User talk:Manway/Archives/2010/September

re: Dismemberment
Done, and I believe someone blocked him too...I'm surprised he went to the trouble of writing such a long insult for me when he recreated it. I'm flattered. *blushes* &mdash; Malcolm (talk) 04:55, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Not Sure where to post this, but need your help. I am new to Wikipedia and I work for TEP.

To The Editors of Wikipedia,

I am the Director of Communications for Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity, Inc. I am writing to you as an official representative of Tau Epsilon Phi National Fraternity, Inc. regarding the entry in Wikipedia located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Epsilon_Phi.

The information that is being listed on the site is lacking in accuracy and legitimacy. I recently established an account TEPNational with Wikipedia to address the issues at hand and remove the inaccurate statements. Each time that the statements are removed by me they are placed back on the entry.

Tau Epsilon Phi is a non-profit fraternal organization. The information about our organization is constantly changing. The citations referenced on several of the Wikipedia headings are from over three years ago. As a matter of fact, the individual(s) posting this information represent themselves with the login as TEPs4justice and Nate3K. The individual currently posting this information is currently under litigation for Trademark infringement and other charges such as posting defamatory statements about Tau Epsilon Phi as well as its board of directors.

The individual(s) posting this slanted information is using Wikipedia a division of Wikimedia as a forum for misrepresentation and posting incomplete and erroneous information. They are violating wikipedias own rule of NPOV (Neutral Point of View.)

Please examine, the heading Broughty v Hassenberg. Usage of such heresay statements as “determine its fate”, “is being charged” and “will decide the fate of TEP” are not statements of fact but rather statements of opinion. The entire heading itself is self-serving to the poster and not factual in nature.

The heading Grand Chapter is also completely erroneous and inaccurate. The information regarding our internal corporate bylaws is not public information. It is not posted anywhere and not subject to interepatation by someone posting such information that may or may not even be a member of our organization. This heading needs to be completely removed.

The Grand Council and NCCM headings are also outdated and inaccurate and need to be removed. The reference to www.archive.org is only a small snapshot in time in this instance 2005 and 2007 respectively. The paragraph under the heading was written in the present tense as though everything “is” the way it is described. This makes the entire heading false and without merit.

As the official Director of Communications for Tau Epsilon Phi National Fraternity, Inc. I humbly ask Wikimedia to please delete those headings I have referred to as well as place an edit freeze on the Tau Epsilon Phi Wikipedia entry located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Epsilon_Phi.

This will allow our organization to read through the current content and publish factual information about our alive organization and trademarked name Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity Inc.

The Wikimedia vision statement states Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.

The Wikipedia entry defines knowledge as expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject; (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information; or (iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation.

Please observe the desire for Wikipedia to freely share in knowledge. Knowledge is factual in nature based on expertise or skills acquired by a person through experience or education. With that being said statements of opinion such as those I described above by individual(s) who may or may not be members, are damaging to our 100 year organizational reputation.

I look forward to your assistance in this matter.

Sincerely,

Clinton Hasenberg Director of Communications Tau Epsilon Phi National Fraternity, Inc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TEPNational (talk • contribs) 13:45, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:AlLohman.jpg
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 * Looks to me as if it just has the wrong license. Since it's yours, remove the current fair use tags and replace them with the  template.  You might want to explain the rationale on the talk page.  I just ran into the same problem with a photo of mine and that took care of the problem.  I'd hate to see it go; there are practically no useable pictures of Al.  Hope this helps!  --PMDrive1061 (talk) 14:19, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

You betcha. I can only imagine the stream-of-consciousness tirade Al would have done over this...! Would have been one for the ages. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 19:40, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:AlLohman.jpg
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:AlLohman.jpg, has been listed at Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. --Soundvisions1 (talk) 13:17, 25 September 2010 (UTC)