Wikipedia:WikiProject Rutgers

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Old Queen's not far from the beloved Banks of the Old Raritan, but even closer to a Fat Darrell at the Grease Trucks.

Welcome to WikiProject Rutgers.

WikiProject Rutgers is dedicated to producing a comprehensive collection of well-written, informative and accurate articles about Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (known also as Rutgers University) and affiliated subjects.

[edit] Goals

1. To write comprehensive articles in keeping with the best examples of the Wikipedia content standards and policies regarding as many aspects of Rutgers as are notable, including constitutent schools and colleges, history, traditions, athletics, subordinate institutes, research projects, alumni, faculty, and other notable individuals or projects.
2. To organize articles related to Rutgers University into appropriate categories (i.e. alumni, faculty, etc.)
3. To bring as many Rutgers-related articles, lists, and images to featured and good article status as possible.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities

[edit] Work: Current Projects

[edit] Articles

• Improve Rutgers University article to eventual Featured Article status.
• Improve Athletics at Rutgers University article to eventual Featured Article status.
• Improve History of Rutgers University article to eventual Featured Article status.
• Improve Rutgers-Princeton Cannon War article to eventual Featured Article status.
• Improve Traditions at Rutgers University article to possible Featured Article status.

• Writing comprehensive articles with decent history sections, academics and programs sections, etc. for all Rutgers' constitutent schools. Because of size, combining the relevant constituent schools and programs into one article as they relate to the Rutgers-Newark and Rutgers-Camden articles, if necessary.
• Writing comprehensive articles worthy of inclusion as featured articles about extremely important Rutgers alumni (Milton Friedman, Selman Waksman, Joyce Kilmer, Robert Pinsky, etc.)

[edit] Images

In general get better pictures from around campus, of events on campus.

• The Class of 1877 Memorial Cannon in front of Old Queens (for Rutgers-Princeton Cannon War and Traditions at Rutgers University)
• Voorhees Mall buildings (for Voorhees Mall article)
• Old Queen's campus buildings (for Old Queen's article)

[edit] Participants

• User:ExplorerCDT (founder)
• User:Rickyrab (w00t)
• --Jersey Devil 04:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
• Patricknoddy

[edit] Suggestions and guidelines

[edit] Templates

All Rutgers University related articles should place this template on the article page, in a section entitled External links or other similar section. Biographical articles regarding Rutgers alumni and alumnae should not include this template.

This can be accomplished by typing {{Rutgers}}

The following WikiProject template should be placed on the discussion page of every Rutgers-affiliated article, including those of alumni and alumnae.

This can be accomplished by typing {{WikiProject Rutgers}}

This article is part of WikiProject Rutgers, a WikiProject to constructively prepare and present information associated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (also known as Rutgers University). If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit the article attached to this page (see Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ for more information)

[edit] External links

All Rutgers-related articles listed on the Rutgers University template should have * [http://www.rutgers.edu Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey] listed as one of the external links. For a constituent school, institute, or subject, their respective webpage should be immediately after the link to the main Rutgers webpage.

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• [http:// Subordinate Rutgers page]