Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cornell University/Archive 1

Project Members
I changed the four tildes to three tildes on the guideline for member list entries - there's no need to specify when each member joined (timestamp), and the macro inserts your display name without a timestamp. My own recommendation is for current members to change their entries on the list accordingly, since the timestamps make the list look pretty messy. -Erik Harris 12:45, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Generally, it makes sense to list project members in alphabetical order. Given the combination of aliases and real names, is there any consensus on whether a real name should be inserted based on the last name or first name? With just full names, or just aliases, it seems a bit more cut-and-dry than with a combination. -Erik Harris 19:25, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Great work on the main article
Congrats on the FA for the main article article to all you guys who've been working hard on it. I'm glad I can join this project and help improve other Cornell articles. - Jon Stockton 18:27, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Suggested Article - Comedy
I see that someone listed the Lunatic as a possible article - maybe we could do a joint article with the Lunatic, the Whistling Shrimp, and the Skits-o-Phrenics, and have it be a "Cornell Comedy" thing (I'm not sure how to title that). I'm in the Shrimp, so I've got some information I could condense into a part of an article. Cornell's got a pretty impressive list of comedy alumni (a couple Emmy winners, the guy who wrote Matchstick Men, Elephant Larry, and some other people of note I can't recall offhand), which might be worth mentioning. Bamos 01:48, 16 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Also, note the Cornell Widow, a dead but much superior Cornell comedy publication. --Xtreambar 02:06, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Photo Run
Can somebody go out and take a bunch of good, medium to high-res pictures of the requested photos on the Todo? — mercuryboard talk 16:45, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Cornelliana
Could someone go through and a bunch of the "Citation Needed" tags to the Cornelliana article where they are needed? --Xtreambar 16:18, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Aerial photos
I just remembered that I have a bunch of great aerial shots of the campus taken by a friend when we were flying with East Hill Flying Club. I'll get his permission and post them on my user page or another convenient place. They include North, West, Central, and the athletics area. I'll let you know when they're up. - Jon Stockton 21:57, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I uploaded the photos and put them in a gallery on my user page. I added one to the Cornell North Campus article. I'll add some more when I can, and in the meantime feel free to add any of them to any appropriate articles. - Jon Stockton 18:32, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Work on Weill Medical School for this week
I recommend making the Weill Medical School the collaboration of this week.--Cornell010 16:22, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

New Cornell pics
Today, the weather is great at Cornell. In honor of this rare moment, I have checked out a library camera to take some new Cornell pics. I would be taking them, rather than updating Wikipedia, right now were it not for the problem that whoever last took photos didn't recharge the batteries! Shame on them! *sigh* So, expect to see fresh photos by tomorrow evening. I will probably post them to Flickr with a GNU licence so that you guys can pick/alter whatever you want. --Xtreambar 16:47, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

To-Do Lists
I've added To-Do lists to the "WikiProject Cornell Univ" template. Now, all pages in the project have to-do lists. Feel free to add to them or contribute to the pages themselves. Great job, guys, again on getting to the Main Page.--Xtreambar 19:10, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 21:27, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Cornell Map
Libremap.org has public domain maps. One of Cornell can be found here if you enter "Cornell" into the search box. Perhaps someone would like to turn one of the maps into a vector map of Cornell that we could use for building articles and other such things.--Xtreambar 00:55, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Don't Panic
I'm busilly fixing the bugs in the new lay out. Don't worry or touch it, please. Gimme a few minutes before you jump in :) --Xtreambar 01:29, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Alright, can someone please tell me how to get the second column to allign with the right half of the page, not the right half of the left column? --Xtreambar 01:38, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * That's a format bug in the last full "piece"... I'll see if I can find it. If you need a guide, use WikiProject Georgia Tech... I set it up using WikiProject RuneScape as a format model and WikiProject Cornell University as a content model. :) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 03:06, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Found it! There was an unclosed div tag in the image section. All fixed now :) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 03:15, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 23:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Deleted article: The Class Notes
Okay, why has the article on the Class Notes been deleted? The Chordials, Hangovers, and Cayuga's Waiters all still have their articles. If the article needed cleanup or revision, it should have been marked as such, not deleted.

The Notes have been a fixture on the Cornell campus since 1983. Where's the article gone?

--Gradient 01:32, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

request for comment
I have proposed a merger of the McGraw Tower and Cornell Chimes articles. Any thoughts? Cornell Rockey 18:18, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, no one said anything, so I did it. Ha ha ha! Cornell Rockey 17:16, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * A great name for a Dino's trivia team would be "Jennie McGraw's Bloody Rag." --Cjs56 17:27, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * PS: Nice merge
 * THat would be a good name for a trivia team. Cornell Rockey 17:33, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Mcgraw.jpg
I noticed that there was a mention on the page for Image:Cornell Mcgraw USA.jpg, currently on Wikimedia Commons, to use the local Mcgraw.jpg instead. Why is this, exactly? The two images are exactly the same, and if anything, the image on Commons has a superior (more specific) name and would logically be the preferred image. --fuzzy510 03:31, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Suggested one user from WikiProject Cornell University to be an admin
I see that WikiProject Cornell University does not have any admin, so I would like to suggest that there should be an administrator involved in this project. If you are in WikiProject Cornell University and feel ready to be an administrator, then please contact me and I'll nominate you to be an admin. NHRHS2010 Talk  04:08, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion: Cornell Savoyards

 * --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 00:18, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Photo request
Could someone add a photograph to Morrill Hall (Cornell University)? Thanks--Appraiser (talk) 20:47, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. Could use a better one; Ill work on that come spring time.  cOrneLlrOckEy (talk) 22:00, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I uploaded two photos I took in April 2008 to Wikimedia Commons and inserted them into the article. Notyourbroom (talk) 06:53, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

How does one flag a possible error?
I'm new to this, so excuse such a dumb question. I'm Class of '68 and noticed that the write-up of the takeover of Willard Straight Hall is listed as having occured in April 1969. It has been almost 40 years, so my memory could be an issue here, but I'm pretty sure the takeover occurred while I was on campus in 1968 (and I was gone by Spring of '69). There are three possibilities: 1. I'm just plain wrong, 2. It really was 1968, OR 3. There were two events (one in 68 and one in 69). Someone might want to double check. The incident is mentioned in a new book entitled Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg (pg 163-164)and it references 1969 but my guess is that he got the date here. Scramjetcco (talk) 20:40, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The book about it is called Cornell '69 Amazon.com, so I think it was 1969. cOrneLlrOckEy (talk) 21:36, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The date of the takeover was April 18-20, 1969. Source. Funny how one's memory is not always accurate. - Kzirkel (talk) 14:11, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Sphinx Head Good Article Evaluation
Cornell1890 nominated this piece as a Good Article; I've completed my remarks. I am conducting this review in accordance with a proposed open review process where a review is kept open for three days to a week for additional comment. Members of this project are entitled to their two cents: please drop your coins here. Take care. Gosgood (talk) 23:26, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Article regarding budget cuts on Arecibo Observatory
I Am looking for anyone who might be a scientist, or expert skimming these pages, or even someone who has a bit of knowledge on the Arecibo Observatory and the budget cuts. I am doing an article on Wikinews and looking for some insight. Please contact me at Here if you can help. DragonFire1024 (talk) 05:10, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

William Henry Miller (architect)
This article was finally started, but I'm concerned that it lacks notability and references. Does anyone have any ideas where we could get better ones? My copy of Morris Bishop's book is in storage, and I can't find too much after some quick googling, so I'd love an assist here. cOrneLlrOckEy (talk) 15:22, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Cornell FAR
Cornell University has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 22:01, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

RfC for WP:BOOSTER
There is a request for comment about whether or not WP:BOOSTER documents a standard consensus and good practice that all editors and school/college/university articles should follow as an official policy or guideline. Madcoverboy (talk) 19:28, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Der Hexenkreis
To begin, I am not a participant in the project. I recently came across this article on NP Patrol and put several tags on it. The primary author either does not know about Wikipedia procedures and guidelines or does not care. There are multiple issues with the article most notably the lack of references. We have not been able to engage the editor in conversation on the talk page. I hoping someone here who is knowledgeable on the subject can help this article or even recommend that it isn't notable and should be deleted. I also understand this same editor has been posting unreferenced information (possibly factual errors) on other Cornell related articles. Thanks for you help! Ndenison talk  21:34, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

College Fight Songs
There is a thread on the administrators' noticeboard which may concern editors involved in this WikiProject and may affect the article Give My Regards to Davy. Please see Administrators'_noticeboard. CrazyPaco (talk) 01:03, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

New Campus Photographs
Hello,

When I decided to get involved in this Wikiproject, I uploaded about ten campus images from my personal archive, but most of my photos weren't really "objective" or "uncluttered" enough for use on a site like this :). So today, I took over 400 photos on campus for the express purpose of uploading them to Wikimedia Commons. I narrowed those down to about 60, available in the gallery below. I hope these will prove useful, and any comments would be appreciated!

Please also note that I gave each image only a very basic description and placed each image only into the "Cornell University" category on Commons, so please feel welcome to navigate to the image description pages and add additional information as you see fit. -- Notyourbroom (talk)

Inactive project members. Remove from main list?
I checked everyone's contributions, and these members have not made any edits to Wikipedia since before September 2008:



I did not pay attention to what pages had been edited by the members of this project recently, so it's possible that there are other members who have not edited any Cornell-relevant articles in the last year.

I propose we remove these individuals from the main project member list (since it's getting quite long) and perhaps add a note to the bottom of the list pointing to a list of inactive members to be maintained on a separate subpage of the project.

Lacking any comments to the contrary, I will make this change sometime in the next month or so. --Notyourbroom (talk) 01:50, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Twitter, Jack Dorsey, House (TV series)
Greetings, my name is Greg and I'm active in the (amongst others) Twitter article. Recently someone added information to the article stating that the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, studied at Cornell University. Stating that this information shouldn't have been in the opening sentence of the article, I removed it. Several separate editors (mainly IPs) then proceeded to re-add this information, in the same place, despite warnings form myself and other editors.

This was irritating, but I could see the logic. That is, until Jack Dorsey recently made it public that he never went to Cornell. Despite this, people continue to add the information. They also insist on doing so on his own article and claim that Gregory House studied at the institution as well (added to House (TV series) too). I and other editors can find no evidence for this to be true.

If anybody in this WikiProject is aware of why people keep adding this - maybe there's a notice to do so somewhere - can I ask that you politely stop people doing so by pointing out that what they're adding simply isn't true? As far as I can tell, it's more than one person involved in this problem.

Thanks so much, WikiProject. Greggers (t &bull; c) 19:40, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Things are pretty quiet over here. (I'm Notyourbroom, currently locked out by the wikibreak enforcer script, actually.) I can assure you I have no idea who is doing this, but until I began my wikibreak, I'd been fighting off quite a bit of vandalism to Cornell-related pages, especially to Slope Day; much of the vandalism was coming from Cornell University IP addresses. --132.236.60.60 (talk) 02:44, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Archiving
I archived a bunch of old messages; see the new archive navbox on the upper-right of the screen. It's a manual system, but should be pretty self-explanatory if you dig into it. &mdash;Notyourbroom ( talk ) 03:03, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * To be clear, I definitely invite any improvements anyone wants to make. This is just a quick hackjob solution based on what I did for my Commons account. &mdash;Notyourbroom ( talk ) 03:09, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Collaborative Projects
Is anyone interested on working on an article together if we designate one article per month as the "Collaboration of the Month"? Racepacket (talk) 20:52, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure, that would be interesting to try. &mdash;Bill Price (nyb) 01:46, 29 August 2010 (UTC)


 * How about working on the History of Cornell University. I have been trying for a year to bring it up the "Good Article" status and my two nominations have been rejected.  From 2006 onward, it was correctly characterized as just the founding and the Straight takeover, so I have systematically added sections to make in comprehensive in scope.  Most of the GA review hit the founding sections as being under footnoted with archaic prose.  Maybe we can work on the criticisms from Talk:History of Cornell University/GA2  Racepacket (talk) 15:49, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Arecibo naic big.gif
A file that WP:Cornell uses extensively, File:Arecibo naic big.gif, has been listed at Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.
 * Does anyone have a public domain image of the telescope? Thanks. Racepacket (talk) 03:09, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

GA Nomination
The Cornell University article was the WP:UNI collaboration of the month for August 2010. Based on that work, I cleaned up a few items placed a GA nomination. It was reviewed promptly, but failed based on a number grounds. Based on that review, I have trimmed back a few sections, moving content into the subsidiary articles, found missing references and copy edited. This week, I have renominated the article. Feel free to continue to improve it. However, try to avoid lengthening the history, people or student activities sections of the main article. The bots have identified a few dead links. Although that is not a relevant GA criteria, feel free to fix them. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 19:48, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Now that we have reached GA on History of Cornell University, we probably should renew our effort to bring Cornell Univesity to GA. We need to check all references and to make sure that there is no accidental close copying of sources.  Please join in this effort. Racepacket (talk) 04:09, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Cornell literary societies
Apparently there has been a situation unfolding without notice to WikiProject Cornell University. (They have been notifying WikiProject New York instead.) A group of new editors have written an article on the Irving Literary Society which existed at Cornell from 1868 to 1887. A number of sources indicate that Irving disbanded at that point. The sources cited treat Irving on an equal basis with three other large literary societies at that time. Therefore, I moved the article to Cornell literary societies with a separate section on each group and the rest of the article discussing their common characteristics. I deleted all post-1888 material, because there is no independent secondary source documenting a connection between Irving and a particular male-only residential social fraternity which now claims to be its successor.

Subsequently, the editor created a POV-folk at The Irving Literary Society. The assistance of active WikiProject Cornell volunteers is needed to improve Cornell literary societies and to generally help resolve this situation. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 14:03, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Today, a number of editors involved in the The Irving Literary Society fork were blocked indefinitely for sockpuppetry. I have also started an AfD on that article and am removing post-1888 references to it in other biographies.  Some of the purported ILS members never attended Cornell or were active members of fraternities other than the one in question.  Again, everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia and to Cornell-related articles.  (I hope that we can find more ways to encourage Cornellians to participate at Wikipedia.)  But we all have to follow the rules and avoid burdening each other with non-productive make-work.  The Cornell literary societies is our current collaboration of the month. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 17:19, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Today the AfD on The Irving Literary Society was resolved as Keep but the article will be limited to its historic existence (1868-1887). Racepacket (talk) 09:35, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

GA Nomination
I have nomiated Cornell Plantations for GA status. Please feel free to improve it, or if you have not contributed to that article, to review it. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 09:35, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

In August, the main Cornell University article was the WikiProject Universities collaboration of the month. A lot of work went into adding missing sources for the article and other clean up. Since the goal of the collaboration was to take the former Featured Article back to GA status, I nominted the article for GA. It was rejected, and I worked around the clock for 3 days to address all of the listed concerns and renominated it. After a wait and a extensive review, it has failed. Could someone else please take the lead in getting us back to GA or FA? Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 05:20, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

New Images
While picking up the kid at the Alma Mater, I took photos of as many buildings as I could, especially the new ones. Well, they were new to me, and some are new to Wikimedia Commons. I'm also creating a bunch of new categories (we had no decent photos of the Ezra statue on the Arts Quad?!) - Kzirkel (talk) 14:16, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Book
I have created Book:Cornell University to gather our work in one place, that can be downloaded into a 54 MB PDF. Racepacket (talk) 11:45, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposed Policies
I think we should establish consensus and post policies on the project page regarding: 1) moving or renaming articles - I propose at least a one week notice period before moving/merging Cornell articles. 2) department-level articles - History and Applied Economics and Management (nee Agricultural Economics) have separate articles. Is that a good thing? Should we strive for articles for each academic deoartment or field? 3) article naming conventions - in 2006, we moved toward starting most article about Cornell with "Cornell University" as the first two words of the title. With the Dyson School and the Johnson Graduate School of management, we have moved them to be outside this pattern. Is that a good thing? 4) excess reliance on CU websites - when can we rely upon them, what are preferred methods for avoiding over-reliance on them. 5) Preferred citation format for archived Sun, Chronicle, Cornell Alumni News and Cornell Era articles. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 19:16, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I wrote the HIST department article because I had wanted to know more about my home department and decided that such info was Wikiworthy. I proposed the Physics Department because it is, quite frankly, a legendary department (Just think of how many Manhattan Project members were associated with the department!).  Obviously, some departments have had more noteworthy professors and students pass through their doors than others, so not all departments need to have their own articles eventually.  --Xtreambar (talk) 05:40, 22 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I tend to agree with Xtreambar that many of the departments at Cornell are wiki-worthy, but most probably are not (IMHO). There are probably some guidelines that we can flesh out to decide whether or not a particular department deserves a page or not.  The sooner we get some guidelines, the sooner we can start violating them ;).  The Physics Dept, was given as an example because of its numerous significant faculty and grads.  It seems like a good smell test to me to have at least enough profs/grads with their own wiki articles to field a baseball team before the department gets an article based on that criterion.  Many other departments are notewothy either because they are now or were at some other time unique-- like Home Economics.  We certainly don't need to be too formal on this, but some guidelines prevents there from being too many articles on departments that are not exceptionally noteworthy.  Sadly, I think that my own Department of City and Regional Planning is likely in this group-- although CornellRockey may disagree.


 * Also, we should probably establish a convention for naming departments. This is similar to Racepacket's point #3, in which he points out a previously established convention of begining most Cornell article titles with "Cornell University." Here are a couple of proposed conventions (the first is my favorite):
 * 1.) Cornell University Department of __________
 * 2.) Cornell University College of _____________ Department of ____________
 * 3.) Cornell University ______________ Department
 * 4.) Department of _______________, Cornell University
 * 5.) ?????


 * Finally, RE: Racepacket 's query #4, I've leaned heavily on The New York Times for a lot of my Cornell-centric articles, as well as Bishop's "Cornell: A History."


 * --Cjs56 (talk) 03:11, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

I opt for "Cornell University Department of ___" because there are no cases of departments in different college having the same name. Also some department such as Geology have started in one college (Arts) and then moved to a different college (Engineering). Racepacket (talk) 04:12, 5 January 2011 (UTC)


 * What about Biology being in A&S and Ag and Physics being in A&S and Eng? Anyone know how these departments are classified?  --Xtreambar (talk) 06:29, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Departments moves but there is no duplication. The "Division of Biological Sciences" was in both A&S and Ag. When the Ford Foundation expired, it was dissolved, and now there are a half dozen different departments split between the two schools. (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Entomology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Neurobiology & Behavior, Plant Biology, and Biomedical Sciences)  There are separate "Physics" (A&S) and "Applied and Engineering Physics" (Eng) faculty groups. Racepacket (talk) 19:33, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Collaboration
We lost a bit of momentum over the past month. I was away for most of February and Notyourbroom is still on wikibreak. Is there still interest on working together to improve one article each month as a "Collaboration of the Month?" Please reply to this message if you are interested. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 22:40, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

List of Cornell People
It would help that editors wanting to restructure central elements of our Project discuss them here before making changes. For several years, we had List of Cornell University People which included a list of notable faculty, notable alumni, a table of presidents, a table of Board chairs and a athletic directors. That has been redirected to Cornell University. I propose to reverse the redirect, keep the table materials and have main cross references to the new alumni and faculty list. Any thoughts? Racepacket (talk) 14:28, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Hearing no objections, I have gone back to the single List article rather than three separate articles. It would be hard to justify the notability of a separate list of Presidents, Board Chairs or Athletic directors. Please let us discuss things in the future before making major changes. Racepacket (talk) 13:45, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * For now, I have restructed the list a bit to create a separate overall heading for non-academic staff and moved the coaches into that section. On a related note, I am pleased that we brought Henry Taube up to GA status. Racepacket (talk) 12:03, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Proposal for United States A-Class review process
There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko (talk) 02:01, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Cornell Concert Commission
Hi there! My name is Lauren Smith and I am currently a senior Communication major in CALS. For a class project, my group and I are creating a Wikipedia page for the Cornell Concert Commission. I was wondering if anyone here could provide some insight to our project thus far. The article is being worked on at user Kl462's talk page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kl462/CornellConcertCommission. I would also like to know how we can get one of the Cornell University boxes at the bottom of our page, which has the links to all things Cornell. Any feedback or help would be greatly appreciated! --Lms353 (talk) 20:00, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Cornell NYC Tech
Howdy all! Cornell NYC Tech was created on 27 January with some fairly big WP:WEIGHT issues. Most of the content focussed (in an unbalanced way, in my opinion) on controversies about the development and the involvement of an Israeli institute. It included a large tract on the institute and it's apparent crimes against various groups, completely unrelated to the subject.

I came across it during a new page patrol and have helped another (concerned) editor to clean it up a bit. But it needs a lot more work. Editing drive anyone? There are heaps of great sources from the NYT and various other publications. I've added your project's header to the talk page (with some others) to get some input. Cheers, Stalwart 111  08:04, 12 February 2013 (UTC).

Discussion on consolidating inactive and semi-active university WikiProjects
This project may be affected by a proposed consolidation of inactive and semi-active WikiProjects covering universities. The proposed consolidation is being discussed on the talk page of WikiProject Universities. We are seeking feedback from the projects that may be impacted before we decide on a course of action. Please drop by to participate in the discussion. Thanks! –Mabeenot (talk) 06:41, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

GAR
Cornell Plantations, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.--FutureTrillionaire (talk) 20:33, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Cornell Big Red softball
Hello, everyone. I've recently started the College softball task force, working to help expand Wikipedia's college softball coverage. One of the articles we are looking for is a Cornell Big Red softball article. If anyone on this project would be willing to consider adopting it and writing a team article, please consider visiting the softball project. Thanks, Ejgreen77 (talk) 04:23, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Improving the China-Cornell-Oxford Project Article
Hello everyone,

I recently watched "Forks Over Knives," a documentary that advocates a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle. To me, the most influential piece of evidence in this documentary was the explanation of the findings of the China-Cornell-Oxford Project. This study, led by Cornell professor of nutritional biochemistry T. Colin Campbell, was one of the most comprehensive studies of nutrition ever conducted. Its findings promote the vegan lifestyle by linking animal products to a variety of health issues including type I diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and low cholesterol. After watching the film, I was very interested in learning more about this study, but I noticed this article was a stub. This page is considered low importance as a part of Wikiproject china, but I think it should also be considered a part of the Cornell University WikiProject. I am going to begin converting this page from a stub to a full article, and I would greatly appreciate any help and editing tips!

Thank you! Stephanie3460 (talk) 19:04, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

College basketball team navigation template
Please join the discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navigation template for college basketball teams. CrazyPaco (talk) 09:35, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject Cornell University at Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014 For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 14:00, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Alpha Phi Alpha FAR
I have nominated Alpha Phi Alpha for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 14:00, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject United States - 50,000 Challenge
--- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:29, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

New Article for the Mascot
Hello! My name is Stephanie and I am a junior CS major in the College of Engineering. I am in the class COMM/INFO 3460: Online Communities, and for our first major assignment, my group and I are creating a page for the history of Touchdown the Big Red Bear. The article is currently being developed on a subpage of my user page at (Touchdown the Big Red Bear), which I will add to the "article requests and ideas" section of the WikiProject. If you would like to help develop the article, any contributions or advice are greatly appreciated! Everyone in my group is new to Wikipedia editing, so even advice on format/syntax would be great. Thanks! Stephanie3460 (talk) 15:47, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I added some information about the statue of Touchdown, along with a photo of it. Also an article from the Sun about students in the Touchdown costume. - Kzirkel (talk) 15:05, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)