Editing Talk:NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament (section)

===Article Structure===
The article needs to be rearranged and focused. It's unclear why some content is in this very long article instead of being in other articles, and we definitely need a more robust history section that actually describes the history of the tournament and not just certain feats. As i look through the whole article it becomes much clearer that this is basically a bettor's guide to the tournament for bracket pools in many places.

# History
## 1939-1974: Competing with the NIT
## 1975-1984: At-Large Bids
## 1985-2000: 64 Team Field
## 2000-Present: Modern Tournament
# Tournament Format
## Qualifying
## Seeding
## Rounds
# Winners
# Television Coverage and Revenue
# Traditions and Awards
## Championship Traditions
## Final Four Awards
## Regional Awards
# Records
## Team records
### Tournament appearance streaks
### Most 1 Seeds
### Most games won
### Most Final Four & Championship Game appearances
### Successful Low-Seeded Teams
## Player records
## Coach Records
# Influence
## NBA Draft
## Popular Culture
# Venues

The statistics section is the biggest problem. Most of these stats are included in the [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament upsets]] and [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament records]] articles in a much more readable and better organized format. I suggest we include only the most important statistics, using mostly prose to write those subsections, and link out to those articles. For example, we only need to give a summary for the low-seeded teams. We give specific mention to UMBC, St. Peter's, Syracuse, Wichita State, Villanova, UConn, and the collection of 11 seeds to make the final four, since they have achieved the farthest advance for their seed lines. We can give general mention to the remaining upsets and teams, such as "Ten 15 seeds have beaten a two seed, and twenty 14 seeds have beaten a three seed in their first-round matchups." I think we axe the rest of the seed content, moving it to the respective articles they belong in. We can then add in individual performance records for players, and then simplify the coach records to just be the most important, like games won, championships, and final fours.

The Results by school & year should be its own article completely.

I think we should break up the tournament evolution section. The table of field size can go in the more robust history section, the seeding history should move to another article or its own article entirely. The other changes sections could all be summarized in the new history section, and they repeat a lot of content anyway that's already included in the format section.

The Venues section should give a summary about final four venues but link out to the full table. Some of the language from the current Evolution of the Tournament/Venues section can be used but a lot of it's dated now that the dome policy is no longer in effect. There's no reason to have it here, and if we want a table with venues for each year we should just make it a table of championship game results with winners. That's what it's functioning as right now.

I've also made some suggestions for history subsections, with four eras to split it into.

The Popular Culture section can be changed to Influence to include the NBA Draft section. While the pop culture section probably needs some clean up, it's one of the better sections in the article [[User:Ha2772a|Ha2772a]] ([[User talk:Ha2772a|talk]]) 22:57, 21 September 2022 (UTC)