Talk:Texas A&M University

Former see also section

I acted WP:BOLD when removing the see also section. Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment. I personally don't believe that the Infrared tech thingy belongs on this page. A&M seems to be only a minor participant in it. However, I wouldn't mind seeing it in the research section.

Furthermore, while looking through the new archive page, this was a topic of discussion. Moreover, this wasn't the only unfinished conversation that was archived. I propose moving back 2-3 sections from the archive. Thanks and gig em. Oldag07 (talk) 06:45, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Is it okay to remove them from the archived page? The tag says otherwise. BlueAg09 (Talk) 07:16, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

I was really tired last night. I probably could have been a less direct. I apologize. It makes sense that we moved as much as we could off for the featured article of the day. As for continuing these discussions, instead of removing them from the archive we can just copy and paste them. After that we can just note in the archive that these sections have been elaborated on. Something like:

---This section has been continued on XXXXX ---. what do you think? Oldag07 (talk) 12:55, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

I think there was agreement on the other issues, just disagreement on the timing. Now that Main Page day is over, we can proceed with some of the changes. On a side note, it looks like a lot of Aggie-related pages were visited :) Karanacs (talk) 13:55, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Concur! A lot of things were updated yesterday, so that main page article really helped as well as the links to other articles. GREAT job everyone! — BQZip01 — ^talk 15:09, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

I found a compromise solution. I put what I thought was the consensus of the archived materials as well as some ideas of my own on to the to do list on the page. Please modify the to do list as you see fit. Oldag07 (talk) 22:58, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

University band page up for deletion

Hi. I just wanted to leave a friendly notice that at [1] the school Wind Symphony has been nominated for deletion as lacking evidence of notability under WP:BAND.--Epeefleche (talk) 05:54, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

"Direct presence"

What is meant by "direct presence in each of the 254 counties"? Does that mean there is sometime of campus in each county? Or does it mean there is some type of research, such as crop or cattle research, being done in each county that is overseen by Texas A&M. I couldn't find any extra information or verification in the article so I'm a little unsure why the phrase is used and in the lead. My apologies if I missed it. 71.210.185.191 (talk) 00:01, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

To answer your question a "direct prescence" is a reference to activities actively pursued in each county. For example, crop research in West Texas, engineering research in Houston, education programs in Austin, etc. All of these are University activities and work towards improving Texas as a whole. — BQZip01 — ^talk 06:30, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Supreme court case about GLBTA as a club?

I've heard several times that TAMU went to the supreme court over preventing a gay club forming on campus. Is there any truth to this, and shouldn't it be included if it is true?--96.249.190.186 (talk) 04:48, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

I didn't know about this, but a quick search showed that it did happen this way. I think this belongs in the history article rather than the main one. I'll search for some reliable sources and add that in. Karanacs (talk) 14:08, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

This has been added to History of Texas A&M University, and I've created a new article, Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M University, on the court case. Thanks for the lead! Karanacs (talk) 19:42, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Karanacs, amazing work as always. Oldag07 (talk) 22:10, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

List of Individual Colleges and/or Departments at A&M

Organized list of colleges and departments at Texas A&M is missing. Consider adding a list or link to a list of the colleges at Texas A&M separate from the Student Body section of the Academics section of the page. Also consider adding pages with information about each department inside each college. Jimmayjr (talk) 21:15, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Jimmy, I appreciate the input, but I think getting that much information is a bit excessive in this context. There are well over 200 departments at A&M. Including them all here would simply take up too much space. Each of the already linked articles on each college includes information on their majors/departments. If you think a "List of ..." article would be appropriate, I encourage its creation. — BQZip01 — ^talk 02:06, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

I wouldn't. There's a pretty strong body of precedent grounded in WP:NOT#DIR and AfD practice that similar articles have and should be deleted as unencyclopedic. Madcoverboy (talk) 16:50, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Big 12 WikiProject

I'm trying to gauge the interested in created a Big 12 WikiProject and wondering who would like to be involved. There are already pages for WikiProject Big Ten and WikiProject ACC. A Big 12 project would cover the schools themselves and anything to do with conference sports including: events, rivalries, teams, seasons, championships and lore. There is already quite a bit of activity here on Wikipedia regarding the Big 12, and I think a project could help coordinate and unify our efforts. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Big 12 if you are interested, and add your name to the list. Grey Wanderer (talk) 00:21, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Updated Enrollment Statistics

Updated figures for Fall 2009 enrollment are available here [2] if someone with a better understanding of editing wants to do the honors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.57.48.144 (talk) 09:05, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Rankings template

It would seem that the rankings template people have completely remade the template. i am deleting all unnecessary rankings, but I figured I would save the numbers here: {{Infobox US university ranking |USNWR_NU =61 |USNWR_Bus =29 |USNWR_Eng =13 |USNWR_Ed =40 |ARWU_W =91 |ARWU_N =55 |ARWU_SCI =43 |ARWU_ENG =34 |ARWU_SOC =45 |THES_W =137 |THES_N =48 |CMUP =32 |Wamo =1 }}

Reorganize archives

I was thinking about using some of the newer archiving systems. I like the {{Talk header}} system. objections? Oldag07 (talk) 03:15, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

This is the former box.

Old archive has been moved to more efficient archive standards. Oldag07 (talk) 21:30, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

"White males" part of the charter?

Was educating "white males" part of the original charter/mission? If actually part of the legislation/charter/mission, then it needs a citation. If not, that's an ugly phrasing, and also not notable in 1871. Moreover, the context immediately following (re desegregation and co-ed status) would explain the changes perfectly well in that case.

It's just a question of the language used: Vassar, for example, is not described as having been founded for "white females." (There's nothing remotely like this in the article for Virginia Tech, another southern A&M with a corps of cadets.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.196.19.11 (talk) 00:04, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Great image resource

Alexey Sergeev, a physics professor, has licensed photographs at his web page (http://www.asergeev.com/) under the GFDL. A directory of these images are available here. A number of these images are related to this institution. I encourage interested editors to upload these images at Commons with the license tag Commons:Template:Alex Sergeev permission. --GrapedApe (talk) 01:25, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the link. I've been looking for images of TAMUQ to put up on the main page! BlueAg09 (Talk) 01:54, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

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Texas A&M Campus Setting

Copied from my Talk page.

Good call... that is a more reliable source but however it does say rural fringe. I think we can settle with suburban. I live in college station and the campus borders two huge neighborhoods and a downtown area. The one side that is undeveloped has an airport.Tamu156 (talk) 20:28, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

No, we won't "settle with suburban." The source says rural. ElKevbo (talk) 21:28, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

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Image deletion discussion

Relevant deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2012 January 1#File:TexasAMUHelmet.png.--GrapedApe (talk) 17:59, 2 January 2012 (UTC)