User talk:Gunther65

July 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article List of Alpha Tau Omega chapters, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Eeekster (talk) 23:02, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to List of Alpha Tau Omega chapters, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Eeekster (talk) 02:07, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Alpha Tau Omega chapters-Baird's as a reference
The 1920 Baird's is full accessible on books.google.com and has been used as a reference on many articles including chapter lists. See http://books.google.com/books?id=2iErAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false. I added the. I have a great deal of experience with chapter list pages. Those that I have created or significantly helped on include List of Alpha Phi Omega (Philippines) chapters and alumni associations, List of Alpha Phi Omega chapters and List of Delta Sigma Theta chapters. Also, at this time, you've got two hanging references at the end of the list, I would suggest a sentence at the beginning of the list/table that something like "Alpha Tau Omega has 99 active chapters and 106 inactive chapters . Let me know if I can help...Naraht (talk) 02:50, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Another source of dates
Oddly enough I could only find one place on the Alpha Tau Omega website that included the fact that Mercer was founded in 1880. See http://www.ato.org/ASP/search/searchIndex.xml which is a wierd search file that includes (about a quarter of the way down) a chapter list including founding years. It certainly isn't a great reference, but it may be helpful in finding some cross checked things...Naraht (talk) 02:57, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

List of chapters
Actually heading to bed now, but see comment about XML page at ato.org. I would actually add something to the structure that you have that I have found *most* useful. You can include the month and day of chartering while keeping the sorting if you use the dts template. For example both 1999-12-25 or December 25, 1999 will properly sort in between two others that are November 1999 and January 2000. I did find a source that includes dates for some of the earlier ones. Its is an ATO Catalog from 1897. See http://books.google.com/books?id=5t0TAAAAIAAJ, about page iv. Good Luck, and I'll take a look at the morning to see where I can help.Naraht (talk) 03:07, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Good choice with frat chapter template
Forgot about those templates, they were every useful...Naraht (talk) 03:13, 17 July 2011 (UTC)