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The article was originally just about a humor magazine called Ski-U-Mah, I added information about the origin of the cheer.--RLent 21:09, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. And I just added a picture of an old copy of the magazine. Artemis-Arethusa 00:15, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I moved the bold text to the first instance of the phrase "Ski-U-Mah". I also deleted the phrase "among other things", since the article now mentions what those other things are.--RLent 21:14, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

   Knowing all of that is helpful, and i've retrofitted on this talk page a section heading reflecting what has gone before.
   Dual-topic articles should not occur; restating the preceding, there was an article on the magazine, by a colleague who perhaps didn't have any interest in the phrase as an expression of school spirit, or perhaps was unaware of the context within which it was named. (Which doesn't matter.) The succeeding additions are probably best explained as aspects of the fallacy that Wikipedia is about words, rather than topics. There are two topics here, and while they are importantly related topics, you are not your fraternal sibling, and these two topics can't be thrown together in the way that a dict would group them, essentially by focusing on the identical wording of their respective shortest identifying phrases.
   The remedy is splitting and renaming the two topics, and then reflecting the connections by linking the articles rather than ignoring the fundamental kernel of the original article, its lead: "Ski-U-Mah was ~~the name of~~ the college humor magazine of the University of Minnesota from ca. 1929-1950." The other topic is a slogan, and its article's lead will reflect the distinction between a magazine and a slogan, cheer, or whatever, that has the same wording.
--Jerzy•t 01:32, 10 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]