Talk:National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations

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Isnt the whole idea of a "Latino" only organization racist?
Jmlk17 08:38, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All I know is that if a fraternity was to promote a "White" or "Causasian" identity, it would be labeled racist and probably banned.  Jmlk17 12:36, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
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message: Almost all of the article pages are poorly written and have absolutely no sources.  Furthermore, they are almost all blatant advertisements.  They need to either be deleted (not a good option), or cleaned up and completely overhauled. Jmlk17 23:39, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:LamdaThetaPhiShield.jpg

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message: While in some cases "Rushing" is restricted to First Semester Freshman, I think it more commonly is *not* restricted in that way. However, just as there are terms that are used differently in the NPHC (such as pledging), there may be some which are used differently in the Hispanic Greek Community. If this is so, then it should be explained.Naraht (talk) 13:08, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rushing terminology 

message: If only 3 of 19 shields/crests can be used due to copyrights, and if nobody has a problem, I'll go ahead and delete the column to have uniformity among all NALFO members. Still, I liked the idea of having them there.--Coquidragon (talk) 20:39, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If that is the problem, can we get another administrator to sign off on them?--Coquidragon (talk) 14:52, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shields/Crest and Copyrights 

message: In the table under Member organizations, the column labeled University lists all the universities where the founding chapters were located. All of the university names are written in italics except one. Is there a reason for this? If not, I would like to change all the names to regular type. Freddiem (talk) 23:57, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Support Regular type.Naraht (talk) 22:30, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Member organizations table 

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message: For what it's worth, I've been updating all articles for the current NALFO members.  Many were missing crests due to incorrect attribution of "fair use" rules.  These are fixed, and the crests I've uploaded should pass any review.  
Meanwhile, I've updated the infoboxes on most of the pages to meet the Fraternity and Sorority Project standard, a group of some 100 editors interested in the Greek Letter Organization movement.  There are about 40 of us who are pretty active.  We recently added a global parameter (these things -->  "|affiliation = NALFO") that populate the infobox, so now each of NALFO's member organizations' infoboxes show that the are a member of one or more of the conferences.  Simple awareness of your trade group may help retain members for NALFO.  Pages for the former members, too, have a note now that indicates this status, as a former member.  Where possible, I've updated physical addresses and made other format improvements.
Many readers who have worked on various NALFO articles are new inexperienced editors, whose efforts to write an article about the group they care about may have been, in their view, "unfairly" deleted. I understand.  Most often this has been because of clear copy-and-paste content that violates Wikipedia's policy on copyright violation.  Even an executive director of a fraternity cannot simply past their own website's content onto a page; it must be at least paraphrased, or summarized, and "overly-promotional" language must be avoided.  Then it must be properly referenced back to the original source. If it had been me, I'd have helped you write better pages, but some editors over the past decade have obviously taken the easy way out and just put "your" page up for deletion.  Sadly, this may have led YOU to avoid Wikipedia, to avoid updating your articles, and to kind of give up on the whole thing.  I urge you to stick with it.  We'll get these pages right, and hopefully potential members will see them and reach out to you as they enter their collegiate careers. 
As I see it, two of NALFO's current members still have deleted articles:  Alpha Pi Sigma and Gamma Phi Omega.  In each case I've written to WP administration to ask to see the former page, and will write them/restore them in such a way that they match the others here, fully supported by references.  Thus they should be able to avoid future deletion votes.  
Meanwhile, please ensure any edits you make are "encyclopedic" in nature, with neutral, 3rd party language instead of waxing all poetic about the glories of your Founding Mothers and the beautiful, mythic story of your expansion.  All fraternities have these; but they aren't suitable for an encyclopedia.  The stories are fine for your OWN website, but the various editors that scout these pages for changes don't like what they call "peacock" language.  Jax MN (talk) 00:42, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits to member pages