Talk:Dartmouth College

Featured article review needed
This is a 2007 Featured article that has not been maintained to WP:WIAFA standards. The following should be addressed, or the article should be submitted for a Featured article review: That's just a start; a revamping is needed, starting with reducing the images by about half (and checking that those remaining comply with policy). Sandy Georgia (Talk)  21:38, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
 * There is considerable uncited text; I am not tagging it so as not to deface a Featured article.
 * There is poor layout along with MOS:SANDWICHing issues everywhere, caused by editors plopping in unnecessary (and not likely compliant with WIAFA) images.
 * The gallery of Dartmouth alumni does not comply with WP:GALLERY (those images could be added to the alumni list page). That list is out of control; there is a separate article, and some criteria should be used here to limit the list.
 * There is information with dated sources throughout, yet no "as of" date provided, one sample only, Approximately 20% of students participate in a varsity sport, and nearly 80% participate in some form of club, varsity, intramural, or other athletics.[187] ... sourced to 2008.
 * All sources should list a publisher and a date or author when those are available.
 * WP:CITATION OVERKILL in the lead.
 * Second. ~ HAL  333  01:07, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Featured List Removal Candidate
HAL333 has nominated List of Dartmouth College faculty for featured list removal. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 06:29, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Another FAR
There's another Dartmouth-related FAR, this one for The Green (Dartmouth College). Feel free to join at Featured article review/The Green (Dartmouth College)/archive1. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 22:59, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Dartmouth alumni devotion
I just wanted to say to User:ElKevbo that Dartmouth alumni's devotion to their alma mater is already mentioned and sourced at the beginning of the alumni section, and the source used in that section could be thrown in with the other two sources if necessary. RyanAl6 (talk) 21:15, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
 * A single source from 2008 that doesn't even work any more is nowhere close to being sufficient for including something in the lede of an article. The two Forbes sources aren't much better with one not mentioning "alumni devotion" at all. ElKevbo (talk) 21:54, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Varsity in Athletics section
For me varsity was an at the time unknown term, and I intended to add link to the relevant WP article to make it clear for next readers. I found there was a confusion at the target, because the term has several meanings, with disambiguation page technically correct but not very helpful for the purpose (I wanted etymology when no single direct meaning found seemed suitable).

Also in this article varsity is used in more than one of the meanings proposed on disambiguation page (both representative varsity team and varsity sport in general (meaning not club dependent)). I didn't yet find a suitable solution, so I propose adding a link to wiktionary for a temporary solution, as shown here at the top of the section. There, both basic etymology and different usage is at least partially shown. Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 12:05, 31 October 2023 (UTC)


 * I see the confusion for non-American readers and linked the first occurrence of "varsity" to the article "Varsity_team", which should resolve the issue. Sedimentary (talk) 16:23, 7 March 2024 (UTC)