Talk:Uppsala University

message: This article reads like an advertisement brochure for the university. It might be helpful to also highlight the negative aspects of Uppsala University. How can these be best placed in the article? I'm thinking of:
- The university's past collaboration with the Swedish Institute of Race Biology
- The fact that recent independent studies have demonstrated systematic rigging of job advertisements at the university.
- That the university produced a bogus Science paper a few years ago, and chastised the whistleblower who raised the issue.
RMK16 (talk) 23:28, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brochure 

message: Does anyone know how extensive the article covers its topic? Are there important parts missing? Is there something on the To-Do list?
Fred-Chess 14:15, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: FA is still far away. The last two hundred years are still missing from the history. Uppland 14:44, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article quality -- featured article prospects? 

message: I see that this has changed recently; it appears to be very closely related to external content (on Oleg Viro's homepage, ), so I'm not sure whether this is compatible with WP:COPY, and may need some formatting touch-ups, but maybe somebody more familiar with the wider relevant issues would be willing to take a look? I'm sure it wouldn't take too much to tidy it up, but given the in-depth discussion above, I'd like to volunteer somebody else :) -Philtweir (talk) 02:31, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It is not closely related as much as it is directly copied off of Oleg Viro's page, and should therefore not be used. Furthermore, it is not well written and doesn't explain why it is a scandal. I suggest it is removed emmediately for those reasons.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.244.80.164 (talk) 10:58, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mar 2011 version 

message: According to http://www.uu.se/Univ/blurb_swe.html, "Gratiae veritas naturae" means "The Truth of the Mercy and the Nature". It says different here. Any comments? --212.247.27.97 (talk) 14:47, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That link is now 404, but a currently working link, http://www.uu.se/node139 , translates the motto "sanning genom Guds nåd och naturen" which means "truth through God's mercy and nature". --bonadea contributions talk 14:52, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Latin

message: This section is written in a rather negative style WP:NPOV and probably too extensive. Perhaps it can be merged with "Student Life" describing students' accommodations? That it can be difficult for freshmen to find housing is not new (this was true also in 1992, I can dig up some UNT reference if needed), but neither is it unique to Uppsala. Also, the links to "housing" and "crisis" should be removed. MagnusPalmblad (talk) 14:25, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Housing Crisis

message: Ekonomikum isn't independently notable, but could be a useful section here. Boleyn (talk) 16:51, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch, 130.238.238.122. It looks like the section about Ekonomikum was added to the History section with a level 2 heading, which resulted in the History section being cut off prematurely. The "Women at the university" section is a subsection of "History". Ekonomikum would fit rather better as a sub-section of "Campus", so I'll move it there. Thanks! --bonadea contributions talk 12:34, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal: [[Ekonomikum]] to [[Uppsala University]] 

message: , a WP:COI editor who by the user page works at UU, warns me against adding relevant material to the article on my user page, I received the warning while I was correcting per Boadea's statement that gender mainstreaming began in 2017. Bonadea, seeing as you are COI editor on this page, it would be best if you deleted the warning and instead discussed on this page instead of engaging in threatening behavior. A Thousand Words (talk) 14:26, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the disputed edit, which is supported by sources but it is only factually wrong in that gender mainstreaming began in 2017 at UU, not 2020 which is wrote by mistake. The proper action is to correct mistakes per WP:FIXIT. A Thousand Words (talk) 14:29, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

text: you are invited to have the discussion here and to remove the warning from my talk page. A Thousand Words (talk) 14:31, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Stop pinging me. This was the second edit conflict I got here. It is not a COI problem to revert factual errors, and WP:FIXIT does not apply here since the entire statement was wildly out of proportion for the lede. As I wrote to you, I'm sure the university would love to be seen as a paragon of gender equality, but citing an entirely run-of-the-mill working plan, similar to that found at every single university in this country, is not lede material. I would also appreciate it if you did not misrepresent my comment to you. I did not say that "gender mainstreaming began in 2017", and I am very dubious about whether "gender mainstreaming" is even an applicable term here. Maybe it is, but I certainly have not made any such representation. I will not remove the warning but you are obviously free to do so yourself. Thank you. --bonadea contributions talk 14:36, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

text: To quote my own edit summary the first time I removed the incorrect claim: "Mention of gender mainstreaming efforts might belong in the article, but only if there's independent sources talking about it." --bonadea contributions talk 14:39, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Gender mainstreaming]] at UU