Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Columbia University/Archive 2

Theodore Roosevelt FA
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Articles flagged for cleanup
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Anthony Burgess
I'd like to ask for input from the project regarding this article. Without going into a huge amount of detail, which is outlined on the article's talk page, the article, in my view had, and still has, some major issues regarding content, sourcing and relevance. I addressed this in late July and was assured that an effort would be made to bring it into guidelines, which was less than forthcoming. I then made revisions, which included removing a large amount of apparently irrelevant and out of context trivial lists of "facts." Anonymous IPs have since reverted it, claiming it borders on vandalism. Please look at this version, prior to my recent changes, and this version after I had done some work on it. The latter version isn't perfect, but seems to be an improvement to me. The IPs that reverted my changes said These deletions are far too extensive and betray an unfamiliarity, to put it most kindly, with Burgess’s work and This axeing of large sections of the Anthony Burgess page is inappropriate, misconceived and borders on vandalism. I removed lists of personal habits (like flatulence??), places of residence (which are already discussed in the body of the article), health trivia (he had cysts on his back and had chicken pox?), and a listing of his pets. My issue on those points rests both on relevance and sourcing, and asked that this be put into context as to why this was essential to the article. The IPs seem to think that unless the reader knows these things, they can't possibly comprehend an Anthony Burgess work. My question would then be "Why?" Does the article not need to outline the why of this? A newcomer to the article would require that education and not just be confronted with such overtly trivial facts. Please, PLEASE, take a moment to look this over and comment. Thank you. Wildhartlivie (talk) 20:48, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Photo request
Can someone please take and upload a free use photo of Dr. Rashid Khalidi for use in the article on him? -- Avi (talk) 17:31, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * That's a good idea. In fact, for any current Columbia students I think it would be a good project to take pictures of Columbia places and people (ask professors if you can take pictures for Wikipedia, perhaps they won't object) so that we have a cache of free-use media for Columbia articles.  Valley 2 city  20:56, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

RfC for WP:BOOSTER
There is a request for comment about whether or not WP:BOOSTER documents a standard consensus and good practice that all editors and school/college/university articles should follow as an official policy or guideline. Madcoverboy (talk) 19:28, 31 December 2008 (UTC)