User talk:LuMas

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia

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[edit] Bachelor's degree

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  2. As your changes seem neither to make the article more accurate (in fact they reduce its accuracy) nor improve it stylistically, and as you've offered no explanation (not even an edit summary — see above) for them, I shall continue to revert them. If you were to try to make a case for them, we could at least start discussing the issue. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:14, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your message (sorry to take so long replying). I'm a bit puzzled by your claim that the B.Phil. is famous in the U.S. as an undergraduae degree; I teach a lot of U.S. students (Junior Year Abroad and other programmes), and none of them has ever heard of it. But in Bachelor's degree, for example, you changed the correct and precise "New bachelor's degrees" to the vague "Other bachelor's degrees", and changed the accurate "sometimes" to the less accurate "often" (note also Wikipedia policy concerning the uses of U.K. and U.S. English; if an article is already in one, then it shouldn't be changed unless the topic is specifically suited to another form; this article is in U.K. English, so the spelling is "honours", as in the rest of the article).

In Bachelor of Philosophy, your changes were more extensive, so I'll just mention a few. Your claim that "B.Phil." comes from "Baccalaureus Philosophiae" needs a source (and is certainly false with regard to the Oxford degree; we generally use English titles (hence "D.Phil. rather than "Ph.D.", for example), and it just mans "Bachelor of Philosophy". The claim that it's an undergraduate degree (oh, and sometimes a graduate degree) is at best misleading; in many countries, not only the U.K., it is almost always a graduate degree, and that's it's first usage. I'm not sure why you prefer "Beyond Oxford" to "Outside Oxford".

I don't think that you added any new information that needs to be replaced, but if I've missed something, let me know. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:05, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Boston, Massachusetts

I appreciate your adding material to the article, but the detail that you are adding is already in the History of Boston, Massachusetts article. The material in the Boston article should be kept to summary form (not to mention that the article should not go above 40 kB in size). Pentawing 04:09, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

  • I went through and copyedited your additions. I hope that I am not upsetting you by my eliminating some details, but a peer reviewer, Nichalp (who is very active with the FAC process), strongly recommended that any articles being nominated should not have a large amount details when such information could be placed within a sub-article, that the main article should be summarized instead. Pentawing 04:41, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I cleaned up some wording, grammar, and spelling. At the moment, I decided to leave the basic structure as is, though I am hoping that there are no further problems (I contacted the peer reviewer above for his view, and right now I am hoping that he doesn't object). Pentawing 05:16, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Lawrence.gif

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[edit] Image Tagging for Image:Lawrence_academy2.jpg

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[edit] Redirects

It looks like you were trying to create a redirect at US education. I've adjusted the code so the article redirects to Education in the United States. You can create a redirect by replacing all text in the article with this line:

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and replacing [[Target]] with a wikilink to the target article. You can learn more at Wikipedia:Redirect. Please make sure that you link to the main article, and not to another redirect page, as the reader will only be forwarded once (see Wikipedia:Double redirects.) Thanks!

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