Konaallan

I attempted to just cite an image of a wiki-file of a Hawaii State edict as a source rather than display the image on the UofN page, but have been unable to find a way, so I added a small section near the bottom of the page for a thumbnail copy of the image to appear. Advice welcome. Konaallan (talk) 13:05, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

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I'm surprised to see that you don't have anything on your talk page already. See the note below.

Again, welcome! Orlady (talk) 06:03, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

In general, a person or organization added to a list, as on University of the Nations, should have a pre-existing article to establish notability. If you wish to create such an article, please confirm that your subject is notable according to Wikipedia's notability policy. Thank you. --Orlady (talk) 06:03, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

December 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. A contribution you made to University of the Nations appears to carry a non-neutral point of view, and your edit may have been changed or reverted to correct the problem. Please remember to observe this important core policy. Thank you. Orlady (talk) 18:28, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

I notice that University of the Nations relies heavily on bare URLs as references. See Wikipedia:Bare URLs for discussion of why this is discouraged and for advice on improving these reference citations. Thank you. --Orlady (talk) 03:11, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for starting the process of filling in details on those bare URLs. Please note, however, that the idea (described at Wikipedia:Bare URLs) is to provide a full reference citation -- the descriptive information that allows the reader to identify the source of the information even if the URL no longer works. Text like "Vice President" isn't sufficient to meet that objective. --Orlady (talk) 18:08, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Dear Orlady, Thanks for your patient edits, I have much yet to learn. I now understand about bare URL's and will attempt to revise those I've added to be proper web citations.

Regarding neutrality: I think I can see from your perspective and have rewritten what I had been quoting about the Univ. of the Nations from a recent State of Hawaii Governors Proclamation. I have reduced the text even more and would ask if you think it is now acceptably neutral:

(can a clause addressing motive or WHY be included? such as:

The University of the Nations was founded in 1978 to train students from all the world to go to every nation by serving every sphere of society with the love of God, and providing practical aid to help a hurting world.

(I was also confused when, apparently you accepted their updated stats on number of campuses and number of countries, but then re-inserted their former number (50) of languages that courses were offered in. I had submitted the clause:

Under the umbrella organization of Youth With A Mission (YWAM), the University of the Nations is a global university with 600 campuses in 142 countries offering courses in more than 100 languages.

I had also submitted the following clause from the above mentioned state document, which was eliminated in the edit. I see student enrollment mentioned in a number of other university articles and am unclear how this is non-neutral.

"Its first branch, the Kailua-Kona campus, has 2,000 students enrolled per year and approximately 500 full-time staff and faculty.

While I had nothing to do with creating the content of the document, I heard it read at a public meeting Nov. 29th by our State Representative and took a readable, but not especially good, photo of the document. While the actual document will be posted on the Hawaii State.gov site at some point, they appear to be currently running about 4 months behind in posting documents online. Is it appropriate in the mean time to add this photographed document as a Wiki file (with proper citations) and then use it as a source?

Best regards,

[[[User:Konaallan|Konaallan]] (talk) 10:16, 6 December 2010 (UTC)] Konaallan

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Haminoea cymbalum

I observed your addition to Haminoea cymbalum. If you have photos to add to this article, you're always welcome to upload them to the Commons, provided the license conforms with the rules of wikipedia. If you need help, you cal always ask me. JoJan (talk) 15:48, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks JoJan. I added a photo and created a source citation. Hope this is now more properly doneKonaallan (talk) 02:09, 18 January 2011 (UTC).

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