Talk:Hanyang University

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[edit] Number of graduate students

The infobox says that there are 2274 postgraduate students, but the history section says there are 7,600 graduate students. Which figure is accurate? YooChung 00:17, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problems with page

Someone reverted all of the tagging I did on this page which pointed out problems, including all of the HTML comments I put in, but not all of the issues were addressed. Problems that still remain are:

  • "Hanyang University is one of the largest universities in South Korea." — Needs to be more specific and probably needs to cite an independent source.
  • "In the 1960s and 1970s, Hanyang University graduates, particularly those from the College of Engineering, led the way in Korea's national drive for industrialization and modernization." — "Lead the way" is obviously a biased statement. It needs to be specific on what this means and written in a neutral manner.
  • "In the 1990s, Hanyang University continued both research and the extensive training of fully qualified professionals." — Unless the university didn't do research or train professionals before the 1990s, this is a redundant statement whose purpose is seems to be putting the university in a positive light.
  • "Hanyang University in one of the most important universities in Korea." - Obvious bias. Should be replaced by a specific and factual claim (the common approach is to say that it was ranked so and so by such and such organization).
  • The "University Founding Philosophy" doesn't seem appropriate for an encyclopedia. It doesn't give much information, and a similar section for other universities in any encyclopedia would feel inappropriate.
  • Several sections do not use wiki markup.
  • Links to the Korean and Chinese versions of the university website are easily available from the English version, so they're redundant.

New problems I noted:

  • The "Alumni" section is a cut-and-paste from the school website, which is a copyright violation.
  • This is my personal preference, but comparisons or rankings against other universities might be better off being based on independent sources instead of the school website. (I don't have a problem about facts on only the university being sourced from the university website.)
  • Some of the images, presumably copyrighted by the university, have no indication that permission has been obtained for using them.
  • References do not use full citations.

See also:

-- YooChung 00:48, 11 March 2007 (UTC)