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Primatology and Conservation at Oxford Brookes University

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Danielbergin (talk · contribs) This user has contributed to the draft. This user has declared a connection.

Universities are notable. Some of their faculties are too. Even fewer individual departments are. A programme run by a department at a university is even less likely to make the cut.

The sources you provide are taken from the university's website, or are papers written by staff. You need to show that other people find the programme notable by use of reliable, verifiable, independent sources. Hope that helps, Cabayi (talk) 16:25, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A quick google reveals you have a WP:COI :-

Hello, Danielbergin. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Primatology and Conservation at Oxford Brookes University, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Cabayi (talk) 16:29, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Cabayi, thank you for your input. I was basing this page on a similar page I found for the Functional Food Centre at the same University (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Brookes_Centre_for_Nutrition_and_Health). I specifically chose the papers written by staff because they are in high-ranking journals and are therefore peer-reviewed by experts in the field. They are also written with co-authors that are well know and highly regarded. My intention with this was to show, as you say, that other people/institutions/academics find this work notable. I then added the Queens's award to show that the course itself was noteworthy. With regards to the COI, I hope that I haven't overstepped my boundaries. I am an alumnus of the Oxford Brookes University primate conservation programme (a subtopic of the page I have created). I may have taken the guidelines of "yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors" too literally and considered the institution I used to study at to be appropriate for me to write about. I am happy to discuss if I am too close to the topic.

Again, I apologise if I have not fully followed the rules, it has been several years since I was active on Wikipedia (I finally have the time again!). I have added the template to say I am a connected contributor, I do not have any financial connection with this programme or University.

Best,

Danielbergin (talk) 22:04, 28 February 2019 (UTC)Daniel[reply]

Leopard cats

Two species of leopard cat are now recognised, those on the Asian mainland and those in Indonesia and other islands. The information of leopard cats as pets in Indonesia belongs in the Sunda leopard cat article. Jts1882 | talk 13:09, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jts1882, that makes sense to me now, thanks! I hadn't realised the wikipedia pages had already been split.

P.s. I'm not 100% sure of the convention on how to reply to people here. Hope this is the right way.

All the best,

Daniel — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danielbergin (talk • [1[Special:Contributions/Danielbergin|contribs]]) 15:14, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

All the Felidae pages use the revised classification of the cat family by the IUCN specialist cat group for both species and subspecies.

Replying back on forth on people's talk pages is perfectly acceptable practice on Wikipedia, although I find it causes disjointed discussions and prefer to keep discussions on one page. So I've move your comment on my talk page to here. One tip you might find useful is to use {{ping}} to notify people that you have responded (e.g. {{ping}}), although this is not necessary when answering on someone's talk page. Also remember to sign your comments with ~~~~, which generates a timestamped signature. Jts1882 | talk 15:55, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @Jts1882: just saw your comment. Nice sync --

. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 16:50, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi both @Jts1882:@BhagyaMani:. Thank you for your comments! They are very helpful to me understanding more about this process. All the best, Danielbergin (talk) 03:50, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sunda leopard cat

Thanks for your info re the article on trade in Java. But you contributed it to the wrong page: Sunda leopard cat is a different species. I already added it to this page. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 16:06, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Danielbergin, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Wildlife trade have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
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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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:17, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel, this highlights an unfortunate aspect of scientific publication. Even though you are citing your own work, the copyright belongs to the journal publisher, with a few notable exceptions. It doesn't matter that its your work, probably paid for by publicly funded research grants, or if you paid page charges, the publisher owners the copyright and can charge for others to access the material. A least you shouldn't have trouble rewriting the material. Jts1882 | talk 07:13, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Diannaa: and @Jts1882:, I agreed that is unfortunate as those are my own words and it is just the most efficient way I can describe the issue. But no problem, that is understood, I will reword it and add to the section when I have the time. All the best, Danielbergin (talk) 07:02, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Copying your own paper can also be problematic if there are co-authors, as their permission would be required as well. If you can figure out a way to re-work the content that would be great. Thanks for your contributions. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:04, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]