User talk:Cbl62/Archive 2015

6524:* Not sure if you're asking for the justification for the move or for the article, so I'll address both. As for the decision to move the article, I did not agree with the decision, tried reverting it, but another editor kept moving it. As for the substance of the article, the Michigan-Illinois series is historically notable by any measure -- length of the series (dating back to 1898); regularity of the series (94 games making Michigan Illinois' third most frequent historic opponent); border state competition; legendary games in the Grange years; matches between Hall of Fame coaches Zuppke, Yost, and Crisler; the Elliott vs Elliott brotherly competition in the 1960s; numerous games in which both teams were ranked (1942, 1944, 1946, 1953, 1983, 1989-1991, 1995 and 2000); multiple upset matches of highly-ranked/undefeated opponents (e.g, 1928, 1939, 1955, 1963, and 1985), a Big Ten record of 132 points scored in 2010, etc. In our discussion around the time of the article's creation, I suggested at your talk page a framework for a guideline which I believed could be superior to the largely subjective and slippery question of what constitutes a "rivalry". You never responded to my post. The link to that post is at 3779:

notability when an article is sent to AfD. I guarantee if I challenged all 100+ of the new Navy season articles at AfD, I could pick off at least a half dozen of them for failure to satisfy GNG, and lot more of them would be close calls. And that is going to be true for most Division I programs, especially in the early years of the sport. The outsize coverage of Michigan is an exception, not the rule, because Michigan was one of the Big Boys of the sport almost from the git-go. Heck, I could make serious GNG deletion arguments for most pre-1900 Alabama and Auburn teams, and many, many other current top-tier teams. That said, the larger point is no-prose stubs are subject to deletion, and no-prose articles have no business being split from existing articles. Too often newbie article creators create 100 stubs, or 32 of 100 seasons, and walk away from them, leaving someone else to clean up the mess . . . or just as likely, for the mess to continue indefinitely. In this case, the all-in-one, 125-seasons-of-Navy-football article was already a Big Mess, so there is nothing better to which to revert.

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revisit the same articles multiple times, I would like to insert nice, clean new templates, with everything correct the first time, and then focus on getting the correct input data, in the correct format, rather than trying to fix the parameter names and input data piecemeal. After that "merge" discussion closes, say at the weekend, I'll open the RfC to vote on the final parameters to be added/deleted (e.g., CFHOF direct link, etc.); as soon as that's done, we will know the final form of the new template. There was an orderly process planned for this -- determining the parameters first, then doing the new graphics design package, then presenting the package for a final vote, but outside interference turned that planned orderly process on its head and forced us to do things out of sequence. This could have, and should have, been done in one-quarter to one-third of the time. So, for the time being, the new revised template for Infobox college football player is not ready for prime time, and I'm certainly not pushing it until it is. Patience is a virtue, or so I'm told.

1599:, most of whom were Olympic standouts. While it includes its share of one-hit wonders, the category also includes some of the greatest Olympic athletes the Wolverines ever produced, and most of these articles really could use some in-depth work. Sources for Olympic results are readily available, and we have Knowledge articles that fill in the swimming medal history for the Commonwealth Games, Pan American Games and Pan Pacific Championships -- it would be nice if we could build all of them into solid C or B-class articles with every factual statement footnoted, etc. Any chance you would be interested in helping? After I finish updating the Canadian infoboxes, I'm moving on to do the same thing for the 260+ British Olympic swimmers . . . it may be months before I circle back to the Woleverine swimmers again, but I'm certainly willing to help if someone else has the time now. Please let me know if you're interested and need a time-out from CFB for a week or so. 1193:

featured links. That said, once Bagumba's sideshow merge discussion on the WP:CFB talk page is over, I expect to start the long-delayed RfC regarding the final parameters to be added/removed. Personally, I am indifferent whether we include the CFHOF bio link in the infobox or EL section; my biggest objection to including the link in the box, to the extent I have one, is that the existing electric yellow color bar is a graphically hideous design element. If we're going to keep it, we need to upgrade the link's graphics and eliminate the jarring electric yellow color. As a brainstorming idea, perhaps we should consider something similar to what is used for the Baseball Hall of Fame in the MLB player box -- a dark blue bar with a star or two on either side of the link. Anyway, please think about alternatives, because I would like to have two or three concrete ideas for the RfC so people understand what they are voting for.

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doing something productive. WikiProject College Football should have an example of a stand-alone, single-season CFB article that satisfies both the minimum standards of the WikiProject, GNG and other applicable guidelines, so we can all point to it, and say, "If you want to create one, here's what it needs to look like." At a bare minimum, that would include significant coverage of the season in two independent, reliable sources, specifically excluding College Football Data Warehouse (and similar stats sites), team media guides, SID press releases, college newspapers, and other publications of the college and affiliated organizations like the NCAA and college sports conferences. With your comments and participation, I would even volunteer to create that example article in project-space, so we can avoid another situation such as this.

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never in love with it, and the use of U.S. postal code abbreviations and the creation of what is, in effect, an artificial name by pasting the city name onto the abbreviated school name is problematic. I'm thinking we should use a pipe-linked short-form of the high school name, just as we do for the universities, minus the city name and state postal code. In something like 95% of all cases, it will be linked for those high schools that have articles allowing the reader to instantly satisfy his curiosity, and the town where the high school is located should also be identified in the text. What say you?

5766:, I then noticed that most of the pages were named "XXXX All-Pacific Coast football team", with a scattering of "XXXX All-Pacific Coast Conference football team". Is there a significance to the names including "Conference" sometimes but not others? For the All-Pac-12 list, I'd like to limit it to pages dealing specifically with the conference. Should the existing lists be modified to not include the AP refs and renamed to have "Confernence" added, or do you think All-Pacific Coast teams are notable enough to keep, and new All-Pacific Coast Conference lists should be created as needed? Thanks.— 6187:

Placing teams together without qualification gives the reader the impression that they have equal standing. I don't have the wherewithal to judge, my knowledge is limited to recent decades, so was just concerned what the criteria for inclusion is. Thus, it would be ideal (maybe wishful thinking) if an identified RS exists that discusses the history of all-conference teams, as "we consider a viewpoint's prevalence in reliable sources, not its prevalence among Knowledge editors or the general public." UNDUE more clearly states the concerns I alluded to with "OR" before.—

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football season (ignoring, of course, that it is supported by significant coverage in a single independent reliable source -- I assume you're in the process of curing this), and 100+ no-independent-source, no-prose stubbiest of stubs, all of which remain subject to AfD nomination, most of which are quite likely to remain in their present condition . . . well, forever. Not to mention we now have one or more editors who think no-independent-source, no-prose stubs for single-season articles is an acceptable practice.

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would be that there are many other college yearbooks out there from which photos could be used in this manner. It would be a major boon to college football and basketball on Knowledge. Before searching yearbooks post 1922 for photos to add, however, I want to be certain that your methodology is correct in claiming them as public domain. I wanted to ask you about them first as the uploader, and then likely the community at large. There are several questions I have in assessing the copyright status of these photos.

764:"what is accomplished by a 'merge'"? Unanimity of !votes and redirects for the Andenne Bears and other teams in the league to the league article. Right now, this is headed for a split vote and a possible "no consensus" outcome. With a merge and redirect, the non-notable team pages will be deleted for the price of redirects to the league page. That's a pretty good compromise. Read the exchange between Brigade Prion and myself. FYI, the nominator has already changed his stated preference at my request. 2118:. The Stanford database you mention only seems to cover Class A books, and I would think that an annual publication such as a yearbook would not fall under the same classification that Stanford has cataloged. Second, The copyright office records prior to 1978 have not been fully digitized, so searching the online collection for renewals would not necessarily mean that no renewal occurred. Can we really be 100% certain that no copyright renewal occurred for these publications based on an online search. 3526: 1896: 1296:

trademarked, or both, and, as such, is a non-free image subject to restricted use on WikiPedia. It would be one thing to use the non-free-image logo in the infobox for the HOF article, but transcluding it into 1,000 to 2,000 infoboxes for HOF members is going to set off a deletion war with Knowledge non-free-image police. We caught shit for 18 uses of the Gator head logo; I can only imagine what they would say about 1,000 or more uses of the CFHOF logo. Sorry to be a wet blanket.

627: 69:.) This clearly bears some scrutiny because the NCAA believes that the 1917 Walter Camp selections were different from other years, and the WCFF doesn't even acknowledge them. If, as I suspect, Camp chose only players for the various Army and Navy service teams, such as the Great Lakes Naval Station football team, the distinction may have been lost on some newspapers in reporting what the selected players' colleges were vs. what service team they were playing for in 1917. 3845:

was motivated to create more substantive single-season articles that might have included an introduction and at least enough main body text to recount each season's highlights. And as is typical, once this AfD is over, and you and I return to our normal editing priorities, WP:CFB will be left with 90 or more no-prose stublets that will sit for years until Texas Historian or another motivated Navy fan has the time to build out something that resembles a proper stub for

831:. Nothing has been finalized regarding parameters to be added or deleted, and I still plan to hold a mini-RfC on the template talk page to give all active WP:CFB members their say-so in determining. That said, what do you think of the colors, graphics, and layout and design? In particular, how do you like the "college varsity stripe" graphics? Personally, I think it looks sharp -- instead of the graphically primitive color bars we previously had. 396:

outside a 100-mile radius of New Haven, did not see most non-Eastern players in action, while led to angry calls in the Western press that his selections ought not to be regarded as true "All-American" teams. Inclusion of other selectors, particularly Western and Southern selectors (even though not used in the NCAA consensus determinations), helps present a broader and more balanced spectrum of historical points of view. More information is better.

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coverage in reliable sources creates an assumption, not a guarantee, that a subject should be included. A more in-depth discussion might conclude that the topic actually should not have a stand-alone article" If there is nothing more than season schedule and an introductory sentence or two of text, the subject arguably falls into the latter class until someone is willing to take the time to properly build out a stand-alone article.

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use the same colors and varsity stripe graphics, etc., but I can't use colors for the coaches because many if not most were associated with multiple teams during their careers, so we're not going there. I think we can figure out how to use black and a grey screen for the varsity stripes for the coaches, though, so it won't be a radical change -- really just upgrading the section headers within the coaches box.

921:, etc. from the 1960s and 1970s aren't available on-line (not even for a fee), and so a search of microfiche or hard copy newspapers would be needed to determine how much coverage he got. As you know, I successfully nominated a number of UM player articles for deletion in the past year. Huiskens is probably a borderline case, but I'd be reluctant to consider an AfD for Huiskens without more research. 4041: 3417: 3234: 1872: 1846: 936:

members, consensus All-Americans, or other major award winners who did not play pro ball. In that crowd, Huiskens does stand out as a "borderline case" -- which is why I asked. I am keeping a list of players to discuss later; so far, it's a pretty short list. Some of the weakest GNG cases are current players who ultimately are deemed notable by playing a few games in the NFL.

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surely watched football and read about it in 1917, seemed the first to put this label on Bum Day in 1918. Hm. Just a journalism cliche, "puffing" of a kind? Or just because Strupper was the second halfback chosen while Day the first center? Or is there an error on the 1917 page? Or something else? I'd appreciate if you shed light on my darkness; hope not too silly a question.

6382:, and the above mentioned teams. Some I can think of which need it include the Amherst Lord Jeffs and the Tufts Jumbos. I was hoping you might know some prominent years for neglected teams, such as 1921 W&J or 1921 Lafayette, which I did not. My question might be phrased as iterations of "What's the most notable, old season for the Tufts Jumbos?" with the team changing. 3850:

schedule. Most of the existing CFB season articles in similar condition are orphans that are little more than magnets for vandalism, and there are a surprisingly very large number of them in that have been in that condition for five, six, seven or more years. I'm happy to review the state of the season articles for the major Division I programs with you . . . .

5261:, You identified her as American in the INFOBOX and in a category. Given that she was born in Jamaica what is the basis for saying that she obtained American citizenship? I don't see anything in the article mentioning that.(I'm in the process of adding and checking wikidata entries and want to make sure that the country of citizenship is correct)-- 6580: 299:. Camp had previous second and third-team selections, and undoubtedly there were a handful of Southerners picked as first-teamers before 1918 by selectors other than Camp. It's unclear from his GSHOF bio who selected Strupper as an All-American in 1917, but we know it wasn't Camp because Camp did not select a team in 1917. 900: 899:(the Booth newspaper group in Michigan) does represent significant coverage in a consortium of mainstream, credible, statewide media outlets. Also, the 1967 AP article does deal with him in some detail as he was considered maybe "the best college football prospect in Michigan." He also gets some coverage in 6377:

Well done. If we can eventually get the schedules of the Big 4 and rest of the Ivy League, and some rivalry articles say for Dartmouth-Harvard and Dartmouth-Cornell and the like, it would be a sign of progress. I can't say it's what I was talking about though. What you've been doing with Lafayette is

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Regarding your Point 6: I don't see this as OR at all. We are providing access in one place to all of the notable selectors' choices, which choices have been published in reliable sources. By listing them all in one place, it allows the reader to see which players received multiple selections. This

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would be misled into thinking Russ Saunders was considered the best QB in the conference, when in fact the AP and UP both selected Marshall Duffield of USC. Likewise, NEA picked Orville Mohler as QB in 1931, while AP and UP both chose Gaius Shaver. My view in these situations is that more information

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More OR concerns with selectively naming specific years All-PCC vs All-PC depending on the whether the results have exclusive PCC players or not. The 1947–58 lists are All-PCC, but 1959–63 reverts back to All-PC. The results may change, but the selection criteria appears to be consistent that AP and

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Cbl, this has never been about "deleting" the stragglers, and I did not expect to delete these articles. This is about the advisability of the WikiProject encouraging someone to create over 100 no-prose stublets when there was a perfectly viable alternative of splitting them by decades until someone

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Cbl: Yes, I'm being pointy, and, yes, I know I'm being pointy. And my dismay is not really directed at you; it's really directed at the bad/incomplete advice under which the article creator proceeded to cut and paste 100+ no-prose, no-independent-source stubs. Now, we have one properly stubbed Navy

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Are you certain that the copyright of the yearbook itself includes the copyright of the photos? Most yearbooks are a compilation. Could the copyright belong to a photography studio that took the photos? Were team photos even first published in the yearbook or could they have been published in a media

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The same graphics in both infoboxes makes a lot of sense, so no objection there. I think the only way to get it down to one line of text is to reduce the font size. Given the relative importance of an HOF induction to any other accolade, I'm not sure two lines is really a problem. Keep in mind that

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Okay, that's graphically refined and relatively subdued in terms of colors -- should not conflict with new graphics of the CFB player box. I assume you would have no objection to using the same CFHOF graphics in both the college coach and CFB player boxes? Also, can you get it down to a single line

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article form Boston Globe in July 1899 reporting: "Mat Gonterman, who graduated from Harvard in 1896, has engaged as athletic director at Knox college, Galesburg, Ill. Gonterman played on the Harvard varsity football and baseball teams." Putting these sources together with the claim on the Knox.edu

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As for the lists' titles wavering between All-PC and All-PCC, your comment that "broad selection criteria used by AP/UPI create this issue" is correct to an extent. Maybe I misunderstood you earlier in that I thought you implied that some lists were named All-PCC because the AP/UPI results were all

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Regarding your Point 2: This can be addressed with clearer introductory language in each article, noting that the selections are not limited to "conference" players but are instead regional teams for the Pacific Coast. St. Mary's is the most notable non-conference team to receive All-PC selections.

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expressing serious concern about the creation of multiple no text article, and I agree that was not the best way to proceed. But now that the articles have been created, I am convinced they all satisfy GNG and believe the best course is to clean them up rather than prodding or trying to "pick off" a

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knowing that significant coverage exists in multiple sources, but for starting purposes I considered it sufficient to have citations to reliable sources such as the Harvard site and CFDW. Hopefully, another editor will pick up the baton and expand further, but I don't see how or why an article such

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I'm not suggesting we evoke anything regarding Chick-fil-a, which uses a red and white logo for its main signage and marketing. I'm saying it may make sense to use the blue and gold of the CFBHOF logo, like how the red and blue fill colors and white stars from the Baseball HOF logo are used for the

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The article was created in 2007 and incorrectly asserted that Huiskens played in the CFL. I did a few minutes of cleanup/expansion last week to whip it into somewhat better shape. (My effort was part of a larger, ongoing project to ensure that the existing 769 articles on UM football players, at a

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The old AA pages are a long-term project that I started years ago. There are still a number of missing selectors that I was unable to track down. I have now ordered a copy of the ESPN College Football Encyclopedia which should be delivered within a couple weeks. Once I get that, I can also go back

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Regarding your Point 5: The Spalding Guides were "official" in that they were the place where each year's "official" rules were published. Spalding considered Walter Camp the one and only "official" AA selector during his lifetime. The publishers reprinted numerous other All-American, all-region,

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From 1959–1967, the conference was named Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU). While the names "All-Pacific Coast" and "All-Pacific Coast Conference" are similar and the casual reader might not notice, it would be strange to link to All-PC teams for years when the conference was AAWU

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of St. Mary's -- Montana was a conference team in 1925) on this coast squad. I think the way to deal with Brown is to note explicitly that his squad was not limited to conference players and that St. Mary's was not a member of the conference team. I think that resolution is preferable to splitting

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Or a spaced ndash. Or a teeny-tiny, tacky little football. j/k about that. I'd like revisit the graphics for Infbox coach, too, at some point this summer, after I've crossed off Infobox college football player and a new common infobox for all college sports teams. The player and team boxes will

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is a head-fake/red herring that should never have been included as a reference. The All-America team listed in the Fort Wayne newspapers is not Walter Camp's 1917 college team; it's the newspaper's own 1917 All-America team. The words "Walter Camp" do not appear in the article, but they do appear

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The rarity of southern players on Walter Camp's All-America first teams led to an apparent cliche, or conundrum, with the claim of "first Southern player chosen by Walter Camp." Strupper seems to get that title if I have reviewed the lists presented here correctly. Quite a few sportswriters who had

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Hell, Cbl, I'm just happy the Gators didn't have the losing season that was predicted. Sure, I want the Gators to win, but either 10–4 or 11–3 both sound pretty darn good when they were predicted to go 5–7 or 6–6. McElwain definitely earned his SEC coach of the year honors during this transition

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Regarding your Point 4: NEA was not an "official" conference-sponsored selector. Its selections are no more or less valid than AP or UP. By including all three side by side, it allows the reader to obtain a clearer, more balanced, read on who truly were the best players of a particular year. As

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Regarding your Point 1: I think it's more likely that fans of college football history would appreciate having the links to earlier teams (as opposed to holes/gaps in the historical record), so long as the information is clearly labeled to avoid confusion. I'm going to be busy with family over the

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Hi there cbl. Our research interests cross paths with McGugin and Yost. I've read both of them placed great emphasis on the punting game. One wonders which other elements of Yost's style of play, say as opposed to Stagg or Rockne, might help me better understand what a disciple took from him. Were

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Okay. I can see that. Tough to object to neutral dark blue. No graphic devices other than the dark blue color bar? Also, can you reduce this to a single line of text -- e.g., "College Football Hall of Fame (1985)" or something similar? Does this mean you are waiving your previous objection to

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Hey, Cbl. I have no idea how the !vote of WP:CFB members on the CFHOF link will turn out. I know Jweiss and at least several others prefer no direct links in the CFB player infobox, and would like to see the CFHOF bio link moved to the external links section, along with a limited number of other

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Related, but different topic: how do you think the player's high school should be presented in Infobox CFB player? The pipe-linked display that follows the "Ann Arbor (MI) Central Catholic" pattern has not worn well with time since it was introduced in Infobox NFL player several years ago. I was

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For many years, I could only find All-Pacific Coast teams. In those cases, I did not include "conference" in the naming of the list. Where press coverage is focused on the regional teams, I see no reason why the would not be considered notable. A similar pattern exists in the early 20th century

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Take your time. If and when you go over the history of Yost again, I will be curious about any mention of scheme, especially if such also mentioned McGugin. If it gives accounts of either one punting, that too adds a certain color to their story. Given their emphasis on it, one has to get a kick

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of them. The 1887 article, as it existed before you started chewing on it, should not set the minimum standard for a stand-alone single-season CFB article; as a WikiProject, we should not sanction, encourage nor tolerate stand-alone articles that consist of nothing more substantive than a season

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True, as far as your Harvard example goes, but we both know that the Harvard College football team was one of the most high-profile CFB teams in the country in 1892. And, yes, I'm well aware of the quoted WP:N passage, but the burden is on the article creator and "keep" proponents to demonstrate

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I am all in favor of using a tasteful graphic device for CFHOF membership, either in the infobox or elsewhere, and I am open to just about anything that isn't an electric yellow color bar. That said, please recognize that the CFHOF logo, with or without the Chik-fil-A element, is copyrighted, or

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the selectors recognized by the NCAA as official for consensus purposes.) For many years, Camp's selections are the only "official" selections, but they were highly controversial at the time and sidely regarded as biased in favor of the Ivy League and Eastern schools. Camp rarely attended games

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linked above). This is confirmed by the notations in the NCAA Records Book and by the Walter Camp Football Foundation's lack of a 1917 All-America team. The WCFF did not exist in 1917, but it does include all of the Walter Camp All-America teams prior to the formation of the WCFF as part of its

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You and I both know well the minimum standards for stand-alone articles, and while most of these will probably survive a critical notability/suitability analysis, it will only be after some gnashing of teeth at AfD, the deletion of some, and a lot of wasted editor time that could have been spent

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I see that you have previously uploaded several photos from the University of Michigan yearbook that are tagged as "PD-US-not renewed" or "PD-Pre1978" or both (which seems rather contradictory). Anyway, I see that there are many useful photos that you have uploaded under these tags, and my hope

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Frankly, I wish that there was a single master infobox that could be used for all football players/coaches. There ought to be a way. It would make life a lot simpler. When starting a new player article, it's not always clear whether the player went on to be a pro player or coach. (Some sources

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Please give it some thought. I don't think we're going to get rid of it that easily, and it remains one of the issues to be resolved. When I re-open the RfC, I would like to resolve all formatting issues, so we can write definitive template instructions with comprehensive formatting examples.

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I am presently tied up on non-WP matters, but I noticed this discussion. If the footnote referencing the WC team for 1917 is in error, it was probably my error. I created most of the early AA team articles. If it is in error, it should be fixed. Give me a few days, and I'll check it out. If

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and that we "should not give minority views or aspects as much of or as detailed a description as more widely held views or widely supported aspects". Again, I'm not too big on history, so my natural question was whether we were sure a team selected by so-and-so is important enough to mention.

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We should, JW, but several of the template parameter names will change, as soon as Bagumba's "merge" discussion closes, to make them conform with the corresponding parameter names and order of Infobox NFL player. That's why I haven't been changing more of the existing uses myself. Rather than

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to make sure it includes all of the old mascot teams of which you are aware? With Frietjes improvements to the color module, we will be able to insert the era-correct nickname into the revamped infobox template, and it will display the correct team and mascot name and colors, but the link will

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elsewhere on the same page. Someone who added the footnote/citation to the 1917 College Football All-America Team article was clearly using a key word search that included "Walter Camp" and "All-America" and did not look to confirm that it was actually Camp's 1917 college list, which it wasn't.

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system (should've known eh), which looks a lot like a single-wing/shotgun. Would be nice to find an article somewhere on how those differ. The '21 Vandy picture is a really nice shot of the short-punt, but hard to tell whether the image of the 1922 team is a short-punt or some other formation.

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All of that said, there should be a WP:CFB minimum standard for creating a single-season article, and it should not be "well, sources probably exist." If that's the argument, then the season is better treated as part of some aggregation. While we're quoting GNG, let's not forget "significant

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Cbl, I was working my way through the 900+ articles that presently utilize Infobox college football player, doing some basic clean-up work on the infobox and lead. The overwhelming majority of the articles that use Infobox CFB player are not current jocks, but historical players who are CFHOF

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All-American selected by Walter Camp (1918). As for the present Knowledge article "1917 College Football All-America Team," it clearly needs to be critically reviewed and edited to strip out the inaccurate "Walter Camp" selections for 1917, and all other selections need to be confirmed using

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not the 29th, and I didn't see any mention of football. What you said made a lot of sense, but then I haven't a clue what the wikipedia article is referencing. Page 47 in your Collier's Weekly seems to have some southerns as honorable mention, but Guyon is mentioned above Strupper.

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Thanks, Cake. I've been meaning to get back to you on this. I have a lot of books on Michigan football history and Yost, but I moved last month (after 22 years in the same house), and my stuff is in quite a state of disarray. When I find my Yost stuff, I'll get back with you.

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from the following players . . . ." The list looks preliminary, as it includes multiple players at all positions (except guard). Note the odd use of the future tense. I have yet to find a subsequent article through Google News Archive or Newspapers.com that explains this.

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or available under a compatible license, it will be deleted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. You may use such publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our

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So Camp didn't select an All America team, rather selected an All Service team, but then also published a team in Collier's Weekly reported by a Fort Wayne newspaper? I can't find the reference in the Fort Wayne paper. In fact I see only a paper published that week for the

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Regarding your Point 3: Many reasons why the media guide might start in 1952, one of which is that they simply didn't bother to collect earlier data. So long as we have reliable sources reporting on notable selections made prior to 1952, there is no reason not to include

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Yes I know; was just to show I hope I had reason to inquire. The claim to fame is being the first selected by Walter Camp, yet one finds claims like that for Strupper along with it being said here (wrongly, I get it) that Camp picked Strupper. It looks like

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I don't see even the newspaper's own All America team nor a newspaper for the date given, but that is interesting. I did not know such errors were left on All-America team pages. Will try to at least post a few if any proper teams on 1917s All-Americans talk

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In the informal RFC you posted at the beginning of the year, I cast my vote for completely eliminating the "high school" parameter from the infobox. If the consensus ends up being to keep the parameter, I'd need to think a bit more on how best to display.

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Knowledge editors, it's not our role to make judgments as to who was the "best," but by including all of the relevant information in one place, we allow the reader to be most fully informed. For example, if we eliminated the AP and UP lists, a reader of

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Actually, she was born in the Bahamas, moved to Jamaica at age one, and then to the USA at age 13. I'm not sure whether or not I saw a source saying she became an American citizen. Given the uncertainty, maybe it's best to leave the citizenship blank.

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The same applies in the west with All-Pacific teams and All-Pacific Coast Conference teams. As I built those ones out, I revised the name of the article depending on whether the teams were limited to conference players. It gets messy some years.

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If a player is known principally as a college player, it my practice to use the college football infobox. A college star who goes on to play a few games in the NFL and is principally known for his college years should have the college infobox.

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Regarding your Point 8: For the first 40 or so years of All-America selections, we actually do include lists selected by individual writers, coaches, etc. Prior to mid-1930s or so, most of the notable lists were prepared by individuals (e.g.,

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UPI were free to pick non-PCC players, even if PCC was the powerhouse. My modern basketball analogy is that we don't group the All-District teams of USBWA or NABC with All-Pac-12, merely because the selections are dominated by Pac-12 players.

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I have no strong opinion if the All-Pacific Coast lists are historical enough to remain as standalones. At a minimum, it needs to be clearly noted that they are of wider scope than just the PCC. I would suggest they not be categorized under

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As for 1952 being the media guide cutoff, I'm not saying to treat it as gospel, but we should do due diligence to make sure it isn't significant. I'm sure you're more well versed on college football history than me, so I'll defer to you on

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Newspapers.com, Google News Archive, and other available online searches. I think we also need to discuss what secondary selectors we include in our All-America team articles. In my opinion, we should not be including selections from the

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Fellas, I'm not talking about using the logo. I'm talking about using the colors of the logo like we do in various team, conference, and bowl navboxes, and like the MLB infobox does with the colors of Baseball HOF logo. Is that clear?

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FYI, this was "merged" out of existence, Cbl. Please note that there are 6 or 7 other articles about teams from the same Belgian amateur league that are pending at AfD -- they're listed at the American football AfD category. Cheers.

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Since the article under AfD simply repeats content already in the parent article on the league, and does not appear to add anything not already present in the parent article, I don't really see what is accomplished by a "merge".

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has an asterisk next to the 1917 entry for Walter Camp, with a footnoted annotation: "In 1917, Walter Camp selected an all-Service, All-America team composed of military personnel." The website that I have been using to view old

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page move, and you took care of the problem before he responded. Could you please explain to User:Linnix about the problems with the move? Because it looks like he doesn't edit much, it would probably help to explain it. Thanks!

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It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.

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indicate that Baer was an assistant coach at U. Louisville for a while.) This leaves uncertainty as to what infobox to use. In such cases, I sometimes choose the gridiron player box which seems to have greater flexibility.

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My comment following the delete-sort notice, as well as your follow-on comment to mine, are being rendered in small caps. It looks it has something to do with the coding of your signature within the delete-sort notice.

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FYI, the Walter Camp Football Foundation does not list a 1917 All-America Team, but includes the following notation: "All-America Team not selected because of World War I." (See current WCFF All-America Teams webpage

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used to source the 1917 "Walter Camp" selections in the Knowledge article does nothing of the kind. Walter Camp is mentioned elsewhere on page 8, but the All-America team listed is the newspaper's, not Camp's. (See

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as the first Southern player ever selected for an All-American by Walter Camp; I guess for a third-team or something, but see no mention of him anywhere. Might wish to double check to see if he ever got any mention.

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I began an important issue that will affect the college football, basketball, and baseball projects. You are a regular editor within any or all of these WikiProjects and your input is requested. Please weigh in at

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Again, I sincerely hope that these photos are public domain, and this methodology can be extrapolated to make Knowledge a much better resource, but I want to be 100% sure before adding anything post-1923 myself.

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As for your substantive proposal, I agree that significant coverage in multiple sources is the GNG standard, but the sources don't have to be presented before an article can be created. For example, I created

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I see some of the All-PC lists list a selection by a single writer, referee, or coach. Are those relevant? We don't list individual writers' picks in the AA articles, so it seems inconsistent and

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and all-conference selections. Inclusion in the guide doesn't make them "official". The publisher of the guide was simply acting as an aggregator in collecting information of interest to readers.

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there is a separate WC All-Service team, it should be included and identified as such. As for limiting selectors, I favor inclusion with clear sourcing. (My preferred practice is to identify in

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says "every player in the far west, regardless of affiliation, is eligible for the team". While the first and second team ended up with only PCC players, the honorable mentions included others.—

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article from Dec. 1909 suggests that Victor M. Place was at that time a practicing attorney in the Pacific Northwest. (The article indicates he received a Harvard law degree in 1906.)

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Let's not split things too quickly. I had actually considered the type of disposition you suggest, which is what I also followed in splitting All-Western from All-Big Ten teams. (See

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Cbl62, it's been over three weeks without a response to the review. Please take action right away; otherwise, the nomination is likely to be closed in the next few days. Many thanks.

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Cbl62, it's been two weeks since you were notified of these issues. Action is needed soon if you don't wish the nomination to be closed as abandoned. Thank you for your attention.

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archives of newspapers.com turns up a plethora of coverage for the topic. Stubs are not where we end up, but sometimes they serve a useful purpose in getting things started. See

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The nomination is a month old today, and still needs a QPQ, among other outstanding issues. You've been quite busy elsewhere; time to give this nomination its due. Many thanks.

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Brown's team into its own separate stand-alone article. If Brown's team is split, we lose the benefit of seeing how the selectors agree or disagree on a side-by-side basis.

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the baseball infobox uses four lines for the HOF info. I think voting info is notable only in the case of the Baseball HOF, but even without that it would be three lines.

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year, and next season the QB situation should be stable. However they may finish their bowl game, the Gators have already exceeded expectations and then some. Cheers.

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Hi there cbl. When you get a chance, will you help me find some of the most notable years for old, neglected Eastern powers outside of the Ivy League? I mean teams like

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Even if these photos are certain to fall under the copyright of the yearbook, is your methodology sound for determining that copyright was not renewed? Take for example

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But the CFHOF logo you linked has a Chick-fil-a logo (not red and white) embedded into the CFHOF logo. Presumably, Chick-fil-a paid big bucks to have its logo embedded.

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Don't know abut his status as a Groza or Guy award finalist or nominee. That would need to be researched and supported by reliable sourcing. Also, what is "StPotWs"?

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Hello. Perhaps you are not seeing my messages? After you commented, I responded 20 minutes later (8 days ago). But I haven't heard back. Perhaps you are very busy? --

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Regarding your Point 7: I don't see this as an OR issue, so long as each article is named correctly. The broad selection criteria used by AP/UPI create this issue.

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Thanks for the research on these guys. I found some more on each of them. Holste also coached at Hasting College in Nebraska, and Place coached at Ohio Wesleyan.

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IMHO, CFHOF voting info = serious overkill for an infobox. Less is often more. Most of these CFHOF bios don't even reference the HOF vote in the main body text.

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is a concern with commingling the selections with other non-conference coach selected teams, moreso if the various teams aren't grouped together in other sources.

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is better. So long as the information is clearly labeled and described, the risk of confusion is avoided, and the goal of fuller information is also served.

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Was not aware that these disambiguation pages had been created last December. As for your suggestion, I am always grateful to Jweiss11 for his help! Cheers.

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with All-Western and All-Southern regional teams that overlap with/bleed into the All-Western Conference (e.g., Big Ten) and All-Southern Conference teams.

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is a 3x Big Ten Special teams player of the week according to a source that I have found multiple errors in. Do you know of a RS for StPotWs from that era?--

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