Article requests : For WU alumni with access to the WU Electronic Alumni Directory (see tab on right here), please look up names of alumni on this list for whom the date of graduation or degree is missing. If the alumni are still living and have not opted to remain unlisted, their degree/date should be listed. Use this info to fill in the many blanks for degree/date.
Cleanup : :-Check alphabetization by last name under each category of alumni names.
Copyedit : :-Check for consistency of formatting (esp. punctuation) in listing the Alumnus/ae, degree and date, and blurb.
Expand : Nineteenth and early-twentieth century listings are rather thin and could be expanded by referring to print sources, especially the two books on WU history listed under "Further Reading" on the main WUSTL article, or by other means if possible. Suggestions on the easiest way to accomplish this are welcome below.
Update : :-Check wikipedia articles for each name on this list, to ensure that each notable alumnus/ae has Category: Washington University in St. Louis alumni at the bottom.
Other : :-Several names that do not seem notable have crept onto this list. Perhaps contributors could engage in discussion on the Talk Page to decide where to draw the line for inclusion. For instance, perhaps state legislators who never achieve a higher office should be excluded, unless they had a particularly notable career? Founders of minor, relatively unknown businesses? A consensus should be reached and the article culled of substantially non-notable names.
- Suggestions and contributions are always welcome!
- Rating article as "B-class" according to the following standard:
- Useful to many, but not all, readers. A casual reader flipping through articles would feel that they generally understood the topic, but a serious student or researcher trying to use the material would have trouble doing so, or would risk error in derivative work.
-Considerable editing is still needed, including filling in some important gaps or correcting significant policy errors. Articles for which cleanup is needed will typically have this designation to start with.
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