Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities/Outreach/Newsletter April 2008

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The WikiProject Universities Newsletter
Issue VIII (April 2008)

Project news

After years of work, there are no longer any unassessed university articles!! Try to keep it this way by always assessing an article when you add the {{WikiProject Universities}} template.
New university-related WikiProjects have been created: WikiProject Brigham Young University & WikiProject University of Pittsburgh.
The bot that normally updates our new cleanup lists is currently down.

Articles of note

New Featured articles:

None — Make an article featured!

New Featured lists:

New Good articles:

None — Nominate an article for GA!

Current proposals and discussions

A number of discussions are taking place on the project talk page. Come and participate!
A growing number of students' union articles are being nominated for deletion and the discussions are being listed on our deletion page.
A new discussion on the notability of separate articles for faculties/academic colleges.

Awards and honors

Wrad was awarded the University Barnstar for creating WikiProject BYU. Keep up the great work!
Mlaffs was awarded the University Barnstar for being the first person in almost two years to completely update the Missing Colleges and Universities encyclopedia list. Thank you, thank you!
ElKevbo was awarded the University Barnstar for significantly improving several university-related articles. Thanks!

The current University Collaborations of the Fortnight are:
Editor Nominated Topic	East Carolina University
B-Class Improvement Drive	Mills College
Start/Stub Improvement Drive	Jamia Millia Islamia
Every fortnight three higher education-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! This COTF is organized by Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities. (Nominate future collaborations or see past collaborations.) This WP:UNI/COTF is effective: Apr 18, 2008 ~ May 01, 2008.

To do list

Continue upkeep of University Portal
Work on articles that need cleanup. A randomized short list is here
Create a page for each and every university and college and add {{infobox University}} for it. See the missing list for those institutions still awaiting articles.
Place {{WikiProject Universities}} on every related talk page.
Ensure Featured articles are consistent with the article guidelines.

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