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Hi there, Rublamb, and welcome to Women in Red. It's good to see you intend to spend more of your editing time writing about women. Given your wide interests and your high standard of editing, you are likely to be a useful member of the project. In addition to your continuing work on lists, it would be good to see you creating more biographies of women. If you have not already done so, you might find it useful to look through our Primer. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 08:38, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Big thanks for helping me with my first article!
I very much appreciate all the effort you put into the article I started. Thanks for your detective work and discrete handling of “questions about some of the unsourced text.” You citing that source and paraphrasing the Wikipedia text is an excellent solution. Best, BananaSlug (talk) 19:22, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you so much for working on the “Dolores Cannon” it is revolting that others deleted her page simply because her work contradicts their spiritual, mythical, religious beliefs.
Thank you!!!! Holy4d
Please remember to add a sort key for the category which is the Lists. So instead of List of Omega Chi Epsilon chapters having [[Category:Lists of chapters of Association of College Honor Societies members by society]], it should have [[Category:Lists of chapters of Association of College Honor Societies members by society|Omega Chi Epsilon]] . Hotcat allows for adding the |Omega Chi Epsilon Let me know if you want me to fix.Naraht (talk) 17:53, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Naraht: Didn't know that was a thing. Thanks for letting me know. And you are welcome to fix anything you find. I barely remember to add the default sort to the article. Rublamb (talk) 21:54, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Rublamb, I’m sending this through my phone so I apologize for any formatting issues. I was wondering if you by any chance knew where we could find a reference for the founding date of the original ‘’Sigma Iota Alpha’’ that was founded at LSU? As we have listed it listed on a page somewhere but there’s no reference on there. I’ll see if I can find any old yearbooks that mention them.
Did you mean Sigma Iota? If so, I have added sources and have also fixed some text that was copied from a website.. I have no idea where the specific date (not just the year) came from. Rublamb (talk) 04:19, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, in 1939, after the break up of the Union Latino Americana the Chapter of Phi Iota Alpha of the University of Louisiana withdrew from the Fraternity and, in April 1939, founded Sigma Iota Alpha. "Since Phi Sigma Alpha was organized in Puerto Rico with ideals similar to those of the Sigma Iota Alpha in Louisiana, and since both organizations were the product of almost identical former brotherhoods, negotiations were immediately started to merge the two brotherhoods into one. This was decided in a convention celebrated on September 10, 1939, at the University of Puerto Rico, organizing themselves as "Fraternidad Sigma" (Sigma Fraternity) with two ramifications: Phi Sigma Alpha Zone in Puerto Rico and Sigma Iota Alpha Zone in Louisiana (Later the USA Zone's name was changed to Phi Sigma Beta Zone and came to include other universities in north Louisiana)." El Johnson (talk) 13:14, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah I was able to find various sources. I recommend looking at the various yearbooks of LSU and other institutions where these organizations have been historically active. I have had heard before about how some of these organizations are interconnected but various yearbooks actually feature the chapters outright confirming different bits of information. Best of luck to both of y'all as we continue contributing to the articles of these organizations! Let me know if y'all are ever interested in forming a subcommittee dedicated to multicultural Greek lettered organizations within the Fraternity & Sorority Wiki Project. DovahDuck (talk) 06:04, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@DovahDuck: I have already been through most of the yearbooks available online for Sigma Alpha and was able to document all chapters. I believe (but cannot prove) that Sigma Alpha's predecessor went dormant before the fraternity formed--it stopped being included in the LSU yearbook for a couple of years before the Sigma Alpha was established. We also need a source other than the Sigma Iota Alpha website to document its link with Sigma Iota and Phi Iota Alpha.
I don't know if we need a subcommittee for WP:F&S. There are only three of us who are reguar contributors and all are interested in inclusivity and diviersity. Another WP member has already sent an updated Sigma Alpha chapter list to the University of Illinois Almanac; their multi-cultural information is often lacking. However, the WP really need editors who can help with Spanish language sources for PR and Philippines GLOs. Or, at least, to translate PDFs of newspaper articles from time to time. Many PR and PH articles were victims of AfD because WP members could not find translatable secondary sources. Rublamb (talk) 06:44, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Rublamb, I was talking about the Sigma Iota Alpha Fraternity which was founded by dissociated members of Phi Iota Alpha and then became a part of Phi Sigma. There’s a secondary source mentioning this and it can be seen by looking at the yearbooks and seeing the two undergrad members that transferred. In regards to making a committee, you bring a valid point but if we get more editors who can translate Spanish and Filipino it could be something to consider. Will be busy for the next week or so but I should hopefully be able to contribute a little bit more towards the middle of the month. DovahDuck (talk) 06:52, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Native Spanish speaker here, let me know if you guys need any help with that. History of Sigma Iota is this, the chapter withdrew from Phi Iota at the same time as Phi SIgma Alpha from the Union. 2. The formed Sigma Iota as a new fraternity 3. they joined Phi Sigma and rearanged as Sigma Fraternity with Phi Sigma Alpha Zone in PR and Sigma Iota Alpha Zone in LSU. 3. Sigma Iota ZOne had a Beta chapter in DC. 4. The Zone was renamed Phi Sigma Beta, 5. The Zones were eliminated and chapters in PR and USA continued as Phi Sigma Alpha. Found another some sources from El Mundo newspaper (at the time the biggest in Puerto RIco that mention Sigma Iota in Luisiana:
@DovahDuck:& Rumblanb, I found a scaned copy of Phi Sigma ALphas 1950 yearbook. Page 43 is about Sigma iota Alpha. It was founded in February 4, 1939 by the LSU Chapter of Phi Iota ALpha, specificaly mentiones, Belisario Caicedo, Angel Hernández, Jose Dávila Valdejulli, Enrique González Caicedo, Madison Fletcher & José F. Bosch. In September 10, 1939, thoy merge with Phi Sigma Alpha and became Sigma Iota Alpha Zone of Sigma Fraternity, in 1941 in estabiched a Beta Chapter in Baltimore and in November 24, 1949 another in DC.~~
Elimination of Phi Sigma Alpha
I really enjoy your contributions to Sigma Iota and Phi Lambda Alpha, I just don't understand why you would go out of your way to eliminate any reference to Phi Sigma Alpha in both of them. Phi Sigma has been mentioned in the Phi Lambda Alpha article since 14 April 14, 2007 (one day after the article was created) and in the Sigma Iota April 10, 2007 (second edit and same day article was created. Both Phi Iota and Phi Sigma share a common bond in its history and heritage, and editors have contributed to both the main articles and the related ones such as these and the Union Latino Americana. I look forward to working with you. El Johnson (talk) 13:21, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Eljohnson15: I was not picking on Phi Sigma Alpha. Rather, I deleted an unsourced sentence. In addition, it lacked context. That is, an explanation as to how the organizations were connected. If you know of a source that can be used for this content, I am more than willing to take a look. Rublamb (talk) 23:36, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I found the source you added--thanks! I was able to update the text to better explain the relationship in both articles. Take and look and see if that meets your expectations. Rublamb (talk) 01:53, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No worries. Yet I would not say it it the way it was phrased since Phi Sigma Alpha is also a successor of both organizations (You took out Phi Sigma as a successor of Phi Lambda in the infobox. There is a shared history of both fraternities until the dissolution of the Union Latino Americana, members of all those predecessor organizations became part of Phi Sigma after the break up, one example is Luis A. Ferre who joined initially Phi Lambda in MIT El Johnson (talk) 14:04, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
We are working on making the instructions clearer, but WP Fraternities and Sororities has a specific way of using the fields in Infobox fraternity, based on the terminology established by Baird's Manual. In this case, successor means the name used directly after the Merger that ended the fraternity. In addition, a merger is an official action, taken by the governing bodies of two or more fraternities or chapters (as opposed to individual members). Sometimes you will see a couple of names in the successor field because not all of the chapters joined the same fraternity at the time of its dissolution. Since Phi Sigma Alpha formed several years after Sigma Iota and Phi Lambda Alpha merged (and went defunct) and was not created by an official act of the governing bodies of Sigma Iota or Phi Lambda Alpha, it is not a successor in the way this field is used. This does not diminish Phi Sigma Alpha's rich history; it just means that the Infobox is best suited for a quick summary, rather than complex details. @Jax MN, can you take a look at this to see if I am missing something? Rublamb (talk) 17:21, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think you nailed it. We worked for some time to determine how best to handle this in the infobox. Merger partners are legal successors. Inactive chapters at the time of merger, if being reestablished, will typically continue into the successor fraternity as if they had been part of the merger and will take up a name designation that had been reserved for them, OR in the style or series that the merger partner had been using. Where chapters of two merging fraternities are present on a single campus, one may be absorbed by another, OR one may be "officially released" to join another national or go local. We call these two situations a Withdrawal. In some cases a chapter may Withdraw at THEIR sole discretion. The former national then has little say in the matter. Due to anti-poaching agreements or anti-poaching sensibilities, in the modern era (post-NIC) we hardly ever see withdrawals directly into a new national without a specific release agreement. Rather, these "go local" and a few years later they may join a second national. I do not know of a closure of a national which has negotiated a merger into TWO successor merger partners. One is always the first, or leading recipient, while others may pick up one or more lagging chapters. This typically happens when chapters of both proposed merger partners have an active, healthy presence on a campus, and which choose not to merge with each other.
Finally, we sometimes note that some chapters, or members of stray chapters are released as individual persons to join another chapter. As a blanket word, when this has occurred with multiple chapters and is not a "one-off" situation, we note this as "Scattered" in the infobox, as well as in the chapter list. All such situations are handled as fields and/or notes against the line for that chapter in a chapter list, and as you said, such detailed treatment is not suitable for the infobox. Jax MN (talk) 19:58, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, you linked Sigma Delta Alpha in both articles now, yet as noted at the top of the article for said organization (This article is about the fraternity established in 1992. For the fraternity founded as (ΣΔΑ) at the University of Puerto Rico in 1928, see Phi Sigma Alpha.) The wording as modified is incorrect. A more accurate wording could be this:
Thank you for helping update and add short descriptions to Wikipedia articles. With your help, we have cleared the WikiProject's top 3000 list for the second month in a row! Your work has made Wikipedia better. Keep it up, and happy holidays! LR.127 (talk) 02:42, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
