User talk:Aligilbertson

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Spamming of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

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Please stop. If you continue to use Wikipedia to advertise you will be blocked from editing.
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. --Hu12 (talk) 01:11, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Problems with upload of Image:Cipdwikidesc.gif

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CIPD

I left a message on Talk:Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development regarding the recent edits of this article relating to the references. The documents I gather are some sort of internal newsletter at the CIPD and are not available to the general public nor to members to view. Unless you can find suitable citations for these 'facts' about the CIPD which can be accessed by readers these facts will not be verifiable and will under WP Policy need to be removed asap. I now see you have added several specific references to different pages of the CIPD website. This is not necessary and will be perceived as spamming given the nature of these sites. The only required link is to the CIPD main page. Given the fate of the previous article I urge you to read the guidance on constructing, editing verifying content and linking to external sites which WP help pages which can be accessed from here. My main concern is this article may go the same way as the last one if the style does not get adapted Contact me if you need some help Tmol42 (talk) 18:30, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

A tag has been placed on Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as the Wikipedia:Business' FAQ for more information.

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Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.cipd.co.uk/about. 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.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 09:35, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problems

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.cipd.co.uk/about/charter.htm, http://www.cipd.co.uk/about. As a copyright violation, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

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However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. Phlegm Rooster (talk) 09:46, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Retrench

I would suggest a complete rewrite of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Think of a brief thumbnail description of what it is you might give at a party where you don't want to bore the other person. Hit the high points. Write it entirely in your own words. Use prose rather than bullet points. See Wikipedia:Layout. Phlegm Rooster (talk) 11:38, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what you mean as I thought encylopedic entries are supposed to be factual and interesting rather than purely entertaining. This is a resource rather than a party piece. Also, bullet points help to break up the text so that it's easier to read on a webpage. I've never heard of anyone recommending chunks of prose over bullet points on webpages before. (Aligilbertson (talk) 09:38, 23 July 2008 (UTC))[reply]