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Contents 1 Football 2 Alumni section too long 3 notable programs 4 BGSU userbox and wikipedians category created 5 Fair use rationale for Image:BGSUFalcons.jpg 6 Maintenance tags

[edit] Football

It shouldn't be that hard to go from here to a list of rosters of Bowling Green football teams, but I've given up for the moment. Haven't tried other universities, but my dad says he played for Bowling Green. Hackwrench 00:18, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Check out the Football Database. Don't know if he played professionally at all, but if so, he might be on there with college listed. Otherwise, I don't immediately know a way to check, because the Official BGSU Football site only has an archive going back to 1999. Tstreet 02:09, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Instead of putting the rosters and other football items on this page, you should create more articles. We have a season "template" developed at the Wikipedia:WikiProject College football that you can use for a 2006 season page and you can look at other pages on what to put into pages like Bowling Green Falcons football and Bowling Green Falcons. Your head coach also needs a page Gregg Brandon. See Wikipedia:WikiProject College football/MasterTeamTable for links to other articles to use an an example. If you have questions you can ask me on my talk page or at the project. MECU≈talk 16:25, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alumni section too long

The list of notable alumni in this article is way too long. Please consider making a new article and moving most of this list into that article as we've done with other universities. --ElKevbo 21:08, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

I understand that the alumni list was quite long before, but having looked at other University wiki pages, I feel the changes made to it could have been made in a far better manner. BG's notable Olympians are not mentioned, nor is the fact that two of their hockey players were on the 1980 US "Miracle on Ice" Olympic hockey team, which I feel is more than worthy of mention. Tstreet (talk) 16:09, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] notable programs

bg, i know we have more notable programs than this. what about our photochemical sciences? org. development? -- brian, 17 march 2007

[edit] BGSU userbox and wikipedians category created

For those wikipedians who wish to identify themselves as attending or having attended BGSU, a userbox and category have been created.

Please see Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Bowling Green State University for instructions on how to add the userbox and/or alma mater category to your userpage. --Kralizec! (talk) 01:52, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:BGSUFalcons.jpg

Image:BGSUFalcons.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Maintenance tags

removed some citation tags due to requirements being met.--Bhockey10 (talk) 17:19, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

This article falls far short of Wikipedia's criteria. As I had already noted on your talk page the last time the templates were removed, please do not delete maintenance templates without actually fixing the issue. --Kralizec! (talk) 17:23, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

You removed more than just "citation tags" and those issues were clearly *not* addressed to I've replaced them. This article is in pretty poor shape and removing the maintenance templates noting that fact doesn't improve the article. --ElKevbo (talk) 17:24, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

ok I noticed all of those little citation needed tags were gone so I thought it was ok ElKevbo is correct- the article is in poor shape. for one, it's way too wordy.--Bhockey10 (talk) 17:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Examples of good university articles include Ohio Wesleyan University and Dartmouth College ... both of which have over 200 citations, as opposed to this article's eight. --Kralizec! (talk) 17:38, 22 February 2008 (UTC)