Talk:Texas A&M University School of Public Health

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Request Edit
The Texas A&M School of Rural Public Health has recently changed its name to the "School of Public Health" and would like the title of this page to reflect that change.209.21.112.18 (talk) 18:53, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Moved DavidLeighEllis (talk) 03:36, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health → Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health – Today, the Texas A&M Health Science Center announced a transition in the name of the School of Rural Public Health to the School of Public Health, eliminating the reference to “rural” in the official name. Here is a link to the article on the school's website: https://news.tamhsc.edu/?post=texas-am-health-science-center-school-of-public-health-reveals-new-name. Msechea (talk) 18:12, 1 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose – give it a few weeks at least. We follow secondary sources, so until the new name catches on, we should wait.  Dicklyon (talk) 02:13, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health → Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health – Hi, Dicklyon. It was officially announced on April 1st, with url's and logos being updated across the site, here are two secondary sources: http://bionews-tx.com/news/2014/04/02/texas-am-health-science-center-school-of-public-health-reveals-new-name/ and http://kagstv.com/News/KAGSNews/ID/3269/New-Name-for-Texas-AM-Health-Science-Center-School-of-Public-Health. Thanks for your help. Msechea (talk) 10:12, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Support I don't see any real benefit to retaining the old name, absent evidence that it has some historical importance such that the new name might catch on. While we follow common names over official ones, WP:COMMONNAME still says "If the name of a person, group, object, or other article topic changes, then more weight should be given to the name used in reliable sources published after the name change than in those before the change," although this clause is often overlooked. Msechea has already provided an independent source covering the new name, and that's good enough for me. --BDD (talk) 18:43, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
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Reinstatement of blatantly promotional content
- please can you explain why you have reinstated blatantly promotional content, and lists of external links that are clearly in contravention of WP:ELNO? I note that this is the only article you have ever edited - do you have any connection with the subject of the article? If so, please familiarise yourself with WP:COI. Thanks Girth Summit  (blether)  18:39, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

- I work for the Texas A&M University School of Public Health in Communications where one of my jobs is to maintain the school brand and to make sure that our web presence is correct and up to date. We are a nonprofit state of Texas university and not promoting anything.


 * Thanks for being honest about this. I asked you to read COI; please do so, and you also need to read WP:PAID. You and you colleagues need to stop editing this page immediately, formally make the necessary disclosures, and restrict yourself to edit requests. Further direct editing will likely result in your accounts being indefinitely blocked from editing. There is no exemption from COI or WP:NOTPROMO for non-profits. Girth Summit  (blether)  22:19, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , I have touched up the article again, removing blatantly promotional language (see WP:NOTPROMO), removing sections which were simply lists of external links (see WP:ELNO, removing an unsourced section about research (WP:V), and updating the tags. I have no interest in harming the reputation of this institution, but I ask you to recognise that this article is not an extension of the university's web presence, not an advertising platform for them. Please read COI and WP:PAID - you must not edit this article directly. You need to make the necessary formal disclosures and restrict yourself to making edit requests on this talk page. Thank you  Girth Summit  (blether)  08:01, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

To Girth Summit: I am Rae Lynn Mitchell, MA, the Executive Director of Communications and Alumni Affairs for the School of Public Health. We have been asked by the leadership of our school to update our site on Wikipedia with current, factual information. My staff including Kenya Robinson and Stephen Arnold were trying to do this yesterday, but it looks like you have removed much of the information. Another school in our Health Science Center is the Texas A&M College of Dentistry. Please look at their site and explain why they are allowed to post factual information about their school and we are not. I would like to speak with your supervisor on your editing of our submissions. Please contact me at your earliest convenience. My email is raemitchell@tamu.edu

Thanks for your prompt attention to my concerns. Rae Lynn Mitchell, M.A. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.21.117.135 (talk) 21:31, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Rae Lynn Mitchell, thanks for engaging. I appreciate that you are new here, but to be honest I'm starting to get a bit frustrated by having to repeat myself over and over, here and on your colleagues' talk pages. Please read COI and PAID. Your employer has no business in asking you to update this article - they do not own it, it is not an extension of their web presence, and our policies forbid them from having any editorial input into its content. The most you are permitted to do is to ask that other editors consider your content for inclusion via an edit request at this page - and if you wish to do that, you are formally required to disclose your relationship with your employer when making the request.
 * I am not an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and as such I have no supervisor for you to turn to; I am a volunteer contributor, who has been entrusted with administrative privileges by the editing community (like all other administrators here - you can read more about administrators here, if you're interested). If you have a concern over my behaviour here, the correct venue for you to raise it is WP:ANI, but I urge you to actually read those links I've given you before going there, as you will discover that I have acted entirely within policy, whereas you and your staff have not.
 * Thank you for bringing the article about the school of dentistry to my attention. To be clear, your colleagues at that school are not permitted to maintain it; if they have been doing so, it is called undeclared paid editing, which is a very serious breach of our policies (and of the Wikimedia Terms of Use, which you agree to abide by when editing here). It looks like they have been 'getting away with it' because it has gone undetected, but it is most certainly not permitted. I would be grateful if you would be willing to let me know which of the editors of that page you believe to be employed by your institution.
 * Finally, I have no interest in pursuing an e-mail correspondence with you. Anything you wish to say to me can be said here, or on my talk page, or at ANI if you want to go down that route. You may not wish to have your name, employer and e-mail address a permanent part of the history of this page - if you regret adding that information, I would be happy to ask another administrator to redact it for you to preserve your privacy. (Technically I could do this myself, but since you have accused me of acting improperly, I would prefer to ask another administrator to do this.) Cheers Girth Summit  (blether)  07:22, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello again Rae Lynn Mitchell - I've notified you on the talk page for your IP address, but I just wanted to drop you a note here in case you don't look at that - since you have queried by conduct on this article, I have created a thread at the administrator's noticeboard about this matter, and asked other admins to review my conduct. You are welcome to comment there if you wish to do so - again, I would strongly advise you to read the links you have been provided with before you do so, since they will likely frame the discussion that takes place there. If I might add a personal note - my partner is an academic, and I am well aware of the pressure that scholars and admin staff are under to promote their institutions; I have no personal animus against you, and I have great regard for TA&M as an institution, but part of my role is to do what I can to ensure that Wikipedia is not used as an extension of any entity's PR machine. Thanks Girth Summit  (blether)  19:59, 5 December 2019 (UTC)