Talk:2009 International Bowl

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Featured article2009 International Bowl is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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DateProcessResult
May 15, 2010Guild of Copy EditorsCopyedited
July 4, 2010Good article nomineeListed
July 11, 2010Peer reviewReviewed
July 27, 2010Featured article candidatePromoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 23, 2010.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that 2009 International Bowl MVP Donald Brown (pictured) was the first Connecticut Huskies football player to be picked in the first round of the NFL Draft?
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GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:2009 International Bowl/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Wizardman Operation Big Bear 20:01, 25 June 2010 (UTC) I will review this tonight; my apologies for the delay. I may split it between tonight and tomorrow since this is a long article. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 20:01, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lead[edit]

  • "led by running back Donald Brown's 208 yards rushing, dominated the first half statistically," 208 yards in the half? Just making sure that's right, very impressive if true. Wizardman Operation Big Bear
    • That is indeed correct; here is another source for verification: [1]. –Grondemar 07:07, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Team selection[edit]

  • "The International Bowl contracted with the Big East and Mid-American Conferences to select teams to participate in their annual game." Contracted sounds a bit odd; reword.
    • I changed it to "The International Bowl had contracts with the Big East and Mid-American Conferences that allowed them to select one team from each conference to participate in their annual game." How does that sound? –Grondemar 02:12, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • "The two teams played each other for six consecutive seasons" in six.. sounds better I think.
  • Any of the "# yards" stuff needs a non breaking space, i.e. 27 yards. Why I'm not positive, but that's what it says to do.
    • I believe I have added non-breaking spaces wherever required; please let me know if I missed any. –Grondemar 02:55, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • "The Huskies easily won their first game 35–3 against FCS opponent Hofstra." Link FCS. I know it means Division I-AA, but others may not.
    • I had a note I was planning to add to the Notes section explaining FBS / FCS, but I keep getting Cite.php errors (see the linked revision). If you have any idea how to fix this error please let me know. –Grondemar 03:14, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • Strike the above, I see that they added an explanation to WP:FOOT of the bug; apparently the #tag workaround only works once with list-defined references. When I moved the note out of the LDRs, it worked fine. Hopefully they will fix that bug eventually. –Grondemar 03:31, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Link Temple in the following sentence, as well as other schools whose football programs weren't linked.
    • I didn't link Temple because they were previously linked in the Buffalo section; the Big East teams weren't linked because they were linked when I explained the bowl selection process above. Let me know if you still think they should be linked; I was trying to avoid WP:OVERLINKing. –Grondemar 03:14, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pregame buildup[edit]

  • "The turnaround of the Buffalo program brought kudos to Bulls head coach Turner Gill," kudos seems a bit informal.
    • I changed "kudos" to "acclaim"; that should be more formal. –Grondemar 12:41, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • "The Huskies allowed the 10th-fewest yards per game in the nation with 281 yards allowed" Any specific rankings for run and pass defense?
    • I'll work on pulling together those numbers and expanding the defense sections in general tonight. –Grondemar 12:45, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • I haven't found anything on run defense yet but I added a couple of sentences on the pass defense; let me know if that works. –Grondemar 02:36, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Game summary[edit]

  • "and punted the ball to Connecticut" link punt, and other terms that non-football fans may not get (i.e. sacked)
    • I believe I got them all; let me know if I missed any. –Grondemar 04:53, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • "and settled for a 38-yard Field goal" field goal doesn't need to be capitalized.
  • "UConn's turnover woes continued on their next possession, when on their second play from scrimmage after receiving Buffalo's kickoff Tyler Lorenzen was sacked," 'next possession when, on their...kickoff, Tyler'
  • "punting the ball back to UConn after three plays. The Huskies drove to within the Buffalo 10-yard line;" where'd the Huskies start from?
    • I added "Starting from their own 44-yard line,". –Grondemar 04:53, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Final stats/Aftermath[edit]

  • "with 2,083 rushing yards, best in the nation that year." 'Which led the nation' sounds better.
  • What position was Anthony Sherman?
    • Fullback. I didn't mention it initially in the passing section as his position is listed a couple of sentences before in the running section; I added the position for consistency. –Grondemar 04:58, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Misc.[edit]

  • I'm a bit confused as to the point of the group=" " in your references. It could probably be removed without harm unless there's something I'm not seeing. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 19:26, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Originally I placed the group=" " in the references to segregate them from the endnotes which had group="Note". After removing all the group=" " attributes the page rendered the same, so it turned out as you said that they were not needed. They have been removed. –Grondemar 14:16, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]


  • The review is finally done. I'll place this on hold, and will pass it when the final issues are fixed. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 04:48, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • I believe I have addressed all the issues above, let me know if there are any other changes desired. –Grondemar 05:00, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      Everything looks good now, so I'll pass the article as a GA. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 15:53, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      Thank you very much for the thorough review! –Grondemar 17:09, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Media[edit]

All the media seems fine with the exception of File:2009_International_Bowl_trophy.jpg at the very least it should be tagged with {{trademark}}, if the photograph was taken in the USA, it is potentially non-free per Template:Non-free 3D art, I am not aware of a similar restriction in Canada. Fasach Nua (talk) 05:01, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I will need to confirm with User:DoubleBlue (who took the photo), but I believe the trophy photo was taken from the floor of the Rogers Centre during the game, therefore in Canada. Thanks for the review! –Grondemar 17:09, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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