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== OWU; Feeling very frustrated ==

I'm feeling very frustrated and I hope someone can help me. Let me say that I admit that I have found myself in the midst of a revert war that I should have never entered into; I should have figured out a better tact, but I didn&#8217;t and I now I&#8217;m stuck.

The entry is question is for [[Ohio Wesleyan University]] and the problem is happening with one individual, using one Wiki-user name and various IP addresses to include information that is robbing the entry of its NPOV. By making edits signed in and not signed in, the contributor is attempting to make it appear that more then one person is involved.  One I.P. address is an OWU based I.P. address and I&#8217;m assuming that the other I.P. is the one that this person uses while at home on break.   

Problems with the listed began in July of this year -- before I became involved with the article, which was in September under my user name of &#8220;Stude62&#8221;. Prior to that time, there have been requests, and attempts to return the document to a NPOV state, however the edits are quickly reverted.

These edits, have resulted in an article that isn&#8217;t reliable, isn&#8217;t objective and isn&#8217;t documented; references are made to publications and outside companies, but date, issue, vol. and page numbers are not included and it makes it very hard to proof the material.  In place of properly documented references, superlatives were used ad nauseam.  

My goal when I began working on the article was to remove its subjectivity and return the article to a NPOV state that was reliable and informative.  I&#8217;m not a great writer, but I could see how sentences could be rearranged to place like topics together, and how restructuring that rewording sentences and paragraphs could reduce the wordiness of the article.  In a strictly word to word comparison, this article out strips articles for other like school lists with its peer colleges by about 3to1 and that&#8217;s even without addressing the issue of content, which the OWU article is seriously lacking.

Along the lines of factual content, the article is lacking in good solid factual content.  It&#8217;s my contention that the &#8220;protector&#8221; of the article is more concerned with the school at looking impressive in a way that makes the &#8220;protector&#8221; look impressive.  The school&#8217;s credentials are meritorious, and should be recognized in manner in which the credentials speak for themselves, not in such a way that they appear "affected" as they do within the article.

In addition to my attempts to steer the article in the right direction, others have tried, however when suggestions are made, the &#8220;protector&#8221; immediately questions them, even when suggestions are outlined in the wiki style manual.

The &#8220;protector&#8221; is also attempting to rewrite the history of OWU without knowing anything about the history that they are trying to rewrite.  In its place, the protector is basing his/her history on their perception, not fact. 

Yesterday, I contacted the University and have begun to work with the archives and media relations department on formulating a factual rewrite on the article.  But I am concerned about the &#8220;protector&#8217;s&#8221; continued ability to vandalize this article based on his/her perceptions trumping reality.

Can anyone help or recommend another user who is expirienced in deal with this type of "protector"?

[[User:Stude62|"[[user: stude62]]"]] 16:33, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

:It looks as if you could safely add an <nowiki>{{NPOV}}</nowiki> at the head of the article, and list it on [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment]].  These would be the first two steps to getting other people involved.  [[User:Noisy|Noisy]] | [[User talk:Noisy|Talk]] 18:43, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)