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[edit] Ohio Wesleyan University

A few dedicated editors have vastly improved this article in recent months. There have been 2 peer reviews, and it is currently a GA. POV issues have been addressed, organization has been vastly improved, no major prose issues exist. The article is comprehensive and is structurally and graphically sound. Nomin schools 16:27, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Object. There are a number of issues with this article, including that fact that it has too many lists and that the timeline needs formatting. RyanGerbil10 (Drop on in!) 16:55, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Object. Still has some POV issues, particularly in the recent activism section, and reads like a brochure throughout by quoting a fair number of statistics of questionable usefulness to an encyclopedia and using a style of prose that seems intended to attract potential students. Also, there was an editor who was looking to cleanup portions of the article not too long ago, so it may not be completely stable either. Indrian 17:12, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Support. Support. Apart from perhaps the formatting of the timeline in the beginning , this is a great article. Froshowu 04:31, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
    Could someone check if this new editor isn't just a sock puppet of the nominator? Orane (talk • cont.) 03:36, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Object. Major organizational issues. TOC is far too long and confusing. Article contains far too many lists. Sections are not appropriately covered. For example, "Internationalism" has three subsections consisting of six paragraphs, whereas "Student Organizations" has one short paragraph. "Notable Alumni" has a section to itself, but contains no content, except for a link to the main article. Use of summary technique and links to related articles is poor. Also, some POV issues. No criticisms of the university are evident. Main issue, however, is organization. 16 sections is absurd. See FA's University of Michigan (11 sections), Michigan State University (9 sections), and Cornell University (9 sections) for good organization. Also, order of sections is something to be desired. "Further reading" should be after "Alumni," and, in general, the flow of the article is poor. For example, after talking about "Traditions," the next section is "Wesleyan and Delaware, Ohio" and then after that "Athletics." Completely non-sensical. Lastly, reference format is not appropriate and 24 references is not nearly enough. Many unreferenced facts and figures are presented. General content is fine, but still needs thorough copyedit, major organizational restructuring, and better use of linking to related articles and summary techniques. Has a lot of potential and basic skeleton is there for future FA, but not seeing this pass anytime soon. -Bluedog423 05:31, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Object All logos should be svg.WP 05:52, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Object. References need to be correctly formatted. Orane (talk • cont.) 03:36, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Object Many foreign langauge links incorrectly name the university as Wesleyan University. Change this. 24.2.244.245 05:22, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment Actually they correctly insert Ohio everywhere or translate to Wesleyan University in Ohio...this is what OWU's original Latin seal still imprinted on all OWU docuemtns reads as well: 'Wesleiana Universitas Ohioensis Delawarensi'. The confusion that you state is not recent...it has been around for years. Rcct 12:34, 30 July 2006 (UTC)