Talk:University of Wisconsin-Madison

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[edit] Forgetting The Onion as Madison's finest Newspaper

Not sure why, but clearly there should be a mention of The Onion in the UW-Madison newspaper section. Clearly more sucessful than either the campus papers (IMO).

Greg

Greg, The Onion, while certainly popular on campus, is a nation (actually, world-)-wide satrical paper that UW has no particular claim to other than the fact that there's a local edition. Madmaxmarchhare 00:22, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, to postpend that... no claim to The Onion as a university, although, perhaps, it could be mentioned in the Miscellany/Trivia section that two UW students started it.. Madmaxmarchhare 00:24, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
The Onion was started at UW-Madison. Later they moved to NYC. 165.189.91.148 20:28, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, I guess we'll just a agree to disagree about this. I just find it odd that an article on my alma mater would employ revisionist history regarding ommitting the most successful newspaper to come out of UW Madison. Yes, it started there...and was local to UW Madison years and years before ever being national...or web-based. To leave it out of a 'Newspaper Section' is playing fast and loose with the facts (IMO). But, then again, this article also leaves out the Zucker Brothers (Airplane! Police Squad) being president of the student council back in the 70s(boombox parade, flamingos on bascom, statue of liberty head on lake mendota) so I don't expect it to include everything. I guess this type of trivia is only interesting to me...

Greg

[edit] Grateful Red

Hi. I've been putting together pages for each of the Big Ten's basketball student sections and was wondering if someone would be interested in expanding and maintaining that of the Grateful Red. Thanks!--BroadSt Bully 13:58, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links

The external links section could use some serious trimming, both in quantity and in the length of annotation describing each. --ZimZalaBim (talk) 21:53, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, but I wouldn't know where to begin. It looks like anyone on campus who has wanted to promote their dept., etc., has been adding to the list. I did start by removing BadgerBookstore.com since it's a commercial link that has no official connection to the University. -JakeApple 04:36, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Wanted to add that maybe I'll take a crack at it in the next couple of days, but I make no promises. I was looking at the list, and an alternative to trimming might be to use subcategories; I can see several obvious ones right off the bat. -JakeApple 04:58, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sterling Hall

Could someone go take a photo of Sterling Hall (preferably the part that was blown up in the 60s) for the Sterling Hall bombing page? We were using the one from the University, so it was not a free-use image. Thanks! --Habap 21:33, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marching Band Article?

A new section or article should be created about the UW Marching Band. – Lordmontu (talk) • (contribs) 05:18, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Let's Make UW-Madison a Featured Article

I recently re-organized this article to follow a format similar to University of Michigan and Michigan State University, which are both featured articles. UW-Madison still needs a lot of work. The Big Ten Wikiproject is organizing this. Please join if interested.

  • First, we need to fix up the "Campus" and "Student Life" sections by making them distinct sections. Right now, they both cover the same topics. See the two Michigan articles for ideas. The "Unions" sub-section can fit in both categories, so we need to decide which one to add it to. Also, we should add more info to student life, maybe add a section on Greek life, student government, student activities, ect. Also, maybe the campus section could be broken into two sub-sections, one being lakeshore and the other Southeast or city.
  • Second, we need a lot more references. Both of the Michigan articles have over 80, while UW-Madison has 3.
now has 34 references! – Lordmontu (talk) • (contribs) 03:02, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Third, we need to add more pictures. Pics of the Unions and a library would be nice, along with some other campus photos, and a picture with the lake in the background.
  • Fourth, we need to clean up the external links.
  • Fifth, we need to add much more information to the History section, and maybe create a History of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the future. We should definitely take apart the "timeline of notable events" and incorporate the information into the "History" paragraphs.
  • Sixth, we should probably write a paragraph or two surrounding the most famous alumni from UW-Madison in the "Notable People" section. – Lordmontu (talk) • (contribs) 02:42, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
I created a UW-Madison template to add to all UW pages. Please add any articles to it that I forgot Template:University of Wisconsin-Madison. Add {{University of Wisconsin-Madison}} to the bottom of all UW-Madison articles. – Lordmontu (talk) • (contribs) 22:31, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
I have received a number of very good ideas to help make UW a Featured Article. Please see My Talkpage for a great list from Bluedog423. Please Join the Big Ten Wikiproject if you are interested in the Big Ten Conference Thanks! – Lordmontu (talk) • (contribs) 22:31, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect Tag

Okay, you all need to STOP changing the redirect information at the top of this article. There have been WAY too many reverts back and forth. Personally, I feel like this is a really petty thing to fight over. I am going to insert a note in the article code asking people to NOT edit the tag any further. Please, let's discuss this here on the talk page. I feel like at this point, a discussion is warranted despite the smallness of this issue! I propose a different solution to what has been see so far: a disambiguous page for the University of Wisconsin. This would be more neutral (and fair to other UW campuses). I realize when people are searching for University of Wisconsin, they are typically looking for the Madison campus (it's my alma matter!). Just an idea. Please discuss this issue further here! JeffreyN 01:33, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

"University of Wisconsin" had statewide extension overall Wisconsin before 1956. It was basically a state wide system in the first place. I think it is fair to direct "University of Wisconsin" to the system article. But if you want to make "University of Wisconsin" a disambig. I'm ok with it. But in that case, your hatnote is quite confusing. I also think it is more appropriate to discuss this in the "University of Wisconsin" talk page. Miaers 01:45, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick response! I can move this to University of Wisconsin as well, however I think more people will see it here. How about this, I will put a note about the discussion on the University of Wisconsin discussion page, to direct people here? That sound alright? As for my opinion on this matter, I would be happy with the idea Miaers proposed above. Truthfully, it doesn't matter much to me. Miaers, I assume when you say "your hatenote is quite confusing" you are referring to someone else's hatnote? I just wanted to be clear. I only made one small edit, and I think it lies outside the main issue here. JeffreyN 02:01, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

If you make "University of Wisconsin" a disambig, "University of Wisconsin" will not direct to UW-Madison. Miaers 02:05, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

This I am aware of, and I believe that was the point? For "University of Wisconsin" to not direct to UW-Madison? As a side note, I didn't realize that some of this was already discussed on the University of Wisconsin talk page. I will check that out :)
After reading some of the Talk:University_of_Wisconsin page, I am going to gracefully bow out of this discussion. As I stated, this seems like a relatively small issue in the grand Wikipedia scheme. I'll let you all who are more interested take this on :) But please, don't edit the hatnote on this article in a revert war. JeffreyN 02:27, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The disambig is back

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of Wisconsin (disambiguation) (2nd nomination).

So surely, the hatnote should now point to it? Andrewa 06:33, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I see it now does! Great stuff. Andrewa 02:18, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trademark infringment

U of W has already gotten at least one high school to change its 'W' logo because of supposed trademark infringement and is talking to many more, perhaps a section on this would be good. Bassgoonist 15:24, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Diversity

Request for help: Given the attention being paid to diversity issues on campus, can we add something to this page about the university's demographics? I'm not advocating turning this wiki into a dumping ground for news stories about the diversity 2008 plan, or anything like that - but I think a simple table breaking down the demographics of the university might have encyclopedic value. DiggyG 03:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Just a heads up to everyone, I created the above page, added an info box and some quick categories. I'm looking for some good pictures right now and looking for some good information to put there, but I'm pretty busy at the moment. So, if anyone wants to jump right in, please do. Cheers, PaddyM 16:53, 25 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] How do you add coordinates to the top of article?

Kind of new to Wikipedia, so excuse the newb question. I wanted to add coordinates for a location to the top of its wiki page, but I don't know how to do so. I noticed that the UW-Madison article has them, but I couldn't find it in the page's edit section. Can anyone tell me how or direct me to where I can find out. Thanks, much appreciated. --Crosscountrycpjon 20:03, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

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