Talk:University of KwaZulu-Natal

message: Much of the information on this page is taken directly from the UKZN website (http://www.ukzn.ac.za/About-UKZN/History, for example) which is entirely unacceptable. It needs to be rewritten. As per copyright violations I'm going to have to remove it. Someone should rewrite it with appropriate tone, and proper referencing. Manbeargore (talk) 22:46, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Massive copyright violations

message: The proposal that the page for the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) be merged with the pages for the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) is ill founded. Although UDW no longer exists, and merged with the also defunct University of Natal to form UKZN, UDW also had its own independent (not to mention interesting) history, and merits its own entry.168.209.97.34 20:52, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I do think that both UDW and UN should have separate articles. Both were separate universities, and considered to be separate legal entities. Even for the sake of cross referencing, this is important: Alumni of the separate unversities should be listed under the universities they graduated from. This isn't about inequality, this is about fact. -Kieran 19:35, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Well, I've been bold and reconstituted the University of Natal page. I've sorted out the alumni list, too: Only one of the alumni graduated from UKZN, the rest from UDW or UN. All three articles still need a lot of work, but I do think they should be separate. -Kieran 20:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger of pages

message: The whole article isn't a copyright infringement (as far as I can tell), but the description of the campuses come straight off the university's material. Mikker (...) 22:19, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems the clock tower photo by User:Elefuntboy was removed along with the copyvio material. As the photo is GFDL, I've restored it. -Kieran 10:35, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvio...

message: I've taken the article back to an old version, and removed most of the text since very little was referenced, a lot of the references did not say what it was supposed to reference, and some of the references weren't reliable sources. Please read Wikipedia's rules no verifiability and reliable sources, and make sure all future edits to the article adhere. -- Jeandré, 2007-11-18t20:05z
::Hey, I've tried updating some information here. I think campus information is relevant as the wikipedia university guide states. I will try update further with student life and other aspects that are missing. My first time editing so sorry if I make some mistakes. -- MartinMorrison (talk) 15:45, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Reliable sources.

message: I suppose I saw this coming, but it is a bit mad.
#Ukzn, please stop deleting large chunks of content. This is generally considered to be vandalism and will quite likely end up with your account blocked.
#W.naidu, please keep the scandal stuff encyclopaedic, in the appropriate sections and well referenced. Certainly, mention of the various controversies belongs in the article. However, since this is contentious and controversial, everything has to be meticulously cited, and kept neutral. It would also not be good for the article as a whole to end up being an article on the scandals.
#Jeandré, please chill out on your removal of big chunks of content. Yes, we do need to get a lot of citations, but it is far better, for things which are not particularly controversial (such as the alumni lists or the section on the structure of the university), to use  tags, but try to keep the information in until someone has a chance to verify or refute it. Your last edit broke the formatting on the alumni list, although admittedly there are people and sections missing from it still, which I will try to restore, carefully, now.
-Kieran 21:21, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, after reading through some of the university article guidelines, I think Jeandré's approach is probably right. I will be working to include the kinds of information that really ought to be included in this kind of an article, with references. -Kieran 21:59, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: OK, Timeout, please

message: I am a student from G.H.S Pietermaritzburg,i would like to know if you have to hand in your stanard 9 end of year report or can you use your first term matric report card to apply  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.34.167.22 (talk) 11:37, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You need to contact the Central Applications Office. - htonl (talk) 13:55, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  REQUIREMENTS TO GET INTO THE VARSITY 

message: CorporateRelations has gone ahead and removed the 'Controversies' section from the UKZN page. I have restored it. I don't really know how to report for vandalism but please feel free to do so if you feel it is appropriate. MartinMorrison (talk) 09:32, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well lets wait and see if it becomes a problem. Also, check this policy before reverting too many times, especially the 3RR rule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring CorporateRelations needs to discuss this on the talk page, not just make changes. Manbeargore (talk) 10:43, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Not to worry. It seems an admin has already blocked the account. In fact, from the looks of it the system may have automatically blocked it after the section blank, which is blatant vandalism. There's a long and somewhat sordid history of people representing corporate or political groups trying to subvert the Wikipedia articles about those groups (e.g. ), but the community is pretty good at dealing with it. The thing to watch out for would be further sockpuppets making subtler disruptive edits, which may or may not require a longer process to address. -Kieran (talk) 18:27, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  UKZN deleting content again 

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message: When you are a doctor you must stand for all the responsibility of being a doctor and how much does you pay to finish and get your bachelor's degree 41.115.115.188 (talk) 20:07, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Being a medical doctor 

message: I don't agree at all about the things people are talking about kzn university it all rubbish . Kzn university is the best I got my bachelor's degree in there guys stop it plz 41.115.115.188 (talk) 20:12, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nonsense about kzn university