Talk:Kalamazoo College

message: What is the official definition of an alumni?  There are a few people in the list (Selma Blair, Ty Warner) who attended but did not graduate from this college.--Theloniouszen 05:31, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article Alumnus may be helpful in this discussion.--DerRichter (talk) 00:08, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alumni 

message: The vast majority of this article was written like an advertisement by the school. It referenced the school as a source numerous times and lacked sources in necessary places. I removed portions containing either irrelevant or unsourced information. Xenosagian (talk) 01:33, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: User:John from Idegon has twice now reverted my attempts to update and cite outdated statistics on this article. I am struggling to understand how out of date and un-cited information could be seen as preferable. I understand that the college's own website is not an ideal source, but for all articles of this same type, these are the kinds of facts that are of general interest but are simply not covered by external sources- I'm talking about statistics regarding the student body, the faculty, what students do after graduation, etc. After he reverted my updates the first time, I scoured the articles for several other liberal arts colleges to seek examples for how to better cite the exact same types of information. I found that the articles for Grinnell, Bates, Pomona, Macalester, Pitzer, and many others are doing the exact same thing, citing back to the schools website for this type of information. If we can agree that those statistics are of enough general interest to be included in the article, which it seems we can- because they are not under dispute and their inclusion wasn't what was reverted- then it seems we do an even greater disservice to revert them to what we know full well is an outdated and uncited source. In the cases where I added the school's website as a source, in all cases it was to cite a previously completely un-cited piece of information in the article. I am not a longtime editor but I am a trained librarian and I have a hard time believing that if we agree a certain piece of information is important enough to be included in the article, that somehow leaving in outdated information with no source is better than updating to the most current information available with a citation to the best source currently available, even if that source is not quite ideal. To do so otherwise seems like a disservice given the resources at hand. This experience has me a bit soured on the editing process, but I'm bringing it up here on the Talk page in hopes that someone can be reasonable here while advising on how to proceed. Thank you in advance for any guidance. 2600:6C4A:797F:E68E:0:1EAA:7A75:C3B0 (talk) 05:00, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Kalamazoo College's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "FallEnrollmentReport":
From University of Detroit Mercy: 
From Aquinas College (Michigan): 
From Alma College: 
From Albion College: 
From Wayne State University: 
From Calvin University: 
From Oakland University: 
From Hope College: 
From Michigan State University: 
From Michigan Technological University: 
From Spring Arbor University: 
From Rochester University: 
From Central Michigan University: 
From Concordia University Ann Arbor: 
From Grand Valley State University: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 12:27, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Kalamazoo College]]