User talk:Prof. S. MD Zahir Hussain

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Hello, Prof. S. MD Zahir Hussain, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! JohnCD (talk) 17:18, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
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Visual Communication Department
I have deleted what you wrote on this talk page. User talk pages, with names starting "User talk:" are intended for messages to and from the user concerning their edits and other matters concerning working on the encyclopedia. There are also User pages starting with "User:" - yours is at User:Prof. S. MD Zahir Hussain. That is intended for you to say something about yourself and your Wikipedia activities, if you choose, but it is not like a user page on a social-networking site like Facebook or LinkedIn. This is explained at WP:NOTWEBHOST: "'Wikipedians have their own user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevant to working on the encyclopedia. Limited biographical information is allowed, but user pages should not function as personal webpages or be repositories for large amounts of material that is irrelevant to collaborating on Wikipedia. If you are looking to make a personal webpage or blog or to post your résumé, please make use of one of the many free providers on the Internet or any hosting included with your Internet account.'" What you wrote about the Visual Communication Department on your user talk page would not be suitable there; nor would it be suitable for an article in the encyclopedia, for two reasons: The links in the Welcome message above will tell you more about Wikipedia and how to contribute: if you are connected with the department, you should also read the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide.
 * It was unacceptably promotional in tone, with "Peacock terms" like "unique" and "state of the art", and was written in the first person: "Our Vis.Com. Department... we have... the students of our department...'" It was clearly the department telling the world about itself, trying to sell itself to potential students. That is all very well for the department's own website, but a Wikipedia article is quite a different sort of thing, and requires a neutral point of view. Wikipedia is not for advertising or promotion of any kind. The background to this is explained at User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard.
 * Wikipedia is quite selective about subjects for articles. The inclusion criterion is called Notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Experience shows that individual departments within a university are very seldom able to show notability in this sense, and are better covered by a mention within the main article on the university. For more about this, see College and university article guidelines, particularly the section "Faculties and academic colleges". You might also like to read Avoid academic boosterism.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:43, 4 September 2014 (UTC)