Talk:Indiana University

Technically independent of IUPUI

This needs to have a supporting reference: how the schools of law and medicine and dentistry nowadays have some sort of charter or corporate separation that other schools at IUPUI do not have. In other words, "technically independent" needs to be fully defined.

• As can be seen from their history, the schools of law, medicine, and dentistry separately originated as private institutions that were later acquired, but then again the school of art also originated the same way at IUPUI. I suspect that this claim of true charter or incorporation independence has no basis in fact in modern IUPUI, especially if independence in these cases approaches anything resembling its normal usage, such as University of Southern Indiana was made independent of Indiana State University in 1985. I suspect that the administrative executives in the schools of law, medicine, and dentistry have a dual reporting relationship to both IUPUI and Bloomington that is exactly the same as the administrative executives in the Herron School of Art at IUPUI or the Jacob School of Music at IUPUI.
• Conversely, I suspect that (as opposed to IPFW) all of the schools at IUPUI are to some (trivial) degree technically separate from each other and that IUPUI is more of a container of more-loosely affiliated institutions than, for example, IPFW is or more generally any typical university is. —Optikos 14:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Official campus names

The official name of the campus in Bloomington is still "Indiana University" (and has been since 1838). The IU Style Guide dictates that "Indiana University Bloomington" is not an official campus name but may be used for clarity. Since this article says "in Bloomington, Indiana" and "often referred to as 'Indiana University Bloomington', no such clarity is needed. -- Merope 14:59, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

primary sources template

wikipedia's policy on original research states that wikipedia is a tertiary source. This article contains only one secondary source. The rest are primary. It is not at all far-fetched to say this article relies on primary sources. The fact that it links to other sourced wikipedia articles is irrelevant. If there are relevant sources on other pages backing up the information cited in this article, they should be cited in this article. As it stands this article relies on primary sources. That's not a big deal, but it needs to be noted so the problem can be fixed. Please don't revert, but instead discuss. Thank you, Johnathlon (talk) 07:07, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

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Mies Building for the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design

I recently created an article for the Mies Building for the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design. Any help with the article would be appreciated. Thank you, Thriley (talk) 20:26, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Image sizes of notable alumn

Greetings all - in a recent edit, the image sizes of notable alumni were correctly changed to remove forced image widths. After viewing the resulting page layout however, it appears to give far too much prominence to the displayed images (which is limited only to celebrities vs. other notable people), and a quick scroll of the article may even appear as being about the celebrities vs. the university itself. I am curious as to the opinions of others regarding this, and if such images in this (and perhaps other notable alumni lists) article would be better suited for scaling down - so as not to dominate the article. Thanks --Picard's Facepalm • ^{Made It So} _Engage! • 14:20, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

I think that time would be better spent trimming the bloated list and adding sources but I won't tell other volunteers how to spend their time! If you want to change the image sizes, please be sure to use "upright" instead of specifying the pixel size. And be mindful that the article looks different on different devices, too. ElKevbo (talk) 21:37, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Exactly why I was thinking to use scaling (inherent with "upright"), and noted the forced image widths were correctly removed by you. I agree the list needs pruning - but if the refs are contained within the linked individual's wikipages do they also need to be ref'ed here? Thanks! --Picard's Facepalm • ^{Made It So} _Engage! • 21:40, 3 May 2024 (UTC)