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North Carolina State University edit

Like many university articles, most of the contributors to this article are alumni thus there may be bias and boasting. I would like a peer review of the article too find points to improve so it can meet Wikipedia standards. --Thunder 17:29, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It can be improved by reducing links to solitary years. A monobook tool allows this to be done with one click on a 'dates' tab in edit mode. You can then accept or reject the changes offered and/or do more editing before pressing 'Save'. Simply copy the entire contents of User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to your own monobook. Then follow the instructions in your monobook to clear the cache (i.e. press Ctrl-Shift-R in Firefox, or Ctrl-F5 in IE) before it will work. Hope that helps. bobblewik 19:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please see automated peer review suggestions here. Thanks, Andy _t 23:44, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article is already at 45k (which is appreciably larger than the suggested 30k text limit) and needs expanding in just about every section. In cases like this, the accepted practice per Wikipedia:Article Series and WP:SS is to create subarticles for the larger sections and expand on the topic more fully in the subarticle while summarizing the subarticle and providing a link from the main article. Beyond that, my biggest beef is more of an aesthetic complaint with the large, unwieldy tables... they provide good information, but they dominate the page wherever they appear. Someone should probably scale those down and make them more visually appealing. --Vengeful Cynic 14:35, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agree about the tables. They make the article look awful. The Academic Units Table and Varsity Sports Tables should be deleted, and the key points should be stated in prose. Also, the bullet points should be dramatically reduced (ideally, eliminated all together). Try to convert all of this to prose. For example, the bullet points for the four sections of campus are completely unnecessary. This should be in stated in paragraph form and the campus titles should not be bolded. There are also too many short sections that should be combined. For example, Technician, The Agromeck, and WKNC 88.1 should not have their own sections, but rather be three paragraphs within the same section. Some sections need to be expanded, while People should be cut down considerably and a List of North Carolina State University people article should be created. This article is probably under-references as well (20 refs not enough for an article of this length). Titles of magazines should be italicized - stuff like that should be looked for closely. Hope this advice helps. See FA's University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Cornell University for good examples. -Bluedog423 01:29, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]