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UCSF mascot

Hi! Noticed your removal of the UCSF mascot. Just wanted to say that it does have one, which can be seen here. it's just a bear [1][2] [3] [4] While your edit is somewhat wrong, I won't undo it cause yeah, it's a dumb mascot, and it's used seldom since there's no sports team. But there is one. Eccekevin (talk) 01:50, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

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June 2020

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Having had to spend too much of time removing amaturish or factionion changes to these articles its a real please to see an editor just getting on with improving them.

Rutgers University

You reverted my edit here with the edit summary "take it to the talk page", though there already was a discussion occurring at Talk:Rutgers University#New paragraph about English department curricular emphasis. Your input is welcomed! Magnolia677 (talk) 18:31, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Experientialism short description

hi Drevolt 👋 – a question for you about short descriptions in the context of this recent edit you made: Would it be accurate for me to understand the "Please add to body of article with cited source before including as short description" as meaning something like, "Because the content of this short description does not explicitly exist in the body of the article, please add that content to the article – with sources – before adding it to the short description? I ask because I'm relatively new to adding short descriptions and I'm wanting to make sure I'm understanding the guidance you shared correctly! Stussll (talk) 16:42, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Stussll: Sorry for the delay in responding! Yes, that's roughly what I meant. The short description should basically just be a shortened summary of the main topic of the article, so it shouldn't include any content that isn't already reflected by the article. And since you can't cite sources in a short description (whereas you can cite sources in the article itself), anything that requires a source should be established in the article before including it in the short description. Hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions about this! --Drevolt (talk) 18:57, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

short description should basically just be a shortened summary of the main topic of the article, so it shouldn't include any content that isn't already reflected by the article. This makes total sense - thank you for explaining it. Stussll (talk) 03:26, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

UC Berkeley lead

Hi, I pinged you earlier about your involvement in edit warring on the UC Berkeley page. See the Talk page discussion I started: [5] Despite my request, you inserted "30" into the text again, in this this edit: [6]. Please discuss it on the talk page instead of continuing an edit war about the wording re: rankings. -- FactOrOpinion (talk) 20:34, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi @FactOrOpinion: I have been away from my computer for the past week and was editing from the mobile app, so I didn't see the notification(s) until now. Generally speaking, if my edits have an "iOS" tag on them, I'm not editing from my computer and won't be able to see any notifications. I've responded to your comment in the talk page discussion, sorry about the delay in responding. --Drevolt (talk) 18:23, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

Hi! I wanted to let you know that I reverted a couple of pending-changes edits you accepted on Civil Rights Act of 1964. The IP editor inserted a handful of unsourced POV language in the first one and, in the second, capitalized some words that broke a working link. I hate to complain, but please try to be more careful when you go through the pending-changes backlog. Thanks! — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 02:09, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi @UncleBubba: Sorry about that. For some reason I only saw their second edit, which looked like it was just an innocuous change (the page linked there doesn’t exist either way). The first edit, which I’m not sure how I missed, was definitely unsourced POV. Thanks for catching that! —Drevolt (talk) 05:43, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

No problem! It's no big deal—the pending-changes process isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing! Cheers! — UncleBubba ^{( T @ C )} 14:48, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

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Recent Columbia University removal

Hey there, I saw your recent removal on the page for Columbia University about the prestige of the school and I was wondering if you could clarify it. You say that it's unsupported and refer to sources on other similar articles, but there are sources like this one and this on the Harvard page and this on the MIT, all of which mention Columbia University on their lists. I'm not sure if you're referring to a level of prestige that I'm not aware of, but I'd love it if ou could better explain the change. Thanks in advance. Lonely-crab (talk) 03:12, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Lonely-crab: The consensus among WikiProject:Higher Education editors is that the bar is extremely high for including statements about prestige in the lead of university articles. You'll notice, for instance, that the MIT article makes no mention of this kind at all in its article. There is a mention of prestige in the lead of the Harvard article, but it's extremely well-sourced and is a pretty good example of the support needed for a claim of this kind. In general, WP:PRESTIGE is pretty representative of the consensus on this topic, although very rare exceptions are made in cases where there are very strong sources and there's been extensive discussion on the topic. The sentence in the Harvard lead has been the subject of literally dozens of talk page discussions over the past decade, and while I don't entirely agree with its inclusion (largely due to WP:NPOV reasons), I also recognize that there has been a great deal of discussion and that the current consensus is that Harvard merits an exception. No such discussion has taken place for Columbia, nor are the sources anywhere near the quality that would be needed to support such a claim based on the current consensus. --Drevolt (talk) 03:54, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

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