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Miami U and African-Americans
I think you were incorrect in removing the statement about Miami U being an early acceptor of African-Americans; I don't have any material on my side yet to back it up, but I'll probably go and investigate it. I know it sounds very implausible, given the general lack of racial diversity at MU but I believe I am correct. If I find evidence, I'll post here again and correct the entry. User:Neschek (sig added by Sam [Spade] 13:24, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC))

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See my reply @ User_talk:Sam_Spade. Cheers, Sam [Spade] 13:28, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project
Hi. You've helped with the WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Edit summary
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I am writing with a small suggestion. I wonder if you could write an edit summary every time you make changes to an article (or when you start a new one). Even a short summary helps. To see how often you have done so in the past, you may go to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=YOUR USERNAME.

Edit summaries are important for a number of reasons. Every time you change an article, a record of that change propagates to every single person who has that article on their watchlist. Most people have an article on their watchlist because they care a lot about it, so they would like to be informed about what is going on with it. Accurate summaries help people decide whether it is worthwhile for them to check a change. This is why your edit summary, which will take you maybe 15 seconds, is a time-saver and a great act of candor to the other people interested in the same article as you. Accurate edit summaries are important because they create trust regarding your contributions and help resolve disputes.

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IVCF
Hi Alison9, I noticed you added InterVarsity Christian Fellowship to a category that says that the organization is anti-gay rights. I'm more or less familiar with the organization, and I've never heard them officially take that position, so I was wondering where you might have heard that. It's certainly possible; I'm not the president or anything, but I would have expected to have seen something about that when I was doing research for the article. Please let me know. Thanks. --Spangineer &#8734; 22:30, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * I did a bit more research on the IVCF website, and based on what I found at, , and , I'm going to continue to argue that IVCF is not anti-gay rights.  Since none of these sites (which describe the positions that the organization holds) mention anything about LGBT rights, I think the story in your book (which I have not read, so I'm not sure) is more related to individuals, not the organization itself.  It is likely that many of the people in IVCF are opposed to gay rights, but since it is not a position of the organization, I think it's unfair to say that the organization itself opposes LGBT rights.  In my opinion, it's like calling Planned Parenthood pro-LGBT rights – chances are that most of the people involved are pro-gay rights, but that's not the point of the organization, and thus, it shouldn't be (and isn't) considered a pro-gay rights organization.  I won't remove the category until you respond, but I hope you see my point.  Thanks. --Spangineer &#8734; 05:51, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

Looking for help on a major wiki project
Hey :) I was wondering if you'd be interesting in helping out with www.Knowmore.org, a corporation search/watch wiki we're trying to get off the ground. We could DEFINATELY use some people that know how to make a wiki community great & the site is almost a blank slate at this point.  It's been heavily customized and is designed to help responsible consumers enter any product or company name and immediatly find information about that co. (the main focus of the wiki is corporate & political information in a much more specialized way then wikipedia currently offers) Let me know if you're interested!  aim: knowmoreorg or [mailto:bernard@knowmore.org bernard@knowmore.org]

Barnstar
I am giving you this barnstar to let you know that I too feel your Wikistress. Take care, D. J. Bracey (talk) 00:52, 7 August 2005 (UTC)



Stub List Sportsbio cats
There was already a pointer under Entertainer-stub in the people by Occupation list to the sport-bio section. Changinging your added list to just a second pointer, since that section is getting rather long.

Stub templates
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 * Also, stub templates should have text to indicate that the article is stub; which can be done using metastub. --Mairi 04:31, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of List of LGBT couples
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Intertwined stories
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Atmosphere of Saturn‎
Hey, I saw you added a merge tag to the article Atmosphere of Saturn‎ to possibly merge with Saturn. I just wanted to point out that all the planets of our solar system have their own articles besides Neptune (see here). Just for you to look at. I believe the atmosphere of Saturn could be expanded greatly and be a fantastic stand alone article. Bsimmons 666  (talk) 01:48, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I do think there is enough material for it's own article, but as it is right now, I don't think it's enough. Perhaps making it a stub instead would make more sense.

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Consortium of Higher education article
HI I see your article is up for deletion. I would like to help out here when I can, I see they have astually changed their name, let me know if you want to work on it more, or what your thoughts are. --DCX (talk) 07:18, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

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Hello I am new in wikipedia and interesting in LGBT related topics too. Recently i added new article called . Its about nice Italian LGBT related film created at 1986. But my article was declined becouse of abcent of external links. To my opinion this is not fair, becouse I mentioned the page from IMD. Please help me to approve this article and make it better. Thanks in advance. The link of article is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/The_Flavor_of_Corn  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.70.13.169 (talk) 11:35, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals


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