August 2014 edit

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McGill's lead edit

Hi! After reading your message, I understand your point of deleting the per student endowment info. I just thought that wealth deserved a line there as seen in the intro. of many other university pages. Concerning with the reputation, a statement about global prestige was actually added on the Yale page before but the citations were finally considered not robust enough to support the claim. I'm really not sure whether rankings are good sources for prestige since they can be quite different, varied and controversial and we don't have a clear threshold of what positions (e.g. top 10, 20 or 100?) on which league tables (ARWU vs QS vs THE vs US News) make an institution widely reputable - not a direct way to say so, in my opinion. For instance, Harvard, MIT or Stanford page doesn't use rankings for that purpose when Cambridge precisely uses the term "in different university rankings". Besides, it's biased if we only add one/two of them favoring the Univ. as the reference. In dialogue with Biomedicinal 08:43, 26 May 2015‎ (UTC)Reply

Sounds good. As I always say, preciseness and conciseness are what we need for the lead. Besides, you can use your own style of signature instead of adopting mine. It's free here! In dialogue with Biomedicinal 15:45, 26 May 2015

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McGill University arbitration case request declined edit

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The question is how then do we start establishing the noticeboard venue or any proper venue to discuss this matter. All we get is "do not do this", "do that", but there are no instructions on how to set up the discussion and resolution of this "coed" issue sans arbitration. We need help from editors, not more "do's and dont's" lectures. Jacknpoy (talk) 14:45, 27 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
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Ok, great, thanks. I will proceed there now to discuss.Jacknpoy (talk) 13:54, 28 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

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