Talk:Excellence
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AGAIN WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PAGE! SHEEZX!
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[edit] Failed AFD
This article survived a deletion debate. Johnleemk | Talk 13:04, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] nice essay
But what's it doing on Wikipedia? --87.82.23.233 00:07, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Excellent!" as expletive
I remember the word "Excellent!" as an expletive in the movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, but I don't know if the word has ever made it to youth culture. Is it or isn't it? I did not include this in the article because I wasn't sure about it. Bye, SietskeEN 10:28, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Not sure this should be on Wikipedia. It is not very subjective and tells very little. Excellent! as an expletive may be more deserving of an article but excellence belongs in Wiktionary only.
[edit] Success vs. perfection
I'd like to point out my opinion regarding the comparison of excellence to success. Per the article, quoting Harbour: "Success means being the best. Excellence means being your best. Success, to many, means being better than everyone else. Excellence means being better tomorrow than you were yesterday." This doesn't sound accurate to me; success has nothing to do with being better than everyone else, as the definition of success is "the achievement of an objective or goal". I'd like to suggest replacing the word "success" with "perfectionism". Per the article on perfectionism: "...a belief that perfection should be strived for. In its pathological form, it is an unhealthy belief that anything less than perfect is unacceptable."
[edit] Delete it
This page is a joke. Excellence is the state of being excellent, like bigness is the state of being big. This article provides no encyclopediaworthy information, and is just the definition of a simple word. Listing papers and events which have 'excellence/excellent' in the title as "references" just adds to the patheticness (perhaps we should have an article about that word too!). Awards are for excellence by definiton anyway. Delete it.
