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2008–09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

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I've listed this article for peer review because it is a prospective WP:FAC article in need of fine tuning.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:38, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ruhrfisch comments: I don't write sports articles so I may not know style issues here. I will read this and comment as I go along. Here are some suggestions for improvement.

Per WP:MOS#Images, text should not be sandwiched between images (lead has two images sandwiching it, one in the infobox).
- O.K.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:27, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Seems a bit WP:OVERLINKed to have links to college basketball and basketball in consecutive sentences (in the lead)
- O.K.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:27, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
tied for 7th - per the MOS, spell out numbers less than ten, so shouldn't it be tied for seventh? It is spelled out as seventh in the next sentence
- Thanks.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:31, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Second paragraph says this was their first trip back to the NCAA tournament since 1998 twice in three sentences
- Rearranged.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:38, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Watch verb tense - most of this is in the past tense, but some is in present tense which reads oddly. Since the season is over, shouldn't it all be in past tense? See The team was in its first year off of scholarship probation following the scandal but continues [continued?] to be prohibited from affiliating with implicated athletes (Chris Webber, Robert Traylor, Maurice Taylor, and Louis Bullock) until 2012, which means [meant?], among other things, that the players can [could?] not help the University recruit.[12][13]
- O.K.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:32, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This needs a copyedit - example Head coach, John Beilein, was in his second season with the team during the season.[15] How about something like John Beilein was in his second season as head coach with the team during 2008-2009.[15]?
- Update progress.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:44, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The first section after the lead has a gallery and four tables before it has any text?? I would have some sort of introductory text on the team roster (a paragraph or two). It also seems odd to have a whole table devoted to one player (see Mid-season transfer) - could this be converted to text? I am also not sure why the recruiting class for the the next year is listed in this section (again this may be where SPorts MOS says to put it, but this reads like an introduction and I think of the recruits as more of a legacy).
- These tables are new technology in a sense. None of the four college football team articles at GA use them and only one of two FAs use them. It is really hard to say what proper usage is. However, I concede the one FA has preceding text. I will do something about this problem.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:32, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - OK, my point was more that I got to this point and thought, Oh this is a list, not an article. Intro text would help, making the one person table into text would help, and moving the recruiting class for the next season to somewhere else would also help. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 19:07, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - I have rearranged a lot of the text based on your feedback and the organization of 2007 USC Trojans football team, which is the only FA that currently uses these templates.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:38, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
In Preview, when was the preseason (dates)? What was the team record in it? I am pretty sure it is spelled "preseason" (not "pre season")
- College sports are not like professional sports with formal preseasons. Instead the play games outside of their conference early in the season in what is sometimes referred to as a preconference schedule. Thus, preseason means before any games are played in the college athletics context. Michigan did play one exhibition basketball game, which is probably about standard. This game is not referred to as preseason, but rather exhibition.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:21, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thanks, I assumed these were all preseason exhibition games - if they count towards their season win-loss record, aren't they part of the season? Can a sentence or two explaining this better be added? Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 19:07, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - Have you noticed the detail in the 2008–09_Michigan_Wolverines_men's_basketball_team#Schedule section? Is further explanation necessary?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:52, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      - The headers seem clearer now - Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 15:13, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
What does RV mean in the Rankings table? Probably not a big RV like John Madden drives?
- fixed.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:50, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I would link the univerities in Coaches Vs. Cancer Classic tournament regional in which they defeated Michigan Tech and Northeastern at Crisler Arena
- O.K.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:43, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
More awkwardness When a January 20 loss to Penn State extended the losing streak extended to three games,[72] a January 24 victory over Northwestern could not keep them among the votegetters in the polls.[73][74] Try printing this out and reading it out loud slowly
- Rm extra word.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 16:07, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The actual article sections about their season and postseason are quite brief - I was expecting more somehow.
- The article is 12KB of readable prose. I could expand the article, but I am not sure how much a reader looking for this topic really wants to read.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:58, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Not supoer clear what this means - also a one sentence paragraph - could it be combined with others to improve flow? Finally the last clause seems to me to need a ref (probably move the ref to the end of the sentence?) Of the three ranked teams at the end of February that Michigan has played twice (Duke, Illinois and Purdue),[92] Michigan has split the two games against each opponent, winning against each at home. I think it means something like Michigan played two games each against three teams that were nationally ranked at the end of February (Duke, Illinois, and Purdue). The Wolverines won one of the two games against each opponent, and each vitory was at home.
- I think it is fixed now.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 16:59, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think it might help to explain that the BigTen and NCAA tournaments are both single loss elimination tournaments.
- Done.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:12, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:23, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]