Talk:Smith College

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 30 January 2020 and 30 April 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Skarp1019.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 09:32, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Keeping the article's focus

Since I removed a lot of text from the page, I wanted to open a channel for discussion in case people feel otherwise about it. This is an article about a 150-year-old college with notable alumnae and faculty and a significant impact for its size. Because of its importance, it's more likely to generate public controversy of one kind or another. People are attracted to controversy like moths to a lightbulb. But it's important to keep in mind that the controversy du jour is usually of vanishingly little importance to a bird's-eye view of the college. We are after an encyclopedia entry for Smith College, not a (five-year-old) news roundup.

I still think the article has a long way to go in terms of including some important things, balancing out the long lists of alumnae and residential houses. But removing in-depth timelines of momentary controversies seems like a great first step.—Jchthys 20:37, 23 August 2025 (UTC)