User talk:Katiebeermann

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Hello, Katiebeermann, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Sonoma State University. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! Bahooka (talk) 18:46, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
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External links to Sonoma State University
Welcome to Wikipedia. Please note that per the External links content guideline, external links such as the ones you've been adding do not go in the body of the Sonoma State University article. Please stop adding them. You can also see my edit summaries as to why I keep reverting you on this. Thanks, Bahooka (talk) 19:24, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Sonoma State University School of Science and Technology


A tag has been placed on Sonoma State University School of Science and Technology requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.sonoma.edu/scitech/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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This may seem a little unwelcoming, but I'm sure you appreciate the sensitivity of issues of intellectual property. The various parts of the article are lifted verbatim from webpages of the university, at least one of which bears an explicit copyright notice. I doubt anyone would have any objection to a neutrally worded, factual article, rather than a collection of faculty mission statements about how the institution "will contribute to the well being and prosperity of our region, state, nation and planet". --Andreas Philopater (talk) 02:40, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Engaging with other contributors
Hi Katiebeermann, I hope you won't think this arrogant or intrusive, but I thought I might offer a word of advice about Wikipedia. Anyone can edit it. That includes you, of course. But it includes lots of other people. And once you put something up, anyone can change it. This means that, in my experience, it's a good idea to engage with other contributors, rather than plough on putting up the content you want to see here, regardless of how others react. One of the concerns about the content you want to post at Sonoma State University School of Science and Technology is that it makes Wikipedia look like a mirror of the school's own self-presentation on its website. If you could find independent sources. Accreditation reports, maybe? Or coverage in histories of education in California? Or something? --Andreas Philopater (talk) 18:55, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Sonoma State University schools
Katie,

Per WP:OUTCOMES (a record of the usual outcomes of article for deletion discussions), the general consensus of the Wikipedia community is that individual schools or departments within a university are not notable unless the individual school or department has made some significant contribution or received some significant recognition separate from the university that houses it. Since all of the articles you have created about the various Sonoma State schools rely solely on primary sources, their individual notability is not established. For this reason, I am turning these titles into redirects to the main university article. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 18:59, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Katiebeermann. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Sonoma State University, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


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 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. As you are editing using your own name it's very easy to see that you have a VERY clear conflict of interest, please use the article talk page to suggest edits rather than edit the article yourself Theroadislong (talk) 19:33, 8 January 2015 (UTC)