User talk:WilliamBHall

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, WilliamBHall! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Sting au Buzz Me... 03:33, 23 February 2008 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] February 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Ohio Institute of Technology. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Please don't remove the notability tag until the article is properly referenced and cited. See WP:N and WP:RS also WP:V Sting au Buzz Me... 06:48, 23 February 2008 (UTC) Re: Article on Ohio Institute of Technology

What references or reference style is appropriate to "untag" this article? I had the following references for verification and notability on the article entry for "Ohio Institute of Technology" that were removed:

1. Ohio Secretary of State Tradename Registration for 11/01/2002 (PDF File Image of Document)

2. An offer to provide Academic Institutional References to applicable parties upon request. (should I upload business letters as references?)

3. A link to the US Copyright Site to view the 50 page Accredited University catalog as a "published source".

The catalog is co branded and published in conjunction with Youngstown State University. Should I just do an APA style reference to the catalog as a third party publication source through Youngstown State University?

I would appreciate someone reading the entire article and providing feedback as to what references are necessary and appropriate and in what form. This would be helpful prior to removal of the references and tagging the article. Your feedback is appreciated. Thanks for your help.

--William B. Hall 00:15, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok ref 1 was a link to an image and not a reference for the Insitute at all (that was in the edit summary too)

Ref 2 was an "offer" to provide references. That wasn't a reference either so I removed that. Ref 3 was a link to the US Copyright site. You need direct links to articles that mention the Ohio Institute. I have searched for references that would be suitable for this article but so far have been unsuccessful. I will continue to look into the matter and discuss this problem with someone else. Sting au Buzz Me... 00:40, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Reliable sources. You could look for books, newspaper articles and other publications that mention the Ohio Institute of Technology -- that's the kind of thing Wikipedia articles are looking for. You might try searching for "Ohio Institute of Technology" (in quotation marks) at news.google.com, scholar.google.com and books.google.com to see if you can find any respectable publications that give any significant information about it. The sources don't have to be online, but they have to be published. --Coppertwig (talk) 00:48, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I couldn't come up with anything so can only suggest he reads WP:CITE, WP:RS and WP:V for more information. I have also removed the "helpme" tag from the page as you now need to read up on the guidelines. I moved the welcome message back to the top. It has some useful links for you to make use of. Also put a "talkheader" template on this page. When you post messages on talk pages always put them on the bottom and don't forget to sign them with four tildes. Cheers, Sting au Buzz Me... 01:36, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Tag removed as required work done. I knew you could do it :-) Sting au Buzz Me... 00:21, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:OfficialSeal-OhioInstituteofTechnology.jpg

You state that you are the creator of this seal, (Image:OfficialSeal-OhioInstituteofTechnology.jpg) but also state that it is the official seal of the institute. As an official seal, it really should be licensed as a non-free image. I am going to go ahead and change the licensing and add the necessary fair use rationale. Dbiel ^(Talk) 02:19, 29 February 2008 (UTC)