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Fair use rationale for File:Barber National Institute.gif

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Article Alerts -- please explain

To answer your questions, but without me re-inventing the wheel as it were, I suggest you read WP:ORG, Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations, WP:REF, WP:COI and WP:ADS#Advertisements masquerading as articles. Your article has several issues which are contrary to those guidelines. As such you run the risk of the article being deleted. This is why the maintenance tags have been placed on the article so that you have a chance to put right the problems before deletion becomes an issue. --Fred the Oyster (talk) 19:54, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

CoI

Given your user name, can you clear up how you are associated with the Barber Institute (without giving personal details of course). Are you employed by the institute, or related to the Barber family? At the moment you are what is referred to as a SPA (Single Purpose Account) user which further goes to you having a conflict of interest. This is why I keep replacing the CoI tag to the article.

As far as the advertising tag goes, well that's because the article is written like a brochure. Although you've sorted out the peacockery the article is still along the lines of "we do this, and we do it well". It's unbalanced and as such it comes across as advertising the benefits of this place. Surely a venue of this sort has attracted some criticism along the way?

As for the referencing, at the moment it's still below WP standards with regard to WP:CITE. You haven't supplied any references from third party sources with regard to many of the claims. I don't just mean regulatory bodies as you have done so far. Has the Institute received any non-trivial press that either sings it's praises or denounces it?

At the moment it isn't really an encyclopaedic article, it's just the equivalent of an entry in a registry of Institutes.

As far as notability goes, you haven't established that yet either with references or backed up claims. What makes this Institute stand out? WP:COMPANY will go some way to giving you pointers.

I hope this helps. --Fred the Oyster (talk) 18:44, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

CoI response

Thank you for the other information; I will add more points of view rather than just the positives. I am not affiliated with the Barber Institute or the family whatsoever; I decided to make this article as part of my senior project. When I created my username knowing I wanted to create the page, I didn't realize the conflict of interest that would ensue. I am now in the process of changing my username so there will be no further confusion. Your further comments have helped tremendously.

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