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Is there a reason for the padding on top? Is this inherited from other sports infoboxes? I don't generally work on these articles and just noticed it. See screenshot here. Thanks. —Мандичка^YO 😜 09:56, 15 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See discussion. Thanks. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 18:36, 26 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, editing references for Alex Moffat (American football) there's an error message "Warning: Page using Template:Infobox college football player with unknown parameter "CFBHOF_id" (this message is shown only in preview)." but the parameter is listed on the template. Quuux (talk) 07:06, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any reason the "Personal Life" section isn't the first group of parameters listed? It's inconsistent with basically every other infobox about a sportsperson. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 16:18, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Or should we just merge to Template:Infobox NFL biography, which most notable college players end up using at some point. Some editors just insisted on college being unique.—Bagumba (talk) 17:18, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bagumba, doing that would cut down on a lot of maintenance since we'd no longer have to replace them with NFL infoboxes post-draft, but it also brings up potential issues such as bowl games being listed for NFL players (assuming that the parameter for that would be kept). But I suppose a fix could be either omitting that outright in a merge or having it (and other college-specific parameters such as class) be hidden via a flag that triggers when the player's team is no longer listed as a college team. That way we'd avoid any edit-warring. But unless we get a consensus for that, I see no reason why my original proposal shouldn't be applied to the current template. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 19:00, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dissident93: I have no objection. It just seemed like to me in the past that some college editors just wanted things different for the sake of being different.—Bagumba (talk) 02:56, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]