Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Georgia Tech

In honor of Jim Foley's retirement
If anyone has time to work on Jim Foley's page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Foley it might be nice, in honor of his retirement at the end of 2017. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asbruckman (talk • contribs) 17:15, 28 November 2017 (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 23:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

GA The Technique
Just a quick note, I have reviewed the The Technique and consider it meets GA criteria. Therefore the article is now GA. Thanks. LordHarris 10:51, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Hiding TOC
19-Aug-2007: I've noticed, this weekend, the Table-of-Contents (TOC) "[hide]" option has been fixed to allow shrinking/hiding the TOC detail lines. This change will require reformatting thousands of articles to auto-reformat image/text placement, but we knew this day would come, and so it has. I have begun editing articles, with explanation "Allow HIDDEN Table of Contents.." noting, for each article, the changes to allow Hide/Show TOC. An easy fix is to stack the earlier right-side images/tables (as a series of "Image:" and table definitions) near the top of the article, depending on top paragraphs to provide filler text. The text-clipping glitch has NOT been fixed [yet] for small-then-large image stacking; consequently, make stacked-images similar size or put narrow images after wider. Images much later in the article should auto-reformat fine, as is, without moving them. -Wikid77 09:33, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania bid
A few dedicated individuals, myself included, are putting together a bid to host Wikimania on Georgia Tech's campus. This is an incredible opportunity, so any assistance that any of you would be able to provide will be greatly appreciated. Please read Wikimania 2008/Official requirements for bidding cities and contribute to the ongoing bid, located at Wikimania 2008/Bids/Atlanta. The deadline for bids is August 30, 2007, so we need to contact and plan quickly. Thank you for your help. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 21:59, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Userboxes
I'm working on the following userbox if anyone wants it. Any comments, suggestions, etc. can be left at my talk page. -Leif902 22:10, 3 September 2007 (UTC)


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ME School Article
Made one, comment on talk page please - The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ndenison (talk • contribs) 05:36, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Residence Hall articles
I have some concern about the notability of the GT residence hall articles created recently by this project. I wonder if it might be possible that they be combined into an article like University of California, Los Angeles student housing, with a bit more information on individual halls than they have there? Phlegm Rooster (talk) 06:02, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Georgia Institute of Technology
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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) 19:30, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Milestone Announcements
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College Fight Songs
There is a thread on the administrators' noticeboard which may concern editors involved in this WikiProject and may affect the article Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech. Please see Administrators'_noticeboard. CrazyPaco (talk) 01:03, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Just thought some of you would like to know
Jimmy Wales will be speaking at Tech Square on Friday, Feb 13, 2009. Ndenison talk  19:02, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I was there, it was fun. :) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 01:33, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of Georgia Tech traditions
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Georgia Institute of Technology GA Sweeps: On Hold
I have reviewed Georgia Institute of Technology for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since the article falls under the scope of this project, I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 20:33, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Photo request: Delta Air Lines headquarters
If anyone has time, would anyone mind taking a photo of Delta Air Lines's headquarters? It is located at 1030 Delta Boulevard, by the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. I understand that this is not directly related to Georgia Tech, but I am asking here as there is a likelihood of people here who could fulfill the request. Thank you for your consideration. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:16, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Everett Strupper
I have substantially expanded the stub article on Ga. Tech.'s first All-American football player, Everett Strupper. If members of the project have access to additional information or sources that may be relevant, contributions to the article are welcome and encouraged. Cbl62 (talk) 15:06, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Please add WREK
Please add the WREK Radio article to your lists. It says very little about the real character of the station, the expansions underway, the History, etc, and is not listed in your project's GT article list —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.215.108.82 (talk) 18:05, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

afd
You may be interested Articles for deletion/Georgia Tech Ice Hockey. 16x9 (talk) 19:35, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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GA reassessment of Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech
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Gary S. May
I just started an article for provost candidate Gary May. Please help improve it! (Very stub-like start so far.) Asbruckman (talk) 01:59, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Pageview stats
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Georgia Institute of Technology articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Image deletion discussion
Relevant deletion discussion at .--GrapedApe (talk) 17:12, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Wikiproject ACC
I just wanted to let you know that I am trying to reinvigorate the ACC Wikiproject. Please feel free to stop by for a look. CrazyPaco (talk) 07:56, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Navboxes
I recommend we standardize the colors used for navboxes in Georgia Tech articles, including borders, letters, and background colors. The different navboxes have different colors, which continue to change: Example, so it would be good if we could designate standard colors to improve consistency. Mistercontributer (talk) 03:03, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The following web site shows GT official colors. I vote for blue background with gold letters for the navboxes. Approximately half the navboxes already have this color scheme. Any objections to changing the other navboxes to this color scheme to improve consistency? Mistercontributer (talk) 03:28, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The following is one option for navbox color scheme: Example. I used the PMS codes from GT official colors and corresponding web color codes. These colors are pretty strong but match the official colors and would be eye catching. Mistercontributer (talk) 03:51, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * uniform coloring is good, but we should be mindful to use the same border and italic format as other schools per wp:deviations. Frietjes (talk) 17:02, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Just in case anyone may be interested in why the color scheme for GT Navboxes changed (again), please review this discussion. My main concern is that we maintain uniform coloring for all GT Navboxes. -Mistercontributer (talk) 00:59, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I have recently changed these colors. Forgive me for not realizing the navboxes had a history; I should have come here first. I was trying to spruce up the info at Module:College_color/data for purposes of having better infoboxes and navboxes of programs significant to southern college football history (and a few others), for many were absent or seemed haphazard color choices, when programs usually provide them. My reasons for this change should be straightforward:


 * First off, I am following the color guidelines provided by the university itself.


 * Secondly, there have been significant recent changes to Template: Infobox college football player (see e. g. Buck Flowers). The practice creeping up the module of college color choice is to keep the second white if it can be done. This reduces eye sores such as reading orange on blue for the Florida Gators; or purple on orange for Clemson; or black on red for Georgia; or harvard crimson on yale blue for Ole Miss. However I did not lead the charge for these changes as far as infobox college football player is concerned and so you might also wish to consult WikiProject College football. There are indeed some apparent exceptions, e. g. yellow on purple is not difficult. There are also borderline cases for legibility, like gold on black for Vandy or, perhaps, gold on navy blue for Georgia Tech. If one grants the spirit of standardization, surely the color to "give up" and move to the third position is navy blue - for Georgia Tech are the yellow jackets or the golden tornado or surely something gold. The navy chosen for third position also reflects that provided by the school.


 * I will defer to you and ask not merely rhetorically: Is it not the case Georgia Tech is traditionally gold and white just as much if not more than gold and navy blue? Seems the case historically (I've started pages such as 1917 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team) as well as given by my first link, though I admit I could be wrong and am aware navy blue is used in Tech uniforms and so forth today. Aside from my changes to the color module, I changed the text to white on Tech's individual templates' colored banners from a gold shade seemingly chosen at random or at least not provided by the school; since the color of the background was now a different shade of gold rather than navy blue and it made for a gold-on-gold clash nearly impossible to read. Hopefully this makes sense; I am biased of course but think it looks a lot better. Not dogmatic though and will bow to consensus for a quick revert if it's found untenable. Cake (talk) 02:22, 25 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the explanation. This has come up before. The following are a couple of examples of similar past discussions:1 and 2. Since editors keep changing the background color of these templates from blue to gold I recommend we do not change the background color back to blue. My main concern is that we maintain color uniformity as stated above. For example, I noticed you did not change the color of the letters from gold to white for several GT templates. I wish we could lock down these colors and protect these templates somehow to keep these colors from changing. Hopefully other editors will comment regarding this ongoing issue, such as, , . Thanks again Mistercontributer (talk) 00:04, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The only reason I did not change them all was this discussion. I may be biased towards football but the white text on gold resembling the helmet seems a much better contrast. I'll see if I can poke at the history of gold in Georgia Tech. It seems navy goes back to the 40s football jerseys. The name "Golden Tornado" is Morgan Blake old. I admit it's an assumption but I assumed those rounded parts on the Alexander era uniforms were gold or yellow (see Doug Wycoff). Cake (talk) 01:30, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I am familiar with the history of gold color with regards to Georgia Tech. The previous color scheme had gold letters and gold outline around templates with blue background which were more legible and provided more contrast vs. current color scheme, which is a consideration when selecting colors for templates. On Wikipedia, the white letters do not contrast as well with gold background. GT has 4 official colors, and every editor has their own personal preference, so the color schemes of these templates keep changing. Every time these templates change the editor states the reason for the change is because gold is one of the official colors for Georgia Tech, which we already well know. Mistercontributer (talk) 02:41, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Excuse me for the deja vu. Hopefully the change for all the other schools I mentioned makes it seem less of a burden.Cake (talk) 19:40, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I recommend that you go ahead and finish revising the remaining templates and change the letters from gold to white. Please help maintain these templates going forward with current color scheme to keep uniformity. Thanks Mistercontributer (talk) 11:56, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Discussion on consolidating inactive and semi-active university WikiProjects
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College basketball team navboxes
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Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Coaches
The coaches navbox is significantly different from those coaches given in the media guide. Did George Andree ever coach at Georgia Tech?

Navbox: Media guide: Cake (talk) 22:21, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Ernest West (1892)
 * Leonard Wood (1893)
 * No coach (1894)
 * No team (1895)
 * J. B. Wood (1896–1897)
 * No coach (1898)
 * Rufus B. Nalley (1899)
 * Harris T. Collier (1900)
 * John McKee (1901)
 * George Andree (1902)
 * Oliver Huie (1903)
 * Ernest West (1892)
 * Frank O. Spain & Leonard Wood (1893)
 * Frank O. Spain & Leonard Wood (1894)
 * No team (1895)
 * No coach (1896)
 * No coach (1897)
 * Rufus B. Nalley (1898)
 * "Mr. Collier" (1899)
 * W. J. Holman (1900)
 * Cyrus W. Stickler (1901)
 * John McKee (1902)
 * ? none given (1903)


 * Cake; this additional source may help clear things up. Mistercontributer (talk) 02:40, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks to be the same as the media guide. Cake (talk) 15:25, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I see on the talk page for the navbox an editor had already solved this conundrum. It's a shame Tech's media guide is so inaccurate on coaches pre-Heisman. I found it to be pretty good on telling me when Tech played at Ponce de Leon Park. Cake (talk) 11:13, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
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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)

FAR for ANAK Society
I have nominated ANAK Society 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. Bumbubookworm (talk) 19:09, 9 November 2021 (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)

FAR for Tech Tower
I have nominated Tech Tower for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the 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" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 02:38, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Merge of inactive higher education wikiprojects
I'm proposing to merge this and other inactive higher education-related wikiprojects to WikiProject Higher education. Please see the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Higher education. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 18:03, 18 July 2024 (UTC)