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[edit] Improvement Reminders

Kay R. Whitmore
Relief_Society
Add Easter Pageant to Mesa Temple - www.easterpageant.org/
SIOP
List of religious universities in U.S.
Crandall Historical Printing Museum, List of museums in Utah
Infobox for Rex E. Lee - honorary doctorate too http://magazine.byu.edu/?act=view&a=505
Create Temple Square template
Work on UT alum list

NIU has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a National University (a school conducting significant research and awarding degrees up to the doctoral level)[1] in its fourth-tier rankings—i.e., within the lower 25 percent of schools in the National University category.[2][3][4][5]

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[edit] Campus

Main articles: Brigham Young University campus and List of Brigham Young University buildings

The main campus sits on approximately 560 acres (2.3 km²) nestled at the base of the Wasatch Mountains and includes 311 buildings.[6] The buildings feature a wide variety of architectural styles, each building being built in the style of its time.[7] The grass, trees, and flower beds on BYU's campus are impeccably maintained.[8][9] Furthermore, views of the Wasatch Mountains, (including Mount Timpanogos) can be seen from the campus.[6]

[edit] Academic facilities

BYU's Harold B. Lee Library, which The Princeton Review ranked as the #1 "Great College Library" in 2004,[10] has approximately 8½ million items in its collections, contains 98 miles (158 km) of shelving, and can seat 4,600 people.[11] The Spencer W. Kimball Tower is home to several of the university's departments and programs and is the tallest building in Provo, Utah.[12][13]

The campus also houses several performing arts facilities. The de Jong Concert Hall seats 1282 people and is named for Gerrit de Jong Jr. The Pardoe Theatre is named for T. Earl and Kathryn Pardoe. Students use its stage in a variety of theatre experiments, as well as for Pardoe Series performances. It seats 500 people, and has quite a large stage with a proscenium opening of 19 by 55 feet (17 m).[14] The Margetts Theatre was named for Philip N. Margetts, a prominent Utah theatre figure. A smaller, black box theater, it allows a variety of seating and staging formats. It seats 125, and measures 30 by 50 feet (15 m).[14] The Nelke Theatre, named for one of BYU's first drama teachers, is used largely for instruction in experimental theater. It seats 280.[14]

Museum of Art north entrance
Museum of Art north entrance

The campus is home to several museums containing exhibits from many different fields of study. BYU's Museum of Art, for example, is one of the largest and most attended art museums in the Mountain West. This Museum aids in academic pursuits of students at BYU via research and study of the artworks in its collection. The Museum is also open to the general public and provides educational programming.[15] The Museum of Peoples and Cultures is a museum of archaeology and ethnology. It focuses on native cultures and artifacts of the Great Basin, American Southwest, Mesoamerica, Peru, and Polynesia. Home to more than 40,000 artifacts and 50,000 photographs, it documents BYU's archaeological research.[16] The Earth Science Museum was built in 1976 to display the many fossils found by BYU's Dr. James A. Jensen. It holds many artifacts from the Jurassic Period (210-140 million years ago), and is one the top five collections in the world of fossils from that time period. It has been featured in magazines, newspapers, and on television internationally. The museum receives about 25,000 visitors every year.[17][18] The Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum was formed in 1978. It features several forms of plant and animal life on display and available for research by students and scholars.[19]

[edit] Athletic facilities

Furthermore, BYU's Marriott Center, used as a basketball arena, can seat over 22,000 and is one of the largest on-campus arenas in the nation.[20]

[edit] Housing and student life facilities

One of the earliest student dormitories at BYU, Allen Hall, named for Ray Eugene Allen and his wife Inez Knight, was built in 1938. Originally it was a men's dormitory, but during World War II, a large influx of female students caused the university to make it a women's dorm. In 1962, the building ceased to be a student dormitory altogether, and was used as temporary housing for missionaries while the Church's Language Training Mission was under construction.[21] The success of Allen Hall led to immediate plans for another dormitory, Amanda Knight Hall, named for the wife of Jesse Knight. This served as a home for female students until it was also turned over to the Language Training Mission.[22]

Foreign Language Student Residence, where students commit to speak only their foreign language of study.
Foreign Language Student Residence, where students commit to speak only their foreign language of study.

Heritage Halls is a twelve-building housing complex on campus which offers apartment-style living. Six of the buildings were built in 1952, and the other six in 1954. The halls received their collective name through a contest among residents. Each of the separate buildings is named after a notable Latter-day Saint woman. Originally, these halls housed only female residents. Today, however, the halls house both male and female students, divided by gender into separate buildings. Each building has ten units capable of housing six people each.[23][24] Construction of Helaman Halls followed soon after, with the first five buildings completed in 1958, and three more added by 1970.[25] The Halls recently underwent a 12 year renovation spanning 1991 and through 2003.[26] In 1965, BYU completed construction of Deseret Towers. "DT", as it is called by students, originally consisted of five towers, with a sixth (V Hall) added in 1969, and a seventh (W Hall) in the late seventies. The Towers were capable of housing over 2000 students. In December 2006, V and W Hall were torn down. The others followed in 2008 with demolition being completed in May 2008.[27][28][29]

Wymount Terrace Student Family Housing.
Wymount Terrace Student Family Housing.

In 1946, during the postwar BYU growth, President McDonald purchased forty-eight buildings from a nearby Air Force station in order to house students. These buildings were called Wymount Village, and housed both married and single students until 1962.[30] Wymount Village was replaced by Wymount Terrace in that year, intended solely for students with young families. The 24 building complex contains a total of 462 apartments of varying sizes.[31] Another complex originally intended for families was Wyview Park. At first, Wyview was a trailer park,[32] but in 1996 it was razed and rebuilt into an apartment complex.[33] In 2006, the complex began housing single students as well, in order to counteract loss of singles' housing in other areas.[34]

A unique form of housing on campus is found in the Foreign Language Student Residence (FLSR) complex. The twenty-five apartments in this complex provide housing for students in foreign languages. Residents of these apartments agree to speak only their apartment's assigned language during the school year while in the apartment. This immersion experience is available in nine languages, and students are accompanied by a native resident throughout the year to enhance the experience.[35]

Helaman Halls is served by a central cafeteria called the Cannon Center.[24] Branches of the BYU Creamery provide basic food and general grocery products for students living in Heritage Halls, Wymount, Wyview, and the FLSR. The store, begun in 1949, has become a BYU tradition and is frequented by visitors to the university and members of the community, as well as students.[36] It was the first on-campus full-time service grocery store in the country.[37]

[edit] My GA Review of this article

First of all, in the future, when an edit tag like {{inuse}} is at the top of the page, please do not make edits!

A good article has the following attributes:

  1. It is well written. In this respect:
         (a) the prose is clear and the spelling and grammar are correct; and
         (b) it complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, jargon, words to avoid, fiction, and list incorporation.

I removed quite a bit of POV and advertising language, but more will have to be done (through peer review) if this will ever get to FA. I also removed list of notable universities in the 236 research universities--there are a lot of non-notables on the list too (POV). This remains to be done:

  • It's not necessary to provide inline citations for facts in the lead, but for a fact like "the oldest university in Germany", that's such a notable and possibly controversial claim that a citation would do well here as well.
  • Avoid starting sentences with numbers
  • Only put inline citations immediately after punctuation marks (e.g., periods, commas)—never in the middle of phrases (per WP:CITE)--international rankings section
  • For the Academic Ranking of World Universities, I would only refer to the most recent ranking, and I'm not sure I'd mention the one Ivy League school (Brown) you beat out that year—doesn't seem incredibly notable if 69 other school did so as well, and Brown is the smallest of the Ivy League schools
  • Don't abbreviate "approx."
  • You need to provide U.S. dollar estimates for the Euro figures throughout doc (see Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Currencies)
  • I would internal-link sports, etc. in the Student life section
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable. In this respect, it:
         (a) provides references to all sources of information, and at minimum contains a section dedicated to the attribution of those sources in accordance with the guide to layout;
         (b) at minimum, provides in-line citations from reliable sources for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons;[2] and
         (c) contains no original research.

Be careful of plagiarism of some of your sources—use quotation marks if not paraphrased. Also, it would be more specific (and less potentially deceiving) if the Notable people section were separated out by faculty and alumni, like most other universities' articles; see Dartmouth College and Duke University; I would also remove the gallery and insert a couple pictures like these articles, while describing briefly their notability in the caption; however, this stuff is not required for GA. The following needs to be fixed:

  • Please resolve the citation tags I added
  • How does number of faculty constitute making it "one of Germany's larger universities"—this is POV and not necessarily true
  • Ref#7 (rankings) is a circular reference--Wikipedia should never cite itself
  3. It is broad in its coverage. In this respect, it:
         (a) addresses the major aspects of the topic;[3] and
         (b) stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary details (see summary style).
  • Good--might consider outsourcing a couple sections to independent articles to make this article shorter (like History and Campuses), but it's all right.
  4. It is neutral; that is, it represents viewpoints fairly and without bias.

This criterion is the largest area of concern:

  • The History, Campuses, and Organization sections (and most of the article) come almost entirely come from a Catholic encyclopedia or the University itself (only section not like this is Rankings section)—39/101 references from UH-produced sites (almost half)—please improve this
  • Statements like "Heidelberg became a center of Liberalism and the movement in favor of German national unity" definitely need another supporting reference independent of the Catholic Church.
  • "the university was widely recognized as a center of democratic thinking" is credited to a UHeidelberg reference (not neutral)
  • Are there no controversies or criticisms of the university?
  5. It is stable; that is, it is not the subject of an ongoing edit war or content dispute. Vandalism reversion, proposals to split or merge content, good faith improvements to the page (such as copy editing) and changes based on reviewers' suggestions do not apply. Nominations for articles that are unstable because of constructive editing should be placed on hold.
  • No prior issues
  6. It is illustrated, where possible, by images.[4] In this respect:
         (a) images used are tagged with their copyright status, and fair use rationales are provided for non-free content; and
         (b) the images are appropriate to the topic, and have suitable captions.[5]
  • I'm not sure about the copyright status of a couple pictures. On one, Fred says he's university staff, but his user page says he's a law school student. I'm not an expert with Wikipedia images, so another editor will have to look into this if it goes to FAC. Remember to put no periods at the end of picture captions (see WP:MOS#Captions). I also standardized picture sizes.

[edit] Conclusion

In its current condition, I will put the article on hold for one week until the above issues are resolved. If it cannot pass this time, it can be renominated in the future. I spent a lot of time reviewing and making my own edits, so I hope this helps! --Eustress (talk) 16:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Eustress, and thanks for choosing me as your adopter. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Issues resolved, ЭLСОВВОLД talk 21:35, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
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