Talk:University of Nottingham
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[edit] Userbox
I have created a userbox for any other notts students and/or graduates. Heres what it looks like:
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This user studies or studied at the University of Nottingham |
To add it to your user page use {{subst:User:Modest Genius/Template:User Notts Uni}}.
Given the current controversies over userboxes I've left it within my namespace for now, this may or may not get moved at some point. Enjoy. Modest Genius 20:40, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- I have created other userboxes with the new logo:
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This new userboxes will also correctly list your user page according to the alphabetical order in the [[Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Nottingham]] page.
- - quastar 17:24, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Grr. Why was this moved to Nottingham University? Its name is the University of Nottingham - Khendon 12:22 Sep 30, 2002 (UTC)
Wasn't there some controversy about them accepting funding from something dodgy? What was that about? Mark Richards 22:43, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Why that connection to Malaysia? Just a lucky meeting or is there a sinister plan among British unis to share the world a la Treaty of Tordesillas?
Funding into something dodgy? I think that would be the tobacco - £3.8 million from British American Tobacco in 2001, for an International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility. Average Earthman 18:20, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I've added a bit about that in the facts. Anyone got any ideas what more I could write about the Uni? --80.1.241.104 20:23, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- The Campus Fourteen is the local pub crawl, isn't it?. You can write about other not-so-academical aspects.
[edit] AUT greylisting
The article doesn't actuallly explain why the uni fell out with the AUT. --Ebz 22:49, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Refused to negotiate with the union over pay. Average Earthman 18:52, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Figures
Does anyone know the endowment for the university? It seems like it recieves around £100 million in research grants but what about its own development fund? I know it's pretty substantial since alumni giving is over £1 million. Also, what is the true number of enrolled students? Thanks for any feedback. ArchonMeld 04:26, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
- Why don't you try the university's website? Or do you have a reason to believe that they'd be giving false figures? Average Earthman 10:17, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
- I'll add the link here as well - http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/finance/fin_stats.htm. Average Earthman 19:32, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
I took out some information about changes to bar closures and the like as there is no source for this, does anyone have this information?zeroRPM
[edit] Couple of changes
I have moved the pic of the downs to the bottom of the page as it was causeing a gap to appear between paragraphs. I have also included the name 'London University' in the info box so people reailise that it was a university prior to 1948.
[edit] University ratings
(I'm posting this to all articles on UK universities as so far discussion hasn't really taken off on Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities.)
There needs to be a broader convention about which university rankings to include in articles. Currently it seems most pages are listing primarily those that show the institution at its best (or worst in a few cases). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities#University ratings. Timrollpickering 23:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Campus 14
I swear there used to be a Campus 14 article on here, what happened to it? It was quite a large article as I recall.Spanky Deluxe 01:33, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- There did indeed, it appears it was speedy deleted in December (see [1]). Perhaps worth speaking to the admin in question or running a DRV? If I remember correctly it WAS quite substantial, which would be a bit strange to be speedied Modest Genius talk 21:28, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dropped 'The' in name
I haven't found a source explicitly saying so, but every official source shows the name of the institution as The University of Nottingham, including the "The". This may seem like a minor point, but I have had personal experience of people getting somewhat annoyed about this in other contexts (esp journal publications). Was this intentional / due to some stupid guideline / a mistake? Modest Genius talk 21:32, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- Dropping the definite article is deliberate and it is per this policy. The test case, as it were, for the rule as it applies to Universities, is (The) Ohio State University - that article is currently with the mediation cabal and the arguments are probably all rehearsed at the case page. The guideline only applies to page names, though. I have bolded the "the" in the aritcle intro and (experimentally) added it to the infobox. What do you think? — mholland 22:08, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28definite_and_indefinite_articles_at_beginning_of_name%29 specifically allows the use of The in the case of 'official names', but disallows it in the case of universities. However, there is a caveat:
- "On the other hand, some universities religiously refer to themselves as "... The University of X..." even in running text. If such usage is prevalent on university press releases and press kits, contact information, "about" pages, and internal department websites, and it is reasonably common in external sources (try a Google search), then it is more appropriate to name the Wikipedia article The University of X. For example"
- which I think definitely applies in this case. Of course, that's only a guideline and WP:IAR suggests we can ignore it at will. Thanks for the quick response (And edit) Modest Genius talk 23:17, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
