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Which college? Would love to see the edit history (and maybe even put it back).

• protomyth 10y ago
  http://bit.ly/2aiDI7v http://bit.ly/2aiDI7v
  • yoasif_ 10y ago
    Yeah -- that does seem like promotional material to me, and I looked at a couple of other university pages, and I don't see the "mission" and "values" statements reproduced on them. This policy may be helpful in getting some context around why the reverted edit seems acceptable to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Impartial_tone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...
    • protomyth 10y ago
      Except I was fixing the previous mission statement that was there and wrong. If mission and values are promotional, then people have a really broken view of what colleges and universities are.
      • yoasif_ 10y ago
        That's unfortunate that you were correcting something another editor felt doesn't belong in the article in the first place -- but it happens to every wikipedian at some point. > If mission and values are promotional, then people have a really broken view of what colleges and universities are. If the mission and values are "real", there will be actions borne of that mission and values, which are likely encyclopedic. "What happened" is not likely to get removed.
        • protomyth 10y ago
          Well, they could actually explain why it was allowed and then not allowed. It is not a good way to get future participation. Mission and Value statements are real for colleges and universities. You are judged on them in many situations. I have problems with the idea they are not important in an article about an institution. Founding values and chartered mission is a very important part of the University / College charter. Even if business makes fun of these things, it matters to others.