User talk:Kplynchpk

Welcome!

Hello, Kplynchpk, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Mushroom (Talk) 19:41, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest and copyright violation

Please read WP:COI before you edit again. The talk page is the appropriate place for you to place suggestions for the article. More serious, I've removed your edits as we see copying from a web page that is not explicitly copyright free as a copyright violation, even if it the editor is the owner of the page. You can read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials but even if you did this, a direct copy would almost certainly be seen as promotional (and of course it was, properly, written to be promotional). Our articles are meant to be based on what independent third parties say about a subject. If you read WP:VERIFY and WP:RS you should get an idea of the sort of material that would be appropriate. Obviously in the case of an organisation some material would be sourced from the organisation itself, but most should come from other sources. I know that most new editors are not aware of what we expect from an article or an editor, and none of this is meant personally. Dougweller (talk) 16:36, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

More comment

It's important to remember that this is a real encyclopedia, although online and edited by multiple editors. It also differs from one you'd find in a library in that articles are not written by one person but by many -- and here's the key bit - and should rely on what others have said about a subject, and those others need to meet our criteria at WP:RS. You wouldn't expect an article in a paper encyclopedia about the Watson Institute for International Studies to list all its faculty, and ours shouldn't either. It can however mention those particularly notable by our criteria (WP:SCHOLAR), particularly any that already have their own articles (and we use WP:Wikilinks for them). The same goes for research projects, if some are discussed (not just briefly mentioned) in reliable sources, then fine, include them with inline citations to the source. If you are going to edit this yourself, you need to be very careful about your language as obviously this should not resemble the sort of brochure or short article you'd write for ordinary informational purposes. I appreciate your cooperation. Dougweller (talk) 18:33, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]