Talk:University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

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	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse was a good article candidate, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. Once the objections listed below are addressed, the article can be renominated. You may also seek a review of the decision.
Article Milestones Date Process Result March 26, 2007 Good article nominee Not listed Current Status: Failed good article nominee

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Contents 1 Things To Do 2 Notable people 3 GA review 4 Articles relating to University of Wisconsin-La Crosse 5 Eugene Murphy Library-University of Wisconsin-La Crosse 6 La Crosse State University-

[edit] Things To Do

• Expand Murphy Library section, if possible
• Add references where necessary
• Format references according to WP:CITET and WP:FN - somewhat done
• Expand history section, if possible
• Add any additional notable rankings or recognitions to its respective section
• Improve colleges & schools section
• Add any important or interesting general information about campus to its section
• Replace bluff picture with a better one
• Create organization section
• Add any important or interesting general information about the student culture
• Create student organizations section
• Possibly expand symbols & traditions section's first paragraph
• Add UW-L athletic photo (example: track, basketball, football, wrestling, etc.)
• Expand notable alumni section
• Expand notable faculty section
• Review and remove bias from article
• Include information about student drownings

Any help and feedback is welcome and much appreciated!! --Crosscountrycpjon 15:33, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notable people

Sandra Lee, of the show "Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee" on the Food Network, claims to have gone to UWL, but I was unable to verify whether she just attended or graduated. Can anyone verify and add to section? --Faith healer 11:55, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

According to her website, Sandra Lee Biography, she went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, not UW-L. --Crosscountrycpjon 22:46, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA review

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is well written.

   a (prose): b (structure): c (MoS): d (jargon):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (inline citations): c (reliable): d (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   a (fair representation): b (all significant views):

5. It is stable.

   

6. It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.

   a (tagged and captioned): b (lack of images does not in itself exclude GA): c (non-free images have fair use rationales):

7. Overall:

   a Pass/Fail:

Article is well written and well organized. The article has some good references, but most of these are simply URL links to the article. It would help to review WP:CITE for tips on how to format references. Full citations should contain author, title, date of publication, where published, when the URL was accessed, etc. This is to ensure that the reference is still somewhat useful should the URL disappear after a period of time. However, this minor formatting aspect is not the main reason for not attaining GA status.

The primary reason for not listing as a GA is original research. There are some significant sections of the article with no references, and some major statements that need to be referenced. For example:

• "Originally known for its nationally recognized physical education program," - this definitely needs a citation.
• "Many of the university's accredited degree programs in science and business have earned distinction for excellence."
• The entire history section.
• "Microbiology and exercise and sport science are designated as UW System Centers of Excellence, and the College of Business Administration holds national accreditation."
• "UW-La Crosse also offers Wisconsin's only nationally-accredited degrees in recreation management and therapeutic recreation, the UW System's only nuclear medicine technology program, and the Midwest's only undergraduate archaeology major."
• "9,438 students enrolled for the 2005-2006 school year. There are 8,133 undergraduate students, 1,264 graduate students, 548 multicultural students, and 160 international students representing 37 states and 39 countries. UW-L has a student/teacher ratio of 22:1 and the average class size is 28 students."
• The 'notable alumni' and 'notable faculty' sections.
• List is probably incomplete -- those are the ones that jump out at me.

The history section is very short. This could be developed.

It's generally bad practice in wikipedia to link to external sites in the text of an article, like with the links to various colleges & schools. External links should either be converted to other wiki articles, or in this case, since individual colleges & schools are probably not notable enough for their own articles, just not linked. -done

The 'campus' section is good. Reasonably descriptive. However, again, it lacks references where they are needed. Nice touch to add a link to the fight song under the traditions section,...

The 'past notable speakers' section needs some descriptive introduction text. Are we talking about past graduation speakers, or individuals who were invited to campus to give lectures during the academic year? My assumption would be past graduation speakers, but a bit of descriptive text would help here.

The external links section could probably be pared down a bit. Lots of those should be used as inline citations. The link to the school newspaper is unnecessary, since it's already mentioned earlier in the article. Links to individual departments within the university are not necessary here; just provide the link to the main school site, and that main page should be organized well enough to find individual departments. Links to various articles and press releases on the site, however, would be helpful as inline citations to various parts (like the athletic national titles).

Hope this helps. You might also want to review WP:WIAGA for the good article criteria. WP:CITE and WP:V would be helpful with regard to the citation issues.

I think it's getting very close to good article. Just fix a few things and it'll be there. Cheers! Dr. Cash 03:48, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles relating to University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

I started an article about Thomas Morris who got legislature through the Wisconsin State Legislature establishing La Crosse State. Also I started 3 articles about Morris Hall, Wittich Hall and, Main Hall in relationship to being on the list of National Historic Landmarks. On Morris Hall, Susan Hessel wrote a book about the building and which I read and included in the article. Thank you-RFD 15:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Eugene Murphy Library-University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Eugene Murphy Library at La Crosse State needs to be added. Thanks-RFD 15:35, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] La Crosse State University-

The article looks pretty good. However, I have doubts about adding notable alumni and faculty. They may be notable to La Crosse State and the La Crosse community, but, they may not meet Wikipedia's notability standards, and, therefore, may be deleted. Thanks-RFD 15:11, 30 March 2007 (UTC)