Talk:University of Texas at Tyler/Archive 1

Archive 1

Article copied verbatim from website

The text from this website has been copied onto this article. This could be a violation of copyright. Please rewrite this article to make it original, and also include proper references. Also, Wikipedia is not to be used for recruitment purposes. --Blueag9\^talk 09:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

• I removed copied section/contents.There are confusions about some of these sections like Tuition and Fees, Buildings, Activities, Ten most popular majors.I think, they shouldn't be considered as copied content,because they might be remained same.However, Anyone can rewrite it from that link --NAHID 21:02, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Uttylerpatriotlogo.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:17, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

The Main Building??

Am I correct here: The ref at the bottom of page to the old "The Main Building" web site is not applicable as that site is primarily devoted to architecture found only at UT Austin.  ?? Buddpaul (talk) 19:41, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

.....um....well, since noone responded, I'm just going to delete it. Buddpaul (talk) 00:39, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Update please

Isn't there anyone at UT Tyler who is capable and willing to update this wiki page occasionally? I worked up much of the page content while my son was attending UTT from 2005 to 2009, hoping that eventually somebody at UT Tyler would update things. Many of the stats are from the 2008-2009 academic year. Take a little pride in your school! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.58.246.49 (talk) 00:15, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Update please, AGAIN!

Well another full year has passed and not one d#%n thing has been changed or updated here. Same old stats, same old embarrassing picture of girl wearing bump helmet in groovey peddle car. Can't one of you smart college kids figure out how to edit a simple wiki page? How about mentioning the newly approved Doctor of Pharmacy degree at UT Tyler, huh? You people spend too much time on Twitter. 204.58.246.49 (talk) 01:48, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Is there some reason why you can't make the edits, updates, and additions that you are talking about? L'être et le néant (talk) 16:12, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Update please, again, AGAIN!

You have to be kidding me -- another d@mn year has passed and no substantial updates or changes to this article, AGAIN! Does anyone at UT Tyler even know that Wikipedia exists, or that there is an article about UT Tyler on Wikipedia? Is UT Tyler so academically prestigious that no one there would deign to update this article for the sake of his school's online reputation? Shame on the faculty; shame on you kids! AND STAY OFF MY LAWN! 71.2.179.83 (talk) 07:19, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

The UT Tyler campus setting is definitely suburban -- not urban.

Although UT Tyler's campus is technically inside (barely) the corporate limits of a small/medium size city (population 100,000), the campus setting is far more suburban than urban. UT Tyler's campus is mostly surrounded by residential neighborhoods of single family dwellings. The campus location requires some form of automotive transportation to reach common city features such as shopping and other municipal services. Most UT Tyler students live off campus and most are automotive commuters. There is nothing about UT Tyler's campus setting that would suggest that it is contiguous with a high density urban population, such as UT Austin, UT Arlington, UT Dallas, UT San Antonio, University of Houston, Rice University, SMU, TCU, UNT, etc. 204.58.248.32 (talk) 00:22, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned references in University of Texas at Tyler

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of University of Texas at Tyler's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Carnegie":

• From University of Texas at Austin: "Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup". carnegieclassifications.iu.edu. Center for Postsecondary Education. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
• From University of Houston System: [1] Carnegie Foundation University Classification|accessdate=2011-02-06
• From List of colleges and universities in Texas: "Carnegie Foundation University Classification". Retrieved 2011-02-06.
• From Texas Tech University: Barton, Kristen. "Tech achieves Tier One Carnegie Designation". DailyToreador.com. The Daily Toreador. Retrieved February 2, 2016.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 08:16, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Two more years gone by and barely any change or update to this article.

Does anyone who works at or attends UT Tyler even have a digital camera to take a few pics of the campus buildings that would prove to skeptics that this school really exists? How about mentioning the new construction happening on the south edge of the campus (Spring and Fall 2017)? How about mentioning UT Tyler's Houston Engineering Center? How about UT Tyler's STEM charter school, Innovation Academy? Here's my point: many people who have only heard that there is a branch of the University of Texas located in Tyler will look up this Wikipedia article to get a first, and possibly only, impression of this school, and conclude that there just really isn't anything noteworthy going on there. Are UT Tyler faculty, staff, and students embarrassed or ashamed of this school, so that they would rather not show the world what UT Tyler is really like? Or is it just laziness, or ineptitude by the Tyler community that has kept this article almost identical for over ten years now? Perhaps this article really does accurately reflect the spirit of this school. Prospective students who have a choice should apply elsewhere.204.58.246.49 (talk) 18:02, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

>> With respect, either make the updates yourself or quit complaining about it. You don't have to be formally associated with an institution to make Wikipedia updates (and it's probably best if updates are made by those aren't employed by said institution). 98.6.11.10 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:40, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Questionable neutrality

Neutral, bias-free language is the foundation of Wikipedia and must be employed in every article on Wikipedia. However, there are several sections and passages in this particular article that are anything but neutral. Many of these sections come across as heavily biased and promotional, reading almost like an advertisement or self-promotional material. It is urged that neutrality be improved. L'être et le néant (talk) 15:31, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

The language I'm seeing is mostly pretty neutral. The article goes into some detail about the school's accomplishments, but it seems to be based on reliable sources, and I don't think it uses particularly promotional language. There are a couple of spots in the Campus section where there is subjective wording, and there is some mention of trivial items (like the individual members of the debate teams). Am I missing other examples? Remember that you can go into the article yourself and provide alternative wording. Larry Hockett (Talk) 17:43, 29 May 2022 (UTC)