User talk:NewFace88

April 2012

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 16:50, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history at American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 19:12, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A more personal message

Please do not remove sourced content from articles, like you did with this edit to American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The content is clearly sourced and states that the partnership happened in the past; I don't see what problem you have with it. -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 19:13, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I would appreciate it if you could find a reference for your edits suggesting that the university is currently partnered with Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Simply listing "www.aubih.edu.ba" as a source is unhelpful, we need the specific page that cites this. -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 19:17, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think you misunderstand the purpose of Wikipedia. It is a website run by volunteers who try to write verifiable encyclopedia articles about topics, using reliable sources. There is no pay-to-play here, all you need to add something to an article is a link from a reliable source (a link from the school's website would be good) stating the facts that you wish to include.

You should be wary though of our guidelines on conflict-of-interest editing and neutrality. Since you have stated you are editing on behalf of the subject of the article, you should read that guideline (WP:COI) to make sure you are editing in a neutral manner. You can not have reliably sourced facts removed from the article because they paint the subject in a bad light. If there is a reliable source which disagrees with the facts as they are stated in the article, you may add that, but without significant proof that the link in the article as it stands now has false information, those facts should stay.

Feel free to ask me if you have more questions. -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 02:00, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

NewFace88, you seem to be a little confused about how wikipedia works. Wikipedia is not the private domain of Denis Prcic. It is a place where, like many universities -- perhaps not AUBiH, but most universities -- the free exchange of ideas is embraced as a way of creating an accurate and comprehensive view of a particular topic. Here, at wikipedia, all users are free to edit as long as they stay within the guidelines... guidelines established by wikipedia, not Denis Prcic. So quite frankly, what your boss is telling you is irrelevant as to whether an entry is valid or not.

If AUBiH wants to be a respectable institution of higher learning, it needs to act the part. Until then, information unbecoming a respectable institution, such as AUBiH's conduct with SUNY, will continue to arise and become public knowledge. The way to change things is not to repeatedly try to delete information on wikipedia, but to change the behavior at AUBiH. Fairview360 (talk) 13:51, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]