Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Texas A&M/Announcements

===FLC Football coaches=== 22:32, 25 February 2010 (UTC) Thanks to hard work by WikiProject Big 12, the brand new page List of Texas A&M Aggies head football coaches was nominated as a FLC. Keep up the good work! –
 * Update, the page was promoted! Great work. Oldag07 (talk) 22:40, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

===WikiProject Big 12=== 05:40, 27 November 2009 (UTC) The WikiProject Big 12 Conference recently started up. Any help on Texas A&M University pages is good for this project. Thanks and gig em! –

===Changed project Picture=== 05:56, 3 July 2009 (UTC) I changed the wikiproject picture. the old picture didn't really stick out because while it looks good big, the picture is far too detailed for a picture being viewed at only 80 px. In other news, a big event article is under construction. please see talk page for more details. –

===Some Cushing images are free use=== 06:46, 24 April 2009 (UTC) Cushing Memorial Library has uploaded its historical images to Flickr, and some of them are licensed as CC-BY. Check them out:  –

===Muster=== 04:20, 26 March 2009 (UTC) I know I am preaching to the choir, but I just wanted to remind everyone that Aggie Muster is coming up in less than a month. I will be attending the Dallas A&M Club muster. Maybe I will run into one of you up here. Gig em! –

===Singing Cadets GA=== 15:08, 5 March 2009 (UTC) The Texas A&M Singing Cadets passed its GA nomination. Thanks and gig em! –

===Article alerts=== 17:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC) I've subscribed us to article alerts (see recent Signpost article). Article alerts will be generated at WikiProject Texas A&M/Article alerts. –

===Texas A&M Singing Cadets GA Nomination=== 18:08, 3 February 2009 (UTC) The Texas A&M Singing Cadets page, has been nominated for GA status. –

===Wikiportal=== 04:49, 29 January 2009 (UTC) I didn't even know this was up. I am going to try to modify some of our existing templates to get more hits on that page. WikiPortal Texas A&M University –

===Featured list=== 06:18, 11 January 2009 (UTC) Our List of Texas Aggie terms is now featured list! Thanks to all who helped! –

Announcement Archive

===Featured topic=== 05:52, 4 January 2009 (UTC) Texas A&M is a featured topic candidate. FT page–

===Featured list=== 02:21, 20 December 2008 (UTC) our List of Texas Aggie terms is a featured list nominee again. –

===Texas GA=== 15:33, 1 November 2008 (UTC) Not completely related to TAMU, but Texas just got promoted to GA –

===Ha-Dee=== 22:25, 11 October 2008 (UTC) We haven't been as active as we have in the past. Still, We seem to have a lot of new volunteers, and that is awesome. I am hoping everyone is doing well. Gig Em! –

===Batt article on Wikipedia=== 16:41, 16 June 2008 (UTC) Here's afront page article from today's Battalion that talks about the importance of keeping A&M pages accurate. I think we're doing a fine job at that :) –

===Campus of Texas A&M University=== 20:46, 1 April 2008 (UTC) There is currently an effort to make the campus article a good article. See the peer review as to how it may be improved. Any help would be appreciated. –

===List of Aggie terms FA nomination=== 01:58, 6 March 2008 (UTC) Bad news, the List of Texas Aggie terms failed FL nomination. Negatives, we did not make it, positives, this article greatly improved. I need a huge break from wikipedia, as shown on my profile, but maybe a GA push would be more appropriate. I think the article could pass now honestly, if someone wants to do that. I might push few months from now. Thank you much for the help! –

===Glossary of Texas Aggie terms nomination === 02:19, 18 February 2008 (UTC) Glossary of Texas Aggie terms has been nominated for featured list status. Featured_list_candidates/Glossary_of_Texas_Aggie_terms –

===AfD=== 20:10, 2 February 2008 (UTC) Glossary of Texas Aggie terms has been nominated for deletion. –

===Good source for A&M traditions=== 21:23, 30 January 2008 (UTC) Here's an ESPN article that can be used as an additional source for the articles. It was written by an Aggie. –

===Singing Cadets Finally Started=== 01:28, 27 January 2008 (UTC) The Texas A&M Singing Cadets page finally has been posted. Thank you Supersonicdude –

===Update Campus of Texas A&M University=== 19:39, 6 January 2008 (UTC) Campus of Texas A&M University updates. I am trying to update the Campus of Texas A&M University page. I have a rough draft done, and I would like someone to look over it before post it. New Campus Information  –

===Happy New Year=== 19:27, 31 December 2007 (UTC) 2007 has been a monster year for Texas A&M, and it's wikipedia pages. A&M:
 * Dr Robert Gates became secretary of defense, but we will have a new one soon.
 * The Texas A&M Men's Basketball Team made the sweet 16, i want to say for the first time ever.
 * We beat t.u. again in football
 * New Coaches, Mark Turgeon for Basketball, and Mike Sherman for football.
 * Began construction of several buildings in including new physics buildings, and a 100 million dollar life sciences building
 * Oldag07 graduated
 * A&M number one in the Washington Monthly Rankings
 * Can you think of any more?, Add them . ..

For Aggie Wikipedia pages:
 * The Texas A&M University main page got Featured Article Status, first in the big 12.
 * This WikiProject A&M started
 * Organized all Texas A&M articles with a ranking system both of importance and quality of articles. Assessment
 * In addition to our main article, we brought the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band, the History of Texas A&M University, Aggie Bonfire, and Lawrence Sullivan Ross articles to featured article status. Brought Traditions of Texas A&M University to GA status.
 * Two of our FA's have have become featured articles of the week. Aggie bonfire, and the band.
 * Grown to 20 members. Participants

We got so much done this year, 2008 is going to be even more amazing. Happy New year. Thanks and Gig Em! –

===New A&M template=== 12:24, 18 December 2007 (UTC) There seems to be a mixed response on a proposed new template for A&M pages. Discuss –

===Aggie Bonfire on main page=== 15:34, 17 December 2007 (UTC) Aggie Bonfire has been selected to be the Featured Article on the main page on Saturday, December 22. I'm probably going to be out of town for most of that day and won't be able to keep a close anti-vandal watch. If you're online that day, please visit that page periodically so that we can try to keep the page relatively accurate. Thanks! –

===Recap=== 16:33, 17 November 2007 (UTC) This is what I believe is going on with the project at the moment: If i don't talk to you guys soon, have Happy Holidays! –
 * Lawrence Sullivan Ross is now an FA
 * Portal:Texas A&M University seems inactive
 * Supersonic_Dude has done a fantastic job with a singing cadets article. However, we need a image for them before we post.  link to draft

===Hullaballoo origin!=== Sweet merciful heaven! I think I've found someone else who used "Hullaballoo" in their yells!!! See here. Feel free to use as a reference in any A&M articles. — BQZip01 — talk 02:52, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

===2007-08 Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball team=== 02:02, 2 November 2007 (UTC) Just created the 2007-08 Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball team article. Would appreciate any help improving it. Thanks! –

===New GA=== 21:42, 25 October 2007 (UTC) Traditions of Texas A&M University has just been promoted to GA –
 * Nice! — BQZip01 —  talk 02:47, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

===FA Candidate=== 14:13, 3 October 2007 (UTC) I've just nominated the article Lawrence Sullivan Ross to be a Featured article. You are welcome to leave comments. –

===WikiPortal Texas A&M University=== 21:40, 23 September 2007 (UTC) Our newest member Dvmorris has started Wikiportal Texas A&M University. Thanks so much for your hard work Dvmorris. Ask any of us if you need any help –

===Traditions GA Nomination=== 16:29, 22 September 2007 (UTC) Traditions of Texas A&M University has been nominated for GA status by Karanacs. Keep up the good work –

===2007 Texas A&M Aggies football team=== 04:17, 9 September 2007 (UTC) 2007 Texas A&M Aggies football team has just been created. Unfortunately, I will not have too much time expanding the article, so any edits to improve the article would be appreciated! – ===Fightin' Texas Aggie Band featured on the main page=== 03:40, 9 September 2007 (UTC) The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band will be the featured article on 11 September 2007!!! Thanks to all who helped make this a featured article and pushed for it to be on the main page! Gig 'em! –
 * WHOOP!  Blue  Ag09 (Talk) (Talk) (Talk) 04:17, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

===New Push Article=== 02:12, 8 September 2007 (UTC) Seems like Traditions of Texas A&M University and Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets are the two push articles at the moment. –

===Aggie Bonfire=== 13:15, 20 August 2007 (UTC) Aggie Bonfire has now been nominated for promoted to Featured Article status. Please leave your comments here. –
 * Good work everyone!! — BQZip01 —  talk

===Wikibreak=== 06:02, 20 August 2007 (UTC) I made my final edits to wikipedia for quite some time. i moved some of the clutter of the main wikiproject page to a New to Wikipedia Page. it could use some cleaning. be sure to empty the announcement page after putting down a few to make sure the thing isn't too cluttered. –

===RC Slocum=== 18:17, 16 August 2007 (UTC) I think I only told BQ about this, but Slocum edited his own article back in March. Neat, eh? I recently added him to this list. Charles T. McDowell, one of our notable Aggies, also did something similar. I'm assuming they edited Wikipedia by their usernames... –

===History=== 02:28, 15 August 2007 (UTC) The History of Texas A&M University article achieved FA status. good work –

===Aggie Bonfire=== 18:32, 14 August 2007 (UTC) BQ and I are starting an FA push to get the Aggie Bonfire to FA status by November. He has already begun making suggestions for improvement on the talk page. Please come by the talk page, provide suggestions, and sign up for sections to work on. I know that many of our members began attending A&M after the official Bonfire tradition subsided and may have never seen Bonfire burn. I especially encourage you, then, to participate in this article and learn more about this tradition, and the Aggie spirit it represented, as it was incredibly important to the school and students for almost a century. –

Association of Former Students URGENT An employee of the Association of Former Students has made big edits to the Association of Former Students page. This person has put a whole lot of work onto the page, and I don't want to alienate him. however, the edits i feel are not of a neutral point of view, and the does not conform to the wikipedia manual of style. I have created a draft email to send to this person and posted it on our discussion page.  I will send this off on Sunday.  id much rather aggies deal with this person rather than some person unrelated to Texas A&M half way across the world delete all his stuff.  this person did provide their address on BlueAg's talk page.  Please read, edit, and comment. [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Texas_A%26M#Association_of_Former_Students|Draft   Oldag07 05:23, 10 August 2007 (UTC) moved blueag's paragraph to talk page

===12 participants=== 03:41, 10 August 2007 (UTC) 12 participants on wikiproject texas a&m. how approprate Welcome Gabe –

===FA Nom=== 18:55, 31 July 2007 (UTC) History of Texas A&M University has been nominated for FA. Keep your fingers crossed! –
 * Update: Any members of the project are eligible to critique the article for FA status and vote on what you think.  BQZip01 has made a lot of really helpful suggestions and has now voted to support.  Karanacs 14:49, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

===Official Aggie Maroon has changed=== 20 June 2008 Pantone now has a custom color called Aggie Maroon, and it's no longer Pantone 202, or #8C2633 or Pantone 505, or #6C1420. See color swatches at http://brandguide.tamu.edu/print/aggieMaroon.html. The hex code is #500000.Mdmcginn (talk) 18:00, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

17:59, 19 July 2007 (UTC) official aggie maroon is 	Pantone 202, or #8C2633 according this source. http://www.tamu.edu/tamunews/faq.html i think we can finally settle the whole thing.
 * Another source http://engineer.tamu.edu/communications/publications/TAME_standards.pdf

– ===Maroon color=== 03:37, 22 June 2007 (UTC) I was wrong about the color. The hex code for Pantone 505, the official Aggie maroon, is #6C1420. Though it looks more violet than maroon, it is was certainly the shade used (http://www.tamu.edu/trademarks/documents/graphicsmanual.pdf) here (broken link). –

===Question about Aggieland=== 05:26, 18 July 2007 (UTC) Currently, Aggieland is being redirected to College Station, Texas. What exactly is being referred to when using the word "Aggieland"? The campus or the city? If it is the campus, Aggieland should be redirected to the campus article –
 * Doing a google search, there seems to be a lot of organizations not affiliated with the university with the name Aggieland. For example: Aggieland outfitters, aggieland cycling. I think college station is an approprate redirect.  Oldag07 17:59, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

===Categories=== 18:07, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I believe I finished adding all A&M articles listed in A&M related categories. Thanks Karanacs for your help in adding templates.
 * We have 339 340 articles.
 * I have also added a "Recent Changes" section. It is really useful–
 * Also archived old announcements on the talk page of the announcement page

===87 unranked articles=== 13:32, 11 July 2007 (UTC) Yes, the bot messed up and unranked 87 of our articles including our 2 fa articles and our ga articles. I am working on fixing it, and i believe i corrected it. I did too much tinkering with the template, and that is probably what went wrong. I reverted and I believe it will take a few hours before wikipedia corrects it to the point to where i can manually run the bot again. – Fixed Oldag07 22:13, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

===Bot error=== 03:43, 6 July 2007 (UTC) The bot seems to have improperly tagged Robert Gates as FA-class here, even though it is only B-class –


 * It wasn't the bots fault. whoever put that placed the template on that site accidently labeled it an FA with both the State of Texas WikiProject and ours.  I fixed it yesterday, but the bot hasn't fixed the stat page yet.Oldag07 00:51, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

===Independence Day=== 12:46, 4 July 2007 (UTC) Happy Independence day –

===Texas A&M University Category=== 22:30, 26 June 2007 (UTC) Recent changes button is changed to be more useful. now it loooks up all the articles in the Texas A&M University Category: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Texas_A%26M_University. I have added all of the articles from that category onto our wikiproject. However, it would be better to change that link above so it could look up all the subcategories of Wikiproject Texas A&M. If someone understands parser functions, it would be nice if they could change our WikiProject Template so this can happen. ..

We still have more available articles to hit up. . haven't hit up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Texas_A%26M_University_alumni, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Texas_A%26M_University_faculty, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Texas_A%26M_Aggies. The categories on all of our pages are a huge mess. It will take a long time to fix them, but if anybody wants to, be my guest. I have also suggested several merges. March to the Brazos to traditions and the Corps pages and the Eller O&M Building to the campus pages. We might not even need to add all new articles onto the articles page seen on the right. Odiscuss on the discussion page –

===Student life=== 14:50, 21 June 2007 (UTC) Student Life of Texas A&M University page is coming along very well. any help would be appreciated –

===Corps articles (pun intended)=== 19:29, 20 June 2007 (UTC) I had intended to make the Corps of Cadets article an FA...eventually, but recent changes to my job situation may preclude that (I'm now back in flying training!!!). I will do my best to help out on other articles, but I think my preferences on FA would be Bonfire (it's an oddball in the wikiworld and probably would hold interest), the Corps of Cadets (same animal, but maybe a little less so), and the Traditions of A&M. I'd recommend getting one of these to FA status and get the rest to GA. –

===new core articles=== 05:52, 20 June 2007 (UTC) I created chimera test articles from different articles for new pages that I have suggested should we choose to go for the featured topic award. (see things to do list) remember we just have to get them to GA status. i don't think these articles are FA type articles anyways
 * Academics of Texas A&M University
 * Student Life of Texas A&M University

Concur, but it may be difficult to do academics in a way that shows the uniqueness of the University. Student Life (in conjunction with one of the other topics might work better. — BQZip01 —  talk 19:29, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

===Oldag07=== 22:07, 18 June 2007 (UTC) Seems like the article rankings now work as shown below. I think it is about time for Oldag07 to take a wikibreak. maybe week, maybe a month, maybe a year, maybe forever. I need to get some stuff straightened up in my life. I never was the writing type anyways. good luck with everything. thanks and gig em – ===Organizing=== 15:14, 17 June 2007 (UTC) This page has a lot of work from being a mature wikiproject. but much progress has been made. if everybody would 5 articles anytime they feel the need to, then we should eventually get everything done. anything that hasn't been ranked a GA is b or below. stubs are articles that are basically blurbs, need to be written. start articles are articles that need major expansion and clean up. b is a level that can approach ga, but not rated then. as for importance, I say only the main article and the major headings (atletics, campus, history, traditions etc) are top importance. high importance articles are branch campuses, teams, very important people in A&M history (rudder, ross, gates pretty much, mid importance, major traditions, important events, etc, low, most former students, minor traditions, catch all for everything else.  when we are done sorting the articles on the right, we need to go though or catagories, and get the rest of the people not sorted.  this is a lot of work, but once this is a mature wikiproject, coordinating work on a&m projects will be much easier.  blueag09's suggestion to change the aggie colors was an example of this,  once he changed the color, I was quickly able to change all a&m related templates to that same color. best of luck everyone. see ya.  BTW, be sure to welcome Karanacs back  –  ===Changed color=== 10:12, 17 June 2007 (UTC) Changed color from #80000 to #60000, which is Pantone 505, the Aggie maroon. –

===Added importance=== 01:56, 17 June 2007 (UTC) Added importance ratings. not completely done, but better. copied off the Wikiproject Texas – ===Added main Articles=== 19:55, 16 June 2007 (UTC) added everything on WP PREP. still need to go though all the catagories to add names, but we can do that later. we need to sort the articles too, with will take a very long time – ===Started Wikiproject=== 03:13, 16 June 2007 (UTC) Started this page early. Not sure if will have much time later this summer to work on this. This page pretty much formalizes what we have already done. It just replaces the University Talk page with this. much more efficient. BTW, remember to thank the OU wikiproject. I ripped most of this stuff from them–