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Should this be there? (Its at the bottom of the page). Not sure it is really appropriate!

Neutrality of the article

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This article is not presented in an unbiased fashion. It reads more like an advert for the medical school than an encyclopaedic article.-- Blacknightshade (talk) 20:59, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I really couldn't disagree more. The article provided the factual information that I was interested in, and not much else. In a few places the institutions supposed prominence is mentioned, and the history of it's recent foundation. This information is of use. An article on the university of Oxford would also mention that institution's supposed prominence and history. It's not only ok to mention these things, it's important to. I don't feel it "reads like an advertisement". Advertisements have a very distinct prose style and tend to avoid direct assertions of plain fact if they can.
This article's content consists overwhelmingly in non-transitive factual claims, by which I mean a simple fact is simply stated, as opposed to a (possibly irrelevant) fact being presented in order to imply to the reader that a second, unstated fact is true. That's done to avoid directly claiming the truth of the second, implied (transitive) fact when the second fact is what is really being advertised, and it may well not be true. But the advertiser never actually lied.
I don't see that here at all. However, I do do feel the article is very under-sourced. And I see no information about any problems or difficulties at bsms which is suspicious but is not evidence that anything here should be changed, only that quite possibly some things could be added.
This is POV only on the presumption that NPOV must report 50% positive and 50% negative claims irrespective of the total number of claims in each class. That's a modern journalistic approach, employed because people agreeing with other is not very interesting. It's not encyclopaedic. There may be very little that's negative about bsms uniquely. That could be the truth. That's what we're aiming for.
the purpose of NPOV is not to be "fair and balanced". The purpose is to asymptotically converge on an author independent truth. NPOV comes from scientific not journalistic or even critical method.
I'd encourage anyone who works or studies there to highlight difficulties at bsms that aren't shared by other UK medical schools (otherwise it's like saying that the problem with crocodiles in cold weather is that they're exothermic. This is a general issue with reptiles, not just crocodiles).
The primary problem with this entry is lack of sources, not promotion or POV.
Duracell (talk) 18:20, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

{db-spam}}. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reload crisis (talk • contribs) 20:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am now in full agreement with you Duracell. The article has been significantly improved since I added the advert tag (four years ago!) which I will remove now. I am surprised this has not already been done. Blacknightshade (talk) 22:52, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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