Talk:Rich Merritt

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RICH MERRITT has been the subject of a cover story in the New York Times magazine, the Advocate, the LA Times, the Times of London, The Weekly Standard and the Daily News. He and has been featured in over fifty other newspapers and magazines. He has published two books and has written several other articles about topics related to law, the military, lesbian and gay rights and religion. He has been interviewed for television and radio. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Westie Boy (talk • contribs)

• I've removed the speedy deletion tag as this article obviously indicate that the subject has some notability - speedy deletion is intended to be used for obvious "vanity articles" for blatant non-entities; "Joe Bloggs is a schoolboy at Somewhere High School. Jane Doe fancies him" and so on. Whether the article would survive an AFD I'm not so sure. It would help if you could include more precide citations to the media coverage. Best, Iain99^{Balderdash and piffle} 18:32, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Let me second Iain99. I think Merritt is notable if the citations are there; otherwise not.John Foxe (talk) 19:35, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Transfer credits from BJU

In the 1980s when Merritt was a student at least two BJU science profs had undergraduate degrees from BJU and PhDs from Clemson. Why did it take a senator to get Merritt's credits transferred?--John Foxe (talk) 22:33, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Even when it was unaccredited, BJU's credits were widely accepted, especially by other schools in South Carolina. What you are assuming is untrue, and your "general knowledge" is incorrect. Wikipedia demands proof.--John Foxe (talk) 14:19, 27 October 2008 (UTC)