Talk:George Mason University

Notable Faculty

[1] All of these professors should be included as notable faculty. Some are already there. Trefil and Hazen for example are regarded very highly in their respective fields. If you noticed, Trefil already has his own wikipedia page, thus showing that he is a recognized person.

GMU Police

Another prominent aspect of GMU is the seemingly ubiquitous presence of the GMU Police.. there is a ratio of approximately 1 officer per 135 resident students. Thc420 05:22, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thats common of all universities. Agriculture 05:43, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Final Four

I am deleteing the sentence "In what is regarded as the greatest upset in NCAA history"... it happend all of three hours from the time that I am writing this, there is absolutley no way someone can objectively make that statement. It's a great accomplishment, but to make that claim only hours after the accomplishment its ridiculous.

Mid Majors in Final Four

There was a statement that said they were the first mid-major since 1979 to be in the Final 4, when Penn made it as a #9 seed. This is not true, there have been a handful of "mid-majors" (or for argument's sake, teams not from one of the 6 BCS conferences) to have made the Final 4 since 1979, they were just all #1 seeds so it wasn't such a surprise that they did it. Indiana St. did it as a #1 (also in 1979), so did UNLV in 1990/91, as did UMass in 1996. There are others but I'm pretty sure they are in BCS conferences now if they weren't at the time of their Final Four appearance. I changed it to "the first team from a mid-major conference that was not seeded #1 to reach the Final Four since 1979, when Penn reached as a #9 seed."

marcusmv3 12:58, 28 March 2006

are you illiterate

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GMU Presidents Past and Present

Under the Presidents Past and Present section, "George W. Johnson, (1978-1996)" links to a page on George Washington Johnson, an African-American singer and song recording artist who died in 1914. The correct "George W. Johnson" is George William (not Washington) Johnson, who was born in 1928.

University Housing

The current copy says that student housing for 700 students opened in 1986. This is incorrect. I started at GMU in 1981 and the student apartments were already open. In the fall of 1982 I moved into the 2nd dorm building when it opened (Dominion Hall, Commonweath Hall had already opened).

Upper level academic programs

I added a small section about the Honors Program in Gen. Ed. and the University Scholars program because I feel that in the coming years they will become more and more well known. It is also useful for those using Wikipedia for admissions info.

Edit warring to insert unreliable source

An unregistered editor has begun an edit war to insert the following paragraph as a new section labeled "Illegal Hiring Based on Race."

In 2021, GMU President announced that he would be hiring new faculty based on race, despite it being illegal under U.S. Law. He justified this by stating, incorrectly, that the student population was minority white and that this was reflective of the United States (which is over 60% white, whereas GMU's student is less than 50% white). GMU's president then said that if two candidates were equally qualified, that the "non-white" candidate would be superior.

First, there are no indications that this (obviously partisan) source is reliable. Second, a new section based solely on this one source is clearly undue weight. If this is a genuinely noteworthy event, editors are obligated to provide reliable sources that clearly establish it as a noteworthy event that merits inclusion in an encyclopedia article. This is not a news blog and we are not obligated (nor can we) to include every event that occurs at this university nor every opinion about what occurs at this university. More importantly, we don't include information from partisan sources in Wikipedia's voice; at a minimum it would have to be attributed. ElKevbo (talk) 02:25, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

(disclaimer: I'm COI with respect to Mason) I concur with ElKevbo - undue weight, source is unreliable, and the phrasing is very WP:SYNTH/non-neutral given the reliability of the source. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:57, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Our unregistered colleague added additional sources but they are of the same caliber and partisan status as the original source so they do little to change this discussion. Since there has been no response, I have removed the material. Editors who disagree are encouraged to participate in this discussion. ElKevbo (talk) 16:46, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

The section describing what happened starting in 1972 sounds like it was written by the University's press office. I have marked it as lacking a neutral point of view. Matt Zeidenberg (talk) 11:11, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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