Talk:Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium

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I'd like to get this article up to good article status. I feel it is already fairly close, it just needs a good copyedit and needs to be cited.--NMajdan•talk 01:42, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

I wrote most of this, mainly from memory, but didn't inline the citations I found at the time. (No, I don't know why I didn't ref at the time. I should have my head examined.) I shall make this my project for the weekend, since I learned some other news about an upcoming change to the stadium seating configuration this week. Since I wrote most of it, someone else should probably do the copyedit to catch my errors. KrakatoaKatie 05:15, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I'm done, so have at it. The biggest change I made was about the Gaylords' gift. Soonerstats.com put the size of the pricetag donation toward the stadium renovation at $50 million, but Sooner Magazine said it was $12 million. I had to dig deep to figure out which was correct, and I finally found it in a 2002 Journal Record article. The donation to the stadium project was $12 million, and $50 million is the total given by the Gaylords to the University during that period, including the $22 million for the new journalism building. Since Google returns conflicting references, I tried to make it clear that both numbers are correct in their own way. KrakatoaKatie 00:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)