Talk:Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

In looking through the list of alumni

I see Trischa Zorn, Law 2005, but on her page all it says about her university career is, "Zorn studied at the University of Nebraska, and, as of 2001, "teaches third and fourth graders with special needs in Indianapolis". Perhaps someone who actually knows (i.e., not me) can update her page. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 14:27, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

   This G-search for "Trischa Zorn, Law 2005" (where the quotes were included in the query) produces 5 hits:

1. liquisearch names "Wikipedia Alumni (i.e. our article) as source
2. Pr. G-berg credits "World Heritage Encyclopedia Edition" via a thumbnail and bottom of the page text
3. World Heritage Encyclopedia includes boilerplate that includes WP among its sources
4. Wikiwand duplicates the text of this talk page, including at least 1 contrib i added in the last few hours]
5. "Wikipeetia, the misspelled encyclopedia" lives up to its slogan by misspelling about 90% of our text, including of course "teh".

   Someone (even more obsessive/compulsive than i) may want to do a WikiBlame search in pursuit of greater clarity about when it disappeared, or examine our colleague Carptrash's contribs against the possibility that they did something about it themself. When you know when it disappeared, Wikiblame will probably be less frustrating as a tool for determining when it first appeared, which may be helpful in understanding, or at least in further investigation for a source or explanation.
--Jerzy•t 03:12, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Articles after IUPUI splits

Now that it's 2024, we ought to discuss how we are going to structure the Wikipedia articles on the two schools. As I see it, there are two possibilities:

1. Create two new articles, Indiana University Indianapolis and Purdue University Indianapolis. Each of these would contain history of IUPUI that is relevant to the particular university, and the current article would contain only the history and other information pertinent to IUPUI pre-split.
2. Create one new article for Purdue University Indianapolis, as above, and change the name of the current article to Indiana University Indianapolis.

What do you all think? Are there any possibilities that I overlooked? Indyguy (talk) 22:13, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

The first option seems to be a lot cleaner and easier. It also matches my own perspective about what is happening - what is/was IUPUI is being dissolved and its resources divided that the two parent universities are using to make new campuses/locations. It's even possible that one or both of these new "institutions" may not even merit its own article - I spoke with a Purdue faculty member about this yesterday and he indicated that this will be some kind of extension of the West Lafayette campus with little independence so it's possible that the Purdue portion of not-IUPUI may end up becoming a small section in Purdue University. ElKevbo (talk) 16:35, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Wouldn't this (the under-emphasized nature the Purdue Indy campus) tip toward the second option proposed by @Indyguy? I think that the main history of the campus will be the story of one that once included Purdue, but was always (mainly) an IU campus. It would seem to me that retaining but renaming the current entry while noting the departure of Purdue is closer to what is actually happening. But ... I may not have enough distance. I'll be working for IUI soon. If it helps, see a similar discussion for the disolution of IPFW[1] -- Jaireeodell (talk) 01:30, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Satellite campuses often do have their own articles; see for example University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College and University of Cincinnati Clermont College. So a Purdue University in Indianapolis article is in order, especially since its history is much different than the main campus.

The main advantage of having a separate IUPUI article is that it's a place to put the pre-split history that wouldn't really be appropriate in an Indiana University Indianapolis article. There is a history section here and some opportunity to expand it. So I'd prefer the three-article plan. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 01:02, 10 April 2024 (UTC)