I've pruned List of agnostics significantly, retaining only verified agnostics. Could I persuade you to change your vote from "delete" to "keep"?
If it matters, I've worked on the article a bit and added citations. You may wish to take a look at it again. =) Xaa 17:20, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
I wonder if you would take a look at this article. There was a vfd on an article with the same name, but this isn't a cut & paste of the deleted one. I can't tell if this one is re-worded nonsense or potentially good stuff. Joyous (talk) 01:30, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
About Stephan Kinsella, I said: Keep. We have articles on equally undistinguished people who are Wikipedians. Grace Note 01:22, 29 July 2005 (UTC) and you said: That's irrelevant. We are considering this article. If the existence of inappropriate articles in Wikipedia was considered to justify the addition of more inappropriate articles, we'd have a rapid "race to the bottom." Dpbsmith (talk) 17:42, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
The point I was making was not that other articles are inappropriate so we should keep this one but that the bar is (thankfully) rather low. Personally, I feel the bias against biographical articles is unfortunate. It's a pity it has been written into policy. I don't think well-written short articles about people do any harm. My view is, and always has been, that crap articles are a bad thing but good ones, even about the "non-notable", do no harm. Sorry it's taken a while to get to your comment.
Grace Note
04:57, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
"My view is, and always has been, that crap articles are a bad thing but good ones, even about the "non-notable", do no harm."
I pretty much mostly agree with you. It is what I personally think about articles about high schools, street intersections, "fancruft," etc. As long as a reasonable amount of work went into the article, as long as it is reasonably thorough, and not just written off the top of the head with unattributed "facts" that someone is pretty sure he read somewhere.
Someone wisely pointed out a long time ago that bad articles that nobody reads do no harm, and bad articles that many people read are likely to be improved.
(But, again, where I part company with the inclusionists is I believe that bad articles should be deleted if there is no credible prospect that someone is going to improve them. I don't approve of leaving them to fester on the assumption that they will magically improve themselves.
Similarly, I think it is irresponsible to create a substub if one has no serious intention of coming back to do more work on it. The responsible thing is to put in an article request instead).
I part company a little bit in the case of articles that are promotional. The fact that anybody can insert material into Wikipedia makes it a tempting target of abuse for people trying to publicize things.
The go-getter boys quickly insert material about themselves, their health theories, their businesses, their soon-to-be-produced movies, etc. anywhere on the Net that permits it. A Wikipedia article is great way to boost a Google rank, and it often comes up in mirrors as "Encyclopedia article about..."
I think that it does damage Wikipedia if we do not have a firm community consensus that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and that articles in it must be "encyclopedic," even if it is very, very hard to establish just where the borders lie.
I also have a strong feeling that all articles must be written at least partially with the intention of serving some putative readership, not just satisfying the self-actualization needs of the contributor.
So, there's no bright line. Very obviously an article about Stephan Kinsella does not damage Wikipedia.
However, allowing pitbull-tenacious self-promoters to use WIkipedia as a publicity medium does damage Wikipedia. I don't know if you were involved in the the Shawn Mikula business, but it was fairly ugly. This was a grad student at Johns Hopkins with no obvious notability who was just plain insisting on using Wikipedia for his vanity page, repeatedly re-creating it over and over, etc.
So, I'm fairly mellow about good articles on most topics, but I tend to be somewhat more picky about categories of articles that are intrinsically likely to be abused by self-promoters. That would include biographies. Dpbsmith (talk) 22:22, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
Would it be possible for me to borrow your beefstew list. With credit given of course to you. I'm very impressed by it. Gateman1997 21:03, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
I'd appreciate any help you can give me with two items, both related.
Thanks for the time you took on the Time cover baloney. As you say, the Waldo photo is now missing. But it was sure there for a couple of hours, just before I wrote you. Verra strange, but, as you say, I *have* seen Wiki do strange stuff with images before. I forgot to wait a while and let things cool off. Next time I'll give it a day or so before panicking, hehe...
Dpbsmith
Coal Region should be mentioned in
John O'Hara
After all it is his heritage, as is mine too, and glad I was.
Thanks so much.
Opinion?
Scotty
I understand & sympathise completely with everything that you say. But I didn't tag it as a copyvio. User:Johann Wolfgang did: [1]. I just moved the thing around. Given the standard treatment of copyvios (where all text is removed), I just assumed that the text remaining there was left in error so I took it out. I'll admit that I didn't feel up to reading the source of the material in question. Slac speak up! 13:54, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Many thanks for the kind words on the Barbara Nitke VFD vote page. Writers of "fringe" articles appreciate all the support we can get. -- Outlander 13:30, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
Ahem. ☺ Uncle G 13:08:24, 2005-08-24 (UTC)
The other day I thunk up a new idea for waging the endless war against academic boosterism. What if we picked a school which is currently hardly covered at all and pushed its article to FA status? See, a while back I noticed that Calvin and Hobbes was suffering extreme factoid bloat (and was poorly referenced besides), so I nominated it for FA removal. Several people managed to get together and save its FA status, and at the moment it's actually a stronger article than when it was first promoted, particularly where references are concerned. FA votes, for either promotion or demotion, seem to attract more critical thinking than the various other kinds of discussion. I believe it would be convenient to have a "gold standard" against which one could compare other articles, or even the same article at a later date. If the Harvard article were filling up with excess laudatory quotes, or if Dartmouth was bursting with trivia, etc., etc., we could direct attention to the Featured University Article and say, "Here is how rankings were handled in this case."
The school would have to be chosen carefully. I'd suggest finding a college or university with some amount of history, a verifiable reputation for quality in some field, and a tangible media presence — say, one which has appeared in a couple movies. Looking at US schools, Wellesley College springs to mind. Just compare its article with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taste the good ol' systemic bias! A reader browsing the FA list who sees MIT placed there would likely say, "Of course. Just nerds patting each other on the back." Likewise for Caltech. I think we could dodge this accusation with Wellesley. Plus, I know people who went there, and in these days of pervasive digital cameras I bet I could score a few GFDL photos.
Anville 15:27, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Unfortunately I had to put a POV tag on your Technology Review entry. Re-read the entry and I think you'll find that the whole thing sounds like an attack on the magazine now, which I hope was not your intent. -- BrassRat 09:47, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks so much for taking the time to explain the whole linkspam issue and how to handle it. Jeremy J. Shapiro 00:23, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
Based on the talk page, I think you wrote this:
I would like to point out the fact there's discussion of merge and delete under Delete and redirect. Could you also explain to me why Delete and redirect would be incompatible if no content of the original article is retained? - Mgm| (talk) 11:36, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
Hello, you voted on this VfD which I had accidentlally pasted Gillian Slovo instead of JDizzle Comics. I cleared all votes in order to remove any bias because of my stupidity so please vote again knowing that it is about JDizzle Comics. Sorry and thanks. gren グレン 21:29, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
Considering the Harry Potter trolling VfU discussion and several recent ones, it's time we revived the discussion on Wikipedia talk:Votes for undeletion#The scope of VfU and dealt with the question directly. Whilst you weren't involved in the original discussion, your remarks on this VfU suggested you might nevertheless want to chip in, so I thought I'd let you know. - Splash 21:51, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
i was ironically amused by your comment on the presidential rape vfd. i actually created the article for pretty much the opposite reason you suggest. the clinton article was being completely dominated by scandal trivia, so i began spinning them off to subarticles. i decided to create a unified presidential rape article to provide a little context. but, of course, the clinton part of that article got swamped with a play-by-play, which i've now mostly removed. at any rate, my purpose in creating it was to prevent endless battles and scandal-mongering on the main clinton page. if deleted, i fear that will be the result again. Derex 00:59, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I nominated
as a featured picture. There's some comments made about the nomination that I wondered if you could respond to at Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Eggs. Thanks for the picture. -- bodnotbod 21:33, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
The page creates a false impression by omitting Visicalc which was the first spreadsheet and which prompted IBM to enter the desktop computer field which lead to the IBM PC and to Microsoft.
Dear dpbs, there's some talk of having Wikimania in Boston next year. Please comment on that page if it strikes your fancy.
This is your last warning. The next time you engage in mirthful behavior you will be spanked with Texture's shoe. |
I noticed that you have some images in the category Category:Images with unknown source. Due to the vast number of images in this category (12000+), and the fact that, lacking a source, they present considerable copyright uncertanty, Jimbo has stated, and added to the Criteria for Speedy Deletion, "Images in category "Images with unknown source" or "Images with unknown copyright status" which have been in the category for more than 7 days, regardless of when uploaded." This means the images can, and will, be deleted with no notice. To see a list of all the images you've uploaded(at least, under this username), review the upload log. You might also find User:Pearle/by-author-Category:Images_with_unknown_source.txt to be useful(search for your username). If neither of those work, you can find a list of all the images you uploaded(mixed in with all the images you edited) by viewing your contributions by namespace. If you have any questions, please let me know. JesseW, the juggling janitor 22:08, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
Don't distress :) - looks like you got it correct last time :). Ryan Norton T | @ | C 21:42, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
mmmmm..... Nedick's and Absolut! A nice break from Grape Nehi and Veuve Clicquot..... - Nunh-huh 02:36, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
Heh, you are reminding me why I never took another logic class after the first one I had as a freshman all those years ago.-- Isotope23 23:59, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
Just FYI I decided to use AltaVista's search engine and I found a reference to a January 28, 2004 airdate on PBS for The Great Year, according to KOCE-TV in Huntington Beach [2] Cheers! 23skidoo 17:46, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
You removed the link to googolduplex which I added to names of large numbers, saying that the former article contains no extra information. That's fine with me, but I think that in that case, googolduplex should be a redirect. Would you agree with that? More importantly, I'm wondering whether the name googolduplex is used at all. Google returns some hits, but it seems many are just copied from eachother. From the talk page, you seem to have some experience with this question, so I'd like to have your opinion. -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 12:29, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your answer and for creating the redirects. -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 13:53, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? -- Kjwhitefoot 08:11, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
N'unh unh! It did not have my foreknowledge or approval -- just my mild bemusement after the fact. It should not be there. I don't want to have to see my own mug anywhere, and I only put it up, with gun, at the request of others. Once there, on my own little page, it was a way for me to change the facial expression to reflect my mood (see the Geogre-1.png, then -2, -3, etc.). The shotgun alone, with perhaps a clay pidgeon, might be a good talisman for VfD, but not me. I shall now bravely run away some more. Geogre 21:51, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
To make that a little clearer: The photo of me is on my user page. I never put it anywhere else and don't support its use anywhere else. At the same time, it's public domain. I find it amusing, like anyone would, that it became the mascot of AfD, but I didn't have anything to do with it. Geogre 09:45, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Just to comment on your comment: Wikipedia:Schools is not policy. It is not even a guideline. There is no policy that everything that "verifiably exists" is suitable for Wikipedia; on the contrary, WP:NOT notes explicitly "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of items of information. That something is 100% true does not mean it is suitable for inclusion in an encyclopedia." There is no consensus about schools. Comments in this AfD should comment directly on this particular article and should give specific reasons why this particular article should or should not be deleted.
I thought he should have been reverted, but when I saw the lengthy response you made, I didn't want to waste all your work. He explicitly deleted the instructions not to do what he did. I'm not sure what to do now. Jayjg (talk) 20:25, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
I just thumbed through your contest entries until I came across Sunny Jim. While he's mentioned in the deletion debate on Force (cereal), it's own nomination never seems to have been finished which would disqualify it from the contest. Can you provide me with a link to the debate, speedy, or copyvio entry? - Mgm| (talk) 21:57, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Oh cracker most wise,
Am I totally off the beam here? I looked over the previous nom, no real evidence on encyclopedic worth as far as I could see. But I keep seeing these "it's really notable, we swear" opinions. What gives?
brenneman
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13:02, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that you contributed to the cinerama article. I looked it up because I have a new DLP TV that has a Cinerama feature, however, it does not use film. Would this feature be an imitation of cinerama? I have a 16:9 55 inch TV that slightly distorts a 4:3 image to make it fit full screen.
whicky1978 03:34, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
My TV is an RCA Scenium . Cinerama has for this TV has to do with the ratio of the screen and not the quality of the picture. -- whicky1978 01:47, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
It definately distorts the picture (its noticible). The RCA Scenium also has a stretch feature. I think it might trim from the top and bottom and stretch it out. I suppose I could take photos, but the it might be a good idea to email RCA and ask them out it works-- whicky1978 02:02, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
It stretches the sides more than the middle. The thought is (I guess) that it looks less distorted because people on TV are usually in the middle of the screen instead of one side or the other.-- whicky1978 04:55, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
As I understand it from the manual, it is only a horziontal stretch, but the sides of the picture are stretched disproportionally more than than middle. I'm thinking th screen is divided into thirds, and the left and right thirds are stretched more so than the middle thirds.-- whicky1978 02:14, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
I read the New Yorker article whose link you posted to my talk page. Actually, it was just about the first thing I read when I switched on my laptop, after a lazy Saturday morning (I'm on French time these days). Disturbing stuff to see first thing after breakfast. . . .
Two of my best friends in high school were "second-tier" academics. They were both terribly smart, but they just couldn't make themselves care about the full range of classwork one had to do in order to "excel". (Our high school had enough pretentions that, if you were one of the smart cookies and took all the AP classes, you got yourself into a pretty serious and high-pressure environment. Most of the "gamesmanship" which The Hidden Curriculum portrays at MIT showed up at Virgil I. Grissom High, too — and oddly enough, it's the only school in town which doesn't draw students from a low-income housing project.) In one case, my friend just wanted to program computers and read his way through the last century of science fiction. The other was just an inimitable underachiever: he became so good at forging signatures and getting his absences excused that he could pile up twenty or thirty "holidays" each semester. He also rode on a Jeep's spare tire when we went to a scholars' bowl competition one day.
The first guy went to Mississippi State and the second to Arizona State. Either one would have done fine at MIT, had they compromised with the Institute's "hidden curriculum". The trick would've been making it through the admissions process. The former didn't try at all, and the latter, well, he showed up at his interview in a baseball cap, a pair of torn jeans stained with Alabama red clay and a T-shirt advertising the lighthouses of the East Coast.
It's nice to know that the admissions process I survived is a legacy of rampant anti-Semitism. The flip-side is that most of the interesting people I met started off completely befuddled on how they got in. My roommate for two years insisted, half jokingly, that he only got past the Admissions Office because they had to fill their quota of guys from Texas.
The Atlantic Monthly article doesn't work without a subscription, by the bye.
Anville 10:34, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi there. I notice the Jessamyn West article is up for AfD again. While I'm not concerned about that, I am concerned that the nomination came from someone who is closely associated with someone [a non-Wikipedian] whose own article came up for AfD a few days back. I voted not to keep that article, and all of the sudden the AfD for my own article came up. I don't know if there is any purpose in indicating that I think it's a bad faith nomination on the AfD page but it concerns me. Jessamyn 16:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Greetings,
Since you voted to keep the article List of Guantanamo Bay detainees I thought I would give you a "heads-up". A copyright violation was filed against the article, on October 11th. It was filed by someone who had voted to delete the article on October 5th.
I believe that the copyright violation is entirely bogus. I believe it is bogus because, as explained in Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service, lists of facts, like lists of names, cannot be copyright. This Feist v. Rural case went all the way to the US Supreme Court, which made the possibly counter-intuitive ruling that the amount of effort someone put in to compiling a list plays no role in determining whether that list is eligible for copyright protection.
Even if alphabetic lists of names could be copyright, I believe the wikipedia list would not be violating copyright since the list was compiled from various sources.
Yes, I have considered that this user invoked a bogus copyright violation to achieve a result that failed in the {AfD}. Yes, I asked them to terminate the copyright violation process, in light of Feist v Rural. They declined. The backlog in the administrators dealing with copyright violations seems to be on the order of a month long.
Anyhow, I wanted the people who had shown interest in the article to not freak out, or feel betrayed, by seeing the copyright violation tag. -- Geo Swan 11:35, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
Seen it in many places, found one quote by Disney in Bob Thomas' biography: "What young artists need is a school where they can learn a variety of skills, a place where there is cross-pollination". -- Janke | Talk 18:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
As you have brought up the subject of original research and lists, please swing by Longest streets in London and its talk page. It appears to me to be a project to find out what the longest street in London is by collaboratively measuring all of them. Uncle G 00:58, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
I love the quote on the AfD page. Excellent! — Gaff ταλκ 04:10, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
That's fricken hilarious. I recall during my college application process, my parents wanted me to apply to Brown since it was the only Ivy they thought would accept me. I wanted to study aerospace engineering for god's sake! ✈ James C. 06:38, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
Fantastic work on the Liberal Arts, Inc. article! The St. John's library has every book ever written on the college, or by a tutor/dean/president, etc., so if you need anything looked up just ask. -- zenohockey 05:21, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
"CarDepot" is suspected of being a sockpuppet with a number of identities, including "Science3456". All of the articles he just AfD'd are articles that he created in another persona. At best, he is just wasting our time, at worst he may be using the AfD process to drag out the existence of articles like Linen closet Coat closet Towel closet Walk-in closet and so on. - O^O
Thank you for updating Schoolwatch during my absence. Things have been quite busy lately. Bahn Mi 21:08, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
TFHMEMVT (Thanks For Helping Me Enhance My Vocabulary Today). Cheers. PJM 22:29, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
While I get your point, there is, to my mind, something quantifiably different about Harvard (Or, for that matter, Duke) and the University of Montana. Prestige seems to me the best way to describe this. Phil Sandifer 02:59, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
The paragraph explaining how much better the public ivies are than the actual Ivy League is both an example of the cultural inferiority complex at work and an example of what wiki does to everything. When the Web started out, several hundreds of people simultaneously got the idea that it would be just so cool to have a corporate-authored novel or story. "One person will write the first sentence, and then someone else will write the second sentence. It'll be neat." It wasn't. What it was was a sort of MadLibs of the lame and cantankerous. The smallest semantic level of discourse, it appears, is not the sentence. It is the utterance. Wikipedia is sometimes like those corporate novels. Each person adds a sentence (always at the bottom), and the result is contradiction, illogic, and so many micro-digressions that there is no thesis. Of course what actually happens most of the time is that a single author writes a whole article or a whole subsection, folks tweak a word here or there, and then someone does a rewrite to make a whole article work. The "why the public ivies are better" paragraph looks like one where the wiki-way has been involved. Tin cans are lumped in with glass jars, and everyone wants to insert a fact about the alma mater.
What has bothered me since my days at Emory is this obsession with "Harvard of the South" or "Southern Ivy" or what have you. First, in such discourse "ivy" doesn't mean the Ivy League. It means "elite, difficult, and snobbish," alternately. The fact that some of the so-called ivies have work loads that are harder for undergraduates than the real Ivy League schools only proves the fact that the term "Ivy" doesn't mean "Ivy League." (Dartmouth is neither as exclusive nor as difficult, for example, as many of the faux ivies around the nation, and the same is true of Brown.) As such, the term, and the football league, exist not as anything definable, but only as a cultural token, a token of Northeastern 1) plutocracy (of the 19th c., of course), 2) cultural authority, 3) superiority in education. To have that function, the rest of the nation has to be sold a bill of goods about its own poverty, barbarism, and ignorance. And then, of course, there is the small matter of aspiring to be a "Harvard of the South" prevents your becoming the Tulane of New Orleans or the Vanderbilt of Nashville or Emory of Atlanta.
The article in question is inoffensive, but it's also unnecessary. I've always said that this is a dictionary lemma, not an encyclopedia article. Geogre 09:28, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
See Talk:General Electric. — Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 18:40, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Could you please revisit the discussion, read my comments there and consider changing your vote?
I think two reasons used to delete this are faulty:
Thanks for your attention. - Mgm| (talk) 10:09, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Use one of "US" or "U.S.". You could ask a similar question about the UK or GB:) jguk 19:51, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Good edit! I was actually contemplating doing just that, linking to Schweizer, but thought it would clutter the article. But this is good, and NPOV. Thanks! (PS: did you do the original deletion, but logged-out? Not that it's any of my business to know - but it's hard to discuss with an IP, so that's why I put the comment in the edit field... ;-) -- Janke | Talk 21:36, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
This may get few hits on Google and may possibly be invented, but card manipulation (not Extreme) is not only used by magicians but also used as a show of of dexterity, so in that regard the article is right and Card magic needs serious expansion. Would you consider a merge? - Mgm| (talk) 09:06, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Resistance is futile. You will be rated.
Why does everyone want to cite random magazines to prove how great their old FP was, instead of writing anything about its history? Sigh. Anville 00:00, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
I have posted a reply to cinerama above-- whicky1978 01:49, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn't have such lists. I've been using the list of most-linked articles. It's the next best alternative. While it's not always true that the most-linked article is also the most-viewed, in any case all articles should be referenced. This just serves as a place to start. — BRIAN 0918 • 2005-12-1 14:53
Please read Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Molecular economics and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arthur W. Baron. Uncle G 07:12, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey, I saw your picture of floaters and...uh...they don't really look anything like that. Or at least the ones I get. It's more of a "Multiply" or "Color Burn" effect if you understand what I mean by that. It's definitely NOT a grey patch when looking at the sky, though. I don't get most of those shapes, either, usually circles. Sorta looks like the shape of a blood cell, or a coccus under a microscope. However, I can understand if shapes may vary. ~ Oni Lukos 15:32, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for the kind words - I think the rhino is very "Harvard". Greatly enjoyed reading your pages, glad that you weighed in on Wang Labs, LINC, Thayer Hall, and most especially Currier and Ives etc. Cheers - Daderot
So, I've been trying to de-puff college and university boosterism, but just can't do my own alma mater as well as I'd like to be able to. I keep catching myself justifying things that I'd consider puffery on other pages. I was wondering if you could take a glance at Cornell and make the page more NPOV. Cheers, JDoorjam 14:18, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I completely agree with you that the WP community needs to address this! I think far more than this particular policy change will be required, however. But at least the board seems to be thinking about this stuff.--- CH (another Cornell alum, incidentally) 02:03, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I deleted a whole bunch of stuff from Babson College and reorganized what was left. It is not a pinnacle of encyclopaedic excellence, but it might now be adequately NPOV. The bad news is that Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering seems to have been written by the same people. How they can say so much about a school which isn't even accredited yet boggles the mind. (expletive deleted) Anville 18:33, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Do you know where the old deletion discussion is? Uncle G 19:52, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
I don't quite understand a bit of what you added to Gravity Research Foundation, the long quote about the Hobart College monument. What is that quoted from - is it on the monument itself? We need to be clearer on that, I think. - DavidWBrooks 21:04, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
:P
The reaction to rhapsody in blue made it anything but an instant success, some people walked out half way through the debut performance. The sentence saying it was met with instant success is wrong, i'd like to change it. Briaboru 22:54, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
A while ago you expressed interest in Wikipedia:Footnotes. As that article was updated through a renaming process, you might not be aware of changes during recent months. I invite you to read the article again in case it is now more useful. ( SEWilco 08:49, 15 December 2005 (UTC))
3. ^ Zeitschrift für Krankschafft und Geerschifft Apr. 1 2006 p. 22-3
I've pruned List of agnostics significantly, retaining only verified agnostics. Could I persuade you to change your vote from "delete" to "keep"?
If it matters, I've worked on the article a bit and added citations. You may wish to take a look at it again. =) Xaa 17:20, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
I wonder if you would take a look at this article. There was a vfd on an article with the same name, but this isn't a cut & paste of the deleted one. I can't tell if this one is re-worded nonsense or potentially good stuff. Joyous (talk) 01:30, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
About Stephan Kinsella, I said: Keep. We have articles on equally undistinguished people who are Wikipedians. Grace Note 01:22, 29 July 2005 (UTC) and you said: That's irrelevant. We are considering this article. If the existence of inappropriate articles in Wikipedia was considered to justify the addition of more inappropriate articles, we'd have a rapid "race to the bottom." Dpbsmith (talk) 17:42, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
The point I was making was not that other articles are inappropriate so we should keep this one but that the bar is (thankfully) rather low. Personally, I feel the bias against biographical articles is unfortunate. It's a pity it has been written into policy. I don't think well-written short articles about people do any harm. My view is, and always has been, that crap articles are a bad thing but good ones, even about the "non-notable", do no harm. Sorry it's taken a while to get to your comment.
Grace Note
04:57, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
"My view is, and always has been, that crap articles are a bad thing but good ones, even about the "non-notable", do no harm."
I pretty much mostly agree with you. It is what I personally think about articles about high schools, street intersections, "fancruft," etc. As long as a reasonable amount of work went into the article, as long as it is reasonably thorough, and not just written off the top of the head with unattributed "facts" that someone is pretty sure he read somewhere.
Someone wisely pointed out a long time ago that bad articles that nobody reads do no harm, and bad articles that many people read are likely to be improved.
(But, again, where I part company with the inclusionists is I believe that bad articles should be deleted if there is no credible prospect that someone is going to improve them. I don't approve of leaving them to fester on the assumption that they will magically improve themselves.
Similarly, I think it is irresponsible to create a substub if one has no serious intention of coming back to do more work on it. The responsible thing is to put in an article request instead).
I part company a little bit in the case of articles that are promotional. The fact that anybody can insert material into Wikipedia makes it a tempting target of abuse for people trying to publicize things.
The go-getter boys quickly insert material about themselves, their health theories, their businesses, their soon-to-be-produced movies, etc. anywhere on the Net that permits it. A Wikipedia article is great way to boost a Google rank, and it often comes up in mirrors as "Encyclopedia article about..."
I think that it does damage Wikipedia if we do not have a firm community consensus that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and that articles in it must be "encyclopedic," even if it is very, very hard to establish just where the borders lie.
I also have a strong feeling that all articles must be written at least partially with the intention of serving some putative readership, not just satisfying the self-actualization needs of the contributor.
So, there's no bright line. Very obviously an article about Stephan Kinsella does not damage Wikipedia.
However, allowing pitbull-tenacious self-promoters to use WIkipedia as a publicity medium does damage Wikipedia. I don't know if you were involved in the the Shawn Mikula business, but it was fairly ugly. This was a grad student at Johns Hopkins with no obvious notability who was just plain insisting on using Wikipedia for his vanity page, repeatedly re-creating it over and over, etc.
So, I'm fairly mellow about good articles on most topics, but I tend to be somewhat more picky about categories of articles that are intrinsically likely to be abused by self-promoters. That would include biographies. Dpbsmith (talk) 22:22, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
Would it be possible for me to borrow your beefstew list. With credit given of course to you. I'm very impressed by it. Gateman1997 21:03, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
I'd appreciate any help you can give me with two items, both related.
Thanks for the time you took on the Time cover baloney. As you say, the Waldo photo is now missing. But it was sure there for a couple of hours, just before I wrote you. Verra strange, but, as you say, I *have* seen Wiki do strange stuff with images before. I forgot to wait a while and let things cool off. Next time I'll give it a day or so before panicking, hehe...
Dpbsmith
Coal Region should be mentioned in
John O'Hara
After all it is his heritage, as is mine too, and glad I was.
Thanks so much.
Opinion?
Scotty
I understand & sympathise completely with everything that you say. But I didn't tag it as a copyvio. User:Johann Wolfgang did: [1]. I just moved the thing around. Given the standard treatment of copyvios (where all text is removed), I just assumed that the text remaining there was left in error so I took it out. I'll admit that I didn't feel up to reading the source of the material in question. Slac speak up! 13:54, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Many thanks for the kind words on the Barbara Nitke VFD vote page. Writers of "fringe" articles appreciate all the support we can get. -- Outlander 13:30, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
Ahem. ☺ Uncle G 13:08:24, 2005-08-24 (UTC)
The other day I thunk up a new idea for waging the endless war against academic boosterism. What if we picked a school which is currently hardly covered at all and pushed its article to FA status? See, a while back I noticed that Calvin and Hobbes was suffering extreme factoid bloat (and was poorly referenced besides), so I nominated it for FA removal. Several people managed to get together and save its FA status, and at the moment it's actually a stronger article than when it was first promoted, particularly where references are concerned. FA votes, for either promotion or demotion, seem to attract more critical thinking than the various other kinds of discussion. I believe it would be convenient to have a "gold standard" against which one could compare other articles, or even the same article at a later date. If the Harvard article were filling up with excess laudatory quotes, or if Dartmouth was bursting with trivia, etc., etc., we could direct attention to the Featured University Article and say, "Here is how rankings were handled in this case."
The school would have to be chosen carefully. I'd suggest finding a college or university with some amount of history, a verifiable reputation for quality in some field, and a tangible media presence — say, one which has appeared in a couple movies. Looking at US schools, Wellesley College springs to mind. Just compare its article with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taste the good ol' systemic bias! A reader browsing the FA list who sees MIT placed there would likely say, "Of course. Just nerds patting each other on the back." Likewise for Caltech. I think we could dodge this accusation with Wellesley. Plus, I know people who went there, and in these days of pervasive digital cameras I bet I could score a few GFDL photos.
Anville 15:27, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Unfortunately I had to put a POV tag on your Technology Review entry. Re-read the entry and I think you'll find that the whole thing sounds like an attack on the magazine now, which I hope was not your intent. -- BrassRat 09:47, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks so much for taking the time to explain the whole linkspam issue and how to handle it. Jeremy J. Shapiro 00:23, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
Based on the talk page, I think you wrote this:
I would like to point out the fact there's discussion of merge and delete under Delete and redirect. Could you also explain to me why Delete and redirect would be incompatible if no content of the original article is retained? - Mgm| (talk) 11:36, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
Hello, you voted on this VfD which I had accidentlally pasted Gillian Slovo instead of JDizzle Comics. I cleared all votes in order to remove any bias because of my stupidity so please vote again knowing that it is about JDizzle Comics. Sorry and thanks. gren グレン 21:29, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
Considering the Harry Potter trolling VfU discussion and several recent ones, it's time we revived the discussion on Wikipedia talk:Votes for undeletion#The scope of VfU and dealt with the question directly. Whilst you weren't involved in the original discussion, your remarks on this VfU suggested you might nevertheless want to chip in, so I thought I'd let you know. - Splash 21:51, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
i was ironically amused by your comment on the presidential rape vfd. i actually created the article for pretty much the opposite reason you suggest. the clinton article was being completely dominated by scandal trivia, so i began spinning them off to subarticles. i decided to create a unified presidential rape article to provide a little context. but, of course, the clinton part of that article got swamped with a play-by-play, which i've now mostly removed. at any rate, my purpose in creating it was to prevent endless battles and scandal-mongering on the main clinton page. if deleted, i fear that will be the result again. Derex 00:59, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I nominated
as a featured picture. There's some comments made about the nomination that I wondered if you could respond to at Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Eggs. Thanks for the picture. -- bodnotbod 21:33, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
The page creates a false impression by omitting Visicalc which was the first spreadsheet and which prompted IBM to enter the desktop computer field which lead to the IBM PC and to Microsoft.
Dear dpbs, there's some talk of having Wikimania in Boston next year. Please comment on that page if it strikes your fancy.
This is your last warning. The next time you engage in mirthful behavior you will be spanked with Texture's shoe. |
I noticed that you have some images in the category Category:Images with unknown source. Due to the vast number of images in this category (12000+), and the fact that, lacking a source, they present considerable copyright uncertanty, Jimbo has stated, and added to the Criteria for Speedy Deletion, "Images in category "Images with unknown source" or "Images with unknown copyright status" which have been in the category for more than 7 days, regardless of when uploaded." This means the images can, and will, be deleted with no notice. To see a list of all the images you've uploaded(at least, under this username), review the upload log. You might also find User:Pearle/by-author-Category:Images_with_unknown_source.txt to be useful(search for your username). If neither of those work, you can find a list of all the images you uploaded(mixed in with all the images you edited) by viewing your contributions by namespace. If you have any questions, please let me know. JesseW, the juggling janitor 22:08, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
Don't distress :) - looks like you got it correct last time :). Ryan Norton T | @ | C 21:42, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
mmmmm..... Nedick's and Absolut! A nice break from Grape Nehi and Veuve Clicquot..... - Nunh-huh 02:36, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
Heh, you are reminding me why I never took another logic class after the first one I had as a freshman all those years ago.-- Isotope23 23:59, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
Just FYI I decided to use AltaVista's search engine and I found a reference to a January 28, 2004 airdate on PBS for The Great Year, according to KOCE-TV in Huntington Beach [2] Cheers! 23skidoo 17:46, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
You removed the link to googolduplex which I added to names of large numbers, saying that the former article contains no extra information. That's fine with me, but I think that in that case, googolduplex should be a redirect. Would you agree with that? More importantly, I'm wondering whether the name googolduplex is used at all. Google returns some hits, but it seems many are just copied from eachother. From the talk page, you seem to have some experience with this question, so I'd like to have your opinion. -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 12:29, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your answer and for creating the redirects. -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 13:53, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? -- Kjwhitefoot 08:11, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
N'unh unh! It did not have my foreknowledge or approval -- just my mild bemusement after the fact. It should not be there. I don't want to have to see my own mug anywhere, and I only put it up, with gun, at the request of others. Once there, on my own little page, it was a way for me to change the facial expression to reflect my mood (see the Geogre-1.png, then -2, -3, etc.). The shotgun alone, with perhaps a clay pidgeon, might be a good talisman for VfD, but not me. I shall now bravely run away some more. Geogre 21:51, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
To make that a little clearer: The photo of me is on my user page. I never put it anywhere else and don't support its use anywhere else. At the same time, it's public domain. I find it amusing, like anyone would, that it became the mascot of AfD, but I didn't have anything to do with it. Geogre 09:45, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Just to comment on your comment: Wikipedia:Schools is not policy. It is not even a guideline. There is no policy that everything that "verifiably exists" is suitable for Wikipedia; on the contrary, WP:NOT notes explicitly "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of items of information. That something is 100% true does not mean it is suitable for inclusion in an encyclopedia." There is no consensus about schools. Comments in this AfD should comment directly on this particular article and should give specific reasons why this particular article should or should not be deleted.
I thought he should have been reverted, but when I saw the lengthy response you made, I didn't want to waste all your work. He explicitly deleted the instructions not to do what he did. I'm not sure what to do now. Jayjg (talk) 20:25, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
I just thumbed through your contest entries until I came across Sunny Jim. While he's mentioned in the deletion debate on Force (cereal), it's own nomination never seems to have been finished which would disqualify it from the contest. Can you provide me with a link to the debate, speedy, or copyvio entry? - Mgm| (talk) 21:57, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Oh cracker most wise,
Am I totally off the beam here? I looked over the previous nom, no real evidence on encyclopedic worth as far as I could see. But I keep seeing these "it's really notable, we swear" opinions. What gives?
brenneman
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13:02, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that you contributed to the cinerama article. I looked it up because I have a new DLP TV that has a Cinerama feature, however, it does not use film. Would this feature be an imitation of cinerama? I have a 16:9 55 inch TV that slightly distorts a 4:3 image to make it fit full screen.
whicky1978 03:34, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
My TV is an RCA Scenium . Cinerama has for this TV has to do with the ratio of the screen and not the quality of the picture. -- whicky1978 01:47, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
It definately distorts the picture (its noticible). The RCA Scenium also has a stretch feature. I think it might trim from the top and bottom and stretch it out. I suppose I could take photos, but the it might be a good idea to email RCA and ask them out it works-- whicky1978 02:02, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
It stretches the sides more than the middle. The thought is (I guess) that it looks less distorted because people on TV are usually in the middle of the screen instead of one side or the other.-- whicky1978 04:55, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
As I understand it from the manual, it is only a horziontal stretch, but the sides of the picture are stretched disproportionally more than than middle. I'm thinking th screen is divided into thirds, and the left and right thirds are stretched more so than the middle thirds.-- whicky1978 02:14, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
I read the New Yorker article whose link you posted to my talk page. Actually, it was just about the first thing I read when I switched on my laptop, after a lazy Saturday morning (I'm on French time these days). Disturbing stuff to see first thing after breakfast. . . .
Two of my best friends in high school were "second-tier" academics. They were both terribly smart, but they just couldn't make themselves care about the full range of classwork one had to do in order to "excel". (Our high school had enough pretentions that, if you were one of the smart cookies and took all the AP classes, you got yourself into a pretty serious and high-pressure environment. Most of the "gamesmanship" which The Hidden Curriculum portrays at MIT showed up at Virgil I. Grissom High, too — and oddly enough, it's the only school in town which doesn't draw students from a low-income housing project.) In one case, my friend just wanted to program computers and read his way through the last century of science fiction. The other was just an inimitable underachiever: he became so good at forging signatures and getting his absences excused that he could pile up twenty or thirty "holidays" each semester. He also rode on a Jeep's spare tire when we went to a scholars' bowl competition one day.
The first guy went to Mississippi State and the second to Arizona State. Either one would have done fine at MIT, had they compromised with the Institute's "hidden curriculum". The trick would've been making it through the admissions process. The former didn't try at all, and the latter, well, he showed up at his interview in a baseball cap, a pair of torn jeans stained with Alabama red clay and a T-shirt advertising the lighthouses of the East Coast.
It's nice to know that the admissions process I survived is a legacy of rampant anti-Semitism. The flip-side is that most of the interesting people I met started off completely befuddled on how they got in. My roommate for two years insisted, half jokingly, that he only got past the Admissions Office because they had to fill their quota of guys from Texas.
The Atlantic Monthly article doesn't work without a subscription, by the bye.
Anville 10:34, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi there. I notice the Jessamyn West article is up for AfD again. While I'm not concerned about that, I am concerned that the nomination came from someone who is closely associated with someone [a non-Wikipedian] whose own article came up for AfD a few days back. I voted not to keep that article, and all of the sudden the AfD for my own article came up. I don't know if there is any purpose in indicating that I think it's a bad faith nomination on the AfD page but it concerns me. Jessamyn 16:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Greetings,
Since you voted to keep the article List of Guantanamo Bay detainees I thought I would give you a "heads-up". A copyright violation was filed against the article, on October 11th. It was filed by someone who had voted to delete the article on October 5th.
I believe that the copyright violation is entirely bogus. I believe it is bogus because, as explained in Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service, lists of facts, like lists of names, cannot be copyright. This Feist v. Rural case went all the way to the US Supreme Court, which made the possibly counter-intuitive ruling that the amount of effort someone put in to compiling a list plays no role in determining whether that list is eligible for copyright protection.
Even if alphabetic lists of names could be copyright, I believe the wikipedia list would not be violating copyright since the list was compiled from various sources.
Yes, I have considered that this user invoked a bogus copyright violation to achieve a result that failed in the {AfD}. Yes, I asked them to terminate the copyright violation process, in light of Feist v Rural. They declined. The backlog in the administrators dealing with copyright violations seems to be on the order of a month long.
Anyhow, I wanted the people who had shown interest in the article to not freak out, or feel betrayed, by seeing the copyright violation tag. -- Geo Swan 11:35, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
Seen it in many places, found one quote by Disney in Bob Thomas' biography: "What young artists need is a school where they can learn a variety of skills, a place where there is cross-pollination". -- Janke | Talk 18:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
As you have brought up the subject of original research and lists, please swing by Longest streets in London and its talk page. It appears to me to be a project to find out what the longest street in London is by collaboratively measuring all of them. Uncle G 00:58, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
I love the quote on the AfD page. Excellent! — Gaff ταλκ 04:10, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
That's fricken hilarious. I recall during my college application process, my parents wanted me to apply to Brown since it was the only Ivy they thought would accept me. I wanted to study aerospace engineering for god's sake! ✈ James C. 06:38, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
Fantastic work on the Liberal Arts, Inc. article! The St. John's library has every book ever written on the college, or by a tutor/dean/president, etc., so if you need anything looked up just ask. -- zenohockey 05:21, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
"CarDepot" is suspected of being a sockpuppet with a number of identities, including "Science3456". All of the articles he just AfD'd are articles that he created in another persona. At best, he is just wasting our time, at worst he may be using the AfD process to drag out the existence of articles like Linen closet Coat closet Towel closet Walk-in closet and so on. - O^O
Thank you for updating Schoolwatch during my absence. Things have been quite busy lately. Bahn Mi 21:08, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
TFHMEMVT (Thanks For Helping Me Enhance My Vocabulary Today). Cheers. PJM 22:29, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
While I get your point, there is, to my mind, something quantifiably different about Harvard (Or, for that matter, Duke) and the University of Montana. Prestige seems to me the best way to describe this. Phil Sandifer 02:59, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
The paragraph explaining how much better the public ivies are than the actual Ivy League is both an example of the cultural inferiority complex at work and an example of what wiki does to everything. When the Web started out, several hundreds of people simultaneously got the idea that it would be just so cool to have a corporate-authored novel or story. "One person will write the first sentence, and then someone else will write the second sentence. It'll be neat." It wasn't. What it was was a sort of MadLibs of the lame and cantankerous. The smallest semantic level of discourse, it appears, is not the sentence. It is the utterance. Wikipedia is sometimes like those corporate novels. Each person adds a sentence (always at the bottom), and the result is contradiction, illogic, and so many micro-digressions that there is no thesis. Of course what actually happens most of the time is that a single author writes a whole article or a whole subsection, folks tweak a word here or there, and then someone does a rewrite to make a whole article work. The "why the public ivies are better" paragraph looks like one where the wiki-way has been involved. Tin cans are lumped in with glass jars, and everyone wants to insert a fact about the alma mater.
What has bothered me since my days at Emory is this obsession with "Harvard of the South" or "Southern Ivy" or what have you. First, in such discourse "ivy" doesn't mean the Ivy League. It means "elite, difficult, and snobbish," alternately. The fact that some of the so-called ivies have work loads that are harder for undergraduates than the real Ivy League schools only proves the fact that the term "Ivy" doesn't mean "Ivy League." (Dartmouth is neither as exclusive nor as difficult, for example, as many of the faux ivies around the nation, and the same is true of Brown.) As such, the term, and the football league, exist not as anything definable, but only as a cultural token, a token of Northeastern 1) plutocracy (of the 19th c., of course), 2) cultural authority, 3) superiority in education. To have that function, the rest of the nation has to be sold a bill of goods about its own poverty, barbarism, and ignorance. And then, of course, there is the small matter of aspiring to be a "Harvard of the South" prevents your becoming the Tulane of New Orleans or the Vanderbilt of Nashville or Emory of Atlanta.
The article in question is inoffensive, but it's also unnecessary. I've always said that this is a dictionary lemma, not an encyclopedia article. Geogre 09:28, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
See Talk:General Electric. — Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 18:40, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Could you please revisit the discussion, read my comments there and consider changing your vote?
I think two reasons used to delete this are faulty:
Thanks for your attention. - Mgm| (talk) 10:09, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Use one of "US" or "U.S.". You could ask a similar question about the UK or GB:) jguk 19:51, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Good edit! I was actually contemplating doing just that, linking to Schweizer, but thought it would clutter the article. But this is good, and NPOV. Thanks! (PS: did you do the original deletion, but logged-out? Not that it's any of my business to know - but it's hard to discuss with an IP, so that's why I put the comment in the edit field... ;-) -- Janke | Talk 21:36, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
This may get few hits on Google and may possibly be invented, but card manipulation (not Extreme) is not only used by magicians but also used as a show of of dexterity, so in that regard the article is right and Card magic needs serious expansion. Would you consider a merge? - Mgm| (talk) 09:06, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Resistance is futile. You will be rated.
Why does everyone want to cite random magazines to prove how great their old FP was, instead of writing anything about its history? Sigh. Anville 00:00, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
I have posted a reply to cinerama above-- whicky1978 01:49, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn't have such lists. I've been using the list of most-linked articles. It's the next best alternative. While it's not always true that the most-linked article is also the most-viewed, in any case all articles should be referenced. This just serves as a place to start. — BRIAN 0918 • 2005-12-1 14:53
Please read Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Molecular economics and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arthur W. Baron. Uncle G 07:12, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey, I saw your picture of floaters and...uh...they don't really look anything like that. Or at least the ones I get. It's more of a "Multiply" or "Color Burn" effect if you understand what I mean by that. It's definitely NOT a grey patch when looking at the sky, though. I don't get most of those shapes, either, usually circles. Sorta looks like the shape of a blood cell, or a coccus under a microscope. However, I can understand if shapes may vary. ~ Oni Lukos 15:32, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for the kind words - I think the rhino is very "Harvard". Greatly enjoyed reading your pages, glad that you weighed in on Wang Labs, LINC, Thayer Hall, and most especially Currier and Ives etc. Cheers - Daderot
So, I've been trying to de-puff college and university boosterism, but just can't do my own alma mater as well as I'd like to be able to. I keep catching myself justifying things that I'd consider puffery on other pages. I was wondering if you could take a glance at Cornell and make the page more NPOV. Cheers, JDoorjam 14:18, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I completely agree with you that the WP community needs to address this! I think far more than this particular policy change will be required, however. But at least the board seems to be thinking about this stuff.--- CH (another Cornell alum, incidentally) 02:03, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I deleted a whole bunch of stuff from Babson College and reorganized what was left. It is not a pinnacle of encyclopaedic excellence, but it might now be adequately NPOV. The bad news is that Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering seems to have been written by the same people. How they can say so much about a school which isn't even accredited yet boggles the mind. (expletive deleted) Anville 18:33, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Do you know where the old deletion discussion is? Uncle G 19:52, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
I don't quite understand a bit of what you added to Gravity Research Foundation, the long quote about the Hobart College monument. What is that quoted from - is it on the monument itself? We need to be clearer on that, I think. - DavidWBrooks 21:04, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
:P
The reaction to rhapsody in blue made it anything but an instant success, some people walked out half way through the debut performance. The sentence saying it was met with instant success is wrong, i'd like to change it. Briaboru 22:54, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
A while ago you expressed interest in Wikipedia:Footnotes. As that article was updated through a renaming process, you might not be aware of changes during recent months. I invite you to read the article again in case it is now more useful. ( SEWilco 08:49, 15 December 2005 (UTC))
3. ^ Zeitschrift für Krankschafft und Geerschifft Apr. 1 2006 p. 22-3