Talk:2008 New England Patriots season

message: Why put the ref tags inside the punctuation? Especially when there are multiple references, it looks really odd. [Example[1][1][1][1][1].] Also, there's the advantage that if you edit around a ref tag, it's a lot easier to find the punctuation and avoid errors if the punctuation is right next to the text, rather than after the reference(s). Samer (talk) 03:55, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: To me it looks cleaner, and prevents the ref from being separated from the text it supports, especially when there's a period and a space or two spaces or whatnot before there's a citation. Just keeps everything more compact. Pats1 T/C 03:59, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see a difference in "compactness" (it makes no difference sizewise, and, if anything, it looks bigger on the page with the references in). And, as someone who's actually been paid to proofread/edit, I can tell you that it's a lot easier to lose punctuation marks than it is to misplace a ref tag. Samer (talk) 04:06, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

text: I don't think there's any rule requiring consistency across articles (if you and I stopped editing today, I don't see why future editors should be beholden to the choices either of us made). Rather than continuing the edit wars—it's obvious that this is a matter of style, and that neither of us is objectively "right"—why don't we watch and see how people add reference tags? If there's a clear preference one way or the other, I'll gladly follow it, even if it's not the way I would do it. (Moreover, in fact, by your logic, shouldn't the NEP pages conform to the formatting of the NFL season pages?)Samer (talk) 21:35, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  References and punctuation 

message: If you want to go ahead and explain what you mean by "weakest," go ahead. But to say that the Pats will have the weakest schedule is essentially a violation of WP:CBALL. Samer (talk) 21:15, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Turns out they do have the weakest schedule, based upon opponents' records from 2007. Useight (talk) 01:22, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strength of schedule 

message: Why are the Patriots playing Indianapolis at the RCA dome again in 2008?  They played them at Indianapolis in 2007 as well, and both years the match-ups were determined based on both teams finishing first (not a total division match-up).  I thought home and away games alternated even between division winners.  Juve2000 (talk) 21:55, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you very much for that info.  Assuming both Indianapolis and New England continue finishing first in their respective divisions, because of this 'bi-annual' rotation and the way the home-away rotation lines up in the year their divisions are matched up, New England will play 3 years in a row at Indianapolis, followed by 3 consecutive years at Gillette Stadium.  Juve2000 (talk) 21:14, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  2008 Schedule 

message: I think it's worth noting that much of what is stated in the paragraph on Kaczur is, at this point, is merely alleged; I reworded the paragraph somewhat to make it more clear. Samer (talk) 20:23, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nick Kaczur 

message: I think it's rather excessive to have multiple links within the same sentence to the same article, especially if that's the only article ref for that sentence. (In fact, I would argue that you could have just one link for the entire paragraph, but that's just my opinion.) Samer (talk) 20:23, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Same-article citations 

message: with this edit, I added play by play link to the game by game reference data we provide. 
* The similarity in format of the file name (building) and accessing parts of the retrieval url, suggest this might make a good table-element template... given the nfl.com id# and the week, the template could build both links, and like my example, present them as "clean" plainlinks.
* OTOH, spaced out vertically as I did, the span class, etc. formatting and url's are easily editable and readable, so there isn't a strong reason to templatize here either.
Cheers // FrankB 14:30, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added play by play 

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replies: text: Looks good. Tarl.Neustaedter (talk) 04:08, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Perhaps the column name needs changing as well, but all the links under the "NFL.com Recap" column in the Schedule section are broken. NFL.com now only provides box scores for games from the 2008 season. 
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thread_title:  External links need modification 

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