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No sure about those myths. In all my years attending the university, never heard of the first two. --Anagnorisis 20:00, 23 February 2006 (UTC) Really? I was told of them ever since first year. JunCTionS 11:29, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

About the myths. You can go to Gade and talk to those guys. They know all of them by heart and always tell them at the beginning of the year to the new cohorts. Also, I put back the explanation of the Ampere since it is a very interesting myth. By the way, almost everyone at USB knows all of the myths described here. Ask anyone. Regards, Daguerio.

About the myths

An unregistered user keeps erasing the myth about the Ampere. I consider it is part of the folklore of the USB and should stay. Notice that none of the myths are supported by sources. Since they are myths, it is hard to find factual information about them. Nevertheless, they represent an important part of the culture in the university. Also, someone added a fact about the Ampere which has nothing that supports it. I think this article needs a lot of work. There is a huge lack of sources and citations that are essential to back up the facts. Please, someone help. Finally, please discuss important changes before erasing big parts of the article. Regards, Daguerio. Daguerio 22:40, 14 November 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Another unregistered user (201.208.150.115) deleted a big part of "Traditions". Please, I urge you to discuss important changes here before eliminating information. If this continued to happen, I would find it necessary to block the article from being edited by unregistered users. Regards, Daguerio. Daguerio 16:46, 19 November 2006 (UTC).[reply]

User 159.90.200.19 deleted a big part of "Traditions". I urge you to discuss important changes before erasing information. I think people do not even bother to read the discussion or do not even know it exists. Anyway, try to discuss such changes. Regards, Daguerio. Daguerio 00:58, 25 November 2006 (UTC).[reply]

User Evadry edited a lot of things in Traditions. I reverted them and would like to point out my reasons: Firstly, there were a lot of mistakes ("gooses" instead of geese, "metafore" instead of metaphor, etc.). I could have corrected them, but please, do not be so sloppy when editing Wikipedia.

Also, I noticed that it lacked some formality, especially with the use of the word "gay" and "gays". Let us try to be more politically correct and more formal when talking about such subjects.

Finally, although most or all of the information in Traditions lacks a valid source (since it contains mostly myths and stories that are unproven), we should not get too personal on the things we write in that part of the article.

I have one final comment. I urge you not to take this personal and to try to improve Traditions by using a more proper tone. I am thinking of re-writing the parts that talk about homosexuality and related puns, like in the case of the ducks or the Aquarium Café, in order to make them more PC.

If you have any thoughts on this, feel free to write here or go to my discussion page and leave your comments. Regards, Daguerio. Daguerio 00:13, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

-Comments such as:- Acuario- Laguna de los patos - are not appropriate to represent a national University, much less ours. It misrepresents USB not as the prime University that it is, but instead as a place where people have too much time in their hands which is entirely not the case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nic.ceron (talk • contribs) 15:30, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 30 August 2020

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

No consensus to move. After much-extended time for discussion (and counting wbm1058's input as in opposition to the move), there is a clear absence of consensus in favor of the move, with opinions leaning closer to a consensus against moving. The proposed target title can be disambiguated. BD2412 T 19:24, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) → Simón Bolívar University – On 14 March 2019, @Sendtel +: moved the page about the university in Venezuala from Simón Bolívar University to Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) but without changing any of the thousands of incoming links. Simón Bolívar University now redirects to Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela), and there are 2 other pages: Simón Bolívar University (Colombia) and Simon Bolivar University (Mexico). This requested move reverses that move because the university in Venezuela is the primary topic. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 17:34, 30 August 2020 (UTC)—Relisting. —usernamekiran (talk) 11:28, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's not clear to me how a primary topic can be claimed in the English language wiki when there is none in Spanish: es:Universidad Simón Bolívar is a disambiguation. I don't see how a University with 15,000 students could be primary over an identically-named university with 10,000 students. – wbm1058 (talk) 18:57, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose other than there being only 133 incoming links to the non-specific name (not thousands), I agree with the other commenter that WP:PRIMARYTOPIC isn't clear here. I'd prefer that Simón Bolívar University was turned into a disambiguation page instead of being reverted to the Venezuelan article. Turnagra (talk) 01:23, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose The links should be fixed, this shouldn't be moved back blindlynx (talk) 11:58, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
In favour of The relevance of the Venezuelan one is higher than the other universities. In terms of students, rank, and seniority. --Xillegas (talk) 16:56, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Pageviews do lean to the Venezuelan university as higher than the others in terms of students, rank, seniority, prestige, etc. Might follow up on this later. No harm in creating more specific links though. – wbm1058 (talk) 16:35, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]