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Text and/or other creative content from this version of University of Pennsylvania was copied or moved into History of the University of Pennsylvania with this edit on June 3, 2024. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Copied from the main University of Pennsylvania article

Hello, I tried to make this clear in my edit summary, but as someone suggested on the University of Pennsylvania talk space, I separated out the history into its own article (here) by copying and pasting what was already there. I don't know if there are best practices for letting that be known, but I'm just trying to make sure I'm properly attributing where things came from. Hope that makes sense and was the right way to do this! Wikipedian339 (talk) 21:25, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unnecessary doubling up

The article repeasts information

"The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Its history began when in 1740, when a group of Philadelphians organized to erect a great preaching hall for George Whitefield, a traveling evangelist."

Then a short while later "In 1740, a group of Philadelphians organized to erect a great preaching hall for George Whitefield, a traveling evangelist."

And again... "The building was designed and constructed by Edmund Woolley and was the largest building in Philadelphia at the time, drawing thousands of people the first time in which it was preached." and "The building was designed and constructed by Edmund Woolley and was the largest building in Philadelphia at the time, drawing thousands of people the first time in which it was preached."

This is poor writing. Montalban (talk) 16:01, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]