Talk:University of Canterbury

Recent edits

Hi all,

As you know I have made some recent edits to the page. Apologies for being so edit-happy. In light of this, I would just like some consensus from the community on whether the edits are welcome or need to be toned down, and what areas the community would like seen edited.

Kind regards, MitchellMatchbox (talk) 02:41, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Insistence on adding rankings of civil engineering in the lede

Summerdays1 has begun an edit war with multiple editors to add the following statement to the lede of this article:

The university is well known for its Engineering and Science programmes, with its Civil Engineering programme ranked 9th in the world (Academic Ranking of World Universities, 2021).

First, the cited source doesn't support the claim - the ranking of a single program in a single year in one ranking system cannot support such a sweeping claim. Second, the lede of an article is supposed to summarize what's in the body of an article and this isn't even mentioned in the article much less discussed in the kind of detail that merits summarization in the lede. Third, the capitalization and linking used in the sentence is unnecessary.

Summerdays1, why are you insisting that this sentence be added to the lede over the objections of two editors? ElKevbo (talk) 12:27, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Summerdays1, please stop edit warring. If you don’t, this will result in your account getting blocked – and then it’s winter days. Schwede66 16:22, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

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