User talk:Coach2502

Marine Military Academy blanking
Friendly note, you're removing material that is well-sourced without providing a reason. By the policies here on Wikipedia, this is essentially vandalism. I can see that all your edits consist of pretty much this one article, and you're adding a lot of very brochure-like information. I understand if you're an employee or alumnus and you want to present a good image of your school, but Wikipedia is not meant for these ends. Please don't remove this information again without discussing the issue further. Chromancer (talk) 21:37, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. Chromancer (talk) 16:16, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your response. I would advise you that I am not, nor have I ever been affiliated with the Academy; I've only ever been to Texas twice- Houston and Corpus Christi. In fact, I had never even heard of the Academy till I saw this article.


 * Bearing all that in mind, I hear what you're saying about the article. I agree that having only one source on a controversy of this magnitude is less than ideal, however, it is legitimately sourced and thus simply deleting it is not an an acceptable alternative by the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia. There is a middle path, however. If you can get legitimately sourced articles to back up the other POV on this, we could revise this article to present a more balanced image of the school. I haven't found any so far, though I have been looking, but I'm sure as you are an employee that you would be much more familiar with what news outlets may have been covering the controversy and the school itself. If you need any assistance with this, or the functionality of Wikipedia itself, drop me a line and I will be glad to help in any way I can.


 * A few final recommendations. If you are to respond, keep it to a user talk page, not directly on my user page (I have moved your previous comment to my talk page). This would be the best place to respond. Proper articles are in accordance with policies like WP:CITE, WP:NPOV, and especially in your case, Conflict of interest. As an employee of the school, you are strongly discouraged from making controversial edits to its article, however, so long as you keep a neutral perspective everything should be just fine. Thanks for your time, Chromancer (talk) 17:03, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay, I understand that you are an employee of the school, and you're attempting to look out for their interests. However, the interests of the school and the interests of Wikipedia do not necessarily coincide. If you would like to include mitigating or even positive information, you are free to do so! But it must be sourced. Simply including a non-encyclopedic disclaimer is not an acceptable part of the article; it implies critical discredit of the source when we have no such critical discredit documented by a reliable third party.
 * Please discuss this with me before putting forward any future changes to the article or you may be blocked from editing this article altogether. Chromancer (talk) 14:47, 26 December 2007 (UTC)