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Largest indoor natural rock climbing wall in North America

I find it highly doubtful that Lindseth is, in fact, the "largest indoor natural rock climbing wall in North America". Lindseth is not that big. 72.0.150.238 (talk) 04:55, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Does John Cleese truly represent "Famous current and former Cornell faculty"?

Cleese has been represented in the article as "Famous current and former Cornell faculty" for quite a long time, and I think it's misleading. I wonder if anyone else feels the same. Cleese's appointment is "Professor at Large," and later "Provost’s Visiting Professor." As I understand it, he doesn't teach any class on the schedule that you could actually take. He shows up once a year to give a public lecture and maybe visits a class of his choosing. According to this article he visited seven times between 1999-2007. He has none of the responsibilities of an actual faculty member, in the sense of publishing, teaching, advising, etc. However, I'm not on campus. Does it really feel to the students like Cleese is part of Cornell? - Kzirkel (talk) 15:23, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Worldwide prestige?

An unregistered editor would like to insert the following sentence into the lede of this article: "Cornell is considered one of the most prestigious universities in the world."

The lede is supposed to be a high-level summary of the information in the body of the article and I don't think that the material in the body support this statement. ElKevbo (talk) 02:33, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Why is it mentioned in Columbia's Wikipedia opening paragraph then? Columbia's is mentioned in the lede as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.116.63.222 (talk) 02:41, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know; this isn't the Talk page for that article so it's irrelevant. What is relevant is that you're edit warring to add material that is not supported by the sources you're citing or what is in the body of the article. If you want to make a strong, sweeping claim then you need equally strong, sweeping evidence; cherry picking a few years of ranking data is nowhere sufficient (nor is it in line with our policies about neutrality and no original research). ElKevbo (talk) 05:22, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also, in Harvard's Wikipedia it says this: Established in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, clergyman John Harvard, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States[6] and among the most prestigious in the world.[7] Why did people delete my comment about Cornell? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.116.63.222 (talk) 02:46, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There has been extensive discussion in that article's Talk page about this exact topic; I encourage you to read it. ElKevbo (talk) 05:22, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Would you please reinsert my suggestion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.116.63.222 (talk) 02:52, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Stop edit warring. You're liable to be blocked from editing if you continue this behavior. ElKevbo (talk) 05:22, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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-:I don't know; this isn't the Talk page for that article so it's irrelevant.  What is relevant is that you're edit warring to add material that is not supported by the sources you're citing or what is in the body of the article. If you want to make a strong, sweeping claim then you need equally strong, sweeping evidence; cherry picking a few years of ranking data is nowhere sufficient (nor is it in line with our policies about [[WP:N|neutrality]] and [[WP:OR|no original research]]). [[User:ElKevbo|ElKevbo]] ([[User talk:ElKevbo|talk]]) 05:22, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
+::I don't know; this isn't the Talk page for that article so it's irrelevant.  What is relevant is that you're edit warring to add material that is not supported by the sources you're citing or what is in the body of the article. If you want to make a strong, sweeping claim then you need equally strong, sweeping evidence; cherry picking a few years of ranking data is nowhere sufficient (nor is it in line with our policies about [[WP:N|neutrality]] and [[WP:OR|no original research]]). [[User:ElKevbo|ElKevbo]] ([[User talk:ElKevbo|talk]]) 05:22, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 :Also, in Harvard's Wikipedia it says this: Established in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, clergyman John Harvard, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States[6] and among the most prestigious in the world.[7] Why did people delete my comment about Cornell?  <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/172.116.63.222|172.116.63.222]] ([[User talk:172.116.63.222#top|talk]]) 02:46, 7 November 2020 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
-:There has been extensive discussion in that article's Talk page about this exact topic; I encourage you to read it. [[User:ElKevbo|ElKevbo]] ([[User talk:ElKevbo|talk]]) 05:22, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
+::There has been extensive discussion in that article's Talk page about this exact topic; I encourage you to read it. [[User:ElKevbo|ElKevbo]] ([[User talk:ElKevbo|talk]]) 05:22, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
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