User talk:University watcher

Kingston University (Los Angeles)
Hi University watcher -

I noticed that you are working on this Wikipedia entry and I just thought I would see if I can help. In particular, I was hoping that we could come to an understanding regarding the types of information that should appear on Wikipedia. I notice that you've added some material that would never be found in an encyclopedia. I've cleaned up some of the unencyclopedic material, but I notice that you've readded a statement twice about the school's nondiscrimination policy. That's really material that is better suited for the college's recruiting or PR materials, not an encyclopedia. In this era, a nondiscriminatory admissions policy is really the default expectation for colleges, so it's really not notable enough to mention in an encyclopedia entry about a school.

We want to make sure that most of the info in every article comes from independent reliable sources - in other words, what newspapers, major magazines and other significant publications have written about the subject. I noticed that there doesn't seem to be a lot of independent coverage of this school to work with, so I think that makes it tempting to include unencyclopedic material. But even if a nondiscriminatory admissions policy were notable, we really can't verify how the school admits students. The best we could do is to say that the school says that they do not discriminate on the basis of all those things (but again, we really don't need to include that stuff at all).

In general, when an editor makes a change to something you've written, you can reach out to them on their user talk page to ask them about it. Even better, you have the option to discuss the matter on the talk page of the actual article. There's a tab to access the talk page near the upper left side of the screen when looking at the article. We have this concept called edit warring - when editors just keep going back and forth to restore their preferred versions of an article. In order to avoid doing that with you, I'm reaching out to you on your talk page to let you know about the problems with the article. If you'd like, you can type your response below and I'll be happy to help with any questions about these issues. EricEnfermero (Talk) 07:23, 9 October 2015 (UTC)