Talk:Rhodes University

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[edit] Press activities / Oppidan Press

Removed the following from the article as I felt that it was 1) added in the wrong place and 2) is more just an "advertising" link for the Oppidan Press then an addition to the article as an whole. Possibly a section on Student newspaper activities in general would be more appropriate. also the author should think of getting a Wikipedia account.

"In 2007, two Rhodes University undergraduate students initiated a student newspaper called The Oppidan Press. The newspaper caters to the student population alienated by the existing student newspaper."

Warpedshadow 09:24, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright?

Most of the text in this article has been lifted verbatim from Rhodes University. Has permission been granted for this? Tiles 00:41, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure who did this, but it shouldn't be a problem -- the university's website terms and conditions says that any content may be lifted so long as it is not used for commercial purposes:

1.3 Without derogating from the aforegoing, Rhodes University hereby authorises the user to view, copy, download to a local drive, print and distribute the content of this web site, or any part thereof, provided that:

1.3.1 such content is used for information and/or non-commercial purposes only; and

1.3.2 any reproduction of the content of this web site, or portion thereof, must include the following copyright notice: © Rhodes University 2005. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Looking at the logs, it was also uploaded from the university's IPv4 address block. My guess is that the initial upload was done by a member of the university's web unit (and thus there are no copyright issues). I can confirm this in due course.

18:23, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Got rid of what looked like spam on this discussion page (no signature, just IP and unrelated text). --EKhayaICT 22:30, 26 March 2007 (UTC)