Talk:University of Pennsylvania Law School/Archive 1

Auspicious beginnings?
The article currently claims that a single lecture series, conducted sixty years before the law school was founded (at a time when law was primarily taught under an apprenticeship model), was the law school's auspicious beginning. That doesn't seem to me like a neutral POV.
 * it should be OK (i.e., not POV) to say "the school dates its history back to..." •J Z• 19:09, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Auspicious beginning
The page has been updated and no longer contains the words "auspicious beginning." Instead, it states that "The University of Pennsylvania Law School officially traces its origins to a series of lectures..." and continues with: "Following this early beginning, Penn began offering a full-time program in law in 1850..." Isn't that a neutral POV?

PennLaw 18:09, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes; however the POV tag can't be removed yet as there's other POV language in the article still. -- Broken Sphere 19:10, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

How does one find out what the other non-NPOV language is? Thanks. PennLaw 20:32, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

For me, it's been reading through the article and looking for language that appears to be present an overly positive or biased spin, usually without citation, re. Penn Law; the Collegiality section is a good example of this. Now this isn't to say that that what that section says is untrue, it may seem that way to some people; it's just that the way that the info is presented in there imparts a definite bias on behalf of Penn Law. -- Broken Sphere 21:57, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

As a Penn Law student, I think that although the entry for Penn Law was bad before (too much history, too little current information), this new one is just awful and sounds like it was written by a 5th grader. It is also exceedingly self-important and doesn't even attempt to appear dispassionate.

Neutrality
Hi everybody. I don't think the article is that bad, but I do agree with the neutrality dispute. It reads like a page out of an university website. However, this seems to be the case for most of the Ivy league Law articles in Wiki. (FT77 21:51, 17 August 2007 (UTC))

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Statistic updates
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Two alumni lists —is one sufficient?
Shouldn't the Notable alumni section be incorporated into the linked main article: List of Penn Law School alumni? Two lists seems redundant and unnecessary. Thanks, Lindenfall (talk) 20:17, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Adding that the section might be better edited along the lines of Berkeley School of Law and the List of UC Berkeley School of Law alumni articles. Lindenfall (talk) 15:33, 28 August 2020 (UTC)