User talk:Suzannadanna

Hello, Suzannadanna, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Suzannadanna, good luck, and have fun. – PamD 20:09, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

PamD 20:09, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

USF Poly etc

Hallo Suzannadanna and welcome to Wikipedia. I found the article you started on University of South Florida Polytechnic and did quite a bit of work to tidy it up, make links, etc - see this version - before looking at the page history and realising that a long-established editor (and administrator) Cuchullain had actually merged an article with that title into Florida Polytechnic University in 2012. I discussed it on his talk page and he still thinks that just the one article is preferable - see User_talk:Cuchullain#University_of_South_Florida_Polytechnic - so I'm afraid I've undone your work, as well as mine, and reverted to the "redirect" which leads to the article at Florida Polytechnic University. I also made a redirect from USF Poly, which didn't previously exist. It can often be better, when two topics are very closely or complicatedly related, to keep all the information in one article rather than splitting it across two partly-overlapping ones, as long as we provide redirects from every title anyone might want to use to find the information.

If you think that the article doesn't make clear enough the history of the various names and institutions, please edit it, carefully and with references, to make it clearer. If you disagree with Cuchullan, please argue about it on his talk page: as I said there, " Naturally I know nothing at all about the academic politics of Florida - just a drive-by stub-sorter trying to improve a badly-written stub!" (Sorry, it wasn't all that badly-written, but needed a bit of help - links, and so on).

Sorry that your first shot at editing has come undone like this, and I hope you can find some other topics on which to edit more successfully. There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia, but it's an interesting journey. Happy Editing! PamD 20:22, 5 July 2016 (UTC)