Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dartmouth College

message: So, hi! I'm glad people have already put themselves down as participants. In the same way that an article can congeal into a coherent whole from some randomly-assorted subsections, I feel like Dartmouth College-related articles are starting to form a coherent topic as a whole. Hopefully this WikiProject can help further that.
I guess one of the first things we need (I'm new to WikiProjects) is to define some tasks we want to do. Here's my suggestions:
*Smith120bh and I discussed on Dartmouth College's FA nomination page the possibility of a History of Dartmouth College article. There's certainly precedent for university history pages (History of Michigan State University, History of Texas A&M University, etc.), and there's definitely rich enough information to do it.
*Dartmouth Big Green, Dartmouth College publications, and Dartmouth College student groups are pretty ragtag, collection-like articles right now.
*Coverage of the graduate schools (Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and Tuck School of Business) is pretty thin -- a few paragraphs at each one.
*Thanks to Kharker, Dartmouth College Greek organizations was just promoted to GA. Great! That means it's not far from an FA nomination, which could be worthwhile goal.
*Dartmouth pong has a lot of highly technical and uncited information on different formations, house rules, etc. I know the DFP and I think TDI run articles on house rules and stuff, so if we can get those online, we could tighten up the article a lot.
*Most of the biographies of College presidents are stubs, and some of them are just a single sentence. The Office of the President and other Dartmouth sources must provide enough info to at least get a working biography going on them.
*No article on Dartmouth Hall. Any interest in it? I'd say it's certainly a more important campus building than the Collis Center or the Hop.
So those are just my ideas for things we would work towards. What else? Kane5187 18:56, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No one's responded, so I'll just assume these things need doing (well, they do) and put them on the To-Do List. Kane5187 04:59, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sweet! 

message: I was able to add a No-importance ranking to this WikiProject, with which I think we can expand to include all alums now. Here's how I've been doing it, for all people:
*Presidents: Mid-importance, unless more significant as discussed above
*Faculty: Low-importance; however, if they were only a visiting professor or guest lecturer or something, No-importance.
*Trustees: Low-importance
*Alumni: No-importance, unless they have some connection to Dartmouth greater than having graduated from here (e.g. Daniel Webster, with his involvement in the Dartmouth College case, obviously would have a higher ranking).
And, I figure, anyone in multiple categories (e.g. David T. McLaughlin: alum twice over, trustee, then president) goes in the highest of the possible rankings. Sound good to everyone? The faculty and presidents are already ranked as such, but I'll be going through just to make sure it's all uniform and everything. Kane5187 (talk) 07:53, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  More rankings 

message: I just marked two article with the needs-infobox parameter of the group template, and there's a broken image link in it.  See Talk:The Dartmouth Review (which needs a magazine infobox) for example.  I don't know what the image was supposed to be.--Kharker 20:51, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Template bug