Talk:Pi Kappa Phi

Pi Kappa Phi 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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Michael Sliwa 2600:8807:A900:C3C0:949B:9EA:B007:F278 (talk) 17:03, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits, removing misconduct citations[edit]

Wokebreaker2017, I sympathize over your recent edits, seeking to remove detail about several campus disciplinary actions or closures. The Project group that monitors GLO pages has standardized our treatment of these items on "national" pages by forcing these specific points under a subtitle "Local chapter or member misconduct", and we require solid citations. Previous to our standardization efforts it had been common to list these as "Controversies"; but in all cases I know if, these have never been systemic in nature, and are, rather, local. When these pop up, here and for other GLOs, any negative barking without citation is removed. But Wikipedia is a neutral encyclopedia, so we cannot simply hide inconvenient facts. We remain neutral wherever possible.

After about a decade has passed since a hazing injury, alcohol disciplinary action or cited negative story, unless these have significant and persistent national news notoriety, we 'demote' the negative story into a reference item placed against that chapter's line in the fraternity's chapter list. My rationale for this is that the 'offenders' are thus long gone from the chapter, and it is likely that two or three generations of members have came and went via graduation: that chapter thus is a new organization, and it is not fair to label those actives as offenders. We are also vigilant to ensure that negative information does not declare the entire national to be bad; these are not "systemic" problems that affect the entire national. Rather, they are instances of errors at the local or individual level. Jax MN (talk) 17:32, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]