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List of Division I-FBS college football stadiums

Hi. I reverted your last edit to this article about Falcon Stadium. I do think you were trying to improve the article and information, but Falcon Stadium is on the grounds of the AFA which is not considered part of Colorado Springs city. If you were to send a letter to Falcon Stadium, you would put AFA as the city, not Colorado Springs -- though if you did put Colorado Springs, it would still likely get there because the post office is probably used to it, but that's aside the point. I went to the AFA website and looked at visitor information and at the bottom of the page they give an address of "...AFA, CO...". Just wanted to address this to you personally so you don't feel (hopefully) that I'm going off half-cocked and reverting your work or anything like that. If you feel strongly about this (that CoSprings is better/more accurate), we can take it to the talk page of the article and seek the help of the other editors working on the article. Thank you for understanding. --MECU≈talk 13:25, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Survey Invitation

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Re:User Page

Thanks for the comments about my user page. I came to tell you to give some credit to Sango123 also, but I see that you've already done so. Thanks! --TantalumTelluride 02:24, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

TAMU History

Thanks for including the original link to the Handbook of Texas -- that's what made me decide to do some work. If you find that any of those Aggie history books are really good reads please let me know -- I think that's just what my personal library needs :) I wasn't in the Corps so don't have as much of the Aggie history memorized, but I think I've found sources for and added everything I can remember (it's been 7 years since I graduated!). I hope you find some more interesting tidbits. Karanacs 19:42, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Baylor College of Medicine edits

Please do not edit the list of notable alums. Unless you have reason to believe that Alison Mao is not notable, I think her name should remain. I added the list, and I think it helps ppl who might be interested in BCM to know the caliber of people associated with the institution. Avaron676 03:19, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank You

The Original Barnstar
Thank you for the work you've done to continually improve the Texas A&M pages, for the wonderful pictures you've taken, and for your work to remove vandalism. Karanacs 19:13, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't have a fancy banner to leave, but I agree with Karanacs. Thanks for all your hard work on the A&M page. It's looking great! --Ntmg05 00:11, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Wehner Building

Hi BlueAg.

I know not everyone practically lives on West Campus like I used to, but if you do meander over there, could you possibly take a picture of Wehner? I'd like to include one on the Mays Business School page, but it might be awhile before I make it back to Aggieland. Thanks! Karanacs 16:21, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Hey there. Thanks for the edit to 2007 Texas Longhorn football team. Every little bit helps. I was starting to feel all alone over there. Any suggestions for the article as a whole? Do you think I captured the main things people will want to know about the Texas/Texas A&M game as far as the lead-in goes? (Not much I can do about the actual games yet, of course). I'd love some (semi)disinterested feedback but I don't want to bother with a peer reveiw or anything at this stage.

Also, I just tossed out some questions at Talk:Texas A&M Aggies.

Best, Johntex\talk 04:37, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Hello again - thanks for the note and for looking over that article. I actually started it prior to the formation of the CFBWP version. I've been thinking of converting it, but you are right that the "official" version is more complicated. I may need to get Nmajdan to help me with it!
I have no doubt that you will make a wonderful admin at some point in the not too distant future. I would be happy to see if I can make any sensible suggestions. Right now, I fear I am up to late already and I need to turn in. I'll be back to you soon. Take care, Johntex\talk 05:55, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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Texas A&M featured article status

I'd be happy to contribute, but I don't know anyone else. Texags was going to be my source to hit for help. I'm in though. BQZip01 02:03, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Hi I was going to ask you since you were doing all of them. I wasn't 100% it was B-class material your more than welcome to change it. Lakers 07:53, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Texas Tech dab (reply)

Yeah, there is a redirect. Just trying to make things a little bit more streamlined since there's no bot to disambiguate links to Texas Tech the way there is for other articles (e.g. Las Vegas, Nevada). At least no bot that I know of. --Wordbuilder 15:19, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Mays Business School (Texas A&M)

I'm not sure why you continue to rearrange the rankings for Mays Business School at Texas A&M by taking the rankings out of the MBA section and placing them into an "Overall" category. If you go to each of those rankings sites (US News, Financial Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, etc.), they are ranking MBA programs. Many of those schools only offer an MBA, and the links on those sites direct you to the Mays MBA site, not to the Mays home site.

Here is the US News link for A&M: [1], from the actual rankings site (check out the url - MBA): [2]

Financial Times explicitly says "Global MBA rankings" [3]

Forbes' link to Mays' MBA program: [4], from the rankings site (notice salary information, "Pre-MBA", "Post-MBA": [5]

BusinessWeek's is explicitly called "MBA Rankings": [6]

Wall Street Journal (notice the link): [7]

Princeton Review (notice the url - MBA, and the link to the Mays MBA page): [8] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.134.209.197 (talk) 21:48, 11 April 2007 (UTC).


Block request

OK, I can do that. Do well, and don't get too stressed out. We will look forward to seeing you when you return. Best, Johntex\talk 12:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Blocked

I have blocked this user at the user's request.[9] The block will expire on May 9th. Johntex\talk 12:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Good Bull story

Thought you might need some exam relief and would get a kick out of this joke and story. — BQZip01 — talk 21:13, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Editing

I'm not sure If I will be back in any major capacity to edit A&M related articles this summer. I should be working over at AggieSat Lab most of the time, or taking a summer class. Also there are several software projects of my own that I am attempting to complete this summer. Therefore I won't be able to devote much time to helping out, but I will still attempt to contribute. -- Hut101 05:17, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Good Article Medal

The Good Article Medal of Merit 
I hereby bestow the GA medal to BlueAg09 for his efforts in getting Texas A&M University upgraded to good article status. — BQZip01 — talk 00:53, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Consider it added!!!

Thanks for the addition. I've been meaning to get more userboxes. <sarcasm> I just don't seem to have enough. </sarcasm> Are you in the Corps? If so, which outfit? — BQZip01 — talk 14:16, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

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Campus article

A whole section on the campus seems appropriate given the extent as to which there is history associated with each. (See comments on talk page) — BQZip01 — talk 05:51, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Could you give me a description of what sections you might include, and explain how creating a separate article won't cause the Campus section to become a place holder like the Student Government Association section. -- Hut101 23:37, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Alright, I'll help. Though I'm not sure about the history section, as I don't want a replication of the History article. Maybe we can define it as history not relating to the development of A&M itself but of buildings on campus, as you said, evolution of on-campus activities, and the surrounding community. -- Hut101 23:48, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Have you created the page? -- Hut101 23:59, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Image Placement

You recently moved the images within the Research section. I prefer that the Research title was flush against the left side of the article inline with all other section headers. Your opinion? -- Hut101 23:22, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I like alternating the images, however, it personally looks better having all the section headers flush against the left side of the article. I went ahead and changed it. -- Hut101 23:28, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

A&M Talk Page

Do you think you can vote on some issues at the bottom of the Texas A&M talk page. -- Hut101 23:49, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

SGA =

I will be working on this later today after my meeting. I stoped at deciding if I wanted to create an info box for the page that would list the current officers, time line of the Association, and any other relevant information.

Finish Texas A&M University article

This is a request to assist in finishing the Texas A&M University article for FA status. We need just a couple of people to read the article and the discussion and then sign off the remaining items to be checked. Once this is done, we will submit for Featured Article status. Even just checking off one item would help, so please do what you can — BQZip01 — talk 06:20, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Please sign

If you have time, please read and sign off on the profile section if you agree with it. It will knock out an entire section. — BQZip01 — talk 04:18, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Any chance you could check out the Worldwide section too? — BQZip01 — talk 05:12, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Already added business folks

Please don't add any more business leaders. The references are killing us on space. We might be able to eek out at 90K with an FA review, but 100K will shoot us down quickly. If anything, I was thinking about cutting it a bit. There is a separate article for this as it is and I don't think we need all of these. — BQZip01 — talk 05:29, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh thank god! I was really hoping I wasn't going to have to go through that debate again. In that case, add away! and Gig 'em. — BQZip01 — talk 05:36, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Ref template

Hi BlueAg. Just noticed you formatted one citation on the 50 Cent page into a template. Was there something wrong with the manual citation? All the refs should be the same format and the dates wikilinked to adjust to the user's date preferences. Spellcast 07:23, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

It's good to have another person helping to drive this to a GA (it's very close). Below are two comparisons of the ref format. The first being manual, the second using a template:
  • Youngs, Ian ([[December 23]] [[2002]]). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2591521.stm 50 Cent: The $1m rapper]. ''BBC News''.
  • {{cite news |author=Youngs, Ian |date=2002-12-23 |accessdate=2007-05-23 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2591521.stm |title=50 Cent: The $1m rapper |publisher=[[BBC News]]}}

If you save both of those seperately into Notepad, you'll see the manual format take up less space (159 bytes compared to 212) and makes the date easier to read (December 23, 2002 rather than 2002-12-23). It doesn't matter which one is used, but I personally use the manual format because it does the same thing as the template and uses up less space. Spellcast 08:14, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Statue Picture License

  • I have several pictures of statues on the Texas A&M campus. It see that you have uploaded some yourself. what type of license did you use. the wikicommons says that they aren't "entirely my own work" because statues are art work too. what did you do?Oldag07 01:50, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Good catch...also good for not posting it on the talk page right now. — BQZip01 — talk 04:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
      • Thanks for the feedback. I'd've checked it before doing it. I just wanted to make a note of it. Thanks for watching my back though.
        • FYI, I added the statue thing to the OU critique page under the heading Easy fixes with the solution. If they don't fix that one, I can't see it becoming FA. — BQZip01 — talk 05:35, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Thought you might get a kick out of this

I saw that OU also has their school article up for FA nomination. I really wanted us to be the first Big 12 school, so that gave me the stamina to go over their article with a fine tooth comb. While my motives weren't exactly pure, I didn't give them any problems I honestly thought weren't there...the list of changes they should make is a couple of pages long... — BQZip01 — talk 05:00, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

12th man image

I adjusted the image and manually sized it with a note as to why it was done (unusual shape). Does that work for you? — BQZip01 — talk 20:48, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

TAMUQ: Charles Bowman

Charles Bowman is not a vice-president of Texas A&M University; nor is he over the campus. He is a former dean/ceo of the campus and sets on the joint advisory board for the campus. Mark Weichold is the current Dean/CEO. I'm making these changes again - you undid them after my last change.

Our Page got FA Status

The bot hasn't come though, but according to one the influential FA editor SandyGeorgia (see my talk page), we got it Oldag07 22:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC) Thanks. I had a lot of free time the last couple weeks due to graduation and stuff. ill try to come up with some more names. I am not exactly sure how to make a barnstar, but you deserve one too. Oldag07 22:13, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!! You can have the privilege of putting it on Texags if you want. — BQZip01 — talk 02:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Pish. Texags . . . Oldag07 14:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Side note

I think we should all take an A&M-related page and try to upgrade it to FA status. We can review each other's work and comment. When it comes time to put each page up for nomination, we can then add oppose, comment, support, each effort without having too much of a conflict in interest.

If you are working on the list, I suggest adding General Hollingsworth, the most decorated military Aggie. — BQZip01 — talk 02:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

This page should help a lot. you have it on the 25'th reference, but you haven't used it that much. it is a biased source though. It has class year and everything. http://www.aggienetwork.com/distinguishedalumni/Oldag07 15:29, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Newest FA candidate...well...not yet...

All, I have significantly updated/upgraded the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band page. It still needs work, but is a vast improvement from the previous version. I'd really like to do this page myself so ya'll can comment in its FA review in a week or two. If you have any feedback, please drop me a line on my talk page. OH! and how about that baseball team?!?! Gig 'em! — BQZip01 — talk 06:25, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Slocum

I dropped him a message. Who knows. Maybe it is him...If I see Ranger65 anywhere, I am SO typing him an e-mail. — BQZip01 — talk 05:59, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Duke page

I see you've been looking at the Duke page too. I humbly think their standards of FA are pretty low. I want to give them time to fix these problems, but if no one even attempts a fix in the next few week(s), I say we propose removing it from Featured Article status. We put far too much effort into our FA that it seems they never even attempted. Like I said, I'm willing to give them a chance, but they have to do SOMETHING about it. — BQZip01 — talk 16:54, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Texas A&M University Color Seal

Hey, I saw that you replaced the color seal I posted with the old single color maroon seal. Would you please clarify as to why?

Both seals are modified. The old seal uses the wrong maroon color (not pantone 505 from what I can tell). The new seal was provided with all the official colors in place. The new seal matches the resolution of the old, and is only reduced in size (i.e., modified) from the original provided.

Let me know, because I think the color seal looks much more professional and complete.

Also, great work keeping up with the A&M page.

Gig 'em


Halo1eleven 06:42, 11 June 2007 (UTC)


warning

Just so you know, someone is using your IP for trolling on the ref desk. David D. (Talk) 19:30, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh wow. I should stop letting people use my comp! BlueAg09 (Talk) 19:33, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Assistance Request

I have decided to try and upgrade the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band article to Featured Article status (from a normal article...quite a leap) all by myself. I think its pretty damn good right now, but I would appreciate a once-over before I submit it in 24 hours (6 AM CDT). Once submitted, I expect unconditional some support from you guys. Thanks in advance. :-) — BQZip01 — talk 10:50, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

You know, I thought about a peer review, but I figured I could pretty easily address any concerns at FA. In addition, I just got cleared medically to fly again, so my 7 month hiatus is at an end and I am REALLY going to be swamped with work in the near future, so I'm taking the shortest (if not more difficult) path. — BQZip01 — talk 18:32, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm back

Well, I've gone and done it and the Aggie Band article is up for Featured Article status. Any feedback (especially support) would be greatly appreciated. — BQZip01 — talk 08:23, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! — BQZip01 — talk 20:29, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

I posted up another color logo. i think this one hits the sweet spot.165.91.174.164 15:58, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

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