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Your submission at Articles for creation: 1915 Wabash Little Giants football team has been accepted
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BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:30, 11 June 2024 (UTC)College football editing
[edit]Iamsogoodatchess1469, welcome to Wikipedia. I've noticed a bunch of your edits on college football articles in recent days and want to point out a few issues and mistakes, some of which I have reverted. Generally speaking, websites like http://mexicosportscollectibles.com/, https://mcubed.net/, https://ahsfhs.org/, https://utestats.com/ should not be considered reliable sources and should be not be cited on Wikipedia. These sites all look like personal database projects with no clear statement of editorial oversight. In many cases, these site appear to just be copying what is reported in various media guides, or copying other sources that have pulled info from media guides. And program media guides tend to be littered with inaccuracies and omissions, particularly when going back to the late 1800s and early 1900s. We have a growing lists of such errors here: Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Media guide errors.
When database sites like those above or media guides are in conflict with well-documented contemporary news coverage, we should defer the contemporary news coverage. For example, at 1928 Haskell Indians football team, the score of the Tulsa game was reported by the Tulsa Tribune the day after the game as 27–6 with details that substantiate how that final score was attained. Those websites that you cited for the 33–6 score appear to repeating an error that originates in the Tulsa media guide. We have a similar story with the location of the Jackson State vs. Mississippi Valley State game at 1993 Jackson State Tigers football team and 1993 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football team. Newspaper coverage confirms that this game was played at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson. A couple other notes there: first, citing eBay listings is not a good idea. Second, the discussion/notation you added with this edit belongs in the article's talk page, not in the article itself.
Articles like 1920 University of Wisconsin–Stout football team should not be created without sourcing that establishes that the subject is notable; see Wikipedia:Notability. In 1920, the University of Wisconsin–Stout was known as "Stout Institute", so this article is misnamed. It should probably be named 1920 Stout Institute football team or 1920 Stout Institute Blue Devils football team (if the "Blue Devils" fight name was already in use in 1920) or something like that.
You may want to see about getting access to Newspapers.com. It's a great resource. See: https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/26/. Let me know if you have any questions about this stuff. Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 14:52, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- But you have to pay to look up newspapers on [1]https://newspapers.com Iamsogoodatchess1469 (talk) 02:19, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- You can apply to get free access at https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/. Jweiss11 (talk) 02:26, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- it says i need 6+ months of editing and need 500+ edits. i have been a member for only a month Iamsogoodatchess1469 (talk) 03:51, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- You can apply to get free access at https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/. Jweiss11 (talk) 02:26, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
Iamsogoodatchess1469, how's it going? I appreciate your continued enthusiasm here, but you have been creating a lot of low-quality college football season articles with insufficent sourcing, which could easily subject such articles to deletion. I see you've been able to pull some contemporary newspaper coverage from Google Books. That's good, but sites like http://www.mexicosportscollectibles.com/, https://college-football-results.com/, and https://mcubed.net/ appear to be just personal internet projects by unnamed editors. While they can be useful for pointing one's research in the right direction, they should not be cited as they are not reliable sources. Feel free to challenge my assessment here at Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football, but I'm confindent that consensus will concur me with me. Access to Newspapers.com would really help you a lot. I see you are now over 500 edits and closing in on the sixth-month mark. See: https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/26/. I'm happy to endorse your application.
Some other items:
- All won–loss records and game scores should be punctuated with an endash (–), not a hyphen (-). See: MOS:DASH for more on that.
- When citing sources, you should make use of standard citation templates like Template:Cite news or Template:Cite web. Take a look at my edits to 1942 Alcorn A&M Braves football team for how to use these.
- When a source's title is in all caps, it should be down-cased to title case, e.g. "FOR ROBINSON, TOO MUCH TIME IS A MINOR INFRACTION" should be entered as "For Robinson, Too Much Time Is A Minor Infraction."
- When citing the same source multiple times in the same article, the reference should be named, and then subsquent uses of the reference can use that same name to reduce clutter and repetition; see Wikipedia:REPEATCITE. Check out Clinton L. Hare for an example of this. A source from Yale is used multiple times there. The first use is encoded as
<ref name=quartercentury>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/stream/quartercenturyre00yalerich#page/242/mode/2up | title=Quarter-century record of the class of eighteen-eighty-seven, Yale College | publisher=[[Yale University]] | year=1915 | access-date=November 4, 2011 | pages=242–5 |via=[[Internet Archive]] }}</ref>
and then subsquent uses are encoded as<ref name=quartercentury/>
- A lof of the coverage of black college football from the pre-intergration era comes from African American newspapers that were often published only weekly or monthly. So it can be tricky figuring out the dates of games just from a list of scores.
Let me know if you questions about this stuff. Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 16:16, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- But can I site college-football-results.com and http://mexicosportscollectibles.com for win-loss records? And what about college-football-results.com for game order? Iamsogoodatchess1469 (talk) 16:46, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- No, sources that aren't reliable should not be cited anywhere on Wikipedia for anything. Jweiss11 (talk) 12:10, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
Nomination of 1922 Howard Bison football team for deletion
[edit]The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1922 Howard Bison football team until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.IntentionallyDense (talk) 22:27, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
1924 Howard Bison football team moved to draftspace
[edit]Thanks for your contributions to 1924 Howard Bison football team. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
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Your submission at Articles for creation: 1924 Howard Bison football team has been accepted
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Utopes (talk / cont) 04:32, 4 September 2024 (UTC)Ways to improve 1900 Morehouse Maroon Tigers football team
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CS1 error on 1899 Carlisle Indians football team
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