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Section sizes Section size for University of Michigan (53 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 8,204 8,204 History 60 44,567 1817–1837 3,891 3,891 1837–1900 21,178 21,178 20th century 13,395 13,395 Historical links 6,043 6,043 Campus 4,965 15,264 Central Campus 3,555 3,555 North Campus 3,979 3,979 South Campus 2,765 2,765 Organization and administration 3,596 16,631 Student government 6,950 6,950 Finances 3,526 6,085 Endowment 2,559 2,559 Academics 15 54,853 Admissions 9,687 14,353 Requirements 1,907 1,907 Affirmative action 2,759 2,759 Divisions 6,447 6,447 Reputation and rankings 4,885 14,452 National rankings 5,833 5,833 World rankings 3,734 3,734 Research 19,586 19,586 Student life 18 42,110 Student body 5,653 5,653 Residential life 8,814 8,814 Groups and activities 12,834 18,864 Fraternities and sororities 3,410 3,410 Collegiate secret societies 2,620 2,620 Media and publications 2,727 2,727 Safety 6,034 6,034 Athletics 4,829 13,858 National championships 3,960 3,960 In the Olympics 921 921 Fight songs and chants 4,148 4,148 Museums 3,911 3,911 Notable people 22 25,472 Benefactors 3,378 3,378 Faculty and staff 3,893 3,893 Alumni 2,123 18,179 Government and law 3,577 3,577 Science 1,302 1,302 Business 2,347 2,347 Authors and journalists 1,837 1,837 Music and entertainment 667 667 Film and television 1,331 1,331 Sports 2,587 2,587 Activists and humanitarians 1,468 1,468 Exploration 940 940 Notes 24 24 References 28 1,804 Sources 1,776 1,776 External links 2,206 2,206 Total 228,904 228,904

Any number of comparable higher ed articles do without all these fotos. There would be no end to it, if we continue this way, and the photos are easy enough to access just be hovering the mouse over the linked names. I suggest deleting the pix here. --Melchior2006 (talk) 06:59, 22 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Can anyone verify whether the claim in a previous version of this article seen here, that Michigan "was the first U.S. modern university based on the European model" is true? The claim was uncited, so I removed it, however it seems like it was probably taken from the Prussian education system article itself, which speaks about Michigan in the United States section. The source provided there was in German, so I couldn't verify it's relevance for this article myself, and I found very few mentions of this in English sources. Regardless of the validity of the claim, I don't think it's really needed in the introduction, especially as the second sentence of the article, but if anyone here is an expert on the history of education in the United States and would like to weigh in on this, would be interested in more input. Alphaw00lf2000 (talk) 16:08, 13 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This page contains a lot of WP:Boosterism and has been improved substantially in the last ten days or so. @Cfls has recentlry reverted in big-time BRD style, so this talk entry is now a chance to discuss individual edits. I will start the process today by removing completely unsourced assertions and boosterism that is detrimental to the subject. Please join the discussion. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 12:14, 5 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Melchior2006 Belatedly joining this effort- I just stumbled across an unencyclopedic bit of fluff which I think falls under this umbrella of boosterism (and which was cited to a source that contained zero mention of the trivia factoid I removed).

Going to take a solid look at this full article on desktop this week, thanks for your efforts so far in cleaning it up, I'll see if I can find anything else concerning and will follow up in Talk here if I think others' input will be useful!

(Also, pages like this seem to get a lot of the boosterism from well-intentioned passing alumni; to those folks I say, I LOVE universities and education, as I'm sure many of my fellow clean-up editors do. However, the place for unbridled praise is on university and community websites, not the encyclopedia 😅) Chiselinccc (talk) 00:57, 19 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You're right on about wanting to heap unbridled praise on schools we love, but Wiki isn't the place for that. Thanks for your help with this page. I will make a few more edits now, let me know what you think. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 08:54, 19 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

That is not how figures are posted, in three year blocks. Summerdays1 (talk) 22:08, 28 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

What are you talking about? Please stop posting vague, contextless statement in Talk pages. ElKevbo (talk) 00:19, 29 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]