The article is pretty solid. Two former students have been working on it for a while, take a few minutes to read it and post your comments.

By the way, we are looking for pictures of Bonfire that can be licensed under one of these free licenses. Pictures that are relevant to any part of the article would be appreciated. Copyrighted images are generally prohibited on Wiki.

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggie_Bonfire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggie_Bonfire

I'm not sure if anybody can work this in, but this was something to be pretty proud of last year...

from The Eagle

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Law-enforcement officials reported no arrests by late Tuesday..."

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...it would continue along the point of the dozens of alcohol related arrests mentioned in the 1980's and 90's Bonfires.

even after this quote was published a few days prior, also in The Eagle

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Elliott said the sheriff's department will increase patrols on the night of the bonfire and he hopes the event will be successful and safe.

"There's going to be underage drinking, and there will be drunks," he said. "But I hope I'm wrong in what it will be. There will be some arrests made, I guarantee that. I just pray everyone will come out alive and safe."

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It shouldn't be a biased addition, but by ending the Wiki article with talking about Bonfire in Brazos county, you are leaving out an entire year.

Sometimes it is not what is really meant, but how it is phrased... I would leave out anything with "x number of years with no arrest" no matter how tight the scrutiny is. Basically, if you had to explain the comment with an entire paragraph of tie-ins, it probably isn't essential.

Another amendment I would add, is the Student Bonfire has most recently been in Robertson County, and not Brazos.

those "tie-ins" were just for citing references purposes. If anybody adds something like that a citation would be warranted, and i chose to provide them...as I don't know how they had gone about writing and citing the article and I didn't want to mess with anybody else's work.

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In 1978, Bonfire shifted from its previous teepee design to a wedding cake style, in which upper stacks of logs were wedged on top of lower stacks.

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I think that date needs to be double checked because the 1969 Bonfire was wedding cake style.

Also, wedging and the wedding cake design are completely separate entities. The wedding cake design simply meant it was multi-tiered - they didn't wedge the first ones.

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Harry Potter just like the Smurfs and many other things are simply witchcraft made G Rated on the outside but underlying it is still witchcraft and is against the will of God.

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In 1999, the Bonfire collapsed during construction, killing twelve people, eleven students and one former student, and injuring twenty-seven others.

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Doesn't that sentence make it sound like 24 people died? I think it should read:

In 1999, the Bonfire collapsed during construction, killing twelve people (eleven students and one former student) and injuring twenty-seven others.

GREAT insight guys. One of the biggest problems is finding sources to back up any of the aforementioned claims. While I certainly believe all of you, we need something that has been published in order to back them up.

Any tips?

Can you fix the section on collapse time? I posted a source on the discussion page but didn't change the article itself.

As for sources, you're not going to find them on a good deal of this - one of the flaws of wikipedia.

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Yes, that's a real quote. No, I didn't say it.