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Rename Big 6/7/8 to Big Six/Seven/Eight

@Fjbfour:

Right now there is a stable naming convention dating to their c 2009 origin, of:

Template:1928~1947 Big 6 football standings
Template:1948~1959 Big 7 football standings
Template:1960~1995 Big 8 football standings

This leads to situations like 1984 Oklahoma Sooners football team stating

"...participated in the former Big Eight Conference"
Big Eight co-champion
Conference: Big 8 Conference

contrasted with the standings template in that article which states "1984 Big 8 football standings." Related, these standings link to the Big Eight Conference article which exclusively uses spelled-out "Big Six Conference," "Big Seven Conference," and "Big Eight Conference."

So there is a disconnect narrowly with the "Big 6/7/8" era standings templates vs the content "everywhere" else.

Nebraska spanned all three eras, so I used them for confirmation. Search terms and matches:

"nebraska" "football" "1930" "big 6" - 560 matches
"nebraska" "football" "1930" "big six" - 15,000 matches

"nebraska" "football" "1950" "big 7" - 1,340 matches
"nebraska" "football" "1950" "big seven" - 14,600 matches

"nebraska" "football" "1970" "big 8" - 3,420 matches
"nebraska" "football" "1970" "big eight" - 28,100 matches

All of this supports renaming "Big 6/7/8" to "Big Six/Seven/Eight." Any feedback or concerns? UW Dawgs (talk) 02:06, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Make senses to rename these such that the numbers are spelled out. I think this is a case of the templates being named with the conference's short or abbreviated name, a la "ACC" or "SEC". Across all the standings templates of this kind that we have on Wikipedia, there's inconsistency as to the inclusion of the word "Conference"; see subcategories of Category:American college football standings templates by conference. Jweiss11 (talk) 03:01, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]