Talk:List of Liberty University people

List criteria
Seems like the bar is awfully low — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.41.51.4 (talk) 21:55, 11 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Everyone here should have an article and to have an article they should meet WP:PEOPLE. If they don't, let me know on my talk page. Dougweller (talk) 05:56, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * That is the correct criteria. I've started the process of removing the non-notables. Rockypedia (talk) 00:06, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Did Randall Wallace attend Liberty as a student?
The screenwriter Randall Wallace is listed as an alumni, but from what I can tell, he went to Duke and only spoke at a commencement. I can't find any supporting evidence he ever attended LU as a student.link "Wallace attended Duke University..." and "“Dr. Jerry Falwell founded Liberty the same year I graduated from college." Did I miss something that suggests he was ever a student there? --Replysixty (talk) 09:57, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Did Randall Wallace attend Liberty as a student?
The screenwriter Randall Wallace is listed as an alumni, but from what I can tell, he went to UCLA as a student and was reported by Liberty to be involved with a film program at LU link. As with Randall Wallace, is there any citation to support the claim he was an alumni (and not a faculty member or program founder) at Liberty? --Rockypedia (talk) 00:06, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
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RfC: Should people who receive an honorary degree be included in this article?
Should List of Liberty University people include honorary degree recipients? Rockypedia (talk) 15:34, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * Oppose No, being handed an honorary degree does not mean you are affiliated with a university. Rockypedia (talk) 15:34, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep Because you decided to edit and add this section as I was writing mine and ignored the warning, I'll copy and paste what I wrote before. This wiki page is for ALL people of the university. Faculty, Staff, Students, Alumni, Honorary Degree Holders, and Others.
 * This page is meant to encompass everyone of the university. Take a look at Hofstra University's specific Honorary degree recipient's page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hofstra_University_honorary_degree_recipients, Which was most recently argued to keep here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_Hofstra_University_honorary_degree_recipients . Now Hofstra also has their own separate Alumni, Faculty, and Honorary degree pages, Liberty has them listed as one. Maybe as Liberty's page gets more popular later on it will be appropriate to separate and start creating new articles, but for now it stays. There are also countless examples of this with other universities, but I had this one on the top of my head. AlaskanNativeRU (talk) 15:38, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * There was a warning? Sounds very ominous. Rockypedia (talk) 16:27, 15 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Support . This is a list, if someone is a bluelink who has received an honorary degree, they should be on the list. L3X1 (distænt write)  13:50, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Support - Summoned by bot. Include all notable individuals who are directly affiliated with the university. Meatsgains (talk) 15:43, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose Holders of honorary degrees should not be included. Exclusion of this information would be consistent with the treatment of honorary degrees in Wikipedia BLP pages. If a person receives an honorary doctorate from an institution, BLP does not allow for that person to be referred to as having achieved a doctorate degree (i.e. they can't be referred to as "Dr." unless he/she actually earned a doctorate). The award is viewed as meaningless to BLP. Therefore, it should also be viewed as meaningless on the institution's alumni page. Wolfy54 (talk) 19:46, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Support / include (invited by the bot) The university has determined them to have that particular status.  IMO the relationship of that status to a real degree / normal degree is not relevant to the question. Plus it likely to be of encyclopedic interest.   North8000  (talk) 11:59, 16 October 2017 (UTC)