User talk:Ccson

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Unreferenced BLPs
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 * ✅ Ccson (talk) 22:55, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Another fraternity featured list joins Alpha Phi Alpha
Hello, a few months ago I started to edit on Wikipedia. When I saw the sorry state of the notable member list of my fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, I was sucked in by the desire to elevate it to something better. The List of Alpha Phi Alpha brothers provided inspiration and guidance. List of Phi Kappa Psi brothers was promoted to featured list status yesterday. If you look closely, you'll recognize that part of how this list is organized borrows from the excellent work done on the Alpha Phi Alpha list. Thanks for the hard work that you've done. You led the way, and today another fraternity list joins the Alpha Phi Alpha list, as well as the Alpha Kappa Alpha list, in Wikipedia's small class of excellence. NYCRuss  ☎  12:38, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your kind words. I really like that you added the green color to the section headings.  Congratulations!!!--Ccson (talk) 14:33, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

James R. Williams disambiguation
Please chime in here: Talk:James R. Williams NYCRuss   ☎  17:32, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

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Duplicated extra description of Alpha Phi Alpha.
There a number of articles (more than 150) on Wikipedia with an almost identical phrase that I'm uncomfortable with and I think you may have written most of them. They are either "... is/was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans" or the same with "organization" instead of "fraternity". For most, if not all of them, while the fact that they belonged to Alpha Phi Alpha belongs in the article, the additional description does not. IMO, most of them should be altered to "... is/was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity". I thought that I would drop you a line before going any farther.Naraht (talk) 03:03, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Alpha Phi Alpha Conventions.
Could you look at User:Naraht/apac and let me know of any ideas you have? I was given the list from the back of the history book by an Alpha Phi Alpha brother that I know well. Most of the other Noble 9 have a page for their conventions at this time, I started with the structure for the Sigmas, but added the anniversary since conventions are described by both number and anniversary.Naraht (talk) 03:50, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Dr. William P. Foster
Although I am sure you if you researched the matter, I'm sure you are able to find substantial resources that would support many of these brothers being members of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; however, here's a fraternity memo (that you can find on the internet) that was sent out by the national president of Alpha Phi Alpha, Herman "Skip" Mason, regarding the passing of Dr. William P. Foster: http://forum.the5thquarter.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10004

Just the same, you can go on youtube and watch a video of The Lords of the Underground and see for yourself the brother wearing his fraternity letters, as well as rapping a verse about his membership in Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.92.10.208 (talk) 22:46, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Dr. William P. Foster
I am so proud of how maintain the page regarding Alpha Phi Alpha and legitimize all the information, however, regarding some of the notable brothers whom you have not seen or been shown reliable resource to justify some of the names making the list; but I would think that you could easily research the information on line yourself and either find some credible source to substantiate some of these listed names. For example, I know for a fact that Dr. William P. Foster is a brother of Alpha. I researched Dr. William P. Foster and came across a Kenneth Spencer Research Library website at the University of Kansas that has research documents listed on Dr. William P. Foster; and it is noted that he is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. The website is as follows: http://etext.ku.edu/view?docId=ksrlead/ksrl.kc.fosterwilliam.xml;route=ksrlead;brand=ksrlead;query= 24.92.10.208 (talk) 05:00, 26 January 2012 (UTC)


 * ✅Ccson (talk) 17:18, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Sigma Iota Alpha


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research adeptCmo910 (talk) 14:16, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Good job on the research you do concerning fraternity and sorority life

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Alpha Phi Alpha FAR
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Nomination for deletion of Template:FratMember
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Alpha Phi Alpha members in all languages
Hoi, This is a list of the number of articles in every Wikipedia that has an article about an Alpha Phi Alpha member. I had a look at the en.wp list and found that for some "blue links" there are no articles and for some black links there are.. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 11:56, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Just for the fun of it, here is a Listeria list of members as well. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 12:07, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

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Alpha Kappa Alpha FAR
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