Talk:U of M
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I believe that deletion of the accusation of ignorant, and indeed, gratuitously hostile, bigotry would leave an unjust and factually inaccurate impression. Nonetheless I expect complaints of POV unless I give reams of documentation. I doubt anyone has ever attempted seriously to prosecute this particular case. Michael Hardy 03:05, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Can you disambiguate U of Maryland please? :-) Evercat 03:06, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- I doubt anyone seriously considers this article anything other than a candidate for Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ed Poor (talk • contribs)
I turned this into a disambiguation page. The fact that there is occasional discussion of who is the "real U of M" isn't particularly noteworthy: this happens with lots of other university abbreviations (e.g. the UTs: Texas and Tennessee, who happen to also be football rivals). --Delirium 05:11, Nov 14, 2003 (UTC)
- I was a visiting professor at UT for a year, and it was neither in Texas nor in Tennessee. Michael Hardy 20:19, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Extraordinary bigotry
Anyone who thinks I exaggerate when I speak of extraordinarily intense and extensive bigotry incessantly emanating out of the otherwise admirable University of Michigan needs only to look at the falsehoods in the recent anonymous edit summaries. Michael Hardy 02:14, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- I wish you wouldn't apply such a label to the entire University of Michigan population. It appears you may be struggling with a "vocal" minority in this case. This "vocal" minority does appear to be making uninformed edits to this Wiki article, but I don't believe this situation is limited to this article. As stated in the discussion on the University of Michigan page I would suggest, "Revert, rewrite, and don't let it get to you too much."
- Personally I believe this page (once converted to disambig) has slowly become a little too wordy. I'm not sure how debating "who uses the abbreviation more" betters this disambig page or other articles. I submit the following change suggestion:
- University of Michigan, also referred to as "U-M" or "UM".
- University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities area. Locally often called "the U".
- Terryfoster 19:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
