Talk:Islamic Azad University

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I disagree with the merge. Please see Max Planck Institutes. Sangak 13:53, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

What does MPI have to do with this? (I looked at the article and the discussion page for it with no enlightenment) Natebailey 13:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Azad Universites are a number of seperate (partially independent) universities with similar structures. It is natural to have a separate page for each of them and one for the network. Max Planck institutes have also each a separate page. The former is another example of a network of scientific institutes under one umbrella name.Sangak 13:33, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

The universities in Tehran provine for example:

  1. Islamic Azad University of Firouzkouh
  2. Islamic Azad University of Islamshahr
  3. Islamic Azad University of Karaj
  4. Islamic Azad University of Roodehen
  5. Islamic Azad University of Tehran-North
  6. Islamic Azad University of Tehran-South
  7. Islamic Azad University of Tehran-Central
  8. Islamic Azad University of Tehran-Medical Sciences
  9. Islamic Azad University of Tehran-Region one
  10. Islamic Azad University of Varamin

Similarly for Isfahan, Mashhad, Tabriz and Shiraz among others. Sangak 17:15, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

They should not merge. IAU-Mashad is a campus of IAU, just as UT Austin is a branch of The University of Texas system.--Zereshk 04:47, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

I disagree with the merge also. of course they all are Islamic Azad University but with different presidents and in different cities and... totally differnt universities they must have separate pages. Joojoo ra , 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't have a viewpoint on this, but what I suggest you do is grow this article to be the "parent" article for the system, ie. with overview content for each campus (eg. see State_University_of_New_York). As the content on this page grows, it would be appropriate to fork it off into sub-articles, so that over time, you will develop the approach you propose above. This would seem to be a better approach than having 10+ stub articles with as little content as this one? Natebailey 23:24, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Enrolment: Cumulative or current?

I am aware (from World's largest universities) that some universities provide an enrolment figure indicating their total enrolment since the university was established (= cumulative, ie. adding the students from each year to a total, and providing the total). Wikipedia pages tend to report the current students actively enrolled (ie. students who are studying/being assessed in the current calendar year). Do you know which figure the enrolment for this university is? And do you have a more up-to-date figure? Thanks! Natebailey 23:24, 14 July 2007 (UTC)