Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Virginia Tech

Recommendations for improving the main Virginia Tech article:

• Create a separate article for the history of Virginia Tech
• Provide a paragraph or two about Virginia Tech’s student government
• Provide a paragraph or two about the many different student organizations available
• Provide more granularity into Virginia Tech’s research centers, initiatives, and activities
• Create a separate article providing more detail about Virginia Tech’s libraries
• Create a separate article for Virginia Tech’s Housing
• Improve the List of Virginia Tech Alumni
• Create a separate article listing the notable Virginia Tech faculty and administrators
• Create a separate article for Virginia Tech’s Museums
• Provide a paragraph or two about Virginia Tech’s media outlets
• Provide a paragraph or two about Virginia Tech’s transportation
• Provide a paragraph or two about scholarships available to students

Go Hokies (talk) 02:04, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Go Hokies

Go Hokies taking home another bowl win!!!! (I Dan tha Man I (talk) 05:42, 28 December 2015 (UTC))

Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies

Was wondering if someone from this WikiProject would mind taking a look at Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies#History? It's a recently added section which seems to based only upon information found on the department's official website. Some of the information may be OK, but some of it may be better summarized per WP:NOTEVERYTHING and WP:NPOV. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:32, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Visible Wiki Women

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Have a successful day of editing! --Señoritaleona (talk) 22:50, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Change of Opinion

A few years ago I turned down an invite to work on the project, is there a way I can still join? (I Dan tha Man I (talk) 17:14, 29 September 2018 (UTC))

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

New Member

Hello all. I'm working on a page to be added that will likely be connected to the Virginia Tech category. I hope it is okay if I add myself to the member list (I'm just guessing that this group is just voluntary). FelixThePhoenix (talk) 21:40, 19 February 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.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Tyrone Garland

User:Buidhe has nominated Tyrone Garland for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:34, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 22:22, 13 April 2023 (UTC)