Template talk:Colleges and universities in Los Angeles County, California
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Wouldn't that be in Kern County? --MarsRover (talk) 22:30, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
- Right, I took care of it. Ameriquedialectics 22:50, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Major revision to table
I made several significant changes to the template. I shortened schools' names, including deleting "University" and "College" whenver possible. (If I got any shortened names wrong, please fix it.) I also merged the Cal State schools' links, and similarly added the individual Claremont schools while still grouping them together. YLee (talk) 06:31, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Pomona/Cal Poly Pomona
- My only concern was consistency with the other Cal State schools' links and balancing accuracy and succinctness. I am happy to have it changed back to "Cal Poly Pomona" if spelling that out is overall preferable to succinctness and consistency. YLee (talk) 21:56, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
- Three years later I've reedited the template to just say "Pomona". This is consistent with the usage on the Cal State template. Ylee (talk) 09:24, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Private v for profit categories
My recent edit of the template was to use a non-POV term in describing all of the non-public schools. Personally, I have no concern about whether a school (university, college, etc.) is public, private, non-profit, for profit, religious, etc. But I note that
- I agree, after taking a two-second look at the WP:UNDUE amount of criticism of the industry. That said, the difference between non-profit and for-profit private universities is a basic and, to my mind, neutral, one on the level of the difference between public and private. I have no objection to merging the private and for-profit categories if that is what is decided. Antioch and FIDM probably should be moved into "For-profit", too; good catch on those. YLee (talk) 06:17, 9 October 2010 (UTC)]
I take this as agreement to merge the private and for-profit cats, thus going back to my revision. BTW, in Googling "for-profit college", we get 600k+ articles, with WP coming up first, after which the recent for-profit controversy was the subject. The pro and anti articles were fairly evenly split. With the recent topicality in mind, I think WP:NPOV demands that we steer clear (or is it stear cleer?) of going beyond the broadly encompassing, understandable, and appropriate Public/Private University classifications. Again, we can parse out private U's into religious, ethnic, etc., categories (which are just as basic) but doing so will likely lead to confusion. E.g., how would we classify a private, historically African-American, religious based/sponsored, not-for-profit, women's college without an ROTC program, such as