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This review is for the GAC submitted on February 9, 2008. For the moment, the GAC is on hold.
This is a very nice piece of work, but there are a few minor changes I'd like to see before signing off on it. Once they're done, I'd suggest submitting the article for FAC.
There are also minor MoS issues, mainly dealing with date format, punctuation, and not wikilinking or explaining unique terms. In the Texas A&M section, for example, there is a date given with the day first. Commas are also needed after most dates. "On October 11, 2008, such-and-such happened."
The first sentence in the preseason section needs to be fixed.
I'd suggest changing the first section's name to Preseason or something along those lines — it's simply quicker than "Leading into the 2007 season", even if "preseason" doesn't precisely align with what football fans consider it.
Be sure to wikilink common football terms and positions, such as quarterback, sack, kickoff return, etc. on first reference. I've had that impressed on me many times during FAC review, and I'd suggest doing it now.
You've got a lot of prose, that, while nice, doesn't really belong in an article about Texas football. I really don't need to know about Arkansas State's history — If I want to find out about it, there's always a link to it. Just cut it out and paste it in the Arkansas State history. If it's already there, just delete it. I know it's really tough to delete something that took you a while to write and source, but ask yourself this question: Does this fact contribute to my understanding of why Texas football did what it did during the 2007 season?
Gimme a shout once you've fixed things, and I'll be happy to sign off on the article. I think the prose is a bit bulky, but the article is definitely worthy of a FAC once a few changes are made. JKBrooks85 ( talk) 04:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
1.a. Prose
*"Leading into the season" heading: I am changing the "Leading into the 2007 season" to "Before the season". That is shorter and seems to now be the preferred format according to the
Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/Yearly team pages format. "Pre-season" is not preferred because it is not a pre-season as found in other sports, referring to games that do not count in the standings.
*Fix first sentence in 'pre-season' section: - Done. This should have said, "Mack Brown became the head coach of the Texas Longhorns for the 1998 season."
References: - the multiple Aggie references are only used one time each; therefore they do not need to each have their own separate footnote. I combined them into one reference for the first sentence, and a second reference for the second sentence. This takes the numbers out of the text while still leaving the references accessible if anyone thinks we are talking smack about the Aggie coach. Does that seem suitable?
5.b. I removed both the rainbow pic and the Vince Young pic. I was never really that happy with the rainbow pic myself. I think it was one of the earliest ones I added and then found better ones later. As to the Vince Young pic, I am just slightly sad to see it go. It was the only game he attended in 2007 so it is really not that normal for him to be at the game. Plus, I find it slightly ironic that UT lost that game, and lost it badly. Never-the-less, we do have a lot of pictures so I defer to your judgment and removed it.
More soon... Johntex\ talk 07:05, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
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Here are some stats on article size for this article and for a few current FAs.
Article | As of | Previous month page views | Total size | Words | Readable text |
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Ronald Reagan (FA) | 21:35, 10 May 2008 (UTC) | 317,612 [2] | 132kb | 9,157 | 56.4kb [3] |
History of American football (FA) | 21:35, 10 May 2008 (UTC) | 22,123 [4] | 82kb | 7,908 | 48.1 kb [5] |
2005 Texas Longhorn football team (FA) | 21:35, 10 May 2008 (UTC) | 3,600 [6] | 142kb | 7,684 | 46.1kb [7] |
2007 Texas Longhorn football team | 21:35, 10 May 2008 (UTC) | 4,198 [8] | 195kb | 12,460 | 73.6kb [9] |
According to the guidelines at
WP:SIZE, this article is in the 60-100kb range so the guideline suggests the article "Probably should be divided (although the scope of a topic can sometimes justify the added reading time)". If we can get it below 60kb that should avoid any controversy. Of course, the prose has to be good. I'd rather read a well written 100kb article than a crappy 60kb one.
WP:SIZE also suggests that articles be less than 10,000 words. That would imply about a 25% reduction. Johntex\ talk 21:35, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
There's a few things I find myself changing repeatedly when copyediting:
I'm fixing most of these as I run across them, but the dead link checker really needs to be run. JKBrooks85 ( talk) 07:40, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Another important note: For the ESPN game recaps, you need to put the author as the Associated Press -- ESPN merely publishes the AP game recaps; they didn't actually write any of them, unless it's otherwise said in the byline. I just noticed it while doing the Nebraska trims. JKBrooks85 ( talk) 08:47, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
I have quickly looked over this article, and when I have more time I will look closer.
Moved in accordance with discussion on Talk:2008 Texas Longhorns football team. Strikehold ( talk) 22:26, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
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