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Welcome to the WikiProject page for Washington University in St. Louis. These pages allow better collaboration for those interested in contributing to the WUSTL article series on Wikipedia. Please feel free to browse; we would be happy if you would contribute!

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Announcements Announcements

Examples

Great article examples:

--Lmbstl 09:21, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Quality scale for articles

Please see the Wikipedia article quality scale; it is a good reference point.

Deletion of Washington University Student Union

The article Washington University Student Union is up for deletion. Unless it can be significantly improved, I have voted that it be merged with the "Campus Life" article. The discussion and voting is taking place here. --Lmbstl (talk) 03:44, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


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How can I contribute to this project How can I contribute to this project ?

If you are reading this, then you proably know something about WUSTL . . . we welcome your contributions! If you're new to Wikipedia, have a look at the following:

If you're looking for something to do involving the WUSTL article series, there's a list of articles to the right. Also, look for tags such as {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, {{expand}}, and {{unreferenced}} to guide your contributions to the articcle series. Finally, if you're a good photographer, have a look at the image requests below.

And remember, always provide sources for your edits.

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Articles Things to do for the WUSTL WikiProject

This area is for contributions to managing the WUSTL series. To contribute content to WUSTL articles, please see the "to-do" list to the right.

Articles need to be rated. Addditionally, the "to-do" lists of each article should be populated in order to guide edits. --Lmbstl 10:06, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

The Washington University in St. Louis WikiProject is in its infancy, so suggestions and additions of content are welcome. --Lmbstl 07:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


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Project goals WP:WUSTL project goals

Current goal

Organize and collect all Wikipedia pages relating to WUSTL in order to

  1. encourage members interested in contributing/editing WUSTL articles to work through these pages, so we can combine our efforts
  2. make all WUSTL pages accessible through this page using category listings, so the entire sccope is visible to everyone
  3. make all article to-do lists and tasks available from one place, so contributors can choose their area of specialty
  4. centralize information/image/edit requests for all WUSTL series pages, so requests can be publicized and quickly fulfilled

Intermediate goal

Bring WUSTL article series to a respectable standard, where information about WUSTL is reliable and of sufficient scope

Ultimate goal

Bring the Washington University in St. Louis article to featured article status.

The path to a Featured Article
Start a new article
Develop the article
Check against the featured article criteria
Get creative feedback (Peer review)
Apply for featured article status
Featured articles

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Images Image Requests

  • Anheuser-Bush Hall (Law Building)
  • Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center
  • George Warren Brown School of Social Work Building
  • Queeny Tower in the Medical campus (requested by Astuishin)
  • Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (this might make an interesting photo study)
  • West Campus Building
  • Francis Field
  • Image of coat of arms

Orphan WU Images These are orphan images related to GT. Feel free to use them in WU-related articles. Be sure to add WU-related images you upload to Category:Washington University in St. Louis so that they can be added to this list and/or used.


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Images Available images

Many thanks to Bai Li Min for some great shots which he gave permission to use. --Lmbstl 12:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Click HERE to see/edit a gallery of WUSTL images available for use in WUSTL articles

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Assessment Assessment

Article assessment statistics

Washington University in St. Louis
articles
Importance
None Total
Quality
B 6 6
Start 12 12
Stub 14 14
Assessed 32 32
Unassessed 1 1
Total 33 33

Table of articles

Explanation of article grading system


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Templates in Use Templates in the WUSTL series


User templates

If you attend or have attended Washington University, you can add this template to your userpage:

{{User WUSTL}}
to display the following userbox on your userpage:
This user attends or attended
Washington University.


This will also add your page to: Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Washington University in St. Louis


If you are a part of the WUSTL WikiProject, you can add this template to your userpage:

{{UserWUSTLproject}}

to display the following userbox on your userpage:

This user is a member of the Washington University in St. Louis WikiProject.


This will also add you to: Category:WikiProject Washington University in St. Louis participants


WikiProject templates

This template should be placed on all article talk pages in the WUSTL article series; doing so will automatically add the article to the category Category:WikiProject Washington University in St. Louis articles.
Use this template on an article's talk page only if:
  • the article is not biographical in nature. Articles about people should use template {{WikiProjectWUSTLpeople}}
This template should be placed on article talk pages of noteworthy people affiliated with WUSTL; doing so will automatically add the article to the category Category:WikiProject Washington University in St. Louis people.
This can be added to a user's talk page to invite him/her to the WUSTL WikiProject
  • {{Shortcut|[[WP:WUSTL]]}}
This creates the WP:WUSTL shortcut box on a page

Templates used in the WUSTL article series

  • {{WUSTL}} - Article series nav box


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Participants WP:WUSTL project participants

Anyone who can assist in developing the article series, please add your name:

  • Astuishin (talk · contribs) - To contribute to the history and research sections of the page
  • Bancham (talk · contribs) - Class of 2010 provide information on student life of and residence halls
  • Nagrawal (talk · contribs) - Class of 2010 Biology/PNP major. provide information on student life of and residence halls. Also once school year starts can take pictures of requested places around campus.
  • Barfooz (talk · contribs) - I can contribute pictures and copyedit/verify the information produced by others
  • Cazador (talk · contribs) - Hoping to develop an easier to read and more developed WUSTL article that draws people to learn more about the school
  • Chrestomanci (talk · contribs) - Class of 2007, I'd like to contribute what I can before I graduate. Love to take pictures, I'm also happy to research and write. I'll be fairly busy until April 7th, but after that I will have more time.
  • Jcool155 (talk · contribs) - Class of 2007 alumni, now working at the University. Experience with many aspects of campus life, and the business school. Have lots of pictures, too.
  • Lmbstl (talk · contribs) - Since I am working on finishing a degree at WUSTL, I have to limit my time on here. I would like to contribute to organizing and managing both the expansion and improvement of the WUSTL series.
  • Minbaili (talk · contribs) - I can provide pictures, information, etc.
  • Oren0 (talk · contribs) - A BS-MS candidate in Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering at WUSTL.

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Collaboration Current collaboration

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

The current WUSTL collaboration for the period ending February 30, 2008 is:

History of Washington University in St. Louis


The last collaboration article was Washington University School of Medicinesee improvements

Nominate for next period

Next period's nominees:

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Articles to work on

About this section . . .

The goal is to bring articles from the bottom of the list to the top of the list. Once an article reaches Stage 4, we can focus on bringing it to Stage 5: featured article quality.

Click on the "to do" link beside each article to see its list of tasks. Ther eis also a link to each article's talk page.

Stage 5: Featured articles

None yet . . .

Stage 4: Articles of adequate length needing expansion and/or improvement
Stage 3: Articles needing expansion, cleanup, and references
Stage 2.5: Articles that are painful to read and need improvement
Stage 2: Stubs and very short articles
Stage 1: Requests and ideas for future articles
Sam Fox School for Design and Visual arts
South 40


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CategoriesCategories of the WUSTL series

This section and its category listings serve to make all WUSTL pages accessible through this page, so the entire scope of the WUSTL series is visible to everyone. Please add pages to the correct category when appropriate.

Article series categories


User categories


WikiProject WUSTL categories



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See Also See also. . .