Talk:Terrace Club

message: An unregistered editor recently reinstated this previously-deleted text: "Recent rumors that the club has unofficially switched to a "snicker" system of selective membership have been denied." This had been in the article for a while. However, it is not substantiated with any kind of reference. Also the term "snicker" is not commonly understood. Propose it be left out unless someone can come up with a reliable source for this info. --Shorn again (talk) 23:17, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Academic38 (talk) 07:22, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Unregistered user 89.224.133.119 has reinstated this text, so I have deleted it again. Based on the brief but PU-centric edit history, looks like this is likely an alum - and the IP address appears to hail from France. To that contributor, let's not make this an edit war - please participate in discussion here before reinstating again.--Shorn again (talk) 17:56, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Unregistered user 89.224.133.119 has now deleted my above comment twice. Kindly stop that. My request to "Please participate in discussion" does not mean "please delete my communication to you". Deleting other people's posts is not OK. Shorn again (talk) 14:26, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "Snicker"

message: I'm not saying that this organization is non-notable, but right now it's tough to tell if it's something that is genuinely known outside of the Princeton community or not.  Can we find any reliable third-party source to confirm that the group is genuinely famous? See WP:ORG for guidelines on groups. --Elonka 00:16, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The third-party source has been linked there for quite a long time.  dcandeto (talk) 23:41, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

text: If they were suitable for inclusion in the article, there would be articles about them.  I've gone ahead and deleted those names from the article.  dcandeto (talk) 23:06, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

text: OK, no responses in one week so I have gone ahead and made this edit --Shorn again (talk) 21:31, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability

message: Undid an edit spuriously listing footballer Laverneus Coles as a notable alum. This contribution came courtesy of 66.108.52.167, whose vandalism spree today included also derogatory comments about Toni Morrison.--Shorn again (talk) 23:59, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: Shouldn't the history section say something about when the club closed in its selective incarnation (I don't know when) and when it reopened as a non-selective, politically progressve, club (76-77 or 77-78, I am pretty sure)?Academic38 (talk) 07:28, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Actually, secondary sources would be better.  A certain amount of information from primary sources is alright, but on some of these Eating club articles, the majority of the article is turning out to be original research or primary source information.  All of the articles are in serious need of cleanup or merging, though I've been trying to give the members some time to get things cleaned up on their own.  But please, please, stick to reliable secondary sources, not primary. See WP:PSTS. --Elonka 16:40, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added information indicating the change from bicker to sign-in club in the 1960s based on a Daily Princetonian article, but the critical period Academic38 refers to in the late 70s - early 80s is hard to find information on. The Mudd Library collection I referenced above apparently includes a whole file of newspaper clippings from 1938-1992, so I'd think some good secondary sources could be found there as well.--Shorn again (talk) 05:10, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  If we can't find sources, I recommend just removing the information for now.  Then if sources become available later, the information can easily be re-added. --Elonka 05:57, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Elonka, while there is surely stuff that is in there to which your comment is applicable, this discussion relates to the desirability of adding information that is not yet in the article.Shorn again (talk) 16:32, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about history 

message: It might be worth it to mention how long these so-called notable traditions have taken place or when they began. I can tell you that when I was a member and officer (90-92) I didn't know anything about "offerings".  There was a tradition to include a certain word or phrase to theses but not neccesarily "food=love".  Each year members voted on the word or phrase.  In 92 for example the word was "pantywaist".  I'm a more is better kind of guy so I didn't delete what's currently here in the article.  
Freesound (talk) 16:33, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  notable traditions?