User talk:Darkcore/archive2

Archived comments from September 13, 2004 to October 13, 2004

NYU seal/logo
Hello,

I just took a look at your edit of the NYU page and was curious as to why you changed the photograph to the seal for NYU? I've been a student there for a while, and I've never seen the seal you used, while the previously displayed logo was everywhere, including hanging on flags outside of every NYU building. I think the other logo was a better choice. PZFUN 07:06, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Universities in Alberta
Alberta universities sounds perfectly okay to me. It means university in alberta, same as title above, just in a different way. Albertan universities just sounds so wrong. Spinboy 06:38, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * That makes sense, go ahead and change it back, I apologize for changing it. I didn't understand the rationale. Spinboy 06:41, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Universites in Ontario
I noticed some of the categories you were creating, if you're up for it, create a category for Universities in Ontario. There certainly are enough of them. Good job with the UofT cat. Spinboy 07:05, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

University College of the North
Hi, Darkcore. With regards to your change to University College of the North (removing the category label), what precisely is the difference between a university college, a college, and a university?

My perhaps naive understanding is that an institution is a university if it has a charter by which it has the right to grant degrees.

Colleges which allow students to earn degrees by partnering with some other university obviously don't count. Until recently Keewatin Community College (the name by which UCN was previously known) was such an institution, but as I understand it, the recent Manitoba legislation referred to in the article gives it degree-granting rights independent of any other university. So, how is it not a university? --Saforrest 00:54, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

John Sexton
I made the change, because I did not think it is appropriate to call him "President Sexton". It sounds very stilted. The pronoun (as you used) or his unadorned last name (as I had suggested) are more encyclopedic. BTW, I am from Brooklyn, so I had to look up "dude" in the Wiktionary. ;-) --[[User:Nricardo|Nelson Ricardo  >>Talk<<]] 02:09, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)

Star Trek Template

 * Well, alright, I said I'd let it go if there was another revert. But I'd like to explain my end of it. I won't revert back just yet.
 * Invasion Iowa was a hoax. I know that. But I heard that FOX was making a show around the whole idea (bless their little hearts; these people would make a reality show around Hitler if the History Channel would loan them the footage), and so putting in there seemed like a good idea.
 * Star Trek XII: So Very Tired is fictional. You said that "Star Trek XII is not really fiction any more than Duff beer is (and Duff isn't listed under Beer)". I'm just going to come right out and say that that doesn't make sense. if it doesn't exist and somebody says it does, then it's fiction (lies fall into this category). And the fact that Duff does not exist is probably the reason it isn't on the list of beers. Duff does appear under the Alchoholic beverage subdirectory of the List of fictional brands, where, by general consensus, it belongs. Accordingly, Star Trek XII: So Very Tired is on List_of_fictional_films. A place for everything, and everything in its place. I think my version of the template makes perfect sense. If you have any disputes or such please either reply to this or contact me on my talk page. Otherwise, I will assume that you are willing to let me revert to my version. -Litefantastic 23:54, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Okay, I read your comments: All valid points, but I still want So Very Tired (if not Invasion Iowa) to be on there. Under what circumstances would you think putting it on the template would be reasonable? -Litefantastic 00:58, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * You've sold me on your ideas. Confession: I've never actually seen the Simpsons myself. -Litefantastic 10:58, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

New Jersey cities
That general rule about categories is not, I think, a good reason to remove a couple of New Jersey cities for which somebody has, for some reason, created a separate category (and Category:Newark, New Jersey is a particularly lame category), from the Category:Cities in New Jersey, which is a comprehensive listing. If anything, the narrower categories should be removed or recategorized. john k 05:48, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

More municipals
I've just put together a List of Ontario separated municipalities; yet another way of looking at the patchwork that is Ontario municipal heirarchy. Thought I'd be sure you took a look at it. Radagast 12:55, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

Toronto pronounciation
Why'd you remove my pronounciation edit of Toronto? I am friggin' from there too! And that is how we're supposed to say Toronto... as Torano. It even says that in the history books.

Sure the immigrants and newcomers say Tour-On-To, but that's not the original way. --Kloy1334 00:14, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ah, you should have said that in your "edit summary." :-) --Kloy1334 01:16, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)