Davekatz

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I notice that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been reverted for this very reason.

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Speedy deletion nomination of MA program in Coping with Stress, Crisis, and Trauma

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A tag has been placed on MA program in Coping with Stress, Crisis, and Trauma, 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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Deletion of MA program in Coping with Stress, Crisis, and Trauma

Hi Davekatz - thanks for your message on my talk page. To answer your question, the article you created on MA program in Coping with Stress, Crisis, and Trauma was nominated for deletion by another editor because they believed it was composed entirely of material designed to promote or advertise the subject. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, we need articles which are written from a neutral point-of-view, preferrably by people who are not connected with the subject or organisation being written about. As an administrator, I examined the article to see whether it should be deleted, and agreed with the person who nominated it. The article contained words and phrases such as "world renowned" and included a sentence directing prospective students to the university's website for more information, which is not suitable in a Wikipedia article. It almost appeared as though the material in the article had been copied from the course prospectus, which would not be an appropriate source for a Wikipedia article. This is the reason why I deleted the article.

Additionally, it is uncommon for an individual university course to have it's own article on Wikipedia. While universities, colleges and sometimes notable departments may have articles written about them, it would be very unusual for an article to be written which is solely about a course run at a university. There may be some alternative outlets you could use, which specialise in publishing this kind of information.

I hope this is useful - please let me know if there's anything I can help you with. Regards, --Kateshortforbob _talk 11:29, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

December 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Tel Aviv University do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Muhandes (talk) 12:34, 1 December 2010 (UTC)