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I begun to properly cite all of our references in this article as I rewrite every section. Hopefully this style can be used by everyone if they consider is userful. -- Hut101 03:37, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Is there anyone who would be willing to help edit the History article. Best method would be for someone to edit the beginning while someone work from the end, sections about Robert Gates, Vision 2020, ... I would be willing to work on such a joint project if anyone is interested. --
Below is a suggestion for the Residential Life section:
"Housing on campus is split between two distinct sections, a north and south side. Lining the north dormitories span Crocker Hall to Clements Hall. Dormitories to the south of campus primarily center around the Commons, a gathering center of student activities and dining services. Also next to the Commons, is the Quad, dormitories containing the Corps of Cadets."
I'm hopeing for suggestions and improvements. -- Hut101 06:10, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
When I load the page the first sentence reads "Texas A&M University, often called A&M or TAMU or "home of the east texas white trash" for short, is the flagship[3] institution of the Texas A&M University System."
I have never heard A&M described as the home of the east texas white trash and even if it did I don't think that this "fact" belongs in the first sentence of the article. It doesn't even make sense, but that's beside the point. If that is a real nickname for the school then it should appear in some section at the bottom of the article under "Aggie Jokes".
Please fix this ridiculous oversight or hoax.
Proposal for expanding Student Life section. Sections to be included could be Organizations, Residential Life (On-campus living), School Sponsored Activities, and Student Government? -- Hut101 21:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Should we possibly merge the separate history page back into this article about A&M. The history page is slightly more than twice the size of the historical information that is actually in this article. However, with maintaining a separate history page, the information will begin to diverge from one another. -- Hut101 08:09, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
The comment about the Washington Monthly rankings should be removed. It is not a scholarly article, gives no information regarding its methodology, and, frankly, appears to be biased in favor of A&M.
Also, the comment about petroleum engineering rankings requires some clarification. There are only a handful of schools in the U.S. that offer this degree separate from Chemical Engineering. Most programs include it as a subset or specialization and are therefore not ranked in that category by US News. Also, Texas A&M is ranked third nationally, behind both the University of Texas and Stanford (tied #1).
The school is NO LONGER ranked as the number 1 agricultural engineering school in the nation. We need to fix this. Just look at the US News website.
An anonymous user added a line about A&M being a "Public Ivy" and "best value in Texas," but gave no reference. I have removed this line until a reference can be provided (or I can find one myself). I think the "best value" claim is correct as I seem to recall seeing that in US News & World Report rankings, but I've never heard A&M referred to as a "Public Ivy." We'll see. -- Ntmg05 20:26, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Somone went wild adding Mays rankings to the A&M page. I'd suggest those be removed. This page is long enough without having rankings for specific programs and degrees added to it. The rankings are listed on the Mays college page, which is where they belong. Anyone have a problem with them being removed? -- Texink 22:05, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
A Public Ivy is a term to refer to the nation's top public schools. The last published data referring to public ivy was in the year 2001. Texas A&M has improved dramatically since that time. There is no debate the Texas A&M is one of the top public schools in the nation, which has surpassed numerous colleges in the original “Public Ivy” listings. Some of schools listed on the top colleges were: University of Vermont (us new ranked 93), Indiana University – Bloomington (us news ranked 72), A&M is ranked number 60 (the same as Ohio State). The original source is not an accredited source, for his criteria he simply states that public ivy is a public college which offers a superior education at a fraction of the Ivy League cost (US News tends to be the most respectable college ranking guide). Therefore based on the criteria used to rate the original public ivies, A&M exceeds all of those qualifications at this time. It is only fair to include A&M in the same listing as the other public ivies based on today’s data. Rankings change every year, it is our job to keep the website updated. A&M is considered public ivy in Texas by many from its high academic rankings in the 2nd to the most populous state in the nation. A&M is always ranked as one of the top three universities in Texas. Sometimes it is ranked number one, sometimes it is ranked two (after Rice), and at other times it is ranked (three).
Other's included A&M as a public ivy in this discussion based website:
http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?4/51063
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/bestvalues/bvnatudoc_brief.php
A&M is ranked the 3rd to the best value for a public university in the U.S. after only the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and University of Virginia! The great value for the education is what coined the term public ivy. Again, I supported the term for A&M to be called a public ivy. This is all that is required by wikipedia. This term is based on cost and education or should I say value.
BTW, the top value in texas is at this site:
http://www.tamu.edu/tamunews/News/stories/06/012006news-11.html
Texas A&M is the top-ranked university in Texas and the Southwest in Kiplinger's 2006 list of the nation's 100 "best values in public colleges."
Kiplinger's list is headed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The only other schools in Texas or the Southwest included on the 2006 list are the University of Texas at Austin at 27th and UT-Dallas, 66th.
By the way, how to I message someone? --- strstr01
I wrote many consider a&m to be considered a public ivy. Which it is... I never wrote an unknown author wrote a book half a decade ago on what he considered public ivys, therefore nothing I said was wrong. If you like I'll publish an article if that makes you feel better.
I would just like to say that I dont believe A&M should EVER use the term "Public Ivy". Texas A&M was founded as a land grant school, seperate from the main state university. As such, it was founded under the principle of practical education for the masses rather than a liberal arts education for the children of the state's elite. Public Ivys are known for their quality education and Texas A&M is certainly ranked higher in terms of academia and value than many of them, however the key missing criteria is what the original author termed "look and feel" of an Ivy League school. Texas A&M and the students who go there are, in my opinion, the antithesis of an Ivy. Our schools emphasis on practical subjects like agriculture, engineering and science along with our core values of patriotism, religion and family, all stemming from a history of being military school, mean that we will NEVER have the "feel" of an Ivy and frankly I hope we never do.
I noticed there was a citation missing for the statement that A&M no longer stands for "Agricultural and Mechanical." So I searched the 'net in hopes of finding a valid source to verify it, and got these websites:
Which site is more appropriate to use as a source? -- Blueag9 16:25, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I added a little information about A&m' cloning program, not sure where I should place it. I thought it was interesting and added the the University's prestige since it was the first animal to clone a pet.
I fixed the whole article using the <ref> and </ref> format. I am unsure on how to properly cite each source using this format. If anyone knows of a page where I can get that information, please post it here. -- Blueag9 19:44, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Okay, the article cites two different enrollment numbers... one in the infobox and the other in "Academics." What's up with that? -- Blueag9 04:15, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
This is getting to be one of the largest Talk pages I've seen that wasn't archived. I don't know enough of the technical aspects to do it, but it seems high time that someone archived the discussion here ... it goes back to 2004 (!) and is now at 65KB long. Lawikitejana 07:05, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I added a photo from a football game to this article. I also created a page on the Commons to collect free images related to Texas A&M University. Please contribute your photos (must be freely licensed) to this page. As the collection grows, it will be a great resource for all articles pertaining to the school and its traditions and history. Thanks! Johntex\ talk 03:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Can someone please archive this talk page as all topics have been addressed and it's now necessary to move on to new discussions. -- Hut101 07:08, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
If any of you have any specific sites on campus where I should take pictures, let me know. I am planning to take pictures this weekend of Research Park, Northgate, and the Rec. Let me know if you can think of any others, or want me to take better pictures of the ones already on the page. Blueag9\ talk 23:25, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Information about the Campus Master Plan should be added. Here is the website. The executive summary report was written nicely, and also has nice pictures of the campus. [2] I really like the aerial view of the campus picture on page 16 of that report, would it be fine to add it to the article? A reason to use it would be that no free alternative can be found (prove me if I'm wrong). Blueag9\ talk 23:30, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I agree "Notable buildings" section can be moved to a seperate article while a summary remains here to explain the general history of buildings on campus. Everything about Robert M. Gates and finding a new president can be moved to the history section. Also, "Vision 2020" can be moved to history, though I believe it needs to stay on the main article or at least another year since it's very recent, and effects the university on a grand scale. Should the Campus Master Plan be mentioned in the main article or the history article? -- Hut101 04:05, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I find it sad that people from Texas Tech have nothing better to do than vandalize the A&M wikipedia pages. If this continues, I propose restricting edits on this page to registered users with a talk page only. Thoughts? BQZip01 16:48, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Please try to vary the pictures a little. They don't all need to be on the right side of the screen.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.91.174.88 ( talk • contribs) 02:45, 2007 March 29
Looking at ut's page, they have a university of texas portal. maybe we should have one for texas a&m.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.91.174.88 ( talk • contribs) 02:46, 2007 March 29
I am the one who wrote this suggestion. I could help out i guess. i am about to graduate, and leave this wonderful school, but i still am here. . . . .
i feel we could eliminate boosterism in the atheltics section. i feel the athletics section could be more vague. history should be more about the highlights historically, instead of the recent events. tu didn't even mention their recent national championship in theirs. i feel we don't need "only team that had both a womens and mens team in the NCAA tournment" the recent stuff should be moved to the football pages and the basketball pages. just my thoughts. still haven't joined yet. don't have time.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.91.172.167 ( talk • contribs) 02:46, 2007 April 02
I think, like many university pages have already done, that a template would be a good way to connect all the disjointed A&M articles. There was some debate a few weeks ago about removing the traditions template, so I included a section for that. This is a rough version I made based on the template used at Duke University. A few pages could fit into several of the categories (like 12th Man), so make changes, comments, etc. - Texink 00:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Texas A&M University/Archive 2
-is there a way to make a bot to put this on all the sites listed on this page -I still don't know how to do wikipedia code,
we shouldn't have notable aggies on student life. should have a seperate section. here are the people i think should be on the front.
need a stub for them Aggie Wranglers, the singing cadets, SCONA, first yell (oldag07)
Added a "notable Aggies section", and added some of my suggestions (oldag07- i know i know, i should join)
where do you suggest putting "notable aggies" on that list. it was originally linked on student life. It didn't make sense to me.
Changed size from 80 percent to 90 percent
added "howdy" to tradition section
I just got an account. when do we put this menu on our sites? Oldag07 22:18, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
When everyone agrees it's complete...I guess that would be now? BlueAg09 ( Talk) 22:27, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
So a featured article might be stretching it, let's try achieving good article status. The criteria is listed here.-- Blueag9 ( Talk) 08:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
do you think it should be moved down the article some. It is listed second on the academics page. i would think other thinks should be ahead of it in order of importance. heck, that is enough information for a separate vision 2020 page.
lets just say if you were to tell a non aggie 10 things about a&m that would be important, i do not think vision 2020 would make that list. a sentence or two should suffice.
Merge undergraduate research with research. makes the article more concise.
see my suggestions above with the new menu. . .. (oldag07)
Here's a guide to finding some of these pop culture references: http://texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=854565&forum_id=13. For some of those references I was unable to find a source, or I haven't seen the mentioned movie/TV show. Feel free to add the references listed in there if you can verify them.-- Blueag9 ( Talk) 00:47, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Definitely in brokeback mountain. not exactly a respectable reference, but mentioned never the less. don't exactly want to see it again though ...
“ | Officially the letters "A&M" no longer have any explicit meaning, but they are retained as a link to the university's past.[6] Texas A&M's triple designation as a Land-, Sea-, and Space-Grant institution reflects a broad range of research with ongoing projects funded by agencies such as NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. Working in partnership with state agencies such as the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and Texas Cooperative Extension, Texas A&M has a direct presence in every county in the state. | ” |
I find the flow between those two sentences there a bit awkward, is there any way we can rephrase the second sentence? That sentence has been there for a while now. BlueAg09 ( Talk) 07:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know what the copyright status is for a lot of the pictures in the Cushing Historical Images Collection? [3] I've written to them to ask, but haven't gotten a reply yet. I know we can use the pre-1923 photos, but many of the photos are undated and don't list a photographer. I'm unclear as to whether the others are in the public domain because they belong to a state agency or not. Karanacs 14:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I don't think any of the pictures are in the public domain. BlueAg09 ( Talk) 21:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I am not much of a writer. I emailed the singing cadets and the aggie wranglers for their input on a wikipedia entry. those are definitely important aggie organizations. I am not exactly sure how to start a stub. could someone help me. thanks Thanks.
I have made my first major revision of a wikipedia page. I added a paragraph to the texas a&m riverside campus page. I was wondering if any of yall can peer review it to see if i did it right. thanks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_Campus Oldag07 16:01, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
I merged the riverside campus articles. not exactly sure how to delete the older one. most of the links to the article refering to that campus went to the Riverside Campus page, so i moved everything there. Thoughts? Oldag07 16:22, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
I have been trying to add a "hide" button to our template like the hide button on the big 12 template or the Association of American Universities one.
we just have so much stuff on the bottom. it would be nice if we had a way to minimize it. it would look a lot less cluttered. the code is confusing me though. and id like to know your opinions on it. Oldag07 04:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
do you think a sentence on bonfire collapsewould be good in the 1950-2000 part of the history section. it is something people still associate with a&m heavily. something like :
"Tragedy struck Texas A&M when the popular A&M tradition, Bonfire, collapsed during construction on November 18, 1999. 12 participants were killed and 27 were injured." Oldag07 15:46, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
done. i think is good to mention it in the history section on the main page. I think it is more respectful to have it on then off. also one of the not so fine moments in our history helps reduce any image of boosterism (although i think we have done quite well so far reducing it). Oldag07 16:11, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
We had a question in the peer review about how to properly cite some of the stuff in the popular culture section, as some FA reviewers really don't like references to myspace or youtube. It is unlikely that we'd be able to find any additional sources for some of these. My question...do you think it is important to keep the popular culture section, which basically lists ways that A&M is mentioned on tv? To me, this doesn't really tell people anything about the university, and I'd rather take it out. What do you guys think? Karanacs 14:48, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
The second peer review asked for an additional picture in the Academics section. Does anyone have a picture that would show off Research Park at all, or know of any already uploaded images that we could/should use here? Karanacs 15:22, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
http://www.tamu.edu/campusplan/
http://newsarchives.tamu.edu/stories/04/082704-4.html
http://www.thebatt.com/news/2004/08/31/News/Campus.Master.Plan.Wins.Design.Awards-707602.shtml
http://www.tamu.edu/home/spotlight/archives/construction.html Oldag07 13:38, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
The automated peer review complained about the length of the table of contents, and I agree that it is a little hard to read. Would it make more sense to restrict the TOC tojust the top level headings, or would you rather leave it as is? I vote for top-level only. Karanacs 15:52, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
This article is very good, but not quite good enough. Some issues that need addressing before GA can be awarded:
There you go. The hold will expire in 1 week. If all of the above changes are not made in that time frame, the article will be failed. Once all of the above fixes ARE made, please drop a line at my talk page, and I pass the article. If you feel this hold was mishandled in any way, please see WP:GA/R to seek remediation. -- Jayron32| talk| contribs 03:05, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
First of all, great job on the basics. This article is slowly getting better day-by-day (then changed by some teasip with a grudge...then reverted to its glorious self again...). Please place a comment here if you are working on it and when you are finished correcting. — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
First paragraph of History:1870-1900 is unreferenced, additionally it contains a quote which is not referenced to a specific source as well. I'll take care of these references. It might take a few days, but I'll get it. If anyone wants to chip in, the more the merrier. — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Traditions section is entirely unreferenced Let's get some references. With all those websites out there, it should be easy to find at least one reference. — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Let's cite those "several superlative claims and...statistics." — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Let's quickly come up with some standards for Pop Culture so we can add references/delete excess. My humble opinion is for anything that references A&M for more than 3 minutes or 10% of the media format (whichever is less) or is an integral part of a plot. Thoughts? — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Image has to go. Anyone have a better image to throw in? If not, I'll delete it in a few days. — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Karanacs 14:55, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
If anyone has the image info, please add it. Better still, if someone is on campus, please just go and take a picture, upload it, and we'll simply replace it. Otherwise it will be deleted in a few days. — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Oldag07 20:39, 7 May 2007 (UTC)there is a picture of the new engineering building already in the wikimedia commons Oldag07 20:39, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Image deleted IAW with request. — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
btw, i have been trying to write an article on sbisa dining hall. I remember in the past reading a good website on the history of sbisa. however, now i cna't find it anymore. been looking though libraries.tamu.edu, and i can't find anything there either. there used to be a great website with info on the history of that building. oh well Oldag07 15:21, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
i wrote a real rough draft version. could you guys edit this.
For non ROTC aggies, dorms are called "halls". http://reslife.tamu.edu To encourage involvement, each hall has a democratically elected governing committee called "hall council". Every on campus resident is considered a member of the residence hall association, the largest recognized student organization on campus. http://www.rha.tamu.edu-a.googlepages.com/ Two delegates from every dorm meet biweekly in an RHA meeting to vote on affairs pertaining to on campus residents. http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2003/02/18/Opinion/Students.Misrepresented-514735.shtml In 2004 Texas A&M's residence hall association, the largest in the state, won school of the year at the Texas Residence Hall Association Annual Conference. http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2004/04/13/News/Am.Honored.As.School.Of.The.Year.At.Rha.Conference-658466.shtml Another organization that represents each hall is the National Residence Hall Honorary. http://nrhh.tamu.edu/
The university also owns apartment style living area's, mostly inhabited by graduate students. http://reslife.tamu.edu/ua/ Popular, off campus dormitories include: the cambridge, with also houses the woman's soccer team and the baseball team, and the Tradition on Northgate in with the football team is housed http://www.livethetradition.com/. http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2003/10/24/News/Athletic.Teams.Score.New.Housing-538497.shtml Oldag07 22:00, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
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I begun to properly cite all of our references in this article as I rewrite every section. Hopefully this style can be used by everyone if they consider is userful. -- Hut101 03:37, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Is there anyone who would be willing to help edit the History article. Best method would be for someone to edit the beginning while someone work from the end, sections about Robert Gates, Vision 2020, ... I would be willing to work on such a joint project if anyone is interested. --
Below is a suggestion for the Residential Life section:
"Housing on campus is split between two distinct sections, a north and south side. Lining the north dormitories span Crocker Hall to Clements Hall. Dormitories to the south of campus primarily center around the Commons, a gathering center of student activities and dining services. Also next to the Commons, is the Quad, dormitories containing the Corps of Cadets."
I'm hopeing for suggestions and improvements. -- Hut101 06:10, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
When I load the page the first sentence reads "Texas A&M University, often called A&M or TAMU or "home of the east texas white trash" for short, is the flagship[3] institution of the Texas A&M University System."
I have never heard A&M described as the home of the east texas white trash and even if it did I don't think that this "fact" belongs in the first sentence of the article. It doesn't even make sense, but that's beside the point. If that is a real nickname for the school then it should appear in some section at the bottom of the article under "Aggie Jokes".
Please fix this ridiculous oversight or hoax.
Proposal for expanding Student Life section. Sections to be included could be Organizations, Residential Life (On-campus living), School Sponsored Activities, and Student Government? -- Hut101 21:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Should we possibly merge the separate history page back into this article about A&M. The history page is slightly more than twice the size of the historical information that is actually in this article. However, with maintaining a separate history page, the information will begin to diverge from one another. -- Hut101 08:09, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
The comment about the Washington Monthly rankings should be removed. It is not a scholarly article, gives no information regarding its methodology, and, frankly, appears to be biased in favor of A&M.
Also, the comment about petroleum engineering rankings requires some clarification. There are only a handful of schools in the U.S. that offer this degree separate from Chemical Engineering. Most programs include it as a subset or specialization and are therefore not ranked in that category by US News. Also, Texas A&M is ranked third nationally, behind both the University of Texas and Stanford (tied #1).
The school is NO LONGER ranked as the number 1 agricultural engineering school in the nation. We need to fix this. Just look at the US News website.
An anonymous user added a line about A&M being a "Public Ivy" and "best value in Texas," but gave no reference. I have removed this line until a reference can be provided (or I can find one myself). I think the "best value" claim is correct as I seem to recall seeing that in US News & World Report rankings, but I've never heard A&M referred to as a "Public Ivy." We'll see. -- Ntmg05 20:26, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Somone went wild adding Mays rankings to the A&M page. I'd suggest those be removed. This page is long enough without having rankings for specific programs and degrees added to it. The rankings are listed on the Mays college page, which is where they belong. Anyone have a problem with them being removed? -- Texink 22:05, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
A Public Ivy is a term to refer to the nation's top public schools. The last published data referring to public ivy was in the year 2001. Texas A&M has improved dramatically since that time. There is no debate the Texas A&M is one of the top public schools in the nation, which has surpassed numerous colleges in the original “Public Ivy” listings. Some of schools listed on the top colleges were: University of Vermont (us new ranked 93), Indiana University – Bloomington (us news ranked 72), A&M is ranked number 60 (the same as Ohio State). The original source is not an accredited source, for his criteria he simply states that public ivy is a public college which offers a superior education at a fraction of the Ivy League cost (US News tends to be the most respectable college ranking guide). Therefore based on the criteria used to rate the original public ivies, A&M exceeds all of those qualifications at this time. It is only fair to include A&M in the same listing as the other public ivies based on today’s data. Rankings change every year, it is our job to keep the website updated. A&M is considered public ivy in Texas by many from its high academic rankings in the 2nd to the most populous state in the nation. A&M is always ranked as one of the top three universities in Texas. Sometimes it is ranked number one, sometimes it is ranked two (after Rice), and at other times it is ranked (three).
Other's included A&M as a public ivy in this discussion based website:
http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?4/51063
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/bestvalues/bvnatudoc_brief.php
A&M is ranked the 3rd to the best value for a public university in the U.S. after only the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and University of Virginia! The great value for the education is what coined the term public ivy. Again, I supported the term for A&M to be called a public ivy. This is all that is required by wikipedia. This term is based on cost and education or should I say value.
BTW, the top value in texas is at this site:
http://www.tamu.edu/tamunews/News/stories/06/012006news-11.html
Texas A&M is the top-ranked university in Texas and the Southwest in Kiplinger's 2006 list of the nation's 100 "best values in public colleges."
Kiplinger's list is headed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The only other schools in Texas or the Southwest included on the 2006 list are the University of Texas at Austin at 27th and UT-Dallas, 66th.
By the way, how to I message someone? --- strstr01
I wrote many consider a&m to be considered a public ivy. Which it is... I never wrote an unknown author wrote a book half a decade ago on what he considered public ivys, therefore nothing I said was wrong. If you like I'll publish an article if that makes you feel better.
I would just like to say that I dont believe A&M should EVER use the term "Public Ivy". Texas A&M was founded as a land grant school, seperate from the main state university. As such, it was founded under the principle of practical education for the masses rather than a liberal arts education for the children of the state's elite. Public Ivys are known for their quality education and Texas A&M is certainly ranked higher in terms of academia and value than many of them, however the key missing criteria is what the original author termed "look and feel" of an Ivy League school. Texas A&M and the students who go there are, in my opinion, the antithesis of an Ivy. Our schools emphasis on practical subjects like agriculture, engineering and science along with our core values of patriotism, religion and family, all stemming from a history of being military school, mean that we will NEVER have the "feel" of an Ivy and frankly I hope we never do.
I noticed there was a citation missing for the statement that A&M no longer stands for "Agricultural and Mechanical." So I searched the 'net in hopes of finding a valid source to verify it, and got these websites:
Which site is more appropriate to use as a source? -- Blueag9 16:25, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I added a little information about A&m' cloning program, not sure where I should place it. I thought it was interesting and added the the University's prestige since it was the first animal to clone a pet.
I fixed the whole article using the <ref> and </ref> format. I am unsure on how to properly cite each source using this format. If anyone knows of a page where I can get that information, please post it here. -- Blueag9 19:44, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Okay, the article cites two different enrollment numbers... one in the infobox and the other in "Academics." What's up with that? -- Blueag9 04:15, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
This is getting to be one of the largest Talk pages I've seen that wasn't archived. I don't know enough of the technical aspects to do it, but it seems high time that someone archived the discussion here ... it goes back to 2004 (!) and is now at 65KB long. Lawikitejana 07:05, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I added a photo from a football game to this article. I also created a page on the Commons to collect free images related to Texas A&M University. Please contribute your photos (must be freely licensed) to this page. As the collection grows, it will be a great resource for all articles pertaining to the school and its traditions and history. Thanks! Johntex\ talk 03:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Can someone please archive this talk page as all topics have been addressed and it's now necessary to move on to new discussions. -- Hut101 07:08, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
If any of you have any specific sites on campus where I should take pictures, let me know. I am planning to take pictures this weekend of Research Park, Northgate, and the Rec. Let me know if you can think of any others, or want me to take better pictures of the ones already on the page. Blueag9\ talk 23:25, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Information about the Campus Master Plan should be added. Here is the website. The executive summary report was written nicely, and also has nice pictures of the campus. [2] I really like the aerial view of the campus picture on page 16 of that report, would it be fine to add it to the article? A reason to use it would be that no free alternative can be found (prove me if I'm wrong). Blueag9\ talk 23:30, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
I agree "Notable buildings" section can be moved to a seperate article while a summary remains here to explain the general history of buildings on campus. Everything about Robert M. Gates and finding a new president can be moved to the history section. Also, "Vision 2020" can be moved to history, though I believe it needs to stay on the main article or at least another year since it's very recent, and effects the university on a grand scale. Should the Campus Master Plan be mentioned in the main article or the history article? -- Hut101 04:05, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
I find it sad that people from Texas Tech have nothing better to do than vandalize the A&M wikipedia pages. If this continues, I propose restricting edits on this page to registered users with a talk page only. Thoughts? BQZip01 16:48, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Please try to vary the pictures a little. They don't all need to be on the right side of the screen.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.91.174.88 ( talk • contribs) 02:45, 2007 March 29
Looking at ut's page, they have a university of texas portal. maybe we should have one for texas a&m.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.91.174.88 ( talk • contribs) 02:46, 2007 March 29
I am the one who wrote this suggestion. I could help out i guess. i am about to graduate, and leave this wonderful school, but i still am here. . . . .
i feel we could eliminate boosterism in the atheltics section. i feel the athletics section could be more vague. history should be more about the highlights historically, instead of the recent events. tu didn't even mention their recent national championship in theirs. i feel we don't need "only team that had both a womens and mens team in the NCAA tournment" the recent stuff should be moved to the football pages and the basketball pages. just my thoughts. still haven't joined yet. don't have time.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.91.172.167 ( talk • contribs) 02:46, 2007 April 02
I think, like many university pages have already done, that a template would be a good way to connect all the disjointed A&M articles. There was some debate a few weeks ago about removing the traditions template, so I included a section for that. This is a rough version I made based on the template used at Duke University. A few pages could fit into several of the categories (like 12th Man), so make changes, comments, etc. - Texink 00:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Texas A&M University/Archive 2
-is there a way to make a bot to put this on all the sites listed on this page -I still don't know how to do wikipedia code,
we shouldn't have notable aggies on student life. should have a seperate section. here are the people i think should be on the front.
need a stub for them Aggie Wranglers, the singing cadets, SCONA, first yell (oldag07)
Added a "notable Aggies section", and added some of my suggestions (oldag07- i know i know, i should join)
where do you suggest putting "notable aggies" on that list. it was originally linked on student life. It didn't make sense to me.
Changed size from 80 percent to 90 percent
added "howdy" to tradition section
I just got an account. when do we put this menu on our sites? Oldag07 22:18, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
When everyone agrees it's complete...I guess that would be now? BlueAg09 ( Talk) 22:27, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
So a featured article might be stretching it, let's try achieving good article status. The criteria is listed here.-- Blueag9 ( Talk) 08:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
do you think it should be moved down the article some. It is listed second on the academics page. i would think other thinks should be ahead of it in order of importance. heck, that is enough information for a separate vision 2020 page.
lets just say if you were to tell a non aggie 10 things about a&m that would be important, i do not think vision 2020 would make that list. a sentence or two should suffice.
Merge undergraduate research with research. makes the article more concise.
see my suggestions above with the new menu. . .. (oldag07)
Here's a guide to finding some of these pop culture references: http://texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=854565&forum_id=13. For some of those references I was unable to find a source, or I haven't seen the mentioned movie/TV show. Feel free to add the references listed in there if you can verify them.-- Blueag9 ( Talk) 00:47, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Definitely in brokeback mountain. not exactly a respectable reference, but mentioned never the less. don't exactly want to see it again though ...
“ | Officially the letters "A&M" no longer have any explicit meaning, but they are retained as a link to the university's past.[6] Texas A&M's triple designation as a Land-, Sea-, and Space-Grant institution reflects a broad range of research with ongoing projects funded by agencies such as NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. Working in partnership with state agencies such as the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and Texas Cooperative Extension, Texas A&M has a direct presence in every county in the state. | ” |
I find the flow between those two sentences there a bit awkward, is there any way we can rephrase the second sentence? That sentence has been there for a while now. BlueAg09 ( Talk) 07:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know what the copyright status is for a lot of the pictures in the Cushing Historical Images Collection? [3] I've written to them to ask, but haven't gotten a reply yet. I know we can use the pre-1923 photos, but many of the photos are undated and don't list a photographer. I'm unclear as to whether the others are in the public domain because they belong to a state agency or not. Karanacs 14:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I don't think any of the pictures are in the public domain. BlueAg09 ( Talk) 21:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I am not much of a writer. I emailed the singing cadets and the aggie wranglers for their input on a wikipedia entry. those are definitely important aggie organizations. I am not exactly sure how to start a stub. could someone help me. thanks Thanks.
I have made my first major revision of a wikipedia page. I added a paragraph to the texas a&m riverside campus page. I was wondering if any of yall can peer review it to see if i did it right. thanks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_Campus Oldag07 16:01, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
I merged the riverside campus articles. not exactly sure how to delete the older one. most of the links to the article refering to that campus went to the Riverside Campus page, so i moved everything there. Thoughts? Oldag07 16:22, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
I have been trying to add a "hide" button to our template like the hide button on the big 12 template or the Association of American Universities one.
we just have so much stuff on the bottom. it would be nice if we had a way to minimize it. it would look a lot less cluttered. the code is confusing me though. and id like to know your opinions on it. Oldag07 04:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
do you think a sentence on bonfire collapsewould be good in the 1950-2000 part of the history section. it is something people still associate with a&m heavily. something like :
"Tragedy struck Texas A&M when the popular A&M tradition, Bonfire, collapsed during construction on November 18, 1999. 12 participants were killed and 27 were injured." Oldag07 15:46, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
done. i think is good to mention it in the history section on the main page. I think it is more respectful to have it on then off. also one of the not so fine moments in our history helps reduce any image of boosterism (although i think we have done quite well so far reducing it). Oldag07 16:11, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
We had a question in the peer review about how to properly cite some of the stuff in the popular culture section, as some FA reviewers really don't like references to myspace or youtube. It is unlikely that we'd be able to find any additional sources for some of these. My question...do you think it is important to keep the popular culture section, which basically lists ways that A&M is mentioned on tv? To me, this doesn't really tell people anything about the university, and I'd rather take it out. What do you guys think? Karanacs 14:48, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
The second peer review asked for an additional picture in the Academics section. Does anyone have a picture that would show off Research Park at all, or know of any already uploaded images that we could/should use here? Karanacs 15:22, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
http://www.tamu.edu/campusplan/
http://newsarchives.tamu.edu/stories/04/082704-4.html
http://www.thebatt.com/news/2004/08/31/News/Campus.Master.Plan.Wins.Design.Awards-707602.shtml
http://www.tamu.edu/home/spotlight/archives/construction.html Oldag07 13:38, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
The automated peer review complained about the length of the table of contents, and I agree that it is a little hard to read. Would it make more sense to restrict the TOC tojust the top level headings, or would you rather leave it as is? I vote for top-level only. Karanacs 15:52, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
This article is very good, but not quite good enough. Some issues that need addressing before GA can be awarded:
There you go. The hold will expire in 1 week. If all of the above changes are not made in that time frame, the article will be failed. Once all of the above fixes ARE made, please drop a line at my talk page, and I pass the article. If you feel this hold was mishandled in any way, please see WP:GA/R to seek remediation. -- Jayron32| talk| contribs 03:05, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
First of all, great job on the basics. This article is slowly getting better day-by-day (then changed by some teasip with a grudge...then reverted to its glorious self again...). Please place a comment here if you are working on it and when you are finished correcting. — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
First paragraph of History:1870-1900 is unreferenced, additionally it contains a quote which is not referenced to a specific source as well. I'll take care of these references. It might take a few days, but I'll get it. If anyone wants to chip in, the more the merrier. — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Traditions section is entirely unreferenced Let's get some references. With all those websites out there, it should be easy to find at least one reference. — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Let's cite those "several superlative claims and...statistics." — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Let's quickly come up with some standards for Pop Culture so we can add references/delete excess. My humble opinion is for anything that references A&M for more than 3 minutes or 10% of the media format (whichever is less) or is an integral part of a plot. Thoughts? — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Image has to go. Anyone have a better image to throw in? If not, I'll delete it in a few days. — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Karanacs 14:55, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
If anyone has the image info, please add it. Better still, if someone is on campus, please just go and take a picture, upload it, and we'll simply replace it. Otherwise it will be deleted in a few days. — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Oldag07 20:39, 7 May 2007 (UTC)there is a picture of the new engineering building already in the wikimedia commons Oldag07 20:39, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Image deleted IAW with request. — BQZip01 — talk 05:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
btw, i have been trying to write an article on sbisa dining hall. I remember in the past reading a good website on the history of sbisa. however, now i cna't find it anymore. been looking though libraries.tamu.edu, and i can't find anything there either. there used to be a great website with info on the history of that building. oh well Oldag07 15:21, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
i wrote a real rough draft version. could you guys edit this.
For non ROTC aggies, dorms are called "halls". http://reslife.tamu.edu To encourage involvement, each hall has a democratically elected governing committee called "hall council". Every on campus resident is considered a member of the residence hall association, the largest recognized student organization on campus. http://www.rha.tamu.edu-a.googlepages.com/ Two delegates from every dorm meet biweekly in an RHA meeting to vote on affairs pertaining to on campus residents. http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2003/02/18/Opinion/Students.Misrepresented-514735.shtml In 2004 Texas A&M's residence hall association, the largest in the state, won school of the year at the Texas Residence Hall Association Annual Conference. http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2004/04/13/News/Am.Honored.As.School.Of.The.Year.At.Rha.Conference-658466.shtml Another organization that represents each hall is the National Residence Hall Honorary. http://nrhh.tamu.edu/
The university also owns apartment style living area's, mostly inhabited by graduate students. http://reslife.tamu.edu/ua/ Popular, off campus dormitories include: the cambridge, with also houses the woman's soccer team and the baseball team, and the Tradition on Northgate in with the football team is housed http://www.livethetradition.com/. http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2003/10/24/News/Athletic.Teams.Score.New.Housing-538497.shtml Oldag07 22:00, 7 May 2007 (UTC)