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Great work! I especially like the well-documented instructions for filling in the template. Johntex\talk 20:42, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I do too... ;). I'd really appreciate some help in adding these to all of the bowl pages. USA Today recently had an article with the bowl payouts, so I can add those, but needless to say, this is too big of a job for just one person. Anyone who has a bit of free time is welcome to help. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 00:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You can help!

Thanks for all who helped in adding this template to current bowl games. Now, we have defunct bowl games yet to do. Unless it is connected to a specific conference, no all-star games should have this template. If you find any all-star games in the following list, please remove them. Once you have completed adding this template to the following articles, please remove them from the list.

Thanks in advance for those who help! If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 07:17, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Various Questions

  • What level of sponsorship should be added to the infobox? Only sponsors with naming rights? The manual isn't clear as to which level to use.
  • "2006 Matchup" -- should this read "2007" for games in January? It is currently inconsistent with what the manual says to use for the "years" variable.
It's an awesome infobox! X96lee15 04:38, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm confused as to your first question, and your second question has been corrected in the template. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 07:20, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New version of this template

A new version of this template is up for review at User:Nmajdan/Collegebowl. Most fields remain the same but there are more optional fields. The biggest different is the new on has better Wiki-markup and also adds fields for the previous year's bowl game and the next bowl game. Please let me know what you think. If it is decided to switch, it should not take much effort to update the articles with the template to the new format. Another ongoing discussion here.--NMajdan•talk 14:55, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Ok, the template has been updated and I'm currently working on updating all the articles with the new table. The main change is converting 'this_years_matchup' to 'next_matchup_teams' along with the other new fields. One issue I've came across. In the previous matchup, the score wikilinks to the specific game article. In the next matchup, the date wikilinks to the specific game article. It gets this from the year specified and {{PAGENAME}}. Well, on the article that are more than just the name of the bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl Game and Cotton Bowl (game)), the links to the specific game get messed up. So instead of linking to 2007 Rose Bowl, they link to 2007 Rose Bowl Game or 2007 Cotton Bowl (game). What I've done to get around this is just create a redirect to the appropriate articles. Let me know if you notice any other issues.--NMajdan•talk 17:47, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Looks great, thanks for your help! If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 18:12, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Ok, all articles that currently link to the revised template have been updated.--NMajdan•talk 19:00, 19 December 2006 (UTC)