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[edit] Merge of Notable_non-graduate_alumni_of_Harvard

I'm disappointed that you chose to attack me on my editor review instead of having a civil discussion about this. I left the merge message for five days. There were no responses. To categorize it as "absolutely without reason," "invasive", and "without merit" is false. Please read a little closer the list it was merged to. The name of the list is List of Harvard University people not Harvard University Alumni or Harvard University Graduates. The first sentence reads "This is a table of notable people affiliated with Harvard University, including graduates, former students, and professors." Thus, everyone in Notable_non-graduate_alumni_of_Harvard can be included in List of Harvard University people. There is no need for a separate list.

You said that "It will be first neccesary [sic] to delete the ENTIRE category before you can so radically alter this again." Uh, no. The category has nothing to do with the list. Gzkn 00:44, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps I was reacting to the posts that I saw there already in which you were accused of having a rather heavy hand as an editor. Sorry if I in any way personally offended you, it was not my intent.

At an institution such as Harvard a distinction can be made between those who are truly members of the community and notable Harvard personages and between those, like Parsons or Raitt, who although notable in their own right have a connection to Harvard that is trivial in nature. A fine example of this can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_non-graduate_alumni_of_West_Point


It is of some interest, and well worth noting, that Edgar Allen Poe was expelled or that the first winner of Survivor, Richard Hatch dropped out. It does not however rise to the level of being notable to or with the institution itself.

This issue does not arise elsewhere when a community might not have an affiliation with such a long and deep history of notable people say here at John Belushi's school, or even perhaps at Yale:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin-Whitewater

I don't think that just because a person is a non-graduate alumni, he/she only has a "trivial" connection to Harvard. For example, I wouldn't say Bill Gates has a trivial connection just because he dropped out. He was an integral part of the community and has donated the computer science building. List of Harvard University people doesn't exclude any of the people that don't graduate. It includes them, and makes note of their relationship very clearly. There's just no need for a separate list, duplicating the information. Gzkn 03:03, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
err..let's continue our conversation at Talk:Notable_non-graduate_alumni_of_Harvard. Also could you sign your posts on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~)? Thanks! Gzkn 03:06, 8 December 2006 (UTC)