Stuartzs

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1. It is very clear to me that you have, despite your denials, a very clear WP:COI with relation to the University of Waterloo, either as a current, past or future student or staff member. WP has in the past and continues to have problems with editors making changes to articles to make them appear more favourable as a way of enhancing the apparent standing of the institution. This is done in a number of ways, for example by adding graphical shots taken from marketing materials that do not serve to increase readers' understanding of the subject, by copy-editing text adding WP:PEACOCK terms to the text, adding sections that "big-up" the work of the institution not written from a WP:NPOV and sourced only to the institution.
2. The image used should "preferably the university's official seal or logo" as per Template:Infobox_university/doc; the argument that this is some how a completely separate University is not one that is reflected in the campus own website and I see no reason to deviate from the guideline, if you disagree please make your case at the talk page.
3. The image File:Ginny Dybenko.jpg fails both WP:IUP#Content and MOS:IMAGES it presence only servers to make the article "look better" and it's presence does increase readers' understanding of the Uni, please make your case for it's inclusion on the talk page.
4. The Research section you added is sourced only to the Uni, please propose the section on the talk page, and make sure it is sourced to reliable sources that are independent of the university.

I hope this helps you understand the issues, if you have any questions please reply here or on Talk:University of Waterloo Stratford Campus so all the answers can be kept together. LGA _talk^edits 04:06, 17 June 2014 (UTC)Reply