User talk:Jdec46

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Jdec46, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Ithaca College Police Department, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Ithaca College Police Department[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Ithaca College Police Department requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. —Largo Plazo (talk) 16:25, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Cornell University Police[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Cornell University Police requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. - Mr X 16:41, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

April 2015[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Ithaca College Police Department has been reverted.
Your edit here to Ithaca College Police Department was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKA_QZA_aoI) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
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Clarification on points[edit]

Hi! I thought I'd clarify/expand on the points made at Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#Ithaca_College_Police_Department, where you wrote "This is a free website to be able to create a page like I did since I am the original create of both Cornell university police and Ithaca college police!" and " I figure since I create a website about those police department they should say up!"

Wikipedia is not a webhost akin to places like Wikia and Wix (or places like Facebook's group pages), so there is no WP:OWNERSHIP of articles. Nobody owns an article on Wikipedia, so articles can be deleted without your consent if they do not pass notability guidelines or fail some other criteria. Wikipedia is a website, but not really one in the way that I think that you were referring.

Now as far as notability goes, notability can only be established via coverage in independent and reliable sources per WP:RS. Reliable sources are things like newspaper articles about the police force that go into depth about them. Brief, WP:TRIVIAL mentions in the press or routine coverage of them doing something (like arresting someone, responding to a report) will not give the police notability, nor will coverage where they're only briefly quoted. It's kind of difficult to prove notability for police forces since they're usually in the news in ways that wouldn't show notability, like spotlights on specific officers and the like. Showing notability for a college police force will be even more difficult and most college police forces don't have articles for this very reason.

Notability cannot be proven with WP:PRIMARY sources, which are sources released by the police, the university itself, or anyone affiliated with the police or university. Notability cannot be inherited by the notability of the university, meaning that the police forces are not notable by virtue of association. It can make it more likely that there will be coverage, but it isn't a guarantee.

Something to take into consideration is that in many cases police do not end up in the news unless something very negative happens. It's a shame that this is the case, but it does happen. While your articles were neutral for the most part, they did contain some words that did seem slightly promotional, like the sentence "The Cornell University Police have long-standing and positive relationships with the area municipal police departments, the New York State Police, and various federal law enforcement agencies." You can continue to try to create the articles but I have to warn you that it can be extremely likely that negative content will be added to the articles in the future if the coverage is heavy enough to warrant its addition. Most times the RS coverage for police activity on the college level is fairly low, but it's still a possibility to take into consideration. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:26, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]