Talk:American University of Beirut

message: It would be helpful if someone could find the source for the statement that Robert Najemy was killed by "Gavin Harris", and that Robert Najemy's killer was an American. Robert Najemy's children have told me that this is wrong that the killer was identified as someone named Najim Najim (this is probably a bad transliteration), who was not an American. I'm unable to immediately find any information outside of wikipedia on Robert Najemy's killer.
Cesoid (talk) 04:21, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: https://osupublicationarchives.osu.edu/?a=d&d=LTN19760218-01.2.20&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- 194.126.31.19 (talk) 11:26, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robert Najemy assassination 

message: Because there is no citation and I know several people who say that "Gavin Harris" is incorrect, I'm changing the name despite have no source to cite myself. Since the other details about the killer were written by the same author that called him Gavin Harris, it is all suspect, and I removed everything except that he was "irate" and that his name was in fact Najim Najim.
Cesoid (talk) 03:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update 

message: In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :)
* "MO" :
** Michael Oren (2007). Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present (New York: W.W. Norton & Company) p. 218.
** Michael Oren (2007). Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present (New York: W.W. Norton & Company) p. 217.
DumZiBoT (talk) 06:00, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot report : Found duplicate references ! 

message: I changed all names of schools, faculties etc. to capital letters in accordance with wikipedia guidelines (proper nouns as institutions, consistency).--Kojozone (talk) 11:24, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  capitalization 

message: There is no mention to the AUB's sports department and its achievements. In the [Lebanese Premier League] section on wiki it says that AUB's team won many trophies in the late 30s. Furthermore, the Rugby and Basketball teams have all had their successes at national/international level. The Charles Hostler center is also worth a mention here. Any contributors? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.42.160.232 (talk) 09:15, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports 

message: i found no notion about the most important thing in AUB: student activism and the role it played in the lebanese politics
many lebanese and arab political activities started from aub... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.108.170.40 (talk) 16:35, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Student activism 

message: User:Off2riorob just removed a bunch of unlinked or redlinked names. I do the same thing on other articles, so I thought I'd add my standard message here explaining why we do this:
#Per WP:NOT, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate list of information.
#Per WP:V, information on Wikipedia should be verified in independent, reliable sources. None of the removed names had verification that they went to NIT or held the positions that were listed.
#Per WP:BLP, we must take extra care with any information about living persons in any article. Sourcing requirements for living persons are especially stringent, so this essentially takes the previous point and amplifies it.
So, in order to be listed here, a person should either 1) have their own wikipage or 2) have a reliable source (as delineated in WP:RS) explaining why the person is more notable than the average graduate. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:20, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing non-notable people from the alumni section 

message: I am going to remove this, for several reasons: (1) it is from a press release by the university (2) it is based an the views of 63 students, not some study (3) it is not about the school of middle east studies as a whole, but only about a summer program teaching English. Jeff Song (talk) 18:33, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: CAMES in lead 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: All this bombing, terrorism, assassinations of staff should be mentioned. For starters, see here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/03/world/beirut-journal-us-angel-of-mercy-stayed-for-a-merciless-war.html?mcubz=1
Zezen (talk) 06:50, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Bombs

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message: The history section is quite uneven. I suggest deleting the following paragraph about initial responses to COVID-19 pandemic which hardly rates as a landmark event.  "After initially announcing... studying COVID-19 pandemic related issues." 
Suggest also expanding and amending the account of the bombing of College Hall "In November 1991, a bomb ... on the 125th anniversary of the school's founding." There's a good account at (archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199905/back.to.the.new.college.hall.htm) that talks about the rebuilding and corrects some of the details, namely that it was not actually bombed on the 125th anniversary, but a few weeks before. Also I believe the Lewis Affair (1882) and the student activism merits inclusion in any history of AUB. (https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Shafik-Jeha/dp/9953901902).  I will compose these and include them here for discussion. CorneliusVanDyck (talk) 13:00, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: History section amendments

message: Hello, I hope this is the right place to bring this up. I was very disappointed to log in and see user:CorneliusVanDyck involved in the removing and adjustment of parts of the history section within AUB's articles. His appeal to "fairness" and "neutrality" seems to be an entirely disingenuous attempt to rewrite history and reality under the POV that is most suitable to him. The paragraphs that had been added to the History section were properly cited and represented an important part of AUB's modern history. Attempting to downplay their magnitude and their level of detail is an affront to neutrality and is a full display of subjectivity. If user:CorneliusVanDyck who both has a stated of conflict of interest and has named his account after a former AUB President is so intent on rewriting AUB's history the least he could do is provide proper sources that go beyond their own personal opinion. I have significant changes to propose but I'm not sure if this is the right place to talk about this. I will suggest one thing and that is the opening of a Controversies subsection to deal with the various issues in AUB's history if the history section is not the proper place to bring this up. Thank you. Beirxt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beirxt (talk • contribs) 14:21, March 30, 2021 (UTC)
:Yes, this is the appropriate to discuss suggested changes to the history section of this article. It's rarely appropriate to add a separate "Controversies" section to an article. Instead, we should focus on placing noteworthy controversies into helpful context; this usually occurs in the history section but can sometimes be better placed elsewhere if the controversy was limited to a specific topic already discussed in the article. ElKevbo (talk) 21:53, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes in History Section 

message: re member of staff killed: “The perpetrators [..] went out of their way to avoid inflicting casualties by detonating the bomb in the early ours of the morning (the concierge who was killed would not normally have been sleeping in the building).”
re Abd al-Nabih: killed in a Hizbullah attack on an SLA checkpoint in Beit Yahoun on 4 October 1992. Padres Hana (talk) 12:52, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: from the Jansen 22 November report:
- the car bombing of College Hall
- Two Lebanese University employees were killed
- Univesity President Herter: “simply an attack on the United States”
- Prime Minister Karami: “only Israel profited from the operation”
- Shaikh Fadlallah condemned the bombing
- a quarter to a third of AUB students Shi’ite. “most on scholarship”
Padres Hana (talk) 15:16, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  1991 explosion 

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message: Why are only female alumni mention? This is very odd. Please correct this. van Lustig (talk) 20:29, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you mean? The notable alumni section contains mainly women. Iskandar323 (talk) 05:16, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Alumni