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Contents 1 Holland Hall 2 Exeter University Gilbert and Sullivan Society 3 Merge in of University of Exeter Halls of Residence 4 University ratings 5 University of Exeter Userbox 6 Current news involving the Christian Union 7 Chancellor 8 Split Students' Guild

[edit] Holland Hall

The article Holland Hall has been listed as an article for deletion. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Holland Hall. The discussion is moving towards merging it into University of Exeter. There seems to be no consideration of the fact that there are pages for five other Halls at Exeter and that University of Exeter Halls of Residence exists. The page was badly written and obvious vanity from a Holland Hall resident. I have have had an attempt to make it better. If you want to keep this article, and perhaps all the others on Halls at Exeter (and indeed the many articles on Halls elsewhere) go to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Holland Hall and vote to keep it. Give reasons. Votes without reasons are often ignored. I have done what I can, but I have no real interest in Exeter University. I just have an interest in articles on Halls and Colleges and came across this deletion notice by chance. --Bduke 21:30, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Exeter University Gilbert and Sullivan Society

I've nominated the article in question for a merge into this article. To be honest, I'm only doing this as a courtesy. I have a feeling it's going to be deleted eventually. I'm not sure that any of the Society article content has a place in this article, let alone its own. --Maxamegalon2000 18:31, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

It couldn't be that hard to create a new section called "student organizations" as part of the "today" section and smerge the G&S society in there. —Wahoofive (talk) 17:09, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge in of University of Exeter Halls of Residence

• Disagree. Articles on Halls are difficult as they get vandalised by members of the Hall. I got these on my watch list when an article on Holland Hall was up for deletion. The result of that debate was that University of Exeter Halls of Residence was created and ALL articles on Exeter Halls were merged there. In some other universities since then the same process has happened but in other cases several individual Hall articles still exist. I take the view that Halls can be notable and that they deserve more than just listing on the main University page. If this longish article is merged into University of Exeter then either that article will be unbalanced or too much information about the Halls will be lost. Leave them both as they are. It was a reasonable compromise earlier in the year. --Bduke 23:19, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

In support of the above, several of Exeter's Halls are the old family homes of historically important local families, and in the case of Reed Hall, is also the home to an early botanical Garden. I believe that interest in Halls of Residence goes beyond their connexion with a University. --Dan 17:26, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• Disagree Space conditions merit this article on its own. The information if Verifiable and not Original Research so why the rush to merge things. Ansell 03:49, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[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 22:37, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] University of Exeter Userbox

I have created a University of Exeter userbox. Just add {{User:Benjaminevans82/Userboxes/Exeter}} to your user page for the userbox --Benjaminevans82 01:29, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Current news involving the Christian Union

This is generating both controversy and frankly a lot of ignorance in the media at the moment. If anyone wants to have a bash at sourcing this and keeping it accurate and bias free (which I may not be able to given my blog comments on this) this feel free to use the sites I've linked to in my blog posts on this matter:

• http://timrollpickering.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-christian-unions-and-students.html
• http://timrollpickering.blogspot.com/2006/11/bishops-jump-on-bandwagon.html
• http://timrollpickering.blogspot.com/2007/01/christian-union-looking-for.html

In particular you'll find links to a site that's deeply critical of the UCCF doctrinal statement and challenges the assertion that it's just "what Christians believe". Timrollpickering 20:15, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chancellor

I had a bit of a laugh when reading the universities Chancellor's section. A collection of well qualified people / noblemen then a former children's TV presenter LOL :-). Keep Timmy Mallett in frame for when she steps down LOL :-). Kudos!

[edit] Split Students' Guild

While part of the University, the Guild is fully independent, and contains a large number of societies. Some of these societies are notable in their own right, such as Xpression FM and Exeposé. The Guild manages millions of pounds of facilities (shops, pubs, etc). Its management has sometimes been controversial within the University, and this year has come into the glare of the mainstream media with the Evangelical Christian Union disputes. I think the Students' Guild should be split into it's own entry. --h2g2bob 15:39, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Agree- h2g2bob has raised a very good point. I agree the the Guild does warrant an article in its own right. I have had a quick look at other British university student union/guild articles on wikipedia and Bristol, Birmingham and Oxford are all quite good. I particularly like the info box on Bristols.--Benjaminevans82 22:10, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Disagree- Theres very little else to say about the guild than whats already in the article. The societies attached to it are hardly noteworthy and its going to act as an invitation for students to vandalise the page regarding their club/soc. Also currently I feel the student media pages are circling the AfD drain, so it may be worth merging them into one "student media at exeter" article.