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Hello,

I responded to your point on Template:Ont post-secondary. There is a difference between a federated college (ie part of a larger whole) and an Affiliate College (an autonomous institution with an formal agreement of affiliation with a larger institution). Federated College should not be listed on the template, but I think Affiliate College's should. The Affiliate Colleges have their own governance, tuitition, application, faculty, unions, staff etc. In other words, except for their lack of degree granting powers (for which they require the affiliation agreement) they are autonomous institutions. Here is the affiliation agreement Western has [1]

I tried to add them but i've been away from wiki editing for a while and the template is proving way to complicated for me. Is there anyway you can add them in? I've alphabetized them on that templates discussion page. Dowew (talk) 04:33, 1 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Dennis Kelly (American football)

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Erin O'Toole

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Please note that under WP:BLPNAME, we require a proper source to include any information at all about a person's spouse or children, especially if they're not also public figures and thus naming them might constitute an invasion of their privacy. If you can add a reliable source which gives O'Toole's wife's name, then it can be added — but not without that source. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 04:36, 27 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

His own website doesn't count as a reliable source for this purpose. Actual media coverage that mentions them or nothing. Bearcat (talk) 05:02, 27 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
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