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John Jay Article

Hey, I don't know how to leave a signature so sorry about that but saw your edit. Those were college majors (have provided a link to the correct source), I don't know if it's against WP policy to list the majors the college offers (if it does, please feel free to let me know or undo it and I apologize) but wanted to give you the heads up. Anyway, it is dedicated to Criminal Justice, hence the college's name (John Jay College of Criminal Justice). Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.41.108.33 (talk • contribs) 22:16, November 4, 2021 (UTC)

COI Warning

Hello!

Thank you for informing me about the COI guidelines set in place to protect pages. I am employed by Brazosport College, but I can assure you that my edits were meant to be as objective as possible. If there is anything that can be done to include these edits, please let me know!

Thank you again for all you do,

Kallias Dornan KalliasDornan (talk) 20:42, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many Wikipedia editors are generally okay if editors with a disclosed conflict of interest make clearly unobjectionable edits such as updating outdated information already in an article or correcting obvious typos. Substantive edits are generally frowned upon. But we welcome your suggestions and requests in the article's Talk page! ElKevbo (talk) 21:29, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there. I know you are very good with university articles and academic BLPs. Would you mind looking at this editor. I see articles created about fairly non-notable professors and non-notable university programs. I already tagged this editor--who edits the same articles. I'd appreciate your opinion. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 10:50, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And here, so crestfallen by User:TooManyFingers good advice. Why so much drama? Magnolia677 (talk) 11:00, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome to (politely!) ask them if they have a connection to a subject but I'm not seeing anything that is very concerning in their editing. I do plan to nominate Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Michigan State University for deletion so we'll see how that goes. ElKevbo (talk) 14:41, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 17:45, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Texas Colleges and Universities

Hi @ElKevbo - QQ: Why remove the bolding of the school names? This is the styling design I'm implementing which is used by other State listings (e.g. California).

Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TAMUH (talk • contribs) 20:21, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't align with how I understand our Manual of Style's section about bold typeface.

In articles about colleges and universities, previous names of an institution are often bolded the first time they appear in the article and to the best of my knowledge that should only be happening because those old names are redirects to the current article. That - bolding the target of a redirect - is one of the accepted uses of bold typeface. I confess that I rarely if ever check to see if those redirects actually exist - it's really low on my personal to-do list! :) ElKevbo (talk) 21:24, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Understood RE: style manual. Thanks! TAMUH (talk) 21:42, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to ask others - the Talk page of MOS:BOLD may be ideal. My understanding may be mistaken. ElKevbo (talk) 22:22, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]