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Alpha Phi Omega

Hello, Naraht. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Alpha Phi Omega, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 17:10, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

APO category

Per our discussion on the list talk page I have created Category:Alpha Phi Omega members and will be adding the articles from the list to it. Categories aren't subject to the same notability requirements as stand alone lists so the category will persist no matter what happens to the list, hopefully this offers much of the same utility as a navigational and organizational aid. TBH I was surprised to find out that the cat didn't exist already. COI aside you've worked really hard on that list and I would hate to see the utility removed from the project. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 08:35, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Horse Eye's Back Not a determining Condition. Categories for membership in various GLOs have been created in the past and deleted as not a determining condition. I will be proposing that list for deletion.Naraht (talk) 08:37, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

If thats true you can just prod it, I have no objection. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 08:39, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Are you sure though? I see lots of similar cats, Category:Members of the Black Panther Party for example. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 08:42, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Not a GLO.Naraht (talk) 08:42, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

What is the difference between a GLO and a political party in terms of being a determining condition? Both are social groups. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 08:46, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

We have Category:Freemasons so we seems to allow fraternal orgs. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 08:49, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

• shock*. Republican Party (United States) = Friday night bowling League???? Wikipedia definitely has different rules for those two. I need to head to bed. The longer that I have this discussion, the less likely I think that List of Alpha Phi Omega members has any chance of deletion, especially as it is being remapped in the form of List of Alpha Phi Alpha members. And the guideline here is Wikipedia:COPDEF. And PROD isn't allowed on Categories.Naraht (talk) 08:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

List of Alpha Phi Alpha members also lacks anything which indicates notability... And its not a real FA, look at the history... Its a 2007 FA which would not survive a challenge, not going to challenge because people keep saying I'm battle grounding. Goodnight! Rest assured that I will not be nominating List of Alpha Phi Omega members for deletion anytime soon, take all the time you need to find sources. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 09:09, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Saint Francis University

My intention is BOTH Saint Francis University (Pennsylvania) and Saint Francis University (Hong Kong) will get disambiguation term, while Saint Francis University would redirect to University of Saint Francis (which itself is a disambiguation page). --Leeyc0 (Talk) 03:06, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Leeyc0 Please point a place where X University and University of X have a joint Disambiguation page. SFU Pennsylvania is primary over SFU Hong Kong (about 400 links to about 100 links and that's the more favorable way to look at it as Google searches on the two are *far* more imbalanced.Naraht (talk) 12:22, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

I would suggest to raise this issue to community and let the community decide. I don't think we can make this judgement privately. I am open to both options. --Leeyc0 (Talk) 13:13, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

I just raised your concern in Template_talk:College#Template-protected_edit_request_on_10_January_2024. This looks like to be the best place for this issue. --Leeyc0 (Talk) 13:20, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Leeyc0 This being my talk page or Template:College?Naraht (talk) 14:16, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

In the talk page of Template:College --Leeyc0 (Talk) 15:05, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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Northwestern College (Iowa)

I noticed that in the right stats sidebar, you changed "Staff" to "Total staff." We typically talk about "faculty" (i.e., those who teach, or professors and instructors) and "staff (i.e., those working in non-teaching roles--from the president to an administrative assistant or maintenance worker). With "Academic staff" and "Total staff," could it seem as if "Total staff" includes "Academic staff"? (It doesn't. We have 84 full-time faculty and 140 full-time non-faculty, or administrators and staff.) Our total full-time employees comes to 224 people. Is there a way to make that clear? Thank you in advance for your help! Skielark (talk) 20:23, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Skielark Please take a look at the documentation on Template:Infobox University, It sounds like what you want is academic_staff=84 and administrative_staff = 140. Does that help?Naraht (talk) 20:27, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes, it does! Thank you for your help! Skielark (talk) 21:34, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

LI-importance & Syracuse-importance

Would you care to elaborate @ Template talk:WikiProject New York (state)#LI-importance & Syracuse-importance, at least so there's a record?   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:50, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Tom.Reding Good enough?Naraht (talk) 15:55, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

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Alpha Phi Omega (Philippines)

I think List of Alpha Phi Omega (Philippines) chapters and alumni associations should be split into two articles, based on its length. Maybe also move the citations to their own column. Thoughts? Rublamb (talk) 15:34, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Rublamb Sounds good. I need to go diving through facebook to find the dates for the last 5 years or so. Official facebook feed of APO Phil should be OK as a ref.Naraht (talk) 15:38, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Pages using infobox fraternity with founded incomplete

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Proposed deletion of Epsilon Nu Tau

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Infobox change, recent updates

Nice catch, adding Category:Pages using infobox fraternity with missing website. Always a vexing issue.

Might I ask that you confirm whether Sigma Xi now should have a category, like the other Honor Society Caucus fraternities? Since I created the chapter list, I think it is probably appropriate, but defer to you as our resident category expert. Please create it, if fitting. Jax MN (talk) 18:40, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Jax MNRight now, there are only two pages. I'm hesitant since this is a category that has been deleted before. When we get three, no question.Naraht (talk) 18:49, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

At some point, one of us may add a Notables article. We can revisit it then. No problem. Jax MN (talk) 19:09, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Jax MNQuite likely!Naraht (talk) 19:14, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

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Re: Corps Palatia Munich, and my addition of (Munich) in the infobox.

Hi Naraht. Obviously that is the English translation of the German city name now shown as Corps Palatia München in the infobox. As this is the English Wikipedia, I offered this parenthetical clarification for those unfamiliar with the German language. You don't think it useful? Jax MN (talk) 17:55, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

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Theta Phi Alpha

Why are you reverting my edits to this page? The revisions are needed to reflect what's happening with the National organization. I'm on the Grand Council. Thank you. Katie Evans 2600:4041:6683:1C00:D519:CEC:2999:E6D7 (talk) 20:44, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm going to respond over at the talk page for the article about Theta Phi Alpha, for more audience. No way to directly alert someone who edits without an account but hope to continue there.Naraht (talk) 20:56, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

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Hi, I noticed that you offered Salpynx to help clear ISBN errors: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Salpynx&diff=prev&oldid=1204790683

It's a been a while since I used AWB (I once had a registered account, but abandoned it after some interpersonal issues drove me away) but I think that the easiest task would be to replace every instance of <nowiki>ISBN 9999999999999</nowiki> with {{ISBN|{{Format ISBN|9999999999999|out=13}}}}, where the input string and list of articles are copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Check_Wikipedia/ISBN_errors. Using {{Format ISBN}} would mean there is no need to preprocess the input string. The 9999999999999 could be left as is.

I've been working through many of these issues manually, concentrating on the errors that appear to be unique and on articles with more than a couple of errors. I don't think I'll ever get to the articles that have just one error. Any help would be greatly appreciated! 76.14.122.5 (talk) 02:46, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

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Hi, Naraht. responding to this comment of yours at JH's TP: Imho, it is not so much a question of whether it involves reverting your own edit or not (although that would likely be viewed as a smaller infraction than reverting someone else's, *if* proxying were involved), but rather at whose behest you are doing the revert. If you decided to revert yourself for reasons entirely your own, then it is not proxying; and if you are influenced to do so by a discussion from a blocked user, then it might be proxying. Even in the latter case, if you take full ownership of it and independently believe it is the right course of action, then you could make the revert, but that is a gray area. That is my interpretation of WP:PROXYING, but others might see it differently. I think a self-revert of the type you dsecribed is probably okay; but if you have any doubts about it, you could simply ask a trusted admin about it on their Talk page, or here on your Talk page either by pinging an individual admin, or using template {{Admin help}}. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 22:15, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Mathglot Thank you. I think the edit in question is the one on The Daily Campus and that isn't mine, it is by Liz and I personally think that as an actual street address, it should either be Storrs-Mansfield, or Storrs as I don't think Storrs, Mansfield, Connecticut is one of the choices by the US Postal Service (and specifically as a *street address*, I *think* USPS trumps WP:COMMONNAME, but I'd like to be sure, get other opinions). And in regards to the ANI comment, I not only have half of the pages I changed on my watchlists, I'm running a search on insource:/Storrs-Mansfield/ whenever I get on Wikipedia. Oddly, I may have been the first one to object to the changes because they kept coming up in all of the Fraternity and Sorority chapter lists where UConn has a chapter. (I'm on WP:FRAT) and because I didn't indicate it elsewhere, Thank you to Liz as well.Naraht (talk) 22:37, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

I got pinged to Talk:Storrs, Connecticut § Storrs-Mansfield Discussion by the Rfc bot, and probably won't get into the content dispute regarding the name more than I already have as I don't really care that much, so will probably leave it to others. (I might get involved if proper interpretation of ngrams or other search result data becomes an issue, because casual users of search tools so often get it wrong.) The Talk page is the right place to resolve that, and obviously there have been recent attempts to do so, which have had to deal with the bludgeoning and other issues that left JH temp blocked.

There is certainly no rush as far as resolving this question, and imho it would be a good idea to put off any further attempts to change things at that article for a little while, if only because of the likelihood of a repeat of past strife and wasting our most precious resource (editor time). Once the dust has settled one way or another, a discussion (or possibly an Rfc) down the road might resolve the question among editors dealing with the question collegially and disinterestedly, but I don't think we are there yet on this issue. I think the most efficient path (least use of multiple editors' time) would be to wait a few months, and then try. Just my two cents. Mathglot (talk) 23:09, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Mathglot probably. I don't know if there is any formal way to say "let's put a discussion on ice for a few months", but I can support.Naraht (talk) 00:04, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

There is an informal way to do so, which is just to propose and get consensus for a moratorium. Sometimes in perennial Rfc questions which keep coming up over and over, someone puts forward a proposal (either while the Rfc is going on or right after) that there should be no further Rfc's on the same topic for <time interval>, which I've seen be up to 18 months for particuarly egregious cases. With such a consensus, premature attempts to raise it again can be hatted, with |result=Moratorium in effect; see <link>.

But here, a much easier response is just silence. After someone proposes a change that is reverted and discussed, if they are unable to gain consensus on the Talk page after a reasonable amount of discussion, there is no requirement for the majority in opposition to respond to every one of their questions or ripostes. You can simply let them have the last word, and keep on talking and talking as much as they want, with no response at all. Their having the last word does not equal consensus, and after hearing nothing back for a while, they usually give up. If they don't, and barge ahead unilaterally, reinserting the oppositional material again, one of the majority simply reverts, with edit summary: "No consensus; see Talk", or "Contrary to previous consensus; see Talk", and if they do it again, a different majority editor should revert and then take them to the Edit warring noticeboard. That should be the end of it.

I would just choose silence at this point, although I fear, as you do, that it will spring up again. If it does, I would respond with one brief sentence in the discussion just like those suggested edit summaries, and then never respond again (unless some completely new argument is supplied which seems unlikely, and even then, they would need consensus). It's fine if they get the last word and then it just fizzles out; that saves you from having to respond. Mathglot (talk) 00:46, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

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Questionable AWB edit

What was this edit for? It looks like it did nothing to the rendered page, a violation of the AWB rules. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:38, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Jonesey95Deleted the second space after ISBN in the run-on, which I believe to be part of the "Apply general fixes". And yes, pretty minor, if you choose to revert, go ahead.Naraht (talk) 14:44, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

See WP:AWBRULES, rule 4. Please edit with more care. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:03, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Jonesey95Fair. I will try to do so. It does lead to the question as to *why* AWB can be run with the various skip options on minor changes able to be turned off. But doesn't make it less needed to be watched. Naraht (talk) 15:06, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

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Hello Naraht! Just following up to see if you noticed my ping on the TRACS Talk page? I was looking to see if you had any additional feedback on my proposed TRACS History section. Again, thanks for all your help so far with improving the page! Andy at TRACS (talk) 18:07, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Hello again! Checking in to see if you saw my answer to your question on the TRACS Talk page? Thanks Andy at TRACS (talk) 19:45, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Andy at TRACS Yes, I did, but got distracted. I'll try to get it this weekend. Since this is more complex, I'm probably going to just make larger changes related to this myself on the article and then we can go from there.Naraht (talk) 20:09, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

@Naraht: Thanks! Let me know if you have questions. Andy at TRACS (talk) 20:23, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

@Naraht: Good day, if there is anything I can answer or provide you to assist in making the larger or more complex changes, please let me know! I truly appreciate your time and efforts! Have a great day.

Andy at TRACS Don't think so, but thank you for bugging me.Naraht (talk) 23:11, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

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Hi Naraht. I'd reviewed some of your recent edits to the "Type" parameter in the infoboxes, switching from Wikilinks to the words "Social Fraternity", etc. In the case of Ceres, which is legally a women's fraternity, it may create confusion for those who do not know that some of the women's groups use that term. Is there an option to include a template parameter redirect where these few dozen women's fraternities can be called maybe "Social Fraternity (women's)" ?

Noting also how the Type parameter works for Service fraternities, instead of the bare word "Service" it should include the word "Fraternity". It's just clearer that way. Jax MN (talk) 01:16, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Jax MNI messed up on Ceres. It should have been Social Fraternity or Social Women's Fraternity. I'll fix. And as for Service, I think both Service and Service Fraternity will be displayed as the same. Fraternity and Sorority are specified for social because they'll link to different pages. And please push back on Template talk:Infobox fraternity as to what the preferred term to actually be typed. Whatever is first for a group is the preferred, I guess.Naraht (talk) 01:21, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

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I found a PDF history of Phi Alpha Delta that lists of all chapters (law school, alumnni/gradaute, and pre-law chapters). However, the lists are in alphabetical order by school name, rather than the chapter name or charter date. This data should be perfect for a drop into Excel so that it can be sorted correctly before creating an article. However, I have been unable to extract the data in its rows, despite that fact that it is clearly in rows in the PDF. Can you take a look and see if you can figure out how to make this work? These lists are too long to manually create IMO. Here is a link to the PDF, with the lists being on pages 195-206. Thanks. Also, just realized we live near each other--I am a couple of house away from D.C. in the valley of Virginia. Rublamb (talk) 17:51, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

Rublamb If it helps identify where I am, Connecticut Avenue and Georgia Avenue eventually cross about 7 miles north of the DC line. I can walk to that crossing from my house.

The PDF is particularly wierd in that if you try to copy a chunk from that section, the partial pages (200 & 203), grab everything from one column before moving to the next while all of the full pages grab rows. I'll see what I can do. Oddly, my Linux environment and vi may prove more useful. At worst, I expect comma delimited, which we can make what we want. What order do you want? We also have a lot of information on the changes of names and locations in the area around 114.

Rublamb Initial pull of the law school chapters at User:Naraht/PDD1. Let me know how you want it massaged. May need a slightly different tack on the other ones. I have my corporate version of Excel, so all of the bells and whistles on bringing it in, once I had the tabs in the appropriate places.Naraht (talk) 02:44, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank goodness you could get it to work! I would like to sort into charter date order. I had not noticed the crazy format of the college names. I guess we can use text to column (at the comma) and concatenate to reassemble in the correct format? Rublamb (talk) 03:04, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

First time I did it, I had it in charter date order. I deliberately sliced off the City/State at the hyphen. Not sure much can be done by the editor to put the school names back together like "Bridgeport, University of, School of Law". I reordered it, check now.Naraht (talk) 03:26, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for getting into charter order. Yeah, since not all college names have the unusual format, my suggestion above will not work. But fixing a few names is nothing compared to manually entering the data. Rublamb (talk) 03:32, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Got all of the University of switched around, uploading.Naraht (talk) 03:33, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

two entries that are William O. Douglas, charter may have moved or split more info likely elsewhere in the doc. But unless you want me to automate adding the square brackets to the Namesake, not sure what else can be automated, looking for suggestions.Naraht (talk) 03:37, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Date templates? Rublamb (talk) 03:41, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

You mean dts? Already there. when I put it into excel, I made the format for the dates {{\d\t\s|yyyy|mm|dd}} which dropped them in correctly. :)Naraht (talk) 03:44, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Perfect. Rublamb (talk) 03:46, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Did one more fix, something was wrong with how Saint John's University came over , the single quote turned into 3 or 4 characters. Wierd.Naraht (talk) 03:52, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Rublamb added brackets to all of the honorees. Some need to be dabbed, others are redlinks. I'll start looking at them.Naraht (talk) 17:16, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

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Hi @Naraht, hope you are doing well. I have a question for you. I recently had an edit deleted from the SUNY Oswego page where I had listed the greek organizations on campus. The user who deleted the edit said "Most Wikipedia editors agree that rote listings of Greek institutions are not helpful if there is no sourcing from outside the college's or university's homepage or the fraternity's own circle." Are you aware of editors agreeing on this? He had some other points but that statement raised my interest. If you're interested you can take a look at it [[1]]. Gooseneck41 (talk) 02:18, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Gooseneck41 Not even close. And I didn't even have to guess who did it. See recent changes to University of Kentucky student life. Drop a note on WT:FRAT if you want help other than adding back the contents of <ref name=":2">Lurding, Carroll and Becque, Fran. (April 13, 2025) "[[Institutions]]". ''[https://www.library.illinois.edu/slc/national-fraternity-collections/fraternity-sorority-almanac/ Almanac of Fraternities and Sororities]''. Urbana: University of Illinois. Accessed May 29, 2023.</ref> and adding it as a ref.Naraht (talk) 03:11, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

@Naraht thanks for the information. I'll check out the project. It looks like there's a lot of work to do there. Gooseneck41 (talk) 02:00, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

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Hi, I provided several citations to prove the notability of this album. Examples are online shows they have performed on like KEXP and the documentary movie made about the lead singer, Strange Negotiations. It is also notable for being the origin point of the group. There are already eight other Pedro the Lion albums that were decided to be notable and therefore listed on Wikipedia. Mukilman (talk) 03:32, 10 July 2025 (UTC) Mukilman (talk) 03:30, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Mukilman Strange Negotiations should be used as a reference, rather than using phrasing like "As you can tell on this performance". I don't see individual notability, which would require three references at least as good as the review of the 12/20 performance. I'd use It's Hard to Find a Friend as a guide, especially having three reviews of the album. I'm not saying that the article about that Album is great in terms of references, but I think it represents the minimum needed.Naraht (talk) 03:46, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Okay I added the changes to make it more like the other album page. Mukilman (talk) 08:32, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

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