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Article for Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus/Indiana University Columbus

Hi all. Back in July, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis split into two universities, Indiana University Indianapolis and Purdue University in Indianapolis. The split with that institution seems to have gone well on here, but this split also affected the regional campus under IUPUI's administration, Indiana University–Purdue University Columbus. The plan was for that institution to transition to becoming just Indiana University Columbus, and Purdue ending its involvement with the campus. So far though, the IUPUC page has been changed such that all its verbs are past-tense (indicating a defunct institution), and the link for Indiana University Columbus is just a redirect to the IUPUC page with its past-tense phrasing. My initial plan was just to move the IUPUC page to Indiana University Columbus and change all its tenses to present-tense again, but I wanted to check in here first to see what you all thought, or if there were plans to make a new IU Columbus page and leave the IUPUC page up as is, as a defunct institution. Any guidance would be appreciated, thanks in advance! Finchwidget (talk) 03:45, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

• I recommend moving this discussion to the Talk:Indiana University–Purdue University Columbus, and place a comment here to comment there. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 15:26, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for East Carolina University

East Carolina University 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) 02:18, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Technique (newspaper)

Technique (newspaper) has been nominated for a good article reassessment by @Hog Farm. I think (someone double-check me) this may be our only GA for a student paper, so it would be nice to save it (or bring another article up to its status) so we have a paper to display for our showcase article section for use as a model elsewhere. Cheers, Sdkb  19:21, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta#Requested move 5 November 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta#Requested move 5 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 00:44, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Accredited Universites

Fully accredited degree issuing University are being deleted.WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES does state "Most independently accredited degree-awarding institutions have enough coverage to be notable, although that coverage may not be readily available online." Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 11:53, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

It also says that a 2017 RfC concluded that: "WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES should be added to the Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions, as it is an accurate statement of the results but promotes circular reasoning." You can see this has been done at WP:OUTCOMESBASED. If there are accredited universities up for deletion, you can advertise that (neutrally) here and editors may be able to track down references. But institutions are not automatically notable just because they are accredited. Robminchin (talk) 22:16, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Adani University is an accredited university up for deletion.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 02:18, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Indian Institute of Management Rohtak

Indian Institute of Management Rohtak 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) 22:42, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Two discussions of relevance

Input from WP/HE participants may be useful at two discussions at Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. Specifically: Sentiment check: Resolution of research centres and Sentiment check: Resolution of notable people section. Chetsford (talk) 03:56, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Name change?

I just did a "move" for Monroe College, which is now Monroe University as of September. I did a move? Did I do it correctly? Is there anything else I need to do with the redirect so I'm not messing anything up. If anyone could check to confirm that would be great! Jjazz76 (talk) 03:24, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

That was perfect! Rublamb (talk) 03:36, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

@Rublamb Thanks! Easier than I thought. I thought I was following all the colleges to universities in New York, but apparently I missed this one by about 3 months! Jjazz76 (talk) 03:48, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Purdue University Global § Merge proposal

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Purdue University Global § Merge proposal, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. wizzito | say hello! 00:54, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

More specifically, I am proposing a merger of Kaplan University and Purdue University Global wizzito | say hello! 00:54, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Mitch Daniels

Mitch Daniels 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) 17:56, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Article for Deletion

I went to Columbia back in the day, but this article The Record (Columbia University) seems like such inside baseball and isn't really noteable as far as I can tell. I'm not even sure it is still publishing after 2016. Could we do an AfD on this. (I was reading the instructions on how to do an AfD and worry it might just be a tad too complicated for me.)

Jjazz76 (talk) 07:52, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

User starting numerous RMs

I wanted to bring to the attention of this project a user who has started maybe two dozen requested moves to shorten the names of various colleges and universities; see for instance University of Virginia to UVA. All of them were made with the same rationale (COMMONNAME) with no evidence to back up that assertion. While some of the requests may have merit (the SUNY schools for example) two dozen cookie-cutter requests seems disruptive. ~~ Jessintime (talk) 18:32, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Recommend keeping full name per name used in main article. IMHO, full names makes for better translations and easier to understand for international users. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 16:32, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Cleveland Institute of Electronics § Institution is closed, but no RS reported it

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Cleveland Institute of Electronics § Institution is closed, but no RS reported it, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. wizzito | say hello! 01:26, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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) 16:42, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Two lists of business schools nominated for deletion

List of Ivy League business schools and List of Atlantic Coast Conference business schools have been nominated for deletion. Editors in this project are invited to participate in the discussions: List of Ivy League business schools discussion and List of Atlantic Coast Conference business schools discusson. ElKevbo (talk) 15:46, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Should Misplaced Pages:College and university article advice recommend that country be included in the lede sentence?

There appears to be a growing consensus that "United States" should be included in the lede of articles about colleges and universities in that country. This appears to mirror the common practice of including the country in the lede sentence of articles about colleges and universities. Although we have had a few discussions about this specific topic, one in 2009 and one in 2022, we do not seem to have ever reached consensus among ourselves. Misplaced Pages:College and university article advice is silent on this issue.

Is it time to recognize that editors have independently come to a consensus on this issue and edit our advice article accordingly? (For the record, I would recommend adding this as a "should" clause in the advice, not a "must" as that kind of rigid prescription rarely works in Misplaced Pages.) ElKevbo (talk) 16:38, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Pinging a few editors who seem to be particularly active in making relevant edits: @636Buster, @Nikkimaria. ElKevbo (talk) 16:44, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

As you could guess based on my contributions, I would be in favor of such a proposal. I adopted the view from WP:CITY's approach (e.g., see first sentence of El Paso, Texas or Pittsburgh). I don't like to assume that a reader of an article already knows a city is in the US even when disambiguated by listing the US state, although I recognize the view that they can get that information from the infobox or that city's own article. When the college or university is in a larger city that doesn't itself have disambiguation (e.g., University of Pittsburgh), I think that having "United States" is less necessary, but I've moved to include it anyways for consistency across higher ed articles. 636Buster (talk) 17:11, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

As per WP:AUDIENCE, Misplaced Pages articles should be written for an international audience - including country is necessary context to "make article accessible and understandable for as many readers as possible". Nikkimaria (talk) 17:59, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

In general, I think this is a good idea, but it is likely to throw up edge cases. Universities in Puerto Rico, for example, are in an unincorporated US territory but are not actually within the US and should not be described as being in the US, per WP:PRUS.

British universities are normally referred to as being in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, per WP:UKGUIDE: "The top level frame of reference is the country within the UK (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales)".

There are bound to be others, these are just two I know well. I think this can be overcome with careful wording, maybe something like "the country should be included; the guidelines of the relevant local WikiProject should be followed in determining the best way to do this if there is any uncertainty." Robminchin (talk) 02:05, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

It should go up to the smallest administrative division that is still globally recognizable. "New York City" needs nothing else; "Pasadena, California," is sufficient because California is globally recognizable. "Boise, Idaho, United States" needs the country because Idaho is not globally recognizable. Whether something is globally recognizable or not somewhat corresponds to its WP:VA level ranking, but I think it'd be hard to systematize. Sdkb  18:50, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

(Note: I'm talking just about the first sentence of the lead prose. In the infobox, flow is less important and comprehensivity more so, so I'd favor the country there.) Sdkb  18:53, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

List of engineering programs in the California State University nominated for deletion

List of engineering programs in the California State University has been nominated for deletion. You are welcome to participate in the discussion. ElKevbo (talk) 21:57, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

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