Talk:Omega Phi Alpha

Charter Jump

Does anyone know why Omega Phi Alpha jumped from Alpha Delta to Alpha Theta? Are Alpha Epsilon, Alpha Zeta and Alpha Eta current assigned to colonies that have been approved and not yet gone through their chartering ceremony or is there another reason? I'd like to keep the Inactive chapters up to date as well if these are groups which have gone inactive. Naraht 15:15, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Naraht: We jumped to Alpha Theta to honor that chapter's local history; they were formerly a local group by the name of Theta Alpha Pi who recently affiliated with us. At OPhiA's National Convention last summer, we passed legislation to make exceptions to the naming order in special cases, particularly those involving formerly local groups. Hope that helps answer your question! Maryamanda 11:05pm EDT, 30 May 2006

Thanx (flipped answers to after, like the talk page standard). I found Theta Alpha Pi on the Penn State Website... I can only think of one recent change in that regard for my fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega, we decided not to have an Alpha Phi Omega chapter of Alpha Phi Omega. It will probably be at least 20 years before we get there though, we are only up to Alpha Zeta Gamma (charter 723) in the ordering (we use the same naming order as Omega Phi Alpha) and Alpha Phi Omega would be charter 1,204. And it has been quite a few years since I heard of us taking a local in, but it has been done. Naraht 12:43, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

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Article name?

Is there a particular reason why this article is named "Omega Phi Alpha national service sorority" instead of just "Omega Phi Alpha" like all the other greek-lettered organizations? If nobody objects, I'd like to move it to be in-line with the other greek articles. Justinm1978 (talk) 17:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes there is/was. Omega Phi Alpha existed as a longstanding (Founded in 1921, the Sorority was founded in 1953/54) local fraternity at the University of the Pacific. The local fraternity has in the last few years reaffliated (not sure when it was affiliated the first time round) with Delta Upsilon, however strong feelings remain among both the alumni and apparently the undergraduates about continuing the Omega Phi Alpha name, to the point of refering to themselves as the Omega Phi Alpha chapter of Delta Upsilon. Delta Upsilon's National organization however refers to chapters by their school names (Ohio State chapter of Delta Upsilon, for example). And there are examples on Wikipedia on how to deal with Greek Letter Organizations with same name, for example Delta Phi Epsilon (social) and Delta Phi Epsilon (professional).

You can tell by the link at List of Delta Upsilon chapters to the chapter at University of the Pacific that they still use OPA. and there are apparently people who will attempt to add information to that affect.

In addition, there is a co-ed Omega Phi Alpha at Polytechnic University (New York) founded in 1986. See the fraternities section at the Poly U website for more information.

So *three* different groups of people use the term Omega Phi Alpha to refer to their greek experience, a reaffiliated previously local all-male fraternity in California, a co-ed local fraternity in New York and a National Service Sorority which has chartered about 30 chapters.

My suggestion is that Omega Phi Alpha National Service Sorority be moved back to Omega Phi Alpha, and that a disambiguation page be created and linked from the main article that will reference all three of them.Naraht (talk) 18:38, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

This page has been moved to Omega Phi Alpha. I'm creating a disambiguation page that references all 3 orgs. --Elerina (talk) 23:03, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Convention

Is the table of Convention information encyclopedic or unnecessary? Rublamb (talk) 15:52, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

I don't have a strong impulse either way. I'd allow a summary table of convention dates and themes, as I can conjecture several valid lines of research for checking on this information without a deep dive into fraternity records.

It might be a good idea for us to determine a template page, where both the standard and obscure style determinations are used, with these then heavily noted with editing notes. The page would make use of our our latest formatting, syntax and stylistic determinations. Then, the Project page can point to it as a teaching tool. Your work has sparked some review of these style decisions, such as "Prime" vs. "First", to indicate early, reissued chapters, and numerous other improvements. I know I have used both of these in previous editing work, and, prompted by this, would pursue consistency when I go back to these pages from time to time. Jax MN (talk) 18:03, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Sounds good. I was just looking at the status options today on the WP page--I try to be consistent but forget some of the rarer options. This particular article has several lists, which is not preferred in MOS. I think the list of service projects could be changed to text and makes sense to keep it as its links to other articles in Wikipedia. However, the list of conference locations (down to which hotel they used) and themes seems to be beyond general encyclopedic information. I know some editors would just remove this info but it does look like a lot of work was put into it. But maybe this info would be best on the group's website? Rublamb (talk) 19:07, 29 October 2022 (UTC)