Talk:Slippery Rock University/Archive 1

Archive 1

Comments

This reads like a brochure and needs a less propoganda-like tone, especially in sections about stuff like "vision." User:Cwilli201

Oh yes, it seems like the bulk of the article was lifted off of the information brochure for the university. I think it requires some major changes to make it sound more NPOV. 69.25.229.25 10:17, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

I have removed everything that I found to be a copyvio from text online. Other text may also violate the university's copyright. Angr (talk) 10:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Alumni Section

If it can be verified that every person in the alumni section holds the titles/positions or are actually doing what the section implies,then I suggest removing any name that can't be backed up by some sorce Sru79 05:39, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

There is a source for Ryan Muldowney. He has a page on IMDB. The address is: [1]—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.168.247.209 (talk) 22:56, 24 June 2007 (UTC).

Okay I followed the link you provided and couldn’t find a title of television producer anywhere in the page. So, due to the fact that he is not a producer of television shows, but an assistant to a production crew more notably in post production, I am reverting it back to production assistant. I don’t even know what American Dad is on there for since its states that he is working in the animation department doing animatics.

So anonymous user 76.168.247.209, please do not falsify information. Sru79 03:16, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Since American Dad is an animated show,animation is obviously part of the production process. And assistants are active participants in a television production. They aren't just assisting a crew, they are actually working to produce a product. Feel free to change it to assistant if it will help you sleep better at night, but I think whoever put it on there did so just to simplify. ]—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.168.247.209 (talk) 03:24, 25 June 2007 (UTC).

SRU79. How do we verify employment/position??

So as per your definition; a camera operator works on a program and captures footage. That captured footage aids in producing a product. Therefore a camera operator is really a television producer.

Lets just keep it as is.

Other job titles that can’t be verified are:

• Brian "Scoop" Gilliespie - Media Personality
• Mark A. Kratz - Financial Analyst - The Boeing Company
• Michael J. Mallory - Play by Play broadcaster, Frontier League Baseball
• Russell J. O'Connor - Senior Financial Analyst - TIAA-CREF

All other names are verified. Sru79 06:34, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Verification Documents

SRU79, Please use this section to post allowable documents to verify positions etc. How does one go about submitting these documents?

130.76.32.181 18:50, 26 July 2007 (UTC)MK

To answer that, I will reply by writing that there needs to be an identification of reputable third-party sources that can verify your person of interest, mostly through articles on the web.

This will explain it better than I ever could Wikipedia:Verifiability

Hoped that helped Sru79 19:56, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Alumni Section Needs Updated

While I am all for people being proud of graduating college, this section is outweighing the over-all article. Some names will have to go. Any takers on helping me legitimize this article's alumni section? Sru79 (talk) 22:31, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Ryan Griffin's claim to fame is that he led the jazz band in 2004? Don't think he qualifies as notable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.201.228.199 (talk) 02:49, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Devin Goda - Slippery Rock wide receiver, NFL wide receiver with Baltimore Ravens. Currently model on Price Is Right. This is arguably your most high profile alum and you omitted him! Myboo127 (talk) 16:07, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

RFID chip

this page should mention how the university is now using rfid chips in ID cards to track students. It's mentioned on the RFID page. Msahimi (talk) 17:58, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Facts

While some of these facts do not have the proper sourcing. The translation of sru.edu is not what user Igogo3000 claims it to be. The source that is linked gives the russian (сру еду which is sru edu) the translation (and again this is the language of translate.google.com) shit food . That is not the web page cited at the top of this page, www.sru.edu. This is why I have chosen to eliminate the entry. Matter of fact, all web pages that have a .edu should have the phrase "_____________'s domain name (___.edu) transliterated to Russian means "____food" Warrior™ (talk) 18:43, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

The translation of sru.edu is not what user Igogo3000 claims it to be. It surely is. Every russian reading "sru.edu" imagines someone confessing that he shits food. This is a popular joke in Russian internet. I agree that translate.google.com is not reliable source, it even doesn't come apart "shit food" as an object and as an action (in real translation it is an action), but it seems impossible to find reliable source in internet on this obvious joke.

That is not the web page cited at the top of this page, www.sru.edu. Correct, but "sru.edu" is domain name of Slippery Rock University, and by putting "sru.edu" to browser's address bar, one gets Slippery Rock website.

Matter of fact, all web pages that have a .edu should have the phrase... Right, there are a lot of uninteresting facts in the world. The "sru.edu" fact is funny and therefore interesting. --Igogo3000 (talk) 16:42, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

It surely is It surely isn't. You are missing the one vital part of the whole translation and that is the web site is sruDOTedu, not sruSPACEedu. If it can't be properly sited than it can't be included. Warrior™ (talk) 21:53, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

OK, I'm giving up. It is clear that the joke will never be accepted by SRU's people. But doesn't your explanation seem funny to yourself? Maybe, say, penisland.net isn't funny because of absence of space between penis and land? Or maybe you can see the space between pen and island? URL restrictions are well-known so it is common when user must perform some transformation to address to get the meaning. For sru.edu the meaning from Russian's point of view is "shit food". --Igogo3000 (talk) 18:27, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Record

During my college years, I remember that Slippery Rock, then a teacher's college, as I remember, held the record for the longest run of losses in varsity football. I'm not poking fun: I always admired their pluck. Each additional loss was usually to a much larger, presumably better-funded school. Currently, Cal Tech has won their first basketball game (men's varsity) after a record # of losses. They're getting national recognition: no publicity is bad publicity, as they say. Ragityman (talk) 14:52, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Their score was always one of the ones announced during Memphis State home games years ago. A form of backdoor respect and even (grudging?) admiration, no doubt. 75.201.228.199 (talk) 02:52, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Teaching with Wikipedia Workshop at CMU (Aug 15)

Editors interested in this article may find the Teaching with Wikipedia Workshop that will take place at CMU on Aug 15 of interest. This workshop is open to general public, and is a joint imitative of CMU and Pitt). There will be another workshop held at Pitt in the Fall as well. It will cover how to include Wikipedia in one's course (WP:SUP) and also how to become a Wikipedia:Campus Ambassadors. Pennsylvania has currently only one ambassador (myself) and it would be great if we could recruit at least several more. Ambassadors help course instructors, showing them how Wikipedia works, and interact with students. Many current ambassadors come from the body of students, faculty and university staff; it is a fun adventure, and adds to one resume/CV, to boot :) If it sounds interesting, feel free to ask me any questions, or to come to the workshop. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 20:32, 9 August 2011 (UTC)