Talk:Reynolds Beal

Copyright problem removed
One or more portions of this article duplicated other source(s). Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Voceditenore (talk) 07:07, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Attention needed
This article needs serious attention. It is very obviously written not for the general reader but for alumni of a particular university (Cornell) and members of a particular fraternity there (Phi Kappa Psi). Frat-speak needs to be removed, i.e. referring to people as "Brother Jones" or "Sister Smith", using "brother" rather than "member", etc. The subject should never be referred to by their first name only. Terms used in a way that applies specifically to fraternity life, "tap", "pledge", etc. or aspects of life at Cornell should also be avoided, or at the very least explained in a footnote or linked to an explanatory article elsewhere in WP. Remember also that you are writing for a encyclopedia article for a general and international audience, not an alumni magazine article. The style needs to reflect this.

Although I have removed large chunks of copyvio from this article (see above), I am also concerned that the remaining parts of this article may be lifted verbatim from previously published alumni or fraternity magazines. All material, even that in the public domain, must be attributed to avoid plagiarism. If the material was published after 1923, it is almost certainly in copyright (even if you are the author) and cannot be extensively quoted. Any brief quotes must be clearly marked as such and clearly attributed to their source. Voceditenore (talk) 06:51, 2 May 2010 (UTC)