Talk:University for the Creative Arts

message: There are rather a lot of famous alumni given that it's not been around for long! Does anyone know who went to which component? Timrollpickering 21:13, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Alumni

message: By a series of 6 edits on May 31st, 2011 user 93.96.164.99 User_talk:93.96.164.99 put two verbose political strings into this article setting out a strong lament of higher education funding and student finances potentially breaching wikipedia policy, neutral point of view? WP:NPOV.  To such an extent it sounds as if the editor would refer to the national student finance campaign everywhere on this subject in such terms, see (WP:N) and (WP:NOT).  Replacement of higher education facilities in Maidstone seems likely in any event.
I am interested in other users' perspectives on this and in the meantime have removed the reference to the maximum UK teaching charge which the college does not charge and balanced in the history the celebrity and commerciality achieved by many alumni.Adam37 (talk) 16:02, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  History - political and negative spin 

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thread_title:  Conflict of interest 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hello. I work as part of the web team at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), and would very much appreciate your help improving our Wikipedia page for users.
1. Change the opening line: 
From: "The University for the Creative Arts (UCA) is a specialist art and design university in the south of England."
To: "The University for the Creative Arts(UCA) is a specialist art and design university based in Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham and Rochester, in the south of England, United Kingdom."
This provides additional/more detailed information to the user, highlighting the various locations/campuses across the south of England.
2. Remove the Coordinates (geo tag) 51° 12′ 59″ N, 0° 48′ 19″ W
UCA is based across several locations/campuses across the south East of England (not specifically Farnham - as shown by the geo tag).
Thank you very much.
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#The lead section is a summary of the information provided in the article. Listing each location in the lead, when that information is included in both the infobox and the main text, is superfluous, and works against the purpose of brevity intentionally designed into the lead section.
#A hidden note under the geo-coordinates entered for the page states  If these coordinates are removed, the change would likely be brief — as the article would automatically be tagged for re-inclusion by another editor down the line.
::Regards, Spintendo ᔦᔭ 17:01, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request edit on 7 January 2018 

message: Hello. 
I had an edit request declined recently, but I failed to provide one of the primary reason why I made the request, so I am including additional information for consideration.
I work as part of the web team at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA).
My two requests below, both relate to the fact that the university is located across two counties (Surrey and Kent), and not focussed on just Farnham, Surrey. 
Information from Wikipedia appears to display on local SEO Google searches. We would like to expand the information shown in the opening line of text. And we also wonder whether the Wikipedia geo tag is throwing off our search results (please see the following link, which is a search for UCA Rochester - which brings up information relating to UCA Farnham). 
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=uca+rochester&oq=uca+rochester&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60j0l4.4701j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
(As we are based over two counties, we wonder why we need a geo tag, as this draws focus on just our Surrey location, at the expense of our two Kent campuses). 
1. Change the opening line:
From: "The University for the Creative Arts (UCA) is a specialist art and design university in the south of England." To: "The University for the Creative Arts(UCA) is a specialist art and design university based in Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham and Rochester, in the south of England, United Kingdom."
2. Remove the Coordinates (geo tag) 51° 12′ 59″ N, 0° 48′ 19″ W
Thank you for your help with this.
194.82.131.124 (talk) 15:54, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, surely no great harm done, . However, the website of the school itself shows its address as Farnham (I think there was a hidden-text comment about this in the page). The page has many more serious problems. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:26, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, there was a message there about Farnham being the central location, but for some reason they were complaining that this was Wikipedia's fault, that their search results were getting "thrown off" (whatever that means). I looked for policy on how to add multiple geo locations, figuring there's got to be articles that have 2 or 3 entered for geo coordinates, but I failed to find any guidance on WP:GEO. That's what I meant in my edit summary by "lack of a better solution".   Spintendo ᔦᔭ 20:12, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request edit on 19 January 2018 

message: It seems that this school was formed in 2005 (at least, that's what our article says). So it is really not very likely that people like Richard Rogers, Tracey Emin and Zandra Rhodes are alumni – presumably they attended one or other of the various art schools that were merged to make this. When the same situation arose at :Central Saint Martins I spent several days sorting it out by hand, assigning each person to the category for the school they actually attended (which was, in almost every case, not CSM). Alumnus lists are supposed to be referenced; what I suggest here is the we remove the whole list, and add back only those that have at least one reliable source which states that they attended this specific institution. Thoughts? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:45, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose that's meant to read something like "Current and former teaching staff" (there aren't usually any "academics" as such in an art school, are there?). I think it falls under the same case as the alumni, and I should have said so earlier. Some of these people may teach or have taught at the school since it was formed, but without adequate sourcing we can't know which those might be or have been; others should be listed in the pages on the various component schools, assuming we have those (I looked only at Guildford, and that page has more problems than this one). Thanks for your input here, much appreciated. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:18, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alumni 

message: The Chancellor for the University for the Creative Arts is now (2018) Magdalene Odundo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_Odundo
This is shown on the University for the Creative Arts webpage - https://www.uca.ac.uk/about-us/
Please add: '2018 - Magdalene Odundo' to the Chancellor section of the Wikipedia page.
Thank you
194.82.131.124 (talk) 11:49, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for a clear and mercifully brief request, , changes made as proposed (except that I chose an independent reference instead of the website of the institution itself). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:53, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request edit on 11 September 2018 

message: * beat me to it. Thank you Just!
 spintendo  12:49, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for a clear and mercifully brief request, , changes made as proposed (except that I chose an independent reference instead of the website of the institution itself). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:53, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Reply 18-SEP-2018