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Calendar

Perhaps you would like to weigh in on a legal question about adopting calendars. Jc3s5h (talk) 23:04, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Tigert as UK basketball coach

Hi- I just now noticed your question on Talk:Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball. My source was a link that was dead, but is now at here. I realize that other sources may disagree. --rogerd (talk) 04:16, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

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Galen Hall

I've been watching Galen Hall for some time and I just want to thank you for the careful edits and expanding the article. I will see if I can find a free pic. Also, if you are planning on working it up to GA, I'd be happy to give a review whenever you want one. Dincher (talk) 20:57, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

I uploaded a pic from flickr and found this old one that indicates he wore a number in the twenties while at Penn State. I am going to do some google news searches this evening and perhaps add some info, or just pass it along to you. I have solved the wikimail off screen part of your message yet. Could you give me a link? I am pretty "slow" sometimes when it comes to computers. Dincher (talk) 19:36, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

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Okip 02:45, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

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Re edit summary,  :) --Hammersoft (talk) 20:02, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

April 2010 GAN backlog elimination drive

WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of April. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 200. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. Hope we can see you in April.

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College football templates - usage and standards

Hello, I've noticed you've recently been doing a lot of work on articles for Florida football coaches. First, let me say that your effort to build out the bodies of these articles is excellent and your citation work is diligent and painstaking. I did want to point out, though, some non-standard usage and formatting you've introduced into the template-based elements of these articles.

In Template:Infobox college coach, the Title, College, and Conference fields are intended to be used to reflect current coaching positions. You've repurposed Title and Conference as a career summary for retired coaches and repurposed College to note undergraduate degree. For retired and deceased coaches, these fields should be blank. Also, in the CoachTeams field, standard practice is to display the school's short name. In many cases, such as on Bob Woodruff (American football), you've listed the school's full name.

In the coaching records tables, you've added ordinal numbers in the ranking fields. The prevailing standard is to simply list the cardinal number. In cases where a team finished with a tied placing in conference, you've noted, e.g. "3rd-Tie", instead of the standard "T–3rd" or "T-3rd".

In succession boxes, when indicating a range of years, you've put spaces between the start year, the en dash, and the end year. There should be no spaces as "en dashes are unspaced, except when there is a space within either one or both of the items"; see Wikipedia:ENDASH#En dashes.

I've been doing a lot of work the past few months to clean up and improve articles for football coaches across the NCAA and much of this effort has focused on conforming to and enforcing usage and formatting standards in the relevant templates. If you could keep the standards I've mentioned in mind as you continue editing, I would greatly appreciate it. And keep up the good work! Thanks. Jweiss11 (talk) 07:21, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me and for going back in and editing all those articles so quickly. I've just made a sweep through the succession of Florida football coaches making edits to the infoboxes and coaching record tables to catch anything you may have missed and to clean up some other details I didn't mention above.

As for cardinal and ordinal numbers in the record tables, I don't know that there are any strict rules, but the prevailing standard is to use ordinals for conference standings and cardinals for national rankings. I think the cardinals make sense for the rankings because when people write or speak about a ranked team they tend to say that a team is "ranked #5" more often than "ranked 5th". Template:NCAATeamFootballSeason and Template:CFB Schedule Entry employ automatically rendered #'s for the ranking fields in conjunction with raw cardinals. Convention is to use cardinals for rankings in Template:Infobox NCAA football yearly game as well.

The guy who is pretty much the guru for digging up old-school college football sources is User:Cbl62. He's the best person I know of for suggestions about sources. I've been working with him a lot to build out the articles on Michigan football. He's done a ton of great work for old-school Michigan players, coaches, and teams and early All-Americans from other schools as well. Jweiss11 (talk) 22:12, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Jacksonville State conference records

I pulled these from the Gulf South Conference football media guide: http://www.contentedits.com/img.asp?t=2&id=29855. Jweiss11 (talk) 14:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)