Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football/Style Guide/Head coaches list

Tooltip

Would it help using the {{tooltip}} template instead of the legend at the top? I recently discovered this template while looking at the 2010 FIFA World Cup articles.  –Nav  ^{talk to me or sign my guestbook} 19:31, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

No. Generally, any use of tooltip will get shot down during a Featured nomination as tooltip violates WP:ACCESS since tooltips are inaccessible to those using screenreaders or other disability aids.—NMajdan•talk 22:03, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Checklist

I have put together a check list that I usually go through myself before nominating a list like this for FL. I've providing it here for any other editors.

• Lead
  • Is the lead long enough (at least roughly 1,500 characters)?
  • Does the lead begin with the standard: "The <school> football program is a college football team that represents the <University> in the <Division> of the <Conference> in the National Collegiate Athletic Association."?
  • Does the lead include coaches that have won bowl games?
  • Does the lead include coaches that have won conference and national championships?
  • Does the lead contain the number of games the school has played and the number of seasons?
  • Does the lead include coaches that have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame?
  • Does the lead contain basic information on the conferences the school has played in?
  • Does the lead contain a summary of the coaches with:
    • the most games coaches
    • the most years coached
    • the most total wins
    • the highest winning percentage (if this coach only served one season, consider including the coach with the highest winning percentage that coaches more than one season)
    • the lowest winning percentage
  • Does the lead include the coaches that have won coaching honors?
  • Does the lead contain the current head coach including the date (or month & year) the coach was hired (with citation)?
  • Does the lead contain an image of the current head coach? If no image is available, does the lead contain an image of any coach?
  • Does the image have appropriate alt text?
• Key
  • Does the key contain only items that are in the table headers?
  • Does the conference championship key contain a note that says when the school joined a conference?
  • Does the ties key contain a note that says when overtime rules were introduced (with citation)?
  • Does the winning percentage (O% typically) cintain a note that says how it is calculated?
• Coaches table
  • Do all columns sort correctly in multiple browsers (Safari has a sort bug, so it makes sense to always check it as well)?
  • Do all em dashed columns sort below 0 (meaning em dashes should sort below 0 when in descending order)?
  • Is the Award column unsortable?
  • If there is an interim coach, does it sort in the correct placement (after the coach replaced when in ascending order)?
  • Are all coaching awards that have Wikipedia articles linked?
  • Are all coaching awards sourced if not contained in the general reference?
  • Are en dashes (–) used to separate the year ranges and em dashes (—) in the empty columns?
  • If not using the {{Winning percentage}} template, do all winning percentages calculate correctly?
  • Do the Hall of Fame coaches:
    • have proper shading
    • have appropriate superscripted indicator (i.e. dagger)
    • are sourced from the HoF website
• Other
  • Are the references using the "references-small" div class?
  • Is there a consistent date format in all references?
  • Are all references using a consistent format, whether it be manual formatting or the cite templates?
  • Are all appropriate references archived using WebCitation (optional)?
  • Do all navigation templates transcluded at the bottom of the article contain a link to this list?
  • Are the appropriate categories included?

Hope it helps!—NMajdan•talk 15:28, 9 March 2010 (UTC)