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Merge proposal

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I propose to merge Associated Students of Michigan State University, which is the MSU student government, into the Student Life section of this article. Once the unsourced facts and original research are removed, there will not be enough to sustain an article. Therefore, I propose that the remaining information is merged into this article.--RedShiftPA (talk) 23:02, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

• Support. As a former vice-chairperson in ASMSU, I was proud to write this article. Four years later, the article has gone nowhere. I've looked around for independet (non-MSU) sources for the ASMSU article, and so far I've found nothing. Though it saddens me personally, ASMSU is just not notable enough for Wikipedia. Therefore, I wholeheartedly support a merger into the main MSU article. I also think we ought to delete/merge/redirect most other student government articles, as well. Lovelac7 01:46, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

• Merge Complete I incorporated as much as I thought I could from the original article into the ASMSU section here. I brought the logo, links, and refs. I think this works much better than separate articles.--RedShiftPA (talk) 17:15, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

• Note: the old version of ASMSU article had a lot of good WP:OR that may be useful to members of the ASMSU community for historical purposes, even though it is not appropriate for wikipedia. You can find it here: [1]

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Cleanup suggestions

From an outsiders standpoint this article is becoming very long, I suggest the following changes:

1) Remove the three sections on football, basketball, and hockey and replace them with links to separate pages under the "athletics" heading.

2) Remove the list of "famous alumni" and replace it with a link to a list.

3) Remove the 19/20/21st century famous people and merge it with #3

4) Remove the years MSU won titles from the introduction, most people want basic information (name, location, program, brief history) in the introduction not a sports resume.

5) Update the endowment link, seems to be a few years old.

24.233.142.246 (talk) 06:42, 8 April 2008 (UTC)