User talk:Philadelphia Jo

February 2012
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Philadelphia University (Jordan)
Hi, I wanted to let you know about some issues I saw while editing this article. Thanks for your attention to this. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 08:50, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) First of all, please don't directly copy text from the university web site to Wikipedia. Even if Wikipedia got permission to use that text, it would still need to be significantly rewritten to be in Wikipedia's encyclopedic style, rather than the university web site's self-descriptive style.
 * 2) I noticed use of footnotes such as the following: The name "Philadelphia" is derived from the cultural heritage of Jordan . However, if you need to link to the Wikipedia article about Jordan, the appropriate way to do that is with a wikilink, that is, putting the article name in double brackets. The name "Philadelphia" is derived from the cultural heritage of Jordan. would be displayed as "The name "Philadelphia" is derived from the cultural heritage of Jordan." You don't need a footnote for that.
 * 3) Similarly, there were other footnotes such as the following: The Philadelphia University entered into several agreements and memoranda of understanding with many academic institutions as follows: * Cornell University - USA . However, http://www.cornell.edu/ is just the main page of the web site for Cornell University. It doesn't say anything on the main page about Cornell having an agreement with Philadelphia University. References should go to a source that proves the point that you are trying to support, namely, that Philadelphia University has an agreement with Cornell.
 * 4) Finally, I noticed tags around the footnote references. Those aren't needed. The footnote call numbers are already small enough.

April 2012
Your addition to Philadelphia University (Jordan) has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

I already explained above the other problems with this edit in my comments above. If you disagree with my comments and you think that your edit was fine, please discuss that on Talk:Philadelphia University (Jordan) or on my talk page, User talk:Metropolitan90. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:47, 27 April 2012 (UTC)