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Template:Public_Universities_in_France
Hello ChrisDHDR,

After several months of working on this template pretty much on my own, I'm very happy to see someone else take an interest in it.

The map that you have added certainly does help people see where the academies are.

On the other hand, we seem now to have lost the compactness of the old format, which allowed the entire list of universities to be seen in one glance. And now, if one wants to navigate from university to university using the template, one has to click once to open the template, possibly scroll down within the template to find the university one is interested in, and then click again. I am concerned about the effect on the ease of navigation.

Please excuse these comments, as I see you've invested quite a bit of careful work into reformatting the template.

But perhaps the same goal of situating the different academies could be accomplished by placing the map on the page that lists the universities by academy?

Regards,

MyPOV 19:10, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

List_of_public_universities_in_France_by_academy
What sort of clean-up do you suggest to the List of public universities in France by academy?

MyPOV 19:14, 30 November 2007 (UTC)


 * The clean-up tag refers to Wikipedia's quality standards, which is a quite detailed list of specific recommendations. I'd be happy to try to bring the page more into line with any of those recommendations, if you can specify one or more that it currently fails to meet. If no such failings can be identified, it would seem to me that the tag should be removed.
 * Best regards,
 * MyPOV 04:39, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * MyPOV 04:39, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * MyPOV 04:39, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Regarding your recent changes, having the table of contents at the right, putting the external links to the academies in the titles, and making "See also" no longer a title do all make things more compact and improve the overall appearance.
 * However, I wonder whether removing the external links to the universities is an improvement or not. The point is to be useful to readers, and there's now no longer one place in Wikipedia that gathers these external references. I'm not sure I understand the point about advertising. After all, every individual university page provides an external link.
 * This is similar to my concern about the revised template format. It seems that we're requiring readers to make extra clicks to navigate through the information, whereas we could make it easier for them.
 * Best regards,
 * MyPOV 11:13, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Best regards,
 * MyPOV 11:13, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * MyPOV 11:13, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * MyPOV 11:13, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Fair enough. And I suppose the links have outlasted their primary initial use. When I started the list, there were no articles for many of the universities. The list certainly looks better now than it did before.
 * I do remain concerned about the revisions to the template, which really seem to me to bloat what was previously rather compact and to make navigation harder, not easier than before. We basically have two presentations of the same information: the page and the template. Isn't the page the better site for a more verbose and illustrated presentation, and isn't the template better off as a compact and accessible guide to navigation within the category?
 * Best regards,
 * MyPOV 15:33, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Best regards,
 * MyPOV 15:33, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * MyPOV 15:33, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Sure, I'll go ahead and do that now.
 * Best regards,
 * MyPOV 15:48, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * MyPOV 15:48, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * MyPOV 15:48, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks! You made my day. :) MyPOV 16:02, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

France Portal - Featured Portal!
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[[Image:Flag of France.svg|45px]] WikiProject Newsletter n°2
It's been one high aiming month! The French WikiProject and related pages have been aiming high for Christmas - and have received an equal number of presents in return! Well, that's this issue. Au revoir et à bientôt till the next time,  Chris DHDR (19:00, 9 December 2007 (UTC)).
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an image you created
Hello, is it normal there is a grammar error in Image:Qxz-ad108.gif? Jackaranga (talk) 19:41, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
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