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Have fun! --Jiang 22:11, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Woa, great photo (Image:ChessSet.jpg) that you took. --Menchi 03:01, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Unverified images

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WP:FPC#Bee Wings

I still don't agree with you, but I'd still like to thank you for replying to my request. :) Mgm| 20:03, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)

Commons?

File:Brandeis science library.jpg Hello! Can we upload these (C) images to commons? --User:Sheynhertz-Unbayg/sig 14:30, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Notable Brandeisians

In your edit to the list of notable Brandeisians, you removed two people with the comment "... not notable, else would have own Misplaced Pages articles." I don't have an opinion about whether these two people are notable, but I did want to point out that many Misplaced Pages articles start as red links from elsewhere; in fact, many of the articles I've created started as this kind of link. In other words, your argument about notability doesn't follow how the Misplaced Pages works, and you ought to have other reasons for feeling that something is not notable before you remove it. --Zippy 04:00, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I just saw this happen again. It seems to me, on the face of it, ridiculous to remove people solely on the grounds that they don't have[REDACTED] articles. Misplaced Pages is a work in progress and many things are missing. People sometimes find out what's missing, and contribute, due to redlinks. What sense does it possibly make to circularly claim that because they're not in[REDACTED] already, they're not notable?Cos 05:31, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Note that one of the notables removed was quite notable (most economists would agree): http://www.iie.com/publications/author_bio.cfm?author_id=47

Incongruous reference

The quotation from the reference, "Brandeis, a nonsectarian institution, was founded in 1948, by American Jews seeking to establish a university free from the quotas that Jews faced at elite colleges," is highly relevant and is needed to support the statement in the article. I agree that the article itself has a title that's irrelevant and might lead one to question my motives in citing it... but I couldn't figure out an appropriate or honest way to cite it without mentioning the title.

I'm going to try abbreviating the title to "Brandeis pulls artwork..."

I do plan to look for a less "incongruous" reference. But Brandeis' origins as a response to discrimination are important to mention, just as are Boston College's origins as a response to anti-Catholic discrimination, and the Brandeis website tap-dances around this and, it seems, a number of other circumstances connected with Brandeis' founding (its connection with Albert Einstein, for example).

I am not a pro-Palestinian NPOV warrior, if that's what you were thinking. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:32, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

User notice: spam

Regarding edits made during October 30 2006 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Misplaced Pages. Misplaced Pages is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Misplaced Pages. Thank you. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 12:36, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

BattlestarWiki is a wiki and covers stull Misplaced Pages cannot, a.k.a relevance. Scifipedia is ran by the official Sci Fi channel and hence is official as official can be, a.k.a relevance. The commercial link I obviously missed, but of course im only human.. - Your link is just a non notable podcast that maybe gets 1 listner a week and hence does not meet wiki link gudielinks. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 15:57, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

BSG link

1. Your neutrality is effected, and asking somebody to do it is just meat puppetry.
2. Your link is non-notable and non relevant to the article, if it was official then maybeeeee it would have a tincy bit of relevance.
3. Your link has been removed before.
4. Misplaced Pages is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 15:45, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Be advised, Matthew Fenton apparently has delusions of ownership of several Misplaced Pages articles. For some reason, he thinks he is the Be All and End All of any dispute over articles and entry editing, and has no problem trying to force his views down everyone's throat. If anyone's guilty of disrupting actions, it's Matthew. Stick to your guns, reverse any unwarranted, wanton edits he makes at least once a day, and eventually he'll get it through his head that he doesn't own Misplaced Pages. Not by a long shot. 66.90.151.114 07:47, 31 October 2006 (UTC)