Talk:Indian Institute of Planning and Management/RFC

message: The article is being turned into a brochure by IIPM advocate Drnoamchomsky. This is ridiculous. What is the relevance of "Business Baron's" magazine. I haven't even heard of this magazine. Crap brochure stuff must be deleted. The fact that the institute actually does not award degrees is mentioned way below in the article.
Inventingfacts 12:21, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  IIPM article is being turned into a brochure 

message: I rest my case. I will wait until tonight for Ravikiran to undo his revert and INCLUDE all the other factual citations I had made, along with the uploaded relevant images.
This RFC was based on a supposed 'lie'. That cannot be in question any longer.
I have also uploaded to the discussion page a series of other scans, and hope to add them to the main page. 
Regards
--Drnoamchomsky 07:35, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  BUSINESS TODAY SCAN OF PAGE 96 

message: Hope this clears up the mess.
Ravikiran, I'll wait for you to revert back...
Thanks, and happy Wiki-ing!
--Drnoamchomsky 18:29, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Screenshots to prove it!! 

message: Please note that there has been a pattern to this. The institute itself has been under fire for misleading advertisements. It has been responding with threats to sue.
This article has been vandalised many times, in atleast  one case the IP address of the vandal traced back to IIPM. Some users have tried to get the article deleted on the ridiculous ground that the phrases "IIPM" and "Indian Institute of Planning and Management" are copyrighted. Accusations have been made about the sex lives of critics of the institutes and unfounded allegations have been made about the critics having taken money from a rival B-School. This is quite clearly a test for Wikipedia's resilience.  --Ravikiran 13:58, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Background

message: Dear Ravikiran,
Again, I will not revert your unilateral revert. 
I put all those facts in based on good faith.
I took that paragraph, in entirety, from IBID (ABI-Inform) database of press clippings. I can give you a password if you like (tell me how - it needs to be privately exchanged), or a screenshot or something....
It is COMPLETELY accurate. 
Please check your facts clearly. Call the folks at Business Today if you like, or go to a (real, physical) library and look at the issue.
As for IIPM not participating, you'll find from your conversation with BT guys that they included the institute even though it did not send any informaiton, as this was a 'brand' survey.
Please check facts more carefully, and thoroughly. It is only a request. please let me know how I may help in this endeavor.
--Drnoamchomsky 18:10, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

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I can corroborate what Ravikiran said. These three scanned images are from the Oct 10, 2004 issue of business today which is available online (on subscription).  
The first image shows the title (shortlisted colleges), the second the space where IIPM would have appeared if they were selected, and the third the postscript that IIPM-Mumbai and Delhi did not take part in the survey. Tintin 19:33, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Businesstoday screenshots