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Talk:Where Ephs are going to graduate school moved to Talk:Graduate school: this was a seriously bad title
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==Page Braggartly?==
Does anyone else find this page to be just a little too pompous? I have no problem with the individual people posting their locations (I am personally interested in knowing geographically where people are going to be), but the idea of such a wikipedia page existing makes Williams students seem awfully conceited. Isn't this page no more than a self-congratulatory slap on the back? I am proud of the fact that we have extraordinarily smart people at this college, and feel privileged to know them, but I think this page serves simply as excessive bragging. Why not start a page called "Ephs making over $50,000 next year"? Can someone tell me what the point of the page is if not to trumpet one's intellectual prowess?
The point of this page is to notify fellow ephs of your location next year, so that we can maintain connections--or discover ones we didn't know would exist. Why should anyone be surprised that ephs get into good schools? (Also, for the record, Brian put the "rocket science" parenthetical note after my name, not me.) I suppose you could always move this to a "Graduate School" section of a "Where Ephs are going to be after graduation" page if you think that would be less pompous. --[[User:06jps|06jps]] 09:45, 21 April 2006 (EDT)
==Renaming==
I support the page, but I'm sorry it struck someone as braggatory, and I can definitely see how it could. But as I wish to keep it, more pressing on my mind is: we ''do'' definitely need to rename this page. And I should write a set of naming conventions to help this stop happening . . . the problem is we need to aim at names that will work in a Willipedia world, names that will be naturally linked to in other articles. So even if it costs us accuracy, I'd like to see this moved to something like a section in "Graduate School" or "Post-Graduation" . . . other short, general title suggestions welcomed.--[[User:05jl|05jl]] 19:17, 21 April 2006 (EDT)
Hmm...I never saw the title as bragging, but rather as informative. What about the title is so problematic? It says what the page is, no more and no less, and it doesn't seem to be making any value judgments about Williams or the grad school listed. Yes, the fact that Williams sends its students to good graduate institutions certainly reflects well on the school, but as I said above--what would anyone expect of Williams students? --[[User:06jps|06jps]] 13:39, 22 April 2006 (EDT)
Dude, nothing about the title is braggartly, it's simply a bad article title for Willipedia. It's a primary goal of a wiki to have all its information linked, or else a page falls into obscurity very quickly. "Where Ephs are going to graduate school" will never get a link in another article unless the article writer already knows this page exists. Contrast this with "Odd Quad" -- even if a writer doesn't know there's a page on that, he'll expect there to be one now or later, and will type <nowiki>[[Odd Quad]]</nowiki>, and presto! the page is used. But the data on this page will never be used unless it gets a better name, like making a section in "Post-Graduate". This title is less specific, but we often have to sacrifice specificity for generalness on a wiki -- or this article dies the moment it leaves "Recentchanges"--[[User:05jl|05jl]] 18:41, 22 April 2006 (EDT)
I see your point. I thought the title change suggestion was related to the bragging thing. Perhaps a general-purpose "post-graduation" page is in order, with links to "Where Ephs are going to grad school," "Where Ephs work," "Where Ephs live," etc. Unfortunately, I don't have any better ideas for the title of this page, since "Where Ephs are going to graduate school" pretty much sums it up. --[[User:06jps|06jps]] 17:31, 23 April 2006 (EDT)
