Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Texas

This WikiProject was created in response to the folowing posts on User_talk:Cyrius and User_talk:JCarriker.

URL change

I updated the URL on {{Handbook of Texas}}. Special:Linksearch/*.tshaonline.org shows a series of articles that don't use the template yet. -- User:Docu

School accountability ratings categories

I would like to add categories for schools based on their TEA ratings. Specifically, I want to modify {{TEA district rating}} to put articles in the following new categories:

• Texas school districts with a TEA rating of Exemplary
• Texas school districts with a TEA rating of Recognized
• Texas school districts with a TEA rating of Academically Acceptable
• Texas school districts with a TEA rating of Academically Unacceptable
• Texas school districts without a TEA rating

All categories would be subcategories of Category:School districts in Texas.

Thoughts?

This was a very old proposal I just noticed. In case it is still of interest to anybody IMHO this is not really a good idea. For similar reasons I am not even sure I like use of Template:TEA_district_rating. The problem is that these things can change from year to year, sometimes drastically. Thought it is worth mentioning these things in the article based on specific years, codifying this into categories implies a sense of permanence and requires much more active maintenance. --Mcorazao (talk) 17:12, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks. — Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 09:45, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

San Antonio task force started

I thought I would go ahead and start the Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas/San Antonio task force. WhisperToMe (talk) 02:43, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Spanish Wikipedia version of WikiProject Texas

For those of you who edit in Spanish, please stop by the es:Wikiproyecto:Texas on the Spanish Wikipedia. This will be the Spanish-language sister project to the English WikiProject Texas. WhisperToMe (talk) 08:31, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

FAC: Free State of Galveston

FYI: I have nominated Free State of Galveston for FA. Please feel free to critique and provide feedback at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Free State of Galveston/archive1.

--Mcorazao (talk) 18:46, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Help on John Ricord?

I just created an article on Jean Baptiste Ricord, better known as "John" Ricord, quite an interesting character. He served with both David G. Burnet and Sam Houston in Texas, before working for other movers and shakers of the time in an unusual career of frontier law in the 19th century, before moving in with uncle the doctor of Napoleon III (who had a symptom of syphilis named for him). If anyone can help expand the Texas part of the article that would be appreciated. Thanks. W Nowicki (talk) 22:34, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Help on Joseph Bonnell?

I am a contributor to the Joseph Bonnell article. He was a West Point graduate who assisted the Texas Army in 1836 and has been declared a Hero of the Texas Revolution by resolution of the Texas House of Representatives. I added the category People of the Texas Revolution to his article, and it has been misfiled on that page under letter "J" rather than letter "B". Can someone correct this error? Thanks. User Frebo3

FAR

I have nominated Texas Ranger Division for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 02:07, 18 March 2010 (UTC)