Talk:Vanderbilt University/Archives/2020

3rd party template
A review of the article and edit history shows that a substantial amount of work has been done on references since an ownership of content dispute in October 2017 that got a self-published tag put on the article lead. That was reduced to a less-harsh 3rd party tag on the lead. I suggest that tag could either be moved to specific sections, or removed entirely. Otherwise, please add comments on this thread. Thanks Group29 (talk) 14:39, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

2018 archive
The last talk archive up to 2018 seems to be located at Talk:Vanderbilt_University/Archives/2018, which should have linked as Archive_2 (Talk:Vanderbilt_University/Archive_2) from the Cluebot template. Thanks, Group29 (talk) 14:48, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

New paragraph about student movement to abolish Greek organizations
Broadmoor has begun an edit war to insert the following paragraph into this article:


 * "In June 2020, Vanderbilt students helped create a national movement to abolish Greek life on college campuses. Those supporting the movement believes Vanderbilt's Greek system (as with other college Greek systems) can not be reformed and lack sensitivity on issues of race, sexism, classism, homophobia and other issues of discrimination or inequality.  "

This article is supposed to provide a summary and overview of the entire history, organization, funding, accomplishments, and challenges of this complex institution that is nearly 150 years old. We simply cannot and should not include all information even if it is published in reliable sources. In particular, we should not include recent events until it is abundantly clear that these events have significant meaning and a lasting impact on the institution. Right now, it's completely unclear if this new student movement will have any lasting impact and thus it needs to stay out of the article.

(It would also be very helpful if Broadmoor, an editor with over 21,000 edits, could format references appropriately instead of lazily pasting bare URLs in the hope that other editors will clean them up later.) ElKevbo (talk) 19:23, 17 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Let's see if this is more than just a flash in the pan news article that actually changes Greek life at a place like Vanderbilt. Esrever (klaT) 21:30, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

New paragraph about student movement to abolish Greek organizations
Broadmoor has begun an edit war to insert the following paragraph into this article:


 * "In June 2020, Vanderbilt students helped create a national movement to abolish Greek life on college campuses. Those supporting the movement believes Vanderbilt's Greek system (as with other college Greek systems) can not be reformed and lack sensitivity on issues of race, sexism, classism, homophobia and other issues of discrimination or inequality.  "

This article is supposed to provide a summary and overview of the entire history, organization, funding, accomplishments, and challenges of this complex institution that is nearly 150 years old. We simply cannot and should not include all information even if it is published in reliable sources. In particular, we should not include recent events until it is abundantly clear that these events have significant meaning and a lasting impact on the institution. Right now, it's completely unclear if this new student movement will have any lasting impact and thus it needs to stay out of the article.

(It would also be very helpful if Broadmoor, an editor with over 21,000 edits, could format references appropriately instead of lazily pasting bare URLs in the hope that other editors will clean them up later.) ElKevbo (talk) 19:23, 17 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Let's see if this is more than just a flash in the pan news article that actually changes Greek life at a place like Vanderbilt. Esrever (klaT) 21:30, 17 September 2020 (UTC)