Talk:University of Tennessee at Chattanooga/Archive 1

Southern Writer's Conference
Could someone add information about the Southern Writer's Conference. And, on a related note, could someone (ZekeMacNeil?)include the alumnus who is a distinguished editor of either Newsweek or a similar publication who is connected to this conference. If I could remember or had this information handy, I would do this, and possibly will in the future, but perhaps someone can do this more easily and quickly. ````Ed Smith

An apology to anyone else watching the page: I'm a librarian at UTC, and often use this entry during my information evaluation sessions. Without question, students will deface the page as soon as I show them the edit feature. I've tried to make a good faith effort to revert all of their vandalism, but I'm sure that others will have to help out. Sorry!--Jgriffey 18:48, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to press ahead with a "Notable Alumni" section, and brief notes about the buildings (excluding the greek houses, since they technically considered to be off campus.) --ZekeMacNeil 16:41, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Again: using the page as an example in my Information Evaluation class...it never fails that students go nuts on the edits. Apologize for the all the reverts. -- Jgriffey 20:55, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Recently there has been renewed controversy regarding the university of Chattanooga merger into the UT system. IE the system made a written agreement to add major graduate programs to the UTC campus. The academic senate at UTC has in the last year has suggested a lawsuit to compel the UT system to comply with this agreement. There are many references in the media to this topic. I propose to add this to this wiki.--Infocat13 (talk) 09:06, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Professors, Please Explain Wikiquette
There is no end to the amount of vandalism this page endures every time a professor mentions it in class. Please, for the love of all that is Wiki, either take the time to explain proper etiquette for using Wikipedia, lie and tell them you have to be registered to use it, or just stop using it as an example. There are plenty of other Wiki-based sites out there you can use as an example.

My apologies to any professor that does take these preventative measures. --Avery W. Krouse 20:31, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

There are many other wiki sites....none of which has either the impact or scope of wikipedia. I would guess that 99% of the vandalism on the page happens when we discuss the entry in the library during a presentation on information literacy. I plan on continuing to use the page though, as it is the best example of an important wiki site. As a matter of fact, it is an important teaching tool to show them how edits happen, and that one should verify sources. - Jgriffey 16:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Please don't lie to students. As a fellow student here at UT - Chattanooga I feel it is inappropriate to make it a policy to lie, even to avoid "vandalism." PLEASE Note: that when page edits are done initially for informational & instructional purposes it is not "vandalism." See the VANDALISM article for more info. Additionally even though it is acceptable to justify lying in cases of National Security and other vital moral gray areas... etc, this type of misinformation in NOT productive. Briananthis 05:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I removed the last vandalism done to this page in February, and it sure looked like vandelsim to be. Giving my opinion in the edit summary, or even warning the offending editor, is not by any interpretation lying. If nonsense or nonsensical changes are made to a page, it will be presumed to be vandalism, unless some labels it as otherwise. If serious instruction is going on, then the edits should be labeled as such, and reverted by the same editors in a timely fashion (within a few minutes in my opinion).


 * I do not see how changing the university's name in the info box to "Brennan Burke University" along with other similar nonsense, cannot be considered vandalism. In this case the time between the last vandal edit and my reversion was 15 minutes, time enough for instruction to take place. I'm not accusing you of making those edits, but those are the only recent edits I see that were reverted as vandalism.


 * Every edit page clearly states that if you wish to make tests, use the Sandbox. The best thing for a instructor to do would be to copy a page to a sandbox, and make edits and changes there. But PLEASE, if you don't want changes to APPEAR to be vandalism, then label them as "Instructional", and be prompt in removing the changes. Otherwise, such nonsense as stated above will be labeled as VANDALISM, and I assure you that warnings will be issued next time should such nonsense be left on this page again. Leaving nonsense on a page for other readers to find when they are looking for legitimate information is NOT productive, and WILL NOT be tolerated per WIki policy on VANDALISM. And that's no LIE! - BillCJ 06:15, 23 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Obviously if you are going to make tests you should use the sandbox, however when new people are being introduced to the community here; it takes a while before they learn all the rules. Additionally if someone is trying to show someone how to use Wikipedia 15 minutes is NOT too long to use for instructional purposes. There should not be any thing on the page that you would need during this time, and if there was you could revert back to the old settings, however you have NO LIFE if you check this page every 15 minutes. No it was not me who did the: "Brennan Burke University" along with other similar nonsense changes. In reference to the "lies" comment... An instructor should NOT tell someone that they ONLY can make changes when registered. That was all that comment was about. I do however value you insight along with everyone else's, and mean nothing derogatory to you personally in my comments on this talk page.

Briananthis 16:05, 26 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I apologize for missing the above comments on telling people to lie about having the register. As such, I missed the context of your comments, and I'm sorry for that. As to watching the page every 15 minutes, that's not what happens. I use the Watchlist, which lists the changes in every article I have edited, unless I remove it from the list. I just happened to refresh the list within 15 minutes of the edit being made, and caught it. Remember, one of the major principles on Wikipedia: If you don't want your edits edited, don't make them! This applies to everyone, even educators, especially if such edits aren't labled as educational. - BillCJ 17:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:UTC scrappy head.jpg
Image:UTC scrappy head.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 04:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:UTC MOCS mascot.jpg
Image:UTC MOCS mascot.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 04:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Utcgold01.jpg
Image:Utcgold01.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot 14:49, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Utcgold01.jpg
Image:Utcgold01.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot 01:50, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Source for mascot info
I have moved the source used to reference info about UTC's mascot name change here because the website does not meet WP:RS and does not seem to be an exact reprint of the LA Times article: Reprint of a LA Times story By George Dohrmann from March 19, 1997, with added note The LA Times article link currently only provides an abstract; however, I will request that editors with access verify the info it's sourcing. Flowanda | Talk 06:52, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Colleges and Academic Departments Section
I added the departments section from this departments list. It would be awesome if others could create and start a wiki for each department with basic information. I started on Biological & Environmental Sciences but it needs a lot more work.

A uniform labeling method would be nice, in order to keep everything uniform and professional looking. Also, adding supplemental brief information below the bullet as sub bullets might be useful as well. Perhaps links to the department and/or goals of the department etc... I'm not really sure

Example for department wikis: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: Department of ... University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: College of ...

Faugaun (talk) 23:26, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

The UTC fight song section should have more information, such as lyrics to the song. Otaylor123 (talk) 13:54, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

step
I usggest the controversy over the step show should be mentioned. 146.0.63.173 (talk) 12:08, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 3 one external links on University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20100527202514/http://www.utc.edu/Administration/PlanningEvaluationAndInstitutionalResearch/factbook/documents/FACTSUMMARY00.pdf to http://www.utc.edu/Administration/PlanningEvaluationAndInstitutionalResearch/factbook/documents/FACTSUMMARY00.pdf
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20100607210030/https://www.utc.edu/news/installation/Program.pdf to http://www.utc.edu/news/installation/Program.pdf
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20070107111349/http://top500.org:80/site/history/2580 to http://www.top500.org/site/history/2580

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 22:57, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

History
Section 1, History does not jibe with that given on the Zion College page, thusly: "In 1964, Zion College was renamed Chattanooga City College. In 1969, the college merged with the University of Chattanooga to form the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) as part of the UT System." The end result is the same, but the play-by-play doesn't work. I would happily fix it, but I'm not sure which is correct. rags (talk) 23:07, 3 June 2018 (UTC)