User talk:Redsully

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia...

and thanks for your edits to Vanderbilt University. They are appreciated. I'm just curious as to your comments to Esrever. Where you getting that he deleted your addition regarding the dropping of Men's soccer? The history of the page inicates that he acutally augmented your edits with information (I am assuming that your IP address is 129.59.44.34). Just trying to clarify any confusion here.

I also see that you enjoy photography. The Vanderbilt article desperates needs images to accentuate all that damn text. If you have any pictures of the campus or plan on take any, I encourage you to upload them to Wikimedia Commons (provided you do want to share them with the world) and add them to the article.

--Ttownfeen 02:24, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh, yes, you're more than welcome to post on my talk page. Here's some tips, though. To avoid clutter and confusion, it's best to place new comments at the bottom of discussion and user talks pages and also to section off said comments, which is done by wrapping a topic statement by a pair of two equal signs. You can see what I mean by clicking the "edit this page" tab above.
--Ttownfeen 07:19, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] clearing up men's soccer edits

As Ttownfeen noted, I wasn't deleting your additions. I just edited them a bit for clarity and to add a bit of information, so certainly no offense was intended. I'm just glad that we've now got someone else helping us keep the page up-to-date as new things develop at the university we all (presumably) love.  :)

Esrever 03:17, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandy-kirland

With your permission, I'm uploading a brighter version of Vandy-kirkland.jpg. I just used a random picture editing program (in this case MS Office Photo Viewer or something) and hit Auto Correct. I hope this wasn't too presumptive of me.

--Ttownfeen 22:28, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Confederate vs. Memorial

In the process of adding a bit of information about Perry Wallace to the Vandy page, I changed the caption on your picture of Confederate. Whatever one's feelings on the controversy surrounding the building, its official name is simply Memorial Hall. Esrever 05:02, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

By the way, thanks for adding all of those pictures in the first place. They really add a lot to the article I think. Esrever 05:03, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Based/Base

Re Private university: I used "based" because it is very clear that "lineage" in particular was used in the past. Bluntly, from, say, 1870 to 1970, Ivy League schools deliberately selected in such a way as to give preference to the WASP power structure. And circa 1920 Harvard and others got terrified that what had happened to Columbia would happen to them. Columbia had been meritocratic, and the percentage of Jews attending had gotten so large that WASPs were sending their scions elsewhere. Columbia was perceived to have declined in prestige as a result, and objectively the percentage of Columbia alumni in the Social Register declined. So starting in the 1920s Harvard and others rejiggered their admissions criteria to prevent too many Jews (and other riffraff) from gaining admission.

I didn't say "base" for two reasons. First, I believe the degree of such bias has diminished greatly in recent years. Second, I believe that the schools would currently assert that today there is no such bias at all. The statement that such selection criteria were used in the past is neutral, and sources can be cited, but the implication that they are still being used today might be controversial.

That's the reason I picked the word. It wasn't a lapse, it was deliberate. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:26, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recent images

Hey, just wanted to drop you a note to ask you not to replace images with completely different ones, such as Image:Utcampus_night.JPG. If you would like to upload a new image, you may do so. However, there are already two other images of the Main Building in the UT article, so I'm not sure that another would be constructive. Also, in Image:Leslie cochran sign.jpg, in the description you say it's Public Domain, but the licensing says it's copyrighted and fair use, and neither show where the image is from. This should be cleared up. Thanks! —bbatsell ¿? 04:52, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I've restored the original version of Image:Utcampus_night.JPG — not sure about the image from AP. You should change the image description to reflect where it came from and the URL (and remove the bit about it being public domain, which it isn't). —bbatsell ¿? 05:00, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] removing a picture

Hi there. I recently submitted Vanderbilt University for a Good Article review, which is currently on hold. The suggestions by the reviewer can be found here. One of the comments he made was that the article is a bit too "picture-heavy" right now, and one of the things that some of the other regular editors and I are doing is removing a couple of the pictures that we don't feel "add" anything to the article or that are bunched up too tightly in certain places. With that in mind, I'm deleting the picture you added of Stevenson from the article, for the reason that it's making the section that it's in rather cluttered right now. I would have moved it instead, but I didn't see a place where I thought that it really "fit." Feel free to add your thoughts on the talk page, of course. Esrever 01:14, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania in Atlanta!

Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!

P.S. While this is a template for maximum efficiency, I would appreciate a note on my talk page so I know you got the message, and what you think. This is time-sensitive, so your urgent cooperation is appreciated. :) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 07:35, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

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