Talk:Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball
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Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Reviewed version: October 21, 2007 |
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This article is very much in progress; it will be worked out over the next three days or so, in large part. Certainly anyone is free to edit what's there, but I'm working on getting a large portion of the body together, so don't fret too much. When I'm done, it will look something like Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball, if you are curious. matt91486 22:19, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- OK, well, this doesn't apply so much anymore. We're pretty much there. matt91486 01:24, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] NCAA Champions
I noticed that three NCAA titles are listed in the infobox for this article. I know these are retroactively-awarded Helms Athletic Foundation championships, not NCAA ones. Might they be better placed elsewhere in the article so as to avoid confusion? I've had a similar conundrum on the Illini page in regards to their 1915 Helms National Championship.Chiwara 16:53, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
- I tried the parenthetical stipulation; I feel like they're notable to be in the upper infobox, but I also agree they definitely need an asterisk or stipulation of some sort. I'm not totally sure of the best solution. matt91486 21:42, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
- Well since the infobox says NCAA Tournament Championships, frankly I think its obvious that they don't belong there. They definitely deserve to be mentioned in the article though.Timpcrk87 21:09, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The Current Nomination
Hey, anyone who happens to be watching the article, I'm not sure if it'll help our chances at getting the GA status or not, but it couldn't hurt if we tried to take care of some of the red-links in the article. I'm going to see if I can get a little page up on Don Yates up in the next day or two, maybe another one. Just thought I'd throw it out there. matt91486 23:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] GA review
I have reviewed this article against the GA criteria, and this is what I've found:
Well written: Doesn't meet WP:HEAD (headings should be sentence case, not title case. Perhaps the massive table in the middle of the article could be moved to the bottom of the article, so you don't have to scroll through it if you're not interested in it. Some punctuation issues: many words like on-campus, post-season are lacking hyphens; Following Haskins departure should have a apostrophe in Haskins. Capitalization: Vice president for Athletics, Associate athletics director should probably be capitalized differently.- Factually accurate and verifiable: While the majority of the article is well-referenced, the Postseason section doesn't have a single reference. Outside of this section, I count six unreferenced paragraphs.
Broad in its coverage: Article meets criteria- NPOV: While it's natural to be biased towards a team you support, articles need to be written neutrally. Terms like talented, best talent, and 'powerhouse, are subjective and need a citations by a well-respected expert in order to stay.
- Stable: Article meets criteria
- Images: Article meets criteria
Unfortunately, I do not feel this article meets the GA criteria at this time. However, it shows potential and is quite close. Some more work will get this article in shape for the next nomination. —Scott5114↗ 06:15, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for the help. I've made some of the changes already and will continue to work on it. I'm not sure I agree on the use of 'talented' as a bias word, though, in the context it is in. The program has had NBA players, so I think saying it has had talented players in its history is sort of self-explanatory. matt91486 15:45, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Preparation for next GA review
Hey, just as a heads up to anyone who might have this article watched and is willing to help, I think we should submit this for another GA review in a little bit. So any help anyone could give with clean-up and improvements before then would be greatly appreciated. I'm personally going to try to add a statistical leaders section and to work on referencing some of the stuff that was pointed out as having concerns last time. Also, I might try to make stubs for the coaches articles who don't have any, to minimize the red links. matt91486 (talk) 01:11, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
