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Speedy deletion contested: Phoebe A. Hearst Fine Arts Magnet School[edit]
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Hello Wozal. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of DJ Delete, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: NME citation suggests possible notability. I would take this to other deletion methods. Thank you. BangJan1999 01:29, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
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- Hi @Liz,
- My apologies and thank you for this helpful note! Would it be correct to assume that past consensus on categories isn't always an indicator for similar categories? (IE: If School X had Y Category eliminated, would School Z have Y category eliminated or would that go through the same process as school X?
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Consensus about college and university rankings in the lede?[edit]
You've made several edits removing college and university rankings from the lede of articles, writing in your edit summary that "General Wikipedia consensus is that this wording should only go in the lead for universities that are ranked in the top 10 by the major publications (see other comparably ranked institutions)." Where is this consensus documented? Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 13:34, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @ElKevbo, I'm going to self-revert soon unless I can find the original source. Rereading things, I feel that I may have misread things. I first noticed the wording here:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cornell_University&action=history
- and some conversations of the like here:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:University_of_California,_Berkeley/Archive_7#Is_Berkeley_a_top_10_university?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:University_of_Chicago/Archive_3#Prestigious_Ranking
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:University_of_Pittsburgh -> I'd like to know where this user is also getting this information which seem to be stated matter of fact way/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:College_and_university_article_advice#Rankings
- and lastly, I think those above with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:College_and_university_article_advice#Draft_proposal_to_clarify_appropriate_statements_about_prestige_and_rankings_in_the_lede made me made misunderstand your original post.
- Wozal (talk) 04:25, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
- I don't know that there is an explicit, documented consensus on this issue. I would really like for there to be one which is why I'm considering an RfC although as you can see from what I wrote on that advice Talk page I'm leaning toward simply requiring multiple, high quality sources that explicitly support a statement in the lede instead of requiring a specific ranking.
- I just wanted to check with you to see if I had missed a discussion somewhere that had already addressed this. ElKevbo (talk) 12:44, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello Wozal. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Athgo, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Article is 15 years old. Please use AFD to discuss deletion. Thank you. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:52, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
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- Thanks for the prompt notice. In the past, I've seen articles 10-15 years old get deleted through speedy deletion. By chance, can you provide me with a link to the guidelines saying that articles above a certain age won't get deleted through speedy deletion? If this is a new policy, I'd really like to familiarize myself with the age range to avoid unneccesssary backlog for you and other admins!
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- I'll admit there is no policy that says that speedy deletion can only apply to recently created pages (excepting WP:R3). In this instance, the article has existed for a long time with basically the same content, with numerous editors having contributed to and reviewed it during that time, including a few names I recognize as people active in anti-spam and deletion, yet nobody has suggested that it should be deleted. Therefore, it seems to me that deletion might be controversial, and it ought to be subject to discussion where the other contributors could give their opinion, i.e. WP:AFD. Speedy deletion is for very obvious cases where nobody could reasonably object, and I don't think that bar is met here, that's all. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:10, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
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Please how do I add templates for personal details to an article Derick CO (talk) 02:21, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @Derick CO, template information can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates Wozal (talk) 02:25, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry, I mean infoboxes Derick CO (talk) 02:27, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
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- Sorry, I mean infoboxes Derick CO (talk) 02:27, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
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Hello Wozal. I am letting you know that in the category sporting_affiliations, you allowed to enter more than one conference. If you check the Massachusetts Institute of Technology they have six different sporting affiliations. University of Notre Dame has three including football, hockey Big Ten Conference and the main conference of the Atlantic Coast Conference. I would like to add that Washington University in St. Louis is an affiliate member of the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin in the major sport of football. I hope you do not revert this edit. You may also check the California State University, Sacramento who has many affiliations including baseball and women's rowing. Please consider that it is allowed to have more than one entry for the sporting affilation(s) category. These entries may be football, hockey, lacrosse or any other sport. Please leave a response on your talk page. Dannyzk (talk) 00:54, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @Dannyzk
- Using your example of MIT, it appears that MIT is a fully-pledged member of all 6 conferences. It also appears that University of Notre Dame is also a fully-pledged member of the conferences listed.
- Looking at the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin, it lists 9 affiliate members which it seems to distinguish from its other members. From what I can see, none of these universities had CCIW listed under their affiliations prior to your edit. It's the longstanding tradition of not including affiliated members in this case which leads me to believe this is likely something worth discussion to change. Per WP:ONUS, while information must be verifiable for inclusion in an article, not all verifiable information must be included. Consensus may determine that certain information does not improve an article. Such information should be omitted or presented instead in a different article. The responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content.
- Clicking around, I found the State University of New York Athletic Conference, which has one former member. Its infobox does not include the conference, but it is mentioned in the athletics section. The same seems to hold true for Old Dominion Athletic Conference and I'm sure it holds true for other conferences, especially at the D3 level where Sports tend not to be as dominating of a force as the D1 schools. Given the purpose of the infobox is to summarize information and per Help:Infobox, also aims to avoid trivial information. We have to ask how prevelant something is to include in the infobox. I don't neccessarily disagree that the content shouldn't be included but rather that it seems to be that the infobox seems to traditionally not include affiliate members. However, placement of the infobox can also be seen as WP:UNDUE depending on what's there and we'd have to consider what else this could possibly open up as well as what those finer details might be. For these reasons, I think it's worthwhile for you to start a conversation on this at Wikipedia talk:College and university article advice. Wozal (talk) 01:37, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Wozal. I meant to say University of Notre Dame. They are an associate member of hockey in the Big Ten Conference, not a full member of that conference. California State University, Sacramento is an associate member of the Western Athletic Conference for baseball and an associate member of the American Athletic Conference for women's rowing. These are listed under sporting affiliations. The purpose of joining other conferences is to participate in sports not offered by your conference or to save money on travel costs. They may be a single sport conference such as ECAC Hockey or a conference with many sports. Washington University in St. Louis only plays in one varsity sport outside the conference and that is in football. Please consider that football, baseball and soccer are considered major sports. There is no difference in playing in a single sports conference or a multi sports conference for football or any other sport. Please reconsider adding football in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin to the Washington University in St. Louis site. The information is true. Dannyzk (talk) 01:59, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
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Should universities in the CCCU category when they are already in a subcategory of the page? Many colleges are in a category for their college, which is already in the CCCU category. The CCCU category does not appear to be non-diffusing. WP:PARENTCAT. glman (talk) 19:41, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
- I'm not sure if it's the subcategory of the page. To me, it appears like Wikipedia:EPON is being used and that while the article of each university should be placed accordingly, the category (which displays as a subcategory) of the school should not since those additional categories are not relevant to CCCU category.
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- The article New York City is in Category:Populated places established in 1624, but this category is not necessarily relevant to the content of Category:New York City, so it should not be used on the eponymous category.
- Taking this into account, the article's page should be listed but alumni would have nothing to do with CCCU as a whole.
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Category:Wesleyan Female College (Wilmington)[edit]
Curious about your removal of a bunch of categories within Category:Wesleyan Female College (Wilmington). Is this category not meant to be included in those other categories? --Engineerchange (talk) 18:53, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
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- To me, it reads as Wikipedia:EPON. The school's wikipedia page should be categorized within those categories; the category of that school does not seem to be categorized within those schools. I believe this is done to minimize double categorizing the two as well as well as to avoid giving additional weight to certain schools when in the original category. Wozal (talk) 19:47, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
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I am wondering why you erased my addition to the Washington University in St. Louis article. you did not say in the edit summary. Bruxton (talk) 18:28, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
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- Hello! Hope today finds you well and that you're keeping warm! Apologies in advance for the long message. I just want to make my thought process as transparent as possible as edit summaries are often limiting.
- My original edit was based on adding and restoring non-university sources (which in part involved replacing those sources with non-university sources and getting rid of an overly crowded section. I was not targeting any specific people; simply looking at references and ensuring that they were secondary sources when possible since universities articles often have overused primary sources when a secondary source would be better suited for notability. There are times when primary sources are unavoidable for certain facts, but I'm a huge proponent of using secondary sources whenever a valid source exists. The original layout distinguished recent alumni from earlier graduates but made no mention of what those cut-offs were nor what made them distinguishable from other. From my scan of around 50 other pages, no other university's page distinguished between them. As such, this seemed like an easy way to combine those two paragraphs but required additional cutting or else the material in that section would seem undue.
- Your original edit mentioned they were a professor emerita but under the faculty section, I imagine that a fair number of 900 faculty there, would likely also qualify for the same title if they were long-term faculty members there. Using Massviews, then seemed to be part of how to better distinguish someone who was notable but that number alone isn't enough.
- Per WP:UNIGUIDE, which is often where larger talk consensus for universities happens and seems to be the standard for other institutions,
- Noted people – This section should give a sense of the extent to which persons with well-known deeds or highly significant accomplishments are or have been associated with the school (as by attendance there or by being on staff or faculty). For most schools this might take the form of a list of people meeting Wikipedia's notability standards (each with perhaps a very brief descriptive phrase), where such a list would not be excessively long. For very old, very large, or very prestigious schools it may be more appropriate to use categories ("Alumni of", "Faculty of", etc. note that "Alumni" categories are only for former students, including graduates; current students are not considered alumni) instead, limiting the explicit list to very well-known persons (heads of state, historical figures, etc.) and adding a narrative summary of statistics on such things as Nobel Prizes, other prestigious awards, and so on.
- Which then leads us to if using the company she founded, would we know what her company was? I imagine it does not have the same instant name recognition as those currently listed. While everything has at least 1 source now, I feel like there are still big weaknesses to the page. Part of it lies in the fact that a lot of the information on faculty members don't mention how long they were there for. There are adjunct members as well as visiting professors. At one point, I thought there was a minimum amount of years required to be flagged as a faculty member under Wikipedia's standards, but I can't seem to find that.
- I also believe this page could perhaps be more inclusive if there were sections like this one to better show that faculty do have lives outside of academia both before and after.
- Would be more than happy to collaborate with you as I think Pat Wolff's charity seems like it does excellent work even if not as known as other charities! Wozal (talk) 19:25, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
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