Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Texas at Austin
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WikiProject University of Texas at Austin
Welcome to the WikiProject page for The University of Texas at Austin. This page is designed to streamline collaborative efforts to improve the quality of UT Austin-related articles. We are currently overhauling this project and its accompanying project page (as you may notice below), but that just means it's a great time for you to get involved! Feel free to contact any project members with any questions or to drop us a note on this project's talk page. Hook' em Horns!
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Current collaboration
This section attempts to focus members on one article in order to give it a concentrated improvement effort.
The current WP:UT collaboration for the period ending August 31, 2009 is:
University of Texas at Austin#History Our September 2009 project is TBD. If you would like to nominate an article for a future project please add a nomination under that month's section or to see what articles we've already collaborated on, please visit the Collaboration talk page. |
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Templates
UT Austin templates
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- This template should be placed below the External links section of every UT Austin-related article.
- {{UTexas-stub}}
- This template should be placed below the External links section of UT Austin-related stub articles.
User template
Alumni of UT Austin (which includes current students) can add {{user longhorn}} to their userpage for the following userbox:
This user is a Texas Longhorn. |
Alternatively, you can use {{User:Bait30/UT infobox}} to generate
This user attends or attended the University of Texas at Austin. Hook 'em, Horns! 🤘 |
WikiProject templates
{{WikiProject United States|UTA=yes}}
::This template should be placed on all article talk pages in the UT Austin article series; doing so will automatically add the article to the category Category:WikiProject University of Texas at Austin.
- Use this template on an article's talk page only if:
- the article is not biographical in nature. Articles about people should use template {{UTTalk people}}
- {{UTTalk invite}}
- This can be added to a user's talk page as an invite to the UT Austin WikiProject
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Navigation
Watchlists
It is possible to view special pages that are watchlists for changes to articles in a category. For example, see related changes for recent changes to any article in Category:University of Texas at Austin. Note that this does not pick up changes to articles in sub-categories, so one has to view each category separately.
- University of Texas at Austin
Categories
The University of Texas at Austin • Alumni • Presidents • Texas Student Media
Texas Longhorns athletics • Baseball • Basketball • Football • Swimming
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Images and Image Requests
- Blanton Museum of Art
- Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
- Hook 'em (mascot), an unobstructed picture.
- College of Business Administration Building, from Speedway.
- University Teaching Center, not including the Perry–Castañeda Library.
- Bass Concert Hall, exterior.
- Thomas W. Gilligan
- William C. Powers
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Assessments
University of Texas at Austin articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
FL | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
FM | 4 | 4 | |||||
A | 1 | 1 | |||||
GA | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 13 | ||
B | 2 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 30 | 58 | |
C | 1 | 12 | 42 | 70 | 125 | ||
Start | 2 | 6 | 19 | 133 | 168 | 328 | |
Stub | 3 | 47 | 95 | 145 | |||
List | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | ||
Category | 10 | 10 | |||||
File | 8 | 8 | |||||
Project | 4 | 4 | |||||
Redirect | 5 | 13 | 18 | ||||
Template | 5 | 5 | |||||
Other | 2 | 2 | |||||
Assessed | 6 | 13 | 44 | 255 | 46 | 370 | 734 |
Total | 6 | 13 | 44 | 255 | 46 | 370 | 734 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 3,211 | Ω = 4.78 |
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Articles
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To Do List
Never-ending things to do:
- Enlist (invite) more members
- Help GAs reach FA status
- Expand WP:UT stub articles
- Help maintain Portal:University of Texas at Austin and bring it to Featured portal status
Specific things that need attention:
- First thing's first: the flagship article (UT Austin) needs to get back to GA status
- Help transfer names into tables on List of University of Texas at Austin alumni and List of University of Texas at Austin faculty
New Articles:
- Create a main article about the Charles Whitman tower shooting.
- Discussion found here
- Create a main article about the main campus (Ex.: Campus of Texas A&M University).
- When started, replace "See also: List of University of Texas at Austin buildings" at the beginning of the Campus section and add it to a section highlighting notable buildings on the future dedicated campus page.
- Try to incorporate links in the See also section into article body.
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Participants
Please add your name below if you are interested in participating in this project:
- Jareha (talk · contribs)
- Johntex (talk · contribs)
- Scm83x (talk · contribs)
- Grouse (talk · contribs)
- Guðsþegn (talk · contribs)
- ChrisKennedy (talk · contribs)
- J. Charles Taylor (talk · contribs)
- Enoch Lai (talk · contribs)
- Bevo (talk · contribs)
- VarunRajendran (talk · contribs)
- Bradknowles (talk · contribs)
- TheMindsEye (talk · contribs)
- Andman8 (talk · contribs)
- Persiancowboy (talk · contribs)
- AndrewSolomon (talk · contribs)
- Uttexas (talk · contribs)
- ZekeW (talk · contribs)
- Another Believer (talk · contribs)
- João Do Rio (talk · contribs)
- ScreamOfTheNight (talk · contribs)
We ask that members make at least one contribution to a UT Austin-related article per month—helping with the Collaboration of the Month is a great place to start. If you no longer want to receive monthly messages, please remove your name from the participation list.
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How can I contribute to this project ?
- Help others catch the UT Austin-article-improvement fever by awarding those who make special, dedicated efforts to improve UT Austin articles
- Assist in acquiring more Wiki-usable pictures and images related to UT Austin—adding Flickr images to Wikipedia (like "UT Austin"; be sure to include the appropriate "Attribution" or "Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0" license) is a great way to start
- Label UT Austin-related articles with the appropriate template (see templates to the left)
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How can I contribute to Wikipedia ?
If you have never used Wikipedia, please take the time to read these articles:
Principal advice
To maintain article quality, please follow these rules:
- Provide sources for your edits. See also the Citations helpdesk below;
- ALWAYS make sure images you upload are under proper license Image Copyrights;
- Restrain the number of red links;
- Ensure external links are active/not broken;
- AVOID emotional arguments, statements about editors of other nationalities, name calling, and anything that is not perceived as constructive, source-backed argument;
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