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Welcome to the OU Task Force discussion page. Please use this page to discuss issues regarding Oklahoma related articles, project guidelines, ideas, suggestions and questions. Thank you for visiting!

Borrowing the project page layout template

I was trying to think of the best ways to improve articles related to the University of Cambridge, and so I was reviewing what other people have done. I stumbled across this WikiProject, and well, to be honest, I was quite amazed by the neat layout of the project page that you have there. I was thus wondering whether I could borrow the code and adapt it to the needs of the prospective WikiProject on Cambridge University. Cheers! --Gimlei ^{(talk to me)} 18:21, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, nevermind, I just saw the link to the Turnkey WikiProject :) Thanks anyways, you made a terrific job of using that template! --Gimlei ^{(talk to me)} 18:24, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok, good. Glad you found the template. Thanks for the compliment!↔NMajdan•talk 20:43, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Soonerstats.com site structure change

Soonerstats.com has changed its site structure, so most of the ELs made to its site are broken. In a nutshell, all links with /fb in their URL must be changed to /football.

I've fixed them in Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, 1985 Oklahoma Sooners football team, and Template: 1985 Oklahoma Sooners football roster so far, but there's more work to be done. Hopefully I can get them all fixed myself, but I thought everyone should know. Boomer Sooner – KrakatoaKatie 01:15, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed this too. Looks like you got most of them. I used AWB and got a couple more pages but there doesn't appear to be much left. Mostly talk pages. Thanks for letting us know.↔NMajdan•talk 19:17, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

The WP:TAMU would like to thank you for letting us copy your wikiproject site. your design is a lot better then everyone elses Oldag07 03:05, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

ditto — BQZip01 — ^talk 11:56, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I copied it as well so keep spreading it!↔NMajdan•talk!

Paul Sears article

This article has been updated and the stub tags removed. Please check it again. Thanks! Araucana 15:06, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Gary England article

Hi, I happen to see your write-up and want to clarify something...as a possible edit is needed. You wrote that Gary "He is also credited with issuing the first televised Doppler radar warning, in March 1982". I have to respectfully disagree, as Gil Whitney at WHIO in Dayton, OH did this in April of 1974. WHIO had their own radar then(even though it was a cheap imitation in comparison to today's standards) and Gil had the hook echo on the air. There is a clip of this to prove so.http://youtube.com/watch?v=kGCi95ZrcHU. If it's ok with you,I'm going to update this. Nothing personal against Gary, but clearly alot of people outside of Ohio didn't realize this. It's all good

You could just say he is credited for it but that claim is disputed by some and then expand on why.↔NMajdan•talk 20:42, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Switzer Center Mural

Template:Switzer Center Mural has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — fuzzy510 01:45, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

SoonerSports.com site structure change

As if the change to Soonerstats.com wasn't enough, the Athletic Department spent their summer vacation revamping SoonerSports.com. Finally, we're rid of the gazillion letters and numbers with every URL, but the tradeoff is that our ELs to specific pages are now broken – all the ELs to stadiums, schooners, and just about everything else with a citation are phutzed up.

It's a crimson-and-cream alert to repair the 90 or so ELs to specific pages on that site. I've started with the facilities and traditions, but the real work is going to be the ones to former players and old football/baseball/volleyball season pages.

Here's the list. Go get 'em. - KrakatoaKatie 23:53, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

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Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot (Disable) 21:30, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup

Currently, 514 articles are assigned to this project, of which 83, or 16.1%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place the following template on your project page:

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If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium

I have reviewed this article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have left a small list of tasks to complete to maintain the GA status of this article. The article will remain on hold for seven days (starting today) for improvements. Nikki311 17:47, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for University of Oklahoma

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We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:28, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

RfC for WP:BOOSTER

There is a request for comment about whether or not WP:BOOSTER documents a standard consensus and good practice that all editors and school/college/university articles should follow as an official policy or guideline. Madcoverboy (talk) 19:34, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

College Fight Songs

There is a thread on the administrators' noticeboard which may concern editors involved in this WikiProject and may affect the article Boomer Sooner. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Lyrics. CrazyPaco (talk) 01:03, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group

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Article alerts

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University of Oklahoma GAR

University of Oklahoma has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Articles are typically reviewed for one week. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 13:33, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

2005 Oklahoma vs. Texas football game GA Sweeps: On Hold

I have reviewed 2005 Oklahoma vs. Texas football game for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since the article falls under the scope of this project, I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:22, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Big 12 WikiProject

I'm trying to gauge the interested in created a Big 12 WikiProject and wondering who would like to be involved. There are already pages for WikiProject Big Ten and WikiProject ACC. A Big 12 project would cover the schools themselves and anything to do with conference sports including: events, rivalries, teams, seasons, championships and lore. There is already quite a bit of activity here on Wikipedia regarding the Big 12, and I think a project could help coordinate and unify our efforts. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Big 12 if you are interested, and add your name to the list. Grey Wanderer (talk) 00:24, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Pageview stats

After a recent request, I added WikiProject University of Oklahoma to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Oklahoma/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 06:22, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

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GA Reassessment of Oklahoma Sooners football

I have done a GA Reassessment of the Oklahoma Sooners football article as part of the GA Sweeps project. My review is here. I have found problems with the article that will require work to maintain its GA status. I have placed the article on hold and I am notifying all interested editors and projects. If you have any questions or concerns please contact me on my talk page. H1nkles (talk) 17:54, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

University of Oklahoma articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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We would like to ask you to review the University of Oklahoma articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

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Great image resource

Alexey Sergeev, a physics professor, has licensed photographs at his web page (http://www.asergeev.com/) under the GFDL. A directory of these images are available here. A number of these images are related to this institution. I encourage interested editors to upload these images at Commons with the license tag Commons:Template:Alex Sergeev permission. --GrapedApe (talk) 01:22, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Discussion on consolidating inactive and semi-active university WikiProjects

This project may be affected by a proposed consolidation of inactive and semi-active WikiProjects covering universities. The proposed consolidation is being discussed on the talk page of WikiProject Universities. We are seeking feedback from the projects that may be impacted before we decide on a course of action. Please drop by to participate in the discussion. Thanks! –Mabeenot (talk) 06:58, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

College basketball team navigation templates

Please join the discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navigation template for college basketball teams. CrazyPaco (talk) 09:31, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Popular pages tool update

As of January, the popular pages tool has moved from the Toolserver to Wikimedia Tool Labs. The code has changed significantly from the Toolserver version, but users should notice few differences. Please take a moment to look over your project's list for any anomalies, such as pages that you expect to see that are missing or pages that seem to have more views than expected. Note that unlike other tools, this tool aggregates all views from redirects, which means it will typically have higher numbers. (For January 2014 specifically, 35 hours of data is missing from the WMF data, which was approximated from other dates. For most articles, this should yield a more accurate number. However, a few articles, like ones featured on the Main Page, may be off).

Web tools, to replace the ones at tools:~alexz/pop, will become available over the next few weeks at toollabs:popularpages. All of the historical data (back to July 2009 for some projects) has been copied over. The tool to view historical data is currently partially available (assessment data and a few projects may not be available at the moment). The tool to add new projects to the bot's list is also available now (editing the configuration of current projects coming soon). Unlike the previous tool, all changes will be effective immediately. OAuth is used to authenticate users, allowing only regular users to make changes to prevent abuse. A visible history of configuration additions and changes is coming soon. Once tools become fully available, their toolserver versions will redirect to Labs.

If you have any questions, want to report any bugs, or there are any features you would like to see that aren't currently available on the Toolserver tools, see the updated FAQ or contact me on my talk page. Mr.Z-bot (talk) (for Mr.Z-man) 05:32, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Popular pages report

We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma/OU/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Oklahoma.

We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:

• The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
• The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
• The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Oklahoma, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Jazz Hounds Spirit Squad

After reviewing through old OU yearbooks from the early and mid 1900s I've found several references to an apparently inactive OU all male spirit squad referred to as the Jazz Hounds. This student organization appears to have been similar in character to the modern day RUF/NEKS spirit group, performing at pep rallies and sporting events alongside them. Information on this group appears to be hard to find outside of old OU year books and the official history section of the Campus Corner website http://oucampuscorner.com/history, though they were apparently a very popular organization when they existed. If information on this group were to be added, would it be better to add it to an existing article section or would it be best for it to have it's own page like the RUF/NEKS? Nickoli42 (talk) 08:46, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages bot disabled

Hi, I have removed this task force from the Popular pages bot config, as it seems Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma/OU/Popular pages is rarely read, and activity here suggests this task force may be semi-inactive. If you'd like it back, please ask at User talk:Community Tech bot, preferably with multiple people showing interest. Thank you, — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:14, 23 April 2019 (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) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Content assessment

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment#Proposal: Reclassification of Current & Future-Classes as time parameter, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. This WikiProject received this message because it currently uses "Current" and/or "Future" class(es). There is a proposal to split these two article "classes" into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia (per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 21:11, 1 July 2023 (UTC)