User talk:Troyboysc

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Graduate Rankings
I understand that the WSJ ranking is more flattering but the USNWR ranking is ALSO correct. Kind of ridiculous to substitute another (more favorable) ranking from another publication when USNWR is the oft-cited one. If anything, include both -- not just the ego-feeding one.

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Image licensing
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 * I have the same quesiton about Image:Uscsonggirls1.jpg, which is apparently from this site, which has a clear copyright notice. Please respond. -[[User:Will Beback|Will Beback] 00:17, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

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I have noticed, as did two others above, that a number of your other images seem to be highly suspect. Can you offer a justification for them being free-use images?

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Response to Picture Questions
My family has a long history at USC, and have worked with many friends of the school in the past to collect many of the University's pictures as well, and with that history is large files of pictures of different types and dates. I have compiled all of these different pictures into a cd and my goal has been to make them available onto wikipedia so that the USC webpage is as descriptive as possible, visual aids included.
 * There is nothing wrong with collecting USC images for personal use. I do the same with Virginia Tech images - I have a large collection of them that I have accumulated over time.  However, Wikipedia cannot use images unless they are subject to a free copyright or qualify as fair use.  Unless you physically took the photograph, have permission from the person who did, or the image qualifies as fair use under WP:FAIR, it cannot be used on Wikipedia.  Most of your images appear to be ones that came from other people's websites.  As such, their copyrights are likely owned by someone else and they cannot be used on Wikipedia. I hope this helps.  Please consider tagging any images you have uploaded that you do not own the copyrights for with db-author so that they can be deleted. BigDT 02:15, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

College Football Project
Hello, I noticed that you have edited a College football related article. You may be interested to know that there is a college football WikiProject which you can join if you like. We would love to have you! Also, on your year pages for USC Trojans (ie, 2006 USC Trojans football team, thank you for using the correct naming format we developed), you don't need a navigation box. Please use succession boxes. Further, it is not ideal to create a bunch of pages that are just stubs to begin with. It is preferred that you instead add some decent amount of content to each page. It doesn't have to be a finished project, but better than a stub. Please use the formats and ideas we've developed that are modeled on the 2006 Oklahoma Sooners football team article as well. Thank you. -- MECU ≈ talk 01:01, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Individual team seasons
Hi - I'm not sure the articles for individual USC seasons (2006 USC Trojans football team, etc) are necessary; about a year or so ago, there was a long discussion regarding an article someone had started on the then-current New England Patriots season, and the consensus opinion was that the article was unnecessary (and deleted, I believe); I think the general opinion was that championship teams might deserve articles, but that most teams did not. MisfitToys 20:48, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

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The infobox you created at USC Athletics
Hey, I liked the work you did in creating the infobox for the USC athletic program, so I went ahead and made a template out of it. You can see it at Template:Infobox college athletics. I removed a couple sections (year athletic program was founded, list of all athletic facilities) but it's pretty much the same thing. If you could take a look at it and see if you think there's anything that needs to be changed about it, I'd appreciate it. I've added it to a few other pages (Missouri Tigers, Washington Huskies, and Oklahoma Sooners) and will be adding it to more athletic program pages over the next few days. Again, great work on the original infobox. -Elmer Clark 05:57, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

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