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Citing sources: The problem with the Kappa Sigma Kappa article is not a lack of citations, but rather, conflicts in source material. The Baird's listings are chaotic, with the print editions in conflict with each other and with the (later) Archive. Yet the Archive isn't as clean as one would expect, as the inheritor of the print versions. The Archive collects its information from yearbooks and from contributions from national offices and individuals. For Kappa Sigma Kappa, the national offices closed sixty years ago. Successor organizations -- and there are several -- have incomplete records. So, in this case, support from historians at these successors will be highly valuable in cleaning up both the Baird's Archive AND this article. It will be helpful to note various points of error in the print versions of Baird's, so later editors do not mistakenly cite a bad reference. Besides Baird's, useful citations may be from a notable publication or book such as a university yearbook (please add missing collegiate yearbooks to this source!), or an official university portal (~website) listing for the group, or where the school comments publicly on that student organization.
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Wikify: Any other public symbolism or a motto may be added to the infobox. Confirm the number of chapters and number of lifetime members. Expand the History section to include milestones. The chapter list is more or less complete, but significant gaps remain in the Baird's Archive listing which has several duplicates and many missing dates. The template is good, following Omega Tau Sigma or Sigma Delta Rho (to reference two unrelated examples). Where Greek letters are expressed, always render them within the GRC language template so that adaptive readers can correctly process them (like "{{lang|grc|ΣΧ}}". Rather than "just" the year, a chapter list may include specific dates of chartering using the {{dts|yyyy|mm|dd}} template, or {{dts|yyyy}} or {{dts|yyyy|mm}} if the specific day is unknown. Indicate if a chapter is active by bolding its name, if inactive by using italics, and in plain text if unknown. A table will allow room where chapter references may point out where a chapter came from, interesting facts or its outcome.
If they transferred as a group, that would have provided the seed for a potential new chapter at Mount St. Mary's University. But was one granted? The third iteration of the fraternity appears to have maintained its weak central organizational structure, which led to its demise. This group at HVCC may have been an outlier, in their intensity or desire to continue as a group. Jax MN (talk) 18:53, 22 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
Yeah. A group with a weak organizational structure being stripped down to just groups at the unaccredited and two years. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. Naraht (talk) 01:29, 23 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
