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Contents 1 Cleanup 2 Fair use rationale for Image:Iwuwildcat.jpg 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Iwugraph.gif 4 More Source Tag 5 Trivia 6 COI Tag

[edit] Cleanup

I went ahead and did some of the cleanup that was badly needed. Since another editor decided not to play by the rules in removing the Cleanup tag repeatedly, I went out of my way today to hopefully move the article a lot closer to Wikipedia standards. It still needs much improved wikification and NPOV treatment. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 16:27, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Iwuwildcat.jpg

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BetacommandBot 01:41, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Iwugraph.gif

Image:Iwugraph.gif is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] More Source Tag

I have added a More Source Tag to this page as the majority of the information is simply not sourced. I'm an alumnus of IWU, so I hope to be able to work on getting more sources soon. Eastshire 12:44, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm the president of the IWU Southern California Alumni Association and I edited most of this article. Previously, there was hardly anything on the page. Because I'm on staff at IWU, most of what I wrote I know for certain are verifiable facts about the university. Everything else was taken from indwes.edu (which is cited). Of course, listing things that I simply know from being on the inside of IWU as a staff member doesn't allow me to cite everything, but trust me, everything I wrote is true. Feel free to find sources for what I wrote and to add additional information - just be sure not to delete what I spent hours compiling.

Take care and God bless!

-manutdglory —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Manutdglory (talk • contribs) 01:02, August 24, 2007 (UTC).

I'm not really questioning anything in the article. It's just a high article to source ratio and I'd like to see it better.Eastshire 02:02, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

Wow, lots of trivia. I removed the one regarding the youth pastor from California as he does not seem to be of more than local significance and it was more appropriate for inclusion in the church's page Eastshire (talk) 21:03, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Isn't most of this trivia just that, trivial? Is it really necessary to list Oliver North as a famous speaker since he was on campus maybe one day? The only reason for inclusion of a speaker's visit would be notoriety of the actual speech itself, not just the man giving it. I also removed the tidbit about IWU's growth goals since it really is pretty inconsequential until the aforementioned goal is reached. One would assume many other colleges have a similar goal. 74.133.160.121 (talk) 06:06, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

So everytime someone who has a wikipedia article about them steps foot on IWUs campus they get included in the trivia section? Seems awfully trivial. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.125.34.251 (talk) 01:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] COI Tag

This will stay. The main editor is the self-admited President of the S. Cali alumni chapter, so he DOES have a COI. The tag makes no mention of the article needing to have POV problems or requiring cleanup, just that it may need it. As far as other articles being edited by people with connections, I've slapped COI tags on them, too, and I suggest you do the same. Cheers. -- Me^Holla! 18:42, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

As long nothing conflicts with POV and everything has proper citation, than the tag has no purpose here. HoosierState^Talk 19:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, that's my point. I've requested administrators to remove the tag and reprimand user:Me, who has clearly overstepped his bounds.

Manutdglory (talk) 19:40, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I've removed the COI tag from this article. This should only be placed if the article is being tainted because of COI. After a thorough read of the article I find no distinguishable bias. In fact it is much improved and I have reassessed to it to a B rating for WP:WPIN. Charles Edward 21:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

The tag makes no definition that the article DOES suffer from POV problems - only that it may. Readers should be warned when articles are written by people with COIs. No matter how well of a job Manutdglory has done, he DOES have a COI. And LOL @ overstepping my bounds. You should obviously read this. -- Me^Holla! 00:12, 6 June 2008 (UTC)