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Grinnell College

My justification for reverting your edits:

First of all, the quotation from Newsweek is just plain false (nowhere in the article does it state that) and grossly misrepresents what was really meant. Read the article here. The main criterion for the "best all-around" (not "best overall") college was "buzz." Second, Newsweek does not put out rankings as US News does and with the same authority. Third, putting a quotation from an article in a paragraph that has to do with rankings and accolades is misleading, suggesting that the Chronicle of Higher Education is ranking the wealth of schools when in fact it took that information from NACUBO's study (which is out-of-date for the year 2006).

The overall effect of your edits is to replace precise information with euphemistic information, making the article less informative, less authoritative and bulkier. (unsigned comment by User:Exeunt)

Vandal warning

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits, such as those you made to User:BillCJ, are considered vandalism and are immediately reverted. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. Thank you. - BillCJ 00:55, 21 August 2007 (UTC) [reply]

FYI, I consider ANY unwanted changes to the userspace with my name (since I can't say "my userspace") to be vandalism. Vandlism is against WIkipedia POLICY - it's not a guideline, so how did I bereka my own rules?? Idiot. I know we didn't start off on the right foot today, but I did aplogize for it. Yet you insisted on redacting my userspace, like I was a common vandal, wtihout even the courtesy to appraoch me first liek a real adult would. If the wiki-break notice is a personal attack on my paer, then I'm sorry your feelings were hurt. I've had it today with people protecting the real vandals and abusers, then going after me like I'm worse than the vandals. Well, I've had it with idoits like you. And you really are stupid for nominating the largest airlines list. THere, now THAT was a REAL personal attack. GO get me blocked if you wish, but I'm gone from WIkipedia anyway. THought I may come back as an IP, since they get more respect than regular users from the likes of morons like you! - BillCJ 03:27, 21 August 2007 (UTC) [reply]

BillCJ, please don't template the regular and assume good faith. @pple 08:40, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BillCJ had what I considered to be a clear personal attack on his user page and I thought it was policy to delete them unilaterally. I was wrong, it is not. But I made the edit in good faith and told him as much on his talk page. Obviously it ended poorly, I'm sorry to have pushed your buttons, I hope you accept my apology. Pdbailey 03:32, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PDB, I'm sorry for my behavior last night, and I've stricken my comments - feel free to remove them as clean-up! I've had the joy of being the target of a wiki-stalker with multiple IPs,a nd there's not a thing that can be done to stop him short of blocking all IPs, which won't happen to Hilary opposes all abortion, or hell freezes over. Anyway, I'm leaving WIkipedia because of Jimbo and his lackeys' unwillingness or inability to protect me in anyway, due to their own silly rules regaring open editing. I just wanted to let you know I'm sorry for taking my frustration out on you, you just caught me on a very bad day! I have NEVER written something like that beofre,a nd know my harasser is posting it all over Wikipedia! Good luck with your endevors here, and I hope my shadow doesn't decide to stick to you next! - BillCJ 04:57, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BillCJ, your appology is accepted. No hard feelings. Pdbailey 01:00, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re AWB

I crawl the stub category with AWB to find ones that shouldn't be there. Also, the edit summary is generic, as the article sometimes gets cleaned up as well. However, I will select a more appropriate one when changing tags from now on. robertvan1 22:12, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Sufficient" accolades ;)

I want to commend you for sticking to the Talk page and not reverting despite posting several comments there which, as I read it, have still not been answered to your satisfaction. I stand by my thoughts on the general wordings for now, but am quite confident that a really good consensus can be achieved. FYI, I asked a small question regarding Fisher's work there which I think will go a long way towards working everything out.

I should note I saw your note to Michael Hardy. I don't condone his style (and have pointed that out to him in the past, albeit softly) but at the end of the day if you just ignore it, he does know a lot about math/stat topics, does do good work on articles, and can be a valuable collaborator. I do hope you find conversing with me slightly less grating though ;) Baccyak4H (Yak!) 17:05, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Um.... what exactly is that crack referring to? In the discussion you seem to have in mind, I wrote this:

If it is meaningless to speak of the distribution of the data, then it is likewise meaningless to speak of the distribution of any statistic. But on this one you're just belaboring a semantic point. There is an obvious interpretation of the word "data" according to which you are right, and another obvious one according to which you are just as clearly wrong. As to the sample mean being sufficient for the population mean: that is certainly right if the variance is known and the whole family of distributions is indexed only by the mean. But obviously your inference about μ given the sample mean would be quite different if the variance is small, from what it would be if the variance is big.

Some people seem offended if "belaboring a semantic point" is attributed to them. Is that what you're talking about? Michael Hardy 19:10, 10 September 2007 (UTC) Answered your Talk page, Michael. Baccyak4H (Yak!) 19:46, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bios

Thanks for the note. I understand the concern for notability--Michael Johnson hasn't had a lot of press coverage, but he is a key government official. Ms. Graham definitely is within the guidelines spelled out in WP:BIO and has significant press coverage. Several DOD leaders are in Wikipedia; I was going to the same for the ODNI. 72.185.80.133 20:04, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]