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There is a category to add on the page: Category:Honorary degree recipients from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Thanks! S. D. Évid (talk) 21:15, 15 October 2013 (UTC).[reply]

I changed the wording on his Tennessee home's electricity use from "high amounts of electricity" to the more accurate "more than 20 times as much electricity as the national average."

The article had stated that Gore was criticized because his Tennessee home used "high amounts of electricity."

I changed this to the more accurate "more than 20 times as much electricity as the national average."

I made this change for two reasons.

First, all of the sources specifically cited the fact that his home used more than 20 times as much electricity as the national average.

Second, the wording "high amounts" is more of an opinion, whereas the wording "more than 20 times as much electricity as the national average" is a reliably sourced fact.

Chucky Cheerio (talk) 02:11, 27 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User:Lawrencekhoo reverted my edit, and commented, "Overweight for a minor factoid."

I disagree with this revert, because #1 Wikipedia articles are supposed to reflect the source, and #2 "more than 20 times as much" is a fact, whereas "high amount" is an opinion.

I also have to question the meaning of User:Lawrencekhoo's comment. How is it "overweight" to have the article match what the source says?

I am in favor of reverting User:Lawrencekhoo's reversion of my edit, but I would like to hear what other editors think before I do this.

Chucky Cheerio (talk) 20:25, 15 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I changed the wording on his Tennessee home's electricity use from "high amounts of electricity" to the more accurate "more than 20 times as much electricity as the national average."