Template talk:College football conference

Pacific-xx changes

Pacific-12 Conference is now Pac-12 Conference per Talk:Pac-12 Conference. After extensive edits, this template is the primary source of inbound links to the prior article location. And yes, explicitly WP:NOTBROKEN due to the current redirect behaviors.

Seen below are current template outputs and requested contextual changes:

College/Conf Years	Draft Years	Current Output	Desired Output	Link example	Usage Example
Dec 1915–Jun 1959	1916–1959	Unknown	[[Pacific Coast Conference|PCC]]	PCC	Unknown
Fall 1959–Spring 1968	1960–1968	[[Pacific-12 Conference |AAWU]]	[[Athletic Association of Western Universities|AAWU]]	AAWU	1966 American Football League draft
Fall 1968–Spring 1978	1969–1978	[[Pacific-12 Conference|Pac-8]]	[[Pacific-8 Conference|Pac-8]]	Pac-8	1978 NFL draft
Fall 1978–Spring 2011	1979–2011	[[Pacific-12 Conference|Pac-10]]	[[Pacific-10 Conference|Pac-10]]	Pac-10	2010 NFL draft
Fall 2011–	2012–	[[Pacific-12 Conference|Pac-12]]	[[Pac-12 Conference|Pac-12]]	Pac-12	2014 NFL draft

Cheers, UW Dawgs (talk) 19:52, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Done. I didn't realize the syntax what this straight-forward. UW Dawgs (talk) 06:17, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

NCCU

North Carolina Central University football has been in the MEAC since 2010. The template still has them as a D-II Independent. I tried to put this in myself but I kept breaking the template, and considering it's during the draft I decided to revert rather than continue to break the template. Could someone familiar with the syntax of this template fix this? Thanks. -Drdisque (talk) 20:39, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

2015 media guide pg 27 says Independent from 2007-10 and MEAC from 2011 onward. Updated accordingly. UW Dawgs (talk) 16:56, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Wagner

A player from Wagner (in the Northeast Conference) was drafted in the 6th round of the 2018 NFL Draft, and the conference is listed on the draft article as "N/A". Can someone add Wagner to this template? pʰeːnuːmuː →‎ pʰiːnyːmyː → ‎ɸinimi → ‎fiɲimi 23:05, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

 Done. Primefac (talk) 00:11, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 24 February 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved (closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 23:01, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

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Template:Cfb conf → Template:College football conference – I watch (and have edited) this template, and thus view it on a fairly regular basis. Even so, I still have issue remembering what this does just from the name. Rename would still allow for the shortcut to be used, but make it more obvious to someone seeing a watchlist notice (or email) which template is being edited. In other words, "make the template name more obvious" (Guideline #3). Primefac (talk) 21:08, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

• Support No reason for a cryptic name here. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 21:45, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Support the move. --Jeonghyeonseo (talk) 11:09, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

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New version

I have rewritten this template to use Module:College football conference, and the performance is about 4 to 5 times faster, which is significant for pages like 2006 NFL Draft (see this thread). the Module:College football conference/data and Module:College football conference/alias data modules should be fairly straightforward to understand. the module iterates through the year spans for each team and returns the first span that matches. if no span matches, it returns a long dash. if the school lookup doesn't work, it returns "N/A" (just as before). let me know if you see any problems. if for some reason these data modules become too large, we can split them alphabetically, like Module:Political party. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 21:39, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Tennessee

"Tennesee" (sic) is misspelt a couple of times in Module:College football conference/alias. I'm not sure whether this is deliberate to allow similar typos in the callers. Certes (talk) 20:58, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Big 6/7/8/MVIAA

There are some inconsistencies with the Big 8 Conference from 1928-1963. Yes I know the legal name was the MVIAA until that time. However, it was informally (Commonname Big 6/7/8 during that span. Colorado already links it as such. Shouldn't the rest of the schools follow suit?- UCO2009bluejay (talk) 08:25, 27 July 2023 (UTC)