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Request for Expert Contributions
Dear Authors,
I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to invite your expertise and collaboration in improving the quality and accuracy of the Wikipedia article draft on Don Bosco College, Panjim. As experts and contributors in this field, your insights and contributions would be invaluable in ensuring that the information presented is comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date.
The current draft can be found here: Draft:Don Bosco College, Panjim
We are particularly looking for improvements in the following areas:
- History: Detailed historical background and significant milestones.
- Academic Programs: Comprehensive list and descriptions of academic programs offered.
- Notable Alumni: Information on notable alumni and their achievements.
- References: Addition of reliable sources to improve the article's credibility.
- Notability: Information and sources that demonstrate the college's significance and impact.
Improving the notability of the draft is crucial for its acceptance as a full Wikipedia article. Notability can be established through reliable secondary sources such as news articles, academic papers, and books that discuss the college in detail.
Contributing to Wikipedia is a collaborative and transparent process. You can make edits directly to the draft, or if you prefer, share your suggestions and sources here, and we can incorporate them accordingly. Your contributions will be properly cited, ensuring that your work is recognized.
Thank you for considering this request. Your participation would greatly enrich the Wikipedia community and help disseminate reliable information to a global audience.
Best regards,
Xcus
If you have any questions or need assistance with editing, please do not hesitate to reach out.
Note: This request has been made in good faith to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles and is in accordance with Wikipedia's guidelines for sourcing and citation. Please ensure that all contributions adhere to Wikipedia's content policies, including verifiability and no original research.
Discussion at Talk:Bachelor of Arts § Infobox image
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Bachelor of Arts § Infobox image. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:26, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Caritas Institute of Higher Education#Requested move 12 August 2024
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Caritas Institute of Higher Education#Requested move 12 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 05:57, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:St. Aloysius College (Mangalore)#Requested move 19 August 2024
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:St. Aloysius College (Mangalore)#Requested move 19 August 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Aprilajune (talk) 02:22, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:De La Salle Green Spikers volleyball#Requested move 25 June 2024
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:De La Salle Green Spikers volleyball#Requested move 25 June 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Reading Beans 12:35, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
Economic demographics at U.S. colleges
I'd like to update the data for economic demographics at U.S. colleges. It seems that the only data regularly reported by all schools is the percentage of Pell Grant-eligible students, which is a pretty rudimentary metric, so in the past I've used the 2013 data from Opportunity Insights (as reported by the NYT), which includes estimates of median family income, percentage of students from families in top 10% income, and percentage of students from families in bottom 60% income. It seems that they came out with an updated report in 2023 (NYT report), which breaks it down by income quintile but doesn't report the median and only updates the data to 2015. Is it possible to do any better, or is this information just not accessible? Courtesy pinging ElKevbo as I feel like this is your area of expertise. It'd be nice to provide some more granular data than the charts e.g. here without having to resort to old data. Sdkb talk 19:49, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- I appreciate the vote of confidence but this isn't my area of expertise. To the best of knowledge, you're correct that much of this work relies on number or percentage of Pell-grant recipients as that is the only relevant data that is consistently collected by the federal government and made accessible to scholars and researchers (and reporters and partisan think tanks and hacks with an axe to grind and...). As far as I know, more detailed work has to pull from other data sources. For example, I think that the Equality of Opportunity project has done their own analysis of tax data and I imagine that many studies have relied on survey information. But I don't know if there is a good national database for every institution that is regularly updated. ElKevbo (talk) 22:36, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, the Equality of Opportunity project is now Opportunity Insights. Thanks for the reply; hopefully some better data comes along at some point. Sdkb talk 06:24, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
Daniel Diermeier
Hi editors, I made some changes to a request on the Daniel Diermeier article Talk page following some feedback, but no one has had any further response since I posted those changes. Would anyone here be interested in taking a look? I'd really appreciate it. Cheers VandyBE (talk) 22:08, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
Input requested at Talk:Bard College
Two editors are having a dispute at Talk:Bard College. Input from other editors would be very helpful. Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 02:34, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Virginia Tech#Requested move 3 October 2024
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Virginia Tech#Requested move 3 October 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Web-julio (talk) 03:51, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
"Producing" Fulbright scholars
This is a really unfortunate expression found in lots of higher ed articles, sometimes even in the ledes, that state how many Fulbright scholars a given institution has "produced." Does anyone have a suggestion for expressing this idea in a more appropriate way? Schools don't produce much of anything, although they do cultivate, encourage, and lead. It is POV to claim the school "makes" these things happen. Also, from an anthropological standpoint, I don't think intellectual gifts are "produced," it is rather materialistic, like "producing" love. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 14:25, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for opening this discussion.
- I've removed similar language about other topics - award recipients, millionaires, etc. - on the same basic grounds. In those cases, I think that I've tended to use language like "is associated with" or "has alumni who are."
- I have not edited the word "produce" as it relates to Fulbright scholars on the sole grounds that the verb is very widely used by the reliable sources that we cite in those articles. I strongly disagree with the use of that word in this context - it's fair to imagine that many of those people would be just as successful at other institutions or in different contexts so giving all of the credit to the institution seems to be wrong - but I don't think it's appropriate for one editor to make the decision to use language that is different from that used by the overwhelming number of reliable sources. ElKevbo (talk) 14:43, 12 October 2024 (UTC)