Talk:University of Tartu

message: Good job, Clossius! Andres 11:01, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

message: I clarified "Baltic" to "Baltic German" (obviously it was not obvious, in spite of the context). There was a raving paragraph that I deleted in its entirety - in segments for the following reasons:
The university is also fairly well known among local scholars for its contradictive style in many respects, namely for calling itself the University of Tartu versus Tartu University, which is the name structure given to older universities. No one has ever heard of the University of Oxford.
Sheer nonsense - first, traditional universities named after places generally go by "University of X", and so the offical designation of Oxford is, as we can see here, University of Oxford and not "Oxford University". Second, and accordingly, Tartu Ülikool has always an exclusively called itself "University of Tartu"; "Tartu University" is occasionally used by outsiders or visitors who do not know the general nor the specific tradition.
This web page is another example, as it uses both American and British English.
Which website? This entry? This is very obviously not put up by TU.
While cheating is rampant throughout courses and exam sessions, the students still sport a highly arrogant face and the fraternities all wear Village People-style gay hats. One local fratboy dressed up as a woman once and now no one can speak to him for ninety-nine years.
Sheer malignance... somebody didn't get in, or what? Indeed, the Fraternity and Sorority system in Tartu can be criticized and questioned easily and fruitfully, but not this way in an encyclopedia entry.
Clossius 21:05, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification and Deletion

message: Estonian_University_of_Life_Sciences (former Estonian Academy of Agriculutre) was established in 1951 from two faculties of University of Tartu. Maybe this could be mentioned somewhere in history section. See http://www.ut.ee/205567 on more recent collaboration of these universities. Lebatsnok 20:45, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: The article currently says that TU is one of the highest ranking universities in "former Eastern Europe". I think what is intended here is something like the former Soviet Union or former communist bloc. "Eastern Europe" suggests a geographical indication and there is no reason to assume that geography has in fact changed (although the collective imagination of that geography may change, but that is a different discussion altogether). Anyone opposed to changing this? --Jeroenm (talk) 15:47, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Former Eastern Europe? 

message: There is no source for the ranking of TU. The article mentions a high rank for the institution, so I suggest that a source for that information in crucial (otherwise this page is simply an advertisement). --Jeroenm (talk) 15:50, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ranking? 

message: In lead section: "...second oldest university in the region after Vilnius University". Which region? Baltic states? Surely Uppsala (15th century) is in "the region" too. For the Baltic states, being second oldest isn't much of an achievement. Perhaps a wider part of Eastern Europe, excluding Scandinavia, was meant? Or maybe it would rank high (although not 2nd) even taking Northen Europe. For now, I'm removing it. Anyone who knows better may restore it. Rain74 (talk) 19:39, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second oldest - where? 

message: "Classical university" is not a standard English term. It would be good to define it somewhere, maybe even devote an article to the concept. --Macrakis (talk) 22:15, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Classical university

message: The only citation for the claim that the university is the "most prestigious" in Estonia is the University's own website. IsiahBerlin235 (talk) 11:45, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most prestigious