Archived comments from September 13, 2004 to October 13, 2004
Hello,
I just took a look at your edit of the NYU page and was curious as to why you changed the photograph to the seal for NYU? I've been a student there for a while, and I've never seen the seal you used, while the previously displayed logo was everywhere, including hanging on flags outside of every NYU building. I think the other logo was a better choice. PZFUN 07:06, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Alberta universities sounds perfectly okay to me. It means university in alberta, same as title above, just in a different way. Albertan universities just sounds so wrong. Spinboy 06:38, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I noticed some of the categories you were creating, if you're up for it, create a category for Universities in Ontario. There certainly are enough of them. Good job with the UofT cat. Spinboy 07:05, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Darkcore. With regards to your change to University College of the North (removing the category label), what precisely is the difference between a university college, a college, and a university?
My perhaps naive understanding is that an institution is a university if it has a charter by which it has the right to grant degrees.
Colleges which allow students to earn degrees by partnering with some other university obviously don't count. Until recently Keewatin Community College (the name by which UCN was previously known) was such an institution, but as I understand it, the recent Manitoba legislation referred to in the article gives it degree-granting rights independent of any other university. So, how is it not a university? -- Saforrest 00:54, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
I made the change, because I did not think it is appropriate to call him "President Sexton". It sounds very stilted. The pronoun (as you used) or his unadorned last name (as I had suggested) are more encyclopedic. BTW, I am from Brooklyn, so I had to look up "dude" in the Wiktionary. ;-) [[User:Nricardo|-- Nelson Ricardo >>Talk<<]] 02:09, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
That general rule about categories is not, I think, a good reason to remove a couple of New Jersey cities for which somebody has, for some reason, created a separate category (and Category:Newark, New Jersey is a particularly lame category), from the Category:Cities in New Jersey, which is a comprehensive listing. If anything, the narrower categories should be removed or recategorized. john k 05:48, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I've just put together a List of Ontario separated municipalities; yet another way of looking at the patchwork that is Ontario municipal heirarchy. Thought I'd be sure you took a look at it. Radagast 12:55, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
Why'd you remove my pronounciation edit of Toronto? I am friggin' from there too! And that is how we're supposed to say Toronto... as Torano. It even says that in the history books.
Sure the immigrants and newcomers say Tour-On-To, but that's not the original way. -- Kloy1334 00:14, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Ah, you should have said that in your "edit summary." :-) -- Kloy1334 01:16, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Archived comments from September 13, 2004 to October 13, 2004
Hello,
I just took a look at your edit of the NYU page and was curious as to why you changed the photograph to the seal for NYU? I've been a student there for a while, and I've never seen the seal you used, while the previously displayed logo was everywhere, including hanging on flags outside of every NYU building. I think the other logo was a better choice. PZFUN 07:06, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Alberta universities sounds perfectly okay to me. It means university in alberta, same as title above, just in a different way. Albertan universities just sounds so wrong. Spinboy 06:38, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I noticed some of the categories you were creating, if you're up for it, create a category for Universities in Ontario. There certainly are enough of them. Good job with the UofT cat. Spinboy 07:05, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Darkcore. With regards to your change to University College of the North (removing the category label), what precisely is the difference between a university college, a college, and a university?
My perhaps naive understanding is that an institution is a university if it has a charter by which it has the right to grant degrees.
Colleges which allow students to earn degrees by partnering with some other university obviously don't count. Until recently Keewatin Community College (the name by which UCN was previously known) was such an institution, but as I understand it, the recent Manitoba legislation referred to in the article gives it degree-granting rights independent of any other university. So, how is it not a university? -- Saforrest 00:54, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
I made the change, because I did not think it is appropriate to call him "President Sexton". It sounds very stilted. The pronoun (as you used) or his unadorned last name (as I had suggested) are more encyclopedic. BTW, I am from Brooklyn, so I had to look up "dude" in the Wiktionary. ;-) [[User:Nricardo|-- Nelson Ricardo >>Talk<<]] 02:09, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
That general rule about categories is not, I think, a good reason to remove a couple of New Jersey cities for which somebody has, for some reason, created a separate category (and Category:Newark, New Jersey is a particularly lame category), from the Category:Cities in New Jersey, which is a comprehensive listing. If anything, the narrower categories should be removed or recategorized. john k 05:48, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I've just put together a List of Ontario separated municipalities; yet another way of looking at the patchwork that is Ontario municipal heirarchy. Thought I'd be sure you took a look at it. Radagast 12:55, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
Why'd you remove my pronounciation edit of Toronto? I am friggin' from there too! And that is how we're supposed to say Toronto... as Torano. It even says that in the history books.
Sure the immigrants and newcomers say Tour-On-To, but that's not the original way. -- Kloy1334 00:14, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Ah, you should have said that in your "edit summary." :-) -- Kloy1334 01:16, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)