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September 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Daniel Little has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
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UM-Dearborn

Hey... I just have a few questions about some of your edits to the University of Michigan-Dearborn article. First of all, you've done a pretty good job expanding it. But I'm wondering if you'd mind if I took some of the pictures you added and created a gallery out of them. As it is right now they're all sort of clustered together and look kind of cluttered. Secondly, I'm wondering if you can provide a source that the university is commonly referred to as "UM-D"? I've never actually heard it referred to that way aside from informal conversations, which means it probably doesn't meet notability standards. I'd also question using the nickname in the prose of the article when the full name or just "the University" will suffice.

Lastly, is there any chance you can find a picture of the university seal to add to the infobox? It has always bothered me that the article lacks one. If the Flint article can manage, the Dearborn one can, too. -- MichiganCharms (talk) 04:47, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

UM-Dearborn Seal

Sorry, but you are wrong. The seal is not only to be used by the chancellor, it is an official symbol of the university just like any seal of any university. This can be verified here: http://www.umd.umich.edu/685952/. It's preferred that official seals be used in infoboxes (see WP:UNIGUIDE), and its use on the UMD article is totally in line with that policy. Furthermore, using that logo makes the university look, frankly, tacky. Even UM-Flint has their seal in their article. I appreciate your dedication to improving the UMD article, but maybe next time you should discuss proposed changes on the article's talk page before making them unilaterally. -- MichiganCharms (talk) 02:44, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]