Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Notre Dame/Archive 1

AfD notice
Please see Articles for deletion/2005 Michigan State vs. Notre Dame football game. Johntex\talk 16:37, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football under Tyrone Willingham
This article was nominated for Good Article status. I have placed it on hold because there are a few minor fixes that need to be made. I tried to do as many as I could by myself, but I need another editor to help out. The nominator has been away from Wikipedia for a while. If no progress is made on the article by April 2, it will be failed. Thanks for any help, GaryColemanFan (talk) 19:03, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Started the 1988 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team page
Hello all. I started the 1988 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team and am inviting everyone to come and edit and add information. Line scores, game recaps, and a look over of the roster and coaching roster are all definitely welcome. Tedmoseby (talk) 00:57, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Notre Dame
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Coordinators' working group
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WP 1.0 bot announcement
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GA reassessment of Condoleezza Rice
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Notre Dame articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Notability
Please redouble your efforts to ensure that each article covered by this project meets Wikipedia's notability standard. This means that you should include at least one source from a non-local, reliabie third party source offering substantial coverage of the article's topic. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 13:40, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

AfD
This article is about a, maybe real maybe made-up, community surrounding and including the University. Please check it out. If the topic is real then I hope the article will be kept. Articles for deletion/Notre Dame, Indiana BigJim707 (talk) 00:31, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Afd
See Articles for deletion/Notre Dame Fighting Irish football future schedule. Wrad (talk) 17:22, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Discussion has expanded to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_College_football. Please help the community figure out what to do with material on future seasons. Wrad (talk) 19:12, 13 January 2012 (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) 02:13, 13 August 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)

Discussion on consolidating inactive and semi-active university WikiProjects
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Discussion to remove the Automatically assessed logic from the WikiProject United States template
Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko (talk) 18:47, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
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Halls Notability
I have been editing the article for the residence Halls. As you may too, I believe the the Dorms of ND are notable of a separate wikipedia page, and not only of a succinct and information-less summary page as List of residence halls at the University of Notre Dame. I have found documentation about the oldest halls that confirm their historicity and notability, and am setting up some discussions to revert the merging in the summary page and give those dorms that deserve and independent page one. The first hall I did is Badin Hall. Here it the discussion [] in the section "Separate'. Please give it a look, comment, and maybe support its independence. Thanks all Eccekevin

(talk) 04:11, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Request for assistance and review of article on John S. Dunne, C.S.C.
Yesterday, Fr. John S. Dunne, C.S.C. died. He taught 55 years at the university and, according to university sources, taught more Notre Dame students than any other professor in the university's history. Last night, based on sources at hand, I drew up an article for Fr. Dunne, but I would appreciate assistance and review of the article. I would also ask that you include it in the WikiProject Notre Dame. Thanks for your time and consideration!

Ccox csc (talk) 10:29, 12 November 2013 (UTC)


 * I will try to look for some sources and review the article, I'll do what I can. It was a sad loss.

Eccekevin (talk) 04:14, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject Notre Dame 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

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• 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) 14:21, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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WikiProject X is live!


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Location of the University of Notre Dame
There is a new discussion of the location of the University of Notre Dame on Talk:University of Notre Dame--Jahaza (talk) 18:01, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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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)

Revamping the Project (fall 2015)
Hello Everyone!

This project started in 2007 to give appropriate coverage to Notre Dame on Wikipedia. Indeed, it was very successful, and ND-related articles now are at the level of many peer institutions. Yet, there is still a lot to do, and that is why I'm currently in the effort of revamping this Project. The University of Notre Dame page is a bit shaky, there are many pages currently to improve, some to reference, and many to create. A lot of pages also need to be assessed.

I created an invitation banner that has a lot of links. Also, feel free to stick it on the talk page of people you think might be interested.

If you know how wiki projects work and wanna join, great! If you don't know how it works, there's a lot of info on our Main Page, and you can always ask me anything.

Thanks for helping! Eccekevin (talk) 18:13, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Archiving pages
Just a note to say that I moved the /Archive 3 page to /Archive 1, so that it will work in the talk header template, and archiving bots, etc. Archive 3 is now empty, and the bot will fill Archive 1, then #2, then #3, automatically. No need to do anything else, the archiving bot should now work, after 90 days and 4 section headers. Funandtrvl (talk) 02:00, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you talk.Eccekevin (talk) 21:18, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Pages under deletion
A few pages that are in the scope of our project are under risk of deletion/merger. If you want to take a look: Alumni Hall, Badin Hall, Carroll Hall, Keenan Hall. Eccekevin (talk) 21:18, 15 March 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.

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Kelly Hecking
Could use some help finding independent sources regarding Kelly Hecking.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:43, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

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Copyright of pre-March 1989 editions of The Observer
I'm looking through old archives of The Observer and I noticed that the papers don't appear to have valid copyright notices. There are some that state that All reproduction rights are reserved, but this sort of notice seems to be PD-US-defective notice-1978-89 or PD-US-defective notice, because it does not appear to include the copyright symbol ©, the word "Copyright", nor or the abbreviation "Copr.". I'm not able to find registration records of The Observer either, though I'm wondering if anybody else has looked into this before. There are probably a lot of useful photos by Observer staff that can be clipped from the newspaper archives and uploaded either here or on Commons if those editions of the paper are not subject to copyright protections. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 08:24, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Photos needed of the ND Football trophy case at Joyce Center
Hello, is anyone able to take some photos of the various historic Notre Dame football trophies?

Specifically the various national championship trophies as seen here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/11045862294

This plaque has also been owned by the university since 1930, but I have never seen a contemporary photo of it. Is it on display anywhere? https://annistonstar.newspapers.com/clip/116852847/rissman-trophy-photo-1929/

I believe the trophies I'm interested in are found in displays at the Joyce Center, although they may be elsewhere on campus as well. Clear photos of the inscriptions would be ideal.

PK-WIKI (talk) 09:05, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

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