Beboj3140

University of Oslo

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Edit warring at University of Oslo

You've been warned per the result of a complaint at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Beboj3140 reported by User:x4n6 (Result: Semi, Warnings). If either of you reverts the article again witout a prior consensus on the talk page you may be blocked. If you are also using an IP to make edits to the article, you are risking a block under WP:SOCK. Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 15:37, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

July 2016

Hello, I'm Sminthopsis84. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Sporangium have been undone because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Reducing the readability Sminthopsis84 (talk) 17:16, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at University of Oslo, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. misrepresenting the date of the information given in the cited source Sminthopsis84 (talk) 22:10, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

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July 2016

Your recent editing history at Switzerland shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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Switzerland

your new corrections are fine, but ETH is named two places now both as Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and further down as a new introduction ETHZ isn't that confusing? also sayin St. gallen is one of the best in europe (ranked 15 or something in business) is also an opinion for that matter university of zurich and ETH is ranked 3 and 10 in europe overall should we also write that they are some of best best in europe. it is biases to just write for someBeboj3140 (talk) 10:02, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

The only thing I did was restore the source which listed both the Institute and the University of Zurich in its rankings. Since the article is about Switzerland, it made no sense to remove the ranking for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and leave the ranking for the University of Zurich. Especially since the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich actually ranked significantly higher according to that source.

Also, if you feel that two different names are being used for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, may I suggest that in each case, you list the full name, followed by the initials in parenthesis. As most readers are unlikely to read the entire article, doing that each time should solve the problem. So for example: "Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ)" if that is appropriate. X4n6 (talk) 10:14, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Yes good idea regarding ETHZ i can do that. regarding st gallen i dont agree that it should say one of the best in europe because we could write that for EThZ and university of Zurich as well since they are higher ranked overall. since we choose not to write them as some of the best in europe the statement for st. gallen should also be removed (sorry didn't know how to answer you back on my own talk page, so that i could be sure you would read it)Beboj3140 (talk) 10:28, 26 July 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beboj3140 (talk • contribs) 10:25, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

I've moved this back to your talk page so we can keep the discussion in one place. I've also bookmarked your page for the period of this discussion, so I will know whenever you respond here. I'm glad you like the idea about the ETHZ. Feel free to make those corrections. I also agree that the reference to St. Gallen being among the best in Europe should also be removed if it is not reliably sourced. We try to avoid personal opinions and and unsourced comments that violate WP:NPOV. If someone includes a legitimate source to make those kinds of claims, then fine. Otherwise, editors should remove them whenever they see them. Also, when you're added sources, if you can, please try to follow the format, rather than just putting the links between <ref> marks. That just leaves it for others to fix. Thanks. X4n6 (talk) 10:40, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

if ETHZ is stated as being ranked among the best in europe so should university of Zurich (ranked 11th in europe according to ARWU. They are both ranked very high since more than 5000 universities exists in europe an more than 20000 in the world. also Zurich is a member of LERU with cambrigde and Oxford among others. please also note that continental europe is without Britain so actually they are both ranked even higher there Beboj3140 (talk) 11:00, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

I think if you just show the rankings, which clearly say they are "listed 20th and 54th respectively," in the world rankings. Nor just Europe. So that already shows they are ranked highly. So it's really not necessary to say more. The reader will know they're among the best because of their rankings. Anything more is just unnecessary and unsourced comments. I think you can trust the readers to know how high those rankings are. X4n6 (talk) 11:09, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

i mean under the picture. i would make more sense to just delete the last bit of it being among the best in continental europe.Beboj3140 (talk) 11:15, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

The reason I left it, is because it was consistent with the descriptions of other photos in the article that gave some detailed information in each caption. But you if'd like to remove it, that's fine. X4n6 (talk) 11:17, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Okay. Could you do it i seem to delete the whole picture?

Do you really object to that caption that strongly? X4n6 (talk) 11:24, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Never mind i figured it out. thank you for your help by the way

I saw you removed it. That's fine. I just didn't understand why it bothered you so much? Since it was sourced. Also since it was like all the other photos in that section, which list an important thing about each photo in the caption. X4n6 (talk) 11:29, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

i just don't find the statement neutral when it could just as well have been written to one of the other universities.

If it's reliably sourced, it doesn't always have to be neutral. Just like the captions for the other photos for the LHC, Greater Zürich Area, and the Omega Speedmaster watch were all sourced. That's perfectly reasonable. X4n6 (talk) 11:41, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

but why then remove statements such as University of Zurich being highly regarded internationally. that was well sourced since it was a member of LERU and also highly ranked.

Because that's not what the sources actually said. They just gave ranking listings, they didn't give editorial comments. I saw nowhere where they actually used terms like "highly regarded internationally" or anything else, for that matter. Did you? X4n6 (talk) 11:49, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

no not on the ranking page, but it did say so on the LERU website which was also a source. also being ranked among the best universities in the world out of more than 20.000 universities surely also mean somethingBeboj3140 (talk) 11:56, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

You are correct - no such information was stated on the ranking page. Or on the LERU pages. It simply discusses the importance of the organization itself. I didn't see anything specific to any individual university or its individual contributions, much less to these two universities. If you did, you can show me where. But as I said, I didn't see it. And just saying they're in the LERU, really isn't either specific or unique enough. There are now 21 universities spread out over 10 European countries. That's just not enough to make a claim about any one specific school by itself. The United States is a great country. But it has 50 states. That doesn't mean that every state is automatically also great. The British Commonwealth is also great. But it's made of 53 nations and absolutely not all of them are great either. X4n6 (talk) 12:06, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Members page: "The League of European Research Universities (LERU) is a consortium of some of the most renowned research universities in Europe"

and there is a PDF link on the members page where you can read the following ( http://www.leru.org/files/general/LERU%20members.pdf )

"UZH is ranked among the world’s top universities. Numerous distinctions highlight the University’s international renown in the fields of medicine, immunology, genetics, neuroscience and structural biology as well as in economics. As a further example of the University’s outstanding scholarship, the Nobel Prize has been conferred on twelve UZH scholars. The University of Zurich has developed several strategies to underpin its international reputation of excellence in research and to maintain its top position in global competition. UZH researchers form strategic networks to share their findings with groups from other institutions of higher learning in Switzerland and abroad, and the University has established interdisciplinary research projects and competence centres to promote these national and international networks."

Also you can't just become a member of LERU you have to be a prestigious wellknown university.

Too much of that sounds like advertising and self-promotion. The fluff has to go. However, this part is good: "UZH is ranked among the world’s top universities. But this: Numerous distinctions highlight the University’s international renown in the fields of medicine, immunology, genetics, neuroscience and structural biology as well as in economics. (What distinctions and who says?) And this: As a further example of the University’s outstanding scholarship, (Also editorial.) But: the Nobel Prize has been conferred on twelve UZH scholars." (Is good.) All the rest is too much - especially since the article isn't even exclusively about that university. If you want to work on it, go ahead. I'll look at it the next time I'm on Wikipedia. Cheers. X4n6 (talk) 12:27, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Talk:Switzerland, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Jim1138 (talk) 02:22, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Copenhagen Business School

First, there is no justice in injustice. Secondly, it seems to me that you have not read the guidelines. If a university has prestige, the reader should get a picture of it himself, for example in the rankings section. Just because other articles still contain that doesn't mean that all articles have to be messed up. If you want, you can remove that from other articles. ZaaraTE (talk) 11:03, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

You are welcome to change "among most Prestigious" to "among the most highly ranked" instead.

The problem with the statement is that the statement is subjective and vague. When do we judge when a university is highly ranked? In between, there is always a ranking that they rate the university worse. ZaaraTE (talk) 11:15, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Being ranking among the top 10, 15 and 50 schools in business out of 20.000 schools in the most used university rankings such as QS, Eduniversal, ARWU and Times Higher is not subjective.

I asked others how Wikipedia:Avoid academic boosterism should be understood. ZaaraTE (talk) 11:53, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Okay, I will do the same.