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[edit] Updated articles

  • I took the liberty of categorizing all of the FSU articles. I also added the alumni as well. I did not add the athletes, or the faculty yet. I will do this soon. Jccort (talk) 20:38, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Also

  • I do not expect you guys to add information to all of these articles, I just wanted to be known that these articles are under our jurisdiction, and to make it easier to monitor their updates. Thanks Jccort (talk) 20:39, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FSU Presidents

Thanks, Jccort (talk) 15:29, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Edit war on the athletics page

Someone unwilling to compromise--UkrNole 485 (talk) 00:34, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

some people like that guy has no life but to edit Wiki 24/7. it is sad--Nolephin (talk) 12:37, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Serious Debate on how to document notable FSU Alumni

  • List of Florida State University alumni - This article contains numerous notable FSU Alumni who do not have articles created yet. I am worried that User:Tim Ross may do a mass purge before we can debate exactly who should remain in the article and who should be deleted. I propose that we vote in a Democratic fashion who should be deleted, and who should be kept. Jccort (talk) 17:37, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
FYI... Wikipedia is not a democracy we can't have a vote... you can call for concensus. See Wikipedia:Consensus. You can direct people to contribute to the discussion on Talk:List of Florida State University alumni and attempt to alter the article as concensus dictates. We now have a message here to bring it to everyone's attention so that should serve well. If you want to call for an informal straw poll on Talk:List of Florida State University alumni in order toget concensus then that may be acceptable (although somewhat discouraged).--Dr who1975 (talk) 19:04, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Anyone interested in this topic would be advised to read this discussion, where it was discussed in Dec 07, and this one which I initiated in Apr 08, not realizing that User:Jccort had deleted the earlier discussion (which I have now replaced). Both are at Talk:List of Florida State University alumni. You might also wish to read my communication of this date with User:Jccort, here which seems to have caused the message above, and his response on my talk page.
User: Jccort seems to fear an immediate "mass purge" from me, although my interest, as I have stated again and again, is to get the list improved, either through the creation of articles for the alumni deserving of them or by references to their notable accomplishments and alumni status being provided. I have no special knowledge of alumni who deserve to be listed and those who don't, merely a desire for proper referencing and fact checking. This is not, I think, really a matter for "a vote in a Democratic fashion", but rather a matter of following Wikipedia's limited number of rules. Tim Ross (talk) 19:11, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

I think we're all assuming good faith... let's continue this discussion at Talk:List of Florida State University alumni.--Dr who1975 (talk) 19:13, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Too many lists?

I've recently been examining some of the lists involving people associated with FSU. There are at least four of them: List of Florida State University alumni, List of Florida State University athletic alumni, List of Florida State University faculty, and List of Florida State University people. As one might expect, the overlap is great and much of the information is repetitive. Maintenance is difficult and the arrangement is probably not especially helpful for most users. I picked a few large or well-known schools in the country to see how others had handled the situation. University of Miami has 2 (alumni & faculty). So does University of Florida (people & faculty and administrators) and Notre Dame (alumni & athletes). University of Alabama, University of Georgia, UCLA, and Harvard manage to get by with just one (people). A single list encompassing all FSU "people" (which we already have), would, I think, be the most useful to encyclopedia users and, perhaps, to editors as well. And, it probably wouldn't be overwhelmingly difficult to merge the three other articles into "people". What do you think? Tim Ross (talk) 10:45, 25 May 2008 (UTC)