Talk:Nuclear Power School

message: The "Women weren't allowed in until 1994" is not accurate. Women were allowed in before that, but were then barred at some point. The reason being (as I was told) that they couldn't serve on war ships and ended up taking all the (highly coveted) shore billets. Sdblair 20:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Women in the Program 

message: Can we get started on a list of notable alumns? I'm sure the list of well known, high ranking naval officers is endless. Rather, I would like to propose a list of prominent businessmen and others who have gone on to achieve success in their post navy nuc life. Note: The Simpsons creator Matt Groening was never a nuc. I don't know who started this rumor, but there are people out there who believe it to be true.
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I had heard that Frank Zappa was a Navy nuke, but can't find any info confirming it. Sdblair 20:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Alumns 

message: This is NOT an attack on the program, its graduates or even the author, but the article sounds suspiciously like a Navy recruiting commmercial.  I'm a graduate of the program (started in Orlando back in 1998 and graduated from prototype in Charleston), but virtually everything in this article is really a personal point of view.  Is this program demanding? Yes, I found it so (and I do have a BS in mechanical engineering from a civilian university), but I found most of it over-hyped. The real accomplishment of the program is not that they're able to teach students these topics (even though all of the topics listed are in fact taught, they are only touched upon in a basic manner) but the fact that they're able to do it with many young men and women right out of high school at a very rapid pace.  This is a result of effective discipline that many in the civilian world can learn from, though I wouldn't categorize it as anything different than the discipline asserted by so many of our servicemembers in other branches and other jobs of the military.Bdmccray (talk) 23:17, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this a recruiting advertisement? 

message: The information on college credits applies to enlisted training only; I will modify this material to clarify this. --24.99.118.172 (talk) 20:57, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  College credit 

message: This article is highly edited by non-logged in users.  Here's a sample that I took of IP-addresses since last August:
Goose Creek SC Area:
Special:Contributions/71.226.105.214
Special:Contributions/24.11.129.58
Saratoga Springs NY Area: 
Special:Contributions/67.252.47.240
Special:Contributions/74.76.203.178
Special:Contributions/69.204.179.255
Groton CT Area:
Special:Contributions/63.160.237.16
All these areas have institutions directly related to this article (US Navy Installations). Quazgaa (talk) 19:26, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds like edits  by people who live in the right areas to have relevant knowledge. Should someone who has lived in Puerto Rico be discouraged from editing articles relating to Puerto Rico? That seems like the same kind of non-neutrality. I mean, I understand where you're coming from, but anyone qualified to provide information about a place like this is going to have to be someone who has been there, or the information is going to have to come from promotional sources. If it's from promotional sources, then it leads to conversations like the one above, where the article starts sounding like a commercial.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by BurnChao (talk • contribs) 18:33, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

text: Those IPs have one or at most two edits to the article (and most with no other edits elsewhere). This isn't like some company's PR dept stuffing an article, just some locals. As someone who went to NNPS in Orlando in the 80's, I can tell you it's probably not students doing it as they have little time for anything else. I'll look at the actual edits later but I fail to see why this is an issue. If it's properly cited, it's encyclopedic and welcome. --CompRhetoric (talk) 17:58, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

text: *I merely was pointing out what may have not been so obvious to the unaided wikipedian eye.  This in turn may bring to light the other issues being raised above as to the question of this article being used for recruitment.  That is why this is an issue. I was alerting editors to the need to find verifiable and reliable thrird party sources. I recommend that you read Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy if you still do not think it is an issue. QuAzGaA 20:01, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Fair enough. Being close to the subject is only discernible if the relationship is somehow also disclosed (which I now do though twenty years removed). We are to assume edits are in good faith (except for the one who considered nuc school to be hell on earth which has some truth to it from personal experience) and on the whole, the anonymous edits you cited are just that and innocuous at best. While attempting to find COI through geo-location is at first glance understandable, it's simply not sharp enough. The course of evaluating edits on their individual merits is far more productive than trying to figure out what IP address (which is not to say location due to open proxies) might be influenced by geography.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by CompRhetoric (talk • contribs) 20:23, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nuts. I meant to sign that. Twice today! --CompRhetoric (talk) 01:20, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  FYI: Edits by an institution related to the subject may not conform to Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. 

message: "Failing students may be held back to repeat the coursework with a new group of classmates, but such students are typically released from the Nuclear Power Program and are re-designated or discharged."  Wow things must have changed since my day. I was a academic wash-out in August 1991 as a member of class 9102. Back then there was no getting held back to repeat coursework with the next class. If there had been, I might have had a chance. Re-designated? Nope. Not back then. You were stuck in whichever non-nuke rating you got in A School: MM, ET, or EM. Discharged? Nope. Not back then either unless you got in trouble and received an other-than-honorable discharge.  I guess I'm just old.  Eric Cable  !  Talk  18:22, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Things must have changed.