Talk:Goddard College

message: Notable Alumni: This section shouldn't be used for self-promotion. I would suggest that one possible measure of inclusion would be if the person has their own independent entry already.
:Normally, WikiPedia standards indicate that anyone without an independent entry (i.e., non-notable by Wikipedia standards) should be removed from any list of alumni, etc, similarly to how a no-link/redlinked entry should be removed from a disambiguation page. If there's some reason to discuss a particular alumnus because of their role at Goddard, it would be better done in a section on that role, not in the "notable alumni" section. Allens (talk | contribs) 09:19, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable Alumni

message: There was never a licensed station called WGOD.  I know that original research carries no weight on Wikipedia, but I'm Russell Aminzade, one of the founders of WGDR and its first station managger, and I worked with faculty member Kirk Gardner on the FCC application for a 10-watt FM station that was to become WGDR.  I had been told that WGOD was the jokey name for the carrier current AM radio station at Goddard before my arrival there (in 09/1970) Carrier current stations had very limited range and were never required to have call letters), and I remember begging and pleading with Kirk to let us request WGOD as call letters.  He felt that a jokey, blasphemous name like WGOD might prejudice the Nixon-era FCC commission who would review the application, and refused to include it as one of the 3 or 4 or 5 choices we were allowed to make.  I recall arguing with Kirk that WGDR didn't really stand for anything, and that we should make our preferred call letters GCR, for "Goddard Community Radio," but this never made it onto the final FCC application either. I don't recall our other choices. 71.169.157.235 (talk) 17:38, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  WGDR and WGOD 

message: Rather than get into a revert war over what to call alumnus Mumia Abu-Jamal,
can we have a discussion about it? I prefer the word 'convict' to 'cop-killer' for several reasons,
primarily to maintain an encyclopedic tone in word-choice, but also because he
was not convicted of the specific crime of 'cop-killing.' To me, the phrase 'cop-killer' has enough of a lurid, tabloid connotation as to indicate a possible lack of NPOV. Also, I added 'activist' to the description because he's described as such in the article about him. Any thoughts about this would be appreciated. Juro2351 (talk) 16:13, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed - "convict, author, activist" is sufficiently descriptive, and "cop-killer" is certainly a POV term (it implies, for instance, that police officers deserve more protection than the rest of us). I have no liking for Abu-Jamal, incidentally. Allens (talk | contribs) 09:17, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Loaded POV, all the way.  Morganfitzp (talk) 21:56, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Description of Alumnus Mumia Abu-Jamal 

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