Talk:École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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Comparison to MIT

I took out the reference to EPFL being "often referred to as the MIT of Europe" as the sources were: 1) dead and 2) pure propaganda. Since no one outside of the EPFL public relations department has ever referred to EPFL as the MIT of Europe, it just seems pathetic to try and promote this claim on wikipedia. 128.178.153.230 (talk) 15:38, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

So, someone undid my edit with no explanation. I want to point out that of the two references given, reference 2 is dead (i.e. it goes somewhere completely unrelated) and reference 3 does not support the claim at all. The speaker refers to EPFL and ETHZ as being the Swiss equivalent of MIT. Not "Europe's MIT." Thus, the references do not support the claim at all. Further, trying to promote the idea that EPFL is "Europe's MIT" just looks like pathetic boasting by some overzealous public relations person. Why can't EPFL be Europe's EPFL? Why pretend to be something that we are not? 128.178.153.230 (talk) 08:46, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

'The EPFL' vs. 'EPFL'

I know it might look a little unusual, but the university is referred to locally as 'the EPFL' (by staff and students, as well the PR dept). Should the article represent common usage, or how an English speaker would guess it would be used? GyroMagician (talk) 21:31, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

If you look at the EPFL webpage (www.epfl.ch), EPFL is referred to frequently as "EPFL" and not "the EPFL." As for it being referred to locally as "the EPFL," I can confirm that locally it is referred to as "EPFL" by many native English speakers. So, at the very least there is some confusion here and it seems like if the article is to be written for the English Wikipedia, then standard English usage might be more suitable. Either way, it should at least be consistent (which it currently is not). 128.178.153.230 (talk) 08:50, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Looking at the EPFL website, the official line seems to agree with you, so go ahead and update. And +1 for consistency. GyroMagician (talk) 18:53, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Musée Bolo

Musée Bolo (in French)http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_Bolo has some info which could be included here - but WP:CWW would require that attribution be available. The following articles could probably use such an inclusion:

• Ohio Scientific
• Sharp PC-1500
• Grundy NewBrain

If notable on the English wiki, the museum could have its own article of course! --Trevj (talk) 14:58, 27 June 2011 (UTC)