Aggiebulldog

Welcome to Wikipedia from Philippe

Hi, Aggiebulldog. I welcome you to Wikipedia! Thank you for all of your edits. I hope you like editing here and being part of Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); when you save the page, this will turn into your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or put {{helpme}} (and what you need help with) on your talk page and someone will show up very soon to answer your questions. Again, welcome! - Philippe 01:48, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Geospatial authentication

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Geospatial authentication, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/5170, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Geospatial authentication saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Chuunen Baka (talk) 11:33, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Update regarding copyright concern

Since we do not yet have verification of permission by the processes set out above and sufficient time has passed since the placement of the notice, the article has been deleted for copyright concerns. This deletion is not necessarily permanent. If you have already sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) and GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (if you are not the copyright holder or have co-authored the material, release under CC-BY-SA-compatible license alone is sufficient), the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed by the Wikimedia Communications committee. Likewise, if you have not yet sent a letter, you still may (or resend it, if you believe your original may have been lost), and the article will be restored when that letter is received and processed.

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Thank you. MLauba (talk) 09:42, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Dr. Stacey D. Lyle

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A tag has been placed on Dr. Stacey D. Lyle requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Reply to your question on my talk page

Wikipedia is not a site like LinkedIn for people to post their CVs: it is a project to build an encyclopedia, and has quite demanding admission criteria for article subjects. For academics, those are explained at WP:Notability (academics). Also, even for people who are notable by Wikipedia's standard, writing about oneself is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at Wikipedia:Autobiography.

If you want to help with the encyclopedia project, you are welcome, and you have a user page at User:Aggiebulldog where you can post some information about yourself to help communication within the project; but user pages are not intended for "substantial content... that is unrelated to Wikipedia" such as a list of all your papers - see WP:UPNOT. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:02, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

August 2011

Hello Aggiebulldog. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Stacey D. Lyle, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
• Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. VQuakr (talk) 17:21, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Notability

You wrote on the talk page of your article: "I am responsible to adding all the faculty of the university." Please understand that Wikipedia is not LinkedIn, it is a project to build an encyclopedia, and is therefore selective about article subjects. You should read, carefully, WP:Notability (academics), which is a reasonably demanding standard. If you try to post articles about colleagues who do not meet it, this may cause embarrassment when they are deleted and, for some time afterwards, a Google search will turn up the notice which says the page has been deleted and why. Before posting articles on behalf of your faculty you should also read the guideline on Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. JohnCD (talk) 19:32, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

• Please do not add your own opinions to Wikipedia, as you did here. See WP:Verifiability. JohnCD (talk) 08:39, 22 August 2011 (UTC)