Talk:Wright State University/Archive 1

Archive 1

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I cleaned up the formatting, and added a few bits under athletics.

Something that should be added in this article one way or another is that the Wright State Archive department has the biggest collection of wright brothers stuff in the world (including original blue prints, pictures, awards, actual parts).

{{help}} I added more info to the info box, but it wont show up when I click to save the edits, but the information i added is still there when i go back to re-edit the thing. What am i doing wrong. --Billwsu 23:05, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Please add helpme tag on userpage and not article talk page next time. Re. the question, have you checked Template:Infobox University to see if the fields you're using is actually available? KTC 23:33, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Cleaned up some editing issues in Alumni section. Are the Mountz brothers attendees or graduates of Wright State?

They are Alumni JenWSU (talk) 14:09, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure how to go about adding a section on this page about our school of medicine (in 2009, over 2,832 students applied for admission to the school, and 100 were accepted). If someone can start something, I can finish the rest :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Boonshoft2013 (talk • contribs) 22:16, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

To boonshoft2013: done! :) Boonshofter (talk) 17:36, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

It looks like someone requested a citation of the B.A.R.T.(Big Ass Red Thing) nickname... Since i'm not sure how anyone would go about citing a nickname it should either be removed or left unsourced. I'm open to suggestion here Bmxoffspring99 (talk) 16:49, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

On the BART thing, well Pres Hopkins mentioned the nickname in a campus email a month or two ago. Also I found a reference here http://www.search.com/reference/Wright_State_University but it looks like another Wiki type site. I really dont think you will find anything wikipedia considers "reliable' that mentions the nickname BART. But I am a local, my father worked at WSU for 40 years (so I Basically grew up there), and I have three degrees from there. I assure you, we call that big ass red thing BART. It has been from at least the mid ninties until now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.179.134.119 (talk) 03:34, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Dan Krane

Dan Crane was removed for want of a source. We don't generally remove red links to notable X without a source. Are you questioning if he's a faculty member or if he's notable? Hobit (talk) 12:25, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Hobit, I'm not sure I understand the question. All content on Wikipedia should be verifiable through reliable sources per WP:V. Whether or not the link is red is not the concern here. The entry reads:

Dan Krane - molecular biologist/Forensic DNA Pioneer (Testified in the 1995 O.J. Simpson Trial as an expert)

There should be at least one reliable source that supports this statement and certifies he is well-known within his profession. Also, I want to clarify this isn't just to pick on Dan Krane. This goes for any notable alumni or faculty member listed. Furthermore, we should heavily consider moving long lists like this to their own page, a common practice when a list begins to overtake an article. --GoneIn60 (talk) 19:38, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Do keep in mind that we don't require an in-line source for every fact in an article. [1] I think gets most of what you want. [2] would probably be enough to meet WP:N. Hobit (talk) 03:51, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

First of all, WP:N doesn't apply here. That guideline covers article topics, not article content, which is a common misinterpretation of the policy. Since we are dealing with content, WP:V should be the focus here, particularly WP:UNSOURCED which clearly states:

"Attribute all quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged to a reliable, published source using an inline citation."

"Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be replaced without an inline citation to a reliable source."

The material is being challenged, and therefore, any editor defending it needs to abide by this policy. The first source you provided shows his commentary regarding DNA testing in the O.J. Simpson case. However, it does not explicitly support the claim that he "testified as an expert". A source is still needed for that. Your second source is from the university's newspaper. That article does not support the claim that Krane is a "Forensic DNA Pioneer" (pioneered what?). You should keep in mind that I am not concerned about whether this information is true. I am only concerned about it being verifiable and significant to the article. --GoneIn60 (talk) 09:44, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Section on the strike

Given it has hit national news more than nearly anything else that has happened at Wright State, is it time for a section on this topic? Hobit (talk) 07:19, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Unless it's part of a larger or ongoing series of events, I don't think it (yet) merits its own dedicated section. I think the current brief paragraph at the very end of the history section is appropriate although we'll need to update it and perhaps add another sentence or two as events develop (with the caveat that if this turns out to be a brief, isolated event that has no lasting impact then at some point we may want to remove it altogether). ElKevbo (talk) 16:05, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Reasonable view of WP:WEIGHT. I may end up writing an article on the strike though. Certainly got enough national press. Hobit (talk) 19:30, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

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Location and mailing address

I think it's important to note that Wright State is located in Fairborn with a Dayton mailing address. Most people don't know that it is actually in Fairborn. HangingCurve^{Swing for the fence} 23:51, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

First of all, the article already states it is in Fairborn. Why do we even need to mention the mailing address? Also, your statement "Most people don't know..." needs to be backed up with evidence. That is an unsubstantiated claim at this point. --GoneIn60 (talk) 04:32, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Well, the Nutter Center, for instance. There's no mention at all that it's actually located in Fairborn. HangingCurve^{Swing for the fence} 04:37, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

I'm not following. The Nutter Center article clearly states it's "in the Dayton, Ohio suburb of Fairborn". --GoneIn60 (talk) 04:40, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Unless I missed something, the Nutter Center's official Website only mentions Dayton.HangingCurve^{Swing for the fence} 05:03, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

There is a reference right next to the statement. Click on it, and it will open the Fairborn city website, which states the city includes Wright State University and the Nutter Center. Also, on the official site under Info → Directions, the GPS address it gives says Fairborn, OH. You can see for yourself here. So that's two sources in the article that support the fact it is in Fairborn, and there might be more (I didn't check them all). --GoneIn60 (talk) 05:13, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Location revisited

Just a reminder that regardless of mailing address, articles should list the actual location of the school (i.e. the municipality or locale it is physically located in), which in this case is Fairborn, Ohio. The school uses a Dayton mailing address and calls the main campus the "Dayton Campus", but that's more of a marketing preference since the school is in the Dayton metro area, plus Dayton is both directly connected with the Wright Brothers and far more well-known than Fairborn. Regardless, the campus is physically inside the city limits of Fairborn, not Dayton. We can also use actual locations in the article text while still listing the mailing address used in the infobox, such as the Nutter Center which still has its street address in the infobox as "Dayton, Ohio" (as listed on its website) but the article says it is located in Fairborn. --JonRidinger (talk) 15:42, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

I would even take it a step further by saying there's no reason to list "Dayton" as the city in the infobox. The designation in the mailing address shouldn't trump the actual city where it's located, and the university even self-describes its location as Fairborn, as noted here ("Wright State University’s Dayton Campus in Fairborn is located 8 miles and 15 minutes east of downtown Dayton"). Whenever we refer to the campus, we can call it the Dayton campus, but that should be the only exception IMO. --GoneIn60 (talk) 05:58, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

In articles I've seen that use an actual street/mailing address in the infobox, if a ZIP code is included, the city name associated with that ZIP code is what should be there since that is sourced info and ZIP codes have specific city names attached to them. If the infobox just says "location" and just uses the city and state, then yeah, use the actual location. Wright State, like many larger universities, has its own special ZIP code (45435), and for whatever reasons, it's connected to Dayton (Dayton, OH 45435) instead of Fairborn. That's why the Nutter Center's website lists its address as "Dayton, OH" even though Google Maps shows it as "Fairborn, OH" since it's physically inside the Fairborn ZIP code. Still doesn't mean the article text has to say it's in Dayton (nor should it); it simply lists the facility's actual sourced mailing address in the infobox. --JonRidinger (talk) 13:46, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Agreed, and here in this article, the zip code isn't listed. So changing to Fairborn in the infobox seems like the simplest solution that causes the least amount of confusion. Otherwise, we'll continue to get driveby editors who notice the discrepancy and want to change the article text to match the infobox. If someone comes here and argues a specific need to have the mailing address inserted, we can revisit at that time, but I'm not seeing a valid reason to at the moment. --GoneIn60 (talk) 15:49, 18 March 2022 (UTC)