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WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities is a WikiProject dedicated to improving articles related to fraternities and sororities, in addition to associated umbrella organizations. The project should be discussed on the talk page.

This Watchlist... contains the articles overseen by the WikiProject.

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How you can help

1. Join the Project by adding your account name here.
2. Write articles! See our Articles for Creation list for needed articles. If you notice a notable missing group, add it to our list!
3. Improve existing articles: edit for clarity and neutral language, remove promotional or "Peacock" wording, and add secondary reference citations.
4. If you find a free, online source for collegiate yearbooks to help our research, add it here: List of US collegiate yearbooks.
5. Respond to Article Alerts, listed below.
6. Update North American fraternity or sorority chapter lists with the reference, Almanac of Fraternities and Sororities. You can provide corrections or updates to the Almanac here: Fraternity-Sorority Almanac Submission and Correction form
7. Add "Fair Use" scans of missing crests and badges to articles.
8. Always, follow these rules to ensure notability.
9. Follow Recent Changes... to Project articles to look for vandalism, or to learn what other editors are doing.
10. Finally, if you see good work being done, offer a Barnstar, or another award. Recommend a page as a Good Article, or suggest it for other types of recognition.

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Infobox

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Stubs

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Lists

A table is the preferred way to list notable members and chapters. If the list has more than 50 entries, it should be moved to a stand-alone article, linked to the parent page using the "main template".

Notable Members

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• This template is for use on a list of notable people within the fraternity/sorority in separate lists (see List of Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters for an example). Parameters for name, chapter, notability, and references are included. All three templates must be used. For example, if Gerald Ford was an initiate of Alpha Phi Omega at the University of Michigan, he would be listed below as (with an optional free image):

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References

Chapters

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• This template is similar to the one for notable members.

Name	Chartered	Institution	Location	Status	Notes	Reference
Eta	Template:Dts	Colby College	Waterville, Maine	Active	Merged	Template:Efn

A good template example is here: Sigma Delta Rho.

Options for the Status field include:

• Active - (indicates there is current or imminent chapter or colony activity on the campus)
• Colony - (or some derivative. Associate or Provisional Chapter may be used instead.)
• Consolidated - (for when two chapters of the same national merge. This is used when schools merge.)
• Disbanded - (when a chapter goes dormant at the time of a merger.)
• Inactive - (or Dormant, typically for those chapters that close, clearly before a merger or a national closure.)
• Memorial - (to note when a chapter name is reserved to honor deceased members.)
• Merged () - when two chapters combine under the name of the successor merger partner. In the Notes field, use "Joined the existing XX chapter" or "Became the XX chapter" to differentiate between types of mergers.)
• Moved - (used when the charter is moved, following students to an adjacent school, not when reissued to another chapter. There must be a link between the groups.)
• Reestablished - (used when a chapter goes inactive but is reformed with a different name at a later date.)
• Reissued - (used when a charter name is given to a new group at a new school, where there is no connection to an earlier student group.)
• Unassigned - (used to note a chapter name that has not yet been assigned.)
• Withdrew - (when a chapter does not participate in a main merger. Use "Withdrew, (local)" or "Withdrew, (ΑΒΓ)" to indicate their successor, if any.)

The Names of active chapters and colonies should be listed in bold. Inactive chapters should be listed in italics. If a name is unassigned or its status is unknown, it should be shown in Plain text. In the body text, chapter names are rendered in italics, regardless of active status.

The Chartered field may include a date or year of closure. Subsequent periods of activity may be included, separated by a comma. Insert an em dash between the DTS tags. An em dash is Template:Em (with no space on either side). Ex: Template:Dts – Template:Dts; Template:Dts

The Institution field may include either the old or current name of the school. The names of closed institutions should be italicized. Redlinks are OK, indicating that an article is needed. An EFN can be added in the Reference section to explain name changes or closures.

The Notes field may highlight short items of interest to members of the broader readership, not just that particular chapter. This field can easily get out of hand; best to post "Winner of Albert Johnson Clean Yard Award five times in the 1990s" as an EFN. Or better yet, skip it, and leave that tidbit to the subject's website. The goal of the table is to offer a standardized, encyclopedic summary.

A sortable list may be constructed manually, allowing for variations in column names. See List of Alpha Gamma Delta chapters for a good example.

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References

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The goal of WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities is to provide unbiased and in-depth articles on fraternities and sororities by:

1. Remove bias and POV from fraternity and sorority articles.
   
2. Expand all fraternity and sorority stubs.
   
3. Provide context and tell the history of the fraternity movement in North America and beyond.
4. Establish a unified look for all fraternity and sorority articles.
   
5. Create articles about notable founders of Greek letter organizations.

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Below are the good articles and featured lists related to WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities.

Featured List

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Article Watchlist...
Recent Changes...
Archive of previous deletion discussions (fraternity articles)...

• Grade and rank articles with the WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities's grading and ranking scheme.
• Tag stub articles with the appropriate stub tag.
• Become aware of POV, subtle vandalism, and outdated content, especially concerning purpose, chapter names, and locations.

With your help, our WikiProject can improve articles.

• Feel free to improve articles by copyediting for typos, bias, or grammatical errors.
• Make sure all added information is properly sourced, verified, and has a neutral point of view.
• Do not delete material (controversial or not) for your fraternity or sorority, because Wikipedia is not censored.
  

Add your name to project participants here. You can add a userbox (below) on your userpage. If you are a member of a fraternity or a sorority, your organization's userbox should be found here.

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Infamous Red Cup of "Soda Pop."

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This version includes useful project links.

• WikiProject Universities
• WikiProject Freemasonry (currenly semi-active)
• WikiProject Organizations (possibly inactive)
• WikiProject Secret Societies (currently inactive)

The Fraternity and Sorority Barnstar

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The Fraternity and Sorority Barnstar Category: Fraternities and Sororities (Fraternities and Sororities and Founder's Biographies) The Fraternity and Sorority may be awarded to an editor who makes excellent contributions to fraternities or sororities. This award was introduced and designed on November 28, 2007 by miranda.