Talk:Curtin University of Technology

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[edit] neutrality

Why is the article not neutral? Could anything be done to help? I think it could have the potential to be a featured article, the first ever on an Australian university.

--EuropracBHIT 07:04, 4 April 2006 (UTC).

I'm not sure. Perhaps it is due to this, and following comments; "Curtin is regarded by many as having the premier Business School in Western Australia", as without a citation or three it could be interpreted as biased. Further, the neutrality of this article could depend on who wrote it - if it was written by the university itself then a clear neutrality issue is established. I wonder, however, whether all articles on universities would suffer similar problems, and should be held with a pinch of salt. Having said all that, though, it would be helpful if the person who questioned the neutrality of the article explained (on this discussion page) why s/he decided to do so, if anything to allieveiate my excessive speculation. ;)

There is that and

• claims of reputation, popularity, and effective marketing without measurements or sources
• the Bentley campus tour with unencyclopaedic cafeteria menus and advertising material ("Best prices on contact lenses", "not your regular everyday café")
• the list of student organisations shows bias through incompleteness and is probably too detailed for encyclopaedic interest
• the parking section is written in a tendentious fashion
• the Sarawak campus section sounds like it's been plagiarised from Curtin advertising material ("The ultimate reward is the attainment of a prestigious internationally acclaimed Curtin degree.")

—LX (talk, contribs) 23:17, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

As an aside, i think its interesting to note that the article, immediately after the introduction, goes on to discuss the food outlets at Curtin, instead of past, present and ongoing research items of note, or similar discussions. It suggests a somewhat interesting set of priorities. The pictures look nice, though. 58.7.210.43 05:48, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Not really - up until recently, Curtin has had a strong student focus - so while food outlets might be wierd, research projects of note would be too - descriptions of the Courses would make more sense. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.72.148.102 (talk • contribs).

The main reason that the article focuses on food and social clubs is that it is written almost entirely by various students. As far as I know none of the staff have done much to it. And of course, most students find food and drinking of more interest than acedemics, if only because everybody already knows their own facalty and generally has little interest in everyone elses. (Yes, if it isn't imediately obvious I'm one of the above students.) I'll see what I can do to tighten the article up a bit. Morgrim 05:19, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marketing Hype

I am an academic at Curtin and monitor this page a bit. I am a little unhappy with the marketing hype in the section, Curtin Sarawak. While this campus is good, and the staff dedicated and it provides a good-quality education, the tone of the piece suggests it has been lifted out of an advertising brochure....

G'day Academic_at_Curtin. (I've taken the liberty of moving your comment into its own section...) Ummmm... The answer is fairly obvious: be bold. If you have a problem with something, do a bit of homework, and fix it! By the way, you will find registering yourself to be advantageous in many ways -- then (among other benefits) you can have a user tag like this: Gordon | Talk, 7 October 2006 @06:05 UTC

I've removed just about all of the section, as it was indeed a copyright infringement from press releases and advertising material put out by Curtin. It was added in March 2006[1] by Klauskrauss, who, judging by his user talk page, has a rather fuzzy grasp of copyright concepts and little desire to discuss it. —LX (talk, contribs) 14:15, 28 November 2006 (UTC)