Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities/Outreach/Newsletter December 2007

Project news

• A brand new department was created: Collaboration of the Fortnight. Every fortnight three articles will be selected to be our focus for improvement. Participants can nominate an article to be selected.

The current University Collaborations of the Fortnight are:
Editor Nominated Topic	East Carolina University
B-Class Improvement Drive	Mills College
Start/Stub Improvement Drive	Jamia Millia Islamia
Every fortnight three higher education-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! This COTF is organized by Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities. (Nominate future collaborations or see past collaborations.) This WP:UNI/COTF is effective: Apr 18, 2008 ~ May 01, 2008.

• The new COTF is reflected in our {{WikiProject Universities}} template by using new parameters.
• A section for university-related templates was created, bringing all of our templates (except the infobox) into one location

Articles of note

New Featured articles:

• Tuck School of Business

New Featured article candidates:

• Dartmouth Medical School

New Featured articles under review

• Michigan State University

New Featured lists:

• List of colleges and universities in New Hampshire

New Good articles:

• Thayer School of Engineering
• University of Bristol
• University of Houston

Current proposals and discussions

The article guidelines need consensus before they can be implemented. There is a RfC discussion on the guidelines talk page which you can participate in.

• Much debate has surrounded the notability of separate articles students' unions. This has included multiple Student Union articles up for deletion, the Student life section of the article guidelines, and comments on the guidelines talk page.
• There is a centralized discussion about fight songs that may affect many university athletics sections and articles.

Awards and honors

• Jamesontai was awarded the University Barnstar for his recent excellent contributions to WP:UNI. His new Collaboration of the Fortnight is superb, and makes a great addition to our WikiProject! Thanks so much!

Things to do

1. Gain consensus for article guidelines
2. Continue upkeep of University Portal
3. Create a page for each and every university and college and add {{infobox University}} for it. See the missing list for those institutions still awaiting articles.
4. Place {{WikiProject Universities}} on every related talk page.

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