Talk:University of Mumbai

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:18, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Why This is NOT A GOOD ARTICLE?

this is really bad that both DU and this article are way behind in quality if compared with University of Calcutta. --Onef9day ^Talk! 10:24, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Alumni section problems

It needs alphabetization.Dogru144 (talk) 16:33, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Statistics

In the previous few years it has seen 104% increase in undergraduates, 112% increase in post-graduate students and 147% increase in distance education students. There is 156% increase in the number of research papers published in international journals. Twelve department/ sections are recognized under national programmes such as SAP, CAS, DRS, DSA, COSIST, FIST. More than 80 teachers are on professional bodies. Eighteen national/ international awards were won by teachers in the last five years. Every year about 20 teachers visit abroad for academic activities. Recently more than 10 self-supporting courses have been started by the university.

Interesting set of stats here (last para of the introduction). They need references and also need to be elaborated. Rohini (talk) 11:39, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Just discovered this is a copyright violation and a use of the primary source: http://www.mu.ac.in/History.html Rohini (talk) 13:25, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Copyright violations

A lot of the content on this page has been plagiarised from the primary source, i.e., the official website of Mumbai University. For example, the "History" section has been copied from http://www.mu.ac.in/History.html. I have tried to copy edit this as much as possible, but clearly more needs to be done. The article relies heavily on the primary source, which is the university website. We need more secondary and reliable sources. Rohini (talk) 13:23, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Aren't there sources from Newspapers? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 12:36, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

"Largest university in the world, by no. of graduates"?

The article introduction claims that the University of Mumbai is the "largest university in the world by number of graduates". I highly doubt this, and would like to see a valid reference or citation supporting such a claim. if unsupported, this sentence should be removed. --EngineeringGuy (talk) 20:03, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Separate list for departments, alumni & vice chancellors, with citations

I suggest the sections on Departments, Vice Chancellors and "Notable Alumni" be moved to separate lists in the interest of brevity. Also, each of them needs reliable, third-party citations. -- Rohini (talk) 23:49, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Well worth considering as it does not present well at the moment. I expect there are guidelines or Featured Articles to guide one as to which method of improvement would be best. Alumni, faculty and staff can work well as text rather than a list (see University of London but they need to be split into subject rather than date or A>Z. Might it be worth retaining a few 'super notables' in text if the decision is made to hive off a list of mere notables such as prime ministers or Nobel laureates? VCs work well by date; I am surprised some VCs do not yet have articles and some might argue they should be removed from the list; I would not agree in this instance. Departments is difficult as it all too easily reads as a brochure. SovalValtos (talk) 00:31, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

For VCs that do not have articles, citations can be used to retain them in the list. I have redlinked the VCs names so that new articles may be created. I agree with retaining the names of exceptionally notable staff and alumni. As for names of departments, I suggest either removing the department section entirely (as this information is easily available at the primary source) or moving it to a list. The departments section doesn't add encyclopaedic value to the article. -- Rohini (talk) 07:19, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

I will divide Notable alumni into sections sorted A>Z as whatever is decided on the section's fate it will be easier to handle.SovalValtos (talk) 21:43, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

I am helping with this. Also trying to arrange the names within A>Z alphabetically. -- Rohini (talk) 10:59, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

I have now done a first sort. Some checking of my work for mistakes would be appreciated. There is room for refinement of the subsections. I have had enough for now SovalValtos (talk) 23:29, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

For the faculties section would it be worth considering using those collapsible devices (I am sorry I do not know their name) to hide the lists of departments unless they were wanted to be seen? SovalValtos (talk) 00:13, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Those are called collapsible/ expandable menus. Definitely doable. -- Rohini (talk) 11:00, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Oh dear! I thought I was being helpful in sorting and it turns out that in my ignorance I was sorting on the wrong name. Sorry for the trouble caused. Sometimes there is a benefit from an editor coming from a different culture, but not this time. I look forward to seeing how Edward Hamilton Aitken will be sorted though. Overall I think it is looking better and I approve of your renaming of the sub-sections. I think there is room for improvement at the head giving some overview of the alumni in text, but that would need a source. Collapsible/ expandable menus could be used here for the sections; my preference is not. SovalValtos (talk) 19:56, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

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