Miljonesdakid
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Your recent edits to Wilmington College (Delaware) were reverted, because they were self-referential and read like promotional material. Articles about educational institutions are fine, but they they must be about the institution itself, not a recruiting poster for potential students ;) See WP:NOT for guidelines on what is/is not considered acceptable material in an article.
For a useful model, take a look at the Plano Senior High School featured article. If necessary, copy/paste and adapt the sections (I've used that trick myself many times!). For references, anything verifiable written by someone not associated with the college would do - local newspapers can be a good resource.
Hope this helps ;) EyeSereneTALK 20:25, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
Continued advertising
editI noticed you have replaced the content I removed, and are continuing to add promotional material to Wilmington College (Delaware). Please re-read the advice above: sentences like "We are especially committed to caring for our students as customers and partners" have no place in an encyclopedia. This article, as it stands, is fast becoming a prime candidate for deletion. Please consider rewriting the article from a neutral point of view, stating only verifiable facts, providing sources for those facts, and sticking to encyclopedic material only. Any questions, leave a note on my talk page and I'll try to help out. EyeSereneTALK 20:58, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
May 2007
editSince we seem to be getting nowhere, let's make this official:
Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Wilmington College (Delaware). For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:
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- If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Wilmington College (Delaware) with a link to where we can find that note;
- If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on the article Talk page. Alternatively, you may create a note on your web page releasing the work under the GFDL and then leave a note at Talk:Wilmington College (Delaware) with a link to the details.
Otherwise, you are encouraged to rewrite this article in your own words to avoid any copyright infringement. After you do so, you should place a {{hangon}} tag on the article page and leave a note at Talk:Wilmington College (Delaware) saying you have done so. An administrator will review the new content before taking action.
It is also important that all Wikipedia articles have an encyclopedic tone and follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Since you have failed to respond, and continued to make edits that violate Wikipedia policy on both copyright and self-promotion, your edits have been reverted. Please ensure any further edits you make to Wilmington College (Delaware) comply with the above policies. Thankyou.EyeSereneTALK 10:19, 27 May 2007 (UTC)