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Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Lauralibal, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:50, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

How do I get my account deleted? Lauralibal (talk) 19:52, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

April 2015

Your addition to Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:57, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Your addition to Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Dewritech (talk) 19:27, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

I believe I have removed the copyright material, even though we are the owners of the copyright material. I'm very new to wikipedia so I'm trying to figure this out.

Hi, Lauralibal! Your comment above is disturbing for several reasons. Your use of the word "we" suggests that this account is being used by more than one editor; that is not permitted here – each account is for the personal use of one editor only. Please confirm (here is fine) that you are the only person who uses or has used this account.

Secondly, you say that "we are the owners of the copyright material". The owner of the copyright material is the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo (pages carry a clear claim of copyright, "© 2015, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo"), so that suggests that you have some connection to that institution. If so, you have what we call a conflict of interest. Conflict-of-interest editors are strongly discouraged from editing the article directly, but are always welcome to propose changes on the talk page of the article. You can attract the attention of other editors by putting {{request edit}} (exactly so, with the curly parentheses) at the beginning of your request. Requests that are not supported by independent reliable sources are unlikely to be accepted. You should provide full disclosure of your connection when using talk pages, making edit requests, and the like.

Please also note that our Terms of Use state that "you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation." An editor who contributes as part of his or her paid employment is required to disclose that fact. If you work for the university, you are obliged to say so.

You also seem to be edit-warring at Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy. Please read WP:BRD. If you make an edit and it is reverted, it is quite pointless to make the same edit again; what you need to do is start a discussion on the talk page of the article and attempt to reach consensus with other editors. Editors who keep repeating the same edit are liable to be blocked for editing.

Lastly, I note that you already have four copyright warnings on this page. Please read this final one carefully: if I see that you have again added copyright material to Wikipedia without proper permissions, I intend to ask that you be indefinitely blocked from editing here until and unless you can show that you understand, and intend to abide by, our copyright policies.

I recognise that you are a new editor, and that new editors, like the rest of us, make mistakes. But I'm afraid that if you don't pay any attention to advice received your time here is likely to be short. That would be a pity. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:49, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

First: Let me do the proper introductions: I am Laura Libal, IT Specialist at the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy. I was asked by our Librarian and Media/Public Relations (Helen and Maggie) to set up the page and they would edit it.

Second: The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy is PART of the University of Hawaii at Hilo (a college within the university), Helen has been updating the DKICP portion of their page for a while. Our Dean asked if we could have a page of our own and Helen attempted this and was unsuccessful and that is when she asked me for assistance. Our college has been giving the information to the UHH wiki page. I don't understand where the conflict of interest is.

Terms of use: I did not read the terms of use because I was just trying to assist with the setup of the page - I will ask Helen or Maggie to make the required statements.

Reverted edits: In my attempt to get the page back up (while on vacation), I did revert to a previous version a couple of times as a "quick" way to get our page back up. Maggie thought she did something that caused the problem so I went back to the last known good/working copy.

Copyright warning: Please tell me again, what process we need to follow so we will not receive this warning again. The materials are from the DKICP, so there is NO copyright infringement.

Thank you so much, Laura

Hi, Laura, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you very much for such a clear response, that is most helpful. It would indeed be a help if you would ask any of your colleagues who have edited either Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy or University of Hawaii at Hilo to make similar declarations. There is no obligation for them to disclose their real names if they don't wish to.

Because you work for the university, you have what in Wikipedia we call a conflict of interest (follow the blue link to read about it) in relation to articles about it and its constituent parts. In general, conflict-of-interest editors are strongly discouraged from editing affected articles directly, but are always welcome to propose changes on the talk page of an article. You can attract the attention of other editors by putting {{request edit}} (exactly so, with the curly parentheses) at the beginning of your request. Requests that are not supported by independent reliable sources are unlikely to be accepted; please note that press releases and the like are not usually regarded as reliable for our purposes. You should provide full disclosure of your connection when using talk pages, making edit requests, and the like. I will tag the talk pages of the two articles mentioned above with your name to save you from having to do that. Please let me emphasise that this applies only to articles closely related to your employment; we have almost 5 million articles and you are completely free to edit any other one of them.

As for copyright violation, as long as you follow the guidance above, the problem will not arise. You can, if you wish, arrange for materials relating to the college or the university to be donated to Wikipedia – see donating copyrighted materials for details – but, to be perfectly honest, there is little likelihood that they would be used even if you were to do so. By the way, our copyright policy is there as much for the protection of your rights as anything else (imagine for a moment if someone not actually connected with your institution copied your materials and posted them here claiming to be, say, the rector of the university; it could happen).

I've reverted your change at Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy, as I believe the mess at University of Hawaii at Hilo should be sorted out first. There can then be discussion to reach editor consensus on whether the college should be covered in the main article or have its own page.

I'm sorry to hit you with so much bureaucratic stuff – the main thing is to improve the encyclopaedia! Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:16, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

I am still confused on this "conflict of interest". Wikipedia offers a University Infobox, who would know this information except someone who works for or is affiliated with the college? The Wikipedia mission statement is, "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally." The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy would like to develop educational content on the basic information of the college. I see there is a WikiProject University, "a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of universities on wikipedia" I feel that I'm not being allowed to improve the coverage of our college. The following list do not have anything in the talk page concerning if the contributor is an employee or not.

• Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
• Northeastern University School of Pharmacy
• University of Michigan College of Pharmacy
• Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
• Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
• UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy had this note on the talk page, "Much of the information on this page needs to be edited as they are either out of date or not really relevant to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy (the sections about the AHEC, for instance). I'm planning to do a major overhaul of the page in the coming days. -- Regarding the note about the major contributor having close ties with the school: I do work at the school, which is why I knew that much of the old information in the article was incorrect, outdated, or not actually relevant to the school. However, if you examine the content I've contributed, I think it's pretty obvious all of the information provided are facts (research dollar amount, programs offered, name of buildings, etc.). Uncsop (talk) 14:36, 15 November 2010 (UTC)"
• Skaggs School of Pharmacy - they are part of the wikiproject Pharmocolgy "a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of pharmacology on wikipedia (do I need to join this?)
• McWhorter School of Pharmacy - they are part of the wikiproject Universities
• Nova Southeaster University College of Pharmacy
• University of Florida College of Pharmacy
• University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

Please let me know how we can share the information about our college as these colleges have, if you cannot help us, please share the contact information of your supervisor.

Many thanks, Laura

Laura, we're all volunteers here. There aren't any supervisors. The place for employees of the university to share information on Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy is the talk page of University of Hawaii at Hilo, which is where we cover that college (or where we will cover it once the copyvio mess there is dealt with). With few exceptions, any suggestion you make for changes to the article should be supported by independent reliable sources (i.e., sources that are not connected with the university). You might also like to read about verifiability. In general, edit requests that ask for more than a sentence or two to be changed tend to get ignored or refused. A post as long as yours above is very unlikely to achieve results. As an example, a request such as:

An editor with a conflict of interest has requested that: "The director of the school is Louis Pasteur" be changed to read "The director of the school is John Doe". Source: The New York Times, 16 April 2015, "John Doe appointed director of Hawaii college".

is quite likely to be accepted. Your latest edit to Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy was a mistake, as it will prevent people from finding the information about the college; I suggest that you undo it (I ask you again: please try to avoid edit-warring, as it can never achieve anything). If you are not happy with these answers, you could try asking your questions at WikiProject Universities or at the conflict of interest noticeboard; in either case you should state clearly that you are an employee of the university. If you ask questions here I will see that you have done so. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 02:09, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

How do I remove my account? Lauralibal (talk) 19:50, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

COI

Hi Lauralibal

I understand from your disclosure above, that you work for Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy. I am providing you notice of Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline, and then I will have an extra note for you.

Hello, Lauralibal. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• 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.
• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.

Extra note

Laura, Wikipedia is a scholarly project, and as such, we manage conflicts of interest here. University of Hawaii also has a Conflicts of Interest policy that governs what University employees do; Wikipedia has a COI guideline, governing what editors do. When you edit here, you are subject to Wikipedia's COI guideline.

Editors here have been trying to work with you, to inform you about Wikipedia's COI guideline, but you are not listening to them.

You have a conflict of interest in Wikipedia, because you are an employee of the university, whose article you are editing.

Please stop directly editing the article. Our COI guideline says very clearly that editors with a conflict of interest should not directly articles where they have a COI.

Instead, please make edit requests on the article Talk page, so that independent editors can review them and implement them, after checking to make sure they comply with our content policies. The article Talk page is here: Talk:Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy. There is a big yellow/brown box at the top of that page. Near the bottom of the box, you will see a big exclamation mark. Next to that, is text that says: "Individuals acting on behalf of this person or organization are strongly advised not to edit the article. Click here to request corrections or suggest content, or contact us if the issue is urgent." If you click where it says "click here", a page will open where you can type your edit request, and when you save it, it will appear on the Talk page, for others to work on.

Do you understand? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 03:24, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

How do I remove my account? Lauralibal (talk) 19:51, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident in which you may be involved. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 03:29, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of editing privileges. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Diannaa (talk) 05:21, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Please help me understand how the following colleges/universities are allowed to post information about their schools and I am not allowed to.

• Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
• Northeastern University School of Pharmacy
• University of Michigan College of Pharmacy
• Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
• Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
• UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy had this note on the talk page, "Much of the information on this page needs to be edited as they are either out of date or not really relevant to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy (the sections about the AHEC, for instance). I'm planning to do a major overhaul of the page in the coming days. -- Regarding the note about the major contributor having close ties with the school: I do work at the school, which is why I knew that much of the old information in the article was incorrect, outdated, or not actually relevant to the school. However, if you examine the content I've contributed, I think it's pretty obvious all of the information provided are facts (research dollar amount, programs offered, name of buildings, etc.). Uncsop (talk) 14:36, 15 November 2010 (UTC)"
• Skaggs School of Pharmacy - they are part of the wikiproject Pharmocolgy "a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of pharmacology on wikipedia (do I need to join this?)
• McWhorter School of Pharmacy - they are part of the wikiproject Universities
• Nova Southeaster University College of Pharmacy
• University of Florida College of Pharmacy
• University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

I am only trying to do my job - fulfill the request from the Dean to have a page of our own. Please help me understand. Can someone call and talk to me?

Lauralibal (talk) 18:16, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Please delete my account, this is way too difficult and stressful!!! Lauralibal (talk) 19:43, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out those problematic articles. We will take care of them. Listen, you are a government employee, and you seem to have no clue about the concept of "conflict of interest." That is a bad thing for you. I linked to University of Hawaii's Conflict of Interest policy above. You should call them and talk with them to understand what COI means, in your day to day life. You should also talk to your dean about conflicts of interest.

about deleting your account, this is not possible in WP. You can request a "courtesy vanish" but it may not be granted. Please read Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing and follow the instructions there. Jytdog (talk) 03:30, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

However, Lauralibal, I would much prefer that you stay and become a Wikipedia contributor. To do that you would need to show that you understand why your account has been blocked, that you understand and agree to abide by our copyright policy, and that you intend to collaborate with other editors rather than combat them. If you feel you can agree to those things, you can make an unblock request by putting {{unblock | reason= (your reason here) ~~~~}} on this page. There's no guarantee your request will be accepted, of course. I don't like to see that we may have driven off a new editor simply because of misunderstandings, so I hope you will at least give this your consideration. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:36, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

I have never been treated with such rudeness, it is no wonder Wikipedia is going down the drain. The wikipedia volunteer police do not abide by the Wikipedia mission statement, "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally." The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy would like to develop educational content on the basic information of the college. I see there is a WikiProject University who's mission states, "a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of universities on wikipedia". I'll be sure to use social media to share my HORRIBLE experience with Wikipedia. Lauralibal (talk) 18:16, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

What I don't understand is how sharing FACTS (number of students, location,...) is a conflict of interest, it is simply following the mission statement of Wikipedia! Lauralibal (talk) 18:30, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

If that is a real question about conflict of interest, I would be happy to discuss it with you. Is it? (I am really asking - I have no desire to "joust" with anybody, but if you really want to understand COI in Wikipedia, I would be happy to talk with you) Jytdog (talk) 12:06, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

No one has answered my questions regarding the Wikipedia mission statement and the "wikipedia police" not allowing others to fulfill the mission statement. Lauralibal (talk) 19:43, 20 April 2015 (UTC)