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Copyright

I'm rather confused about how changing a few words will suddenly make this a "legal" entry. I am a member of the Longhorn Band, the group that owns this copyright to history. I edited the /temp page to link to the LHB website —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.7.33.253 (talk • contribs)

Hey, sorry about my delay in responding. By rewrite, we don't mean to change a few words, we mean to take the information and write the article in one's own words. A good way to do this might be to read the original work, do something else for half an hour, and then try to write the article from memory. Anything you miss can be added back in by checking the original again, being careful not to copy things exactly across. Your stub on the /Temp page is very good. - Vague | Rant 09:23, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)

Oh, and while it's true that the LHB owns the rights to the story of their history, this particular article was written by (presumeably) one person, and he owns the right to that specific article. - Vague | Rant 09:25, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)

Split

Should the section on the student organization be split out to a separate article? jareha ^(comments) 21:32, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

UT El Paso

UTEP publishes that the Eyes of Texas is their alma mater too. I have spoken with a docent at the UTEP Heritage House and he had provided me scans of their athletic program. The scans can be found online. [1] [2]—Preceding unsigned comment added by Visser001 (talk • contribs) 11:39, 2007 March 9

Very interesting, thanks for contributing that. Johntex\^talk 19:55, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

History

With all due respect to the Longhorns "official version," I think it may be time to revisit the roots of Eyes of Texas. Given the nature of song, especially folk songs with roots in the 1960s, it is quite likely that it had military origins. And the story described in Hood's Texas Brigade: Lee's Grenadier Guard, a 1970 book by Col. Harold B. Simpson, seems highly plausible. Among Simpson's sources was a Nov. 5, 1964 article in the Waco Herald-Tribune, "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You." The story behind the song can be found on page 369 of Simpson's book. Terpintx (talk) 16:57, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate history

I added a tag for the History section needing improved references (did it signed out and didn't realize until I had already made the edit). In the entire section regarding the alleged alternate history of the song, there are no inline citations, only a single mention of a book. Further, the entire section isn't written in a very encyclopedic fashion, in my opinion. I don't have access to the book claimed as a source, but I would like more information on the source material before I actually accept this alleged history as "deserving of serious consideration as the primary inspiration for the song." I'm not going to take it out yet, but I feel that it should be removed unless someone with access to a source can put in more information. Bstbll (talk) 03:07, 11 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]