Wikipedia:WikiProject Brigham Young University

Welcome to the WikiProject page for Brigham Young University. This page is designed to streamline collaborative efforts to improve the quality of BYU-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. Go Cougars!

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

The current WPBYU collaboration for the period ending June 30, 2008 is: BYU Jerusalem Center Our July 2008 project is TBD. If you would like to nominate an article for a future project or see what articles we've already collaborated on, please visit the Collaboration talk page.

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BYU templates

• {{Brigham Young University}}

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

User templates

Students and alumni of BYU can add {{user BYU}} to their userpage for the following userbox (note that BYU offers nine different userbox types, which can be seen here):

Students and alumni of BYU-I can add {{User BYU-Idaho}} to their userpage for the following userbox:

Students and alumni of BYUH can add {{User BYU-Hawaii}} to their userpage for the following userbox:

WikiProject templates

• {{WPBYU}}

This template should be placed on all article talk pages in the BYU article series; doing so will automatically add the article to the category Category:WikiProject Brigham Young University.

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

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

• {{WPBYU people}}

This template should be placed on article talk pages of noteworthy people affiliated with BYU; doing so will automatically add the article to the category Category:WikiProject Brigham Young University.

• {{WPBYU invite}}

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

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Never-ending things to do:

1. Enlist (invite) more members
2. Help GAs reach FA status

Specific things that need attention:

1. Some newly created lists are close to FL status and can use your help: BYU alumni, BYU faculty, BYU buildings

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

1. Wrad (talk · contribs)
2. MeekMark (talk · contribs)
3. Useight (talk · contribs)
4. Mrcolj (talk · contribs)
5. Eustress (talk · contribs)
6. Alanraywiki (talk · contribs)
7. Descartes1979 (talk · contribs)
8. JackWilliams (talk · contribs)
9. JonRidinger (talk · contribs)

We ask that members make at least one contribution to a BYU-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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• Help others catch the BYU-article-improvement fever by awarding those who make special, dedicated efforts to improve BYU articles
• Assist in acquiring more Wiki-usable pictures and images related to BYU
• Label BYU-related articles with the appropriate template (see templates below)

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• Introduction to Wikipedia
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• Starting a new page
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Principals' advice

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• Provide sources for your edits
• 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.