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Request for Expert Contributions
[edit]Dear Authors,
I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to invite your expertise and collaboration in improving the quality and accuracy of the Wikipedia article draft on Don Bosco College, Panjim. As experts and contributors in this field, your insights and contributions would be invaluable in ensuring that the information presented is comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date.
The current draft can be found here: Draft:Don Bosco College, Panjim
We are particularly looking for improvements in the following areas:
- History: Detailed historical background and significant milestones.
- Academic Programs: Comprehensive list and descriptions of academic programs offered.
- Notable Alumni: Information on notable alumni and their achievements.
- References: Addition of reliable sources to improve the article's credibility.
- Notability: Information and sources that demonstrate the college's significance and impact.
Improving the notability of the draft is crucial for its acceptance as a full Wikipedia article. Notability can be established through reliable secondary sources such as news articles, academic papers, and books that discuss the college in detail.
Contributing to Wikipedia is a collaborative and transparent process. You can make edits directly to the draft, or if you prefer, share your suggestions and sources here, and we can incorporate them accordingly. Your contributions will be properly cited, ensuring that your work is recognized.
Thank you for considering this request. Your participation would greatly enrich the Wikipedia community and help disseminate reliable information to a global audience.
Best regards,
Xcus
If you have any questions or need assistance with editing, please do not hesitate to reach out.
Note: This request has been made in good faith to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles and is in accordance with Wikipedia's guidelines for sourcing and citation. Please ensure that all contributions adhere to Wikipedia's content policies, including verifiability and no original research.
Requested move at Talk:Al-Hadba'a University College#Minor change of the university name
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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Al-Hadba'a University College#Minor change of the university name that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Sophisticatedevening (talk) 19:57, 24 February 2025 (UTC)
Help with uncited articles
[edit]WikiProject Medicine has been working on getting at least one citation into every article. We have only 34 uncited articles left. Four of these are articles about universities:
Article | Tag date |
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Dnipro State Medical University | March 2012 |
Federal University of São Paulo | August 2019 |
Gilan University of Medical Sciences | November 2023 |
Nantong University College of Medicine | January 2023 |
Can you help us out? Can you find and add the first source in each of these articles and remove the {{unref}} tag? WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:11, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
Is the "Campus Antisemitism Report Card" of the Anti-Defamation League reliable in light of last year's RfC?
[edit]There is a dispute at Brown University, Columbia University, and Brandeis University about whether the whether the Anti-Defamation League's "Campus Antisemitism Report Card" is a reliable source and can be included in articles. This is being raised in the wake of a very large RfC held last year focused on the ADL's reliability on some topics and in some circumstances. At the moment we're trying to centralize discussion at Talk:Brown University; additional input, suggestions, and wisdom is invited. ElKevbo (talk) 13:19, 7 March 2025 (UTC)
- The selection criteria is listed by ADL here. It seems one of the primary concerns here in keeping with that very well-known RfC is the extent to which New antisemitism is graded. GuardianH 06:42, 9 March 2025 (UTC)
- @GuardianH, please comment at the provided centralized discussion link to avoid a WP:TALKFORK. Sdkb talk 02:46, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
Should this photo be included??
[edit]Your input about inclusion of a photo at Talk:List of Virginia Commonwealth University alumni#Inclusion of poor-quality image would be welcome! Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:16, 9 March 2025 (UTC)
Additional eyes requested at Daniels College of Business
[edit]Can other editors please take a look at the recent edit history of Daniels College of Business and weigh in? Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 22:47, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Technical University of Braunschweig#Requested move 8 March 2025
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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Technical University of Braunschweig#Requested move 8 March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 23:13, 4 April 2025 (UTC)
Culinary Institute of America request
[edit]Hi WikiProject Higher Education, I made an edit request for The Culinary Institute of America that may be of interest to editors here. The request expands on the history of course offerings at the college. Cheers, BINK Robin (talk) 19:13, 15 April 2025 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for University of Miami
[edit]University of Miami has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:19, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
Ongoing proposal - merge inactive higher education Wikiprojects
[edit]Joe Roe proposed this in 2024. The discussion advanced a bit then got auto-archived. I wanted to revive it a bit and say that I continue to be interest in taking some kind of action to get more support for more university engagement in Wikimedia projects. My angle for this is participating in meta:WikiCite, which seeks to index academic publications in Wikidata. There will be a meta:WikiCite 2025 conference in Switzerland in August. I will be participating virtually.
I would like to better connect and model Wikidata's d:Wikidata:WikiProject Higher education, which I think could help define universities in Wikipedia. There are some standard datasets for universities, like location, number of faculty, list of schools/subunits, number of students, and endowment; and there are also some commonly requested kinds of information like list of faculty who have Wikipedia articles, awards to a university or its faculty, which I would like to make more accessible.
I do not have action to take right now but I am linking to the archived discussion to express continued interest. Bluerasberry (talk) 18:41, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
- My views on upmerging wikiprojects on individual universities remain the same as they were at that archived discussion — absent extenuating circumstances, there isn't the activity to justify having them in this age.
- I'm not quite sure how that relates to the rest of your message, where you talk about improving the data around universities at Wikidata. On that, I spent some time in the past importing IPEDS data to Wikidata, but there's probably more data to import or updates to make that could be very useful (just please add full citations when you do so). I also spent some time improving Pomona College (Q7227384) to showcase item status (Wikidata's equivalent of FA) and filling out d:Wikidata:WikiProject Higher education/Recommended statements, so those should be useful as models from which to find statements to add elsewhere.
- Cheers, Sdkb talk 19:23, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
- @Pharos gave me a heads up to post here; roped me into modifying the banner template so that it supports an arbitrary number of taskforces. See User:Tduk/Sandbox; thoughts welcome.. Tduk (talk) 21:29, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
- I think there's sufficient consensus (or at least lack of objection) in that discussion to merge the listed projects – I removed all the ones that people objected to from the list. There is some doubt over whether it is best to merge e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida International University into WP Higher Ed or into WP United States, but since these are completely dead projects we're talking about I don't think that choice will have major ramifications either way. I just haven't had the time to do the merge yet; a bit of a recurring issue when you have to wait at least a month after proposing it. – Joe (talk) 05:54, 22 April 2025 (UTC)