Talk:Texas A&M University
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I believe the "12th Man" gimmick was invented at USMA West Point. I centainly saw it in the late 1970s at an Army-Navy football game. Wetman 01:56, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Heh, read the new article. I think they might have you beaten by a few years (or, at the very least, the tradition is quite different). :)
- Anyways, I understand that the term is used more generally by different teams now, but if there is a need for disambiguation on that, I'm open to it. RadicalBender 02:02, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- The "Texas A&M 12th Man" started in 1922, that's certainly earlier than the 1970s. Texas A&M has a U.S. Copyright on this term.
Do US News and World Report rankings have a place in an encyclopedia article? I'm going to eliminate some of the more glaring NPOV errors; I suggest that others be amended or sources cited for things like rankings. I love A&M, but I would hardly feel justified in saying that she was "known as one of the most prestigious" universities in the nation...--Calebbell 20:25, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I removed the "one of the most prestigious" line in the article. I believe the intent was the state rather than the nation when I first wrote it. I left the U.S. News rankings in the article because it seems like a good way to introduce the individual colleges that Texas A&M is known for the most. The basic source for that information was added to this article.
Is the picture of the brown, windowless walls of the utilites plant lit by outdated light poles combined with the background of the northside parking garage really the best image to use in this article? I personally liked the old picture that this one replaced. Though low in resolution, it showed a more acurate picture of the Texas A&M campus.
I changed out the picture because it was out of focus and framed strangely, in addition to being out of focus. Admittedly, the photo it was replaced with was perhaps not the best image to use in the article, but I was looking for something that would replace another image of a street. The article is probably better without either photo. -- billatq 20:21, 11 Mar 2005 (CST)
Agreed. Since the section the picture was in was titled "Aggieland" it should probably be a picture of the city rather than the University.
Formatting
The Traditions section is formatted all wierdly. Bullet items should just continue with the first paragraph, not indent another level. I came here trying to squash merge requests, but if I get back to it I'll consider reformatting. Sympleko 19:08, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Aggie Ring
You need a picture of the Aggie Ring. I don't know where to get a properly-licensed one. Any Aggie Wikipedians want to snap one? Sympleko 19:14, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Wrong Picture
The picture of "midnight yell" is VERY WRONG. It is the picture of Kyle Field after the Bonfire Memorial, which was not Midnight Yell. Only the right side of Kyle Field (the student section) is used for Midnight Yell. Please do a search and find a picture on www.tamu.edu that is of Midnight Yell instead of this solemn occasion.
Thank you.