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Featured article2009 International Bowl is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
Main Page trophyThis article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on January 3, 2019.
Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
May 15, 2010Guild of Copy EditorsCopyedited
July 4, 2010Good article nomineeListed
July 11, 2010Peer reviewReviewed
July 27, 2010Featured article candidatePromoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 23, 2010.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that 2009 International Bowl MVP Donald Brown (pictured) was the first Connecticut Huskies football player to be picked in the first round of the NFL Draft?
Current status: Featured article

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:2009 International Bowl/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Wizardman Operation Big Bear 20:01, 25 June 2010 (UTC) I will review this tonight; my apologies for the delay. I may split it between tonight and tomorrow since this is a long article. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 20:01, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

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Team selection

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  • "The International Bowl contracted with the Big East and Mid-American Conferences to select teams to participate in their annual game." Contracted sounds a bit odd; reword.
  • "The two teams played each other for six consecutive seasons" in six.. sounds better I think.
  • Any of the "# yards" stuff needs a non breaking space, i.e. 27 yards. Why I'm not positive, but that's what it says to do.
  • "The Huskies easily won their first game 35–3 against FCS opponent Hofstra." Link FCS. I know it means Division I-AA, but others may not.
    • I had a note I was planning to add to the Notes section explaining FBS / FCS, but I keep getting Cite.php errors (see the linked revision). If you have any idea how to fix this error please let me know. Grondemar 03:14, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • Strike the above, I see that they added an explanation to WP:FOOT of the bug; apparently the #tag workaround only works once with list-defined references. When I moved the note out of the LDRs, it worked fine. Hopefully they will fix that bug eventually. Grondemar 03:31, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Link Temple in the following sentence, as well as other schools whose football programs weren't linked.

Pregame buildup

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  • "The turnaround of the Buffalo program brought kudos to Bulls head coach Turner Gill," kudos seems a bit informal.
  • "The Huskies allowed the 10th-fewest yards per game in the nation with 281 yards allowed" Any specific rankings for run and pass defense?

Game summary

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  • "and punted the ball to Connecticut" link punt, and other terms that non-football fans may not get (i.e. sacked)
  • "and settled for a 38-yard Field goal" field goal doesn't need to be capitalized.
  • "UConn's turnover woes continued on their next possession, when on their second play from scrimmage after receiving Buffalo's kickoff Tyler Lorenzen was sacked," 'next possession when, on their...kickoff, Tyler'
  • "punting the ball back to UConn after three plays. The Huskies drove to within the Buffalo 10-yard line;" where'd the Huskies start from?

Final stats/Aftermath

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  • "with 2,083 rushing yards, best in the nation that year." 'Which led the nation' sounds better.
  • What position was Anthony Sherman?
    • Fullback. I didn't mention it initially in the passing section as his position is listed a couple of sentences before in the running section; I added the position for consistency. Grondemar 04:58, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Misc.

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  • I'm a bit confused as to the point of the group=" " in your references. It could probably be removed without harm unless there's something I'm not seeing. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 19:26, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Originally I placed the group=" " in the references to segregate them from the endnotes which had group="Note". After removing all the group=" " attributes the page rendered the same, so it turned out as you said that they were not needed. They have been removed. Grondemar 14:16, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]


Media

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All the media seems fine with the exception of File:2009_International_Bowl_trophy.jpg at the very least it should be tagged with {{trademark}}, if the photograph was taken in the USA, it is potentially non-free per Template:Non-free 3D art, I am not aware of a similar restriction in Canada. Fasach Nua (talk) 05:01, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I will need to confirm with User:DoubleBlue (who took the photo), but I believe the trophy photo was taken from the floor of the Rogers Centre during the game, therefore in Canada. Thanks for the review! Grondemar 17:09, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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