Portal talk:College football/Selected content/Nominations

message: *I think we are going to have enough high quality material to rotate more often than once a month. Johntex\talk 05:56, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rotation

message: Would anyone have any heartburn about auto-rotating the intro picture just as we do the selected picture?  We've got plenty of good pictures available and should (cross fingers) be getting another infusion of them in a few months. --BigΔT 19:08, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know...at the very most, maybe an automatic quarterly rotation. We have to be more stringent in our selection of an image to represent the whole portal. First off, it has to meet the criteria for a monthly Selected Picture. Secondly, it has to be more specific to college football (no photo of a coach and music singer, or a team and the president). It needs to be, ideally, an action pic of college football. That is what I think at least.↔NMajdan•talk 20:48, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, just from the service academies, we have plenty of action shots. ;)  One of the projects I've kinda sorta been working on is organizing college football stuff at Commons.  There are hoards of really good photos and we can easily come up with a close action shot every month. --BigΔT 22:04, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I found :Image:Calvin Johnson midair pass cropped.jpg on flickr, and uploaded it commons... difficulty: Calvin Johnson (American football) is in the NFL now. Should I nominate it anyway? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 16:39, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, since he was in college when the photo was taken.↔NMajdan•talk 16:53, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, okay. You now have two more nominations :) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 17:42, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

text: While I'm not planning on nominating it, this is a pretty cool picture. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 03:58, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The licensing terms (no derivs) are incompatible with Wikipedia.  But if you find something that is outside the realm of college football, but freely licensed and worth nominating, keep Portal:Sports and games in mind. --B 04:45, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selected picture 

message: Since this has been the goal all along, unless there is an objection, I'm going to set up a weekly rotation of images.  I think we have enough now to keep it stocked. --B 01:55, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you sure we have enough? We have six approved images that haven't been used and five or so up for nomination. Thats about 10 images. That would last 2.5 months. If anything, I would say lets start with a weekly rotation during the CFB season and go back to monthly in January.↔NMajdan•talk 02:19, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok ... I could at least make it weekly through the season and then we can see what we're left with at the end of the season.  (2.5 months gets us to midway through November.) I'm assuming/hoping that we're going to get enough of an influx from this season that we could go year round.  Just looking at flickr, there's a lot of really good stuff there from last week ... and military photos give us an endless supply of Navy/AFA/Army photos. --B 02:32, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Monitoring Flickr will indeed be a good task for the project. I recently uploaded some images that I got from an individual on a messageboard and I may nominate a couple of those tomorrow. You can only have so many Army/Navy/AFA photos, but we can definitely be on the lookout for the pick-of-the-litter. But, as you said, lets see how many images we get from this season and we can see where we're at in December and make our decision then on whether we'll continue the weekly rotation after the season.↔NMajdan•talk 02:54, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a handful ... I think we should be good at least for football season. --B 04:30, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

text: There are a gracious plenty photos on Commons, so I don't see any need to go back to monthly.  I'm trying to recategorize :Commons:Category:College American football.  It is something of a dumping ground for stadium wide shots, in-game action shots, pro football players who one time played in college, conference maps, etc.  I've created :Commons:Category:College American football in-game action that hopefully, once populated, will have a near-endless pool of pictures to draw from.  Between US Gov photos, flickr, and what we do ourselves, we should easily be able to come up with 52 new reasonably high-quality photos per year. --B (talk) 04:58, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weekly rotation