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Starting out

jareha, thanks for starting this up! Johntex\ 22:41, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

LOL, you beat me to it. Oh well, not like you have anything to do with this being your last semester and all. Thanks. — Scm83x 09:25, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Todo

The list has nominate at FAC. I've noticed a few others get forwarded to Misplaced Pages:Peer review. Perhaps it should go there first? --Christopherlin 18:25, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm not positive since I didn't add that, but since this project is brand new, and since the the "to-do" box is pretty much empty, I think that action item is more of a place-holder than anything. I agree sending to "peer review" is a good strategy. Not doing so would probably generate some "oppose" votes at FAC just for not having been sent to peer review first. Johntex\ 19:23, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Johntex is correct — I used boilerplate to create the to-do list. I've modified it per the comments in this discussion. jareha 22:50, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

University of Texas at Austin presidents

I added all of the University of Texas at Austin presidents to the todo list. Most of the middle names should be removed when creating the actual articles and instead the full names should be created as redirects. As these are created, be sure to add them to List of University of Texas at Austin people. — Scm83x 11:27, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

• List taken from here, which also includes years of service and any degrees they may have held. — Scm83x 11:30, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Cool idea...

...but oy, the Blanton. Bad memories of Tony Sanchez. · Katefan0/poll 21:18, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Wasn't aware of Blanton/Tony Sanchez issues, but UT Watch gave me a basic rundown at Sanchez' regent page there. Oh, and self-disgust for voting for him in 2002. I also found a detailed account of the controversy at Grammar.police.

I'd noticed that the buildings erected around campus recently are rather boring, but never put much thought to the fact that the campus master plan stifles creativity. Obvious connection, not sure how I missed it. As for the Blanton in particular? It looks like it wants to be symmetrical, which is more annoying than if it were not even close to being so. jareha 21:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Yup, that pretty much hits the highlights. I was at the Texan during that whole fiasco. As for Sanchez, he was always perfectly nice to me ... maybe a little too nice, ahem. I was always partial to Patrick Oxford and Charles Miller (though I did once see him in his boxers, not pretty). · Katefan0/poll 22:03, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Idea for later

Hello, once we get underway a bit - we may want to start a cross-project collaboration. I am thinking of something like getting people from another portal (Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Universities perhaps?) or another community (people editing at ou or a&m articles maybe?) to come over and judge which UT-related articles are good enough to be labeled "good". It is a little tough since we are the first Portal around a single University. Another option would be to do it ourselves, preferably with the primary author for any given page avoiding taking a role in reviewing that page. Johntex\ 01:28, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

{{User longhorn}}

For those using the UT userbox, please take note that I added some new features to the box. Now it is possible to specify whether you attend or attended UT, instead of the previous ambiguity. You can see the information at Template talk:User longhorn. — Scm83x 05:02, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Awesome! jareha 15:28, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Very cool. I wonder if we should also make a variant for people who sign up for the WikiProject, but who may not themselves by Longhorns? Johntex\ 16:46, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Jorge Luis Borges?

Was a visiting professor for a year; but don't you think this is stretching the project a little thin? Septentrionalis 20:43, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Maybe so, I'm not sure. I added him to the project based upon the following paragraph:

Borges's international fame dates approximately from the early 1960s. In 1961, he received the Formentor Prize, which he shared with Samuel Beckett. Because Beckett was well-known and respected in the English-speaking world, where Borges at this time remained unknown and untranslated, English-speakers became curious about who the person was who shared the prize with him. The Italian government named him Commendatore; and the University of Texas at Austin appointed him for one year to the Tinker chair. This led to his first lecture tour of the United States. The first translations of his work into English were to follow in 1962, with lecture tours of Europe and the Andean region of South America in subsequent years. In 1965, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom appointed him O.B.E.. Dozens of other honors were to accumulate over the years, such as the French Legion of Honour in 1983, or the Cervantes Prize.

I've removed the project tag from his Talk page for now. I think the paragraph implies that the time he was at UT led to other things, but I may be reading too much into that. Other views? Johntex\ 22:13, 28 March 2006 (UTC)