User talk:Bluedog423/Archive 2

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[edit] Ohio Wesleyan University

Quick question regarding the Ohio Wesleyan University. You left a very helpful comment regarding the page candidacy back in July. Since then, a lot of the issues that you mentioned have been improved on. Could you take a look and tell me what are some of the major areas that still need work and what work exactly? I'd greatly appreciate it! WikiprojectOWU 18:44, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

• Thank you!!! I greatly appreciate your very helpful feedback! WikiprojectOWU 01:07, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Why am I the only one writing on your discussion page? :) Thank you for the recent comments. I did follow the same outline for the introduction. I was trying to walk a fine line between borrowing from the logical flow of the Duke article (a very good one actually) but making it relevant to OWU. I will work on paraphrasing some of the sentences that you suggested. In any case, your help is greatly appreciated!!! WikiprojectOWU 00:25, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chapel Hell and Tarholes

Please do not create attack redirects. NawlinWiki 03:51, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

• Didn't mean to offend anybody. We discussed this here: [1]. The University of New Jersey at Durham redirects to Duke, so I don't see why UNC nicknames wouldn't qualify. -Bluedog423^Talk 03:56, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

• The result of the UNJ-D AFD was to redirect to UNC-Duke Rivalry IMO. Someone changed that to an attack redirect to Duke, which I've reverted. I also deleted Carowhina. There is no purpose for these redirects to go to the targeted school, other than to give rivals of the targeted school a laugh. Otherwise, we'll wind up with redirects for every insult that someone at one school can think up for their rival. NawlinWiki 04:04, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

• Ok, sounds good to me. I personally agree with you on this topic and think none of them should exist at all as I explained in the AfD discussion. I just created them because at the end it seemed like that's what people wanted. Also, when closing the discussion it was noted: "Please note that whilst I've recreated the article as a redirect to UNC-Duke rivalry, that is not part of this afd closure, the redirect destination can be changed via discussion on the article's talk page." I guess User:Remember didn't bother to have a discussion and took it upon himself to redirect it already. I'm still unclear though. If University of New Jersey at Durham redirects to UNC-Duke rivalry why shouldn't Carowhina and others also redirect to UNC-Duke rivalry? -Bluedog423^Talk 04:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Remember redirected it at my request, because I didn't know how. At the time, it seemed appropriate given the redirect of Bronx Bombers to New York Yankees and Carowhina to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. However, the entire issue has been addressed since that time. I just don't want an innocent third party getting "blame" that should more correctly be directed to me. Thanks Dubc0724 15:02, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

• The result of the UNJ-D AFD was delete, not redirect... Meantime, I just added the redirect for University of New Jersey at Durham to the Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion list and PRODded it. None of that stuff belongs on an encyclopedia... DukeEGR93 23:29, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Well, the redirect is gone, but now trying for mediation for some of the other stuff. DukeEGR93 20:38, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

• I think at this point Dubc0724 has come up with a compromise solution with respect to having the names listed for encyclopedic purposes but not as redirects or mainspace pages. Not that I will participate in that particular population, but I'll concede the relevance to a rivalry page. Cheers. DukeEGR93 02:20, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Personally, I won't be adding the nicknames anywhere. Should someone else insert them in the rivalry page, it's up to them to defend it. Personally I think we should just let it go, as it's beomce beating a dead horse and our time can be better focused elsewhere. Dubc0724 12:42, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Endowment

I am confused. Why did you change the endowment figure to a ridiculously low number $250,000? The goal of the campaign is to add $250 million, which is an ambitoous but feasible goal. The current endowment for OWU is more than 150 million already. Could you provide an explanation as you didn't even put for discussion? WikiprojectOWU 04:26, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

• Sorry about that. I didn't change the endowment figure. I changed the goal of the fundraising. But as soon as I did it I thought that $250,000 was way too small and I was about to put something on the discussion page asking the real value. It said $250,000 million, which is equal to about $250.0 trillion or something. So I was unsure what that meant. But I obviously chose a value that is way too low. I also couldn't find a source so I couldn't find the actual value. I'm changing it back now. Sorry again. -Bluedog423^Talk 15:51, 19 October 2006 (UTC)