User talk:Jyott

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Prairie State College article

Alright, I know there's been a lot of back-and-forth going on here, so let's cool it for a bit and hash this out before we all get in trouble. :) I reverted your link-adding and section-blanking earlier for two reasons. One, the obvious: blanking a section of the article without justification in your edit summary. Two: adding extraneous external links to various sections of the school's admissions website. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia; it is not a referral site for the school's admissions office. There is already a link to the school's official site in the infobox up top in accordance with WP:EL - anyone wanting more than the general info this article provides can go there.

It's not that I'm reverting your edits for the sake of reverting them; I'm all about adding properly-sourced information whenever possible. That being said, these kinds of links should probably stay off of the article. Cool? -- SpecMode (talk) 20:59, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry! I was trying to update the page because no sources were cited, and I changed the other information because I didn't want out of the date information, which is why I was doing the linking. I didn't wanted to offend anyone or get anyone in trouble. It's cool. Thanks for the heads up.

OK. Unfortunately your editing looked like a simple attempt to use Wikipedia for promotion. I accept that that was not what you intended, but you obviously need to do a bit of learning what is and what is not acceptable on Wikipedia. Be very careful not to add anything that might look like advertising or promotion, and remember that the article must not be written from the college's point of view. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:11, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely! It was a mistake, and I didn't want to cause any problems. I just wanted to make sure that anyone who found the information from our college got the most update the date information. I will review the guidelines to assure that any changes I make are written third person with appropriate sources and not promotional. Thanks again.

Just a quick heads-up: when you're posting to talk pages like this one, don't forget to put ~~~~ at the end of your posts, so we know who you are! :) SpecMode (talk) 21:17, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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