Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football/Archive-Aug2006

message: *I have proposed a policy clarification on use of sports team logos at Wikipedia_talk:Logos#Clarification_on_use_of_sports_team_logos. Johntex\talk 18:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: New wording now proposed at: Wikipedia_talk:Logos#Coming_back_to_the_proposed_clarification - Johntex\talk 17:59, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed policy clarification

message: Would anyone be interested in a college football pickem contest for the project? We could use the Yahoo! version unless someone knows of another version that is good/better. --MECU≈talk 13:59, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm in. That sounds like fun. Z4ns4tsu 14:55, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contest 

message: I've noticed a trend recently of some admins deleting user boxes.  This has usually been addressed by one user taking on the task of putting the german solution into effect in their own userspace.  Do we want to head off the possibility of these boxes being deleted and go ahead and implement TGS now?  If so, I'll get some space set up, but I'll need help moving all of the boxes and getting redirects put into place.  Thoughts? z4ns4tsu\talk 16:40, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Definately should be done. Put it on the todo as well. Perhaps we could put it under the Project? If not, Z4's userspace is as good as any, as long as we keep them all in one spot. MECU≈talk 17:21, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I created the archive page here.  There are short instructions there, but the general idea is to use the Move function to move the page with its history to the new location.  Make sure to leave a redirect so that you don't break current pages.  After you move the box to its own page (i.e. to ) add the box and a link to the archive page.  Here's an example of how it should look when it's finished. z4ns4tsu\talk 17:57, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Team Userboxes 

message: I have created Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Team Articles to facilitate the creation of team articles and to coordinate acquiring photos.  I went on and put basketball and football on here just as a matter of convenience (so much of the information is duplicated) although once the table is complete, I can easily run a macro to split off the basketball data into its own page.  
There are two things I would like to accomplish with it:
# This page gives us a master list of articles where we are missing athletics, mascot, football, or basketball articles.
# It shows us areas where we need to work on finding free photos.  The football season is coming up. Please, if you attend games, bring your camera.  If you don't attend games, check out message boards after games.  Lots of people will upload their own photos and, if asked, would be willing to release them under the GFDL.  Heck, some of them may even become regular contributors.  It's important to remember, though, to make sure that the photos they are posting are their own (not media, not something they found on someone else's message board) and that they agree to release the image under the GFDL (or another free license), not just give permission for it to be "used on Wikipedia".
Please feel free to help fill out the table. I think we ought to have redlinked articles where none exists - just make sure that it doesn't exist under another name.  (For example, there might be a "Virginia Tech Hokies" article or a "Virginia Tech athletics" article.) BigDT 19:11, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I see the value of this, but some of it is duplicated from the Master Team Table. Would you be opponsed from removing all the duplicated info (school link (leave the name), football article, athletics article). There was opposition from putting too much info onto one table so that it got too big to handle, and this this duplicated info might qualify. MECU≈talk 21:42, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the school link is helpful ... I'll combine "school (athletics)" into one column.  I've eliminated some of the duplicated information. BigDT 22:05, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Team Articles]] 

message: I finally got a new feature working on the WikiProject template: . As many of you have noticed, on the Wikiproject sidebar there are two new links: Worklist and Log. The Log shows changes to the class and importance rankings as defined in the template above. The worklist shows all articles with that template and what the class and importance ranking are. Now, we have a way of including comments in that worklist so we can better track what needs to be done to get that article to the next classification whether it be B, Good Article or Featured Article. I've added a snippet of code to the WikiProject template that takes you to the /Comments subpage of an article's talk page. Whatever is included in that subpage will be shown in the worklist, so please keep this list short. The more general comments should be included here with more specific instructions on the talk page (such as a  list). For instance, there are comments on the sub page of the Vince Young article (as soon here: Talk:Vince Young/Comments) and those comments can be seen on the worklist.--NMajdan•talk 18:10, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments on worklist 

message: Any chance on an article for them? They were national champions after all. I feel that if the Sooners get an article for their 2006 season (which hasn't even started!) the Vols National Championship team certainly deserve one. Dlong 01:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Be bold, create one. Creating new articles is lower on our priority list right now but feel free to tackle this one yourself. Take a look at the template here to get started.--NMajdan•talk 02:02, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1998 Vols 

message: College Football All-America Team and Bowl game are rated stubs and Top priority. In the absense of a collaboration of the month, I'm saying these two articles need to be improved and upgraded to B-class by the start of the season. So if you have some time, stop in and help update the articles. Thank you. MECU≈talk 20:07, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have an issue with College Football All-America Team being rated top. I'm going to raise this issue on the Assessment page. I feel that this should be rated no higher that High, along with the other football awards like the Heisman Trophy and Bednarik Award.--NMajdan•talk 20:16, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's fine. There's still Bowl game that needs work for sure. And both article need work regardless of what they are rated. MECU≈talk 21:03, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critical Pages needing work 

message:  transcludes the news from Portal:College football into a friendly template that you can add to your user page.  See my page for an example.  If you would like to place it in a sidebar over on the right of your userpage, use the following code:



BigDT 05:52, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add college football news to your user page: 

message: How could the newsgroup that has piles of information about the sport (as well as a ton of other stuff) be deleted as an article? it helped me learn the sport as an Undergrad (egads) 12 years ago or so.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Drjudsjr (talk • contribs) 14:23, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rec.sport.football.college 

message: Is anyone else going to a game this weekend?  Please take photos and upload anything worth using to Commons.  Also, please add any photos you take to an appropriate Commons article/gallery.  See :Commons:Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, :Commons:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, :Commons:Duke University, and :Commons:College football for some examples.  (If no gallery exists that is appropriate, create one!)
If you don't have a camera or can't make it to games, there's another way you can contribute.  After any game, most of the active message boards will have people who went to the game that post photos on the message board.  REMEMBER: you can't just use their photo without asking and even if they say, "you can use it on Wikipedia", that's not enough.  If someone posts a photo or photos that you feel would be useful, email them, tell them about Wikipedia, ask them if they are actually the author of the photo (remember, it's possible that they are just posting something they found on another message board), and ask them if they would either release the photo into the public domain or release it under the GFDL.
Let's make the most of this football season and get some quality, free, media for our articles. BigDT 14:43, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Very, very good idea.  So far my previous game photos have been for stadiums (Aloha Stadium, Metrodome, LaVell Edwards Stadium, FedEx Field (BCA classic) and Rose Bowl Game).  It helps when the visiting fans gets seated in the upper deck :-P ...I'm going down to Arkansas on Satuday, I'll see if I can't get a good picture usable for USC and Arkansas' season pages.  Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium already has a decent photo, I think my seats are in the same spot as that photo so I may not be able to improve on that one.  I'm sure the folks involved here with the project can help make this a "Wikipedia Sports Photo Service" to fill all of these articles with CC or GDLF goodness --Bobak 18:12, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, venture out of the WP:CFB scope. Take pictures of the campus and buildings that may be used in articles for the universities (such as this for Oklahoma).--NMajdan•talk 19:59, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone else work on this during the past Week 1?  I've gone hog wild (excuse the bad pun). --Bobak 21:18, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please remember to take and upload photos at games