Talk:1925 Michigan Wolverines football team/GA1

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 11:12, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Grabbing this to review shortly. Miyagawa (talk) 11:12, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, finally remembered to do this review at a time when I was actually using the computer!

Images: Fantastic set of images, stuff that writers of even modern season articles can only dream of. All good licences, and appropriately placed.
Lead: Could you somehow edit the sentence beginning "Michigan compiled a record of 7–1..." or the previous sentence, just so that the word "Michigan" isn't placed at the end of one sentence then immediately afterwards at the start of the following one. Re-order the arguments in a sentence, or use a different phrase to indicate Michigan etc. It just looks repetitive as it is.
Could you add that Yost replaced Little, having previously coached Michigan prior to the 1924 season? Having read the relevant section of the article, I find that the lead gives the impression that this was his 24th continuous season as head coach.
Pipe a link from All-Americans to All-America
Can you give some brief context in the lead as to who Jeff Sagarin is?
Before the season: Pipe a link to University of Wisconsin–Madison at the mention of the University of Wisconsin
You might also want to add in the mention of Yost previously coaching the team, and find something to cite that 24 season point in the lead (although add it to the body of the article and cite it there, don't cite the lead).
Schedule: Seeing as none of the times are completed, can that column be removed?
Michigan state: Can something more be said in the caption to the George Babcock image?
"Michigan opened the 1925 season on October 3, 1925," - you can drop the second 1925, as it's inherent.
I wouldn't go linking every general football/university terms but it would be handy to do some of them for those readers not quite up to speed on the terminology. I'd link sophomore for example, but I wouldn't bother with more well known terms such as quarterback etc.
Link The New York Times.
Final paragraph: Delink Oosterbaan and Gilbert as they're linked to in the previous paragraph, and remove the first names as well to match the formatting on the others. I can see there's more than one Babcock, so you're right to keep using the full names there.
Having just read the Indiana section, you need to go through and copy edit all those links to remove the duplicates per WP:REPEATLINK. I advise installing that piece of javascript recommended there, as it highlights where the duplicates are. For example, you've probably linked to Bennie Friedman about 12 times.
at Wisconsin: Section title needs to be capitalised per MOS:SECTIONCAPS - same with at Illinois and at Northwestern. The section titles use sentence case, so even though "at" would normally be lower case in this context, even where a sentence began with it, it'd still be capitalised.
Where you say "defeated Wisconsin", pipe a link through to Wisconsin Badgers football for Wisconsin
at Illinois: Again, link to the relevant football team, and in the following sections (otherwise these bullets will get repetitive!). The repeatlink policy allows for them to be linked both in the tables and in the body of the article. (you've already done it for Minnesota)
Navy: Pipe a link to Annapolis, Maryland, and link to Chicago Daily Tribune
Northwestern: Can something be added to the image caption rather than just identifying the player?
Ohio State: Does Wendler have a first name? (as he hasn't been mentioned previously)
Minnesota: Link Associated Press
Controversy: Pipe a link to Tear gas for "tear bombs"
Individual honors: Need a cite for "The "Meyer Morton Award" went to Ray Baer."
Varsity letter winners: There's an issue with the rows for Gregory and Puckelwartz. I haven't checked the coding, but perhaps a blank column is missing in each.
aMa letter winners: Put a comma after Domhoff before the cite.
Cite #3, 6, 8, 12, 28, 29, 46, 60 through 62 : Needs access dates
Cite #9, 11, 33, 74 through 76: These should be included as a further Notes section rather than a citation (since they're comments rather than citations). If you don't know how to do this, then let me know and I'll copy the code from one of my articles. Then when you need to do it in other works, you can copy it out of this.
Cite #21, 26, 34, 63, 64, 65: Newspapers should be in italics
Cite #66 is throwing an access date error.

That's the lot. Ping me back when you are ready for me to take another look. Placing on hold for the standard 7 days. Miyagawa (talk) 10:51, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much @Miyagawa:. I have tried to fulfill all your requirements, but I should mention this article is mostly the work of the fine @Cbl62:. I concur on the images - the running interference in the Navy game and Oosterbaan blocking vs. ~~Ohio State~~ Minnesota are both fantastic. Some newspapers were not in italics because Cbl put them as "publisher" rather than "work" or "newspaper". The error was also made on a few journals. Cake (talk) 18:32, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@MisterCake: Brilliant. The only outstanding issue I can spot is that some of those bits under notes now require citations themselves. Miyagawa (talk) 19:05, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I note those have now all been added, so happy to promote this to GA. Good job, and an interesting read too! Miyagawa (talk) 08:09, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]