Category talk:Wikipedians by alma mater: United States

message: Created as part of Wikipedia:User categorisation. See also Wikipedia:Wikipedians_by_alma_mater. Ëvilphoenix Burn! 06:48, August 10, 2005 (UTC)
Why is Virginia Tech under W?  I assume there's some technical reason, since the subcategories seem to be automatically placed into letters, but I don't know enough about the technical operation to guess what that might be. Chuck 00:06, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, I figured it out by looking at some of the other subcategory pages and corrected it. Chuck 00:09, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

message: How do you add your alma mater if it's not listed here? User:MattFBC 1 November 2006
:Simply add the following to a user page:
 USERNAME
:This will place the user in a new category, which will automagically appear on this list!  See Wikipedia:Categorization for more details.  ∴ here…♠ 00:18, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing Alma Mater

message: As part of an effort to standardize and clean-up, I have used  for every category that has an associated userbox.  In the process, I have caused or discovered a few clean-up issues:
1. Categories that need to be deleted (due to duplication or other issues):
Obsolete (All are empty)                                                             	Use instead
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater:United States: Hampshire College                 	(I created this by mistake)
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: The University of Akron                         	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Akron
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: College of New Jersey                           	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: The College of New Jersey
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Missouri–Rolla                    	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Missouri-Rolla
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: NJIT                                            	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: New Jersey Institute of Technology
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater:University of North Dakota                       	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of North Dakota
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Notre Dame                                      	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Notre Dame
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Missouri–Columbia                 	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Missouri - Columbia
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute                	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: State University of New York at Buffalo         	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University at Buffalo
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Texas–Pan American                	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Texas-Pan American
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater:Tulane University                                	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Tulane University
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater:Macalester College                               	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Macalester College
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater:College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
2. Categories that should be renamed
Current Name                                                 	Proposed New Name
:Category:Wikipedians of Pfeiffer University                 	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Pfeiffer University
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater:Savannah State University	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Savannah State University
3. Categories to be merged
Merge from                                                                    	Merge to
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: CCNY                                     	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: City College of New York
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater:University of Oklahoma                    	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Oklahoma
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater:Oklahoma State University                 	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Oklahoma State University
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of California at Santa Barbara	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of California, Santa Barbara
:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Texas                      	:Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Texas at Austin
Please feel free to help out by tagging, proposing, or doing these changes.  Please cross them off as they are done. --NThurston 18:51, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Updated.  --NThurston 15:30, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Corrected order.  All done but the last two. --NThurston 19:52, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: All done. --NThurston 21:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  General clean-up issues