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Christ the King College (CKC) Onitsha and Christ the King College Onitsha
I noticed that you deleted Christ the King College (CKC) Onitsha as a copyvio. The editor has now created Christ the King College Onitsha. I can't tell if the new article is a copyvio or not, because I cannot access the source that was used to determine the first article was a copyvio... Singularity42 (talk) 20:47, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I also wondered about that. Even so I've been working in the new article to remove as much of the puffery as possible, and to ask for citations for the random facts in it. It is probably no longer a copyvio, but there is still a lot to do in the article Fiddle Faddle (talk) 10:11, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear Tonywalton,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and

Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's

Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we

teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community,

and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what

you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community

[[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_82#Learn_to_be_a_Wikipedia_Administrator_-

_New_class_at_MSU|HERE]], where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my

students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training,

motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one

of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of

communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will

never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an

interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics

review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have

been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak

with you. If interested, please send me an email at (to maintain anonymity) and I

will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your

name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at. I will be

more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 21:53, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi and thanks for your message. I've no problem at all with being interviewed, and no problem with my real name and country of residence being used. As a matter of principle I feel that whatever I say either on Wikipedia or anywhere else on the Net should be attributable; If I haven't the courage to give my real name I shouldn't be saying whatever I'm saying (I'm aware that I'm lucky enough to live in a country where free speech is allowed; were I to be posting from Burma or Cuba things might be different!)


 * Skype's fine by me. I'm in the Europe/London timezone (aka GMT, so five hours ahead of EST).


 * There's not so much to know about the "community" of WP admins, as far as I can see, though – enough of us say it and it's true, "we're just editors like any others but with a couple more buttons on the WP interface".


 * Looking forward to hearing from you.


 * Message emailed to obar@example.com and copied to my talkpage for User:Yjune.sah's attention

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