User talk:College of William and Mary

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[edit] Status of triathlon

The Crim Dell portion of the triathlon is certainly in a bit of flux, but just "wading in" is definitely not the current widespread practice. WWC

[edit] Logo/coat of arms

I do not have any experience with graphics/copyright/fair-use on Wikipedia, and so I'm asking that somebody with more experience tackle this issue (naturally, I'll watch the changes to learn). I feel the graphic/coat-of-arms on the information box needs to be changed based on some observations. All of the stationery, banners, and plaques that represent the college (I am a current student) do not appear in that format, but rather, show up as in the following page: http://www.wm.edu/it/images/wmimages/buscard.gif. More graphics, including the one that currently appears on the page, are available here: Archive of W&M Images for the Web. In addition, W&M's public relations nomenclature page indicates that "The College's primary identity is the College's wordmark "The College of William and Mary" combined with the coat of arms, which is placed to the left. Used together, the wordmark and seal make an excellent graphic when visual representation is needed." Given this and the general observation that W&M seems to favor using the logo as in the image linked above (colorless and in that format), the image on Wikipedia's article ought to change to reflect that. I'd do it myself, but as I said, I'm unsure about how to upload images and tag them properly. Some help would be appreciated, as would any comments or opinions. Thanks. Daniel 00:46, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recent wording change by WWC.

Recently,

"In 1854, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities presented a large plaque listing the Priorities of the College. The plaque, now on the Wren Building, lists notable academic firsts at the College."

was changed to

"Given its long history intertwining with that of early America, William and Mary has the honor of a number of other notable academic firsts"

without explanation, and I changed it back. I've now been asked for an explanation, which is fair, so here goes. The language used to replace the first sentence removed information about the APVA, the plaque they put on the building, and the year they put the plaque on the building, and replaced it with less informativepeacock language—"long history intertwining with that of early America... has the honor of..."—which it is Wiki policy to avoid. Other than that the only difference is that the wikilink to the "Priorities of the College" was moved from one set of words to another, which I don't have an issue with.