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[edit] your edits to Template:UnivSysGa

I have rolled back your changes because they are not factually correct. Per the University System of Georgia, the governing body of said universities, Georgia Southern is still a regional university. They have made the Doctoral/research category arbitrary standard for the US News ranks but that does not change their status in the USG. Additionally, Valdosta State is also a Regional University. See the map for more [1] --Jerm (Talk/ Contrib) 17:20, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania in Atlanta!

Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!

P.S. While this is a template for maximum efficiency, I would appreciate a note on my talk page so I know you got the message, and what you think. This is time-sensitive, so your urgent cooperation is appreciated. :) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 09:14, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimaina Atlanta

Hello, Thank you for volunteering to be a part of the Atlanta Wikimaina bid southeast team. We are holding meetings weekdays at 7:30pm EDT in #wikimania-atlanta on irc.freenode.org. For more information about IRC see m:Wikimania_2008/Bids/Atlanta/IRC. If you are able to make it, that would be great.

We now also have Google group for coordinating this bid. To get updates on the bid and our progress, please join the Google Groups mailing list at Google Groups wikimania-atlanta.

There is also a group on the social networking site Facebook in which interested parties can express their support for the bid.

If you do not wish to continue to receive these notifications about the bid or would rather they go to a talk page on a different project please change m: Wikimania_2008/Bids/Atlanta/Notify_list --Cspurrier 22:26, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2007 Texas A&M Aggies football team

Hi Dawg1279. I noticed you removed the team rankings from the schedule. I initially thought the same thing you did when another user added them, but it turns out it's better to leave the ranks on there — readers can get an idea of the difficult games ahead. Without any ranks, it can imply that the teams aren't ranked. ESPN, in fact, does it this way. The rankings will have to be updated each week, though, which I wouldn't have a problem of doing. I'll take this to the College football Wikiproject so that all season articles can start doing this. What do you think? BlueAg09 (Talk) 17:53, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2007 Connecticut Huskies football team

I'm not sure what the reasoning is, and i'm not arguing, but I feel that as long as a team is recieving votes in either the AP or Coaches poll, that their rank is relivent. It shows that the team is on the verge of cracking the top 25, and that they are garnering respect on a national level. If the rankings were being taken from the top 120 polls, then I could see a justification, but as long as the team is recieving votes, I don't see a reason why a rank other than 1-25 is not relivent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigblue1222 (talk • contribs) 03:10, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Thats fine, and thank you. I don't know why it's a big deal if the people who primarily maintain the page are willing to update it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigblue1222 (talk • contribs) 05:16, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] cfb link template

Is it policy to change the {{cfb link}} to the precise link once the team's season page has been established? I didn't see the harm in leaving them on the 2007 Cincinnati Bearcats football team schedule and it seemed safer to leave the template in case a season article got deleted for whatever reason. Hoof Hearted 17:11, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl

For the past month, I've been working on the 2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl article. I've brought it up to GA status and am now working on making it a featured article. Since you're a 'Dawg, and the article deals with the Georgia Bulldogs football team, I'd really appreciate it if you could take a swing by the nomination and leave any suggestions or support you might have. Thanks! JKBrooks85 03:33, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2007 Georgia Bulldogs football

An article that is just cut and pasted from its actual source probably isn't a good article. For one, every game featured the phrase "on Saturday" in it. The OK State game was no longer last Saturday. It was three months ago. Aside from that, the awkward dotted separation was bad and it wasn't too neutral to say the least ("Georgia coach Mark Richt came up with another motivational gimmick for Auburn, and this one worked just as well as the end zone celebration against Florida....Of course, it didn't hurt having Matthew Stafford and Knowshon Moreno"). It's just very poorly written, but I won't delve into it anymore. -- Saget53 (talk) 20:37, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FAC Help requested

I've been working on the article for Georgia's last bowl game — the 2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl — and have submitted it for a featured article review. If you've got the time to run through the article and leave comments and/or support at the FAC page, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks! JKBrooks85 21:47, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject College football December 2007 Newsletter

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[edit] WikiProject College football January 2008 Newsletter

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue II - January 2008
Project news
  • Between November and December 2007, over 1,000 articles were added to Wikiproject College Football by editors, bringing the total number of articles in the project to 4,415.
  • The college football article Chris Jessie has been nominated for deletion. Editors are encouraged to visit the talk page and vote for or against the deletion.
  • Administrators are cracking down on fair-use images, including logos, on college football articles. If you use a bowl game, team, conference, or other logo in your article, be sure to provide a fair use rationale on the image page.
  • An article on the 2007 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team is needed to complete coverage of Top 25 teams during the 2007 season.
  • The 2007-2008 bowl season is wrapping up. Editors are encouraged to create and expand individual bowl game articles as well as base articles about the bowl games in general.
  • 2006 Oklahoma Sooners football team failed its Featured Article Candidacy. Editors are encouraged to visit the talk page and help improve the article to Featured status.
  • Several articles have open peer reviews, and editors are needed for comment. Consider visiting an open peer review and leaving comments.
  • Aggie Bonfire, a Wikiproject College Football Featured Article, appeared on the front page of Wikipedia on December 22.
  • 2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl, a Wikiproject College Football Featured Article, appeared on the front page of Wikipedia on December 31.
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[edit] Invitation

I'd like to invite you to join the new task forces proposed in the Georgia WikiProject. We are currently looking for new members to join our proposed task forces and work groups. With your help we can make it one of the best WikiProjects. Remember cooperative works can do amazing things. Regards Absolon S. Kent (talk) 20:42, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject College football February 2008 Newsletter

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue III - February 2008
Project news
  • After a discussion to establish consensus, the "importance" criteria in the College football project banner has been removed. Editors cited the fact that writers rarely use the criteria when improving articles, and that many articles lacked the criteria, causing unnecessary work.
  • Editors are encouraged to watch the project talk page and Featured Article Candidates for potential College Football featured articles. Several featured articles have failed to make it past the nomination stage due to a lack of comments -- both positive and negative. Due to the fact that college football is a niche subject on Wikipedia, fewer editors are likely to comment on college football nominations, making it even more important for Wikiproject members to contribute.
  • User:BetacommandBot adds College football project banners to over 10,000 articles, bringing the total number of articles in the project to nearly 15,000. Editors are now needed to assess uncategorized college football articles, and help has been requested on an as-available basis.
  • Template:Infobox CollegeFB Bowl was deleted following a deletion discussion, and was replaced by {{NCAAFootballSingleGameHeader}}.
  • The article Chris Jessee has been kept following a deletion discussion.
  • The article 1906 Auburn Tigers football team was nominated for deletion and kept. This deletion discussion, in addition to the discussion for the 1902 LSU Tigers football team, provide a precedence for keeping stub-length single-season articles, even if those articles only consist of the team's schedule and results for that season.
  • A hotly-debated discussion about the wording of team conference affiliations ended in agreement that teams "compete" in a conference if they fielded a team in that conference, regardless of the final standings.
  • Partially owing to the addition of most NFL player articles to the project, more Good Article-class articles were added to Wikiproject College Football in January than in any other month in the project's history. Keep up the good work!
  • With 45 Good Articles, this project now accounts for approximately 1.3% of all the good articles on Wikipedia!
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[edit] WikiProject College football March 2008 Newsletter (full contents)

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue IV - March 2008
Project news
  • SatyrBot is now delivering weekly updates to the Wikiproject College Football to-do list. Have a few minutes, but don't want to start a whole new article? Check out the to-do list and knock one or two items off. If everyone pitches in, it'll go a long way towards making Wikiproject College Football the best source for college football information on the Internet.
  • Gwguffey has created a series of navigation boxes for college football stadiums for every state in the United States. If you're creating an article about a new stadium or updating a current article about a stadium, be sure to include one. It'll make the page more useful to readers, and they look darn nice, too.
  • SatyrBot assessed approximately 4,300 previously-unassessed college football articles. There are still over 1,500 unassessed articles out there, so if you get a chance, feel free to lend a hand.
  • If it becomes necessary to use an archaic name for a university, link to the modern name and/or Wikipedia page. Example: Virginia Polytechnic Institute. This is particularly common in articles dealing with subjects prior to the separation of NCAA divisions in the 1970s. (Discussion)
  • A motion to create a Wikiproject High School Football has been brought up on the talk page.
  • Editors are reminded that any template that automatically includes a fair-use image (such as a university logo) will be automatically deleted by Wikipedia. Instead, create a general template that asks the user to select the logo rather than automatically including the logo inside the template.
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Welcome to the latest issue of the College football WikiProject newsletter! I hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of college football on Wikipedia, but if not, feel free to add your name to the "no delivery" section on the newsletter signup page.

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[edit] WikiProject College football April 2008 Newsletter (full contents)

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue V - April 2008
Project news
  • This month is spring practice season for most college football teams. Be sure to update your team's season article and grab a few pictures if you're lucky enough to be on hand for a spring game. Remember, even the worst picture of all is better than the picture that wasn't taken.
  • The number of College Football Good Articles being added to the project continues to grow. Nine new GAs were added in March, bringing the total of GAs produced this year to 29. At the current rate, the project will produce 116 GAs this year, nearly three times the number of GAs that were produced in the past two years. Keep up the great work!
  • With all the new GAs and FAs produced by the project, reviewers and commenters are continuously needed. Keep an eye on the project talk page, WP:FAC and WP:GAC for new college football articles to review and comment upon. Even one suggestion or support message goes a long way toward helping create a new Featured or Good Article.
  • Notre Dame Fighting Irish football under Tyrone Willingham and Skip Holtz need a Good Article review.
  • A discussion is ongoing about the possibility of creating a master team list for Division 1-AA, Division 2, Division 3, and NAIA football teams.
  • A discussion about article notability is ongoing on the project talk page. Editors are encouraged to participate.
From JKBrooks85

Welcome to the latest issue of the College football WikiProject newsletter! I hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of college football on Wikipedia, but if not, feel free to add your name to the "no delivery" section on the newsletter signup page.

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Comments and suggestions on improving the newsletter are always welcome, and help me improve it on a monthly basis. Keep contributing and editing, and don't hesitate to contact me or post on the College Football Wikiproject talk page if you need help or just want someone to look over your article.
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[edit] WikiProject College football May 2008 Newsletter

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue VI - May 2008
Project news
From JKBrooks85

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[edit] WikiProject College football June 2008 Newsletter

The College football WikiProject Newsletter
Issue VII - June 2008
Project news
  • There's still more than two months until the 2008-2009 college football season kicks off, but that's no reason to stop editing! Plenty of historical articles, such as past bowl games, need to be written, and editors are always needed to update teams' season articles. Don't fall into the summer malaise — check out the to-do list on the Wikiproject College football talk page.
  • Wikiproject College Football recently created its first featured topic, ACC football championship games. Featured topics are collections of good- or featured-level articles, and represent the apex of featured content on Wikipedia. If you have multiple good or featured articles that can be connected by a common topic or article, consider submitting them as a featured article. There are currently very few featured topics and even fewer sports featured topics.
  • Several NAIA coaches' articles (ex. Ronald Beard) were nominated for deletion, but were rescued by editors.
  • Paul McDonald has created a formal draft of notability requirements for college football articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject College Football/Notability. This is an updated draft of the older proposed guidelines and goes into far more detail. All editors of college football articles are requested to examine the document and leave comments or suggestions. If implemented, it will affect future AfD discussions dealing with college football articles.
  • The College Football Portal needs more pictures scheduled. Do you have a great picture that illustrates the best of college football? Consider adding it to the featured image queue on the portal.
From JKBrooks85

Welcome to the latest issue of the College football WikiProject newsletter! I hope that you're enjoying regular updates about the goings on of college football on Wikipedia, but if not, feel free to add your name to the "no delivery" section on the newsletter signup page.

I encourage everyone to make regular visits to the College Football Portal and perhaps make it your Wikipedia entry page instead of using the Main Page as your gateway. Nominations for selected articles and pictures are always welcome, and can serve as a great way to show off that new article you just shepherded to Good Article status or the great picture you took the last time you were at a game.

Comments and suggestions on improving the newsletter are always welcome, and help me improve it on a monthly basis. Keep contributing and editing, and don't hesitate to contact me or post on the College Football Wikiproject talk page if you need help or just want someone to look over your article.
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