User talk:Rc251

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"Your" Thunderdome versus "my" Thunderdome

"My" Thunderdome's offical Alexa rank - 7,073 "My" Thunderdome's official athletics Alexa rank - 1,427

I can't find anything about "your" Thunderdome

--fpo 05:57, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm a little confused by what you mean. I wanted to create a disambig page for Thunderdome because there was about 4 different pages. Also, it seems like the stuff about the communal house Thunderdome got edited over, but a new page wasn't created for that subject, so that information got lost in the history page. I decided to move Thunderdome to Thunderdome (arena), then created a disambig page at Thunderdome, and then created Thunderdome (communal) where the info about the communal house went.

Because I wasn't sure if I did all the moving around correctly, I asked on the help page. [1] --Rc251 06:06, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Editting help

I noticed you question on the Help desk and thought you might like some eidtting tips:

• You can make a numbered list in Wikipedia by using "#", eg:

1. Yada
2. Yado
3. Yadi

• Also, when you want to link to an article in Wikipedia, you just put the title in "[[ ]]". For example, "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderdome" can be done by [[Thunderdome]], which looks like: Thunderdome.
• When there is just one notable article, like the Thunderdome arena, it gets to go to Thunderdome, and if a disambiguation page is neccessary, it will go to Thunderdome (disambiguation). I have made the changes. Good luck! --Commander Keane 07:37, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for all the help! Looks like it's all fixed up now, that's great :) --Rc251 07:44, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind

If you were to recreate your article, leaving Thunderdome for the arena. However, it's been deleted twice so I don't know if it can thrive... --fpo 02:25, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

Actually, that wasn't my article. I found it in an old revision and just copy+pasted it to a new article because I had thought it was accidentally written over. I actually have no clue what the communal Thunderdome is, and looking over the article, it's probably a good idea that it was deleted. --Rc251 04:33, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

CSULB Fall 2010 Admissions

You recently removed the following line from the CSULB article:

"Due to the ongoing state-wide budget deficit, only an estimated 5,500 (7.7%) will be offered admission, much less than in recent school history."

...citing that the LBPost article was confusing admittance with enrollment. Two issues: 1) it would have been better to simply correct the misinformation rather than remove it, and 2) do you have a source to support your claim? Without citing a source, it counts as original research and doesn't meet Wikipedia guidelines. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Foolishgrunt (talk • contribs) 06:49, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Ok, I see what you were looking at. But I already cited that press release earlier in the paragraph, so like I said I think it would have been better to simply correct the misinformation rather than remove it. And like the press release (and several other spots in the article) have already said, it's unusual (and unfortunate) for a CSU campus to have to turn away so many applicants. I believe that makes the expected enrollment significant, so barring any further objections I'll go ahead and put it back in. Corrected, of course.--Foolishgrunt (talk) 22:38, 25 March 2010 (UTC)