Talk:University of Portland

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Contents 1 Purple Pride 2 Article in general 3 Categories 4 Academics section 5 Fair use rationale for Image:PortlandPilots4.GIF

[edit] Purple Pride

Purple Pride is not officially affiliated with University of Portland, is this still a good idea?

I wonder if this is a candidate for deletion instead. I get a tremendous number of Google hits for "Purple Pride", few of them for this group. Kathy A. 21:49, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

If Purple Pride is not officially affiliated with the University and there is not enough information to warrant a stand alone article, then I agree with the idea that it should be up for deletion. Verkhovensky 00:42, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I believe the school somehow took over Purple Pride. I'll look into it a bit more, but it seems like they took over this year to make some $$$ on the shirts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.105.242.150 (talk) 06:08, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article in general

Looking at the article it looks like the univeristy is just some buildings where sports take place. Not much on the teaching, or is it really just about sports and the buildings? Aboutmovies 20:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

You may want to start an alumni category that is a sub category of the main UP cat. See most other larger school's articles and then click on an alumni for naming details. Aboutmovies 08:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Academics section

Yikes, sounds like PR wrote this entire section. This needs to be improved with sources and a more neutral voice. Thomasngo 21:51, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

School of Nursing section has been replaced with entirely new text. I agree, the previous academic description needed to go. Cklogic (talk) 19:29, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:PortlandPilots4.GIF

Image:PortlandPilots4.GIF is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:26, 8 March 2008 (UTC)