Talk:2015–16 College Football Playoff

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Review: December 23, 2024. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from 2015–16 College Football Playoff appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 January 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Alabama and Clemson played each other in the championship game of the second and third College Football Playoffs?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2015–16 College Football Playoff.

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GA Review

Passed.
Well done PCN02WPS. Cos ^{(X + Z)} 16:36, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:2015–16 College Football Playoff/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: PCN02WPS (talk · contribs) 00:47, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: CosXZ (talk · contribs) 20:21, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable, as shown by a source spot-check. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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Stable?

Yes Cos ^{(X + Z)} 20:21, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio?

Earwig shows a 3.8% due to simple phrases such as "the top four teams". Cos ^{(X + Z)} 20:21, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

sources are styled well.
all sources are reliable except for [32] which is a blog.
~~doing a spot check of all the sources in 4 rounds.~~ This passes.

Round 1

[9].Y
[27].Y
[17].Y
[39].Y
[15].Y
[7].? can't access
[8].? Source says Baylor was No. 4 not No. 6.

In case you're still wanting an answer to this, Baylor was No. 4 in the AP poll but No. 6 in the CFP poll; the newspaper is using the AP but this article uses CFP rankings. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 23:18, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promoting. Cos ^{(X + Z)} 16:34, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[13].Y
[6].Y

Prose

and Iowa rise to No. 6 following an eight-point win at Indiana. "rise" --> "rose".
- Fixed. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 23:17, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 21:51, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]