User talk:Oscar Dell

Please do not add content without citing reliable sources, as you did to Fairfax University. Before making potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add references to the article.
Also, I reverted your unexplained removal of reliable sources and reliably sourced content. This kind of content removal may constitute vandalism.
Finally, because it appears you may be affiliated with this institution, you should be aware of Wikipedia's policy on conflict of interest. --Orlady (talk) 13:21, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

REPLY: Thanks for your comment. As I have explained to you elsewhere, I am in no way affiliated with that Institution, although I have first-hand knowledge and I have personally met the people I refer to, etc. The entry as it stood before my edits was factually incorrect, since Fairfax University was a legal institution until its lost its state of Louisiana licence. The 'reliable sources' you refer to were misleading in the way the article had been written, since they gave the impression that the institution had always been unaccredited when this is not the case. Of course they are indeed very useful now that the record has been set straight. May I insist that I have no interest in either promoting or deriding that institution. I believe I have provided crucial information to the article which was not previously there that has added a lot to the accuracy and the reliability of the edit. --Oscar Dell (talk) 10:13, 25 November 2008 (GMT)

Thanks for the reply -- and your contributions. I made some minor changes to your latest edits (mostly to more closely resemble standard WP article organization), but I did not change the substance. As I believe you are aware, first-hand personal knowledge can be helpful in writing an article, but content must be based on reliable sources. Several facts in the article are now flagged with "citation needed" templates; hopefully published sources can be found soon and listed as reference citations.

PS - Some of your comments suggest that the term "unaccredited" is the same as "diploma mill." This is not the case. Also, state licensing is not the same thing as educational accreditation. In editing articles about unaccredited institutions, it's important to maintain distinctions between these terms. --Orlady (talk) 15:52, 25 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

REPLY: Thanks, you are absolutely right that "diploma mill" is not the same as "unaccredited" and that state licensing is not the same as educational accreditation.

On another front, I have found a Fairfx University prospectus from 1995 which will help me in making further minor contributions to this entry. Your corrections and ammendments will of course be much welcome. Let us hope that we can all contribute to a factually accurate and reliable edit. --Oscar Dell (talk) 09:13, 27 November 2008 (GMT)

Image source problem with Image:GuillermoVilar.jpg

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REPLY: Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention. I have added the required information as requested.

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REPLY

Thanks this has been sorted out now. Thanks so much for your help and patience --Oscar Dell (talk) 13:30, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Oscar Dell! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 272 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Jaizki Mendizabal - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Proposed deletion of Jaizki Mendizabal

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Proposed deletion of Zaryn Dentzel

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