User talk:Alphabettispaghetti

Thank you for your edits to Sutton Bonington Campus. Please read Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy before making further edits. Edits that do not adhere to this policy will be reverted or removed. --Ginkgo100 talk · e@ 22:06, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Please don't tell other contributors that they are a disappointment. You edits were clearly made to take a stab at Sutton Bonington. Regardless of whether what you added was true or not, Wikipedia is a place to find verified and factual information which has been attributed to a reliable source, not one disgruntled student's sarcastic comments. -- Steel 14:12, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

So I am correct, it doesn't matter what is true, - what really matters is how 'senior' the source is. Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others. Pray tell me how many disgruntled students it takes to have one vote ? Why were my comments like small bookshop, and 10 bookcases deemed sarcastic ? Would a photograph be more appropriate - I suspect it would be removed. How do you validate that it is closed out of term, as is nearly everything else ? If I were to actually state that the bank is open for 2 hours on Mondays and Thursdays, has no automatic deposit facilities and cannot provide foreign currency and then link to this information on this site then I suspect that would still be removed because it would be a 'stab'.

Doesn't matter, I expect a cyberfascist dismissal as a troll - this is obviously not the place to give a balanced view.
 * Let's be realistic here. Would you really expect to see a comment like "plenty of books about cows, but you couldn't turn one round in there" in a serious encyclopedia? -- Steel 16:22, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

OK - fair enough, that one was an attempt at humour - there are a lot of books on cows in there. This is primarily an agricultural college with a speciality in dairy farming and vet stuff. There really ARE cows on campus - plastic ones in the vet school and real live ones with plastic windows cut in their sides to observe digestion hidden away on the University farm. There is even a weather vane with cows reproducing on the roof of the building that has the bookshop in it. So, there are a lot of books on cows, milk, udders, wheat and manure in the bookshop (but virtually no fiction).

The turning round of a cow accurately describes the space - big enough to get a cow in there, but not to turn it around - I bet you know now pretty accurately how big it is. This is like all of the analogies with sofas, washing machines and other domestic items that are apparently similar in size (but presumably not in function) to rocks on Mars (NASA). I have seen such analogies used in wikipedia before, but I would have to go looking... Humor is not apparenty bannned entirely in Wikipedia - for example see Cat_of_nine_tails near the bottom where it discusses the song 'Drunken sailor' and makes a geeky joke: "While this doesn't sound like a dire fate for the tipsy seaman" - that's not much like the style of the Encyclopedia Brittannica really is it. Also, cows are probably an inherently funny word - see you have two cows, but even so, the use of a photo on You have two cows labelled - "your cows" is pure humor - those are NOT my cows. Alphabettispaghetti 18:49, 24 October 2006 (UTC)