Piedmont College edit
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I have spent a good amount of time working on the Piedmont College and History of Piedmont College and I would like to know what I could do to make it a better article.
Thanks, RandorXeus (talk) 04:18, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Ruhrfisch comments: Very briefly, here are some suggestions for improvement. If you want more comments, please ask here.
- A model article is always helpful and there are several college and university FAs to use for ideas and examples to follow - see for example Ohio Wesleyan University
- The lead should be an accessible and inviting overview of the whole article. Nothing important should be in the lead only - since it is a summary, it should all be repeated in the body of the article itself, but When the college was first founded, it was established as the J.S. Green Collegiate Institute named after a local banker. In 1899, the name was shortened to the J.S. Green College. By 1902, the college was formally renamed Piedmont College.[8] is only in the lead. My rule of thumb is to include every header in the lead in some way. Please see WP:LEAD
- Per WP:CITE references come AFTER punctuation, and are usually at the end of a sentence or phrase, so change Piedmont is accredited by the following boards: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)[13]; National League of Nursing ...
- Article needs more references, for example the sections on the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, and Nursing have no refs. My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref. Also try for more third-party independent sources beyond the college and its publications.
- Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. {{cite web}} and other cite templates may be helpful. See WP:CITE and WP:V
- Per WP:Summary style there should be a brief summary of the history article here, not just one sentence.
- Use blockquote not cquote for the MIssion Statement (per WP:MOSQUOTE)
- Was The Mountain Lantern the first magazine or yearbook? It is not clear from reading the article.
Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 18:21, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Second look by Ruhrfisch Here are a few more things I noticed on a second look (as requested):
- Spell our percent (not %)
- I would also spell out "student to faculty" (not "student/faculty")
- I would organize the article differently - History first, then describe the college as it is today
- Some of the sections are very sparse for their relative importance in the college - there is more on the newspaper than the School of Business, for example
- Captions that are full sentences need to end with a period.
- What is the rationale for including alumni? What is the order of their listing (not alphabetical or chronological)? Try to be consistent on the info given for each
Hope this helps, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 23:06, 26 August 2008 (UTC)