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Columbia University


I've listed this article for peer review because I would like to get it to FA quality.

Thanks, alphalfalfa(talk) 03:10, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Comments from Sdkb

Overall, I think this article needs a lot of cleaning before it'll be ready for an FAC. Given that it passed GA in 2011, it's likely fallen below GA standards in a bunch of areas, so it needs to be brought back up to more solid GA ground before reaching for FA heights. Specific notes:
 * I'd remove among them a co-author of the United States Constitution and a co-author of the Declaration of Independence from the lead. It's almost never WP:DUE for any one alum to be so important to an institution as to warrant mention in the lead. five Founding Fathers is plenty enough.
 * There are spelling and grammar issues, such as the slash at the start of the campus section (see MOS:SLASH) and capitalization of "city".
 * The undergraduate admissions section should have Infobox U.S. college admissions added.
 * More prose concerns: New York Times needs italicization.
 * "Military and veteran enrollment" probably shouldn't be its own section, and is promo-y.
 * Student body demographics are outdated.
 * Columbia is home to two pioneers in undergraduate campus radio broadcasting needs strong sourcing, not no sourcing.
 * I suspect the sectioning and weighting of student activities coverage needs revising.
 * The paragraph listing all the speakers at the Global Leaders Forum is crufty and needs to go. A single visit to a campus by any one person is not sufficiently notable that an encyclopedic account of the institution needs to mention it.
 * The galleries of notable alumni and faculty are very WP:UNDUE and need to go; this has been discussed recently at WT:HED I believe.
 * The see also section needs to be trimmed of links mentioned in the body.
 * We don't need to link to the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica in the external links; it's more than a little outdated.

These are just samples of issues I found skimming the page; they're by no means a comprehensive list of all I'd find if I scoured it top to bottom. If you'd like to set this up for FAC, you'll need to do so with an eye for these sorts of things. Good luck, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 07:11, 8 June 2021 (UTC)