Talk:City, University of London/Archive 1

I can't help but feel that the page deserves one, but it -is- informational as well. --Earin (t) 20:40, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Chancellor
According to Lord Mayor of London the Lord Mayor is Chancellor ex officio, rather than as an individual. I'm changing the infobox accordingly. Timrollpickering 22:40, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

University ratings
(I'm posting this to all articles on UK universities as so far discussion hasn't really taken off on WikiProject Universities.)

There needs to be a broader convention about which university rankings to include in articles. Currently it seems most pages are listing primarily those that show the institution at its best (or worst in a few cases). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities. Timrollpickering 23:53, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:CityUniLogo.gif
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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:02, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Michael Fish
I see that Michael Fish is down as an alumnus ("Media and Entertainment"), and indeed his Wiki entry refers to him as a graduate of the City University. But since it also refers to him being given an honorary degree by CU, do I take it that his initial studies were not at degree level? Millbanks (talk) 07:33, 31 August 2008 (UTC)


 * It's quite common for universities to give honorary degrees to their own graduates so he could well have both a substantive and honorary degree from City. Timrollpickering (talk) 10:42, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was moved. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 01:39, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

City University, London → City University London &mdash; Much like King's College London and University College London, this is the university's actual name, as used on its website. Johnhousefriday (talk) 19:31, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

NPOV dispute
This article was tagged with NPOV but no one started a discussion about what was specifically wrong. I've edited the article and added more references and more detail on university ranking. Does anyone have any more suggestions in order to obtain NPOV? --Kat384 (talk) 09:09, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

I think the POV of the article has been improved - I've removed NPOV tags Kat384 (talk) 10:12, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Look at the phrase "In September 2007 many classrooms were installed with cutting edge classroom technology including touch-screen control, video conferencing software and high-quality audio to increase the focus of student generated input." Now, that looks to me like a cut and paste from a press release, which can't really be NPOV. I may be wrong, but at any rate, the last bit stinks marketing-speak. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.114.113.52 (talk) 21:48, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

AH! (Me again, that is, author of previous edit...). That bit I accused of being a cut and paste appears *after* the exact same text was used in a Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/may/01/universityguide.highereducation74 - I don't know if the Guardian took the text from somewhere else, but our friend Mr Google doesn't seem to think so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.114.113.52 (talk) 21:57, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Lists of names
Lists of names in this article should be sourced in accordance with WP:BLP. As there is no way of constantly maintaining linked articles, this applies to names which have a Wikipedia article as well as those that do not. Any name listed with no verifiable citations should be removed. Refer to WP:NLIST for guidance. Fæ (talk) 21:54, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Is there any official proof that City is going to be part of UOL?
as above —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.12.13.71 (talk) 17:33, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned references in City University London
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of City University London's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Guardian2011": From Manchester Metropolitan University:  From University of Lincoln:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 17:18, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Muhammad Iqbal
In "Arts, science and academia" under "Notable alumni" we have Muhammad Iqbal. His article says "Sir Muhammad Iqbal [...] born (November 9, 1877 – April 21, 1938) was a Muslim poet and philosopher born in Sialkot, British India (now in Pakistan)," and until recently our short link to him said ''"Muhammad Iqbal - Indian Muslim poet, philosopher, and politician".  However an IP and Hashamarif have recently changed it to ""Muhammad Iqbal - Pakistani Muslim poet [...]". I do see the problem but I don't see how we can describe him as Pakistani when he died in 1938 and Pakistan was born in (perhaps) 1947. I don't know the subtleties of that area and region so I'd rather discuss it here than have a revert war. Does any obvious solution present itself? Might something like this work: "Muhammad Iqbal - Muslim poet, philosopher, and politician born in present-day Pakistan". '' Or something?? Best wishes DBaK (talk) 17:21, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

City of London
Does it actually have any sites in the City of London? The only one this article appears to claim is Cass Business School, which is actually in the London Borough of Islington (the northern City boundary runs along Ropemaker Street and Chiswell Street, just south of its location on Bunhill Row). Are there any more? Proteus (Talk) 22:06, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

سلام.من محسن خورشیدی هستم.فارغ التحصیل رشته برق قدرت در مقطع لیسانس.برای فوق لیسانس در رشته خودم ادامه تحصیل بدم ولی با کمبود بودجه مواجه هستم.در ایران زندگی میکنم و دوست دارم در دانشگاه شما درس بخونم دوست دارم منو یاری کنید. ممنونم — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.190.156.94 (talk) 21:27, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Northampton Polytechnic
Northampton Polytechnic is one of the predecessor names of this university rather than a separate organisation. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:09, 1 February 2014 (UTC)