User:Curtis Clark

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I live in California, and I am Director of Web Development and Professor of Biological Sciences at Cal Poly Pomona. I am an expert in botany and evolutionary biology, but it turns out I've contributed in many other areas as well.

• My contributions
• Drafts of articles in progress
• Copyright
• User:Curtis_Clark/BOT_343
• User:Curtis Clark/Wikipedia in college teaching
• My Wikimedia Commons page, with links to photos of California plants

[edit] My role with respect to Cal Poly Pomona

Because I have been employed at Cal Poly Pomona since 1980, and because as Web Coordinator I have an interest in the university on the web, I keep watch on, and occasionally contribute to, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, for some very specific reasons:

1. I watch for copyright violations of photographs and text that belong to Cal Poly Pomona. I have seen most of the information and photos that the university has placed on the web, and I can usually easily spot a copyvio. I do this not to make life miserable for some editors, but rather to protect the interests of the university, as part of my job. As I told students back when I taught, "Rewrite it in your own words." And it's easy to take your own photos of the campus (see the article for some good examples), which will often be more representative of what people really see than the publicity shots. (If any editor would like a specific photo taken on campus, let me know, and if I can get it, I'll put it on Wikimedia Commons.)
2. I do my best to maintain NPOV. After 26 years, I know many reasons both to hate and to love the university, and ironically the too-positive is the most common NPOV violation that I've seen. I've written PR for the university myself, I know what it looks like, and it has no place in Wikipedia. I serve both Wikipedia and my employer by doing what I can to ensure that the article is brutally fair.

If you think I'm not meeting either of those goals, let me know.

[edit] Useful (to me) Wikipedia links

• Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
• Wikipedia:Template messages/User namespace

[edit] External links

Curtis Clark's home page

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