Talk:University of Waikato

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Given the existence of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Race_(rowing) would it not be more appropriate to have a link to that page and move the information about the 'great' race there?

Botrytis 09:03, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't think DAG Technology should be merged. The University of Waikato initially created it - that's all - and now it's made by Endace.

Imcdnzl 04:21, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:University of Waikato logo.svg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:10, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Premier business school?

A claim is made that the University of Waikato School of Management is New Zealand's premier business school. Two references are given for this. [1] supports this claim, but is obviously written by the university, not by an independent third-party. Language on this site such as "We are committed to providing..." make it very clear that this is simply advertising. Other pages on topuniversities.com are not just advertising, but this page is unacceptable as a reference.

The other reference given is a University of Waikato republishing of data from the Performance Based Research Fund. PBRF information is reliable, but this page doesn't make the claims the anon is making (the word "premier" does not appear on that page at all).

The anon claims in an edit summary that "QS rankings website cannot just write unfactual information, it is considered illegal", but this is written by the University, not by QS, and the University can make marketing claims about itself. However, Wikipedia is not the place to do this.-gadfium 18:40, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Information overhaul

Compared to the wikipedia entries for other NZ universities, this entry is out of date and missing important information. We would like to update the entry and bring in a range of new/different subheadings to bring this entry more into line with other university information on Wikipedia. This would involve a complete rewrite of much of the information (and the removal of some of the hyperbole currently in the entry), and I want to check via this talk page that this would be acceptable to Wikipedians. 130.217.227.3 (talk) 01:28, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for coming to this talk page first. I do not have a problem in principle with you updating and restructuring the article, as long as the material you add is neutrally worded and backed by sources. We prefer sources which are independent of the University, but for non-controversial matters a University source is okay. If you have not already done so, please read our guideline related to conflict of interest.

While you are not obliged to do so, I suggest you create an account for this work, so we can distinguish between your edits and those of other people at the University. Your account should represent yourself, not the University (so an account named "University of Waikato" would not be acceptable, but "Jane/John at Waikato" would be), and you do not need to give your real name or identifying details, but it would be polite to add a note on your user page saying that you work for the University (if this is the case).

Please wait for a week before making major changes to the article to give any other editors a chance to respond to your request.-gadfium 02:56, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

thanks for the advice; I have now created an account and declared my COI as suggested. I welcome other comments and will be ready to upload the revised article in a week's time. Waikato Wordwizard (talk) 01:14, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Soundscape (New Zealand festival)

I have proposed that this festival be merged into this article as it fails to reach the necessary notability for festivals under WP:GNG. It is also in line with Otago University's O week which is included within that University's main article. NealeFamily (talk) 01:03, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Oppose:it occurs at the same time as, but doesn't seem restricted to, the University orientation week. Hence, independent; independent notability comes from the newspaper coverage of the event.Klbrain (talk) 21:19, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Maori language

While I appreciate the need for the use of several Maori words in this article, since it is written for speakers of other languages (English in this case), in my opinion, each Maori term should have a translation into English. This is essential to readability.Fredricwilliams (talk) 16:44, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Scholarships

The University announced two new scholarships in 2017. The first, named Te Ara Ki Angitu seeks to provide students from regional areas of the Waikato an opportunity to come to university, an opportunity that may not have been possible without the scholarship. The second scholarship is named Te Paewai o te Rangi and is a scholarship focused on high achieving students.

<https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/hauraki-herald/89697392/whitianga-and-waihi-student-trio-collect-over-70000-worth-of-scholarships-to-university-of-waikato>

Dcraig9965 (talk) 18:48, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Reply 26-FEB-2018

 Declined

• Dissemination of information on scholarships is the institution's responsibility, not Wikipedia's, per WP:NOBLECAUSE.

Spintendo      00:31, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Faculties and schools

The University of Waikato comprises of a number of faculties and schools:

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Faculty of Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Te Kura Toi Tangata Faculty of Education

Te Huataki Waiora Faculty of Health, Sport and Human Performance

Te Piringa - Faculty of Law

Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao - Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Waikato Management School

Waikato Pathways College

Te Mata Kairangi School of Graduate Research

<rhttp://www.waikato.ac.nz/about/schools.shtml>

Dcraig9965 (talk) 18:55, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Reply 27-FEB-2018

 Implemented Spintendo      07:09, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Tauranga campus

In 2019 the university will open a new campus building in Tauranga. The new campus, which the University of Waikato is leading on behalf of the Bay of Plenty Tertiary Partnership, is an exciting new development for the region and will allow the university to introduce new degree programmes to be taught from the new campus. <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=12000585>

Dcraig9965 (talk) 19:00, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Reply 26-FEB-2018

 Declined

• This claim concerns future plans or events, per WP:FUTURE

Spintendo      00:31, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Research Institutes

The following research institutes exist within the University of Waikato:

Environmental Research Institute (ERI) Director: Professor Marnie Campbell

Institute for Business Research (IBR) Director: Assoc Prof Asad Mohsin

Institute of Professional Learning (IPL) Director: Jan Martin

National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis (NIDEA) Director: Dr John Ryks

Te Kotahi Research Institute (TKRI) Director: Assoc Prof Leonie Pihama

Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research (WMIER) Director: Prof Bronwen Cowie

Institute for Security and Crime Science Director: Associate Professor Ryan Ko

<http://www.waikato.ac.nz/research/units/institutes.shtml>

Reply 27-FEB-2018

 Implemented Spintendo      07:09, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Expanded edit summary: Removal of accreditation section and unreferenced materials

The bulk of the information under "Accreditation" was insufficiently paraphrased from the source material, and has been removed, per WP:CLOSEPARAPHRASE. A listing of the text is shown here. Additional information which was unreferenced has been removed, including alumni. Information of future additions to the school has been removed, per WP:FUTURE. Regards, Spintendo      00:47, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Partnership with Zhejiang University City Campus

In June 2017, the University of Waikato became the first New Zealand university to offer full degrees overseas, through a long-standing partnership with Zhejiang University City College (ZUCC) in Hangzhou. Three degrees are offered, with an initial intake of 231 students. The students study New Zealand's curriculum, taught by Waikato University staff in a separate campus in Hangzhou.

Elguaponz (talk) 22:50, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

References

Reply 07-MAR-2018

 Implemented Spintendo      00:34, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Campuses

The University of Waikato operates from campuses in Hamilton, Tauranga, and China.

Extended content

Main Hamilton campus The main Hamilton campus is on Tainui land, spread over 64 hectares of landscaped gardens and lakes, and includes extensive sporting and recreational areas. Designed by architect John Blake-Kelly in 1964, the open space landscaping contains extensive native plantings, including a fernery, centred around three artificial lakes, created by draining marshy paddocks. Waikato University Student Centre. Inside the Waikato University Student Centre. Water feature inside the Waikato University Student Centre. Computer lab inside the Waikato University Student Centre. The Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts. Pre-university history In the 1880s, the Hamilton land that became the University campus was reserved for an "agricultural and model farm", which became an experimental farm early the next century. The nearby Ruakura Animal Research Station expanded onto part of the site. In 1958 the government decided to also locate a new teachers' college there. The teachers' college opened in 1960. . The university was officially established in 1964, operating alongside the Hamilton Teachers College out of the current site of Melville High School. The University of Auckland had been teaching students there since 1960, but the new University of Waikato replaced this arrangement. A building programme for both the university and teachers' college was soon established for the site at Ruakura, including a library, science block, biology block and engineering school. Early days "During that first decade, there was a comprehensive building programme accomplished under heavy financial constraints. The plan was for the campus to be fully integrated, not to construct buildings higgledy-piggledy as the need arose. That plan included the development of the grounds and very early on, the foundations were laid for the impressive 65-hectare campus that exists today." By the time of the campus' official opening on 26 February 1965, the only completed university building was A Block. (The techers' college was already operational.) Governor-General Sir Bernard Fergusson unveiled a plaque mounted on its wall. In 1966 two more buildings were opened: B Block and "The Cowshed", a refurbishment of a building that remained from the days of the research farm. 2000s The Gallagher Performing Arts Centre, which includes both teaching and performances spaces, opened in 2001. Community grants were crucial to its funding, as was an agreement between the university and Hamilton City Council which guarantees council funding in exchange for community access and use of the facilities. The Student Centre building, which includes the main university library, officially opened in 2011 by Waikato alumnus Governor-General Jerry Mateparae. The "flagship" law and management building, on Hillcrest Rd, was announced in 2012 and initially planned to open in time for the university's 50th anniversary celebrations in 2014. The project was ultimately finished in 2016, at a cost of around $25 million. Features included a mooting court complete with furniture from Manukau District Court. Before this building, law students had studied in prefab classrooms. Tauranga The university first offered courses in Tauranga in 1990, and currently shares campuses with Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology. Both the Windermere Campus in Poike and the Bongard Centre (in Tauranga's CBD) were formerly Bay of Plenty Polytechnic campuses. University and Toi Ohomai students share facilities in both locations. CBD campus In 2012 the Tauranga City Council agreed to provide land on Durham Street in the Tauranga city centre for a new "University-led" tertiary campus of around 8600 square metres. With funding sources including the Bay of Plenty Regional Council, Tauranga Energy Consumer Trust, and University, construction began in June 2017. The campus is scheduled to open in early 2019. Tauranga research locations The University of Waikato also has researchers and other staff and students at the Coastal Marine Field Station at Sulphur Point, and at The University of Waikato Adams Centre for High Performance at Bay Park (which opened in 2016). Hangzhou, China In partnership with Zhejiang University City College (ZUCC), a joint institute was opened on ZUCC's Hangzhou campus in 2017. References

Reply

 Declined This information is already in the article. Spintendo      00:34, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Follow-up question

Curious as to whether the Extended Content was considered here? New info there covers Hamilton campus history, major performing arts and law/management buildings, the current situation in Tauranga (which the article currently misrepresents as a single campus in a number of places), the Tauranga CBD building project (which is probably the city's most major building site right now), and marine and high sports performance research facilities. This info would all be new to the article.

Elguaponz (talk) 04:33, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Reply to follow up question

Much of the information in the extended section is unreferenced, or otherwise has long passages of text bundled with references placed at the end. WP:INTEGRITY would have references placed as close as possible to the information which it substantiates. Other pieces of information, such as which campuses share what with whom, or locations of interest to visitors, or where performances are held are not germane to the article, per WP:NOTTRAVEL. Regards, Spintendo      18:39, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Faculty of Law

Two out of date pieces of information ought to be removed from this section:

• Professor Bradford W. Morse is no longer Dean of Law. Presumably the fact that he once was the Dean lacks notability, so this line ought to be deleted(?)
• The law school photo predates the opening of the current Law Building in 2016 (see my requested edit above (Campuses > Main Hamilton Campus > 2000s) for details about that). The building in the photo - now known as W Block - is no longer home to any of the Law Faculty. (I'd support removal of the image rather than recaptioning).

Thanks for considering this. Elguaponz (talk) 04:40, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Reply 08-MAR-2018

 Implemented Spintendo      18:39, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Some cleanups (July 2021)

Decided to do a bit of cleanup, and here is what I found so far that needs attention:

• Add citations for the "History" section to back up each paragraph (WP:REF), at minimum. This is so that the information presented here is verifiable (WP:VERIFY) and does not look like it was written by an unreliable person, due to the nature of Wikipedia being editable by everyone (WP:OR)
• Add citations for the other subsection(s) inside "History" so that those sections are verifiable. (WP:VERIFY)
• "Alumni" section needs a bit of attention in regards to notability (WP:GNG, I think?) and non-advertising tone (WP:PEACOCK, I think?)

There is also a need for sections describing what the uni has done to assist New Zealand by the use of non-primary sources. In that case, even though I know nothing about any outstanding "cool" stuff that the University of Waikato had done, it would be nice to find some independent sources (WP:INDEPENDENT) to back up further notability of University of Waikato. I know Uni of Waikato is pretty notable in itself, but I don't think there are enough external info about Uni of Waikato to feel satisfactory. The article for University of Auckland could be used as a stepping stone for structuring the layout of the University of Waikato article.

Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 01:10, 24 July 2021 (UTC)