User talk:Nclorguy

Veron, I've made many of the suggested changes and it reads a lot better. I've also asked the creator of the logo to send you a permissions statement. One thing I do not understand is adding a wikilink back. Doesn't the other page owner have to do that?

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 * Thank you very much for your improvements! I agree that it reads much better and have accordingly removed most of the improvement tags at the top of the article. As far as adding wikilinks back, there is no such thing as a page owner, anyone can (and is encouraged to) edit any article at any time. I'll again use North Carolina Community College System as an example since it's directly related: You could add a sentence to the article which explains that they offer the North Carolina Learning Object Repository and briefly what it is. You could also find some indirectly related articles (such as other digital repositories maybe - you probably know better than I), and simply add the link to the See also section at the bottom of the other article. VernoWhitney (talk) 14:13, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Links Verno - I added links from as many appropriate pages as I could find and there were not many. I think the article is now complete. nclorguy


 * Well, every article on Wikipedia can be improved somehow, but it looks complete enough, so I've gone ahead and removed the "orphan" tag from the top of the article. If there's anything further I can help with, please feel free to ask me at my talk page. Cheers! VernoWhitney (talk) 14:34, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

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North Carolina Learning Object Repository
You asked how to fix the problems indicated by the tags at the top of the article, so let me see if I can help. Keep in mind that this is only my interpretation and other editors may differ, but it should be a step in the right direction.

Going in order through the tags we have:
 * advertisement: Language that would be (or is?) used in a press release or on your own website is often inappropriate for an encyclopedia entry. Examples such as "The underlying database technology allows easy searching, contribution, and classification by NCCCS staff or partner faculty. Safeguards are implemented to ensure that individual copyright and digital rights are not abused." and the 'Benefits' section sound more like trying to sell the service than to tell about it.
 * no other article link to it: This is an easy one to fix. Find other articles which should link to it and add a wikilink back. A likely candidate would be the North Carolina Community College System and maybe some of the other college/university or education systems the NCLOR is affiliated with. This again is not a matter of getting your name out there, so to speak, but a matter of providing easy access to the information to readers who are reading an article about a related institution (or topic or person, etc.) and may be interested in reading about the NCLOR.
 * conflict of interest: This one is simply true because you do work for them; the same would be true of me trying to write an article about my employer or myself, it's just harder to keep it encyclopedic. This tag should be removable if the advertising language is removed and some reliable sources, such as newspaper mentions, are added so that other editors can confirm that the article accurately reflects what other sources have to say about the NCLOR.

Finally we come the copy/paste issue (and while we're at it the logo). In order for any previously published material to be used here (verbatim or even closely paraphrased) we need you to follow the steps listed at Donating copyrighted materials so we can verify that the material is usable under a free license. If this is not done, then any text or images which are found to be published elsewhere will have to be removed from the article.

I hope that answers your questions, but if not, please feel free to ask me. VernoWhitney (talk) 19:10, 26 October 2010 (UTC)