source documents.

UW Dawgs I am sorry if I am mistaken, but it looks like you have been editing my user Sandbox instead of the page on college football series. Best Deanrah (talk) 00:30, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft articles contained WP:Categories, which caused those drafts to render within those Category pages, for example comingled with existing articles in Category:College football-related lists. I prepended ":" to those Cats ([[Category:College football-related lists]] to [[:Category:College football-related lists]]) which prevents your draft content from appearing next to actual mainspace articles. If/when you move this content to WP:MAINSPACE, just remove the ":" char and the Cats will work as intended. UW Dawgs (talk) 00:38, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

UW Dawgs Sorry and Thanks! Deanrah (talk) 02:05, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:Brown–Yale football rivalry

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Your draft article, Draft:Brown–Harvard football rivalry

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Your draft article, Draft:Oregon State–Washington football rivalry

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