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Re your user page
In my mind, disk space is very cheap and time is expensive. If someone wants to build a page about their left toe, then I have no complaints. As long as an article isn't clogging up the namespace for someone else, I say "Keep". You never know when the knowledge might be useful in the future. The rules for significance are really much different when the only cost is diskspace.
There are other sites for that; try Everything2. Here, a certain standard is attempting to be maintained, so that when people search for George Washington, they aren't deluged with three hundred links like George Washington's left toe and My auntie says she slept with George Washington's nephew. No doubt some information on Dartmouth is useful - perhaps even info on each individual building. I have not voted on the VfD'd articles, perhaps some of those are a rash reaction to what initially appeared to be a huge wave of new people who don't quite know what goes on here. Again, to add anything you want, try Everything2.
Here's a question - if you maintained a wiki that was only about Dartmouth, would you appreciate people adding hundreds of pages on their left toes and how much Cornell rocks? Or would you attempt to keep this from happening, to keep your wiki purely about Dartmouth?
I think we do appreciate any attempt to expand knowledge of Wikipedia in the world at large, but part of that is understanding just what Wikipedia is. Welcome aboard. :) --Golbez 16:17, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)