Talk:United States Air Force Academy

Traditions

I know I'm back after a long time, but I feel like I need to check in every now and again (and I apologize in advance if norms have changed since I last edited). I wanted to throw out some thoughts on the "Traditions" section...it feels clunky, and has the potential for getting clunkier. There are hundreds of potential USAFA traditions that could be listed, and very, very few of them are so integral to the Academy that they are relevant to the greater article. Most are, at best, curious bits of insider-knowledge, mostly of interest to cadets, grads, and perhaps a few USAFA groupies. We used to have an Academy folklore Wiki many moons ago, where that stuff went, but that is long defunct, and there's not much of a place to put them. Still, they bog down the article here. Any thoughts on paring down that section and better incorporating the most relevant stuff into the article? Tarfu92 (talk) 15:52, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Edit warring about the board of visitors

Buckshot06 has begun an edit war to include the following sentence in the "Board of Visitors" section:

Despite the officially stipulated four board meetings a year, there was at least a fourteen month gap between the last BoV meeting of 2020, on November 18, 2020, and the next meeting, on April 13, 2022.

Without a source that says that this is noteworthy, this is undue weight (and original research). It is trivially true that this is a fourteen-month gap but we have no idea if this is important and worth including in the article without independent, reliable sources reporting on it and providing additional, critical context.

In any case, it's certainly not something that an editor should be edit-warring to add to the article, especially without making the barest effort to first discuss the issue here in Talk. ElKevbo (talk) 19:25, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

It was probably due to COVID, given the dates. I imagine they got an exemption or something. We definitely need a source that actually discusses it directly. BilCat (talk) 20:08, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Looks like they did meet virtually at least once per USAFA Board of Visitors convenes virtually". BilCat (talk) 20:26, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

It's so grand that people have more trust in going to little used talk pages than me!! Most of the things I do the talk pages are virtually dusty lanes of tumbleweed. Thankyou BilCat for providing the vital third option to break the deadlock here. The April 2022 meeting was held virtually as well, I will note. Buckshot06 (talk) 06:29, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

References

Men’s Water Polo

As of 2023, the Men’s water polo team joined the West Coast Conference after previously participating as a member of the Western Water Polo Association 2601:681:300:A320:75F5:11E4:B708:E569 (talk) 20:00, 18 October 2023 (UTC)