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WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities

WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities is a WikiProject dedicated to improving articles related to fraternities and sororities, in addition to associated umbrella organizations. Discussion concerning the project should be held on the project's talk page.

The Watchlist... is intended to list all notable groups.

How you can help

  1. Join the Project by adding your account name here.
  2. 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.
  3. If you notice a missing group, notable enough to be added to the Watchlist, add it! Follow these naming rules, and where a name is ambiguous, offer a unique name.
  4. Improve existing articles: edit for clarity and more 'neutral' language, remove "promotional" or "Peacock" wording, and add valid reference citations.
  5. If you find a free, online source for collegiate yearbooks that can help our research, add it here: List of US collegiate yearbooks.
  6. Review pending Good Articles, listed below.
  7. Update any North American fraternity or sorority article with the reference, Almanac of Fraternities and Sororities. You can provide corrections or updates to the Almanachere: Fraternity-Sorority Almanac Submission and Correction form --They're not yet publishing info on professional and honor societies, but will collect information on them.
  8. Several editions of Baird's Manual are in the public domain, available via the Wikipedia link; references to these or to more recent versions would enhance any article.
  9. Offer "Fair Use" scans of missing crests (request assistance on any fraternity Talk page, with a link, if you don't know how to upload). Add citations: to university websites, larger newspapers, magazines, or books. Fill in or add an Infobox. Add a list of chapters.
  10. Always, follow these rules to ensure notability.
  11. Watch for Fraternity articles that get tagged as "Fraternity articles listed for deletion", and vote as you see fit. These debates generally last 1 to 2 weeks.
  12. Follow Recent Changes... to Project articles to look for vandalism, or to learn what other editors are doing.
  13. 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

Good article nominees


Templates

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Infobox

Stubs

{{Fraternity-stub}}

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

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Name Original chapter Notability References
Gerald Ford Gamma Pi Thirty-eighth President of the United States (1974–1977) [1]
Gerald Ford

References

References

  1. ^ 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. An acceptable, representative image, placed at right, would be a free-use, quality picture of a chapter's house.
Name Chartered Institution Location Status Notes Reference
Alpha March 15, 1873 University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA Active Absorbed ΓΩ [1] or [a][b]

A good template example is here: Sigma Delta Rho.

Options for the Status field should be short. As examples, use one of the following:

  • Active - (indicates there is current or imminent chapter or colony activity on the campus)
  • Colony - (or some derivative. Associate Chapter, 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 prior to 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.)
  • Reestablsihed - (used when a chapter goes inactive but is reformed wtih 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. Dormant or Inactive chapters should be listed in italics. If the table shows the status of chapters at the point of a merger, Merged and Withdrawn chapters should also be noted in bold, Disbanded chapters should be in italics. Note, in the body text, chapter names are rendered in italics, regardless of active status. If a name is unassigned or its status is unknown is should be rendered in Plain text.

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, 18731996, 1998

The School field may include either the old name or the current name of the school. Aim for clarity. A new name may be placed in parentheses to show it is the successor, such as Tri-State University (Trine). Should a school close, its name should be italicized. Redlinks are OK, indicating that an article is needed. An EFN would be helpful, adjacent to the school name.

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 for 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. Some organizations have added optional color fields.

Notes

Notes

  1. ^ This is an example of an Expanded Footnote, without a link, to clarify some further, useful detail.
  2. ^ ΓΩ here is a fictitious local chapter, and this EFN shows the alternative EFN tag, without the name field. A named EFN may be called at several insertion points, omitting the full text of the note.

References

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:

  1. Removing bias and POV from fraternity and sorority articles.
  2. Expanding all fraternity and sorority stubs.
  3. Create articles regarding the history of the fraternity movement in North America and beyond.
  4. Create a unified look for all fraternity and sorority articles.
  5. Make pages concerning founders of organizations.
  6. Properly communicate the importance of fraternities and sororities.

List of Articles

Good and Featured Content

Article Links

List of Tasks

  1. Grade/rank articles with the WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities's new grading and ranking scheme.
  2. Create/use categories of pages according to project tags; see Category:WikiProject Scouting articles for an example of how the category system should end up.
  3. Tag stub articles with the appropriate stub tag.
  4. Become aware of POV, subtle vandalism, outdated, and general ignorance issues; especially concerning purposes, nicknames, and chapter names and locations.

Editor Assistance

With your help, our WikiProject can improve articles.

  • If you are not a fraternity or sorority member and are just stopping by, 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

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