User talk:RussellKohl

Speedy deletion nomination of OU School of Community Medicine, Department of Family Medicine


A tag has been placed on OU School of Community Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an acceptable page. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item G11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this page is not blatant advertising,. Clicking that button will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit |the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. You may freely add information to the page that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the page will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. The squaw on the hippopotamus (talk) 13:45, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, RussellKohl, 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 OU School of Community Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Conflict of interest guideline
Hello, RussellKohl. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but 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 or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
 * Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content 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) 17:26, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not an advertising noticeboard
Dr Kohl, I'm sorry but Wikipedia is absolutely not for what you are trying to do: Because we are reluctant to make people read too much advice before starting to edit, we do not make clear enough that Wikipedia is not a "noticeboard" site like Myspace for people and organizations to pin up their promotional literature. I have this conversation so often that I have written User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard as an explanation.
 * What you posted seems to be largely copied from your website. We would need a formal copyright release before we could accept it; but there would be no point in making one, because...
 * Its tone is quite unacceptably promotional - written in the first person ("We are proud to offer... Our hospital service... We are continually enhancing... On behalf of the OU-Tulsa Physician Assistant program, I thank you for your interest... ") and full of PR-speak and "peacock terms": "the best possible educational experience... Nestled in beautiful ‘green country’... Quality community-oriented primary health care... State-of-the-Art Building... Tradition of Excellence... Quality personal and family time... proud to offer an outstanding and unique educational experience... " That is not an encyclopedia article, it is a blatant advertisement - fine, if rather over-the-top, for your website, but deleted at sight from Wikipedia. A Wikipedia article requires a neutral point of view, plain facts neutrally stated and cited to reliable sources.
 * Also the level of detail is not encyclopedic - it is addressed to potential students, not to the general interested reader.

I see that you are on the staff of the Center. One reason why editing with a conflict of interest is strongly discouraged is that COI editors generally find it impossible to disengage themselves enough to achieve a neutral tone.

Article subjects need to have Notability, which is not a matter or assertion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." In general, we find that schools and departments within a university are not notable enough for stand-alone articles, and are better treated by a paragraph or two within the article for the university. See the section "Faculties and academic colleges" of College and university article guidelines.

See also WP:Avoid academic boosterism. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:20, 21 June 2012 (UTC)