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Kenyon College

Do you have a source to verify that US News & World Report is the "most widely used" college ranking in North America? And why is this tidbit necessary to the article anyway (which is about Kenyon College, not about the rankings)? rʨanaɢ (talk) 00:37, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

A reliable ranking is the priority info to indroduce a college's reputation instead telling people bunch of awards issued by numerous differnt parties. I think most American students need this info before they make their decision. This article seems focus on advertising by mostly showing positive things and avaoiding negative things. According to Wikipedia's rule, doesnt matter if it's positve/negative, all facts about Kenyon College should be mentioned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Texaspublic (talk • contribs) 01:22, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

First of all, the text you added is not "facts", it's personal musing/synthesis about how to interpret facts (see WP:SYN), which is not permissible. It's not the job of Wikipedia editors to tell readers of an article what college rankings mean and how to interpret them; all we can do is report the rankings and let the reader decide what they mean. It's also not our job to help high school students make their decisions about colleges; Wikipedia is not a 'find the right college for you' website, it's an encyclopedia, and people can use other outlets for making decisions about colleges.

As for "a reliable ranking is the priority" in the lead section of the article, that is just something you made up. There is absolutely no rule or guideline in this project saying that university articles must begin with ranking information and that this ranking must be from US News & World Report. In fact, the article guidelines established by the Universities WikiProject say nothing at all about any requirement to include rankings in the lead. What they do say, however, (specifically, under Wikipedia:College and university article guidelines#Neutral point of view is that "Rankings should be neutrally worded without modifiers or disclaimers—i.e., personal disclaimers about why one ranking is less or more valuable than another, or arbitrary comparisons between two rankings for no particular reason, are not permissible. rʨanaɢ (talk) 05:11, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

See also WP:PRESTIGE#Do not parse rankings. rʨanaɢ (talk) 05:19, 2 January 2011 (UTC)