Talk:University of Delaware

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You should fix the statistics with the data from http://www.udel.edu/IR/facts/ because you don't have total you seem to have a mix of graduate and undergraduate stats.

Nate:

Racial Makeup	N	%
White	13,233	84.9
African American	865	5.6
Hispanic	570	3.7
Asian	524	3.4
Native American	39	0.3
Non-Resident Alien	158	1.0
Other	191	1.2

This is fixed Emurph 21:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 To much clutter 2 Faculty 3 New images 4 Alumni Removal?? 5 Drinking Culture 6 Music, and comments in general 7 Copyright issues for UDaily and other UDEL Public Relations pictures

[edit] To much clutter

I don't know what anyone else thinks, pictures are nice in all, but their come a point when to many of them and their placement becomes a real detriment to the article, and i think this article is a prime example. Either some re-placement or elimination of some of the pictures needs to happen, i'll wat to see if anyone thinks of anything or does anything if not i'll just do it my self. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 22:34, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

(As the one who took the pictures) - I agree that the placement of the pictures is bad, but your solution is, umm... worse. The best solution would be to add more prose to balance out the pictures. THe 2nd best solution would be to group them into a gallery (using the mediawiki gallery feature) until such time as there is more prose. →Raul654 22:49, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

I also agree that the placement needs some serious work. I know that a lot more historical background is available if someone is willing to write it; the more text, the better. I think that pic of Gore Hall should be the topmost picture, as well. The Mall is representative of UD, but that particular picture doesn't correspond to much within the text. --Several Times 20:29, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

I reorganized it a little bit; could still use some work. I think the exterior photo of the Trabant could go. --Several Times 16:10, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

I Agree about some pictures, like those of Trabant. Put them in a gallery so they are still there for those that wish to see them. --Mrowlinson 10:42, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Erm, you're a little late. I put them into a gallery yesterday. →Raul654 20:40, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Haha, that's what I get for leaving a page open for days and not refreshing. By the way, I'm going to take a new picture of the library next time I get around to it. I think it would look a lot better with a picture taken during summer. Maybe one of the mall during autumn when the leaves are all different colors, too. I'll upload them and let you check them out before I edit since you're basically the guy which maintains this article. --Mrowlinson 09:25, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

I think we need to restructure this article. I would like to expand the article a little bit, including information on some of the more prominent student organizations and providing more links into UD's website. However, I think we need to find a way of reorganizing this. Any ideas? I think that we could perhaps group officially sponsored activities (i.e. Music, Sports, Figure skating) under one heading, and then have a separate heading for student organizations and un-official happenings? Comments? Cazort 13:37, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Faculty

I noticed a few professors I have had (Richard Hanley, Muqtedar Khan) had pages created for them and I wondered if they should be incorporated / listed here in any way. I question this because they are articles within the range of debate between inclusionists and deletionists... that is, these aren't teachers well known like Ben Bernanke. Just curious about thoughts. gren グレン 20:17, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New images

I'm removing the images placed in the article by User:Ottawa80 because they're either breaking a lot of the formatting or making whole sections of the article look very awkward. There are already more than enough pictures as it stands. It may be pretty and all, but one picture of The Green ought to suffice. — Indi ^{[ talk ]} 17:23, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alumni Removal??

Several listed alumni do not seem particularly famous, not enough to be listed here. In particular, I question some of the musicians in local bands, where neither the band nor the artist have their own biographical entries. Does anyone object to their removal? --Brian G 02:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I concur. Raul654 04:55, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I think it may be getting to the point where we could justify a List of University of Delaware people or whatever the proper nomenclature would be and only have very well known people on the main page and list notable professors and other alumni there. gren グレン 20:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Drinking Culture

Since UD is such a big drinking school, I think it is almost mandatory that any comprehensive article on the university cover this unpleasant topic. To do otherwise is to write a strongly biased, POV article. On the other hand, I think we need to be very careful about keeping NPOV in such a section. I am going to look around for facts and references before I construct this section, and I would welcome anyone else's input. Cazort 13:25, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

in my opinion, there should be a student life section talking about entertainment around town, main street, etc. and the drinking could fit in there - Schrandit 18:48, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Music, and comments in general

These comments apply mainly to the music section but I think they could apply to other sections as well. What is the role of this page? I'm not sure it is very valuable to the public to list specific accomplishments (like are listed in the music section). What would be more useful, I think, would be to delete most of the information about achievement, etc, and give more practical information about what kinds of opportunities for performance, lessons, and what kinds of facilities there are at U.D. This stuff is more simple, and more easily quantifiable.

I'm going to add some stuff in the music section and if there are no objections, I will eventually delete the existing material. Cazort 17:07, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright issues for UDaily and other UDEL Public Relations pictures

There are some pictures taken by UD PR currently on the page which are in talk for being deleted. On the UDEL website there isn't explicit policy about picture use, so I included this email below:

To:  publicrelations@udel.edu
Subject: Copyrights status of pictures
I am curious of the copyright status of pictures on UDaily or other UD Public Relations sites. Obviously, pictures of YoUDee and
logos are trademarked. However, I was curious if a picture taken of campus settings (ie. the Green or Memorial) or a professor may 
be reproduced or used on websites such as Wikipedia. Thank you for your time, and I await your reply.

>The university retains the copyright of all photos even if they appear on UDaily or other publications or sites.  We do share some 
>of our photos with other sources if it is in the interest of the University but the copyright still stands and the photos need to   
>show that.  We do not know how Wikipedia treats copyright issues, so we would not want to share our photos with them at this time.
>If there is a specific photo you are interested in, give me a call and we can discuss.
>Karen Pyle
>Coordinator of Photographic Services
>University of Delaware

--Cargoudel 15:27, 26 March 2007 (UTC)