User talk:Mycitycollege

Copyright violation in City College Orlando[edit]

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Speedy deletion of City College Fort Lauderdale[edit]

A tag has been placed on City College Fort Lauderdale requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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August 2008[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed that you recently added a {{hangon}} template to an article, City College Orlando. In order for an administrator to evaluate whether the article should be speedy deleted or not, we request that you provide reasoning, on the article's talk page, for why it should remain. Thank you. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 18:46, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of User:Mycitycollege[edit]

A tag has been placed on User:Mycitycollege requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later." You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on [[ Talk:User:Mycitycollege|the talk page]] explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 18:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest[edit]

By your own admission, "I am the Web/Graphic Designer of this... organization." If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article City College Orlando, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should 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;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam); and,
avoid breaching relevant 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 conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:58, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia, because it has been identified as an account used for promotion of a company or group, with a username that implies that this has been done by that company or group. See Wikipedia:Business' FAQ and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest.

This kind of activity is considered spamming and is forbidden by Wikipedia policies. In addition, the use of a username like yours violates our username policy.

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--Orange Mike | Talk 18:58, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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Request reason:

I work for all four City College campuses. I don't have any bad intentions by using my username other than contribute to the site. Thank you

Decline reason:

Your editing in this manner is in violation of our policies. Mango juice^talk 19:55, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Orangemike I have read the article "Conflict of interest". As you can see in the two small articles I have written my intentions are NOT to Spam or advertise by adding false info about the campuses. I am only adding basic and true information about the College. mycitycollege (talk) 19:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In other words, you are "editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with"! --Orange Mike | Talk 19:53, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By your own admission, you are primarily copy/pasting content from your own websites, which is not only a conflict of interest, but it does fall under the realm of self-advertisement. Wikipedia isn't here to mirror websites. If the individual campuses or the college as a whole is notable, someone else will create articles for them, who is not directly involved with the school. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 20:00, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Collectonian. I understand better now. So how can City College be added to Wikipedia? Thank you for your time mycitycollege (talk) 20:27, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A request can be made at Wikipedia:Requested articles. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:38, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) You could do a request for an article. I'll also try to take a look and see if I can put together a basic article for the university tonight or later this week. Just need to see the appropriate way to disambig the name from the current City College page. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 20:40, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see Orangemike. Thank you I am going to try that. Collectonian I appreciate your help. I'll follow your advise. I'll request an article to be made at your signal. Thank you guys for your time and for replying. mycitycollege (talk) 20:58, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have created an article for the school at City College (Florida). If you know of additional sources, such as newspaper articles about the school or sources listing basic info like enrollment numbers, please leave me a note here. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 03:32, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. When you get a chance please delete City College Orlando. When I create a new account I'll edit City College replacing "City College Fort Lauderdale" with "City College (Florida)". Can I add image and logo? Thank you. mycitycollege (talk) 14:44, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you can point me to the image/logo, I'd be happy to upload it and add it. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 14:58, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I had uploaded an image in the article deleted [here] The logo is here .gif format or .svg format. Thank you. mycitycollege (talk) 16:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I've added it to the article. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 17:27, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Any chance of adding the logo to that small box on the right? Thank you mycitycollege (talk) 18:04, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, if you can point me to a place I can download it from. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 18:23, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if you still check this page but I thought I would toss in my 2 cents. You are welcome to create a new account (preferably one not related to an organization). As far as creating articles you are more than welcome to use the college's websites as references, but keep in mind that when you just copy and paste text it is copyright infringement. If you do want to continue creating articles for these colleges and have any problems/questions you can always leave a message on my talk page! Bvlax2005 (talk) 09:31, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Bvlax2005 I'll keep your offer in mind. mycitycollege (talk) 14:44, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do remember that your new account must still respect our rules about editing when you have a conflict of interest. As a rule, you should refrain from direct editing yourself (other than reverting actual vandalism); instead, make suggestions and offer sources on the talk page of the article(s) where you have the COI. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:00, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I will remember. Thanks. mycitycollege (talk) 17:18, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I and collectiana seem to have been working on this at the same time--I instead rewrote the article City College Orlando to avoid the copyvio, and explained how to proceed on the article talk page. You can follow whichever approach you prefer. DGG (talk) 14:53, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DGG thank you for rewriting the article. If this one can be kept separately would be better. This campus is an affiliate only. They have a different board of directors. I know I've suggested/asked to be deleted but it makes sense to keep it separately for legal reasons if possible. Thank you again. mycitycollege (talk) 16:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Those are minor differences. Beyond that, they seem to be the same in terms of education, structure, etc, even their website is primarily a copy of the main City College website. I've expanded City College (Florida) to include a section on the affiliate that notes the differences. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 17:09, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There are two different sites because they are an affiliate but that is OK. One article is less confusing. I appreciate your help. mycitycollege (talk) 17:18, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

possible merges[edit]

I agree with Collectian in that the best solution to these articles as a group might be a merge. DGG (talk) 16:43, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:City College Fort Lauderdale.jpg[edit]

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