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[edit] Queen's University

Queen's is arguably one of the most interesting universities in Canada, and very often the subject of national newspaper headlines. I firmly believe Queen's should be a featured article, as it is factual, comprehensive, and free from edit wars and non-factual information.

Just a few Queen's facts: Queen's was the first Canadian university west of the maritime provinces to grant degrees, admit women, and to form a student government. It also hosted the country's first session of Parliament. It has a unique international campus in southern England housed in Herstmonceux Castle, one of the oldest brick buildings still standing in England. Frosh Week, orientation for incoming first year students, is deeply rooted in traditions over a century old, and is perhaps most well known for the engineers, who dye themselves purples. Queen's Homecoming has made national headlines for the past few years, with a massive street party spanning two city blocks and involving well over 4000 students, alumni and Kingston residents. The Queen's Centre, the recently announced overhaul of the student life and athletics facilities, will cost $230-million and take a decade to complete.

  • Oppose. Rather large sections of unsourced information, an inconsistent references area. The prose could use a polishing, too, but the sourcing has to improve considerably. --badlydrawnjeff talk 15:56, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Object, suggestion peer review: unsourced quotes, other sections are also lacking in citations. Also, it fails WP:LAYOUT, the spacing issues presented in WP:FOOTNOTE, footnotes are rather poorly sourced (for example, see {{cite web}} or WP:CITE), and the bottom half of the article is very list-weighty. Image:QueensUniversityCrest.png should have a fair use rationale, can we have a better external link for Image:ThomasLidell.jpg (plus proof that it was irrevocably release all rights to the image)?. Not the best prose either (move cursor over underlines to see my comments), from a randomly picked paragraph:

The International Study Centre (ISC) is housed in Herstmonceux Castle, which was donated to Queen's in 1995 by alumnus Alfred Bader. Herstmonceux Castle is in southern England and provides a base for field studies by its students throughout Sussex, in London and Northern England, and on the Continent. The courses available range from English Literature to Geography to Mathematics, with many of the courses specially designed to take advantage of the location of the ISC. Instructors and students are not exclusively from Queen's, but attend from across Canada, the United States, Mexico, Europe, Japan, China, Scandinavia and elsewhere. Students attend classes Monday through Thursday and are encouraged to use their three day weekend to experience Europe. Field trips are required for certain courses (e.g. history, drama and art history). There are also two non course specific field trips that are included in the program fees. In the past, the first semester trip has been to Scotland and Northern England, while the second semster trip has been to Paris, Brussels and Bruges. AZ t 00:07, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Oppose. A number of the images are improperly sourced, and some are clearly copyright infringing. I have tagged them appropriately. Jkelly 01:43, 18 December 2006 (UTC)