Talk:John Brown University/Archive 1

Lead Bias
"John Brown University is a Christian university committed to providing quality academics within a distinctly Christian community. The university has no denominational affiliation and admits students of any faith. JBU is a vibrant and growing independent Christian university of the arts, sciences, and professions."

That sounds a little biased to me. MondoManDevout 08:00, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Misc clean-up notes
Added pov-check in accordance with comments above --be

Removed the "vibrant and growing" phrase. The rest appears pretty factual. Also removed the pov-check. -rbn

The US News link appears to be broken. I am not really sure how to fix it. - gt

I was just looking up John Brown as some friend's children go there.around,  Sounds like the guy above is a disgruntled student.

I changed the introduction paragraph so it is less like an advertisement. The introduction was, in fact, copied directly from this facts page on the school's website: http://www.jbu.edu/news/facts.asp SJCarlson22 (talk) 08:41, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Guidelines for Inclusion
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The End Times fits both of these criteria. — D. Wo. 18:31, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

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Notable alumni section
I wondered if a person had to have their own Wikipedia article to establish their notability before that person could be listed under this section? That would certainly make sense to me. I am asking because I noticed Jim Sheets is listed under this section but there is no Wikipedia article for him. I was not sure if this was correct? Thanks!--Fraulein451 (talk) 20:01, 7 November 2012 (UTC)