Talk:2006 Texas Longhorns football team
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[edit]Hi
The article is over 500kb in size. 290kb of that is the references.
Can someone perhaps try and cut these down a bit ?? For example is there any need to have:-
- 5 refs to say "one of the most anticipated college football games of the regular season"
- 8 refs to say " It is still the largest high-definition video screen in collegiate sports"
- 4 refs to say "We do not teach this type of play or condone it."
In the main text there are many double and triple refs which are completely unecessary.
WP:MOS states at least one ref per para and, while not condoning cutting down to that level, it seems that many of the refs are really superfluous.
Chaosdruid (talk) 22:26, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
- The article is similar in size to 2005 Texas Longhorns football team, which is a Featured Article on Wikipedia and that means it is considered to be one of the very best, most comprehensive, and best-referenced articles on Wikipedia. We should aspire to get this article to that same standard. Regarding the specific items you question, all 3 of these are controversial questions. In the first case, the references would certainly be needed to support the claim, else someone might say the fact needs to be removed if it was simply an opinion from one sportswriter. In the second case, there are multiple ways to measure screen-size, and multiple claims made about what screen is bigger, etc. It is important to state that this is not the biggest screen, but only the biggest screen in college sports. Multiple references nails this down. In the third case, it is important to note whether the type of play is sanctioned by the school or not. Johntex\talk 19:55, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
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