Talk:Texas Southern University

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message: Is the bat infestation worth mentioning here? --Ezeu 20:09, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bat infestation 

message: This article reads more like a PR notice than an objective article:
1. I question some of the information about the age of their college of pharmacy.
2. There is virtually no mention of their history of financial scandals. 
3. There is also no mention of their graduation rate of only 20%, and the fact that their law school has one of the highest bar exam failure rates in the country.
http://www.blackcollegesearch.com/texas-colleges/texas-southern-university.htm -- Actually only 15% graduation rate.
http://www.ble.state.tx.us/Stats/stats_0708.htm -- Links to TSU's bar passage rate for July 2008.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.64.42.246 (talk) 16:35, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Simply cite your sources and your claims can be duly justified in the article as you write it. I am a student at this school, so simply stating this information will serve no purpose to the general population other than as slander against the university. You can also bring up all the other financial scandals at other well-known schools such as the University of Texas, etc. Just GOOGLE Don't try to bring down this fine university. Thank you. Nguerrero03 01:09, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: WHere is mention made of the 1967 Riots? Those riots were quite significant in the history of the school and the city. How can they be left out? Wikipedia is weak.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.220.193.142 (talk) 21:59, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

text: The Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs snippet appears (9/20/2012) at the end of its section, instead of at the top alongside the School of Business, School of Law, etc.  I suggest organizing the various colleges in the university alphabetically.  I will also add the information missing from the school above about the Urban Planning and Environmental Policy graduate programs.--Paulsuckow (talk) 14:33, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple ommissions in this article 

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replies: text: Why Does This Keep Coming Up? This is a non-issue. Image has been justified twice, yet has come up for deletion twice. Something other than a bot please explain the rationale behind this? Nguerrero03 01:04, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Accredited seal blue 100.gif

message: Could be applied. Emesee (talk) 03:48, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  clean up section tag... 

message: These entries need references
*Yolanda Adams
*Michael Strahan
*Kirk Whalum
*William Craven
*Mickey Leland
*Barbara Jordan
*Don Narcisse
WhisperToMe (talk) 01:48, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: List of people

message: * Marmaduke, Lauren. "Oops! TSU To Spend $50,000 Restoring Murals It Destroyed" Houston Press. Wednesday September 15, 2010. WhisperToMe (talk) 09:37, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Murals

message: * http://es.houstonisd.org/grosses/Spanish%20Student%20Handbook%202011-2012%20%207-27-2011NN.pdf uses:
** ""Universidad del Sur de Texas"
WhisperToMe (talk) 03:58, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Spanish name

message: I found this article
*Ackerman, Todd. "State panel's vote a blow to college open admissions." Houston Chronicle. Saturday January 23, 1993. p. A1.
WhisperToMe (talk) 05:37, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed requirement for all state universities to have closed admissions

message: The same editor mentioned above who is edit warring to remove the NCAA sanctions is also edit warring to include several external links that I believe are unnecessary and contrary to our policy regarding external links.  Specifically, these links are:
* Official Thurgood Marshall School of Law website
* Official University Museum website
* Official TSU Athletics website
* Official TSU Tiger Merchandise website
* Official TSU National Alumni Association website
I contend that none of these links are essential for readers to understand this topic and all fall afoul of WP:EL.  (I concede that it's common for university and college article to have links to the athletics webpage but I blame myself for that since I added many of those links and have overtly encouraged them, a decision I now regret and will be working to overturn.)  ElKevbo (talk) 02:25, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

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*Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20140729043350/http://www.tsu.edu:80/academics/colleges__schools/College_of_Education/about_the_college.php to http://www.tsu.edu/academics/colleges__schools/College_of_Education/about_the_college.php
*Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20140808163129/http://www.tsu.edu/academics/colleges__schools/publicaffairs/aboutus.php to http://www.tsu.edu/academics/colleges__schools/publicaffairs/aboutus.php
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message: There are 1,000 people watching this page with no history of the university always challenging almost every single edit but add no quality content.  You people watching this page should add pictures .... the page has been missing quality pictures forever!  Finally make yourself useful.Broadmoor (talk) 12:29, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see Civility. When an edit you have made is challenged as unsourced, it is inappropriate for you to respond by telling other editors they should not be editing or challenging your edits whether or not they have contributed to the article, or "assigning" them to do different work.  See also Ownership behavior. Once again,  requires the citation of a reliable source under Wikipedia's policies concerning verifiability.  You have been here long enough to understand this.  General Ization Talk    12:37, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
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message: Can the editor(s) who believe that the lyrics of this university's alma mater be included in this article please explain what exactly readers are supposed to learn from them?  Furthermore, please provide evidence that the lyrics are not copyrighted otherwise including all of them is likely a copyright violation.  (And also note that the URL previously provided doesn't seem to work anymore so we also need a reliable source for this information.) ElKevbo (talk) 16:22, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alma mater song lyrics 

message: I have removed the athletics logo from this article.  It's a copyrighted image so we can only use it under fair use which is quite limited.  We already use a copyrighted image in this article to identify the university so it's really stretching fair use to try to use another copyrighted image especially when (a) the image only identifies a subset of this institution (that has its own article that can make legitimate fair use of this image) and (b) there is no critical commentary or discussion of the athletics logo indicating that it's critical for readers to see if they're to understand this subject.  Just to be fair, I've opened a discussion at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions on this specific topic to get feedback from editors who may be more familiar with fair use and how it's applied in Wikipedia.
(And Broadmoor, I didn't remove the athletics logo from the University of Houston article because it's not a copyrighted image; it's only composed of simple lettering so it is considered to be too simple to be protected by copyright and hence we don't have to worry about fair use.) ElKevbo (talk) 16:29, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been going back and forth with ElKevbo a thousand times on this matter and others. He is an over zealous editor that I noticed enjoys deleting quality content without any valid merit or proof to do so as in the case. The TSU athletics logo is within fair use just like the University of Houston athletics logo is and the many other university pages that have their athletics logo on their main page. No one every complained about copyright infringement, there's no compelling proof it's copyright infringement, and it belongs on the page .. it's that simple.Broadmoor (talk) 00:42, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's not that simple. There is a difference between non-free logos and Public Domain photos. Please read up on it and quit edit warring. The logo cannot be used in the article per :WP:NFCC#8 and :WP:NFC#UUI§17. The  article it is allowed in is :Texas Southern Tigers. :File:Houston Cougars logo.svg, fails originality, making it in the Public Domain since it is too simple and just letters and/or shapes. Since the UH logo is in the Public Domain, it is allowed in the :University of Houston article. Corky 00:47, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Athletics logo