Talk:Marriott School of Management

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Article milestones Date Process Result April 16, 2008 Good article nominee Listed April 17, 2008 Good article reassessment Delisted May 10, 2008 Good article nominee Listed May 16, 2008 Featured article candidate Not promoted May 22, 2008 Peer review Reviewed Current Status: Good article

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[edit] Peer review suggestions

This article received a good peer review (per link above; thanks to User:Ruhrfisch), and I'd like to post some of its suggestions below as a sort of check list to improve the article. A model article is useful for style, refs, structure, etc. There are 20 FAs at Category:FA-Class Universities articles, many of which would be useful articles. --Eustress (talk) 02:01, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

• The lead needs to be expanded per WP:LEAD. The lead should be an accessible and inviting overview of the whole article. Nothing important should be in the lead only - since it is a summary, it should all be repeated in the body of the article itself. My rule of thumb is to include every header in the lead in some way.
• Give the full name and follow it with the abbreviation the first time, so Brigham Young University (BYU). Watch overlinking - BYU is linked in the lead and then at least the next two sections, of the LDS Church is linked multiple times.

Y Done --Eustress (talk) 18:27, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

• History - I was a bit confused by the whole middle paragraph on Accounting and Information Systems - why is this important? Also the history chronology skips around a bit - 1975 to 1988 and then back to 1976. I also note the four hubs have no dates, which seems odd for a history.
• Campus as a section heading makes it seem it has its own campus, but it is just a couple of buildings on the main BYU campus, right? I have also not seen the coordinates in the body of the article - especially since they are already there on the top right of the article.

Y Done --Eustress (talk) 18:31, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

• Units need to be in both English and metric - the {{convert}} template may be useful here.

Y Done --Eustress (talk) 18:42, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

• Where was the school before the Tanner building opened in 1982?

Y Done --Eustress (talk) 02:01, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

• Avoid "currently" and "now" - use as of May 2008, for example

Y Done --Eustress (talk) 18:44, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

• These also need better cites: The MBA program is ranked #1 among regional schools (The Wall Street Journal, 2007) as well as for the amount of time to payback (BusinessWeek, 2006), at #2 for its emphasis on ethics (The Wall Street Journal, 2007), and #18 overall (Forbes, 2007).

Y Done --Eustress (talk) 19:19, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

• Article is fairly well written but needs a copyedit to smooth over a few rough / awkward places.
• As for POV, the article is very gowing about the school - sounds like it is a very good school, but are there any criticisms / complaints / scandals / problems? What do guides to business schools say about it?