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Photographs

I'm a student at UTS. I'll take a few shots around campus and add them to the article. Ideas include:

The Library
The concourse in Building 1
Humanities, DAB buildings

Can someone from Kuring-gai take a picture of the campus there?

--Paul Adams 05:16, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia

I hope someone cleans up the trivia section of the page. I really dislike it. I'm a UTS person too but Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not an outlet for marketing. In some cases I believe some of the trivia bits can be incorporated into a History section eg pre-Tower days, the Hordern days etc. I'd do it in the future if someone doesn't fix it up since I've already added the Alumni section.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, soapbox, how-to guide, blog, billboard, fansite, resume, crystal ball, or censored. I took the liberty of removing the "Staff" and "Trivia" sections for awhile so that others would it improve it. The following sections were marked as {{Importance-s|date=March 2007}} and {{toomuchtrivia}}. _{Fddfred talk} 06:38, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fddfred, you seem to have a vindictive agenda. Alumni and staff members are par for the course in university entries. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.168.22.222 (talk) 02:29, 4 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Uts logo.gif

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Photos of sporting teams

I've never seen this on any university article in WP. it's bordering on WP:SCHOOLCRUFT Michellecrisp (talk) 13:19, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 9 August 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 10:08, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

University of Technology, Sydney → University of Technology Sydney – The university has dropped the comma in its name. Reference:http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/uts-banishes-comma-that-made-it-an-orphan/story-e6frgcjx-1227432794437 Coekon (talk) 22:22, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Just a styling issue for the organisation, important for slogans, banners, addresses (punctuation is discouraged when mailing). There are other similarly named universities, this is the one in Sydney. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:51, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Formal name of the university. SmokeyJoe's rationale doesn't make sense because it's never known as "the University of Technology"(that would trigger geographic naming conventions due to ambiguity) , it's always known as UTS. The Drover's Wife (talk) 07:42, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Orphaned references in University of Technology Sydney

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of University of Technology Sydney's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "auto":

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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 04:58, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Controversies

I started one given it was not started. It is important to hold public accountability and give examples of controversies what may have happened. Wikipedia is not a marketing department but a public unbiased information source. As an example I added the case of involving former Science dean who was sentenced in 2021 that was interlinked with her job that involved cutting the degree involving Chinese medicine. I added references to the official caselaw relating to the case as well as the various news articles of the time across variety of reliable sources. Hope this can give an example how to properly document the controversies if and when any. It might be okay to separate it in separate page and then link from both university page as well as some type of government list that involves corruption or criminal cases against public officials. It might be an idea also to start a list of deans and departments given faculties are sometimes seen as separate schools. MissAnonymous123 (talk) 10:07, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Former Science dean 2019-2021 scandal

There were range of information sources and generally used the minimum citeable / verifiable facts / numbers as to UTS expenditure involving the matter R v Jolley [2021] NSWDC 647. Given the case is now old there may be information forthcoming from UTS relating to the Dean's employment contract that can be adjusted if needed. I've also requested formal GIPAs from UTS relating to the former dean and it may end up in the public open access disclosure log some day in future to help document the case three years after trial. The GIPA requests are in Right To know platform at https://www.righttoknow.org.au/body/uts - Related Expenditure, Employment Contract, Hiring and dean Requisition MissAnonymous123 (talk) 10:17, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Campus Section

Should the campus be moved to separate page given it's more building or architecture point of view rather than exploring about UTS itself. Most of it is also primary source and there are separate pages already for e.g. individual buildings already. MissAnonymous123 (talk) 17:16, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]