Talk:Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

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The reference to "woolly-heady theories on mass communication" hardly seems NPOV.

I have no idea what the statement "The School has the highest percentage of technology resources, per student, of any school at Columbia" means. I also have a hard time believing it's true -- surely each medical student has more technology available than each jouralism student, and the same is likely true at the engineering school as well.

The article actually calls J-School alum Pat Buchanan a "liberal columnist"! Liberal compared to Mussolini, maybe, but by any reasonable standard he is quite conservative. I'll go ahead and make the change.

Revert

I've reverted the article back to the version by Fuhghettaboutit 01:27, 13 February 2006 (39424738). Too lazy to fix the vandalism that's been left behind by subsequent edits by 128.59.99.128 and 128.59.98.49. 128.59.98.49 on 02:51, 13 February 2006 (id:39435103) changed the current dean of the J-school to some other guy (Current dean is still Nicholas Lemann [1]). 128.59.99.128 on 02:52, 13 February 2006 (id:39435211) claimed a horse graduated from the school.

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Brochure

This article reads much like a brochure that would be handed to prospective applicants. True, Columbia's journalism school is considered the best, or at least among the best, but the article reads very much like a promotion.

--Another Contrarian Manifesto (talk) 22:25, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Department of redundancy department

@Columbex:The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is the journalism school of Columbia University ya no shit, Sherlock. If it were not the journalism school that would need to be explained. I mean this is the kind of ridiculously redundant and completely unnecessary garbage that the students there are presumably learning to avoid and we really could use some of their help because this page could use a lot of work.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
— William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style (1918)

Anyway I intend to revert. Regards, 31.41.45.190 (talk) 20:00, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@31.41.45.190: By your estimation, everyone on Wikipedia is an idiot because we edit articles to inform in a clear way so no one is confused regardless of background. The "they should obviously know" mentality might be suitable for your college essays, but not for an online encyclopedia tasked with informing the general public.

While you're "correcting" the Columbia Journalism School article for using "journalism school" in the lede sentence, you might want to correct the 10,000 other university articles that also mention the type of school it is in the lede sentence. Below are some to get you started. Run along now, I'll be watching you to make sure you're consistent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_School_of_Journalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_School_of_Medicine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Business_School

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Law_School

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Columbex (talk • contribs) 15:40, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Columbex: please see WP:OTHERCONTENT; the fact the other articles are wrong is no excuse for this one to be wrong too. Let's face it the majority of articles don't meet our standards. You don't even have to take my word for it, all that is required for a WP:GA is the the article meet the theoretical minimum standards and WP:ACLASS or WP:FA are for articles that exceed them. Guess what, only a vanishing small percentage of our articles meet minimum standards. Also please properly indent your posts in the future as you would in an e-mail chain, see WP:THREAD for details, also sign and date your posts using ~~~~, and bear in mind that as an unregistered user I cannot be WP:PINGed so your doing so is pointless. Regards, 31.41.45.190 (talk) 20:01, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]