User talk:Kgradert

Spam in Kansas State University Department of Animal Sciences and Industry
Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Kansas State University Department of Animal Sciences and Industry, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Kansas State University Department of Animal Sciences and Industry is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Kansas State University Department of Animal Sciences and Industry, please affix the template to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that '''this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here''' CSDWarnBot (talk) 17:30, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam);
 * and you must always:
 * 1) avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Conflict of Interest. -- Orange Mike  |  Talk  17:32, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

next steps
it doesnt really seem that the spam cannot be removed, so as the reviewing administrator I changed the deletion method to proposed deletion, giving 5 days to improve the article. But individual academic departments have almost never been held to be notable in wikipedia, so it will almost certainly be deleted unless you can show--by multiple external substantial third party published references in reliable sources that this is generally recognized as one of the very most famous departments in the subject in the world, with an international reputation. If books have been written about it, published by other than your university or affiliated publishers, it might be possible. Otherwise, why not try an article on the college or agriculture, and include this as a section?

And please make absolutely certain none ofthis is copied from your web site. Besides WP:COI, see WP:BFAQ.

DGG (talk) 18:05, 11 January 2008 (UTC)