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Copyright concerns[edit]

Please do not duplicate text from other sources here. Other sources may be used to inspire ideas, but not to provide sentences or phrases. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:36, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Need for "EUSO 2013 governing body (GB)" section[edit]

I would suggest that the list of members of the EUSO governing body is a laundry list that clutters the article with unnecessary detail. Unless it is believed that useful information can be extracted from it, I think that the article would be improved by the section's complete removal. Liam McM (Talk) 17:31, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As no adverse comments were made for a week I have gone ahead with this change. Liam McM (Talk) 10:05, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ordering of history subsections[edit]

I propose reversing the order of the history subsections so that the oldest 2003 EUSU is first and the latest 2013 is last. Because the section is history, chronological order seems more logical to me than reverse chronological. Pbericcc (talk) 06:15, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. That stood out to me as well on my first read. Liam McM (Talk) 10:31, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have just done this. Liam McM (Talk) 20:55, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Lead section[edit]

Problems with the citation:

Its link is dead
The citation should be formatted with {{cite book}}

History[edit]

"Dr. Michael A. Cotter, of Dublin, Ireland"

Readers want to know more background:

Who is he? (It's more important than his city of origin)
Did he have a directive to start EUSO?

"a more practical-based general science competition for young EU students"

The word more in this phrase implies that another competition already existed, but it was less practical-based.

EUSO 2003[edit]

"Minister Noel Treacy TD"

Minister of ?

"Minister Mary Hanafin TD"

Minister of ?

"the deputy Lord Mayor"

Why isn't this person (Brendan Carr) named?

"GB"

What is it? ["an acronym should be written out in full the first time it is used on a page, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses" (See WP:ACRO)]

Abandoning copy edit[edit]

The section "EUSO 2003" is now properly formatted, and it has been copy edited for punctuation, etc. It can be used as a model for the remaining sections.

Unfortunately, I have decided to abandon the copy edit (the template {{copy edit}} has been restored, and someone else will probably finish the copy edit in the near future).

I came to this article with certain expectations. The European Union Science Olympiad (EUSO) is all about intellectually challenging tasks in the natural sciences for secondary school students. That's what I wanted to read. Instead, the article consists of one laundry list after another of bureaucrats and administrators who were involved.

I'm guessing that the misguided laundry list precedent set in sections EUSO 2003 through EUSO 2009 is the main reason why sections EUSO 2010 through the present are without content. --LukasMatt (talk) 01:16, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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