User:Kithira/Sandbox/CFProposals

I've been browsing some of the Division I conference pages lately, and the format of the conference facilities sections is very inconsistent. I thought I'd sound out a couple of ideas on normalizing the sections and hear people's thoughts on them. Feel free to leave your comments within the below subsections or to add new sections or options.

Naming

What should the name of each conference page's facilities section be?

• Option #1: Change section names to simply "Facilities," as the "conference" in "Conference facilities" is implied (see, for example, Conference USA#Facilities).
• Option #2: Change section names to "Conference facilities," which better reflects that the table includes only school venues used for conference-sponsored sports (see "Single-sport members" below).

Order of section within article

Where in the article should the facilities section go?

• Option #1: Move sections below the sections on individual sports, but above sections such as "Championships," "Media," and "Hall of Fame." This option assumes a reader is more likely to seek information about conference history/membership/sports than facilities. (see, for example, Mid-American Conference#Facilities).
• Option #2: Move sections towards the top of the article, in the "Membership" section. This is where most tables of individual school data are found. (see, for example Atlantic Coast Conference#Facilities).

Order of sports within facilities section

In the table of the facilities section, in what order should the sports go?

• Option #1: Order sports by their importance, something like football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer. This option puts first what the reader is most likely looking for. However, would the order of importance be the same for each conference? For example, Big 10 hockey, when it arrives, is surely more important than Big 10 baseball. Ivy League#Athletic facilities is another place where order would have to be sorted out.
• Option #2: Order the sports alphabetically (baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer), thus avoiding any worries about ranking the sports.
• Option #3: Order the sports chronologically, so to speak. By the order of the seasons in the academic year, we'd have football, soccer, basketball, hockey, baseball, thus avoiding having to rank the sports.

Sports not sponsored by conference

If a conference does not sponsor a sport, should a column for that sport still be included if some of the conference's schools participate in other conferences?

• Option #1: Include the column. With football, for example, mark "Football stadium" and "Capacity" as they are, with a footnote saying that the schools' football teams participate in other conferences (see, for example, America East Conference#Conference facilities).
• Option #2: Include the column. With football, for example, mark "Football Stadium" as "See other conference."
• Option #3: Include columns only for sports sponsored by the conference (see, for example, Atlantic Sun Conference#Conference facilities).

Single-sport members

How should single-sport members, in football and otherwise, be included?

• Option #1: Give single-sport members a marked-off section at the bottom of the facilities table, listing only the venues of the conference sport in which they compete (see, for example, Colonial Athletic Association#Conference facilities).
• Option #2: Include single-sport members in the table, listing only the venues of the sport in which they compete (see, for example, Big East Conference#Sports facilities).

Leaving/future members

• Option #1: Denote departing members with a pink background. Have a separate section at the bottom of the table marked "Future Members" with the incoming schools' facilities (see, for example, Big East Conference#Sports facilities).
• Option #2: Denote departing schools with a pink background and incoming schools with a gray background (see, for example, Southland Conference#Facilities).