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Why are we claiming that on this board. Haven't we always considered ourselves above the fray of places like UNC and Kansas that actually hang banners for those two fake championships? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.177.46.132 (talk) 16:42, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The basketball section of the Kentucky Wildcats article floods that page, considering that Kentucky basketball is deserving of its own individual article due its large amount of information available.
I was hoping to make this page similar to the format of Notre Dame Fighting Irish football.
The following incorrect statement was removed (under "Awards"):
"Kentucky currently has the longest streak of consecutive games with a 3 pointer made at 665 games. (as of 2/9/08)"
UNLV and Vanderbilt both have longer streaks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-point_field_goal#Superlatives)
Seguin10 (talk) 21:08, 13 February 2008 (UTC)Seguin10[reply]
Deleted the insert about Calipari being named coach on March 30 as it hasn't actually happened yet. Can be put back in if he actually accepts, but right now it's just wishful thinking. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.72.185.106 (talk) 20:40, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Deleted section about John Wall leading the Cats to the 2010 National Championship, although I would love for the Cats to to win , opinion pieces such as that should not be listed in this format. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rattler0553 (talk • contribs) 22:44, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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I'll be blunt: this article is a complete mess. The formatting got jacked up on a previous edit, something I don't know how to fix. The multiple tables and statistics are all over the map (regular season, post season, chronologically, coaches, players, etc), and it just leaves me cross-eyed. The incredible tradition of Kentucky basketball deserves better than what is represented here. Problem is, I wouldn't know where to begin fixing it. I'm not sure every possible UK hoops statistic belongs on this page, but where would we draw the line? Or does everyone else think it's fine? Comments are welcome. Zephyrnthesky (talk) 04:42, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Greetings! I am one of the project editors for the University of Florida Wikipedia Project, and I've been cleaning up the biography of John J. Tigert, who was one of your early Wildcat athletic directors and basketball and football coaches. He was also later the U.S. Commissioner of Education and the president of the University of Florida for 19 years. One of your folks has placed UK coaching succession boxes at the bottom of the page, but the succession boxes are factually incorrect. The info boxes list Tigert as coaching the Wildcats twice (1913 and again from 1915-1916). I can find no authority for the 2nd stint as basketball coach; in fact, my sources list Alpha Brumage as the James Park as the UK coaches for those two years. Can one of you super-duper Wildcat hoops fans help me out here?! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:55, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
On the header (header?) on the right side of the page, listing the Wildcat's appearances in the Tournament bracket over the years (Elite 8, Sweet 16, etc, etc) it has some to my attention that there are years listed in which the current bracket never existed. It lists Kentucky going through the "Elite Eight" and "Sweet Sixteen" in the 1940's, when in reality only 8 or so teams competed each year, which no Elite Eight or Sweet Sixteen actually existing. Someone inflated the results on the page to make it look more impressive. Of course they got into the Elite Eight. If only Eight Teams played, everyone did. And the same for the Sweet Sixteen. Of course they made it in, ALL sixteen teams made it into the Sweet Sixteen. It didn't even exist! All that DID exist was the Final Four, which should rightfully be on here.... Teafico (talk) 01:41, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
State flagicons should not used in the award/roster tables per WP:MOSICON#Do not use subnational flags without direct relevance. There is no direct relevance to use these flagicons, especially when the name of the city and state are located in the table. Country flagicons should not be used in the award/roster tables per WP:ICONDECORATION. The names of the countries are located in the table and the flagicons are unnecessary. Aspects (talk) 23:27, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It seems incorrect to have twice as much information about the Gillispie era as the Pitino era. I think all of these could be edited down more--especially the most recent entries. If additional information is wanted we should have sub-pages. Please edit! Fullrabb (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:38, 16 December 2010 (UTC).[reply]
The NCAA counts every Elite-8 appearance as a Sweet-16 appearance. They use this criteria for all schools, so it is uniform and fair, regardless of whether you agree with its logic or not. I edit this page accordingly. Further, the University of Kentucky uses this criteria in their media guide. Not to toot my own horn, but I am a long contributor to the UK media guide, and I am a UK Basketball historian. In short, I have written much of the articles on Adolph Rupp, Kentucky Basketball, Rupp Arena, Memorial Coliseum, and Joe B. Hall. I am 100% correct on this subject, and I would appreciate if my edit would be allowed to remain permanent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbfwildcat (talk • contribs) 21:55, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, the page on Kansas Basketball counts the Sweet-16 appearances prior to 1950-51. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbfwildcat (talk • contribs) 15:06, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
(copied from JbfWildcat's talk page)
Why do you insist on appending "(aka "The List")" onto the "Cumulative all-time statistics" heading in Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball? I don't know anyone who refers to it like that, and it is definitely not encyclopedic. I'm pretty sure it would run afoul of WP:NPOV. On a fan site, maybe it would be OK, but here on Wikipedia, not so much. Please gain consensus regarding this edit on the article's talk page before you re-insert this appelation. Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 14:07, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I AM THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR AND COMPILER OF "THE LIST", that's why! I posted it here originally, I update it here, I completely did ALL of the research on it. I came up with ALL the categories. In point of fact, "The List" has ALWAYS been referred to as "The List" for YEARS on the internet, LONG before it was ever posted here. It was originally compiled and posted on Kentucky Sports Report and The Cat's Pause message boards. Most UK fans on the internet(and elsewhere) are VERY familiar with "The List", and refer to it as such. The fact that you have never heard of it referred this way this merely illustrates the point that you are not a Kentucky fan, but merely someone who likes to nitpick and throw his power around. In short, I compiled it, update it, and I named it. It's my baby, and it's known as "The List". Clear?
Your comments regarding team infobox practices are solicited: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College Basketball#Request for Comments: NCAA Sweet Sixteen phantom appearances. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:00, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
There has been an IP edit war brewing off-and-on since the team won the national championship in April. In the "Memorable teams" section, some editors are calling the team the "8th Wonders" while others are calling them "The Undeniables". At some point, the citation "Lexington Herald Leader 03/04/12" was added for one nickname or the other, but I lost track of which, since the edit war continued without changing the cite. I searched Newsbank, which includes archives of the LHL, and found no instances of either "8th Wonders" or "Eighth Wonders", and the only reference to "Undeniables" in 2012 was in a letter to the editor. I'm not saying the citation is bogus, but it needs more information (article title, author, etc.) to be useful. I'm about to semi-protect this page and probably leave an in-line comment directing editors to this discussion. Let's get something cited to a reliable source. If we can't find one either way, I'd favor nixing the whole paragraph to continuing this edit war. Acdixon (talk · contribs) 16:52, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
It is probably in reference to the front page of the Lexington Herald Leader on 03/04/12 were they called the team "8th Wonders". It is the entire front page. In Lexington it seems to be quite divided on what people want the team to be called.
Acdixon, the annotated bibliography for this page is the Lexington Herald Leader for April, 3 2012. There is no reference to Undeniables anywhere in that paper. The front page of that paper on April 3, 2012 says "8th Wonders, Cats cap phenomenal season with crown." If the goal is for WP to be accurate and accurately annotated then why would anyone be allowed to change it entry to undeniables? Clearly that is a UK fan wanting to try to name the team themselves and not even documenting were they are getting that from. I change it back to 8th Wonders any time I see it changed because 8th Wonders is supported by a properly documented source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.140.129.250 (talk) 15:49, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Acdixon, I certainly didn't say I promised to change it every time I see it. I simply said that I do change it when I see it. The annotation references the Lexington Herald Leader on April 3, 2012. I have covered the entire paper and it does not mention Undeniables anywhere. But as I mentioned it does have in bold 3 inch letters on the front page, 8th Wonders, Cats cap phenomenal season with a crown. So it would seem annotation and bibliography line up with that and should reflect such. I am in no way trying to cause an edit war. This is the only time I have ever even entered anything on WP and I only did it because it is something I care about and was incorrect and I thought I would correct it. Sorry to have caused such a problem. I love WP and look something up on here at least once a day, it is truly a wonderful resource and as a historian I wanted my Cats page to be correct. Besides isn't it in poor form to give yourself the nickname you want rather than the one you are given? Just having some fun with it all there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.140.129.250 (talk) 01:55, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I feel like newspaper sources have just been chosen willy-nilly here without much thought as to the implications. The Courier-Journal is Louisville's newspaper. It doesn't seem appropriate to adopt the nickname that your biggest rivals choose for you. When they publish other choice nicknames for the Cats are we going to adopt those as well, since we're accepting Louisville publications as authoritative sources for UK information? Does this mean I have an official green light to edit the Louisville page and add to it all my favorite Louisville commentary from the Herald Leader? Obviously the answer should be no. This article should stick with the Lexington Herald Leader, which is 100% 8th Wonders. Don't worry about what's said in newspapers that are devoted to other teams, those aren't very authoritative sources. 68.102.217.243 (talk) 10:54, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
OK, since it's obvious neither side can tolerate the other's preferred nickname being left in place while this discussion proceeds – which is sad – I've included both with {{cn}} tags until we can resolve this. I realize this is a little unfair, since there has been an attempt to cite "8th Wonders", but this is meant as a temporary fix. Now that both sides have their pet nickname in place, let's try to reach some consensus on a permanent fix, shall we?
Discuss. Acdixon (talk · contribs) 14:32, 16 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Can something be done with the section headings in this article? There are too many that are used to lead into information in a non-neutral tone. Examples;
And once that's done we can look at the non-neutral descriptions in the text. --Escape Orbit (Talk) 15:13, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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The article says he was there from 1928-1930, but I believe it should be 1927-1930.BillVol (talk) 14:03, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Pretty sure this is an erroneous entry in the listing for most games played at UK. 104.129.196.120 (talk) 12:11, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
In the lead, I changed the wording from 51 SEC regular season championships to 51 conference regular season championships, because the first 2 (1921 & 1933) were in the Southern Conference, not the SEC --rogerd (talk) 18:47, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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bruh. why are you removing my stuff?is this the illuminate? Dogboy2145 (talk) 20:09, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]