Talk:Taipei American School/Archive 1

message: Now that we're not in danger of 3RR and in the middle of reverts back and forth, let's try to get this hammered out.  Here are my suggestions:
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* I think there is some good information at the State Department that would be good to add.  Wikibofh 14:05, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ok, can we try to hash this out now? 

message: According to only one source I was able to find on the Internet, Puja Germs apparently is some tag game 
Some of the users on this discussion forum are a little skeptical about including the alumnus Puja Mahtani.  According to the TAS Alumni Directory (which only alumni members can access), Puja graduated in 2002, which is a bit too recent to make this person a noted alumnus of the school.  If Puja did go to college, then this person should by a junior in college by now.  I would recommend removing this person's name from the noted alumni list, especially when we don't know if "Puja Germs" is actually defaming this person.  I would like other members of this discussion to provide input and if really necessary, we could have a vote on this.
I'll be using the alumni directory to verify the other alumni on the noted alumni list. Allentchang 18:37, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Puja Germs issue 

message: Alexander Liang is probably not listed on the alumni directory because he graduated fairly recently (2004).  There is a Jack Hou listed who graduated in 2002, but there is no Jack Hou graduated in 1959 listed possibly because the alumi directory doesn't go to the 50's.  I will be going to the UC Berkeley Library Main Stacks to search for Time Magazine's 1969 August issue to verify Jack Hou's identity and provide the exact date of the issue.  All other alumni are verified through the directory.  I strongly recommend that a link/source can be provided about Alexander Liang's actions.  Allentchang 18:50, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other alumni 

message: I'm not sure she belongs in Noted Alumni, and whatever the incident is, it shouldn't be shoehorned there.  I also don't think describing someone as from the class of 2008 is very useful.  The grammar was also off but given the other deficiencies, I chose to simply revert that edit.  Here(blacklisted link) is a link that seems to be about this issue...the link didn't work for me but the Goggle cache did. Wikibofh 15:39, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daisy Yang... 

message: Several of us have tried to "balance the Force" (sorry for the cheesy Star Wars term) and tried to prevent one user from making the article too negative.  Now I have the feeling that somehow it is now unbalanced towards the direction of flattery . . . . *sigh* Allentchang 21:34, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Allen, I didn't write the article on Stuyvesant, merely edited it slightly.  As for TAS.. well, perhaps, perhaps I am. :)  It happens to be one of the things I can speak with some authority on. --BenjaminTsai 16:42, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

text: And you who hides behind an anonymous IP, from what authority do you have to speak about anything?  I may not have received my high school diploma from TAS, but I've spent more years (8 to be exact) at TAS than most other alumni of TAS. --BenjaminTsai 13:46, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Balance of the Force 

message: First, there is no such thing as a "Taiwan Passport."  Until pan-Green camp is successful in renaming the country to Taiwan, it will always be more accurate to refer to the passport and other government organs as belonging to the R.O.C. government.
Second, the official English name of Beijing University is "Peking University."  For some reason, they haven't decided to update their name to reflect the modern pinyin standard.  Until they do, please don't change it to "Beijing University." --BenjaminTsai 10:57, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Passport, Peking University 

message: Who decides what a leading university is? I feel that some don't belong. If people add their own university all the time, it's going to start getting full. Opinions? Cliffe 03:01, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: A leading university can be simply defined as an university which is widely considered by people within the field as a leader in some major field of study.  The interesting question then becomes what a major field of study is.  I feel all six listed currently satisfies this requirement, though that can change as one begins to narrow the definition of what a "major" field of study can be. --BenjaminTsai 06:33, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leading Universities 

message: I don't think it will be appropriate to merge the article in question into the main Taipei American School as it'll add too much clutter.. yet the article right now as an independent article may lack notability. --BenjaminTsai Talk 12:54, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: How about only mentioning TAS's first superintendent along with Mark Ulfers and the current one (in a sentence like, in 2005, so-and-so replaced so-and-so.)? TAS Student 23:58, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sure, I think this is reasonable. --BenjaminTsai Talk 23:23, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Is this going to happen? I'll let this sit for a few more days, then I'll change it (BTW I am TAS Student, I just finally bothered to create an account). -- Mattrixed Talk 16:56, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've gone ahead and added information about the first superintendent in the History section.  I'm not sure we need to explicitly state who the current superintendent is in the main article text as it's listed in the infobox. --BenjaminTsai Talk 06:33, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging TAS Superintendents