Talk:Southern Virginia University

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[edit] Help Request

In trying to do some verification on this article - I found very little that wasn't on the SVU website itself. Some exceptions:

I am guessing that the purchase by an LDS group was covered extensively by the local press in Virginia but maybe I am wrong. Does anyone have any links to alumni groups, or news articles on stuff etc. Thx in adv. --Trödel 13:24, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Size

I don't think "very small" is a proper description of the school. It is just not factual. Both US News and Peterson label schools as "small" if they have enrollment of less than 2000. Of the 411 religiously affiliated schools in the Peterson list[1] SVU has a larger enrollment(ranked 165) than 44% of the schools that reported enrollment(out of 374). Additionally other schools with less than 300 enrolled students are not labeled "very small" in Wikipeida: see Southern Christian University, Trinity Baptist College, and Williams Baptist College for example. --Trödel 02:03, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Changes by Rossinicholas

In general I think the copyedit by Rossinicholas made for a more readable article. I request editors to please include references for assertions of fact - and please don't remove references where they already exists. Thx --Trödel 13:01, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

This article is now completely unsourced - I have included the sources I found back in June/July below and in the References section of the article.

  • President, Rodney K. Smith, graduated in the second class of BYU J. Rueben Clark Law School[1]
  • Vice President of Student Life and Enrollment, Walter Ralls,[2] is the stake president of the Buena Vista Virginia Stake.[citation needed]
  • Executive Vice President and Provost, Paul S. Edwards, former member of the Political Science Department at Brigham Young University[3]
  • Director of Annual Giving, Jeffrey D. Robison, spent 13 years working for the LDS Foundation[4]
  • Dean of Students, Dean Hanchett, former Army Chaplain (30 years active duty) representing the LDS Church[5]
  • The Board of Trustees includes former mission presidents and former stake presidents for the LDS Church as well as Chieko Okazaki former member of the Relief Society General Presidency[6]

The problem with lack of sources is that it makes an article that could be verified completely unverifiable and thus the text is subject to deletion. see WP:V --Trödel 12:58, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I know this is going to add to the references problem--I added the academics section and the info about Keith Alessi, but I don't have a reference to cite for his agreement to teach at SVU--He told me personally.

[edit] Whole article is an ad

This whole article is one big ad. Should it be stubbed and restarted or is someone willing to take on the cleanup? --Takeel 01:22, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Restoring sourced version

This article has gained depth but lost its encyclopedic tone with the removal of inline references. Please include sources when adding material (just put it in parens) and the WikiGnomes will fix it up and format it. Thank you in advance. --Trödel 15:15, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

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