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notable academics

I don't think we need to get into that game, because quite frankly it always winds up with a bunch of randoms who happen to be people's favourite lecturers getting added. If a case can be made for notability- i.e. prodigious research output in top journals (e.g. Nature, Science etc), or elected fellowship of learned societies (e.g. Royal Soc, British Academy, US Academy of Sciences etc) or they are notable for their public outreach work, e.g. as science writers or commentators on national events, then a case could be made for putting them in. With the best will in the world, this is unlikely to extend to a physicist whose papers are 'admittedly of marginal impact'! I have reverted for now, comments appreciated. Badgerpatrol 23:05, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

University ratings

(I'm posting this to all articles on UK universities as so far discussion hasn't really taken off on Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Universities.)

There needs to be a broader convention about which university rankings to include in articles. Currently it seems most pages are listing primarily those that show the institution at its best (or worst in a few cases). See Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Universities#University ratings. Timrollpickering 23:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Motto

I note that someone has asked for a citation for the stated motto. There are in fact two probable problems. I have fixed the first, but left the second to others to research and debate.

The first is that the motto is stated as "lucem sequamiir". This is an underwstandable mistranscription. The "u"s in the motto as printed are difficult to tell from "ii" (a double "i"), but if this were the case it would be "liicem seqiimiir", which is celarly wrong. In fact my rather rusty Latin tells me that "lucem sequamur" means something like "We might follow the light". I have therefore changed "sequamiir" to "sequamur".

The second issue is that the motto went with the crest used when the establishment was Portsmouth Polytechnic. I can find no current use of the crest or motto, in which case it may be appropriate to remove it from the box, and possibly add it to the text under a section regarding the establishment's former guises. Since I have not been able to confirm that the motto is no longer in use, I have not acted on this, but leave it to others. SMeeds 13:56, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I also think it was not spelt correctly as originally put. The city's coat of arms includes the motto "Heaven's light our guide", presumably a reference to maritime navigation, which is obviously somewhat similiar. I can't however find any reference to this being used as the University motto either (I can't remember what the polytechnic's badge looked like!). if no-one's been able to find a cite in the next few days then I'll remove it entirely. Badgerpatrol 01:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Notable Alumni

I removed excessive detail as follows. Maybe a separate entry needs to be created for this individual if he/she is considered notable. If not, then he/she should be deleted from here. I note Badgerpatrol's comment at the top of this page on notable academics and will contact him.

Removed content (and a bit of context):

Dr. El Amine Lehtihet - Professor and widely published author - ]

SMeeds 09:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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