User talk:Bmstephany

Image copyright problem with Image:Reeves Field.jpg
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Image tagging for Image:Northwood Hall.jpg
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Geneva images
I have reverted your changes and addition of new pictures: not because I own the page, but because (1) you removed existing pictures without explanation or anything else, and (2) because your pictures tend to have copyright problems. If you'd like to restore them, please explain on the Geneva College talk page or on my talk page. Nyttend 22:34, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Nobody is more Wikipedia than I am, unless you mean (1) Jimbo, or (2) an administrator. If you want, an administrator will be called.  Do you want an administrator?  Nyttend 03:14, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for using your own pictures — it's always easier when you take them yourself :-) By the way, you need to check your camera: the pictures both say that they were taken in January of 2003 in the information at the bottom, so your camera's internal calendar and/or clock must be off.  Nyttend 19:13, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Copyright problems with Image:Northwood Hall.jpg
An image that you uploaded, Image:Northwood Hall.jpg, has been listed at Copyright problems because it is a suspected copyright violation. Please look there if you know that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), and then provide the necessary information there and on its page, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Nyttend 03:18, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Copyright problems with Image:Johnston Gym.jpg
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Copyright problems with Image:Old main.jpg
An image that you uploaded, Image:Old main.jpg, has been listed at Copyright problems because it is a suspected copyright violation. Please look there if you know that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), and then provide the necessary information there and on its page, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Nyttend 03:18, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Copyright problems with Image:Reeves Field.jpg
An image that you uploaded, Image:Reeves Field.jpg, has been listed at Copyright problems because it is a suspected copyright violation. Please look there if you know that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), and then provide the necessary information there and on its page, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Nyttend 03:18, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Geneva College
If the two people you're adding to this article really are notable, why not create articles about them? Make sure you've carefully read the notability criteria first, so you know what kinds of sources are required by Wikipedia. -FisherQueen (Talk) 21:35, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Please read Notability again. It has the following sections for people who are inherently notable:  Nyttend 00:47, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Politicians: Politicians who have held international, national or statewide/provincewide office, and members and former members of a national, state or provincial legislatures.
 * Athletes: Competitors who have played in a fully professional league, or a competition of equivalent standing in a non-league sport such as swimming or tennis.


 * And besides, the notability guidelines are not actually required for mentioning something in an article (as the main notability guidelines specifically state). Rather, notability is with regards to whether something should have its own article. If a politician is notable enough to have their own article, they're surely automatically worth noting as someone who is linked with a school/college/university. Also, Bmstephany, please remember to stay civil when dealing other editors. Comments such as this one contain personal remarks, and potentially personal attacks. Thanks. --Dreaded Walrus t c 01:21, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * By the way, in your Johnston Gym picture: is the little white bit on Eastvale Hill a part of the G? Nyttend 03:06, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * One more thing: because you're taking your own pictures and uploading them with free licenses, I'd recommend that you create an account on the Wikimedia Commons. It's just as easy as creating an account on Wikipedia, and it means that your pictures would be much more widely available than they are on Wikipedia only.  Nyttend 04:55, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Notable people
My point of view is this: judging by the notability guidelines and by the existence of a vast number of biographical articles, precedent exists for state senators and MLB players being notable without question. As a result, we can list their names, even if there isn't an article, because it's obvious that the person is notable. The only way really to prove this is to attempt to delete an article on a relatively minor state legislator or professional sportsman, which I would judge a violation of this guideline. However, authors and nonprofit organisational heads are not inherently notable. How can notability be proven? Only an article can prove notability properly, since the point of having the notable alumni list is to give the names and a explanation of who the person is, not to demonstrate the person's notability. Moreover, the descriptions that you gave don't prove notability, and the Mueller one sounds rather POV as well. This is my judgement: that the only names that belong on any "notable people" list are those who (1) are inherently notable, such as the state senators and MLB players, or (2) otherwise notable and have an article about them.

Please remember that I'm not saying that these two men aren't notable — it's simply that I don't have reason to believe that they are either notable or non-notable. Create articles on them, demonstrating their notability by the guidelines that you've already read, and their names will deserve mention on the college page. Nyttend 01:48, 26 August 2007 (UTC)


 * As far as the in-person meeting: I'd not be automatically unwilling to see you, but I'd rather not discuss this one-on-one. Wikipedia works by building consensus, and as a result it's better to allow others to be able to see the results of this discussion.  I've made my decisions because I believe that they follow policy — and I assume that you've done likewise — and our work should be visible to the community.  A face-to-face meeting will mean that it's just the two of us, without any possibility of direct input from the community at large better to inform us of our obviously non-compliant understandings of Wikipedia policy.  Nyttend 01:53, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest notice
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with,
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors,
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam);
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 * 1) avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Conflict of Interest. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 03:33, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi Bmstephany, I am not an administrator, just an editor here (like everyone). My understanding of COI policy is that for substantial Geneva College edits (besides reverting vandalism, and other minor changes) you should suggest all of them on the talk page first, and if other, neutral editors are OK with them, then they will implement your changes. Please see Suggestions for COI compliance. Please note this is not the same as discussing changes afterwards on other user's talk pages. Hope this helps, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 03:43, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Images deleted
Hello, I have deleted following images as possible copyright violations: You have said that you have the right to release these images under a free licence. Please confirm this as described at Copyright problems. The images can be undeleted after the confirmation. Conscious 16:02, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Image:Northwood Hall.jpg
 * Image:Johnston Gym.jpg
 * Image:Old main.jpg
 * Image:Reeves Field.jpg

Geneva enrolment
Answers:
 * Question 1: a reference to a published (either book or online) resource; if it's only available to people like you that work for the college administration, or if we can only get it on the college intranet, it doesn't count
 * Question 2: you're right, and therefore I have tagged them. Nyttend 23:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Geneva enrolment
Answers:
 * Question 1: a reference to a published (either book or online) resource; if it's only available to people like you that work for the college administration, or if we can only get it on the college intranet, it doesn't count
 * Question 2: you're right, and therefore I have tagged them. Nyttend 23:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

New Castle High School
That's fine. To be honest, you make a good point. I would probably say, make a redlink to all of the schools. That way, it leaves open the possibility for the page to be created since more high school pages seem to be created as of late. I mostly redlinked New Castle because the main New Castle, Pennsylvania page had half the page listed with "Notable New Castle High School Graduates", which I don't think was necessary on the page to begin with. I ended up cutting it down to just "Notable Residents" like most pages have, and only those that have some noterity nationally, as most of those people were only known in New Castle, and even then it was debatable. That redlink was for whoever wanted to create the page if they wanted to relist those people again. Jgera5 03:26, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

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Colleges
Hi, I noticed you tagged St Ambrose College for WP:UNI. I'm afraid this isn't right, in Britain, there are colleges such as sixth form colleges for 16-18 year olds. So a college isn't necessarily a university. I thought I should warn you in case you go around spending a lot of time tagging articles, it would be best to double check what the article describes the college as. Happy editing. Nev1 (talk) 20:07, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Color Geneva College logo -Converted-.jpg)
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Cornel West
Hi Bmstephany. In September 2007, you wrote the following on the talk page of Cornel West:

"Would it make sense to add anything about Dr. West's personal life to this page? He has a wife, Elleni, and a son, Clifton Louis West."

I think it would make a lot of sense to add such information. There doesn't seem to be much in that area about him in the article right now. If you have some appropriate sources, then please feel free to add that information :) Take care. WDavis1911 (talk) 21:49, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

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Teaching with Wikipedia Workshop at CMU (Aug 15)
Since you are one of the editors in the Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of Pittsburgh, I'd like to invite you to the Teaching with Wikipedia Workshop that will take place at CMU on Aug 15 (this workshop is open to general public, and is a joint imitative of CMU and Pitt). There will be another workshop held at Pitt in the Fall as well. It will cover how to include Wikipedia in one's course (WP:SUP) and also how to become a Campus Ambassadors. Pennsylvania has currently only one ambassador (myself) and it would be great if we could recruit at least several more. Ambassadors help course instructors, showing them how Wikipedia works, and interact with students. Many current ambassadors come from the body of students, faculty and university staff; it is a fun adventure, and adds to one resume/CV, to boot :) If it sounds interesting, feel free to ask me any questions, or to come to the workshop.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk 19:55, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

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Coordinators and help needed
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