Talk:California Polytechnic State University

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[edit] Date of Completion of Cerro Vista

I'm changing the date of completion to 2003, because I'm pretty sure I was living in the Cerro Vista apartments between fall '03 and spring '04. mzellman 05:44, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I'd prefer for you to find and cite a source rather than relying on your memory of what "you're pretty sure" of. I'm not saying you're wrong; I'm saying that given that a question has been raised it, should be answered by citing a source. See WP:V Dpbsmith (talk) 16:20, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Sorry, I was understating my certainty there. I resided in the Cerro Vista apartments from Fall 2003 to Spring 2004. There's a source here: [1] mzellman (talk) 01:21, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Athletics

I noticed this article doesn't mention anything about Cal Poly athletics, except for the 1960 plane crash and the templates at the bottom. Since the team competes in Division I in all (or most) sports, I believe athletics should get some mention here. I would start it, but I really don't know too much about the sports at school... Cowmeister88 07:35, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Song texts

It doesn't seem helpful or appropriate to have the text of the alumni and fight songs. I looked at a few other good university articles, and they did not have them. Basar 04:36, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Main Logo

Changed main logo to look more professional and similar to actual University logo. (Justsomeboi 23:29, 2 July 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Expansion

Added expansion section. All information based on Cal Poly Master Plan and Cal Poly Facilities and Planning. Edit: Fixed copywrite problems.(Justsomeboi 00:27, 3 July 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Colleges

Changed title of colleges to the official name of colleges. For example, Business is officially Orfaela College of Business. (Justsomeboi 00:35, 3 July 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Alumni

I think we need an alumni section as most universities have a section dedicated to memorable or noteworthy alumni.

Indeed, we have a whole article for it found in the see also section. Basar 01:41, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images

Basar has a good point about removing the images and putting it in a commons section. However, I believe the main page should encorporate more images of the University. Removing the images takes away from the main page. Wikipedia users of USC, for example, have set out to put as many images representing the university as they can (without being repetative. I think its only repatative if the same structures are displayed. (Justsomeboi 01:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC))

It's fine to add more, but I think the USC article is quite excessive. There is a delicate balance that needs to be achieved when adding pictures. Furthermore, pictures ideally illustrate the text of the article which the current ones do not. For example, a picture of the campus from the 50s would be excellent for the history section. I personally like the image density of Boston, Massachusetts. Basar 01:52, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Student Life and ASI

Being that ASI is the main student government here in Cal Poly, employing hundreds of Cal Poly student, I think and ASI section should be added. I'll try to work on that section. Also Student Life should be exapnded being that the activities and extra curriculars that Cal Poly offers help define the Cal Poly atmosphere and give readers a better glimpse of the "personality" of Cal Poly and its students, faculty, and stuff. Such topics that could be covered could be the large intramural fields, traditions (such as P being lit during games), recreation center, Week of Welcome, and emphasis on the many clubs in Cal Poly. (Justsomeboi 15:47, 17 July 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Rankings

The USNEWS rankings are now updated with the 2008 ranking. Good job to cal poly for continuing and increasing its academic excellence! (Justsomeboi 20:25, 18 August 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Cal Poly Infobox

Most universities on Wikipedia have a large infobox on the bottom of their article with a list of all the schools and such. Cal Poly Pomona just added one to their entry. How can we make one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.96.184.105 (talk) 22:10, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

Yes of course, you'll first have to create an account, then create a page at Template:California Polytechnic State University and copy and paste in the code from Template:California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and then you can modify the code to suit Cal Poly. When it is complete, you can put it on the Cal Poly articles by adding {{California Polytechnic State University}}. You can find some of the other Cal Poly related articles at Category:California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo—there seems to be about six or seven already created articles that can go in the template. More can be created too. I'll help you if you need any help. -- Basar (talk · contribs) 00:33, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
All right I made an infobox based on the CSU Pomona infobox. Please help in editing it and finding Cal Poly articles that can be added to the infobox. Thanks to Basar to the instructions on adding one! (Justsomeboi 23:23, 2 September 2007 (UTC))