User talk:Dmarvs
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[edit]Hello, Dmarvs, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Hi Dmarvs. I am dropping you a note to explain a bit more why I removed the material you added to the UM article. While it was well-written and comprehensively cited, it was - in my opinion - far too long and detailed, and too far afield from the University's mission. Much of the material, most really (e.g. the University's holdings in fossil fuel companies, or its annual carbon emissions) is better suited to an environmental survey or position paper than an article on the U of M generally. JohnInDC (talk) 15:02, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Sorry to gang up on you, Dmarvs, but I have a question about the material you added. Some other editors recently added very similar material to other articles. Can you please help us understand what is going on? Is this a class project or something similar? ElKevbo (talk) 15:06, 3 April 2013 (UTC)