Talk:University of Michigan School of Information
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The research area list is too long, it can benefit from a smaller chic list. Kmouly (talk) 01:45, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
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Jmmason (talk) 04:01, 15 April 2008 (UTC) I deleted the claim about ranking. There is no well-known or meaningful ranking for schools of information, in part because their coverage of topics and fields is so diverse. The "top 5" claim was provided without citation (which violates Wikipedia standards), and almost surely is based on rankings of "library and information science" programs which is a proud but small component of SI's academic and research coverage and faculty specializations. Not a meaningful statement for most of the school (other areas of which many informally believe rank in top 3), and implicitly misrepresents the school as being primarily a traditional LIS program, which it is not. I would also suggest that this is the type of claim that is likely to lead to edit wars when students from other programs see it and want to compete; better just to avoid poorly-grounded and self-serving boasting.
