Stephen R. Pellerine
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I'm answering your question about Ras Al Khaimah Men's College here because the talk page of the article is likely to be deleted (since the article was already deleted). I've been following the progress of this article for a few days - I think I edited it a little bit, too. Looking at the log for this article it was deleted as a copyright violation of your college newsletter here. I can't see the article text (only administrators can see deleted articles), but I remember that there were a lot of warnings on HCTProjectDay's talk page regarding copyright problems with images. It is essential that you add a license when uploading an image: if you are a member of staff at the college, would you be able to get permission to release the images for use if they hold the copyright? There is a list of all copyright tags and you should add at least one when uploading an image, either by choosing something from the Licensing drop-down box or adding a tag (like {{Copyrighted free use}} to the Summary box. Without a license, or with an inaccurate license, the image will be deleted. The image use policy is complicated (I have problems with it myself!). but there is help available choosing a license at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions.
As for the text of the article, I don't know whether it was a copyright violation or not as I can't see it any longer. However, Wikipedia does not allow copyrighted material without permission of the copyright holder. If you want to use material belonging to the College, you should look at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. Basically, you need to send an email to Wikipedia from an official email address, granting them permission, or put a permission notice on the College's website (or whereever the material is).
The alternative, which may be simpler, is to re-write the information in your own words, listing the College's website as a source. What is really important is that the information in the article is verifiable ie. has sources, preferably independent ones. It's better to write a short, sourced article than a long, unsourced one. You might also like to check out Wikipedia's guidelines on conflict of interest and there is a list of Projects for Schools and Universities if you want to get your students more involved in Wikipedia.
Finally, you might like to start the article in a sandbox before adding it to the main article section. You can do so by creating a page like: User:Stephen R. Pellerine/Ras Al Khaimah Men's College which will be in your userspace, and getting the article up to scratch there, before moving it to a main space article.
If you need any help with anything, feel free to contact me on my talk page, or you can use the Help desk, which is specifically for questions about Wikipedia.
Sorry for the long answer - hope some of it helps! -- Kateshortforbob 11:12, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
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editI'm a little confused about who's who here, since the message was posted to my page by User:HCTProjectDay, but signed as Stephen R. Pellerine. Please be aware that using multiple accounts is generally frowned upon - you may wish to read Wikipedia:Sock puppetry and ensure that your use of multiple accounts is in a manner permitted by policy. In the meantime, I have sent this reply to both accounts.
That said, I deleted the page because it appeared to be copied from another website. I see, though, that I did not check the history carefully enough and there were non-copied versions to revert to. I have restored all of the absolutely okay versions, which means the article is back to a stub again. If you have reason to believe that there are other acceptable revisions, I can look at them one by one. Natalie (talk) 17:47, 18 November 2007 (UTC)