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The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by Dabomb87 02:02, 7 May 2010 [1].

List of Colorado Buffaloes head football coaches[edit]

List of Colorado Buffaloes head football coaches (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

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Nominator(s): —NMajdan•talk 16:32, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Big 12 coach list #10. Hopefully this list is now up to FLC standards. Any comments would be appreciated.—NMajdan•talk 16:32, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from KV5
Comments from KV5
  • "Frontiersman"? Or Frontiersmen?
  • "They joined the Colorado Football Association during the 1893 season before joining the Colorado Faculty Athletic Conference in 1909 immediately followed by the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference in 1910." - run-on sentence, can this be broken up?
  • "Big Seven Conference in 1948" - comma after 1948
  • "McCartney is the all-time leader in games coached, with 153, and total wins, with 93" - commas as bolded
  • "eight of their nine games" - you're referring to two singular people here ("each" is a singular pronoun, not plural), so it should be eight of his nine games.
  • "with a .200 winning percentage" - a bit informal, possible re-word?
    • This is the same wording I've used in nearly every list. Sounds fine to me. What do you suggest?—NMajdan•talk
      • Perhaps something simpler, like "Davis' .200 winning percentage is worst among Buffaloes coaches." KV5 (Talk • Phils) 18:34, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • "coach of the year honors" - comma after
  • Clarify when you talk about winning percentage that you mean overall winning percentage, as one coach does have a 1.000 conference win percentage and is not mentioned.
  • Would prefer a non-ISO date format (can easily be accomplished with a script).
  • The list of current coaches navbox doesn't link to this article.
    • Yeah, somebody added that navbox to all the lists I've created. Is this a hard rule? I want to AGF with that editor and not remove something he added unless does prevent this list from becoming Featured.—NMajdan•talk
      • There is no policy or guideline that severely restricts them in that manner; however, the purpose of navbox templates as I understand them is to provide navigation between sets of interrelated articles. The coaches are related because they are serving at the same time, but I can't see that someone reading this list would end up using that navbox to go to Tommy Tuberville's article, for instance. I'd say that it should be removed from the entire series, perhaps to be replaced by a navbox linking the lists of coaches in the Big 12 (which you'll need if going for a featured topic eventually anyway). If you'd like to keep the functionality of having the current coaches in there, might I suggest something like {{MLB managers by team}}, which serves both functions? KV5 (Talk • Phils) 18:31, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • I agree. I will remove them.—NMajdan•talk 21:34, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
          • I take that back. I'm going to modify the template to point to the coach lists.—NMajdan•talk 21:37, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hope these comments help. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 18:13, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback.—NMajdan•talk 18:23, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support — KV5 (Talk • Phils) 18:47, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support as long as you explain "which was renamed the Big Eight Conference in 1958" because presumably this meant another team joined the conference. It wasn't just as simple as a rename...! The Rambling Man (talk) 19:26, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done.—NMajdan•talk 15:41, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Bradjamesbrown (talk) 23:14, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Ref 2 uses a different date format than the rest, please make it consistent.
  • Sorry. A previous reviewer ran a script that changed all the formats, so when I added a new one, I used the format I had been using.—NMajdan•talk
  • "They joined the Colorado Faculty Athletic Conference in 1909 immediately followed by the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference in 1910" May need a comma between the two clauses, as well, did they have to leave the CFAC to join the RMAC?
  • Comma added. I have no idea if they had to leave. Conference information is very hard to come by when it was that long ago. My sources just state that they did switch conference, not why.—NMajdan•talk
  • "Each only served one season" Is the word "only" redundant here? Perhaps, "Each served a single season...."

Otherwise, looks pretty good. Bradjamesbrown (talk) 21:16, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review.—NMajdan•talk 21:43, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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