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Dartmouth College is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on August 31, 2008.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
June 6, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
February 9, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
March 6, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
August 31, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
September 30, 2007	Featured article candidate	Promoted
May 22, 2021	Featured article review	Demoted
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on December 13, 2007, December 13, 2008, December 13, 2009, December 13, 2010, December 13, 2015, December 13, 2017, December 13, 2019, December 13, 2021, and December 13, 2022.
Current status: Former featured article

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Featured article review needed

This is a 2007 Featured article that has not been maintained to WP:WIAFA standards. The following should be addressed, or the article should be submitted for a Featured article review:

There is considerable uncited text; I am not tagging it so as not to deface a Featured article.
There is poor layout along with MOS:SANDWICHing issues everywhere, caused by editors plopping in unnecessary (and not likely compliant with WIAFA) images.
The gallery of Dartmouth alumni does not comply with WP:GALLERY (those images could be added to the alumni list page). That list is out of control; there is a separate article, and some criteria should be used here to limit the list.
There is information with dated sources throughout, yet no "as of" date provided, one sample only, Approximately 20% of students participate in a varsity sport, and nearly 80% participate in some form of club, varsity, intramural, or other athletics.[187] ... sourced to 2008.
All sources should list a publisher and a date or author when those are available.
WP:CITATION OVERKILL in the lead.

That's just a start; a revamping is needed, starting with reducing the images by about half (and checking that those remaining comply with policy). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:38, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Second. ~ HAL333 01:07, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Featured List Removal Candidate

HAL333 has nominated List of Dartmouth College faculty for featured list removal. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 06:29, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Another FAR

There's another Dartmouth-related FAR, this one for The Green (Dartmouth College). Feel free to join at Wikipedia:Featured article review/The Green (Dartmouth College)/archive1. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:59, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dartmouth alumni devotion

I just wanted to say to User:ElKevbo that Dartmouth alumni's devotion to their alma mater is already mentioned and sourced at the beginning of the alumni section, and the source used in that section could be thrown in with the other two sources if necessary. RyanAl6 (talk) 21:15, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A single source from 2008 that doesn't even work any more is nowhere close to being sufficient for including something in the lede of an article. The two Forbes sources aren't much better with one not mentioning "alumni devotion" at all. ElKevbo (talk) 21:54, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Varsity in Athletics section

For me varsity was an at the time unknown term, and I intended to add link to the relevant WP article to make it clear for next readers. I found there was a confusion at the target, because the term has several meanings, with disambiguation page technically correct but not very helpful for the purpose (I wanted etymology when no single direct meaning found seemed suitable).

Also in this article varsity is used in more than one of the meanings proposed on disambiguation page (both representative varsity team and varsity sport in general (meaning not club dependent)). I didn't yet find a suitable solution, so I propose adding a link to wiktionary for a temporary solution, as shown here at the top of the section. There, both basic etymology and different usage is at least partially shown. Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 12:05, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I see the confusion for non-American readers and linked the first occurrence of "varsity" to the article "Varsity_team", which should resolve the issue. Sedimentary (talk) 16:23, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vox clamantis

The Latin motto Vox clamantis in deserto is translated into English, A voice crying out in the wilderness. This, however, contains an error in translation; clamantis is the genitive case, "of [someone] shouting", whereas "A voice crying out" rather would be Vox clamans. In fact, the text goes back to the Gospels – Mt 3:3, Mk 1:3, Lk 3:4 and Jn 1:23 all offer the wording "The voice of one crying in the wilderness" (KJV), referring to John the Baptist. Here the genitive is rendered correctly.

I am aware that the disputed wording stems from Dartmouth College's "Grad Guide", yet the translation from Latin is simply … well, faulty. Sorry to say so. Should we still use the translation as provided by Dartmouth, or rather improve it? —Jochen64 (talk) 03:35, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]