Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas A&M/New

Howdy! Welcome to WikiProject Texas A&M. This project formed from a group of Aggie Wikipedians who worked to promote the Texas A&M University article to Featured Article status. Successful at this task, we felt that the best way to coordinate improvements to Texas A&M Articles was to form a WikiProject. Wikiproject Texas A&M has made significant progress on Texas A&M pages. We have:

• Organized all Texas A&M articles with a ranking system both of importance and quality of articles. Assessment
• Brought the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band, the History of Texas A&M University, Aggie Bonfire, and Lawrence Sullivan Ross articles to featured article status.
• Two of our FA's have have become featured articles of the week. Aggie bonfire, and the band.
• Grown to 20 members. Participants

Goals

Our goals are to:

• Maintain and improve the quality of Texas A&M-related articles
• Get Texas A&M to Featured Topic status.
• Represent Texas A&M in a classy and clean way

Becoming a member

To become an official member of the wikiproject, add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas A&M/Member userbox}} to your user page, and then add your name to the participants page. Thanks and Gig 'em!

How can I contribute to this project

If you have never used Wikipedia, please take the time to read these articles:

• Introduction to Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Starting a new page
• Wikipedia syntax

To maintain article quality, please follow these rules:

• Provide sources for your edits
• Restrain the number of red links
• Ensure external links are active
• Check orthography before saving your changes
• Patrol project watchlists 1 and 2 for recent changes

If you are contributing to this WikiProject, then you are probably a fan of the University. However, in the articles you edit, please try to avoid academic boosterism, maintain a neutral point of view, and avoid peacock terms and weasel words.

Images

Many images relating to Texas A&M are located on its page on Wikimedia's Commons. To view these images, go here. Please upload all free use images (public domain, Creative Commons, etc) to the Commons, add them to the Texas A&M category and add them to the appropriate section in the Texas A&M article on the Commons. For a list of requested photos, please see Texas A&M talk page on the Commons. Wikipedia also has an images category for Texas A&M. Lastly, keep an eye on Texas A&M-related images on Flickr. Flickr images should carry either the "Attribution" or "Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0" licenses.

• "Texas Aggies"
• "Aggies"+Texas
• "Texas A&M"
• "Texas A&M University"

Aggies on Flickr who license their pictures with the above licenses:

• Charles & Clint
• Pboyd04
• StuSeeger

Research

• The Battalion - Student newspaper
• Bryan-College Station Eagle - B/CS newspaper
• Maroon Weekly - Alternative Student Newspaper
• Texas A&M Libraries - Texas A&M Libraries
• Texas A&M University University Website
• The Mugdown - Student Run Satirical Newspaper
  • Office of Institutional Studies and Planning Reports - Data about students, faculty, courses, etc.
  • Office of Student Life Studies - various statistics/surveys of students