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Hello, Disavian. I noticed that in February you voted at the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Georgetown Improv Association listing. The same article has been nominated for deletion again. Since the other parties in the last discussion have commented in the current one, I'm wondering if you'd consider improving the quality of the discussion by commenting here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Georgetown Improv Association (2nd nomination). Thanks. -- Wikipedical (talk) 00:30, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

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Edward Condon

I have taken on the GA review of Edward Condon. My first impression is favourable but I believe certain things need attention. I look forward to your help in bringing it up to GA standard. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:02, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Yeah, I know it needs some attention, but it has a lot of potential. I'm not the primary editor, but I'll do my best to help. :) Disavian (talk) 21:34, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Bobby Dodd

Thanks for cleaning up several references added to Bobby Dodd article. When I loaded the picture of the new Bobby Dodd statue into this article I noticed the request to expand this article and to add more references. I have knowledge of GT history so I added content with additional references which should help the reader have better understanding of Bobby Dodd. I noticed you had previously worked on this article and also worked to obtain "Good Article" designation, so hopefully the recent changes made are regarded as improvements to this article. Mistercontributer(talk) 14:00, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

I love the expanded information, and once you learn your way around the nitpicks of the style manual, you won't need my help as much :) If you'd like to work on History of Georgia Tech at some point, I'd really like that one to become a featured article. Might be about time to run it through FAC again. Disavian (talk) 21:37, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
I have reviewed the History of Georgia Tech article on several occassions. I am not a Wikipedia expert by any means but that article appears ready to be a featured article. However, I will work on that article if I see something that can be added or improved. Thanks again Mistercontributer (talk) 21:40, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
It would be nice if there was a bit more content in the later years - particularly the administrations of Pettit, Van Leer and Harrison. I also need to find page numbers for all of my book references, as I think I'm missing a few of those. Disavian (talk) 20:57, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
Here are a couple sources for those gaps: President Edwin D. Harrison Papers and Arthur Hansen Led Tech as Seventh President. Disavian (talk) 21:07, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
I worked on that a bit today, although I notice that the article doesn't mention Joseph M. Pettit's administration (1972–1986) at all. Do you own a copy of Engineering The New South? Disavian (talk) 04:43, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Oh, fun fact: the article has grown by about 55,000 bytes since the FAC closed in 2007. Disavian (talk) 06:30, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
I will do some research and add GT related content to Joseph M. Pettit article, then you may determine if the content should be added to History of Georgia Tech article. Mistercontributer (talk) 21:50, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Awesome! I recently wrote John Bascom Crenshaw, and I need to write articles about interim president Vernon D. Crawford and board of regents chancellor George L. Simpson. Disavian (talk) 02:01, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
With regards to Joseph M. Pettit article, I am sure there is more information which can be added. However, I added the highlights of Dr. Pettit's tenure at GT. Thanks again for cleaning up the references. Mistercontributer (talk) 22:30, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
There are a couple statements I'm having trouble finding in those refs on Joseph M. Pettit - I'm probably just overlooking the statements. Could you have a look at the two [citation needed] tags? Disavian (talk) 02:57, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
The reference for the two statements with [citation needed] can be found on page 4 on the following web page next to 1975 and 1985 respectively: Chronological Highlights of the History of Georgia Tech. This web page is already referenced in the article under reference name "centers." Mistercontributer (talk) 19:40, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
I replaced the [citation needed] tags in the Joseph M. Pettit article with the reference described above. I noticed you were able to combine part of this new content with History of Georgia Tech article, so we accomplished our goal of further expanding that article. Mistercontributer (talk) 22:40, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
I love the work we did on Henry C. Bourne, Jr. - we might be able to get a DYK out of that one. I just realized that I was missing yet another interim president, so I started yet another article, Michael E. Thomas. There's a lot less information out there about him, so I just made it a stub for now. Disavian (talk) 16:34, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
I noticed the History of Georgia Tech article has minimal sports related information beyond 1972 time frame. One option would be to summarize highlights from the following articles to help fill in these gaps: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball. Mistercontributer (talk) 16:20, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Yeah, it didn't have anything about the 1970-1990 era until we added the bit from Pettit's article. I can look in Engineering the New South to try to improve coverage of Pettit's term. Another option would be to expand on the John Patrick Crecine / Michael E. Thomas restructing of the college system and figure out what else they did during his term. One suggestion from the FAC was to discuss how Crecine helped win the olympics for Atlanta, but I'm not sure what you'd really say about that. Disavian (talk) 21:39, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
If we get some time, motivation, it might help us to expand Michael E. Thomas beyond the stub that I wrote a couple days ago. I'll see what athletics stuff I can pull in the next time I sit down to add content. Disavian (talk) 21:40, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
I found a couple of references which explains how Crecine helped win the Olympics for Atlanta which could be added:
http://gtalumni.org/Publications/magazine/sum96/ointro.html
http://www.whistle.gatech.edu/archives/08/may/05/crecine.shtml
Mistercontributer (talk • contribs) 21:35, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Nice job on adding all of that. Along with the athletics, we might want to take some time this week to write David Braine (athletic director) - there was apparently some sort of financial controversy with him and the funding of the expansion to Bobby Dodd Stadium. We can use the Dan Radakovich article as a model. Disavian (talk) 05:15, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Created David Braine article which has been submitted and pending review: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/David_Braine_(athletic_director)Mistercontributer (talk) 23:53, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Looks good to me. I went ahead and moved it to mainspace. We can expand it later if we come across additional information. I think in the next couple days I'd like to go ahead and create the FAC nom. Your help with this subject has been phenomenal. :) Disavian (talk) 00:04, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
With regards to David Braine article, I have not yet found any references regarding the financial controversy referenced above, but I will keep searching. I am glad I could help. Mistercontributer (talk) 17:38, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Created Vad Lee article which has been submitted and pending review: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Vad_Lee Mistercontributer (talk) 00:20, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
After creating Vad Lee article, I realized article was needed for Tevin Washington, since he has been GT starting quarterback. Please let me know if this article looks OK to you as a starting point and if so please move to mainspace so others may work on and improve this article. Thanks for your consideration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Tevin_Washington Mistercontributer (talk) 01:56, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Sorry about History of Georgia Tech not being accepted as Featured Article. I know you worked hard on that article. I am not sure what else could be done to improve it. I thought it was ironic the following became feature article: Link, but as we all know, life is not fair. Mistercontributer (talk) 21:10, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Why not put it up for peer review and ask a few people at WP:PRV to take a look? I cleaned up that page lately to remove inactive editors. Biosthmors (talk) 21:45, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

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Bennett College

There was a mistake in removing anything from the Bennett College page but I have noticed since 2005 the page has been butchered. There was more detailing to the page explaining the college in depth. Now, it looks as if someone prior to my inception to the page has erased the great accomplishments of the school. Upon saying this, the school is no longer on probation of any kind and personally I would like that information removed. As I said in 2005, the page was complete until someone else came along and erased it all. I would like to know what can I possibly do to restore the page as it was previously. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taylorlat (talk • contribs) 21:04, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

The referenced fact that you are attempting to remove is from 2011. That's pretty recent history. Can you link me to a past revision of the page that contains all of the content to which you are referring? Disavian (talk) 21:39, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

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A pie for you!

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A couple things: 1) drafts are going up. 2) I'd like to have a page for WP:MED that quantifies articles tagged under the project similar to Category:Wikipedia backlog and http://www.wikihow.com/Special:CommunityDashboard. Would you be interested in collaborating or helping that along? I'll start a discussion at WT:MED and you can reply there if you have any suggestions about that idea. Best. Biosthmors (talk) 21:30, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

I was actually noticing the discussion today on User talk:Khuang35 and Talk:Palilalia about the changes to Palilalia. I guess I need to take some time and comb through WP:MED. In totally unrelated news, I nominated History of Georgia Tech for FAC but there hasn't been much activity on it yet. Disavian (talk) 22:50, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
Which, as you may have seen, led to this thread: User_talk:SandyGeorgia#Palilalia_and.... I'll have to take a look and leave some comments! Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) 22:53, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

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I've had a couple free minutes this afternoon so I decided to see what I could say about a couple of those. And I did get your email, but didn't really get time to sit down and edit this weekend. C'est la vie. Disavian (talk) 22:27, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
I hear you, no problem. It was just an idea! Thanks again. Biosthmors (talk) 22:30, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

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