Talk:College of the Atlantic

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To whoever is moderating this page: why doesn't this page show the school's seal or logo? I changed the page a while ago to include the seal instead of the website screenshot that is there currently, but it was just changed back to the screenshot of people swimming... ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.74.186.251 (talk) 18:01, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

message: It seems like this article is having a hard time developing into anything more than a couple of basic paragraphs.  So I'd like to ask editors to refrain from deleting any more material from it, and instead seek out and cite some sources for further article development, and contribute some new material to grow the article.  If some of the article's current (slim) content is really objectionable for some reason, please explain why in more detail here, before deleting it. -- Rbellin|Talk 19:59, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the reply.  I have no problem with the removal of the "Partnerships" paragraph; you're right, there's no point in this article containing such a list of other schools.  The alumni section is a matter of indifference to me as well, though people always seem to add them eventually and I do not see a strong case for removing it (if the alumni are "notable" in the sense that they have their own Wikipedia articles).  But sustainability seems to me like a part of the COA's personality, what makes it different from other schools, as does the human ecology major (I do not see "only" as "negative," just descriptive; I'm not sure how you got the idea it was somehow deprecating).  The article could really use more detail about the curriculum and history of the college, and since the old version provided a bit of such detail I'd suggest we restore it as a starting-point (or write something comparable in a few new paragraphs, if you prefer) and then improve it when possible. The current article is too skimpy for us to be choosy with imperfect material. -- Rbellin|Talk 17:23, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Sure, I'll restore the material from the old version as discussed above, and please continue to improve it any way you can (especially by adding citations to sources that you likely know better than I do).  And if you prefer another similar adjective besides "only," that's absolutely fine.  Regarding "alternative," the first sentence in Hampshire College uses that school's preferred self-description, "experimenting," and I've tried hard to keep that word from being removed too. The drift there seems the same to me; it's a principle of Wikipedia's house style that a lead sentence needs to mention what makes the article's subject interesting and what distinguishes it from other things like it (i.e., in this case, from conventional liberal arts colleges).  If we had an article on alternative colleges, there could be a link to further explanation as well, but for now I think the first sentence/paragraph ought to stay about the same. -- Rbellin|Talk 18:21, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
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