User talk:Bgombach

Why should we care about Shanghai Jiao Tong University's rankings? What make them more than a random factoid? (And where does Shanghai Jiao Tong University rank in its own rankings? It isn't in the first 100.... - Nunh-huh 23:35, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Are you stupid? It's an unbiased ranking of WORLD universities. How is anything on wikipedia NOT a factoid? It's information that puts the quality of a university in context with the global community. Right, who would want that? Keep deleting it. Be proud of yourself. This is what makes wiki's a joke to the general community. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bgombach (talk • contribs).


 * Oh, please. Unbiased? It's biased towards science and underemphasizes humanities. It can't be the sole rank inserted in an article, and there's little value to be found in competitive rankings. Articles about universities aren't about their most recent ranking; a single ranking ignores all of a university's history beyond the last year. They're fundamentally silly and falsely precise, and make articles read like admissions brochures. As for stupid: the plural of wiki has no apostrophe. - Nunh-huh 01:09, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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Hello, Bgombach - a friendly suggestion. The reason I didn't just outright delete the rankings from the Princeton article after ExplorerCDT moved them to a better place is that I found the article on Academic Ranking of World Universities about the rankings you were inserting. The relevant point was that that article mentioned that the Economist likes the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings:. Nunh-huh was being too confrontational, but you misread his criticism. Of course everything is a factoid, but he wanted it not to be a random factoid - mentioning the article on the rankings, or the Economist article, or both puts your factoid in to context, making it not a random factoid but a verifiable one.

Anyway, you never got this welcome message to Wikipedia, so I leave it for you - thanks for contributing and I hope you stick around. Sirmob 20:06, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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