Talk:University of Tasmania

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Methinks a famous/notable Alumni section would help the page, as well as photos of the different campuses? -Tintin

Excuse me 24.82.142.216, what makes you think you can delete whole paragraphs of my hard work and change the entire feel of this article without even consulting anyone? The stuff you got rid of was all true and verifiable on the UTAS website, and what's more it gave a lot of information about specific research. Your stuff states the obvious that is true of any university, and moreover, it seems to be all very biased towards talking up and bragging about how beautiful it is to live and study in Hobart. Are you from admin, methinks? Since you spent two days on it I'll leave it but please comment before we may change it back. -tilgrieog January 2, 2006.

Oh screw this he won't stop changing it and the article has been taken over by people who don't have very good taste. Well it's all yours, I'm abandoning it now. Tilgrieog 13:57, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

High ya folks! If you wish to remove things that I just added, please explain the reasons here. In fact if you wish to remove anything, please say why here.

If you don't provide a reason, why I might just go and put whatever it was back again.--harrismw 01:38, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I think this article needs heaps more information. Look at the pages for all the other Australian universities--we need to make UTAS look like it's actually an important one. It'd be a fun job I'd be interested in. -tilgrieog

I'd be willing to help, though I don't know a lot about the Uni (despite going there for a few years!) Maybe a WP:ACOTF? -- Chuq 05:57, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Finally put more info in and changed what was there so that it made sense. I tried to copy the style so that all Australian unis have the same look to them, so if you're going to do something please help maintain that style. I'd like some piccies now (as all articles should have). --tilgrieog

Contents 1 describing sceneray 2 Australian Tertiary Education History 3 Academic Strengths 4 Couple of quick changes 5 Assessment

[edit] describing sceneray

Tasmania itself is blessed with a clean, green environment and a safe and friendly atmosphere. The scenery is stunning and includes mountain wilderness, temperate rainforests, star-filled nights, and large, unspoiled, and wide-open sandy beaches with turquoise coloured seascapes. It therefore should come as no surprise that the state is famous for having established the world's very first Green Party. Its main cities of Hobart and Launceston offer a full range of urban services and entertainment, and reflect a high quality of life that is indicative of cities that have preserved their natural surroundings and architectural history whilst also ensuring modern amenities. The climate is largely Mediterranean, though it does receive snowfall at higher mountain elevations, and as a consequence there is a brief and rudimentary, but nevertheless, enthusiastic ski season.

I fail to see why the above needs to be in the arctile at all. It should be in the Tasmania article (and less POV). --AFA 10:33, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Tertiary Education History

The History of the University paragraph is pointless unless it reveals the Sydney Sparkes Orr case! 124.178.70.17 15:31, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Academic Strengths

I was surprised to see so many subjects listed here as academic strengths of the university. I don't believe this university is strong (in comparison with other australian universities) in so many areas. This is important because the those areas in which the university truly excels are hidden by this suspiciously long list. A list as big as this is the same as having no list at all. --Fatsug 07:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Correct. How can that many things be UTAS's "speciality" - you may as well just say they research everything! But blame 24.82.142.216, who tried to turn the WP article into a brochure! Tilgrieog 11:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Couple of quick changes

Hey, new user from NW Tassie; made a quick change at the start regarding courses offered in Burnie to bring it into line; also added a short paragraph regarding Faculty of Law - but I agree that each faculty should probably have (at least) its own subject heading. MojoTas 02:57, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi MojoTas, good edits- but could you add a couple of URLs (to websites, or news references) with sources? I realise a lot of the article doesn't have this, but it would be good to start the trend! -- Chuq 13:16, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

I've given this article a start grade for the work that has already been done - however, there is a massive lack of daughter pages, dead links, and a lack of images (copyright promises to be a pain there, but we'll see what we can do.) Equally, I've given it mid-importance as a starting position; however, depending on the subsidiary pages, high importance may be justified. MojoTas 05:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC)