Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Texas at Austin

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WikiProject University of Texas at Austin

Welcome to the WikiProject page for The University of Texas at Austin. This page is designed to streamline collaborative efforts to improve the quality of UT Austin-related articles. We are currently overhauling this project and its accompanying project page (as you may notice below), but that just means it's a great time for you to get involved! Feel free to contact any project members with any questions or to drop us a note on this project's talk page. Hook' em Horns!

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Collaboration

Current collaboration

This section attempts to focus members on one article in order to give it a concentrated improvement effort.

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Templates in Use

Templates

UT Austin templates

• {{University of Texas at Austin}}

This template should be placed below the External links section of every UT Austin-related article.

• {{UTexas-stub}}

This template should be placed below the External links section of UT Austin-related stub articles.

User template

Alumni of UT Austin (which includes current students) can add {{user longhorn}} to their userpage for the following userbox:

This user is a
Texas Longhorn.

Alternatively, you can use {{User:Bait30/UT infobox}} to generate

This user attends or attended the University of Texas at Austin.
Hook 'em, Horns! 🤘

WikiProject templates

• {{WikiProject United States|UTA=yes}}::This template should be placed on all article talk pages in the UT Austin article series; doing so will automatically add the article to the category Category:WikiProject University of Texas at Austin.

Use this template on an article's talk page only if:

• the article is not biographical in nature. Articles about people should use template {{UTTalk people}}

• {{UTTalk invite}}

This can be added to a user's talk page as an invite to the UT Austin WikiProject

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Navigation

Navigation

Watchlists

It is possible to view special pages that are watchlists for changes to articles in a category. For example, see related changes for recent changes to any article in Category:University of Texas at Austin. Note that this does not pick up changes to articles in sub-categories, so one has to view each category separately.

• University of Texas at Austin
  • University of Texas at Austin alumni
  • Handbook of Texas citations
  • Presidents of The University of Texas at Austin
  • Texas Longhorn Athletics
    • Texas Longhorns football
      • Texas Longhorns football coaches
      • Texas Longhorns football players
    • Texas Longhorns basketball
      • Texas Longhorns men's basketball
        • Texas Longhorns men's basketball coaches
        • Texas Longhorns men's basketball players
      • Texas Longhorns women's basketball
        • Texas Longhorns men's basketball coaches
        • Texas Longhorns men's basketball players
  • Texas Student Media

Categories

The University of Texas at Austin • Alumni • Presidents • Texas Student Media

Texas Longhorns athletics • Baseball • Basketball • Football • Swimming

WikiProject • University-related stubs

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Images

Images and Image Requests

• Blanton Museum of Art
• Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
• Hook 'em (mascot), an unobstructed picture.
• College of Business Administration Building, from Speedway.
• University Teaching Center, not including the Perry–Castañeda Library.
• Bass Concert Hall, exterior.
• Thomas W. Gilligan
• William C. Powers

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Assessments

University of Texas at Austin articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1		1			2
FL		1				1	2
FM					4		4
A				1			1
GA		2	2	7		2	13
B	2	2	6	18		31	59
C		1	13	45		72	131
Start	2	6	19	130		170	327
Stub			3	47		93	143
List	2		1	2		4	9
Category					10		10
File					8		8
Project					4		4
Redirect				5	14		19
Template					5		5
Other					1		1
Assessed	6	13	44	256	46	373	738
Unassessed						1	1
Total	6	13	44	256	46	374	739
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 3,221			Ω = 4.76

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Articles

Articles

Featured articles

• 2005 Texas Longhorn football team

Featured lists

Featured list candidates

Featured article candidates

Featured article review

Former featured articles

Good articles

• Colt McCoy
• David Heymann
• 2005 OU vs. UT football game
• 2005 UT vs. OSU football game
• 2006 Alamo Bowl
• 2007 Texas Longhorn football team

Good article nominations

Good article reassessment

• University of Texas at Austin
• Vince Young

All WP UT Austin articles can be seen in the category University of Texas at Austin.

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To Do List

To Do List

Never-ending things to do:

1. Enlist (invite) more members
2. Help GAs reach FA status
3. Expand WP:UT stub articles
4. Help maintain Portal:University of Texas at Austin and bring it to Featured portal status

Specific things that need attention:

1. First thing's first: the flagship article (UT Austin) needs to get back to GA status
2. Help transfer names into tables on List of University of Texas at Austin alumni and List of University of Texas at Austin faculty

New Articles:

1. Create a main article about the Charles Whitman tower shooting.
   1. Discussion found here
2. Create a main article about the main campus (Ex.: Campus of Texas A&M University).
   1. When started, replace "See also: List of University of Texas at Austin buildings" at the beginning of the Campus section and add it to a section highlighting notable buildings on the future dedicated campus page.
3. Try to incorporate links in the See also section into article body.

Feel free to add any to-do items you think the project should know about!

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Participants

Participants

Please add your name below if you are interested in participating in this project:

1. Jareha (talk · contribs)
2. Johntex (talk · contribs)
3. Scm83x (talk · contribs)
4. Grouse (talk · contribs)
5. Guðsþegn (talk · contribs)
6. ChrisKennedy (talk · contribs)
7. J. Charles Taylor (talk · contribs)
8. Enoch Lai (talk · contribs)
9. Bevo (talk · contribs)
10. VarunRajendran (talk · contribs)
11. Bradknowles (talk · contribs)
12. TheMindsEye (talk · contribs)
13. Andman8 (talk · contribs)
14. Persiancowboy (talk · contribs)
15. AndrewSolomon (talk · contribs)
16. Uttexas (talk · contribs)
17. ZekeW (talk · contribs)
18. Another Believer (talk · contribs)
19. João Do Rio (talk · contribs)
20. ScreamOfTheNight (talk · contribs)

We ask that members make at least one contribution to a UT Austin-related article per month—helping with the Collaboration of the Month is a great place to start. If you no longer want to receive monthly messages, please remove your name from the participation list.

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How can I contribute to this project

How can I contribute to this project ?

• Help others catch the UT Austin-article-improvement fever by awarding those who make special, dedicated efforts to improve UT Austin articles
• Assist in acquiring more Wiki-usable pictures and images related to UT Austin—adding Flickr images to Wikipedia (like "UT Austin"; be sure to include the appropriate "Attribution" or "Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0" license) is a great way to start
• Label UT Austin-related articles with the appropriate template (see templates to the left)

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How can I contribute to Wikipedia

How can I contribute to Wikipedia ?

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

Principal advice

To maintain article quality, please follow these rules:

• Provide sources for your edits. See also the Citations helpdesk below;
• ALWAYS make sure images you upload are under proper license Image Copyrights;
• Restrain the number of red links;
• Ensure external links are active/not broken;
• AVOID emotional arguments, statements about editors of other nationalities, name calling, and anything that is not perceived as constructive, source-backed argument;

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News

News

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