Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dartmouth College

Sweet!

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)

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)

To move Dartmouth College Greek organizations to FA status, I think the article would need at least (a) some historical photos of people and activities, (b) some more content related to the relationship of Greek organizations and student life at Dartmouth, and (c) a section about the the Greeks as residential facilities for the campus.--Kharker 20:54, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Criteria for article importance ratings

Basically, we should agree upon some. For example, tenured professors who are not particularly well-known outside the college should be mid-level, organizations known beyond the college top-level, people more tangentially affilliated with Dartmouth low-level, campus buildings low-level...

Thoughts?

Feeeshboy 04:19, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

That's fine with me. I went through and gave rankings to most of the related articles I could find (although I didn't do tenured professors -- for individuals, I added only some of the more important current trustees, Daniel Webster, Nelson Rockefeller, and Dr. Seuss as important alumni, and the College presidents).

I've never done importance rankings before, but here's generally how I distributed the rankings:

• Top importance: The College article, the articles on the graduate schools, and the lists of alumni, faculty, trustees, and sports teams.
• High importance: Important campus buildings or facilities, the founding and current presidents, the more important student organizations, review articles not in the Top list (e.g. Dartmouth College traditions, Greek organizations)
• Mid importance: All the other College presidents, other associated people (e.g. founders of graduate schools), less important campus facilities and student organizations, all the Greek houses with individual articles
• Low importance: Least important student organizations and campus facilities; people tangentially related to the College.

Like I said, I'm not familiar with the standards for importance rankings and whether these are appropriate in that regard, but I distributed them as intuitively as I could. If you feel that this needs tweaking, I'm happy to defer to someone who knows better. Kane5187 14:25, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Gee... I really think someone like President Kemeny is more important than the Greek organization pages. Think coeducation, the Dartmouth plan, co-inventing the most popular computer language in the world, integrating computing into the curriculum... And note that I'm a Greek alum. Rhsatrhs 00:28, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I would suggest that professors and administrators who are either fairly important to the history of the College or both very well known outside the college and strongly associated with the College (i.e. weren't just at Dartmouth for a brief time) should be considered high importance. Feeeshboy 01:41, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Okay, that's fine with me. Like I said, I'm not familiar with rankings. I'm fine with your proposals. Kane5187 05:04, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

More rankings

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)

Template bug

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)

New page for The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice?

I'm interested in creating a page for TDI (formerly Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences) Can you tell me what the process is?

Thanks. Dgkimbell (talk) 18:05, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Just click one of the following (depending on whether you want to include "the" in the title; is it an official part of the name? See Wikipedia:Naming conventions) and write the article in the blank box. Kane5187 (talk) 22:22, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

• The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
• Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice