Talk:University of Waterloo

Major update in March of 2013?
I just noticed that the edit that happened 18:08, 10 March 2013 was massive. How did this happen with no discussion? XOttawahitech (talk) 03:13, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I made the edit on that day. I thought the page warranted the overhaul as to streamline it with the rest of WP:UNIGUIDE, as well as up to the standards expected by a WP:GA. The relevant information sought out by the UNIGUIDE has been incorporated into the recent version. However, the previous version was largely made up of unsourced information, out of date information, and problems with WP:Recentism. The reason as to the lack of any prior discussion was because of the article's talk page relative inactivity. With that, I had just decided to be bold, and move ahead with the overhaul. The edits I made however, were by no means unilateral, and I welcome any critique towards the more recent edition. Leventio (talk) 17:08, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Leventio Thanks for joining this discussion. I must tell you I was quite perturbed to see your edit which to me was done with total disregard to the work put in by many others who also contributed to this article. For example I put in work into building a redirect to this article, an effort that has been nullified by your deletion of the section on spin-off companies, an area that is considered important by many others.
 * Having said that, I realize that your intention was good and that you must have put in a lot of work into that one edit, let alone all your 52 other contributions to this article. So I am just trying to figure what went wrong here hoping we (and me specifically) can all learn from this experience. I know sometimes it is much easier to take a whole article offline and completely revamp it without being disrupted by other editors. However the problem is that by doing so you force others to put in an equivalent effort into undoing some of your mistakes.
 * I still think such a massive change should have been discussed in advance. If you think this talkpage is dead why not advertise it on the talkpages of the WikiProjects? Just my $.02. XOttawahitech (talk) 15:00, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Agreeable, I will bring up a future major change to this article to the talk page as well as the related WikiProjects. As for the "spin-off company" section exclusion, the reason as to why I had not included it was because the list seemed promotional in nature, and mainly served as a directory of companies related by alumnus. The list (see here) doesn't apply any third party sources (or any sources for a good majority) regarding not only the company's notability, but its relationship with the university. The difference with the cited NYU page you had listed was that the linked source was third party, and reputableLeventio (talk) 15:48, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Please re-define or delete "Waterloo has consistently been ranked as one of the top universities in Canada."
In the reputation section, the sentence "Waterloo has consistently been ranked as one of the top universities in Canada." is very vague.

Is this school one of the top 10, top 100, top 500 or top 5000? It should be clearly defined. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uws1234 (talk • contribs) 01:47, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Section on student suicides
Is this notable enough to include in the article, and if so is it notable enough to have its own section? LynxTufts (talk) 15:23, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Personally I don't think that content warrants inclusion (let alone its own subsection...). There a bit of recentism going on in the content as well (it seemingly implies that suicides only began in the 2016-17 academic year). The content itself doesn't even provide any more info on the topic other than the three that occurred that year. At the risk of sounding callous, I would not consider those incidents notable enough, especially when one considers the lack of inclusion of other suicides in the institution's history. Student mental health, and suicide has been a long, on-going issue with most post-secondary institutions in Canada (and the United States). While the incident is definitely unfortunate, it isn't unique to UWaterloo. Leventio (talk) 17:40, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

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