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 * Thanks for the welcome and for the template. My first objective at Wikipedia is to develop the article on racing flags. I plan to contribute to some numismatics articles in the future. Perhaps I can upload some images of some coins and currency in my collection. --TantalumTelluride 21:22, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

alumni
With regard to your question to Jimbo (which I presume he'll soon answer)... you don't have to have graduated from an institution to be an alumnus, you only have to have enrolled in and attended the institution. So it's certainly possible to be an alumnus of three places and have graduated from only one (or graduated from none, for that matter!) - Nunh-huh 23:47, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks; I expected someone else to respond before Jimbo himself. Anyway, he is listed as an alumnus in the Alabama and Indiana articles and as a 1989 alumnus of Auburn in the section dedicated to graduates. I guess this implies that he must have actually graduated from Auburn. And perhaps we should clarify the lists of alumni for the other universities because alumnus can be a tricky word. --TantalumTelluride 00:01, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Or just a link to alumnus if it's not there already. - Nunh-huh 00:15, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Auburn University has separate lists for "alumni" and "attendees." (Jimbo is under "alumni." List of University of Alabama people lists him under "alumni and other attendees." And Indiana University Bloomington makes no distinction; he and everyone else on the list are called "alumni." According to Alumnus/a, Indiana is correct, but it does not distinguish its graduates from its mere attendees. This is an interesting linguistic phenomenon, and I still can't figure out which of the schools, if any, Jimbo graduated from. I think we should wait for an answer from Jimbo. --TantalumTelluride 00:34, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, Auburn's article is clearly wrong in drawing a distinction between "alumni" and "attendees" as they are the same thing! It should be "Graduates" and "Other Attendees" or "Graduates" and "other alumni", so I shall make it so. - Nunh-huh 02:40, 25 October 2005 (UTC)