Talk:1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Nazcheema (talk · contribs) 10:47, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Starting review. Please to contact me if there is anything else about the article I should know. Thank you. Regards, Naz | talk | contribs 10:47, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

On hold

I am placing the review on hold for seven days because I am having several issues and questions that are needing to be addressed. The article is very interesting, this must have been a fine team in its day. Please let me have action taken on or answers given to all the following points:

1. A source is needed for the SIAA football standings in the second infobox (top right).
2. What does the dagger represent after Rose Polytechnic in the schedule table?
3. McAfee Security condemns the College Football Data Warehouse used for the schedule table. A brief sight of the source shows that it does not contain all the information used in the table (e.g., the attendance figures). Such a site must be regarded as an unreliable source.
4. Throughout the article, there are many links which are indirect (e.g., Rose Polytechnic, Owsley Manier) and these should be made direct with piping used to define the title used in the article, instead of the reader having to go through a redirect.
5. The "Before the season" section is interesting but it says nothing at all about Vanderbilt's own pre-season situation or preparation. For example, what was Vanderbilt's situation after the 1905 season and how did they respond to the challenges?
6. I am confused by conflicting references to Vanderbilt Stadium as either Curry Field or Dudley Field. Again, this is one of the redirect problems as mentioned above.
7. Is "rough playing" an accepted term in the sport? I realise the source uses the term but if the source is wrong, we should not be transcribing their error. Should it be "rough play", for example?
8. Overlinking is a problem throughout, especially Dan Blake. The first instance only should be linked. Please to remove all superfluous linkages.
9. In the "Legacy" section, please explain who Joe Williams was.
10. Something is needed about what happened to the Vanderbilt team after the 1906 season. Many players must have been in their senior and final year. What was left of the 1906 team in 1907?

Thank you. Regards, Naz | talk | contribs 14:06, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the review. See here on sourcing the SIAA tables. On the hunt for a similar source this year. Both Vanderbilt and Clemson sources say the SIAA had 20 members in 1906. I've found 18 of them, including Duke (or Trinity) which did not play football. Also, the attendance numbers are sourced in the boxscores, though I could put those in the schedule too like e. g. here, if that doesn't clutter everything. Cake (talk) 03:27, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

@Cake, your amendments are seeming fine to me and for the purposes of this review I am thinking that enough has been done to be qualifying the article for GA status. I am therefore pleased to be granting a pass to a very good piece of work and am congratulating you personally for all of your efforts. Thank you, Cake. Regards, Naz | talk | contribs 06:30, 27 June 2016 (UTC)