Talk:Oklahoma State Cowboys

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Avoid point of view issues. Let's keep things neural...

Requested images:

  • Memorial for plane crash in Gallagher-Iba Arena (should be a good addition to the GIA article too)
  • Memorial for plane crash in Colorado

Move/Merge:

  • The "Overall success" section seems out of place (and waaay too short). Find a way to make it fit in somewhere OR expand the section.

Wrestling:

Men's Basketball:

Facilities:

Bedlam Series:

Baseball:

Golf:

Football:

Misc. sports:

  • Women's basketball
  • Softball
  • Track

Contents

[edit] Sports journalism

This reads more like a college newspaper article than an encyclopedia entry. ... discospinster 20:40, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I made some improvements to make it seem more like a Wikipedia article while maintaining objectivity. Tmrobertson 00:22, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
And it seems like some can't live without Wikipedia slobbering over their little cow school. Jeez, and you wonder why no one takes them seriously... Tmrobertson 00:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
This is the worst example of "sports journalism" on Wikipedia I've ever seen. It needs a complete rewrite as its current form is simply riddled with POV language and cheerleading. I'll get to it sometime soon when I have a lot of time. (ESkog)(Talk) 01:31, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Nobody is slobbering over this "cow school", and most everyone takes us seriously. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.141.77.186 (talk • contribs) 22:40, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
That above comment doesn't make sense. Anyways, this thing is a complete mess and I've tagged it as both needed to be wikipediaized and for NPOV. - Shamrox 23:36, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite complete

Got rid of all the unnecessary bolding, and a lot of the cheerleading. Rewrote pretty much the entire article to try to be free of NPOV. Some of the article still needs some sources, but otherwise I'm much happier with it now than before. Any thoughts/concerns? (ESkog)(Talk) 01:16, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging Oklahoma State University - Stillwater section on athletics to this article

Clearly OSU athletics has enough depth to warrant its own article. Also, OSU athletics should be mentioned on the university's article. We should have some kind of recap of this article in Oklahoma State University - Stillwater and use {{Main}}. See how Michigan State University handles this. Ash Lux (talk | contribs) 00:56, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Splitting "Men's basketball" section into its own article

  • VOTE: Oppose - Right now the section isn't big enough to warrant its own article. Splitting it might just be met with a move to merge it back into this article. →Wordbuilder 15:12, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
  • VOTE: Oppose - Not in its present condition. The BB section needs to be drastically expanded, more about the 1945-1946 championship teams please! If you could get that section expanded, that team alone could be an article by itself. Where are the OSU journalism students? Over at OU? Sad. WikiDon 02:31, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:40, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Split football section

Strongly support. This defiantly should be split from the Oklahoma State Cowboys page. There is plenty of information on the football program. Brandonrush (talk) 23:36, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Support. The section contains enough information to be split into a start-class article. ~ João Do Rio (talk) 04:16, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Support. The basketball section split with less information and, thanks to helpful editors, is turning into a nice article. →Wordbuilder (talk) 13:52, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Hey, guess what! I decided to be bold and I moved the page to Oklahoma State Cowboys football. Actually, I just copied and pasted the football section and added an infobox, but I don't know enough about Okie State to contribute anything of merit. Feel free to revert back, but it seems like everyone agrees this should be moved, no one opposed the move, and this should be like every other college football page. Brandonrush Woo pig sooie 02:07, 3 May 2008 (UTC)