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File:Otusandbillclinton.jpg missing description details
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Your contributed article, Arkansas state university logo


Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Arkansas state university logo. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Arkansas State University. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Arkansas State University – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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December 2013
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Trail of Tears Classic, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Please discuss the dispute on the talk page rather than blanking it. --MrScorch6200 (t c) 21:20, 8 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Sorry, but first time to deal with something factually incorrect -- and there is no real way to edit it when it simply does not exist. I believed I had given an appropriate reason -- the "series" is made up and we are having to respond to online media reports that are giving this inaccurate Wiki page as their "proof" TheWABACmachine (talk) 21:25, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
 * That's not how things work on Wikipedia; we always work towards a consensus. You should bring up the issue on the article's talk page, and if a consensus cannot be reached there, at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard. You can also make an Articles for Deletion request. --MrScorch6200 (t c) 22:24, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing, as you did at Trail of Tears Classic. Your edits have been reverted or removed. Do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively may result in your being blocked from editing. --MrScorch6200 (t c) 21:58, 8 December 2013 (UTC) Again, I don't full-time edit to understand the ins and outs on this -- all we know here at Arkansas State is we are being accused of being racially insensitive based on this factually inaccurate article. As the on-line media outlet is using Wiki as the source, we have no choice but to reach out and say this simply is not correct.
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Arkansas State conflict of interest
Based on this edit, it appears that you are a paid public-relations professional, employed by Arkansas State University. As such, please read WP:NOPR before attempting any more edits to any ASU-related articles or content. Thanks, Ejgreen77 (talk) 18:59, 9 December 2013 (UTC) Ejgreen77 -- I am, and I'm up front about that. First and foremost, however, I'm a graduate of ULM (Northeast when I attended) and born and raised in Monroe, La. While this came to my attention in my role here at A-State, I'm being very frank -- growing up in high school in Monroe, never heard this. As a student and then graduate student at NLU, never heard it. I just reached out today to some more former athletes from eras before and after my time at NLU that are associated with A-State. News to them. If you have a source that supports this, if there is some traveling trophy between the schools, please cite it. Honestly, we'd all like to know, and then we can address it from that point of view. TheWABACmachine (talk) 22:45, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Justification for the edits on "Trail of Tears Classic" and commentary on "Paid Professional"
For the record of those who might bounce around to this page, I want to put down -- in my own self-interest -- that the above edits came to pass. The "Trail of Tears Classic" was a hoax, and it did indeed cause a small amount of harm by bringing into question the two universities involved as being insensitive to Native American issues. This is no small accusation when considering both had to change their mascots, and both remain under a level of monitoring from the NCAA to not allow the "promotion" of their old mascot names.

I came to this thread and was very up front -- I work these days for A-State -- but I am also a native of Monroe, graduate of NLU and former employee there. What I found shocking and quite disturbing was the ad hominem attack on me because I was a "WP-PR".

This wasn't about shading, spinning or other PR. This was about the truth. What was there was wrong. Inaccurate. And because I work in the field, I am now a sub-human?

Excuse a moment's rant here, but I am insulted. With a PhD in American history and a considerable background in Division I sports, I think I can speak with authority about both sourcing -- which was non-existent at the level of encyclopedia justification -- and the subject matter. As I said in my responses, it wasn't personal to the person who posted it. It was simply wrong.

I will admit to not understanding the system better for a correction, and now that I have seen how it works, I am more disturbed. I happen to be THE source if something is wrong about certain institutions. Am I not allowed to correct a factual error on behalf of Arkansas State University? Or wait days, if not weeks, for an error to be vetted?

Is there no better way? Frustrating to know that -- motivations not questioned here -- one person can post something as fact here, it becomes the source for another person's media account and off we go. TheWABACmachine (talk) 16:54, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Otusandbillclinton.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Otusandbillclinton.jpg, which you've attributed to Michael Storey. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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