Talk:List of Theta Phi Alpha national conventions/Archive 1

Archive 1

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I think would be letter if it were three columns, simply number, location and date with columns 2&3 and columns 4&5 combined (with the location linked to the appropriate city)Naraht (talk) 17:33, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

That sounds way better! I will start reformatting shortlyMsnicolem (talk) 20:17, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Sourcing

Though the source is detailed and high-quality, it is just one source. It would be optimal if a 3rd party source (like some newspaper articles discussing the conventions) were added.Rambunctious Racoon (talk) 12:30, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

archive.org

Can someone look at https://web.archive.org/web/20150713060925/http://www.enivation.com/ThetaPhiAlpha/Centennial_History/ to see if that is an actual stored version of the Centennial or of somehow archive.org is showing something that is actually only on enivation.com somehow.Naraht (talk) 15:33, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

If you follow this link here http://thetaphialpha.org/site/forms/2199 to the official fraternity website. It is an order form for the Centennial history book and has a link to an online preview of it. (The preview of the book is the enivation website). I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but I have a physical copy of the book and the information is accurate. Msnicolem (talk) 17:08, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Ideally, the reference should be to both the book and to its electronic location, the issue is that there is only one source for the article (and that is a primary source) and if Theta Phi Alpha were to move that electronic source, the article would be *theoretically* unreferenced, since it appears that a copy of the electronic version of the history book is on archive.org, that is another way to support it. Someone should eventually take the references to the Centennial History book and put them into a nice format (which includes links to the website on enivation, the link on archive.org , the isbn if we can find it (it might be on the physical copy, my fraternity history didn't have one.). To put it nicely we are improving the article faster than the wikignomes who enjoy doing that can catch up with us. :)Naraht (talk) 18:48, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

hehe sounds like a plan.. yeah a low intensity internship and lots of free time will do that to you :p ill go check my book at home and see if I can find anything and ask around to see if there is anything more substanial to link it toMsnicolem (talk) 20:17, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

More substantial to link what to? Not sure much is needed beyond that to link to. I've never heard of a reference linking to an order form, but why not?Naraht (talk) 21:40, 23 July 2015 (UTC)