Talk:Illinois College of Optometry

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COI material[edit]

This page's content was taken from content created for ICO's website, and this entry was created by ICO's webmaster.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Eyecare (talk • contribs) 17:18, April 4, 2006‎ (UTC)

ICO holds the copyright, not the webmaster. Per Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, please do not use the article for advertising purposes. -AED 21:22, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edited back the page and removed the content that was added.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.89.16.66 (talk • contribs) 18:47, April 4, 2006‎ (UTC)

I would encourage you return and build the article by paraphrasing the copyrighted material rather than directly copying it. -AED 00:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Since I work for the school and was asked to upload this content - is it a copyright issue(which I don't believe there is) or an issue of the material being "advertising" material?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.194.195.238 (talk • contribs) 21:15, April 4, 2006‎ (UTC)

Regarding "copyright": If you were asked by the school to upload the content, then that may be a different story. Check with Wikipedia:Copyrights, particularly Using copyrighted work from others section for clarification. Regarding "advertising": Keep in mind that this is an encyclopedia. Comments such as "We don’t stand back and watch progress happen - we make it happen!" and "We know that all work and no play will make you a stressed optometry student!" are certainly non-encyclopedic and may violate WP:NPOV. As you have demonstrated, there is a lot of content that could be added to make this a good article. -AED 05:39, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]