Maps, Directions, and Place Reviews
Couple Questions
Glad to see the portal was approved. Couple questions as I've never really dealt with portals. Who decides the information in the portal? How do we suggest new information? How would I suggest new quotes?--NMajdanotalk 12:04, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Do you like the first version? I thought at first there were no comments because I was looking over at the WikiProject and I didn't think to come here right away. Here are some thoughts I have about organization, etc.
- Portals tend to have an "organizer" but that is fairly loose as of course no one person owns the portal. My personal idea of portals is that anyone should feel free to update sections like Current Events and DYK, so long as they follow the format. The organizer tries to ensure that the selected content (selected article, selected picture, selected biography) gets changed out periodically: Not so slowly as to get stale, not so quickly that no one gets a chance to see it before it is gone. I'd suggest about once a week, but we can vary as we see what works. I'm happy to play the organizer role for a while if no one objects. If others are interested in taking a hand, we can switch off that role.
- Each section of the Portal (like Quotes) has its own Talk page, but I suggest we discuss here until this page gets so much attention that it becomes necesary to fragment the discussions.
- I agree Quotes should have references. I too a little shortcut in creating this portal and I borrowed the selected picture and selected quote from the American Football Portal. The quote should be easy to source with a little work, or better yet, we can replace it immediately with one of our own.
- The selected picture is a little harder. Images for the portal have to be free images, no fair use, due to Wikipedia:Fair use, which prohibits fair use images outside of the namespace. I thought the Rose Bowl was entirely appropriate for us, and it is a free image as a work of a US govt employee, so I went with the picture and added different verbiage. There are a few free college football images at Commons:College football, but not that many.
- Naturally, the design of this Portal is something I just did. Everything is up for discussion as far as colors, placement of the boxes, etc. I made some decisions based upon what has seemed to work at other portals I've helped with. I have left this tagged "Under Construction" until other people have had a chance to suggest refinements to the design. I did list it at the community signpost to hopefully get attention from more people. Johntex\talk 09:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Selected Image
Image:Jones SBC Stadium.jpg It's not showing up for me unless I go to the image page and click on a link there. Is anyone else having this problem? All other images a showing up fine for me. --MECU?talk 16:13, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Quotes
I looked at WikiQuote and most of those aren't cited. Not that we should lower our standards, but how do we go about getting a quote listed? Do I just add it to the list, or is there somewhere where we can develop a pool of quotes to draw from that I add it to? Here's some for the meanwhile: --MECU?talk 17:39, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
University names
Just a quick question about University names. I've started to contribute to "Did you Know" and I was wondering if it makes sense to use the school names as football fans know them- example: a football fan would know that "Pitt" means "University of Pittsburg" "Michigan" means "University of Michigan", etc. but a non-fan might not be aware of these (although most people in Pennsyvania call the Univerisy Pitt, for instance, someone who is not a football fan might not know). Just some thoughts so we can all be consistent. Obviously, we wouldn't want to use "U of M"- which could be Miami, Michigan, Maryland or use USC which could be Southern Cal or South Carolina- although those uses might be appropriate in individual articles. And what about UCF, UTEP, UNLV, etc. Most fans would know those, but a non fan might be confused. Jcam 09:26, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Suggestion
The DYK section seems to be getting a bit long. Perhaps cut it down to at most 6-7 DYK facts and add a new section. My idea is a section with "random college football records" with various college football statistical records (team or individual) in them. Thoughts ? Jcam 06:07, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Selected article rotation?
I noticed that the selected article had not been changed since July. I went ahead and changed it to trick play given the recent Fiesta Bowl. Does anyone have any ideas for the next one? I could, if we have enough suggestions, set up an automatic monthly rotation like many/most other portals have. --BigDT 23:25, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I'd like to propose that Oklahoma Sooners football be thrown into the rotation sometime within the next couple of months. It is one of five GA-quality articles on the WikiProject and has been through an FA nomination while no others have.--NMajdanotalk 03:39, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
I've created a test nomination page on my userspace. Check it out and let me know what you think: User:Nmajdan/Test#Portal nominations.--NMajdanotalk 14:07, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Selected biography
I believe this section should be removed for the time being. Until we have enough high quality articles when we can then separate biographical articles from the others, this section should be removed. Other opinions?-NMajdanotalk 22:04, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Things you can do - Aloha Bowl
The "Things you can do" section says this:
But I can't find any information anywhere that says the Aloha Bowl is playing. Is this a mistake? Cogswobble 15:49, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Time for a new lead image?
This one is starting to wear out its welcome. I spent a little time on Commons this weekend and I have a few I think are worth considering:
(Feel free to add others.) Any thoughts? I really like choices B, I, and J and I think some of the others have potential. --Big?T 21:01, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Featured Portal?
What do we need to do to get this up to Featured Portal status? We have a solid rotation of articles and images. Check out Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria and we'll figure out what needs work.<->NMajdanotalk 04:36, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
2014 season portal update discussion
Ideas on updating this portal:
- New stories
- New images
- Video would be nice
- large schools/small schools
- rules changes??
- link to any fresh news articles?
- include a couple of historic anecdotes or game articles
GO!--Paul McDonald (talk) 00:41, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
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