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Speedy deletion nomination of Department of Financial Studies'

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A tag has been placed on Department of Financial Studies' requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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Hello, Anshugoel12, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Department of Financial Studies', may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Promotion and Notability

Please note that, even if the copyright issue were resolved, this material would not be suitable for Wikipedia. It is written in far too promotional a style. Phrases like "a fine blend of theoretical and practical inputs" "vision, innovation and excellence" "definitely the most prestigious" are pure PR/marketing-speak, suitable perhaps for an advertisement but not for an encyclopedia article, which requires a WP:Neutral point of view; see also WP:WORDS#Puffery. Any statement which might be challenged needs to be verifiable from a reliable source.

Also, any article subject needs to have notability, which is not a matter of opinion but must be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Although precedent is not binding, the result of previous deletion debates, documented at WP:OUTCOMES#Education, has been that:

Departments or degree programs within a university, college, or school are generally not considered notable unless they have made significant contributions to their field (e.g., University of Chicago Department of Economics), or produced a number of notable graduates (USC School of Cinematic Arts, Oxford PPE).

More advice at Wikipedia:College and university article guidelines. JohnCD (talk) 14:17, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Department of Financial Studies ( DFS ) - MFC

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December 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Department of Financial Studies ( DFS ) - MFC has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://mfc-du.blogspot.com/. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 15:15, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

I have created this page to provide information about the educational programmes offered by the Department of Financial Studies. I have taken all the information from http://www.mfc.edu/ and http://mfcalumni.com/ . I am authorized to copy the information from the website and make this page on Wikipedia. So, since the REFERENCES for the content are known:- http://www.mfc.edu/ http://mfcalumni.com/ I thereby request you to allow this content be added. Thanks.

• Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a notice-board for course prospectuses. As I explained above, article subjects have to be notable, which requires showing independent comment. JohnCD (talk) 17:18, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Conflict of interest guideline

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
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3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant 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. JohnCD (talk) 17:18, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Department of Financial Studies ( DFS ) - MFC for deletion

The article Department of Financial Studies ( DFS ) - MFC is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Department of Financial Studies ( DFS ) - MFC until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. JohnCD (talk) 17:18, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Your addition to Department of Financial Studies ( DFS ) - MFC has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. —SpacemanSpiff 19:05, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Master of Finance & Control

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A tag has been placed on Master of Finance & Control, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

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Hello, Anshugoel12. You have new messages at WP:REFUND.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

JohnCD (talk) 12:13, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant 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. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:54, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Problem with MFC website

When I looked at the website listed in the article, my browser blocked it saying "This web page at www.mfc.edu has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences." When I clicked the button "Why was this page blocked?" this page appeared: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-GB&site=http://www.mfc.edu/ saying:

"Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this website may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 5 time(s) over the past 90 days."

Please pass this on to whoever runs your website. There are instructions on that page for what they should do.

JohnCD (talk) 15:24, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Your article

The passage from WP:OUTCOMES#Education which I quoted above is not a policy but a description of what has usually happened when people have tried to post articles about University courses or departments. They fail the test of notability which requires showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Mentions in a list do not count as significant, places where anyone can post what they like, Youtube, Facebook, blogs etc do not count as reliable, the department's own website and that of the University are not independent. The test is, have people unconnected with the subject thought it important and significant enough to write about? Before you put more effort into this, consider whether you can really find significant, reliable, independent comment to cite (about this course, not about the University), because if not you will just be wasting time.

If you want to proceed, read WP:Your first article again. Take care that you do not copy material from your website or elsewhere. You could arrange a copyright release, but the material is unlikely to be suitable. You have to understand that an encyclopedia article is quite different from a prospectus - an encyclopedia is not a notice-board. Although you have taken out the more flowery PR-speak language, the article still reads like a prospectus. An encyclopedia article should be aimed at the general reader and tell him/her what a general reader would find interesting about the subject. Long lists of staff, research subjects etc are material for the school's website, not for an encyclopedia.

If what you are trying to do is attract students, you are in the wrong place - that is not what Wikipedia is for. "Anyone can edit" has the advantage that it brings us many contributors, but the disadvantage that many of them see Wikipedia as a free platform for them to promote or sell something. That is why Wikipedia is extremely sensitive to anything that seems to be promotion, and has strong policies against editing with a conflict of interest. They all say that they "only want to inform the public" about their product, company, book, band or whatever; but if the only people who want to write about a subject are those connected with it, that itself raises doubts about notability.

It is evident that you are connected with the department, and therefore should edit only as described in Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest. If you want to proceed, make a draft article in your user space at User:Anshugoel12/Master of Finance & Control. You could ask for comments on it by posting at WP:Requests for feedback. Then approach user SpacemanSpiff (talk), the administrator who closed the deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Department of Financial Studies ( DFS ) - MFC. Tell him your connection with the subject, and ask whether he thinks your draft overcomes not only the copyright problem which caused the first deletion, but also the notability and promotion problems which made me nominate it.

By the way, we know that many of our 3,500,000 articles are not as good as they should be, and so the argument "They have an article, so we should have one too" is not accepted. Any discussion is about one particular article and whether it meets the standards.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:43, 6 January 2011 (UTC)