Talk:University of Santo Tomas/GA3

GA Review

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Reviewer: Arconning (talk · contribs) 00:54, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

I will be reviewing this article, comments will probably be finished in the next 48 hours! Good luck to the editors! Arconning (talk · contribs) 00:54, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Considering the amount of the issues within the article, I have to fail it. I wish for the editors to make the article up to standard before nominating it as a Good Article again so that it can pass the criteria. Arconning (talk) 15:11, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Prose

• I heavily recommend using timephrases such as "a month later", "the following year", etc. The article looks more like a timeline rather than an overview so I suggest using them.

Lede

• References should be moved to the body of the article. See MOS:LEADCITE.
  • Done.
• Add the Filipino name of the college (both official and shortened version, Unibersidad ng Santo Tomas and Pang-Obispo at Maharlikhang Pamantasan ng Santo Tomas), put the abbreviation in the same parentheses, similar to the format used in University of the Philippines Los Baños. Could also put the unofficial name of USTe.
  • Done. (Please add the longer version as well).
• Include King in the hyperlink of Charles III of Spain, for King Charles III of Spain.
  • Done.
• Grammar:
  • Omit with an in with an institutional accreditation.
  • Add comma after country, country with 59.
  • 17 Senators, uncapitalize senators.
    • Done.

History

• I heavily recommend using timephrases such as "a month later", "the following year", etc. The section looks more like a timeline rather than an overview so I suggest using them.
  • Examples:
    • The Royal Decree of May 20, 1865 from Queen Isabella II of Spain gave power to UST for the supervision of all secondary schools. Being the only institution of higher learning at that time, UST acted as the Department of Education of the country. In 1870, the Minister of Overseas Colonies Segismundo Moret issued a decree that converted Real y Pontificia Universidad de Santo Tomas into Real y Pontificia Universidad de Filipinas., being changed to The Royal Decree of May 20, 1865 from Queen Isabella II of Spain gave power to UST for the supervision of all secondary schools. Being the only institution of higher learning at that time, UST acted as the Department of Education of the country. After five years, the Minister of Overseas Colonies Segismundo Moret issued a decree that converted Real y Pontificia Universidad de Santo Tomas into Real y Pontificia Universidad de Filipinas..
    • In 1924, it began accepting female enrollees. The medicine and civil law courses were retained in Intramuros at that time to In 1924, it began accepting female enrollees. At that same time, the medicine and civil law courses were retained in Intramuros.
• José Rizal studied medicine in UST from 1878 to 1882.. I know this is related to the article but I suggest putting more information like, "at that time."
• Uncapitalize Martial Law or any similar wrong usage of the word.
• Hopefully find a more non-primary source for this statement: In the second term of 2023-2024, 33,407 students were enrolled in the university’s undergraduate and graduate programs, while 7,250 were enrolled in basic education..

• Removing:
  • Remove extra archbishop of Manila.
  • Remove as in as the Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santísimo.
  • Remove comma in renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas, and mostly Americans, living in the Philippines.
  • Remove the in operate during the martial law.
  • Remove comma, then remove the period and switch it with another comma in Quadricentennial Anniversary in 2011.",.
• Replacing:
  • ascribed to attributed
  • made to were in and Bernardo de Santa Catalina who made.
  • On to In in On June of 1606.
  • had written to wrote.
  • that informed to informing.
  • 2023-2024 to 2023–2024
  • was interrupted only twice; to has been interrupted only twice:
• Adding:
  • Add those of after to grant academic degrees similar to.
  • Add comma after University of Salamanca, Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, Catalina in and Bernardo de Santa Catalina who, The Royal Decree of May 20, 1865, UST's first Filipino rector was Leonardo Legaspi, operate during the martial law, founded on April 28, 1611 and In Supereminenti.
  • Add it was before renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas,

Campus

• UST, the largest university in the city of Manila, sits on an almost perfect square of 21.5 hectares bounded by España Boulevard to the southeast, Padre Noval Street to the southwest, Lacson Avenue to the northeast, and Dapitan Street to the northwest.. This statement needs to be reworked for a more encyclopaedia-ish style, it's more suitable for a feature article in news reports.
• The architectural style of buildings is influenced. Add within the campus after buildings.
• , among others.. Avoid weasel words.
• is an architectural jewel and everyone's image of UST.. A bit informal, suggest rewording or deleting.
• The ₱900 million St. John Paul II Building, inaugurated in 2019, serves as the extension of the UST Hospital.. Reword, put price in different part of the sentence, but that's up to you.

Administration and organization

• Remove space between source [85] and [86].
• A college is called a faculty, a college, a school, or an institute depending on the time the academic unit was established.[15] The "faculties" such as the Faculty of Civil Law were founded during the Spanish colonial period, while "colleges" and "schools", such as the College of Education and the Graduate School have been used since the American period. "Institutes" are organically independent units or adjuncts of a particular faculty or college. An adjunct institute that has attained enough enrollment is separated from its faculty or college and is made into a college in its own right.. Improve the wording just a bit.

Academic profile

• feast of day of St. Thomas Aquinas., add the before the statement.
• for the school year 2021-2022., use endash instead of hyphen.
• 85%ile., I think this is a typo, should definitely change with the proper information.
• In response to COVID-19 pandemic, classes, add the before COVID-19.
• E-Learning, uncapitalize.
• The UST Collection of Microbial Strains, as of 2019,, swap statements.
• Selangor, Malaysia., hyperlink.
• UST, primarily through the College of Science, is setting up a research and training facility building for the UST Laboratories for Vaccine Science, Molecular Biology, and Biotechnology, or the UST VaxLab. Currently, the center is developing inexpensive oral yeast vaccines against COVID-19 and African Swine Fever (ASF)., needs specific dates like year, month, or year and month at least.
• cultural mapping of various national cultural heritage., make heritage plural.
• It assisted in the development of San Pablo City Heritage District conservation guidelines,[153] rehabilitation of Immaculate Conception Parish Church in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, and churches in Bohol and Leyte,[154] cultural mapping of cities and municipalities in Baguio, Pampanga, Iloilo City, Samar, and Leyte, among others.. Change to It assisted in the development of San Pablo City Heritage District conservation guidelines, the rehabilitation of Immaculate Conception Parish Church in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, and churches in Bohol and Leyte, and the cultural mapping of cities and municipalities in Baguio, Pampanga, Iloilo City, Samar, and Leyte, among others..
• Several publications, add within the university or made by the university.
• The university journals have been available in a web portal since 2018., in to on.
• One hundred sixty, make into numerical form.
• 1001-1050 bracket, use endash instead of hyphen.
• and instruction that involves students,, add coma after instruction.
• held over 360,000 books, change held to holds.
• access to electronic resources remotely., change access to accesses.
• Baybayin, hyperlink and use baybayin instead.
• National Cultural Treasure by the National Archives of the Philippines in 2014., pluralize National Culture Treasure.
• (1626-1642), use endash.
• by the Dominican priest and professor, remove the.
• oldest continuing press, pluralize press.
• most of any private educational institutions, unpluralize institutions.

Student life

• waved by the UST Yellow Jackets at the bleachers., add more context about what the UST Yellow Jackets are since their information is just a little snippet of info.
• The highlight of the closing ceremonies is the graduating students' recessional parade through the Arch of the Centuries, which signifies the culmination of their Thomasian life., being called as the "highlight" is a bit opinionated, maybe change the wording.
• homecoming rites, remove italicization.
• Send-off Rites, uncapitalize.
• the UST Symphony Orchestra, is composed, remove comma.
• Buwisit, uncapitalize.
• of IPTV and internet., add the before internet.
• Change Espana Boulevard to España Boulevard.

Athletics

• second-winningest, winningest, words are informal, please switch.
• taekwando and poomsae, poomsae is a part of taekwondo, and taekwondo is misspelled.
• UST men’s senior teams are the only teams that have won gold in all sports disciplines., UST has won the men's basketball title 18 times in the UAAP since 1938 and one in the NCAA, bringing the total to 19. In 2006, the Tigers captured the basketball championship defeating the Ateneo Blue Eagles in two of the three games held. With the championship, the UST tied with the UE Red Warriors with 18 UAAP men's basketball titles, behind the league-leading FEU Tamaraws with 20. The Tigers reached the finals four times in the last decade., The Golden Tigresses, the women's volleyball team, is the UAAP's second-winningest team with 16 titles., As of 2023, UST has won the seniors division 46 times in the 75 seasons that the title has been awarded, including the record high 14-year run., please provide sources.
• but were swept by the Ateneo Blue Eagles, swept is a bit too informal.
• clinched the first game of the finals,, clinched is a bit too informal.
• in all the UAAP events., add of between all and the.

Notable people

• a prime minister of Spain Marcelo Azcárraga, remove a.
• current Archbishop of Manila José Lázaro Fuerte Advíncula Jr. and José Tomás Sánchez, add "As of [DATE]".
• a prime minister of Spain Marcelo Azcárraga, former prime minister.
• In sports, UST alumni include Olympians Jethro Dionisio in shooting, Donald Geisler and Tshomlee Go in taekwondo, and Ernest John Obiena in pole vault., there are more athletes outside of the Olympic who have came out of UST. Please add more.

In popular culture

• The entire section needs reworking, mostly on grammar and layout. Opening line sounds perfect though.
• The architecture alumni include Rod,, The biology students include Maureen Andrada,, fictional characters? Replace with Fictional [COURSE] alumni include... or something similar.
• Thomasians are also featured in the Wattpad novels, I Love You Since 1892, Chasing in the Wild, and Golden Scenery of Tomorrow.. How are Wattpad novels reliable or notable enough to be included in the body of the article?
• I think a list would probably be nice to arrange a timeline of UST's appearances on movies and other media.
• Movies that featured Thomasians include Pare Ko (1995),, move at the top since other movies were referenced above this statement that also included Thomasians.
• include the Sprite commercial, change the to a.

Images

• Every image seems to be relevant and have no copyright violations.
• Suitable captions.

Refs

• Is reference [319], is eCompare.com a reliable source?
• Is reference [348], from LionHearTV a reliable source?
• Is reference [353], from subslikescript.com a reliable source?
• Reference [346] uses Goodreads, a generally unreliable source. See Wikipedia:GOODREADS.
• Checked, no original research.
• References and notes are arranged properly.

Spotchecks

• Detector doesn't show anything, manual check shows nothing. Pass.

Misc.

• Considering it's one of the most well-known colleges in the country, it's incredible that it's stable.
• Article has a lot of issues on grammar and in following the MoS.
• Focused on the article, no relative bias. Very broad information about the subject, a lot of information needs to be sourced though.

Good Article review progress box Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

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