Talk:City College of New York

message: Can someone change the following text in the North Campus section:
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to the following:
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User:Melchior2006 removed these as being unreferenced, but I'm providing a reference for these buildings. (Additionally, there actually are references for each building further down.)
Thank you in advance. – Epicgenius (talk) 20:46, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: done. --Melchior2006 (talk) 20:56, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 

message: World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe "writes about Jewish immigrants' children attending City College" is covered above in the article. It is redundant here, and since Howe's book is historical scholarship, it doesn't belong in this section at all. Melchior2006 (talk) 07:16, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no one had any arguments for retaining the Howe book in the wrong section, I removed. it. --Melchior2006 (talk) 07:42, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

text: I don't agree with you. Howe goes into detail about "a small trickle of boys from east European-Jewish families had joined the several dozen German-Jewish boys entering City College each year" back in the 1890s. That beginning was followed by the "great Jewish inpouring to the college." The book by Irving Howe belongs in the section. I will return it there. Iss246 (talk) 15:57, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not your article, Iss246. You do not get to personally dictate its contents especially when other editors disagree with your edits. If you continue edit warring and editing against consensus you will likely end up blocked. ElKevbo (talk) 16:06, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  You have explicitly continued an edit war. Please tell us why we shouldn't ask an administrator to block you as that seems to be the only way to prevent you from edit warring. ElKevbo (talk) 21:47, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Elkevbo, you don't own the site and you don't own me. What I own is the set of books I cite. Iss246 (talk) 21:51, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This is really getting out of hand. ElKevbo, I think it's time to get help from an administrator. Iss246 isn't willing to talk about issues in a reasonable manner, and we have been patient, but now the matter is becoming clear. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 07:31, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Since there appears to be consensus among 3 of the 4 editors involved in this discussion that the book doesn't belong, I'm removing it again. Iss246, if you restore this content without first demonstrating that consensus has changed then I will ask that you be blocked from editing this article.  ElKevbo (talk) 23:37, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

text: If I may, the book technically counts as media, insofar as books are a type of media. It does not, however, count as popular culture. I'd also surmise that the info about this book could easily be integrated in the "History" section of the article, which already seems to be the case, so mentioning it in the media/pop culture section seems extraneous here. – Epicgenius (talk) 21:45, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and have previously recommended that Iss246 use the book to see if more information can be added to the article. ElKevbo (talk) 23:37, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Same for the 2019 Goodman book The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team - it may be a good source for adding to the article or editing existing material but it's not appropriate for this section. ElKevbo (talk) 23:39, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, Goodman should go, too. The section "Media and Pop Culture" is not the place for non-fiction books which cover CCNY; these should be (and are already) referenced periodically throughout the article. Howe is already very well-represented. Iss246 is misunderstanding the purpose of the section. While, as Epicgenius writes, all books are technically media, what we mean here is TV/online journals/magazines/radio/comics and so one. AND: there has to be substantial reference to CCNY in these media, not just cameo roles. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 07:29, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irving Howe book doesn't belong in Media and Pop Culture 

message: The following sentence was recently added to this article:
I do not know how WP:DUE this is in the long run, but given my involvement with CUNY, I'll leave this alone. However, there are two things I suggest if this sentence is kept:
* Please consider adding "In 2024" at the beginning of the sentence. This sentence currently has no date.
* Please consider linking "CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment" to List of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in 2024#New York
Thanks. – Epicgenius (talk) 13:53, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gaza protests?