Talk:University of Portland

Purple Pride
Purple Pride is not officially affiliated with University of Portland, is this still a good idea?
 * I wonder if this is a candidate for deletion instead. I get a tremendous number of Google hits for "Purple Pride", few of them for this group. Kathy A. 21:49, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

If Purple Pride is not officially affiliated with the University and there is not enough information to warrant a stand alone article, then I agree with the idea that it should be up for deletion. Verkhovensky 00:42, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I believe the school somehow took over Purple Pride. I'll look into it a bit more, but it seems like they took over this year to make some $$$ on the shirts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.105.242.150 (talk) 06:08, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

Article in general
Looking at the article it looks like the univeristy is just some buildings where sports take place. Not much on the teaching, or is it really just about sports and the buildings? Aboutmovies 20:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Categories
You may want to start an alumni category that is a sub category of the main UP cat. See most other larger school's articles and then click on an alumni for naming details. Aboutmovies 08:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Academics section
Yikes, sounds like PR wrote this entire section. This needs to be improved with sources and a more neutral voice. Thomasngo 21:51, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

School of Nursing section has been replaced with entirely new text. I agree, the previous academic description needed to go. Cklogic (talk) 19:29, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

This page should be flagged since the UP PR department has clearly written most of the text.Kgustaf (talk) 04:48, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

For a student life/media section

 * The Beacon
 * KDUP (AM)
 * Plus any Greek organizations, school song, traditions, etc. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:14, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

In the News Section
We don not do these types of sections. Further, much of the sourcing does not use reliable sources by Wikipedia standards, and the entire section has problems with following the WP:NPOV rules, including WP:UNDUE. The first sentence alone needs to go as we don't say "shines brightest" as this is not some newspaper. Most of this has been pointed out in the edit summary, yet still not addressed. There is room for "criticisms", it just has to be done correctly, and this attempt is not even close to being done correctly. You may also see WP:SOAPBOX. Aboutmovies (talk) 22:01, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Since you are asking for how your entry violates NPOV, first that's not the only guideline/policy it violates. First, see WP:NOTNEWS, specifically bullet #4, News reports. As in, we do not have "In the News" sections. Anything covered would be spread throughout the article in appropriate sections. As to NPOV, your section ONLY adds negative items about this school. Although negative things are covered in the media about the school, they don't just cover the negative things. Next, opinion pieces generally fail as reliable sources, as they only represent the opinions of the author, and we don't care too much about one person's opinion, including mine. Opinion pieces pretty much by definition are not from the neutral point of view. Not to mention, who cares about the Vagina Monologues? Seriously, how many is a few; and arn't they also the only Div. 1 program in Oregon without a football program, one of only a few in the US that are Catholic, relatively, which is why what is few is important (only one in Oregon I think out of something like 50), and what other plays do they "ban" as I would doubt they would allow something critical of say the Pope? In fact the entire addition comes across as some sort of attempt to attack the school on their "sex" views/policies. The first two hits on OregonLive for the school are about a student fighting global warming and an article on their campus addition. Out of the first 15 hits only one is related to sex, and that's another opinion piece which is more about freedom of the press. So that is where UNDUE comes in, which is part of NPOV. Hopefully this helps you re-formulate what you want to add. Aboutmovies (talk) 22:58, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

External links modified
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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20091226032032/http://www.linfield.edu:80/portland/nursing/the-bsn-program.php to http://www.linfield.edu/portland/nursing/the-bsn-program.php
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090731131223/http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com:80/best-graduate-schools/top-nursing-schools/rankings/page+4 to http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-nursing-schools/rankings/page+4

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