User talk:Fraze9

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Your edits on Indiana University – Purdue University Columbus
Hello Fraze9. Since you are closely associated with Indiana University – Purdue University Columbus, you need to be aware of the Wikipedia policies regarding conflict of interest editing at Conflict of interest. However, I am not reverting your edits so much because of that, but because they violate other Wikipedia standards. In particular:
 * External links (that is, links to websites other than Wikipedia itself) should generally be limited to the External links section of an article and website entries in infoboxes.


 * Generally only the top level or single appropriate url of the entity should be shown in infobox and in the External links section.


 * The lead (opening) paragraph that you want to use is totally inappropriate. Right of the bat, it is copied from the IUPUC website and is therefore a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Use of copyrighted material on Wikipedia as strictly forbidden. In addition, it is promotional, not encyclopedic, in tone. The purpose of an article is not to promote the entity, but to give reliable information.

If there are particular changes that you think should be made, please make an entry on the talk page of the article and I or some other editor will be happy to review them and make the changes if appropriate. Indyguy (talk) 19:05, 6 September 2019 (UTC)