Talk:West Georgia Wolves football

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 10:52, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that the West Georgia Wolves football team won 13 games in 13 years before folding, but upon returning two decades later, compiled consecutive undefeated regular seasons and became national champions? Source: 13 games (note that the source says 14 years, but that is a mistake - the team played from 1946 through 1958 - 13 years) - multiple sources, e.g. [1] / [2], for the consecutive undefeated regular seasons and national championship
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bajroqi Miⱨnat & Template:Did you know nominations/Manor Lords

Created by BeanieFan11 (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 154 past nominations.

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BeanieFan11 (talk) 15:29, 4 April 2024 (UTC).

• Long enough, just about new enough (were you also holding out for the end of backlog mode?). All paras cited. No maintenance templates found, no neutrality issues found. I don't see 1946 or 1958 in the cited source. This nomination dates from before backlog mode ended, so you need two QPQs.--Launchballer 16:04, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
  • Holding out for the end of the backlog mode? No, not that. (It stopped?) More like that I need a good bit of time because the backlog mode has significantly hindered my ability to do them on a timely basis. (This userbox describes me well.) Sorry for any delay, although this is next on my to-do for QPQs, so I should be able to address this soon. BeanieFan11 (talk) 21:50, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Probably should have supplied an emoticon to go with that since I meant it as a joke. (I didn't nominate anything during backlog mode; prior to Neil Sean earlier on today, my last nomination was the gutterball Donna Taggart around 28 hours before backlog mode kicked in, and the only article I wrote during then was a cowrite started by someone else I had no hope of 5xing, so it's currently at GA.) Backlog mode ended around 22 hours ago (see WT:DYK); nominations before then are still liable for two. Take your time; I review oldest first and this is it, so I'll review this as soon as you're done.--Launchballer 22:03, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

@Launchballer: I see . Anyways, I've completed the two QPQs. As for 1946-1958: this verifies 1958, while this verifies 1946. 46-58 is thirteen football seasons, and the Asbury Park Press mentions they only won 13 games in their initial history. BeanieFan11 (talk) 21:26, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Let's roll.--Launchballer 21:29, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

1948 Tobacco Bowl

Our article says "The following year they played in and won the 1948 Tobacco Bowl." This is technically true but misleading. According to the source, what they won was not the better-known Tobacco Bowl, which wasn't inaugurated until the next year, but rather "an event sponsored by Tifton businessmen in order to raise funds for a new recreation center." This sounds completely non-notable and IMO its inclusion makes the article weaker, both through confusion with the better-known Tobacco Bowl and because a "bowl victory" generally implies a certain degree of overall success that a win in a local exhibition game does not. So I suggest we just remove this sentence and its source entirely. -Elmer Clark (talk) 16:55, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

• Done. BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:19, 23 April 2024 (UTC)