Talk:Université catholique de Louvain

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please take a look at Talk:Catholic University of Leuven, for a proposal on moving the common history of the two universities to a separate article. --Lenthe 09:53, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

This proposal has now been put into effect. Details follow:

I've cleaned up and slightly extended Catholic University of Leuven as the pre-1968 article (NPOV-check on my version of the split would be appreciated) and more thoroughly edited this and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as post-1968 (hiving off the pre-1968 history and the alumni they claim, for instance, with a reference to Catholic University of Leuven as the article on the historical university).

Help sorting out the links would be nice :) I've done lots already, but there are still several dozen linking to "University of Leuven" (which has become a disambiguation page instead of a misleading redirect to Katholieke Universiteit Leuven).

"University of Louvain" now redirects to the disambiguation page (there are still about a dozen links to there that need sorting out).

"Leuven University" and "Louvain University" have also become redirects to the disambiguation page; they each still have one link (both from entries on alumni I can't place). --Paularblaster 00:37, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV dispute - History

It seems to me that the historical part of this article is not neutral. It appears rather biased towards the French speaking community. Especially the following part caught my attention:

• Up to that year, resentment had been growing among Flemings because of privileges given to French-speaking academic staff and the perceived lack of respect by the local French-speaking community for Flanders, wherein Leuven lies. Some French-speakers proposed to change the administrative status of Leuven, including it in a larger, bilingual 'Greater-Brussels'. On the other hand, some Flemish nationalists wanted to expel any trace of the French language from Flanders and could not stand a bilingual university there.

Just using the words some in 'some French-speakers' and 'some Flemish' does not attain the neutrality from my point of view. Note: I'm criticizing the writing style here, not the content. Any ideas on how to proceed? --Jadriaen 20:54, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't know why the use of some disrupt you. Do you want to say all the Flemish instead of? Dedez 22:09, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Dear Dedez, the use of some does not bother me at all. It are the other terms that are biassed,

Yes of course, everything is always biased in favour of the French speaking community, but at the end of the day, they were the one who got kicked out of Leuven. The use of the word "some" makes absolutely no semantic difference. Use the word "some", or "a few", or "a handful", it makes no difference. The truth is you just can't use the word "none" in this instance and that's what sad about the whole story. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 145.221.52.72 (talk) 12:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] International College Timothy Radcliffe

By itself International College Timothy Radcliffe does not merit an article. let's merge it. --Duncan 11:20, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

yes, let's. --Paularblaster 00:31, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Are you sure this article isn't a joke? Timothy Radcliffe is a living, and moderately notable, person. He was the master-general of the Dominican Order from 1992 to 2001, and has written a few books, but it's hard to imagine why someone would name a college after him. A google search for "International College Timothy Radcliffe" seems to show nothing but its Wikipedia page and other pages derived from it. If this college has no website and no documentation showing it actually exists, I think that it is a candidate for speedy delete, not a candidate for merging into the Louvain page. — Lawrence King ^(talk) 09:13, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I nominated it for speedy delete; if you object please visit Talk:International College Timothy Radcliffe. — Lawrence King ^(talk) 23:15, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Four hours before your deletion I did visit Talk:International College Timothy Radcliffe and carefully explained, with links to the websites of the university and the college, that this institution is a hall of residence and social centre for international students run under Dominican auspices, and does in fact exist. I further stated (as DuncanBCS also did in May) that the information should be retained as a paragraph of this article, rather than as a separate entry. I trust you will now restore the information? - --Paularblaster (talk) 14:47, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:UCL logo.gif

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BetacommandBot (talk) 11:37, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

There was already an explanation there - I've tried to make it clearer. It's the logo of the main topic of the article (is that not "fair use"?). --Paularblaster (talk) 21:31, 21 January 2008 (UTC)