Talk:Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball/GA1

GA Review

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Hello. I will be doing the GA review of this article. Here are some suggestions for improvement:

• The biggest thing that jumped out at me was the incorrect dash usage. See WP:DASH for more information.
  • It hurt my head to fix, but it's now done.
• "Legendary coach John Kundla" - try to avoid peacock terms such as these
  • Done.
• For Image:Mchale by lipofsky.jpg, which one is McHale? A caption like "McHale (center) as a member of the NBA's Boston Celtics" would be better, IMO.
  • Done.
• In "Scandal under Haskins", the bulleted list of stripped records/banners breaks up the flow of the text. It might be better to end the paragraph with "They agreed with the University that massive fraud took place under Haskins' watch, and stripped the Gophers of all awards and titles dating back to the 1993-94 season citing a "lack of institutional control".[51]" and make a table (that resembles the retired jersey number one higher on the page) to the side with the title "Stripped banners and records" (or something similar). Thoughts?
  • I like it. Gives the article some more variation. Done.
• "Nevertheless, when the NCAA discovered Thompson's act, Minnesota's record for the season was forfeited. so as was the case 20 years later in 1997, the accomplishments of that season are considered unofficial and not included in NCAA records." - two problems here. 1) the period and incomplete sentence 2)there needs to be a source stating the records are unofficial
• The Barn doesn't need to be bolded. See MOS:BOLD.
  • Done.
• Results by season table - can it be set to default hide, that way someone who wants to see it can press show (instead of the other way around?)
  • I think this is a good idea. I'm not very good with coding, but I'll look into it and see if I can figure it out.
• A lot of the references are the same and can be combined. Ex: 16 and 17; 28 and 29; etc
  • Done.
• Also in the references, quite a few of the web references are incorrectly formatted and the web addresses are visible. Using Template:cite web will fix the problem.
  • Done.

That's it for now. The article will be on hold for seven days for improvements. Nikki311 18:35, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

• • Thanks for all of your comments! I'll do my best to address them over the next few days. matt91486 (talk) 20:43, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
    • All looks good. I'm sure there is a way to fix the coding, but I'm not sure what it is. Not a big deal, though, so PASS. Great work. Nikki311 00:10, 5 October 2008 (UTC)