Talk:Alpha Kappa Psi

message: Someone is continually removing Ronald Reagan from the Alumni list. Recently, they posted the following message:
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(Contrary to a common misconseption Ronald Reagan was never an Alpha Kappa Psi member, and there was never an Alpha Kappa Psi chapter at Eureka College where he attended and was in fact a Tau Kappa Epsilon.)
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Grammatical errors aside, Ronald Reagan was indeed initiated by the University of Southern California in 1963, an honorary membership bestowed to him for his years of service to the city of Los Angeles and his achievements in the entertainment industry. It is interesting to note that this initiation preceded his entrance into politics. 
Here is a news article from AKPsi’s website [] discussing President Reagan’s membership. The article is over a year old, so I believe the images links have been broken, but if you would like, I would happily contact the Heritage Center and ask them to repost a picture of his membership card, complete with his signature.
Being a member of a Professional Fraternity does not disqualify you from being a member of a Social Fraternity. In fact, our CEO Gary Epperson is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Kappa Psi.
The discussion pages on wiki are designed to settle disputes such as this. If you have any further questions, please post them here!!
As a member of Alpha kappa psi at USC, I can vouch that he was induction to our fraternity and is signature appears in our initiates list  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.140.131.11 (talk) 03:35, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  the Reagan Debate 

message: The History section is copied directly out of http://www.akpsi.org/about/history.cfm and http://www.akpsi.com/about/history_2.cfm  As we do not have permission from the board or the national webmaster we cannot post this.  Actually permission is not enough as they must agree to release the content under the GFDL.  As far as I know they have not.  I have emailed Mr. Mendoza at akpsi.org and he has responded that he will get back to me.
Also a large part of the Women's history section looks taken from there too.  A few words have been taken out or moved around, but it looks way to close for coincidence.
As the section is quite large I have refrained from taking it immediately to see what the other editors have to say, but it should be taken out or rewritten for the time being until we receive conformation that the content of the pages has been released.  Remember Wikipedia Copyright is policy not a guideline.  --Abernaki 15:15, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright 

message: :Image:Diary1928.jpg 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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BetacommandBot 11:16, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Diary1928.jpg

message: :Image:DiaryCover.jpg 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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If there is  other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page.  Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.
BetacommandBot 19:08, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:DiaryCover.jpg

message: I've fully removed the history section (up to the expansion into Canada). It was a direct copyright violation of this page. Despite the claim made above about it being public domain, there is a very, very clear copyright notice at the bottom of the page and a disclaimer that all rights were reserved. We absolutely cannot keep this information in the article unless offered proof (not just "I think..." or "I talked to someone...") that this is usable. There is an official way to get permission to use copyrighted information, but I'm not sure what page that process is on.
On another note, the history section was very incomplete. It just sort of stopped at 1904 and was already way too long anyway. I can't imagine how ridiculous the section would have been if it had the entire history. This really needs to be a short timeline, maybe 4 or 5 paragraphs max, not this play-by-play, excessively detailed monster. --132 19:01, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Today an IP address's edits were reverted. I reinstated them for two reasons. The first is that the regional directors list is almost impossible to keep current and none of it is sourced. The second is that the Title XI section has zero non-primary sources, which are generally not reliable. If I recall correctly, the section was also heavily lifted from the main site, which is not allowed. Get some reliable sources, make sure the wording isn't plagiarized, and then they can be included. Until then, any edits to reinstate them should be reverted. Thank you. --132 07:08, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with deleting the regional director section.  That doesn't belong in this article.  The Title IX related section was not the section that was heavily lifted from the main site.  It was removed later by an anonymous user without any discussion.  It appears that one of the main sources is no longer available so I won't add it back at this time. BlueGold73 (talk) 00:21, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I wasn't completely sure about the Title IX stuff, so thanks for clearing that up! :) --132 01:06, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section 

message: * In its name, what are the Greek letters ΑΚΨ (ακψ) an acronym of? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:38, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: There are no verifiable published references for that information, so you're not going to find it posted or discussed here. As with most fraternities, the only way to find out would be to be initiated into the fraternity. BlueGold73 (talk) 13:37, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acronym?