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[edit] Debates 2008
How do we go about including the '08 Debates into this article? Is it notable? Should it even be in here? Discuss... J-Dog (talk) 03:16, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
- I don't believe it is notable. There have been a dozen debates this year already and there are going to be a dozen more to come. The university's role as host isn't enough for inclusion of a mention at the moment. Nothing special happened. KnightLago (talk) 13:38, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
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- I disagree, I feel it is notable. It is a signifigant event that not every college campus experiences. Yes, there are many debates, but there is a larger number still of colleges and universities in the country that will not have the experience of hosting a debate. If a "proposed" football stadium that may or may not ever happen is notable, then certainly a nationaly televised debate that absolutely DID happen is more notable. So, now we officially have two sides of the argument, now we need people to join! J-Dog (talk) 15:10, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
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- I definitely think that it's notable... if I'm not mistaken, only one university per state at most earns the right to host this kind of substantial debate with Presidential candidates. This wasn't a common debate, like the city of Boca using FAU to discuss changes to the city plans. Editors of other university articles would have added it in a heartbeat. We seem to be erring on an overly-cautious side and it's having a negative effect on the article. I vote to put it in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.109.67.181 (talk) 07:50, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Reversion of "FAU" DAB page
User:KnightLago seems to have a POV in reverting the DAB page so that a search for "FAU" comes up with Florida Atlantic College, rather than the FAU (disambiguation) page. Could she/he explain what is their POV, so that others can understand it better than by interpreting it from her/his Userboxes? Vernon White . . . Talk 22:16, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- Absolutely. I left a note as to why in the edit summaries, you must have missed them. But oh well. Florida Atlantic UNIVERSITY, thus FAU, a featured article, got 8,128 hits last month. Combined, all of the articles on the DAB page, including the four you just added got 1,681 hits. The highest individual article got 530 hits, the next 389, followed by the Friends' Ambulance Unit, which had 273 hits. Making Florida Atlantic University by far the most common usage of the initials on the English Wikipedia. FAU redirecting to Florida Atlantic University got 942 hits. With the note at the top of Florida Atlantic University pointing people to the DAB page, it received a whopping 191 hits for the entire month. So it is clear that when people type in FAU, they mean Florida Atlantic University. On a side note, it is generally considered uncivil to accuse someone of having a POV when we place such high emphasis on NPOV. Please be more careful in the future. KnightLago (talk) 23:18, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- Maybe some of the Florida hits were due to people looking for other meanings of "FAU", but missing or misunderstanding the hatnote and giving up the search. Where is the article hit-counter, please , by the way. I am sorry that you have been offended by my remarks about "Point of View". Surely most people join wikiprojects because, consciously or unconsciously, they wish improve articles so that they reflect their own viewpoint. It is hard to discard a POV - even selecting what one edits and what one leaves scruffy expresses a point of view. Vernon White . . . Talk 22:20, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
- Article hit counter. With FAU redirecting to Florida Atlantic University there is a note at the immediate top of the article directing people to other uses. So it is not hard to find other uses. KnightLago (talk) 23:08, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
