Project Thread: LU Wiki

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

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.

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.:)

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?

His name was Floren Lee McDonald.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. :)

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.

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

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?

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!

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)

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.

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