User talk:Hgbarnes

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Alpha Phi Omega
This is Randy Finder. (Not really a surprise given what I've done both here and on Facebook. :) ) I've been a heavy user of Wikipedia for about a Decade now. Both of your additions have been exact copies of what's on www.apo.org which means that Wikipedia can't use it because Alpha Phi Omega has the copyright to that text. There are two ways for dealing with that, one is the paraphrase, the other is to get Alpha Phi Omega to donate the copyright on it. The first is much easier than the second. The other question becomes how much information about either program is really encyclopedic. Useful to brothers, certainly, but that's not the primary audience of a Wikipedia page. As a guide, the Alpha Phi Alpha (the NPHC fraternity) page was a Featured Article (which is Wikipedia's highest honor back in 2006 and looked like https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alpha_Phi_Alpha&oldid=61489268 .Naraht (talk) 16:28, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest policy and Alpha Phi Omega
Just letting you know that Wikipedia has a Conflict of Interest Policy (WP:COI) and that editors should indicate that they have that COI in some way. For me in regards to Alpha Phi Omega, I put a notice on my user page. User:Naraht that looks like See my User page to see what it looks like. :)