Wikipedia:Peer review/Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball/archive1

Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball

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I've listed this article for peer review because I'd like to get it to Good Article, and ultimately perhaps higher, status, but I've been the primary contributor for some time, so I'm not sure of where to seek out improvement.

Thanks, matt91486 (talk) 17:31, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Ruhrfisch comments: Very briefly, here are some suggestions for improvement. If you want more comments, please ask here.

• The lead should be expanded so that it is an accessible and inviting overview of the whole article. Nothing important should be in the lead only - since it is a summary, it should all be repeated in the body of the article itself. My rule of thumb is to include every header in the lead in some way. Please see WP:LEAD
• Per WP:MOS#Images, images should set to "thumb" width to allow reader preferences to take over. Potrait format images can be narrower using "vertical"
• I would consider adding years to the headers in the History section to provide context to the reader. A model article is often useful for ideas and examples to follow - there are many sports team FAs at Wikipedia:Featured_articles#Sport_and_recreation
• The Results by season table is too long for the article and should be split off as its own article (and perhaps could become a WP:FL)
• Article needs more / better references, for example During this time an NCAA investigation was also underway. They agreed with the University that massive fraud took place under Haskins watch, and stripped the Gophers of all awards and titles dating back to the 1993-94 season citing "Lack of institutional control". the direct quotation here is uncited. My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref. Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. {{cite web}} and other cite templates may be helpful. See WP:CITE and WP:V

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 18:13, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments, I'll work on improving stuff. Out of curiosity, which images don't show up as thumbnails? It looks as though they all have that encoded in; perhaps I didn't do something correctly? matt91486 (talk) 05:23, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind, I think I figured out what you meant by the thumb width now. I've incorporated that, and some of your other suggestions, at this time. matt91486 (talk) 05:57, 25 July 2008 (UTC)