Talk:Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation

This is an article that describes the largest academic department in Canada (and perhaps North America), that studies health policy, management and evaluation. I modeled this article on similar pages that exist for other university departments in other schools on Wikipedia, such as Harvard's School of Public Health [1].

I was asked to create this article because of increasing demand from colleagues, who are not associated with the University, who wondered why such an important organization did not have an entry.

Please note that, although I have an affiliation with the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine, this is not my primary place of appointment, so I do not feel that the conflict violates Wikipedia's policies, but I am glad to declare it. I used language similar to that of articles of other entities within the University of Toronto, such as the Joint Centre for Bioethics, with which I am not directly affiliated either. I would be glad to modify any of the contents that may not conform to expected standards at Wikipedia, but do request that the article be kept.

I think that this article should not be deleted, though it might require a re-write to a more neutral point of view. Ajraddatz (Talk) 19:29, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

I agree that it should not be deleted, although I am in conflict of interest as a member of that department. Certainly Wikipedia has a number of such pages, and they are helpful.R2SBD (talk) 20:48, 15 December 2010 (UTC) I tried to fix up the page a bit, since the original largely used language from the department's web site, and I agree it could benefit from rewrites. Also added some links, some but not all from the University of Toronto. Note that I am in conflict here - I'm a member of that department - but this page isn't spam, and I too have heard community members who aren't affiliated with HPME ask why we're not in Wikipedia. Indeed, some of our faculty members--not including me -- already have Wikipedia pages, which we could probably link to and from if that was seen as appropriate.R2SBD (talk) 22:20, 15 December 2010 (UTC)