Talk:Kenyon College

message: I would suggest adding more to the academics section.  I'm quite impressed with Kenyon's courses and academics, but this section seems like it only highlights the English department.  Thyroidpsychic 01:34, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Academics

message: I removed most of the text from the Academics section, since it was taken from here.  Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia articles. Thank you.  blameless 14:49, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Academic programs are listed here. User:Fred Bauder Talk 07:52, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

text: Captadam, why did you remove the link to :Image:ken1.jpg?  On the image page there is no mention of a copyright violation: the uploader says they took it themselves. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 13:21, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was photographed in 2004 by Howard Korn and is property of Kenyon College. It resides in the Office of Public Affairs photography collection, and the copyright information on the image page is incorrect. --Captadam 15:12, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I stumbled on your report at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2006 November 10/Images. For some reason you did not complete the image nomination correctly, nor take the quick way of emailing the foundation.  --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 15:15, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Honestly, when I came upon the image, I was not sure of the way to report it--I just knew its origin and that the copyright statement was incorrect. I'm not a pro at this. My apologies for reporting it incorrectly. --Captadam 15:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Oh, and, thanks for your help doing this the right way! --Captadam 15:18, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite understandable.  I had thought the page for representatives of the rights holders was easy to find, but I never use it.  I have completed the nomination according to the instructions at the top of the page Wikipedia:Copyright problems.  An admin will deal with it now.  By the way, I hate copyright violations, and I am unhappy about the crest too.  I just noticed that the interpretation of the arms, Shield.jpg, has no source information, so we can't be sure the artwork is old enough to be public domain, though that is certainly likely.  What do you think? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 15:24, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually work in the office that manages all that stuff, although I am not putting myself out here as the guy who actually determines all these rules. The crest appears all over the place, so that was likely pulled off Kenyon's website. I'm not sure what to think about it, in all honesty. --Captadam 15:41, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  copyvio 

message: I don't know what the Wikipedia standard is for including bunches of links, but the large numbers of red links (Wikipedia links that await an article) in the student organization section make me want to take them all out and only list the student orgs that have their own Wikipedia page. The rationale is that if it's important enough to be on the list, it should have its own page.
Thoughts? --Nufftin 19:02, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: List of Student Organizations

message: (copied from User talk:Madcoverboy) Regarding your recent edit to Kenyon College -- I agree that "highly selective" is somewhat subjective and I have tried to restore the article to NPOV.  The term "selective," however, when applied to college admissions, actually means something relatively tangible--it is generally used to refer to colleges that have an admissions process involving several steps (interviews, etc.) and don't accept all or even close to all applicants (as opposed to schools that, for example, have rolling admissions, no interviews, and accept over 90% of applicants).  This article, for example, uses the term in that sense.  There is a standard rating system for ranking colleges' selectivity, the Barron Selectivity measure, that is not perfect but is enough that calling a college "selective" here is not making a subjective description, but rather objectively placing the school among a group of other schools that share the same status.  This article and this article are some more random examples of the term used in this sense, to define a generally accepted group of schools.  --Politizer (talk) 16:58, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As you point out there are several different indices, standards, and organizations promulgating rankings and other college information, each employing different definitions and metrics to classify institutions. Thus, to assert that Kenyon is "selective" necessarily implies either an overborad, generic definition common to the vast majority of higher education institutions (as you suggest) or a classification with the thinnest veneer or reliability and based upon sources with divergent or even incompatible definitions (US News, Barrons, Carnegie, NSF, etc) but nevertheless intended to connote eliteness. I believe that if the word is intended as the definition you propose, it is redundant as indeed the vast majority of institutions are "selective" and indeed the vast majority of even the most "selective" institutions make no mention of this in the lead of their articles. The term is entirely appropriate within a section based upon admissions information and academics, but to state it in the first sentence of the lead gives it undue weight. That Kenyon is a liberal arts institution, located in Gambier, founded in 1824, and not publicly owned or controlled are important, specific, and uncontroversial assertions. Uncritically describing it as "selective" in the lead is unspecific at best and boosterism at worst. Thus, it shouldn't be included at all in the lead. Madcoverboy (talk) 20:37, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I think you have a point there; I checked out the Wikipedia articles for a bunch of schools that are similar to Kenyon in terms of size, demographic, background, selectivity, etc., and none of them seem to use the term either.  I am deleting "selective" from the article now, to put it back the way it was after your edit.   --Politizer (talk) 20:47, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Selective in lead

message: Former Swedish prime minister olof palme studied here (murdered 1986)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.233.191.18 (talk) 23:52, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Dude, he's in the list.  See Notable alumni. —Politizer talk/contribs 00:06, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable faculty members, past and present

message: Is it necessary to list all notable alumni in the small introduction at Kenyon College#Notable alumni, when there is already a separate article (List of notable Kenyon College alumni) for this? Per the WP:Summary style guideline, it makes sense to limit the list here to a few prominent examples that are easily readable in paragraph form, and keep the rest at the separate list; otherwise people are just going to keep adding any individual they personally feel is important, making the paragraph larger and more indiscriminate, and less useful to readers. 
So, we should reach a consensus on just which individuals to include in the brief summary here, and after that if anyone wants to add further examples here (rather than in List of notable Kenyon College alumni) it should be discussed here first. rʨanaɢ (talk) 00:04, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable alumni section 

message: What other points should be included?--MattyMetalFan (talk) 20:54, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead section issue 

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