Talk:King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 25 May 2021 and 1 July 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): MoAlwel.

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 29 August 2018 and 22 December 2018. Further details are available on the course page. Peer reviewers: Halmarzo.

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Controversies

Science reported that "KAUST has suffered an exodus of several senior scientists and administrators who have complained of meddling by officials from Aramco, the giant Saudi oil company that built and operates the campus." It would be useful to have some mention of that in the article, but I am not sure where and how to integrate it. --Ori.livneh (talk) 17:00, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Written by the press department?

Indeed, the entire article appears to have been written by the press department of the university... --WiseWoman (talk) 21:10, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

POV Discussion

This article is, in my view, a clear case of violating WP:NPOV.

Additional Link to their "discovery" marketing site
WP:NOTLINK is clearly violated in the "Core Laboratories" section
Weird phrasings and unsourced claims which I have removed now
In general the whole article is not written in the style of an encyclopedia, but more like a marketing article. Sections such as

 " The research park allows technology-based businesses to establish office space, laboratory space or  R&D and demonstration facilities. The park also provides incubator space for technology startups to support the innovation mission of KAUST^[1] to enable technology transfer, startup funding, and entrepreneurship."

are obviously self-promotion WP:PROMO, additionally here WP:NOTLINK again.

This article should either be deleted or completely rewritten, without gems such as "To support these thrusts[...]" "Residents of the KAUST community enjoy many self-directed organizations, community activities and events"

AngenehmerName (talk) 20:39, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/innovate/innovation - economic-development

Frontiers Media and KAUST partnership

Hello! May I ask if Wikipedia editors are willing to review and add a request found at Talk:Frontiers Media on a partnership between King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Frontiers Media? I am an employee at Frontiers Media. For this reason, I am posting this request for others to inspect and implement on my behalf.

Best, JBFrontiers (talk) 08:07, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/innovate/innovation - economic-development

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