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Please feel free to add anything you think may help expand this project.Jazznutuva 11:45, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Construction cost on Klockner stadium was 3.4 million, not 1.2 million.

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[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 23:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pictorial help?

I've just found this site, so I'll repost here the pics requests that I had posted on the UVa discussion page--hoping that someone here might be able to help...

  • picture of the "honor code"?

Hoping that some Hoos (or other people who've been to the university) will come across this page once in a while... Could you possibly take a picture of one of the signs with the honor code from one of the classrooms? (Or any other good picture visualizing the honor code or generally UVa traditions... :o)) If you could, uploading your picture directly to the Wikimedia Commons would be great. If not (if you have a picture and don't want to upload it yourself, don't know how, etc.), feel free to contact me, I'll be happy to help you and/or upload it in your place. It goes without saying that you'll be attributed authorship of your picture in either way (unless you don't want that). Thanks a lot for your help!! --Ibn Battuta 20:44, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

  • ... or other pictures, esp. of the pavilions?

I've entered the German article into the current writing competition at the German Wikipedia. So if any of you has (or could take) pictures of other parts of UVa and would be willing to publish them on Wikipedia--thanks a lot! (I'd be esp. interested in the pavilions: I'm dreaming of getting pictures for each of them in order to set up a table structure representing the lawn and to point to the architectural differences etc. -- but nor do we have so far pictures of the North Grounds... etc. etc.) Please feel free to contact me for any infos, help, whatever! Publishing pictures here is easy, and I'll be happy to help you with the upload as well as choosing a license you like. In short: Go for it :o)) --Ibn Battuta 19:08, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[In case you wonder: Yes, I've tried to contact the library about the copyrights of some of their pictures of the pavilions, but haven't heard back from them, so I guess that isn't an alternative.]

Thanks for your help, Ibn Battuta 06:02, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Thought someone here ought to know that the page Ken Heilman that was being considered by the UVa WikiProject has been merged with Kenneth Heilman and a redirect left. --Glen Finney 18:19, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mort Caplin

Stumbled across an article about a fairly noteworthy double 'Hoo and former BoV member: Mortimer Caplin, a one-time commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service who founded a law firm after leaving government.

It seems a bit tenditiously argued in spots, although I haven't given more than a cursory thought to edits (as I'm at work). But it merits adding to the project. --GGreeneVa (talk) 19:34, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

I added the article to the project, and categorized Caplin as Category:University of Virginia faculty. Tjarrett (talk) 13:22, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] College of Arts and Sciences

This article needs to be reevaluated. Its no longer a start article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Queerbubbles (talk • contribs) 18:31, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I didn't do a full assessment, but I think the article might still be in Start, actually, based on the quality scale. Key things missing are history, images, and people. See detailed comments. Tjarrett (talk) 14:04, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Virginia Glee Club

This article was just assessed at a B by WikiProject Virginia. Could someone take a look at raising the assessment within this project? Tjarrett (talk) 13:29, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Where is this?

Where is this? The right picture looks as if the column at the right side might be on the Lawn, but I don't see how this could be the rear of Lawn buildings... or where is it? And the left picture also seems to be from the academical village, but I wonder where. Both were originally tagged with "Rotunda", but that doesn't seem to make much sense. Could it be the low buildings around the Rotunda? But the portico doesn't seem to fit, and I don't know where they could have a view on such plain brick walls as in the left picture... Anyone knows? Thanks, Ibn Battuta (talk) 03:48, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Those pictures are from the new Harrison Small Special Collections library.  ;) Queerbubbles | Leave me Some Love 09:35, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Picture Time!

I'm going to be heading back down to C-Ville for a well needed break and decided to take that opportunity to take pictures for the various articles. I have a small list going, but feel free to throw some up here and I'll snap a few.  ;) Queerbubbles | Leave me Some Love 17:29, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

It would be nice to have some pictures of The Lawn that are in color instead of B&W. Maybe Carr's Hill (for the Rugby Road article)? If you're there when the library is open, you might want to ask them about including Holsinger pictures, or other pix from the library archives, in the Wikimedia Commons or otherwise releasing them under a free license. Tjarrett (talk) 19:06, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
What I meant to say as well--we really need some good commons-ready photos of people (University presidents, faculty, etc.). Those will pretty much have to come from the library, unless you can snap a candid of John Casteen while you're there. Tjarrett (talk) 19:07, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Yep, I definately have the lawn on my list. I saw they were all from 1912. Carr's Hill I'll add. People? Hmm... I still have friends who work at the library, so I'll see what I can do in terms of snapping pics of pics. And, of course, Casteen and I are like this >.<  :P Queerbubbles | Leave me Some Love 20:22, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
I almost forgot--good clear photos of the Z, Sevens, or IMP logos on buildings, stairs, etc, would be really great. The Secret Society articles need illustrations!!!Tjarrett (talk) 13:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Yup yup yup... added that to my list. Although, this whole picture shoot might not happen this week. C-Ville's calling for bad weather. Poo.  :( I'll try anyway, though. Queerbubbles | Leave me Some Love 14:07, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Update!! Pics are now added to various c-ville and uva articles. Didnt get to hit up the library as much as I wanted to because it was closing soon. (Although, I did get to make the announcement, just like old times!) Feel free to check out my gallery if you want to add some more to things I forgot, but I'll go back down in a few and do some more. Qb | your 2 cents 16:31, 11 May 2008 (UTC)