Talk:Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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[edit] some copyvio etc

first 2 lines or more are from their website http://www.sloan.org/main.shtml . It is also not very NPOV. special, random, Merkinsmum 22:40, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

a lot of the rest of it is from http://www.adcouncil.org/default.aspx?id=223 -unless that is a copy of this? It's an advertisment (that link is- and by association, this article is) for the foundation. special, random, Merkinsmum 23:17, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

another sentence is mainly from here (scroll down a bit, highlighted for ease of reading) http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:W5LSiPTgZ0oJ:www-math.mit.edu/department/awards.html+The+Sloan+Fellowships+are+annual+awards+given+to+more+than+100+young+researchers+and+university+faculty,+to+further+studies+in+science,+economics,+neuroscience,+computer+science,+and+molecular+biology.&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=uk In reality most of this is perhaps from the sloan site somewhere?special, random, Merkinsmum 23:24, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Undue weight

Although the Sloan Foundation award to the Wikimedia Foundation is big news for WMF and its projects, this is not the most significant award it ever presented and no other awards are mentioned within the article. If no one expands the article to include a survey of Sloan Foundation gifts, I propose eliminating the specific mention of WMF. I removed that mention once last night and another IP swiftly re-added it. Do other editors agree that's undue weight and recentism? DurovaCharge! 20:31, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

I do not think it is undue weight. P3 discusses a number of aspects of the work of the foundation. I'd rather add more about their other work, than less about the wikipedia award. That said, I see your point and would not oppose your removal, if you decide that way. Meanwhile, thanks for the cash, APSF. Much appreciated.--Tagishsimon (talk) 21:26, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Disagree as well. Even if it was only $100 it should be included precisely because it relates to Wikipedia, in the same way that newspapers, magazines and non-fiction books reveal any ties between themselves and a subject. Always best to keep such things out in the open least some paranoid types decide to make an issue of it. SteveCoppock (talk) 02:10, 7 May 2008 (UTC)