Talk:Culver Academies/Archive 1

message: For some reason a separate article has been created for "Culver Military Academy". This is really the same school. Now officially "The Culver Academies", I believe this article should live here. The old name is important to the school and its history and should be part of this article. Someone looking for "Culver Military Academy" may be interested in information that is here and may be looking for information about the summer camp or the girls program. And on top of that the article on the other page looks like an old version of this page or may have been copied from this page (or the other way around as the other article is actually older) So I am proposing the merger (from that page to this one) Andrew Powell 22:27, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think thats a good idea Andrew. -bflora  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.225.161.141 (talk • contribs) 17:39, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. The information was already duplicated so just needed to add a redirect to the other page. An admin would have to merge the histories, but I am not sure the benefit because the pages have led almost parallel lives. Andrew Powell 14:30, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger Suggestion

message: I am not sure that this article is developed enough to have "new" type items and am not sure that the recently added item follows the wiki standards. I am not trying to say that this particular event is not an important part of Culver's history, just that there is a lot of other things that could and should be written here that I believe have a higher priority. If we do decide to keep the 'news' then it should go in a new section and not added to the summer camps overview section Andrew Powell 18:24, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: News Information

message: Culver's one of America's few great Military school's with many noteworthy alumni and one of the greatest summer camping programs in the country that attracts royalty and child stars to Indiana summer after summer.  I agree the article was a little unwieldy before but this is a travesty.  I strongly suggest we bring in a section on the summer camp progam and notable alumni.
Thoughts?Bflora 23:37, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Bflora, it looks like you accidentally deleted some information. ie, notable alumni. If you dig through the history, maybe you can restore the information you deleted plus a lot of other information that was already gone from over edits.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.80.126.112 (talk • contribs) 00:43, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Where'd all the great info go?

message: --Nemissimo II 21:26, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Give us the name of that German champion

message: *Culver Summer Camps could almost be its own wikipedia entry as a way to make this article cleaner, So could Culver History
*As to famous alumns:  There seem to be a few more missing:  Vlasic (pickles), Lay (potato chips), Eckridge (sausage) -- I just noticed a food theme... was the Mess Hall food that bad, back then? 
*Schaeffer (pens), McCulloch (chainsaw/oil), McMillan, Huffington, Giginlet, was Kurt Vonnegut an alum?
*As to interesting historical events... how about when the cadets helped to save the people of the town of Logansport
*How about the five Medal of Honor Winners?
*How about success in college placement and scholarships?
*Hockey clearly needs to be drawn out separately, as few (if any) schools have dominated their state/sport for so many years and produced so many NHL players
*Historically, in sports, it might also be interesting to mention the academies Boxing Legacy.
*How about filmography and references in literature:
** Tom Brown Goes To Culver, Tom Cruise's haircut in the movie Taps was reportedly researched in the Culver barbershop, Kurt Vonnegut's literary references to the Culver buildings. 
Where is Culver Historian Bob Hartman when you need him???  ;)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by BMcCJ (talk • contribs) 04:20, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: More Stuff to Consider

message: Is John Winters an alum?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.178.131.138 (talk • contribs) 23:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: January 2008

message: I've just started and stories will be posted as I learn how to use Wikipedia. Be patient.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by BobHartman (talk • contribs) 20:23, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bob Hartman is here now

message: Some of the content in this article sounds more like an advertisement for the school than is befitting a neutral, fact-based article. Passages such as "while affording library patrons a scholarly atmosphere and idyllic view of Lake Maxinkuckee," talking about how the program will improve personal confidence, or debating on which buildings improve the ethos of the school are not encyclopedic in nature and rather sound like endorsements which may be found in a brochure for the school rather than content appropriate for Wikipedia. Most of the content in the article is sound and based on valid sources but without a more encyclopedic tone the article will have no credibility. Furthermore, due to Wikipedia's policy on Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia, it might be helpful for any faculty or staff of the school editing this article to disclose their affiliation in the summary when making any edits, or on the talk page. Et0048 (talk) 21:07, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Tone

message: Growing up in Northern Indiana, I can recall stopping at Culver one afternoon and visiting what, to my eight year old eyes, was the most awesome model railroad layout that ever existed. Does anyone associated with the school know of anywhere that model railroad is documented? It would be a valuable addition to the article, but of course it must be sourced. John from Idegon (talk) 08:17, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: Substituted at 14:36, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment