Talk:Western Sydney University

message: Having recently enrolled at UWS, I am fairly appalled at the standard of this article. Consequently, I think I'll fix it up.
I think the Southern Cross University article sets a good precedent as to how I envision this one. Both universities are fairly small, don't have a particularly exciting history or story and share the same basic components to make up an article.
I don't have much of a knowledge of UWS, having just started there and still getting the hang of things. However, anything is better than how it is now. Jarrod 01:18, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Dear lord, UWS Connect is NOT a student union, or association, it's a corporate entity owned by UWS.  :P Jachin 16:29, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvements! 

message: focuses too much on campuses and not enough on academia...which is the core of any uni. Michellecrisp 07:54, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Image:UWS logo.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:36, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: this article

message: It's about time that this article is allowed to be edited. Admin OP people should be allowed to bully poeple who want to state acurate information. That serves no purposes. 
As it stands the information on this article is very out of date and shouldn't be relied upon by anyone.
This is not what wikipedia should be about!
I have to agree. Why does this need to be protected? The info here is way out of date.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.154.16.30 (talk) 06:10, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why keep protecting this article? 

message: I would like to put recent pictures that I took of two UWS campuses, the campbelltown and penrith campus into the UWS wikisite. I taken few pictures of the new medical building in campbelltown campus, but would like to put in other UWS campus pictures as well in the not so distant future. Just a little idea, I had in mind since other australian universities show pictures of their campuses.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Uniads22 (talk • contribs) 10:37, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Pictures are good. :) If you'd like to read more about selection and hosting, you can take a look at Wikipedia:Images and Wikipedia:Image use policy. If you're not familiar with it already, before uploading you'll want to read over Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. When you're ready to upload, you can head over to Special:Upload. This page is currently protected, but it can be edited by users with an account at least four days old. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:36, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures of UWS campus

message: Uwsconnect is not for profit? Are you joking?
The 'services' they provide are billboard ads, stationary stores and overpriced crappy cafeterias. Jarrod (talk) 11:49, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  uwsconnect 

message: Support Merge I'm proposing a merger on the basis that the current School of Law article does not have enough notability or context to justify a separate article. Michellecrisp (talk) 00:49, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: merge of [[UWS School of Law]]

message: Did Bob Carr give his support for UWS to be named Chifley University during or before the Carr premiership?  It isn't clear in the history section.T568dx (talk) 15:47, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed this as it is confusing. The NSW Labor government in 1987 proposed the name "Chifley University". Bob Carr as a member of the government evidently supported this. However, by the time he became premier the university had already been named UWS.--Jack Upland (talk) 07:40, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Bob Carr and the university name

message: State Records NSW lists these predecessor institutions:
The access direction includes records of predecessor agencies including: Hawkesbury Agricultural College; Hawkesbury Agricultural College of Advanced Education; Westmead Teachers; College; Nepean College of Advanced Education; Milperra College of Advanced Education; Macarthur Institute of Higher Education and Chifley University
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/university_of_western_sydney_9785.asp
T568dx (talk) 06:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Predecessor's Names

message: How about un protecting the University of Western Sydney page?  Sure, people will continue to vandalise it, but other universities' pages get plenty of vandalism.  It is less difficult for new users to revert edits and update the page when there is no page protection.  T568dx (talk) 02:57, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not to address random vandalism, but a specific vandal with unstable IP. However, it's been protected for a year. Let's try it. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:57, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Semi-protection since January 2008 is overkill

message: isn't UWS College and by extension the blacktown campus considered a seperate sub entity and therefore does not constitute a Campus? it doesnt house any of the UWS courses these days from what i understand. The university even tried to divest of the campus until stupid politics got in the way.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hatgreg (talk • contribs) 12:27, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Blacktown campus and UWSCollege

message: In the interest of making the information box much nicer, I have two requests.
Can we please remove the first image (the blue banner) and replace it with the actual UWS Logo? (Seen here .(svg file) - http://www.filedropper.com/uwslogo
Also, can we replace the bottom image that says "University of Western Sydney" along with the logo to the .svg seen here - http://www.filedropper.com/uws
Just because the .svg is crisper than the current .png file.
Apologies for the filedropper links - it's very hard to find somewhere that will hold .svg files. I assure you they are all virus-free.
The second .svg is available here too - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:University_of_Western_Sydney_logo.svg
The first is just the logo without the text.
Lastly, the picture of Parramatta's EA building looks very dull on an overcast day. May I suggest a much brighter, colourful image? See here - http://www.specifier.com.au/media/picture/2/7/1/0/27131-1_O.jpg  — Preceding unsigned comment added by CameronSmith93 (talk • contribs) 08:21, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information Box 

message: The notable alumni section really needs to be cut back, although most of the persons listed do have their own Wikipedia page does not make them notable; at least not when the least has grown to over 50 entries on the main article. If you really feel that these people are worth noting, make an additional page listing the staff and alumni but for now I'll but taking down the 'not so notable' alumni entries on the list in 24 hours if no one disagrees with my decision. YuMaNuMa (talk) 02:40, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Alumni  

message: Seems to be some confusion in this article. The Parramatta Female Orphan School was never a precursor school of UWS. The connection is just that the building housing the Female Orphan School is now part of the Parramatta Campus. There is no institutional or educational link.
The history is roughly: Female Orphan School, Protestant Orphan School, Parramatta Hospital for the Insane, Rydalmere Hospital for the Insane, Rydalmere Mental Hospital, Rydalmere Psychiatric Hospital. As part of deinstitutionalisation, the psychiatric hospital was wound down, and then in 1995 UWS bought the site which included the rather derelict Female Orphan School building. The Female Orphan School building itself was disused for about 30 years from the 60s to the 00s.
I hope that clarifies things and stops people from making the ludicrous claim that the Female Orphan School is a predecessor institution of the same type as the Hawkesbury Agricultural School.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.207.146 (talk) 14:36, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Parramatta Female Orphan School 

message: I question whether the name has officially changed. Here, , on the website, we read: "Statutory and Policy Framework: University of Western Sydney Act 1997: This Act establishes the University as a corporate entity and sets out its object and functions." Is the name officially still UWS, with WSU effectively a name that it is "trading as"? The webpage provides a link to the Act. Section 6 states: "The University is a body corporate under the name of the University of Western Sydney." What wording will be used on degrees? A comparison can be made with the University of New South Wales which has rebranded itself UNSW, but is still officially the University of New South Wales. When it changed its name in 1958 from the NSW University of Technology, it did so by Act of Parliament. I can't find anything that clarifies this.--Jack Upland (talk) 07:56, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It takes time to get legislation changed, and it seems pretty obvious they've decided to get on with it before the formal name of the Act is. We'd still have an out of date article if we refused to update in the meantime. The Drover's Wife (talk) 08:21, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there confirmation that the legislation is going to be changed???--Jack Upland (talk) 09:17, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I have actually been told that the legislation is not going to be changed.--Jack Upland (talk) 11:03, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: And as of today it hasn't been.--Jack Upland (talk) 22:37, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  It seems it has now been changed: NSW Act. alexie 04:46, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it now has been, and I've updated the article.--Jack Upland (talk) 05:03, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change to WSU 

message: It appears that the participants in the current edit war about complementary medicine are directly involved in the dispute.--Jack Upland (talk) 05:45, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I was concerned that you appear to be one of the people involved in the controversy (and the person who made the Bent Spoon nomination), and that your edits were removed by someone who appears to work for WSU. It appears that both of you have a conflict of interest under Wikipedia guidelines. I think the controversy could be mentioned here, but it has to be in a neutral and measured way.--Jack Upland (talk) 07:55, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

text: I think it should stick to what the news media say. Also, I note that the other editor has been censoring this page for about a year, obviously as part of her job at WSU.--Jack Upland (talk) 08:31, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

text: I have informed the editor who appears to work for the university of the discussion at WP:COIN, and also gave them a notice about the rules regarding conflict of interest. If they are indeed a paid employee and contravening the terms of use surrounding paid editing, then administrators will take appropriate steps to rectify that. --Drm310 (talk) 17:32, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

text: In my opinion, there is a conflict of interest if you are citing a blog post that you wrote yourself. And a blog post is not a good source. And I don't think a thesis is notable. Many theses are submitted to a university.--Jack Upland (talk) 19:40, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

text: I think that this issue is being given too much space and that it is treated in a partisan way.--Jack Upland (talk) 13:06, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict of interest 

message: This article could do with a reorganisation of its categories. Also more info on prominent academics. And I’m sure there are more notable people to list in that category. Get on it peeps. Locochoko (talk) 04:49, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Clean me”