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University of British Columbia was a Social sciences and society good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
June 5, 2013	Good article nominee	Not listed
June 19, 2015	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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Water sustainability at UBC was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 4 August 2018 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into University of British Columbia. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

AMS Student Nest was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 24 July 2022 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into University of British Columbia. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Society Members

The article currently says the university has been affiliated with "ten fellows in both American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Royal Society." First, it's unclear if that means 10 people who were in both societies or 10 in each. More importantly though, that claim is without a referance and I have no idea how to verify that short of checking every inductee of these societes for the last hundered odd years. StaunchlyAvoidant (talk) 23:13, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reference #8 is garbage

The reference points to a page that lists the "20 oldest Canadian Universities" but doesn't itself include UBC. Instead, it has two universities with 1963 incorporation dates on its list.

Plus University of Saskatchewan was formed through legislation in 1907, a year before BC's "University Act" legislation went through to form UBC. 137.82.233.57 (talk) 17:51, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The external link was removed as unhelpful. (Disabled my Back-button) It was not pertinent. The assertion of "oldest west of Winnipeg" should be changed if 1907 U Saskatchewan assertion holds. — Rgdboer (talk) 01:48, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]