User talk:72Dino

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BYU

The intro should have admissions info for BYU since this is major information. JackWilliams 21:55, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, it was just a thought. By the way, U.S. News and World Report indicates that BYU's admission process is "more selective". Perhaps just noting the actual percentage rather than making a judgment call on the selectivity would be appropriate. I understand that around 70% may not seem selective (unless you're one of the 30%), but I'm not sure what percentage makes a university selective. Alanraywiki 22:11, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree with Jack. Have you seen other university articles? Seems like an exception is being made for BYU. I'm willing to be proven wrong, of course. I have also sought to explain why BYU is viewed as "more selective," as you pointed out, but an anonymous editor has continued to undo that documented information I provided. --tortdog 20:30, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some universities mention admission rates, some do not. I did not see any university pages where acceptance rates were mentioned in the lead section, including Harvard. One of the concerns I have is the unsourced POV of "unselective" being put in an encyclopedia. The sources quoted indicate otherwise, and the numbers are what they are. Anything beyond quotes and facts are not appropriate. The rates do not seem notable as either too low or too high. Frankly, I think (my POV) there is a lot of student self-selectivity for those applying to BYU which skews the results. Hopefully this issue can be resolved on the talk page rather than a revert war. Alanraywiki 20:49, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your recent edits! Just wanted to invite you to take part in the recent discussion on the intro, since you seem to have taken part in such discussions before. Wrad 04:13, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CSULB endowment

First of all, thanks for the barnstar from a while ago. :)

Second, I noticed that you edited the CSULB page a while back and added the University's endowment. You made the number to be 30.3 million (as of 6/30/06), which seemed a pretty exact figure. Well, I just read a University press release from 8/6/07 that stated the endowment recently surpassed 35 million for the first time. Unfortunately, that's the only recent information I've been able to find, and it's not exact at all. In short, I was wondering if you might be able to help. Where did you get your information from before, and would it be able to help at all in finding the newest figure? --Foolishgrunt 05:42, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The exact number from last year comes from the annual report of the CSULB Foundation [1]. The market value of the endowment is included in the financial statements of the Foundation. I can put down the exact 6/30/07 number because I gave it to President Alexander (I'm the CFO of the CSULB Foundation), but it has not been published anywhere in public yet so I assume that is considered original research. Let me know your thoughts on if I should put it down now, or wait until it comes out in the next annual report or in the NACUBO Endowment Study, another published source of this information. Neither of those documents will be out for a while, though. Alanraywiki 15:43, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I guess that would have to be considered original research. I suppose it would be best to wait until it's published, though it's somewhat annoying to know that primary source research isn't allowed. --Foolishgrunt 06:23, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request for review on multi-reverter labeling LDS scriptures as "pseudepigrapha"

Hi Alanraywiki,

You have a strong history of overseeing the edits to LDS-related articles. I hope you can provide some input to a current situation. An IP user has been re-reverting against the reverts of myself and at least three other editors (and way over violating the 3-revert rule in the process), to keep inserting Category:Modern pseudepigrapha in the articles for Book of Mormon, Book of Abraham, and Book of Moses, and inserting those titles in the article Modern pseudepigrapha. Besides the histories of those articles, please see the discussion at Talk:Book_of_Mormon#.22Modern_pseudepigrapha.22_is_NPOV-vio and User_talk:Val42#Re._LDS_Scriptures_.3D_.22pseudepigrapha.22. Thanks for taking a look.

- Reaverdrop _(talk/nl) 21:29, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]