Wikipedia talk:WikiProject University of California/Archive 1

Re: WP:UCAL redirect
I experimented with some others, but all the obvious ones seem to have been taken. Amerique dialectics 01:03, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I wonder if we can steal WP:UC from User categorisation, a project that's been inactive for at least a year, if not more. Per Special:Whatlinkshere/WP:UC, only 11 pages link to WP:UC. In case anyone actually uses the shortcut to get to the user categorization page, we could easily put a disambiguation notice on top, something like "WP:UC" redirects here. You may also be looking for User categorisation. szyslak  01:39, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Go for it. Just make sure to change the WP:UC link to the full "User categorisation" for these pages, so no one gets confused.  =)   --Dynaflow   babble  02:06, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and changed WP:UC to redirect here, and fixed some of the obvious redirect problems. the redirects in archive space or areas i couldn't make sense of i didn't mess with. Amerique dialectics 02:50, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Just in case anyone still types "WP:UC" to get to User categorisation, I added a dab notice, which includes other possible meanings of the abbreviation. szyslak  07:23, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

University of California discussion from WikiProject Council/Proposals

 * Description : WikiProject University of California is a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the University of California system.

—# Amerique
 * Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
 * 1) Szyslak
 * 2) Dynaflow
 * 3) Gooseberry487

An early draft of the project page is at WikiProject University of California. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kintetsubuffalo (talk • contribs) 06:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments

Just nominated University of California, Riverside for FAC
It is also the first article talk page to sport the UC project template. Feel free to review or help out as inclined. Amerique dialectics 23:08, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok, so the FAC was delisted after only five days. User:Raul654 hasn't responded to requests for clarification as to why he halted it. I've requested assistance from the League of Copyeditors, but don't know if they will get to this article anytime soon. Anyway, my intention was, and still is, to get this article to FA, and this would go faster as part of a larger project of this group. As I see the various UC articles, UCR's is closest to meeting the Featured article criteria, followed by UCSC's. UCI's article has a lot of great content and prose but it hasn't gone through the WP:GA review process and there is a lot that would need to be done before it could pass criteria 1 (b). UCSC's article looks good but there is a lot more content that could go into it:. Irvine also has more bibliographic resources:. All the bibliographic stuff on UCR only covers the Citrus Experiment Station and so is mainly useless for its article.

So I propose collectively concentrating on UCR for now, getting that to FA, then migrating whatever comprehensive references could be used from that to the other article projects. SC's and I's articles could then be worked on simultaneously until either is ready to be nominated for FAC or GA, then we would concentrate on either article exclusively once it's at its respective review process. Amerique dialectics 23:38, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm rather tired of working on the UCR article for the time being, but I found a trove of references for the UCSC article here: FA drive? Amerique dialectics  21:08, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I've been intending to expand the history section of the UCSC article for a while now, using the UC archives and possibly making a trip down to browse Special Collections at the McHenry Library, but I've been slammed with work. I anticipate having time to work on it in a few weeks.  We've already gotten it to GA, and I'd love to see that article hit FA.  After that, I'd like to propose concentrating on a GA -> FA drive for the top-level, University of California article.   --Dynaflow   babble  23:36, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * No rush for free labor! But yeah, considering how newspapers tend to write about how new developments affect the UC as a whole, developing the main UC article would be easier than, say the UCR article, as there are far more comprehensive references to work with. The main UC article already is pretty good, if a bit too much information and too disorganized for my tastes; a lot of the sections such as "Admissions," and units within "Peripheral enterprises" could be forked off or discussed in other articles that are already there, particularly the national lab articles or other UC campus articles. GA for UC would be relatively easy, but a colossal effort would be required to get it through FA, in my opinion. (UCR is pretty much "built-out," at this point.) Amerique dialectics 00:48, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I've gotta say UCSC is definitely the most interesting UC campus. Whoa doggie.Santa Cruz mourns one that didn't get away Amerique dialectics 03:22, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Project tagging
I have begun the mighty task of tagging UC-related article with the WikiProject University of California template. I've already tagged every article the University of California navbox links to, along with every article that's directly in Category:University of California (but not the articles in the subcats). Here's roughly how many articles in each subcat need to be tagged. (I say "roughly", because a few are already tagged.)


 * I've moved the list to the main project page per discussion below szyslak  05:49, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

I didn't link to the alumni cats because it's been generally agreed that students and alumni are not part of this project. There are very few people, aside from athletes, who were mostly notable as UC students (for example, 1960s political activist Mario Savio). However, I did link to the categories of sports team players. Although I don't personally think everyone who played for a UC team should get a UC WikiProject tag, I figure (a) some of you might possibly disagree, and (b) perhaps we could just tag the most notable athletes.

I've assigned quality and importance ratings to the articles I've tagged, but if you run into an article you're not sure how to rate, you can leave it unrated for now, and someone will come along later to rate it. Most of the time, the rating and importance are obvious. And the ratings I assigned haven't been set in stone, so feel free to change them if you disagree. szyslak 12:43, 9 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: I've tagged all lists of alumni and "people", but not lists that include only faculty. szyslak  05:50, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Seeing as this is a huge working list I propose moving it to project space, and leaving the athletics, alumni, faculty and various other "people" subcategories for either another project entirely or for a far later stage of this one, i.e. once the various institutional articles and the few important biographies of people critical to the UC's overall development are worked out, which at our current pace would take years. I agree that individual students and alums for the most part should not be a part of the project, (though "student life" and various alumni stats and support organizations would be) and I would go so far as to say that faculty who are not important to the UC's overall institutional development shouldn't be either, i.e. most faculty. (For the most part faculty, unless they are an administrator or some such, are more important for their contributions in their respective fields than for their associations with a university, anyway.) I personally have got little interest in working extensively in athletics articles, and this is where you're likely to encounter both the most adamant editors and the worst POV problems, so I'm willing to leave the various athletics subcategories to editors who mainly care about those aspects of their respective university articles, rather than make athletics a project of this one. Amerique dialectics 17:45, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Are you saying we shouldn't tag athletics articles? I fully agree UC athletics is not one of our highest priorities as a project (it's certainly not one of my high priorities as an editor). However, I think what really matters is whether the articles are related to UC, not when or if this project will get around to working on them. When we tag an article, we're just saying "This has some significant relation to UC", not "This is something we as project members consider a high priority". So I say we just tag the athletics articles, whether or not any of us do anything about them. But I don't support tagging the articles for individual athletes, at least in most cases. Coaches, on the other hand, probably are within our scope, since they're so tied to their schools in the public's perception. (I've even listed John Wooden as an example of a "High"-importance article on the assessment page, though I'm open to choosing a different article).


 * On the subject of biographies, I agree that most faculty members, like students/alumni, are outside our scope and maybe shouldn't be tagged. For example, a notable anthropology professor at Berkeley is notable because of his anthropology work, not because he works at Berkeley. I've tagged a few such articles, all of which are (perhaps incorrectly) in the cats for the main UC articles. But I might just take them off, and the rest of you can feel free to do so too. Of course, lists of faculty (and even alumni) are well within our scope. And well they should be, because many of these lists need help. szyslak  01:27, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd rather leave the sports aspect to people working on the individual university articles than make it an agenda of a systemwide project. I mean, Cal football only represents the university at Berkeley, likewise UCLA etc. That's my opinion. Amerique dialectics 04:29, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Not that anything is "incorrect." Everything is a matter of opinion, you know. But even John Wooden is only affiliated with UCLA. gotta go Amerique dialectics 04:54, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Of course! We're a new project, and not everything is settled yet. We'll come to a firm decision on such matters in due time. For now, I don't plan on tagging athletics articles, and none are tagged yet, except for a few templates that were tagged some time ago. On the separate issue of faculty bios, I went back and untagged the few I'd already tagged via TW rollback. szyslak  05:39, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I did some tagging of UC Berkeley faculty and athletes today. I typically like WikiProjects to be comprehensive, meaning that I include everything that has at has least a bit of relation to the WikiProject. I am willing to discuss the scope of the project if you guys disagree with this tagging. It seems like this WikiProject is inactive, so I will wait a bit before tagging faculty and athletes at other UC campuses. Cheers. Trance addict - Armin van Buuren - Oceanlab 07:27, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems reasonable to me. This will make Category:WikiProject University of California articles and its subcategories big, but not so big I think that you can't pick out the other articles from among all the people. —David Eppstein (talk) 08:31, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * That's fine. I've been busy in rl but will get back to these articles as soon as i can. Amerique dialectics 18:36, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Tagging category pages
When tagging non article pages please take the time to learn how to do it correctly. Category pages should be tagged using the following tag

Dbiel (Talk) 18:55, 24 May 2008 (UTC)


 * This was my fault. I have fixed the categories that I had previously mis-tagged, and will make a note of the proper format so that I won't make the same mistake again.  --UC Bill (talk) 23:11, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

The Preuss School UCSD
You guys want to review this article currently at FAC? Featured article candidates/The Preuss School UCSD. Amerique dialectics 18:17, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Image:UCLA Bruins Logo.png usage
I would like to inform this project that the image in this title does not conform with NFCC: (c) The name of each article (a link to the articles is recommended as well) in which fair use is claimed for the item, and a separate fair-use rationale for each use of the item, as explained at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline. The rationale is presented in clear, plain language, and is relevant to each use. Rather than remove each use which does not have a rationale right now, I'm giving advance notice that I will do so in the near future. I have put this page on my watchlist, so feel free to reply here if you'd like.--Rockfang (talk) 20:57, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ha ha. Issues like this are exactly why I didn't want this project to focus on athletic articles. that logo only has one rationale and links to 21 different articles. there is no way I'm writing 20 separate fair use rationales. Feel free to remove all out of policy appearances, anyone who wants to put the image back up can bother with justifying it. Amerique dialectics 21:14, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Be sure to get these too: Image:StanfordCardinal.png. Amerique dialectics 21:36, 17 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Updated with fur templates. Group29 (talk) 18:11, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Good Lord, that might just cause BetacommandBot to explode. Seriously though, as much as I think the main drivers of the WP:FUC policy page have gone overboard in recent months in making it as difficult as possible to use non-free media, I just have to ask: Are we justified in using UCLA's trademarked athletic logo that promiscuously?  I'm sure the article on the band would be much better illustrated with a picture of ... well ... the band.  And then there's this, which illustrates an athletic rivalry by setting a couple thumbnails of trademarked logos together, rather than a picture someone -- somewhere -- has to have of the schools' teams actually playing each other.
 * WikiProject College Basketball seems to be working on creating articles on each and every year's UCLA men's basketball team (dating back to the mid-'90s as of now), but is it necessary to put the UCLA logo on every one of them? That's half the current usage of the image.  Wouldn't team photos or pictures of those teams at play be more appropriate, and failing that, maybe one of those "Do you have a photo of x?" templates to hold the image's place in the infoboxes?  This is out of control on college articles in general, but that UCLA logo's usage is particularly egregious.   --Dynaflow   babble  05:54, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * [UPDATE:] Thanks to Flickr, I found a CC-licensed pic of the band, so that article is now un-FUC'ed.  Let's see what else I can find...   --Dynaflow   babble  06:35, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * UCLA-USC rivalry is now clear of FUCs as well.  --Dynaflow   babble  07:06, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Victory Bell (USC-UCLA), cleared.  --Dynaflow   babble  08:38, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Lexus Gauntlet is clear.  --Dynaflow   babble  09:27, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Way to go on adding the relevant pictures! I am sure that Betacommandbot is made of sterner stuff. See the question on your talk page about the rationale. I read 3c about minimal use. They have danced around the issue and should settle on one use and only on the subject itself. Otherwise we have this kind of problem where "It is OK here, but not here". Group29 (talk) 14:30, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[The following two posts have been pasted in from User talk:Dynaflow]:

Dynaflow, thanks for uploading the pictures to replace the UCLA and USC athletics logos. I read through Logos more than once in the past few months. Would you please explain how you interpreted where the UCLA and USC logos are not fair use when used to represent the subjects in question: Victory Bell, UCLA-USC rivalry and Lexus Gauntlet. Thanks, Group29 (talk) 14:22, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I am going by the overarching Non-free content criteria policy and the guidelines at Non-free content, rather than just the Logos guideline. In a nutshell, it is not that the use of the logos wasn't fair-use (by domestic copyright law) at the articles in which they were placed, per se, but that the way they were being used was at odds with how the Community has decided it wants to work with non-free content vis-a-vis free content.
 * Specifically:


 * WP:FUC #3 calls for keeping use of non-free media to an absolute minimum: "As few non-free content uses as possible are included in each article and in Wikipedia as a whole. Multiple items are not used if one will suffice; one is used only if necessary." If it's not absolutely necessary to include a piece of non-free media, then it shouldn't be included.
 * WP:FUC #8 says that, "Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding." For example, Image:UCLA Bruins Logo.png's use at UCLA Bruins would be acceptable because it shows the official logo of the entity which is the article's primary focus, and it is definitely germane, encyclopedic content when included there.  The article would be poorer for the loss of it.  On the other hand, the primary focus of the Lexus Gauntlet article is the competition over this thing.  The use of Image:UCLA Bruins Logo.png (as well as Cal's, USC's, and Stanford's logos) as visual markers in subsections of that article was not necessary to the encyclopedic mission of the article, and little, if anything, would be lost by replacing them with something free -- which brings us to...
 * WP:FUC #1, which says, "Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available, or could be created, that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose. Where possible, non-free content is transformed into free material instead of using a fair-use defense, or replaced with a freer alternative if one of acceptable quality is available; "acceptable quality" means a quality sufficient to serve the encyclopedic purpose. (As a quick test, ask yourself: "Can this image be replaced by a different one that has the same effect, or adequately conveyed by text without using a picture at all?" If the answer is yes, the image probably does not meet this criterion.)" The answer was "yes" for the images I took out and replaced with free content.   --Dynaflow   babble  18:25, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

UC portal?
In line with developing the main UC article to GA, would it feasible to develop a UC portal? My coding skills are not that good, so someone else should probably initiate this, but here are some models we could use: Portal:University, Portal:University of Texas at Austin. A list of FA portals here: Featured_portals. Amerique dialectics 21:17, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Source of each university's endowment
I looked up a source used to cite the endowment of UC Riverside after an anonymous IP user asked a question about it. The question was answered, but from it, I found that each of the campus article do not use the same source to cite their endowment.

UC Irvine for example has the reported endowment of $189.4 million from the Annual Endowment Report of University of California (AERUC), but UC Irvine's press release reports it to be at $230 million. To make the matter even more cluster-numbered, I remember U.S. News and Report stating the university had $800 million.

UC Berkeley had the reported endowment of $2.4 billion from the AERUC, yet U.S. News and Reports states it to be over $3 billion.

Granted, the AERUC's report is somewhat outdated by a year, but it's probably the only authoritative source (against U.S. News and Reports) and puts all campuses under the same standards (unlike individual news releases by each campus). So should we use AERUC as our universal source despite it being outdated by one year or use the latest that are found from elsewhere?

--BirdKr (talk) 17:14, 2 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I would be for it, but I am also ok with using more recent campus press releases for this information, until the AERUC is updated again. I don't know what is holding the UCOP back from publishing an updated endowment report, but I would think the more recent endowment information provided by individual UC campuses is trustworthy. Just as long as the ref for this isn't US News, I'm ok with listing whatever figure that is supported by a UC source. Amerique dialectics 17:55, 2 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I'll be revising the UC articles that are using the U.S. News Report to cite the endowment numbers in a few hours. --BirdKr (talk) 20:50, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It's done. I'll check up on UCOP often for the latest version--BirdKr (talk) 04:04, 3 March 2008 (UTC)


 * . An encyclopedia article should contain only information from authoritative sources. For UC endowment figures this would mean the AERUC or a press release from the University of California or a specific UC Campus, with preference given to the latest published reliable source. I agree with Amerique's suspicion that some media sources are lumping assets into their endowment figures that are not typically considered part of the endowment (see Talk:University_of_California%2C_San_Diego and Talk:University_of_California%2C_Davis for more discussion of this). I view the publication of larger numbers from non-authoritative sources (typically seen from anonymous IP posters) as a form of well-intended boosterism, but boosterism nonetheless.-- Vantelimus (talk) 19:03, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Renomed UCR for FAC
Those of you who were not involved in the last FAC please review this article. Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics 19:03, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

FYI: Someone nominated 2 UC student orgs for deletion
— Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics 21:28, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Articles for deletion/University of California Students Association
 * Articles for deletion/Associated Students of the University of California

Yes!
. The GimmeBot hasn't gotten to it yet, but it looks like University of California, Riverside just became WP:UC's first featured article. szyslak ( t ) 00:54, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Drinks are on me. Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics 02:09, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[[Image:College Wines.jpg|thumb|Celebrate!]]


 * Once we're finished with Amerique's fine college wines, I'll bring over a few more drinks. Now let's have ourselves a California college party! Next stop, Santa Cruz! szyslak  ( t ) 04:17, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Good work!Vantelimus (talk) 05:29, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

UC Template image
Hello all,

Any concerns or suggestions re: the image that goes in the UC template box?

Dynaflow expresses concern over the Fiat Lux detail here: User_talk:Amerique. I've copied my response to his talk page and open the matter up for further discussion here. Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics 21:08, 15 April 2008 (UTC)


 * The map image is great on the UC page because it is big enough to see the data. It doesn't work well for the UC Template box. A straight image of california without the campus locations would be better if you are going to change it back. I like the "Fiat Lux" star above Sather Gate image, but then again, I'm partial to the Berkeley campus and my preference may be due to that bias. The only problem with the "Fiat Lux" star is that it might not be emblematic enough for people who aren't familiar with the university system motto. Is there a copyright/trademark problem with using the University seal in the template box? Vantelimus (talk) 23:16, 16 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes.  --Dynaflow   babble  23:27, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I posted this over at Template_talk:University_of_California, but I figured it's more relevant here. The university seal was adopted in 1910, and is thus in the public domain. See WP:Public_domain. It is not subject to copyright, so we don't have to worry about fair use. Though it's still a trademark. See WP:Logos. I think, correct me if I'm wrong, we can use the seal in the template. Nguyenmdk (talk) 08:15, 23 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm not a lawyer, but as far as I can tell, the seal still being in active use as a trademark means that it's not "free" and thus Non-free content guidelines apply. I personally don't care, I even think it's a great idea, but putting the seal in the template would reproduce it all over the UC articles and thus violate the minimal use provisions of Wikipedia policy. I wouldn't be the one to revert for doing that, but plenty of other people will. Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics  14:49, 23 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I was think the same rationale that applies to Notre_dame_coat_of_arms.png applies here.     That image was incorporated into Template:University_of_Notre_Dame.  I think trademarks that aren't copyrighted are not WP:NFC, those guidelines seem to only deal with copyrighted works.  Can anyone elaborate?  Also, if this my theory is correct it would seem that there are a lot of images throughout wikipedia have their licensing info wrong.  eg. Image:Harvard_shield-University.png, Image:Official_Yale_Shield.png (I'm betting these are pretty old seeing as how those universities are over 300 years old)Nguyenmdk (talk) 01:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I find that argument persuasive re: Notre Dame's coat of arms, also per the further rationales on that image's talk page. There tends to be an atmosphere of "more heat than light" in discussions on WP surrounding free/fair use distinctions... not everyone is operating on the same "page," as it were. If you'd like to upload a clean version of the "unofficial seal" with a transparent background for use in the template I'd support using that for both the UC and UC wikiproject templates, but I'd expect it to draw controversy. Best, Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics 02:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I've thought about this and looked a few things up. Characterizing the UC seal as being in the public domain simply because its copyright has expired is incorrect. Something in the public domain may be used for any purpose by anyone. Trademarked intellectual property confers certain proprietary rights upon its owners, including the right to restrict its use in a number of circumstances. It cannot be used by just anyone for just anything. This makes trademarked content and public-domain content mutually exclusive; trademarks (which never expire as long as they continue to be used and defended) are non-free content by definition, regardless of copyright status. Treatment of trademarks with lapsed copyrights as "free content" in Wikipedia will be frowned upon by the same logic that makes media licensed under the Creative Commons Noncommercial license unsuitable for general use here: because users are barred from using it in a certain range of possibly-desired applications, it is not truly free/libre content. The spirit of WP:NFCC, as it currently stands, would therefore call for us to treat the UC seal like any other non-free media, including the requirements that its use be kept to an absolute minimum and that it should appear only in the main article space -- both of which would preclude its use in template-space. </wet-blanketism>  --Dynaflow   babble  07:48, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Requested further clarification here. Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics 18:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Cory Hall
Cory Hall has been prod'd, encase you guys missed it. --Falcorian (talk) 16:11, 20 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I can't find any good refs for it. Why not just fold all that to University of California, Berkeley Campus Architecture? Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics  20:42, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

NPOV Dispute
Anonymous editors have been changing the wording of Berkeley Oak Grove Protest, and article in your project's scope, and have recently added a NPOV template. I'd like opinions from other editors, so please stop on by and leave a comment here! Thanks! --Falcorian (talk) 20:06, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The dispute continues... And I'm starting to get worn out with all the insanity. This IP shouldn't be left to run roughshod over the article with a seeming disregard for WP:RS and WP:NPOV, but I'm losing the will to deal with it. I don't know how to deal with someone who thinks that citing a UC website for "the facility will be used for more than just the football team" is biased, or that saying there are 26 oak trees (cited from one article, and attributable to at least 3 more) is NPOV. It's just... a level of doublethink I can't keep up with. Any help for this exasperated member would be appreciated. Thanks. :-/ --Falcorian (talk) 06:21, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


 * You're doing a great job. Dealing with POV pushers can be tedious. Generally, the best strategy for editors is to stay cool and give them enough rope to hang themselves so there is incontrovertable evidence for administrators to act on when called. There is already an admin working the article, anyone reading the talk page comments should be able to easily see who is pushing a POV and who is acting in accord with WP policy. Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics  15:03, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the assistance. He seems to be civil to you at least, so I'll take a few days off and let you keep an eye on it. Thanks again! --Falcorian (talk) 05:56, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Priority rating disupute
There's a dispute over at Talk:University_of_California_Museum_of_Paleontology regarding the priority/importance rating for that article. My understanding is that the priority/importance ratings are specific to this particular project, in which case only the articles for the individual UC campuses (and the system as a whole) really qualify as "Top" priority. I've changed the text of the assessment page to reflect this. If I'm mistaken in this understanding, or if I'm off-base with my opinion regarding which articles are of "Top" priority even for this project, please feel free to offer your alternate opinion so we can sort this out. --UC_Bill (talk) 15:20, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Despite being located on the UC Berkeley campus, the museum is actually a state-wide institution and thus probably deserves a "Top" priority ranking. I've added some material to the article and will be looking over some of the other museums and institutions to see which are also state-wide or system-wide.  --UC_Bill (talk) 21:21, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for University of California
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New California-related FAC
Hi there! Just wanted to let you know that 2003 Insight Bowl, a college football game featuring the University of California, has been nominated as a featured article candidate. If you've got a moment, I'd appreciate you heading on over to the review page to leave comments, critiques, or support in regards to the nomination. Any items about Cal football especially would be appreciated. Thanks. JKBrooks85 (talk) 22:19, 23 December 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) 19:32, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Students and Workers for the Liberation of UCLA Primates
An article that your wikiproject may have an interest in, Students and Workers for the Liberation of UCLA Primates, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Students and Workers for the Liberation of UCLA Primates. Thank you. Rockpock e  t  23:19, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Requested articles: UC Natural Reserve System
The University of California Natural Reserve System has 29 Natural Reserves (currently red links) awaiting creation. I'm copying this request to the California project as well. Viriditas (talk) 10:49, 17 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 articles The California Indian Song, Sons of California, Big C (fight song), and Sons of Westwood. Please see Administrators'_noticeboard. CrazyPaco (talk) 01:03, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

UCR on Main Page
In case you haven't seen the Main Page featured article for yesterday, it just happened to be University of California, Riverside. I kind of missed it cause I didn't have proper Internet access yesterday. Here's the Main Page blurb. We should all be proud of our project's first Main Page FA! szyslak ( t ) 18:12, 22 February 2009 (UTC)


 * i noticed that. There were close to 17K page hits on the article yesterday, from a daily average of between 200-300, according to:


 * http://stats.grok.se/en/200902/University_of_California%2C_Riverside


 * I have screen caps of the main page if anyone wants to see, i've uploaded them to picassa here:


 * http://picasaweb.google.com/wikiamerique/UCRFeaturedOnWikipediaMainPage02212009?feat=directlink


 * On to UCSC! Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics 19:05, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

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Converting to task force of WikiProject California
Hi all, after a recent conversion to using the project meta banner, articles with the WP UC talk page template are still in Category:Unassessed California articles despite having an assessment in the WP California banner (example: Angela P. Harris, Ben Bagdikian). Also this and several other California related projects have limited activity and membership. I was thinking it might be easier to maintain and get involvement in this and various other projects if they were merged into task forces of WikiProject California, at least by converting the talk page banner to task forces of WP CAL. Would anyone object to converting WikiProject University of California to a usage of WikiProject California, or otherwise have any objections, questions, etc.? -Optigan13 (talk) 05:42, 6 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I think a WikiProject California task force on all higher education institutions in the state could be useful, that I would participate in, but that the various individual university WikiProjects are also potentially useful for participants who just want to focus on articles pertaining to those particular universitites. Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics 16:41, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * So the task force would include the UC system, CSUs, and the private schools (USF, etc.)? Any idea on what to call it?-Optigan13 (talk) 15:17, 7 May 2009 (UTC)


 * How about "WikiProject Universities and colleges in California"? See below. szyslak  ( t ) 21:55, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

(outdent) If we must convert this project to a task force, I think it would be more logical under WP:WikiProject Universities. UC is defined more by being a university than by its location in California. Currently, WP:UNI doesn't seem to use task forces (see WP:UNI). FWIW, there is a separate WP:WikiProject California State University, and I wouldn't object to a merger between the two projects, whether as a subproject or task force. Such a project could also include private universities and community colleges, which are now covered only by umbrella projects. And yes, this project has slowed down in the past few months, but I have a little more free time these days and I was planning to invest some more time in this project. szyslak ( t ) 21:55, 7 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I've been occupied elsewhere, also. (But, this project had an article on the main page, what has WP California done lately?) Still, while I'd support the development of a WP California task force on (broadly defined) higher education issues in the state, I wouldn't support merging these projects. Redundancy can be a good thing. Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics 22:10, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * That was just an idea. Just to make it clear, I oppose taskforcing this project, at least under WP:CAL. It's still useful, still relevant ... and yes, still active, if not obviously so. A WP:UNI task force would make sense under a reorganization of WP:UNI, which currently has no task forces. Going back to WP:CAL, I do support the mergers of the Southern California and Santa Barbara projects, which were dead for all intents and purposes. szyslak  ( t ) 06:48, 8 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, there was also no real-world institutional framework for SoCal. Conceivably, a California higher education task force could handle Prop 209/Affirmative action and various state funding and budget/cost-cutting initiatives that individual university projects wouldn't ordinarily address, on top of education issues that don't have an active or dedicated wiki-project attached. Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics 18:21, 8 May 2009 (UTC)


 * There's no need to convert to a task force at all if you would rather just keep the separation the way it is. I'm just trying to assess what's going on with the various California WikiProjects to see which ones are alive. WikiProject California hasn't produced an FA for some time as far as I can tell, but pure FA/FL output isn't the only concern. There's also WP:FAR, WP:GAR, and other reassessments, sometimes with the main author(s) gone/burnt out (see the Bay Bridge's FAR). On top of that you have the breadth of all the other articles in the project's scope to keep an eye on, and all kinds of other maintenance work. But redundancy will totally work, since if something comes up (like Prop 209) hopefully both CAL and UNI would respond, or at least one of them. I'm more concerned about someone wasting their time trying to get help from, or joining a dead WikiProject. That's why I'm going through the various Cal projects to try and salvage something if possible, or if it's all dead than to mark it as such and move on, so others don't put a lot of effort into the same.
 * With the changes to both WikiProject California and WikiProject University of California, I think now would be a good time to try to assess the articles (WP:PHYSICS recently got all of them), the various project activity levels, and from there get back into a maintenance mode with keeping track of new and developed articles, and at the same time keep up article development (new GAs/FAs, etc.), and recruiting new project members as some inevitably leave. This doesn't necessarily mean merging the projects, but I do have a few requests.
 * Create the required categories listed at WikiProject University of California (I can do this, or go get someone else who is knowledgable about the meta banner template).
 * Because of the overlap in categories, allow WP:CAL members to assess pages in Category:Unassessed University of California articles, using the general assessment guidelines.
 * Transclude the assessment stats somewhere on the WP:UC page.
 * Use AnomieBOT to assess the articles that currently have an assessment from the existing list.
 * If this is ok, would you prefer to take the higher or lower of any other projects' assessments if there are different levels on an article page?
 * Add WP:CAL to your watchlist and respond and help out if you have the time and are inclined. I'll try to return the favor.


 * Thanks for all the feedback so far. -Optigan13 (talk) 05:50, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

(unindenting) Personally, speaking from someone who used to edit in both WikiProjects, that TF-ing this WP is somewhat unnecessary because the WikiProject itself is currently subject to WP:UNI's article guidelines, formats, editing, and rating. You're essentially breaking off something that clearly was supposed to be in WP:UNI's "jurisdiction" and handing it to other people. Now granted WP:CAL may have more active members, but it doesn't call for the switching and downgrading of the entire WikiProject already established. You could frequently ask the Cali Wikiproject to join in the WP:UNI articles associated with CA universities and colleges, but taking it off of WP:UNI completely just isn't sound. Sorry.  - Jameson L. Tai  <sup style="color:#660000;"> talk ♦  guestbook  ♦  contribs  08:34, 10 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Any responses to my requests directly before your reply? The general consensus is to leave this project primarily under WP UNI, which is just fine. -Optigan13 (talk) 05:38, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Endowment discussion at UCSF
There has been an interesting discussion regarding UC endowment balances at Talk:University of California, San Francisco. In particular, the different amounts reported to NACUBO and the amount, which includes non-endowment amounts, reported by the UC Office of the Treasurer of the Regents. Only three of us have been discussing the issue, so more feedback from editors is welcome. Thanks, Alanraywiki (talk) 23:59, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

UCSD GA drive
Talk:University_of_California,_San_Diego/GA2 Somebody nomed UCSD for GA today, please assist if you have time. Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics 23:21, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Universities COTM Nomination
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GA reassessment of University of California, Santa Cruz
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA  Sweeps process. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:University of California,  Santa Cruz/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 15:50, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Sloan Center for Internet Retailing
Should the Sloan Center for Internet Retailing page by deleted? It's just a blurb and the topic rates as low importance. I should it be. Others?

Donselma (talk) 21:09, 12 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I'd support a merge and redirect to A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management. Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics  21:15, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

If no one has any objectives to Amerique's idea, I'm going to attempt to merge them. I think that's a pretty good idea. 139.182.188.166 (talk) 22:40, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

A. Gary Anderson School of Management
Should section describing business schools dean be moved to a different article or scrapped? I already deleted a portion which was not verifiable, but I wanted to get the community's consensus before I did anymore.

Donselma (talk) 05:16, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Hey guys, I added more history to the history section of the article. Let me know how it looks. I got the information from a reputable source. I think I forgot to add the citation so I need to go back and do that. I have some concerns that one of the editors there has a COI. In September, I added information about a lawsuit the school had with proper citation and deleted information that was not verifiable. In January, an editor using the handle Drdavidstewart removed all unfavorable content regardless of whether it was verifiable and added a section called "Points of Distinction" that had no citations. Yesterday, I left any he put that was cited but deleted the rest and added back a section called "Controversy." My personal feeling was that it violated the NPOV; I found the article to read more like a plug for the school than an encyclopedic article. My concern also stems from the fact that Dr. David Stewart is the dean of the school. I have no idea whether it's an impersonator or actually the school dean; regardless, the "whitewashing" leaves me a little concerned. Donselma (talk) 16:58, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Does anyone know the history of AGSM prior to 1993 when it became AGSM? And does anyone know a source that could verify that?

Donselma (talk) 16:58, 13 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I removed the controversy section per WP:NOTABILITY and No original research as Khoury's case was "unsubstantiated" & forum posts don't qualify as WP:RS. Thanks for your work, though. Best, Amerique <sup style="color:darkred;">dialectics  21:20, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

You're well-established here, Amerique, so I want to tread lightly as you no doubt understand the ethos better than I. Original research? Sorry, must be misunderstanding something. I thought that applied more to academic matters and historical revisionism. The Khoury case is well documented and can be found in any legal reporter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Donselma (talk • contribs) 03:38, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Any one find any verifiable sources yet for documented the school's history from 70 yo 93. Donselma (talk) 03:42, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Anyone think the portion of the article about Dean Stewart having held various administrative positions might be extraneous? How does one determine if something's extraneous and when should someone apply it? Donselma (talk) 03:42, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, Amerique. Can you explain the notability issue with the Khoury case? I'm not seeing anything in the Notability guidelines that would preclude it from the article:

<<The barometer of notability is whether people independent of the topic itself (or of its manufacturer, creator, author, inventor, or vendor) have actually considered the topic notable enough that they have written and published non-trivial works of their own that focus upon it – without incentive, promotion, or other influence by people connected to the topic matter.>>

<<The notability guidelines are only used to determine whether a topic can have its own separate article on Wikipedia and do not govern article content. The question of content coverage within a given page is governed by the principle of due weight and other content policies.>> 139.182.188.166 (talk) 22:47, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

University of California articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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University of California Rally Committee
I just noticed that this page was deleted under the radar back in March!! I personally think that there should definitely be a UCRC article and will create one within the next few weeks. If there is anyone who wants to help me out, it would be greatly appreciated. --CASportsFan (talk) 07:47, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Image deletion discussion
Relevant deletion discussion at .--GrapedApe (talk) 17:19, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Inactive?
This project seems inactive, but i have been adding the project template to talk pages. I could ask if articles in this project shouldnt simply be in the California project and the Universities project, if not active for a while.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:03, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I think we can revive it! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 20:14, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I still watchlist this, for one. So if there are pages in need of attention, I think writing about them in this talk page may help. That seems to be the main activity of the other WikiProjects I'm involved in. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:43, 21 May 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) 06:50, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Poor state of Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Can anyone explain me why is such an important article in such a poor state. Are there no "Secondary" sources for this article? Solomon7968 (talk) 14:27, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Linda Katehi: Work
Hello, I am an employee of UC Davis, here on the college's behalf. I left a message on the [[Linda Katehi] discussion page earlier this week about improving the part of the article titled Work, but received no response. After looking at the discussion page for UC Davis I came across this Wikiproject and thought maybe someone here would be interested.

As an employee of the college, I realize I should not make any edits to Linda Katehi's page myself. Can any editors here look over the material I've put together? I’ve rewritten the Work section of the article, so that it includes missing footnotes and some minor edits where I could not find footnotes. You can see what I've put together here on the discussion page.

Thank you for looking at this, LindaF UC Davis (talk) 23:00, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

College basketball navigation templates
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) 09:20, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

UCSC template: Keep or remove Shakespeare Santa Cruz?
I started a discussion here as to whether or not to keep the link to the defunct but then reborn Shakespeare Santa Cruz link within the University of California, Santa Cruz template. It is no longer an official part of the university. -- GentlemanGhost  (converse)  20:27, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject University of California at Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

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

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Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Expert attention
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WikiProject X is live!


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March 2015 Art+Feminism events at UC Irvine and UCLA
Hi UC Wikipedians! I am reaching out to see if anyone would be interested in helping out with editing training for Meetup/ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thons being organized at both UC Irvine and UCLA. We would appreciate any assistance in securing at least one experienced Wikipedian in the area for each event, and I'd be happy to put you in touch with the organizers if you are able to help out. More information about the event can also be found here. If interested, please reply on wiki or by e-mail at thepwnco.wiki@gmail.com. Cheers! -Thepwnco (talk) 22:21, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Robert C. Stebbins and Richard M. Eakin nominated for Good Article
The biography of Robert C. Stebbins, herpetologist, illustrator, UCLA alumnus, and longtime UC Berkeley professor has been nominated as a Good Articles in Biology and medicine. Any editor is welcome to review. Cheers, --Animalparty! (talk) 01:48, 13 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Richard M. Eakin, another UC Berkeley biologist is also nominated. Cheers! --Animalparty! (talk) 04:49, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

UC Regents article title
Members of this WikiProject may be interested in a discussion at Talk:Regents of the University of California. --Tt(talk/contribs) 11:11, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Please See - Submissions
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:44, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Eventually replacing instances of UCSD name
The University of California, San Diego has recently updated its brand guidelines and indicates that it will be referred to as the "University of California San Diego" (note the absence of the comma). have already attempted to remove the comma in several articles, and each of these edits was reverted by. At what point do we consider removing the comma in all instances? Is there a threshold of current literature needed before switching to the new format?

WikiProject United States - 50,000 Challenge
--- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:28, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

The Bubble Lady
I'm looking for a pic of Julia Vinograd for her article. She died, you know. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:54, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

UC San Francisco
There is a current dispute over academic boosterims at UC here Talk:University_of_California,_San_Francisco

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Invitation to attend event
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Request article: California Center for Population Research

 * I'm requesting the creation of California Center for Population Research - A research center located at UCLA that was established in 1998. The center is comprised of over 100 faculty researchers and 100 graduate student affiliates from many disciplines, including sociology, public welfare, economics, public policy, and epidemiology. Research at CCPR focuses on the analysis of demographic behavior. Recent projects include studies of neighborhood effects on health, residential segregation, and the effects of job loss on health. CCPRatUCLA (talk) 20:23, 26 May 2020 (PST)

G. Ledyard Stebbins Featured article review
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"Wikipedia:UC" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Wikipedia:UC. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 April 10 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. DePlume (talk) 06:12, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Norman J. W. Thrower
Hello all. Please know that I've recently created an article that is within the scope of your project and relates specifically to UCLA. It is Norman J. W. Thrower. Kind regards,Hu Nhu (talk) 04:39, 12 August 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.

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FAR for Hilary Putnam
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CZ Biohub Infobox Updates
Hello! I'm here on behalf of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, a nonprofit that partners with UC-Berkeley and UCSF to advance medical science, developing new diagnostic processes, therapies, and cures. If you would like to know more about my conflict of interest, you can read my full disclosure on my user page.

I have a small ask for any interested editors at this WikiProject: would you mind reviewing an edit request I posted to CZ Biohub's Talk page? It's a pair of updates that add a logo and a purpose line to the page's infobox. Due to my COI, I can't edit the article directly and need independent editors to approve my suggestions. If anyone could help me out with this, I would really appreciate it. Thanks! Patricia at GMMB (talk) 18:30, 5 August 2022 (UTC)