Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Texas A&M/Archive 1

Archive 1

Corps of Cadets Center

I see no wiki page on the Corps of Cadets Center. Am I simply not finding it? The center displays bronze likenesses of the seven Texas Aggies who received the Medal of Honor in WWII.[1]

Plus, instead of the specimen Medals of Honor that the Memorial Student Center displays, the Corps of Cadets Center currently displays the actual Medals of Honor for 2nd Lt. Lloyd H. Hughes[2], Sgt. George D. Keathley[3], and Lt. Turney W. Leonard.[4]

None of this is documented by the Corps of Cadets Center.[5] Please don't suggest that I do it. I won't put up with the rudeness of some people at wiki and their inability to accept facts. Rajordan 19:00, 11 September 2008 (UTC) (Niece of 2nd Lt. Lloyd H. Hughes.[6])

I honestly am too lazy to put it up myself too. If I were to mention the center, I would probably mention it in the Campus of Texas A&M University#Notable_buildings page, and then put a short blurb about it on the Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets page. Eventually the notable buildings part of that page should too be edited. It has a mention of the band hall and the OEM, but no mention of the Bush Library. That whole campus page needs some major revisions.Oldag07 (talk) 05:42, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

I agree. There may not be enough third-party coverage of the building to provide sufficient material for a standalone article on the subject. →Wordbuilder (talk) 13:54, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

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WHOOP! Oldag07 (talk) 21:54, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Archived

Archived talk pageOldag07 (talk) 22:03, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Texas Peer Review

Texas just got promoted to GA, is now on a FA run, and it would be nice to have all the input we can get in our peer review. Thanks for the help. Oldag07 (talk) 15:33, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

RfC for WP:BOOSTER

There is a request for comment about whether or not WP:BOOSTER documents a standard consensus and good practice that all editors and school/college/university articles should follow as an official policy or guideline. Madcoverboy (talk) 19:32, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Copy editing Texas

Howdy! most people associated with this university are not just Aggies, but Texans as well. And, making our state look good has got to be somewhat of a priority for us. I have divided the Texas page into 6 parts. Hopefully with more manageable chunks, people will be more willing to copy edit the page. would anybody at this project be willing to copy edit one section of the Texas page? Thanks and gig em.

Talk:Texas#Copyedit_plan Oldag07 (talk) 18:28, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Dixie Chicken (bar)

The Chicken has been deleted. Since I was absent during the Afd, and have multiple reliable sources, I added it to the Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2009 February 3. This deletion should be overturned, I have listed references at the review. Bhaktivinode (talk) 17:18, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

• Update Per the discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2009 February 3, the improved recreation of the Dixie Chicken (bar) article has been endorsed. Bhaktivinode (talk) 01:25, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, Bhaktivinode! Karanacs (talk) 16:28, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

• Update The Chicken has been nominated for deletion once again; Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dixie Chicken (bar) (2nd nomination). Bhaktivinode (talk) 00:08, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

GA push

I recently nominated the Texas A&M Singing Cadets for GA status. After nominating that page, we do seem to have a few articles not quite at FA level, but maybe could be a GA. Comments on the four Aggie pages, and how to improve the pages.

• Reveille (Texas A&M)

Needs more pictures

• Muster (Texas A&M University)

Needs some pictures

• Aggie Yells

if Midnight Yell and Aggie Yell Leaders are combined I think they could easily be a GA page

• Robert Gates

a few more pictures are needed, might need to wait for his term to end, but maybe not

Oldag07 (talk) 05:07, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I think Reveille (Texas A&M) needs more information on Revs II and III. There's a book about Reveille that would be useful for providing more information. I'm not sure if we'll be able to get more PD pictures. The sourcing on the Muster page is also not up to snuff. There's a book on Muster that would be useful for getting rid of some of the unreliable sources. Karanacs (talk) 14:25, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

College Fight Songs

There is a thread on the administrators' noticeboard which may concern editors involved in this WikiProject and may affect the article Aggie War Hymn. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Lyrics. CrazyPaco (talk) 01:03, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Baseball merger

I proposed a merger of Olsen Field into Texas A&M Aggies baseball. Both pages are stubs, and could use some elaboration, of with is probably going to have a lot of overlap. Oldag07 (talk) 02:58, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

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Our next Main Page slot

Sully will be featured on the Main Page on May 22! Please try to watch the article that day and help revert vandalism. I'd also appreciate extra eyes on it beforehand - let's make sure that it really does represent Wikipedia's best work. Thanks and Gig 'em! Karanacs (talk) 19:14, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Great job Karanacs! I will start looking at it right away. Thanks for all your hard work! Oldag07 (talk) 03:47, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK help

I'm really bad at creating DYK hooks. Can someone help me come up with one for Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M University? I was thinking about something along the lines of this case forcing A&M to accept fraternities, but can't figure out how to word it. Thanks! Karanacs (talk) 19:41, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Big 12 WikiProject

I'm trying to gauge the interested in created a Big 12 WikiProject and wondering who would like to be involved. There are already pages for WikiProject Big Ten and WikiProject ACC. A Big 12 project would cover the schools themselves and anything to do with conference sports including: events, rivalries, teams, seasons, championships and lore. There is already quite a bit of activity here on Wikipedia regarding the Big 12, and I think a project could help coordinate and unify our efforts. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Big 12 if you are interested, and add your name to the list. Grey Wanderer (talk) 00:21, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

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Unsourced BLPs - need help ASAP

Howdy, Ags. In case you haven't noticed, the unsourced BLP issue has suddenly taken on a life of its own (see WP:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people). It is becoming clear that unsourced BLPs will be deleted at some point in the future - probably pretty quickly. User:Rettetast put together a list of articles under our wikiproject that have been tagged as BLPs with no references. I could use help with fixing them! Karanacs (talk) 16:56, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

# Bob Davie (American football)

1. Charles Rogers (murder suspect)
2. Fred Parke
3. Hal M. Hornburg
4. Harry Stiteler
5. Jim Myers
6. Michael Langston
7. Michael Quinn Sullivan
8. Paul P. Van Riper
9. Raymond George
10. Rick Cunningham (American football)
11. Ronald D. Macfarlane
12. Ted Nelson (coach)
13. W. Roy Smythe
14. Wendell Nedderman

Pageview stats

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Texas A&M articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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Aggie Muster

Figured I would remind everyone that Aggie Muster is on Wednesday. I will attending the Dallas one. I haven't talked to any Aggie editors in a while. Just hoping everyone is doing well. Gig em! Oldag07 (talk) 14:23, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

US Collaboration reactivated & Portal:United States starting next

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Standardization of football team navboxes

The rigid standardization of football team nav box templates is being discussed at College football Wikiproject. Editors pursuing this standardization have already significantly altered the Texas A&M football navbox, and you may wish to add your input. CrazyPaco (talk) 08:08, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Image deletion discussion

Relevant deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2012 January 1#File:TexasAMUHelmet.png.--GrapedApe (talk) 17:59, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Help Improve Texas Projects and Portals

This is an open invitation to anyone interested in helping to update the information on the various Texas projects and portals. The information is generally out-of-date, sometimes by years. Every little bit helps. Every small improvement adds to the larger whole. Together, we can get the Texas pages to look current and helpful to visitors.

These two Category links will take you to the various pages:

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Anyone interested in improving the basic look and structure, could open a WP:RfC. Dialogue is good for the project.

These are areas I see could be improved, in addition to miscellaneous information on the portal and project pages:

• Participant lists could be divided in to two separate lists: Active, and Inactive participants
• Task lists that require monitoring, can be somewhat automated by replacing the individual topic items with category page links
• Eliminate duplication of efforts. Inter-connect the like sections in different pages to a singular template.

As an example, I already updated the Open Tasks on WikiProject Texas, and the Things You Can Do on the Texas portal. These are exactly the same information, but point to two different templates. In a perfect world, these two pages would point to the same template, but they don't - possibly due to page formatting. I updated the templates they point to, so at least the individual items will point to Wiki links that would, in essence, make the list items self-updating. But it would be better if both pointed to only one template.

-Maile66 (talk) 19:37, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Discussion on WikiProject Texas regarding support by WikiProject United States

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Proposal for United States A-Class review process

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Discussion on consolidating inactive and semi-active university WikiProjects

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Discussion to remove the Automatically assessed logic from the WikiProject United States template

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College basketball team navigation templates

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Popular pages tool update

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Leaflet for Wikiproject Texas A&M at Wikimania 2014

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Popular pages report

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Proposed article merger

Hi the articles Texas Hillel and Texas A&M Hillel appear to be about the same organisation so I’ve proposed their merger.Mccapra (talk) 19:11, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

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MfD nomination of Portal:Texas A&M University

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Notice of Featured Article Review

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User script to detect unreliable sources

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It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

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