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Q1: Should the post-nominal "KBE" appear after Gates's name in the introduction? (No.)

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[edit] Indian Institute of Technology Golden Jubile celebration speech in San Jose

The IIT bit is completely out of place. The entire sentence is dedicated to honorary degrees but someone decided to add that Bill Gates delivered a speech to IIT alumni/alumnae in San Jose. What has this got to do with honorary degrees? Bill Gates never got a degree from IIT. The IIT bit should be removed because Bill Gates gives a gazillion speeches all over the world and every little thing like that should not be on the Wikipedia. --70.76.68.118 (talk) 07:35, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Totally agree. Wonder why admins don't do anything about it. Bill Gates does not have an honorary degree from IIT.--70.64.86.187 (talk) 05:58, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

[edit] bill gates died

did wiki say that bill gates died oct. 10 and they just removed it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zegrin (talk • contribs) 23:12, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

As far as I know, that date of death was probably vandalism. Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 00:49, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Please remove porn link

Can someone with an account please remove the link in the References section that points to a porn site?

The offending link is to "Bralyn", a site which no longer appears to exist.

71.163.75.222 (talk) 16:00, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

If it doesn't exist how do you know its a porn link?--Harizotoh9 (talk) 16:32, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

Because a porn site scooped up the abandoned domain name. I found another site with the memo; I'll fix it now. Indeed123 (talk) 19:24, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Guest appearance of Bill Gates in Frasier episode

Bill Gates appeared in [Season 9, Episode 200], as a guest of honour for Frasier's 200th episode, where he ended up taking several calls about Microsoft products.

--Frannie44 (talk) 10:05, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

In deep of protectly configur's some other's so seen targits--182.178.187.76 (talk) 10:38, 27 January 2012 (UTC)sts

Talk:Bill Gates

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[edit] Indian Institute of Technology Golden Jubile celebration speech in San Jose

[edit] bill gates died

[edit] Please remove porn link

[edit] Guest appearance of Bill Gates in Frasier episode

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