User talk:Jparandj

Welcome. I assume you are writing the article on Digital Collections at Florida Atlantic Library either as a member of the staff, or a member of the University's PR office. In either case, this is not really an appropriate topic for an article. What might be an appropriate topic is the FAU library, and I would you suggest you write an article about that. To facilitate things, I have started such an article, and moved your material there. But an encyclopedia article is not a web page, and should neither be copied from one nor sound like one. Please rewrite it, in concise language without jargon or needless hype, describing it specifically.

Also see our rules about Conflict of Interest. As they say, even with Conflict of Interest you may edit, provided you do so objectively. It is not advised, because experience shows that a person will have great difficulty writing an objective article about themselves or their organization. As a general rule, a suitable page will be best written by someone without Conflict of Interest; it's not impossible to do it properly with a conflict of interest or as a paid press agent, but it's relatively more difficult: you are automatically thinking in terms of the organization wishes to communicate to the public, but an uninvolved person will think in terms of what the public might wish to know.

If you think you can do it right according to the guidelines, do so, but expect the article to be carefully checked for objectivity.  DGG ( talk ) 03:21, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Digital Collections at FAU
Thanks for your help. My intention is an article focused on Digital Collections at FAU. Specifically, detailinging the collections of primary resources digitized, the selection and digitization process involved, and content overview. This would also include unique collections produced at FAU (student scholarship/videos)for the digital repository and efforts toward open access and enhancing findability of reference resources to support future Wikipedia articles. I was modelling after an existing Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida_Digital_Collections and so considered the subject noteworthy. Digital Collections at FAU (or even the Digital Library at FAU) are not the equivalent of a department or campus. Perhaps others will write on the library, I haven't got the expertise nor the approval to do so, sorry. I would like to continue with my initial contribution. I could not find your email.(Jparandj (talk) 14:06, 6 April 2011 (UTC))