Wikipedia talk:WikiProject University of Houston

Articles from 1986 relating to naming controversies

Three Houston Chronicle articles from 1986 relating to the names of four universities in the UH System. Putting links to sources here so I won't forget to incorporate into articles in the future. —RJN (talk) 07:56, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

• Stancill, Nancy. "It's just UH now/Other campuses may lose `university' title." Houston Chronicle. Wednesday September 10, 1986. Section 1, Page 1.

• Staff. "Cost of UH name change to be minimal, officials say." Houston Chronicle. Thursday September 11, 1986. Section 1, Page 21.

• Staff. "Names are serious matter." Houston Chronicle. Friday September 12, 1986. Section 2, Page 10.

• Stancill, Nancy. "Idea of changing names of UH campuses dropped." Houston Chronicle. Monday September 29, 1986. Section 1, Page 10.

• http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19860911&id=iEUuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=flgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6938,2022586

• http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19860930&id=l0UuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=flgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7005,6402817

Changed four of them to full citations so that, in case the URLS go dead, we still know which articles you are referring to. The other two Google links are broken WhisperToMe (talk) 18:47, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Football season articles

If anyone is interested joining this Season article campaign, UH is still on the list as needing articles created. Mjs32193 (talk) 02:02, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Reactivate WikiProject Texas?

I have just marked WikiProject Texas as inactive. They have not answered their help talk page since at least August 2018, they are not doing assessments, nor do I detect any other project activity. Anyone interested in breathing life back into the project, please let me know if you have any ideas about how to do this. No need to ping, I have added this page to my watch list. Oldsanfelipe2 (talk) 23:04, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

WP Texas merger proposal

I have proposed a merger for all of the WikiProject Texas subprojects: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Council#Merger_proposal . Oldsanfelipe2 (talk) 17:45, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Rivalry updates

The only UH rivalry that has good coverage on Wikipedia is Houston–Rice rivalry. That is a historically important rivalry but it's already slipped in importance since Houston joined the American Athletic Conference. Rivalry coverage needs to be updated for the AAC era. I'd like to propose articles for the following:

• Cincinnati Bearcats - This is a young rivalry since the two schools have only played in the same conference for 6 years now, but ESPN always mentions a "budding rivalry" whenever the two schools play in basketball, especially due to their recent fights over dominance of the AAC.

• Memphis Tigers - Houston-Memphis football and basketball games always get some of the most attention of AAC conference games. There isn't an official tradition like the Bayou Bucket for these games, but Houston and Memphis always seem to play each other at the end of regular season in those sports, which is typical of a rivalry game.

• SMU Mustangs - Only other AAC school in Texas and a long history of playing each other that goes all the way back to the Southwest Conference. We have an article for Houston–SMU men's basketball rivalry, which has a notability tag but if we could expand it to beyond just basketball, we might get enough sources to establish notability.

• Tulsa Golden Hurricane - Also a long history. Note that we already have an article for Houston–Tulsa football rivalry, and like SMU that article could be improved by broadening the scope to more than just football.

Semiklunkductor (talk) 18:14, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

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