Talk:Concordia University, Nebraska

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	Concordia University, Nebraska is part of WikiProject Lutheranism, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Lutheranism on Wikipedia. This includes but is not limited to Lutheran churches, Lutheran theology and worship, and biographies of notable Lutherans. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
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Much of this page sounds like a brochure rather than a dictionary article. Try to avoid using pretty, flowery language like "cozy" to describe chairs or "impressive" to describe displays. Even if you want it to sound great, it makes it less believable when you take that tone. SirJello37 19:41, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, SirJello37, as one (myself) who just popped by to perform a good combing of this article for grammar/format issues, I do agree that the article, at the time I performed the aforementioned edit, sounded too much like an advertisement or brochure. I did indeed notice some pretty/flowery or "ad-sounding" words like "cozy" and "impressive," but didn't mess with those words at the time I edited, due to not being as familiar with the Concordia campus as someone who attends/has attended there. It was largely random musings which took me to this article, but thanks much for pointing out necessary work that will be needed to get the article to sound "properly encyclopedic." Your own fixes to the article are appreciated! —Respectfully, Catdude 00:22, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Hello all! Sorry about the article sounding a bit like a brochure or something to that affect. A lot of your edits were great and fully apprciated. However, some things that were added were wrong. For example, the LCMS is singular, not plural. Thus it's not "their" but "its." Also, according to the Marketing department here on campus, whenever "servant leader" is written it does not have a hyphen in the middle. According to Wiki style, the original style of writing should be kept, for that is a preference issue. (The University enjoys using AP style.) But thanks for the some of the style change anyway.

SirJello37- Thanks for all your edits and taking away some of the brochure style, but I did erase the added comment of what Dorcus Second put on their t-shirts for the blatent and most obvious sexual innuendo. Thanks for the understanding.

Thanks, Tlancaster s, for the valuable feedback, not to mention the kind words on my Talk page :) Btw, I agree that LCMS should be treated as singular; as a "friendly" FYI, I had changed an instance of "their" to "its" when it referenced LCMS, and it appears that you reverted it back to "their" but then re-reverted it back to "its", LOL....Just pleadin' innocent on that one <laugh>! The way I had interpreted Wiki style guide info in regards to keeping the original style of writing intact was more of a "flavor-of-writing" interpretation to me, but I do respectfully see how you could interpret it the way you did, and I think you're all okay with that. I do agree that for quotes, mottos, etc., we need to pretty much be verbatim with what we write. And regarding the motto, there is the word "the" now existing in the motto where it appears in the first paragraph, but "the" is absent in the motto in the Infobox. I'll kindly throw this one in your court as to what you think is correct :-) Thanks again for your valuable contributions to this article and to other editors! —Respectfully, Catdude 03:15, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Again, Thank you all. Any grammer or spelling or add-ons are welcome with the exception of those that are not appropriate. Tlancaster s 21:34, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

Per the request posted at the WikiProject Lutheranism assessment page, I have looked over this page. I would continue to rate this as a "start" class article, although it is getting closer to being "B-class". My reasons are as follows.

1. Citations should be provided, preferably in-text. Some citation work would very quickly move this to B-class.
2. Images need to be arranged so that they fit with the flow of the article a little better.
3. Please use some third-party (i.e., not the school itself) reliable sources.

That said, the copyright notice ("All photos, logos, and other types of media are exclusive property of Concordia University, Nebraska.") at the bottom of the article is worrisome as well. Wikipedia is designed to be a free encyclopedia. Some of the images claim to be released under CC 2.5, and some under GNUFDL. If such is the case, they are not copyright. However, I suspect that they were incorrectly tagged, and are still under copyright by Concordia. If so, they need to be retagged as being copyrighted and used as "fair use", and they need to have an appropriate Fair use rationale provided. (For more info, see the pages about non-free content and copyright tags). I am going to request someone who knows more than I do about copyright to give this page and these images a once over. Pastordavid 21:54, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

• The images and "other types of media" — including the article — are asking to be deleted if such ambiguity persists. Unless they are claiming some sort of dual-licensing scheme; in which case, the language at the end of the article must go. Aarktica 19:23, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

It's gone. Thanks Tlancaster s 20:00, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Very well. Pastordavid, I will mark your EAR as resolved. If you have any questions regarding this matter, feel free to leave a note on my talk page. Or seek to have the request reviewed. --Aarktica 20:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Sounds great, thanks for your help. And Tlancaster s, thanks for your speedy response tot his problem. Pastordavid 21:04, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] really don't have one

1. Fixed photo tags, hopefully they are O.K. now.
2. If anyone has any "3rd party" sites that happen to mention the university, then put them up.
3. Citations, can I just put one big one up, which would be cune.edu?? Cuz thats the only one. This is a university we are talking about, not WW2 (there really isn't an extensive library talking about CU.)
4. I can't figure out how to make the photos "look better with flow," can someone attempt that please?
5. Thanks to everyone!!

Tlancaster s 19:57, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Bulldog.PNG

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BetacommandBot 03:52, 27 October 2007 (UTC)