User talk:Fl4812a

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Hi, welcome to Wikipedia! -- Fuzheado | Talk 21:21, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Links at Greek life at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

I appreciate that you are trying to add references to Greek life at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. However references that are simply links to the main website for the Fraternity or Sorority are not useful as references. They don't reference the fact that there is a chapter at UMass, merely that the organization exists. These links are present on the Wikipedia page about the Fraternity or Sorority as the official homepage. The link to the school page for the NPHC at the top of the grouping is enough.

However, you could research additional information about each of the chapters, like the chapter name and founding date, for example, Alpha Phi Alpha at UMass is Alpha Kappa chapter founded on October 7,1922 according to http://www.alphakappa32.com/alpha-kappa-chapter-history.html . Now both that and http://onecaalphas.com/alpha-kappa would be considered primary sources since they are actually by the group in question, but for non-controversial information, that's fine. You may also want to see if your university library has a copy of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (one of the editions) to look at the lists for UMass Amherst)

You may want to look at some of the other articles in Category:Lists of chapters of United States student societies by college to see what has been done. They vary from not much better than the current Greek life at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , to *insanely* (and probably over-)detailed (List of fraternities and sororities at the University of Minnesota. (BTW, I belong to WP:FRAT as well.)Naraht (talk) 21:10, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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