Jennyhill

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Otterbein College article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. For this reason your edits have been reverted or removed. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the information in your own words. If you do, please remember to cite your source(s). For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Thanks. - EurekaLott 04:16, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

• Hello, I want to tell you that adding that copyrighted material, even if you claim to have written it, is illegal and against Wikipedia policy. What you added has no wikilinks, terrible formatting among other problems. Please refrain from changing the page back again. Thanks--Thomas.macmillan 14:55, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

• • Okay then. It is acceptable to re-write information in your own words and place it on Wikipedia from a source, so long as you cite that source. That is what I suggest you do. Look over the current page and see what is "wikilinked", meaning what is blue and can be clicked. Those words should stay wikilinked. Read the Wikipedia Guide to Layout and Style. But first, PLEASE stop changing my edits. I do not want to break the Wikipedia:Three-revert rule.

• • Stand by it all you like, but that doesn't make it so. How can anyone believe that you actually own the copyright? There is no proof. It has to be verifiable and cite dependable sources. You only cite yourself. Consider someone randomly coming to the page. First off, the page is a mess. Secondly, you have violated copyrights to the material (which I am guessing your university owns, not you!) and lastly, we can't know if you are who you say you are, so it has to go. I am changing it back for the last time. I ask you once again to stop violating wikipedia's policies. If the information isn't correct, change it in the previous format, do not just copy and paste your version that is unformatted.--Thomas.macmillan 15:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

• • I have asked for dispute resolution from other Wikipedia's editors on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Society, law, and sex. It is highly against Wikipedia policy for me to call you on a dispute. Please, for the last tieme, do not edit the page again. It could result in both of us being banned for 24 hours.--Thomas.macmillan 15:23, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi again. I don't have much time right now, but I wanted to jump in before this became a bigger problem. I understand that you wrote the text for the University, but reusing it is likely to be a copyright violation, as far as Wikipedia is concerned. Please see the Copyright FAQ for more information. Your enthusiasm is appreciated, but replacing the entire article with public relations material will not work. We welcome corrections and improvements, but articles must respect the neutral point of view, be verifiable, and should include relevant wikilinks to other articles. I hope that reading these will clear up some of the above issues. You may also wish to read the tutorial if you haven't already. I apologize if I appeared hostile; we try to do our best to treat newcomers well. - EurekaLott 16:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Discussion

Jenny, I have moved our discussion here, since i know when I reply you'll see it:

About the Otterbien site, I was assigned to correct the misinformation that is currently on the site and add more detail. Since my superior has seen how easily misinformation can be presented as legitimate, such as the year we were established, our endowment and several other pieces of information, she would like to pursue removing Otterbein from Wikipedia altogether. Can you tell us where we can get information on how to do so, please? In addition, we would like to know if you can tell us who posted our copywrighted logo on Wikipedia without the College's consent (which comes through the Office of Marketing and Communications, 614-823-1600).

Welll. wowsa.

Ok- first of, I'll remove the logo. If you want to know who added it, I reccomend clicking on the history tab.

I am glad you are here. We need your help in correcting misinformation. I have started the process by adding the "" tab in the two places I think you are saying have inaccuracies. That means someone has to provide a source for it, or those statements will be removed.

You are welcome to try and have it removed. We're kind of protective of our articles here- and "Someone not liking it" has, never to my knowledge, been used as a reason to get things removed! I don't think it will be easy though. My reccomendation is to try and get all the innacuracies cleared up. Even if the article was slanderous- I don't think you could get the whole article removed, just the slanderous statements.

Wikipedia is a community and a collabaritve effort. My advice is to slow down, learn your way around a bit. If I walked onto your campus and started doing things VERY differently from how things operate- how would all of you react? I hope all of this has been helpful! peace, Sethie 18:29, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Just wanted to say congrats on adding the citations and changing some things. My hope is that as you and I work on the article, as other outside editors drop by and check it out, within a week or so- you'll have an article you really like! love, Sethie 17:52, 8 December 2006 (UTC)