Talk:University of Silicon Valley

message: Per the wikipedia 'External Links' policy, the MySpace link has been removed. 
It seems it was already removed by Besselfunctions, but Camaier restored it. Unless, the policy says otherwise, Wikipedia discourages social networking sites.--Joel Lindley 23:12, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Joel - look more carefully at the history. Besselfunctions removed it, then read this discussion page, and put it back. In other words, he decided it belonged and put it back himself.  I did not put it back. I am reverting it for, pending the conflict check (which I thought was our agreement).  At least one neutral party (Besselfunctions) seems to feel that the link belonged here after considering it. Camaier 17:44, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

text: By the way, just to be clear: you'll note that the only change I made in response to Besselfunctions was that I inserted a ref-tag in response to his placing of an attributions tag. This attributions tag is the only net change he made to the page, since he reverted his own deletion of the myspace tag.Camaier 17:56, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Understandable, however, since it is plainly against Wiki policy (discouraged) to place networking sites, that opens up placing criticisms [i.e. opinions on businesses; in this case Cogswell College] from outside sources, websites such as eOpinions, Yelp, etc...at least to balance things out. [This is something I will come back to].--Joel Lindley 19:55, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To show good faith, I've removed the link pending further intervention by neutral third parties.Camaier 20:00, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cogswell MySpace Link removed

message: The article is beginning to sound like a 'buyer's guide' or ad for the school.--Joel Lindley 02:07, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: POV check

message: The article states: Cogswell is able to offer an intimate learning environment with ample hands-on training.It is especially highly regarded in the Bay Area for frontiering education in digital media.
We need some sort of concrete citation/proof for that; especially as it almost comes off as a pov statement. Moreover, as there is a statement that a complaint was made to the college, I would suggest both views towards the college be brought out in the article in some way.
An NPOV tag and citation tags have been added nonetheless.--Joel Lindley 22:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality Disputed

message: It is not true that Cogswell College is fully accredited. Cogswell College has "regional" accreditation, but does not have the only accreditations that count for Engineering degrees, which are by ABET - (see www.abet.org). For this reason, Cogswell's Engineering degrees have a very low reputation in Northern California. This should be made clear for the benefit of anyone interested in attending this sorry excuse for an "engineering school".
Cogswell College did once have an ABET-accredited Electronics Engineering *Technology* program that Cogswell tried to pass off as an Engineering Degree, but this Technology degree was discontinued when DeVry Instutute came to the Bay Area with a far superior Technology program. Cogswell College has been circling the drain ever since.
ps  The "Town Crier" is a small "village" weekly newspaper that has no business expressing an opinion about an Engineeering School, so should not be cited as evidence of Cogswell College's "high" standing in the Bay Area. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 170.215.200.141 (talk) 06:11, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accreditation & Reputation 

message: The Opinions section was removed by this user in this revision. The reason was 'no one cares'... 
I added it again.
Actually, I believe this link gives varied 'opinions' and/or experiences on the college; and, the fact that it is felt that 'no one cares' is not a valid reason for this to be removed.
Unless it is being said that no one cares about the positive and/or negative opinions of those who went to (or have had experiences) at Cogswell? 
I suggest you find some way to compromise, so this doesn't evolve into an edit war, and/or someone gets reported. --Joel Lindley 07:28, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: User: 143.58.160.62

message: Is there a link that shows the racial demographics of the school as well as the gender demographics? Looking over the site, I wasn't able to find any.--Joel Lindley (talk) 22:18, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racial/Gender Demographics.... 

message: The list of notable alumni seems rather long.  Most of the people on the list do not meet the Wikipedia standard for notable people, and therefore shouldn't be listed here. i.e., if they don't meet the criteria for their own wikipedia article, they shouldn't be found here. RickH86 (talk) 09:50, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable alumni 

message: I'm removing the neutrality tag. It appears that the original problem has been corrected.MultK (talk) 14:58, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: "In 2010 Cogswell was acquired by Palm Ventures, a private equity firm."
Someone keeps deleting the "Palm Ventures"text and replacing it with "Cosgwell Education, LLC" (which doesn't agree with the current citations). It's possible something has changed, but we need a citation to document the change before we make the change on this WP article. Jooojay (talk) 01:08, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit warring