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	Ohio Stadium was one of the Everyday life good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones Date Process Result October 25, 2007 Good article nominee Listed October 30, 2007 Good article reassessment Delisted Current Status: Delisted good article

Contents 1 Looks Odd 2 Images for article 3 GA Review 4 Sources 5 Attendance

[edit] Looks Odd

This article looks odd, for some reason information on the opening, columbus crew, and present day is below the notes section. I don't have the wiki knowledge to fix it...but could someone try to fix it? --Scotsworth 03:44, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

In this article it says the Marble Cliff Quary Co. built the Horseshoe. I also edited the article for LeVeque Tower, which previously said that this company's labor was used in the construction of that structure. Neither of these structures are built from natural stone. The Horseshoe was revolutionary in that it was built with cement. In fact many people thought the building would not last very long because it was built with cement. Conversely, LeVeque tower has a granite footer at the base of the building, like many highrises, but is actually clad in terra-cotta which was used very frequently during that period because it looked like limestone. Could someone show me some citation for this company. Ntyler01mil 06:36, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

The Buckeyes aren't a "tenant"--it's their stadium.--Buckboard 08:43, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images for article

These images have been uploaded for use in this article and released into the Public Domain. Please feel free to use them where they are useful. If you remove them from the talk page without adding them to the article, please nominate them for deletion. ~ BigrTex 20:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] GA Review

Good job on the article. It's complete and gives a good overview of the history of the stadium, and gives good coverage in particular to its use by the Columbus Crew. The pictures are useful and the infobox is well-constructed. That being said, I do have several suggestions for improvement for the article. They're not significant enough for me to deny a GA assessment, but I'd strongly recommend changing or fixing them:

• The flow of the article is a little awkward in places. The sections don't naturally lead from one to the next, particularly in the transition from the planning/construction section to the opening section. The article moves from discussing flowers inspired by the dedication game to the first game held in the stadium. To me, the first game would naturally be the dedication game, though that isn't the case. It creates a brief bit of confusion. In addition, there are awkward sentences such as "Instead of employing numerous columns like those at Harvard Stadium, Smith designed double columns that allow for more space between columns." The word 'columns' is used three times in that short sentence, and twice in rapid succession. I'd suggest reading it out loud in order to get a sense of where things should be rewritten.
• The article isn't proportional in its coverage. There's a lot of information about the Columbus Crew holding games in the facility, something that lasted for just three years. There's just as much space devoted to this three-year stint as there is to OSU's 85-year stay in the stadium. This needs to be greatly expanded.
• Very little is included about the physical characteristics of the facility -- the locker rooms, suites, press box, and other aspects the stadium shares with others in the Big Ten. How does it compare? Are these features better, worse, or about the same?
• Are there any major traditions held in the stadium? People knowledgable about college football will know about dotting the I, but readers outside the United States do not inherently know of this tradition. Are there any others that could be mentioned?
• The article has wikilinked names like Beano Cook and Mel Kiper without spelling out why they're important to the article. Include qualifiers with their names so a reader isn't forced to click the link to find out who they are.
• An inflation-adjusted construction cost would be useful, particularly in reference to the renovations section. It's always interesting to compare that amount to the amount spent on renovations.

Right now, the article is barely GA-worthy. Once these changes are made, however, it will be well on its way to becoming worthy of a FAC. JKBrooks85 20:23, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

In all due respect, this review sounds more like a GA failure. You didn't even mention the that the ref formatting is highly inconsistent. To the article writers--if this and the above issues aren't addressed in a few days, I'll submit for GA Review. Sumoeagle179 01:14, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

This has been listed for GA Review at: Wikipedia:Good_article_reassessment#Ohio_Stadium. Sumoeagle179 20:27, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

How can you say "a few days" and then put it up for review a day later?? makes no sense to me. Some people dont have hours to spend on fixing things like that and all you are doing is creating more of an issue by not giving it a few days because now there is no point in trying to fix it and debate in a GA Review. I will address the issues but I dont have all the time in the world like some people, so for now it looks like we will have to renominate it all over again once a few things are fixed.--Joebengo 00:09, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Renomination is clearly the right thing to do in this situation. The article should not have been taken to GAR because it should not have been passed in the first place. Fortunately, not too much time has been wasted on debate. Good luck with the work which really matters: improving the article. Geometry guy 20:43, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

At least one of these sources (the one about the flower color in the rotunda) is hardly a reputable source. Note, he doesn't cite any sources in his article. It seems dangerously close to taking local legend and counting it as fact.

[edit] Attendance

The 5th highest attendance is dated 11-28-06, but there was no Ohio State football game on that date, and likely no event that would have an attendance above 100,000. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.230.191.52 (talk) 20:01, 6 April 2008 (UTC)