Project Thread: LU Wiki

[CardAmbassador]

'Tooting' my own horn. Not trying to brag too much but I'm the sole person responsible for the great looking Wikipedia article we have and I think it has came in pretty handy these past few months with all of the WAC schools trying to figure out who we are.

If you pull up the archived wiki article from a year ago it's terrible compared to what we have now.

[bigred360]

Dang, dude you did a great job! I remember the old article and this one is amazing.

[CardinalClaw]

You should be tooting your horn, you did a great job.

[LU4LIFE]

CA great job.

[CardAmbassador]

Lamar pictures taken before the ladies game wednesday. I was on campus pretty late so the sun starts to set while I'm shooting. I'm definitely going to do this again when the spring sets in. It was also cloudy and icky, but a few of the photos turned out well. Too bad the cherry blossoms died the day before I got a shot of them.

Link:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=94316&id=1595712466

[CardAmbassador]

Stadium photos coming soon. I think they will be greatly appreciated.

[CardAmbassador]

Hey BR360, you posted a link on the Scout:Wac Message board that listed the names of Lamar football players that played professionally, can you find that again?

[bigred360]

I'll look for it and post it if I do. I'm pretty sure what thread I posted it on.

[bigred360]

Here is the link: http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=451&f=2368&t=7239751&p=1

[CardAmbassador]

bigred360 wrote:

Here is the link: http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=451&f=2368&t=7239751&p=1

Thanks a ton, I'm going to use this to make a wikipedia list of all the LU football players. I might make it a point to do bios for them in the future if I can find them.

[bigred360]

Rush Wood SID at Lamar has been at the university on and off for years. His wife even worked for LU.

There is no doubt he can help you get info on the player if you are serious about doing the bios.

That might be a lot of work, but with your passion for Lamar I'm sure you are up to it.

BTW, I looked at the Lamar University wiki site and it looks great!!!

[CardAmbassador]

Hey guys I have tinkered around with the Lamar Wiki site again and I created some new things you might want to check out.

First I created a List of Lamar University alumni page. It's incomplete at the moment. All major universities have one so I started it up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lamar_University_alumni

I also created a wiki article for the women's basketball team:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Cardinals_women%27s_basketball

While I was digging around I found out that Two Ph.D. students have written dissertations over the history of Lamar, One of the student's was from McNeese oddly enough! The other was from U of H.

These are very detailed histories of Lamar's earlier years so I'm hoping to write a very detailed history sub section on Lamar's wiki page. Pretty exciting since alot of our history is unknown to many of us, but it will be revived! :)

[LUSportsFan]

The additions look nice.

For Men's basketball, it may be going back, but the Jack Martin years had some really good teams. A lot of the games at McDonald Gym during that era used to be standing room only. The team had a Sports Illustrated article written about it in the 60's.

Here's a link to an article in the Beaumont Enterprise a few years ago that recounts the 68-69 team.

Link: http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/lamar/article/RUSH-WOOD-Lamar-basketball-enjoyed-fast-start-700000.php

I got to see the A&M / Lamar game referred to in the article as a student at A&M. Rush Wood is correct in his statement "...they quieted a stunned crowd in College Station's G. Rollie White Coliseum by strumming Southwest Conference champion Texas A&M, 98-87." I remember telling some of my classmates that Lamar had a good basketball team. A lot of them didn't believe it until they saw it. That was one game where my allegiances were torn in two directions.

[bigred360]

Thanks for all you do CA.

[D301Bhoys]

Do you have citations on those dissertations? I'd be interested in reading them.

[CardAmbassador]

Do you have citations on those dissertations? I'd be interested in reading them.

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/kcl02

They're cited at the bottom of the page. I used Google Scholar to see if I could get a digital copy but there doesn't seem to be one. So there going to be harder to get ahold of than I thought, I will likely have to call the McNeese and UofH Libraries and order a copy. You could do the same.

[CardAmbassador]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Cardinals_men%27s_basketball

Check out the changes, I added some stuff on Jack Martin.

Also a little trivia, how is Dwayne Wade connected to Lamar?

[bigred360]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Cardinals_men%27s_basketball

Check out the changes, I added some stuff on Jack Martin.

Also a little trivia, how is Dwayne Wade connected to Lamar?

Dwayne Wade was recruited to Marquette University by Mike Deane who was later fired and hired by Lamar.

[CardAmbassador]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Cardinals_men%27s_basketball

Check out the changes, I added some stuff on Jack Martin.

Also a little trivia, how is Dwayne Wade connected to Lamar?

Dwayne Wade was recruited to Marquette University by Mike Deane who was later fired and hired by Lamar.

Yeah just thought that was interesting. I wonder what would have happened to his career if he would have stayed at Marquette? Who knows.

[CardAmbassador]

Do you have citations on those dissertations? I'd be interested in reading them.

I'll notify you when I get those dissertations. In the mean time you should read this. It's a pretty detailed history of Lamar.

http://72.18.160.32/newsevents/articles/221_1122.htm

[LUSportsFan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Cardinals_men%27s_basketball

Check out the changes, I added some stuff on Jack Martin.

Also a little trivia, how is Dwayne Wade connected to Lamar?

The Jack Martin wiki additions look great. I like the comment about the UH / LU game. I didn't get to attend because I was at A&M at the time, but one of my friends told me about it. He was in the group that had to watch the game on closed circuit. If I recall LU came close to beating UH a few times before, so it made the win a little sweeter.

[CardAmbassador]

Check out the Lamar University Presidents nav box I made on Lamar Universities Wikipedia Article:

Louis R. Pietzsch (1923-1924) ·
C. W. Bingman (1924-1942) ·
John E. Gray (1942-1952) ·
G. A. Wimberly (Interim 1952) ·
Dr. F.L. McDonald (1952-1967) ·
Dr. Richard W. Setzer (1967-1969) ·
Frank Thomas (1969-1972) ·
John E. Gray (1972-1976) ·
Dr. C. Robert Kemble (1977-1985) ·
Dr. Bill Franklin (1985-1991) ·
Dr. John P. Idoux (Interim 1991-1992) ·
Dr. William Brock Brentlinger (Interim 1992-1993) ·
Dr. Rex Cottle (1993-1998) ·
Dr. William Johnson (Interim 1998-1999) ·
Dr. James M. Simmons (1999-Present)

Probably going to write articles for Dr. Simmons, John Gray, and Dr. McDonald

[CardAmbassador]

Wiki articles started for John Gray and Jimmy Simmons:

Dr. Simmons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Simmons

Dr. Gray: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Gray

Will be doing more on these in the future, I wanted to get them started so that others can add to them where they see fit.


Here is a really good link that has photos and articles about the old south park junior college, what we now call Lamar University today. :)

http://sherrysharp.com/southpark/spn-history-pg.htm

If you want to read more on John Gray here is a link:

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fgrbs

^^ He has to be one of the most influental men to walk the grounds of Lamar University. Interesting read, check it out.

[LUSportsFan]

Thanks for your efforts. Are you sure you weren't a history major? :)

The new additions are great!

[CardAmbassador]

Thanks for your efforts. Are you sure you weren't a history major? :)

The new additions are great!

Well History was my first educational passion when I was young. I won several awards in my history classes and finished high school with all of my college credits for History already in hand. That said I'm very balanced educationally. I enjoy, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Literature, History, Political Science and Economics. The only subjects I don't enjoy are "Soft Sciences" such as Sociology.

Thanks, for the praise of the articles. I've only been working on Lamar's wikipedia articles for a little over a year and the difference is night and day. In five years we will be on par with UT.

[Someone]

I thought when I clicked on there I would see a pretty good page that someone should brag about a little......but DAMN that was really well done

the only thing that I believe you should add is you should have a full entry for the Dishman Department of Nursing and one for the Moore Department of Music

1. because I think that it looks great for the university for others to see that people invest their dollars in a university and

2. specifically with Nursing it is a high demand field and many universities have moved to a school or college of nursing and their university webpages that that nursing program more clearly showing VS in another college or school........the WIKI entry might catch the eye of someone that might not otherwise see it.....and again credit for the donor and it looks great for the school


I would said nice job for half of that WIKI, but WOW that was a nice job.....university pride is always nice to see

[CardAmbassador]

Thanks, it's something I work on in my spare time and I enjoy doing it. I agree that those departments deserve their own page but it's very rare to see a department with it's own wiki page, mainly it's each college that merits it's own wiki page. I have started around 15 of my own wiki articles and I have had about 3 deleted for not being up to notability standards. :(

I started work on this about a year and a half ago and if you look at the older article there is really no comparison. I have also started work on writing articles for our past presidents and alumni.

This is just the beginning, I hope that Lamar will have a Feature Quality article five years. There is so much more that can be done but it takes citations and those are difficult to find sometimes.

[bigred360]

CA, you've done an incredible job with the Lamar University wiki page. You're right it doesn't look anything like it did a couple years ago.

Now, I can't believe you don't like sociology, psychology or philosophy.:)

[CardAmbassador]

I started a history wiki for Lamar a few weeks ago. I've been working on converting the text I found online cached the "Lamar's Rich History" article into free flowing text for this article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lamar_University

If you have already read the source text this is just the beginning of a condensed version. I've only got to about the 40's with the level of detail I want.

Question: Does anyone at all know Dr. McDonald's first name?

[BigRed2010]

His name was Floren Lee McDonald.

[BigRed98]

If you reference the Beaumont Enterprise article from June 15, 1949, you can see that the author of the bill that turned Lamar into a 4 year institution was Rep. Jack Brooks- Beaumont, and that it was co-authored by Rep. Otis Lee - Port Arthur, Sen. W.R. Cousins, Jr. - Beaumont, Lt. Gov. Allan Shivers - Port Arthur, and Rep. Miller Walker - Beaumont. The article also has a picture of the bill being signed into law with all of these men present.

[CardAmbassador]

If you reference the Beaumont Enterprise article from June 15, 1949, you can see that the author of the bill that turned Lamar into a 4 year institution was Rep. Jack Brooks- Beaumont, and that it was co-authored by Rep. Otis Lee - Port Arthur, Sen. W.R. Cousins, Jr. - Beaumont, Lt. Gov. Allan Shivers - Port Arthur, and Rep. Miller Walker - Beaumont. The article also has a picture of the bill being signed into law with all of these men present.

Thanks 98, do you have a link to that article? And now I know who Shivers is in Brooks-Shivers Hall.

[BigRed98]

I don't have a link to the article. My ex-wife is Otis Lee's granddaughter. The family has the newspaper articles from his House career saved in a scrap book. I have a digital photo of this article taken from the scrap book that they emailed me yesterday. I can at least forward that to you if you want it.

Does the library still have the microfish (sp?) section? I was thinking of going up there and looking to see if I can find the article. A search for the article online hasn't turned up anything.

BTW former Rep. Lee attended Lamar. I believe he graduated from there. I'm not real sure, but he went on to sponsor bills that turned Pleasure Island into what it is today and creating the Mosquito Control that we all enjoy today. I'll try to get a better history of him to pass on to you.

[CardAmbassador]

I don't have a link to the article. My ex-wife is Otis Lee's granddaughter. The family has the newspaper articles from his House career saved in a scrap book. I have a digital photo of this article taken from the scrap book that they emailed me yesterday. I can at least forward that to you if you want it.

Does the library still have the microfish (sp?) section? I was thinking of going up there and looking to see if I can find the article. A search for the article online hasn't turned up anything.

BTW former Rep. Lee attended Lamar. I believe he graduated from there. I'm not real sure, but he went on to sponsor bills that turned Pleasure Island into what it is today and creating the Mosquito Control that we all enjoy today. I'll try to get a better history of him to pass on to you.

Yes send me the digital copy if you can, I'll PM you with my email. Any historical knowledge you have on LU that has either a link or paper article is very useful. People take more pride in their school when they know about it's history. As said before now I know why Brooks-Shivers Hall has the name it does.

[BigRed98]

Will do.

I didn't really realize that until yesterday though I've read all those newspaper articles before.

It'd be cool if the Cardinal Village phases were renamed after these men. :)

[CardAmbassador]

Will do.

I didn't really realize that until yesterday though I've read all those newspaper articles before.

It'd be cool if the Cardinal Village phases were renamed after these men. :)

Don't know if you saw but they have all been renamed already:

Phase I: Gentry Hall
Phase II: Morris Hall
Phase III: Combs Hall
Phase IV: Campbell Hall
Phase V: Monroe Hall

They're named after the old dormitories that Lamar has torn down in the past decade.

[CardAmbassador]

If you reference the Beaumont Enterprise article from June 15, 1949, you can see that the author of the bill that turned Lamar into a 4 year institution was Rep. Jack Brooks- Beaumont, and that it was co-authored by Rep. Otis Lee - Port Arthur, Sen. W.R. Cousins, Jr. - Beaumont, Lt. Gov. Allan Shivers - Port Arthur, and Rep. Miller Walker - Beaumont. The article also has a picture of the bill being signed into law with all of these men present.

Added your suggestion with the appropriate citation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lamar_University#Lamar_State_College_of _Technology

[CardAmbassador]

Question for anyone who might know. What is BB Davis first and or middle names?

This is an article written by one of the great writers wikipedia has on college basketball.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._Davis

He saw that I do most of the Lamar Cardinals writing and so he wanted to see if I knew.

It's a great article and is going to be nominated for a "Did You Know" on wikipedia's english page, if it is approved for one whole day people all over the english speaking world will be directed to this article from the DYK portal.

Neat Eh?

[LUSportsFan]

The LU Wiki pages are great, but it looks like the "Wiki Police" have gone on a rampage deleting a lot of the photographs that were on there.

The main page is still in pretty good shape, but several of the sports related pages have taken hits. For example the Lamar Cardinals Football wiki only has a picture of the entrance to the Dauphin Center remaining. It looks like at least five of the photos have been deleted from that page alone. The basketball page is missing some photos also.

A lot of the deleted pictures were generic photographs of the facilities. Don't know the Wiki rules, but wondering if it would be possible to substitute some of the deleted pictures with personal ones if there were copyright issues (actual or suspected).

CardAmbassador did a lot of work on improving the Wiki's. Just hate to see that hard work diminished.

Thanks again to CA for all the hard work!

[CardAmbassador]

The LU Wiki pages are great, but it looks like the "Wiki Police" have gone on a rampage deleting a lot of the photographs that were on there.

The main page is still in pretty good shape, but several of the sports related pages have taken hits. For example the Lamar Cardinals Football wiki only has a picture of the entrance to the Dauphin Center remaining. It looks like at least five of the photos have been deleted from that page alone. The basketball page is missing some photos also.

A lot of the deleted pictures were generic photographs of the facilities. Don't know the Wiki rules, but wondering if it would be possible to substitute some of the deleted pictures with personal ones if there were copyright issues (actual or suspected).

CardAmbassador did a lot of work on improving the Wiki's. Just hate to see that hard work diminished.

Thanks again to CA for all the hard work!

Yeah, back in undergrad and especially last summer I had ample time to work on getting original photos and write articles for all of the LU articles. I haven't had time to keep up with it in grad school, I usually only log in to my wiki account like once a month when it used to be every day.

I'm sure I'll have time to update and write some more on the articles this summer as I'm not taking summer classes like I thought I would be.

I'm probably going to do some work on the 2011-2012 basketball article when I get a chance.

Some of the photos are my own that have been deleted, others are generic ones I found and uploaded. I know wiki strives hard not to violate copyrighted works but sometimes they go overboard and delete stuff that is clearly copyleft type material, I've had a few editing wars in my time. :) B)

[CardAmbassador]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Lamar_Cardinals_football_team

Somebody has done alot of work on Lamar's 2012 Football season article, you can actually view all of the 2012 recruits, a recap of the spring game and more.

[bigred360]

Glad to hear that bit of news as it all plays a part in recruiting.