User talk:Mpdnorthwestern

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Hello, Mpdnorthwestern, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Master of Product Design and Development at Northwestern University, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type helpme on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! JohnCD (talk) 19:58, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
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Conflict of Interest guideline
Hello Mpdnorthwestern. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating 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; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 19:58, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problems with Master of Product Design and Development at Northwestern University
Hello. Concerning your contribution, Master of Product Design and Development at Northwestern University, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.mpd.northwestern.edu/mpd/overview.php. As a copyright violation, Master of Product Design and Development at Northwestern University appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Master of Product Design and Development at Northwestern University has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Master of Product Design and Development at Northwestern University and send an email with the message to . See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
 * If a note on the original website states that it is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license, leave a note at Talk:Master of Product Design and Development at Northwestern University with a link to where we can find that note.
 * If you hold the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Master of Product Design and Development at Northwestern University.

However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. While contributions are appreciated, Wikipedia must require all contributors to understand and comply with its copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 19:58, 20 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Please note that assertion of permission to use text is not enough.


 * In any case, even if the copyright issue were resolved, it does not seem to me that this is suitable material for Wikipedia: it reads like a prospectus, not an encyclopedia article. Wikipedia is not a notice-board and, though precedent is not necessarily binding, the result of previous deletion discussions, documented at WP:OUTCOMES, is that:

"'Departments or degree programs within a university, college, or school are not notable unless they have made significant contributions to their field (e.g., University of Chicago Department of Economics), or produced a number of notable graduates (USC School of Cinematic Arts, Oxford PPE)'."
 * These are normally best covered within the University article. See also College and university article guidelines and, since your username makes it clear that you are editing on behalf of the institution and so, from Wikipedia's point of view, have a conflict of interest, please read Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest. JohnCD (talk) 20:09, 20 March 2011 (UTC)