Template talk:CFB standings entry

Symbols lost

Which symbols were lost, how were they lost, and where were they lost? Alakzi (talk) 07:35, 24 August 2015 (UTC) Fixed. Alakzi (talk) 07:40, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

support of empty Overall W-L-T data

I have source material which provides Conference W-L-T results, but not Overall W-L-T results, see Template:1920 SCIAC football standings. Teams without Overall W-L-T data are pulling the Conference "T" data to the right and into the Overall "W" column. Not good.

I've reviewed my markup and think the issue is within the template handling of empty W-L-T data, requiring Overal W-L-T to be populated in order to render the full row as expected. There is a nominal workarond of using 3 " " which renders as " - - " that succeeds in aligning the data, but is visually odd. In my view, the ideal resolution would be to allow the final three paramaters to be empty and that case result in not rendering two hard-coded dashes.

Can someone review both my markup and this use case in context to updating the template coding? Thank you, UW Dawgs (talk) 22:54, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Seems to be a pre-existing and genearalized issue, per List of Division I FBS independents football standings and List of NCAA Division I FCS football independents standings, where we have both "0" for conference games which didn't occur and dashes unpaired with results. UW Dawgs (talk) 18:18, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 20 August 2018

Can the national championship # sign be moved to the end after the CFP participant ^ sign? It looks strange to list the champion and then participant, seems like it would make more sense to list the participation first, then the championship. Zaqwert (talk) 08:39, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Zaqwert, your request has sat unanswered for a few days even while every other request in the queue has been answered. I'll give you my reasons for not carrying out your request - which may not be the reason that others have passed on the chance to carry it out.

 Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit template-protected}} template. - the request is based entirely on your view. It's just as valid to argue that winning the championship is more significant than mere participation and should be mentioned first. A discussion, advertising it neutrally at WT:CFB, is necessary.

I never viewed the ordering of these notations as a matter of significance, I was thinking about it more of a logical sequence of events in the timeline. You first participate, you then win. I think everyone would agree winning is more significant than participating, but to me it makes more logical sense to note participation, then a victory. If you have first already mentioned you won something, noting you participated is almost redundant. I would make the change in the sandbox, but I don't really know how to edit templates.

 Not done: please make your requested changes to the template's sandbox first; see WP:TESTCASES.

I would make the change in the sandbox, but I don't really know how to edit templates.

Hope that helps, Cabayi (talk) 09:36, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Yeah I answered all the other requests but skipped this mainly for the first reason of consensus. Not entirely a major change though Galobtter (pingó mió) 12:30, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Galobtter, having recently had to revert someone's template edit which had skipped the sandbox, I'm keeping to the safety-first end of the bravery scale rather than the hubristic. Cabayi (talk) 16:33, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

National Champion character is missing

Per History, the hash-tag that symbolizes the national champion disappeared from this template, making it invisible in all articles in which this template is used, for example 2011 Southeastern Conference football season. I am not allowed to edit this template. Would someone who is allowed please restore the "natl-champ" to working condition with a valid character. It seems the original hash-tag "#" character caues issues with the parser because it is a special character. Thanks Truthanado (talk) 16:12, 4 April 2020 (UTC)