Talk:City College Orlando

Permissions
AnmaFinotera and the Wikipedia community. Regarding the article "City College Orlando" I have permission from City College Fort Lauderdale, Gainesville, Miami, and Orlando to use any of our material I consider appropriate. I am the Web/Graphic Designer of this non-for-profit organization. Please guide me in the right direction I am trying to follow the procedures. Thank you. mycitycollege (talk) 18:55, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * There is no proof that editor has the permission to use this material. Site is clearly marked as copyrighted, and web designer has no claims over those copyrights as it belongs to the school. See also Mycitycollege's talk page, where further discussion has occurred. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 14:22, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The ed. asserts he will be able to get the appropriate licensing. I explained to him the difference and what is required, in the comment that you removed. Since the article can in any case be stubbified, deletion would have been inappropriate in any case. (Your approach of starting a new article was equally good, though we seem to have had an edit conflict on the user talk page).   I have restored my original comment-  I hope we have not confused the user excessively. DGG (talk) 15:16, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

As reviewing administrator, I declined the speedy, but we need not merely permission to use, but a copyright license under GFDL, which must be asserted as provided by WP:Copyright. However, you should instead consider rewriting the text, as explained in our Business FAQ,which applies to non profit organizations as well. It';s rare that the same language as used for a website is really appropriate here, since we're an encyclopedia, and avoid promotional language, and as such provide information of permanent general value to the general reader. ::In particular, looking at the present article, the  description  should avoid adjectives of praise, write in as concise a format as possible,and avoid duplication. The name need not be frequently repeated, directory type information of interest only to current or prospective students such as the address and driving direction should be removed, and appropriate links to other Wikipedia articles should be ade as explained in  our guide to writing Wikipedia articles. I started you out by making some of the changes. You may find out you need not actually license any text but would prefer to rewrite; if it even looks like it might have come from a college website it is not the right tone for this medium.
 * You should also include the appropriate factual information about numbers of faculty and students, include some idea of the educational program, and a list of distinguished alumni who have already been held notable enough for Wikipedia articles.
 * Additionally, it is most important to include 3rd party independent  reliable published sources, print or online (but not blogs or press releases or derived from press releases) that talk about the college in a substantial way.
 * We would also like to include a single appropriate photograph, which also needs explicit copyright licensing to us as specified above.
 * And, you must change your user name to an individual name--only individuals may edit Wikipedia. DGG (talk) 15:14, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

possible merge
I think this might in fact be the best solution, if there's not enough material to develop the article on this part much furtherDGG (talk) 16:38, 28 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I've gone ahead and put in a section in City College (Florida) to cover this campus. I think I covered all the salient points, if you want to give it a once over. -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 16:57, 28 August 2008 (UTC)