Talk:University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Date	Process	Result
December 25, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
December 25, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted

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Text and/or other creative content from this version of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing was merged into University of Wisconsin–Madison with this edit on 6 July 2020 after being nominated for deletion. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

GA potential[edit]

This article is very close to being a GA. Here are the issues I've identified:

History is missing a lot of the early 20th century
get rid of that history timeline and add prose
fix up athletics section, likely trim much of the prose and add in the women's teams.
"student publications" subsubsection needs more citations
delete the MTV's student life section? not deserving of an entire section, but there isn't a good spot to summarize and put it into, if we want to keep any of it.
notable alumni/people is undersourced, so we just need to pull citations from their main articles. also might want to trim the list to the main few dozen.
get rid of the galleries of alumni.
remove "see also" articles that are mentioned in the page

-- JackFromWisconsin (talk | contribs) 21:46, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Will work on it! I'd keep the gallery of alumni though, as it's in line with other university articles and provides a good overview for casual readers. Wikimapeditor (talk) 23:57, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]