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WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities
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WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities is a WikiProject dedicated to improving articles related to fraternities and sororities, in addition to associated umbrella organizations. Discussion about the project should be held on the talk page.
The Watchlist... is intended to list all notable groups.
How you can help
- Join the Project by adding your account name here.
- Write articles! Review the Watchlist for missing articles - a Red link shows you where a group's article is missing, either because it has not yet been written or it had been written, poorly, and was deleted.
- If you notice a notable missing group, add it! Follow these naming rules, and where a name is ambiguous, offer a unique name.
- Improve existing articles: edit for clarity and neutral language, remove promotional or "Peacock" wording, and add secondary reference citations.
- If you find a free, online source for collegiate yearbooks to help our research, add it here: List of US collegiate yearbooks.
- Respond to Article Alerts, listed below.
- Update North American fraternity or sorority chapter lists with the reference, Almanac of Fraternities and Sororities. You can provide corrections or updates to the Almanac here: Fraternity-Sorority Almanac Submission and Correction form
- Add "Fair Use" scans of missing crests and badges to articles.
- Always, follow these rules to ensure notability.
- Follow Recent Changes... to Project articles to look for vandalism, or to learn what other editors are doing.
- Finally, if you see good work being done, offer a Barnstar, or another award. Recommend a page as a Good Article, or suggest it for other types of recognition.
Article Alerts
Articles for deletion
- 08 Aug 2024 – Fracket (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Dclemens1971 (t · c); see discussion (7 participants; relisted)
Templates
Talk page banner
- Add
{{WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities|class=|importance=}}
to any article's talk page that belongs to this project.
Infobox
Stubs
{{Fraternity-stub}} or {{honor-stub}}
- Add one of these templates to the bottom of the page for stub articles.
Lists
A table is the preferred way to list notable members and chapters. If the list has more than 50 entries, it should be moved to a stand-alone article, linked to the parent page using the "main template".
Notable Members
- {{Mem/fstart}}
- {{Mem/f}}
- This template is for use on a list of notable people within the fraternity/sorority in separate lists (see List of Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters for an example). Parameters for name, chapter, notability, and references are included. All three templates must be used. For example, if Gerald Ford was an initiate of Alpha Phi Omega at the University of Michigan, he would be listed below as (with an optional free image):
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References
References
- ^ Torch & Trefoil. Winter, 1977. Vol. 53, No. 2. p. 3.
Chapters
- {{FratChapterStart}} (for shorter version, see {{FratChapterStart2}})
- {{FratChapter}} (for shorter version, see {{FratChapter2}})
- {{FratChapterEnd}} (for shorter version, see {{FratChapterEnd2}})
- This template is pretty much just like the one for notable members.
Name | Chartered | Institution | Location | Status | Notes | Reference |
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Eta | May 1, 1873 | Colby College | Waterville, Maine | Active | Merged ΓΩ | [1][a] |
A good template example is here: Sigma Delta Rho.
Options for the Status field include:
- Active - (indicates there is current or imminent chapter or colony activity on the campus)
- Colony - (or some derivative. Associate or Provisional Chapter may be used instead.)
- Consolidated - (for when two chapters of the same national merge. This is used when schools merge.)
- Disbanded - (when a chapter goes dormant at the time of a merger.)
- Inactive - (or Dormant, typically for those chapters that close, clearly before a merger or a national closure.)
- Memorial - (to note when a chapter name is reserved to honor deceased members.)
- Merged (ΑΒΓ) - when two chapters combine under the name of the successor merger partner. In the Notes field, use "Joined the existing XX chapter" or "Became the XX chapter" to differentiate between types of mergers.)
- Moved - (used when the charter is moved, following students to an adjacent school, not when reissued to another chapter. There must be a link between the groups.)
- Reestablished - (used when a chapter goes inactive but is reformed with a different name at a later date.)
- Reissued - (used when a charter name is given to a new group at a new school, where there is no connection to an earlier student group.)
- Unassigned - (used to note a chapter name that has not yet been assigned.)
- Withdrew - (when a chapter does not participate in a main merger. Use "Withdrew, (local)" or "Withdrew, (ΑΒΓ)" to indicate their successor, if any.)
The Names of active chapters and colonies should be listed in bold. Inactive chapters should be listed in italics. If a name is unassigned or its status is unknown, it should be shown in Plain text. Note, in the body text, chapter names are rendered in italics, regardless of active status.
The Chartered field may include a date or year of closure, for clarity. Subsequent periods of activity may be included, separated by a comma. Insert an em dash between the DTS tags. An em dash is unspaced (with no space on either side). Ex: March 15, 1873 – 1996; 1998
The Institution field may include either the old name or the current name of the school. The names of closed institutions should be italicized. Redlinks are OK, indicating that an article is needed. An EFN can be added in the Reference section to explain name changes or closures.
The Notes field may highlight short items of interest to members of the broader readership, not just that particular chapter. This field can easily get out of hand; best to post "Winner of Albert Johnson Clean Yard Award five times in the 1990s" as an EFN. Or better yet, skip it, and leave that tidbit to the chapter's website. The goal of the table is to offer a standardized, encyclopedic summary.
Where a chapter list ought to include fields such as "Date range" instead of "Chartered", or "Province" instead of "Location" a sortable list may be constructed manually, such as was done for the List of Alpha Gamma Delta chapters.
Notes
Notes
- ^ This is an example of an Expanded Footnote, without a link, to clarify some further, useful detail.
References
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Project Goals
The goal of WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities is to provide unbiased and in-depth articles on fraternities and sororities by:
- Remove bias and POV from fraternity and sorority articles.
- Expand all fraternity and sorority stubs.
- Provide context and tell the history of the fraternity movement in North America and beyond.
- Establish a unified look for all fraternity and sorority articles.
- Create articles about notable founders of Greek letter organizations.
List of Articles
Fraternities and Sororities articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | Total | ||
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4 | 4 | |||||
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4 | 4 | 8 | ||||
B | 5 | 45 | 51 | 39 | 140 | ||
C | 6 | 69 | 129 | 233 | 437 | ||
Start | 1 | 4 | 100 | 451 | 556 | ||
Stub | 1 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 31 | ||
List | 6 | 11 | 21 | 312 | 350 | ||
Category | 169 | 169 | |||||
Disambig | 63 | 63 | |||||
File | 176 | 176 | |||||
Project | 21 | 21 | |||||
Redirect | 2 | 243 | 245 | ||||
Template | 40 | 40 | |||||
NA | 3 | 3 | |||||
Other | 4 | 4 | |||||
Assessed | 19 | 130 | 307 | 1,075 | 716 | 2,247 | |
Total | 19 | 130 | 307 | 1,075 | 716 | 2,247 | |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 5,151 | Ω = 4.40 |
Good and Featured Content
Below is a list of good articles and featured articles related to WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities.
Featured Content
List of Alpha Kappa Alpha members
List of Alpha Phi Alpha members
List of Phi Kappa Psi members
List of Tau Kappa Epsilon members
Good Content
Article Links
Article Watchlist...
Recent Changes...
Archive of previous deletion discussions (fraternity articles)...
List of Tasks
- Grade and rank articles with the WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities's grading and ranking scheme.
- Tag stub articles with the appropriate stub tag.
- Become aware of POV, subtle vandalism, and outdated content, especially concerning purpose, chapter names, and locations.
Editor Assistance
With your help, our WikiProject can improve articles.
- Feel free to improve articles by copyediting for typos, bias, or grammatical errors.
- Make sure all added information is properly sourced, verified, and has a neutral point of view.
- Do not delete material (controversial or not) for your fraternity or sorority, because Wikipedia is not censored.
Participants
Add your name to project participants here. You can add a userbox (below) on your userpage. If you are a member of a fraternity or a sorority, your organization's userbox should be found here.
Userboxes
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Barnstar
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Category: Fraternities and Sororities (Fraternities and Sororities and Founder's Biographies) The Fraternity and Sorority may be awarded to an editor who makes excellent contributions to fraternities or sororities. This award was introduced and designed on November 28, 2007 by miranda. |