Talk:Nelson Central School

Teething troubles, Dr Paul Potaka
Please forgive me for being a Newbie editor. When writing my article for Cabragh House, I noticed a missing link for Nelson Central School. I then e-mailed Dr Potaka, Principal of Nelson Central School, suggesting he create (or delegate members of his staff) to create the missing article.

Subsequently I have received e-mails from others in the Nelson region indicating that he may be temporarily indisposed for the next couple of days.

I suggest, therefore, that you leave the Nelson Central School page in the condition I have reverted it to just now and including the scheduled for deletion box. That way if he, or no other editor, shows up to correct and expand the article, it will be deleted automatically in 5 days and if volunteers (or Dr Potaka himself, since I assume he will also be a Newbie to Wikipedia) show up in the meantime they will have a skeleton on which to hang flesh.

Thank you for your tolerance, forbearance and understanding W. Frank 15:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)!
 * I've turned the article into a basic stub. It no longer needs to be scheduled for deletion.- gadfium 19:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

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Geographical Co-ordinates
At 19:27, on 10 December 2006, gadfium removed text from the article (without prior discussion here on this page). The edit summary contained the following text "(No need to repeat the co-ordinates four times.)"

Gadfium is, I believe, the primary editor of the nicely designed Portal:New Zealand and has been previously helpful in turning this article into a stub.

However, on 14 December 2006 I propose reverting, unless there is convincing argument to the contrary, the following:


 * geographical co-ordinates to right of the article title using the standard tag of


 * ==Location==
 * Nelson Central School is situated three blocks east of Nelson Cathedral at Latitude 41.2774 degrees South, Longitude 173.2885  degrees East from the Greenwich Meridian and its location may be viewed on Google earth maps via this link:

My rationale for this revert is as follows:- The children attending Nelson School are aged betwen 5 and 11 years. This text makes it easier for them to understand that they may click on this text to follow two links to view a map. The title co-ordinates should, I believe, appear in any New Zealand article about a place or building. (I appreciate Gadfiums point about repetition, but he was engaging in slight hyperbole as to the number of repetitions and his revision has resulted in article text which is misleading in implying the location of the cathedral rather than the school).
 * By all means have the co-ordinates in the article in any one form. You had them there four times: once in text, once at a "coor d" tag, and twice as "coor title d" tags. The problem with the "coor title d" tags is that it displays differently depending on the skin used to view Wikipedia. For the default monobook skin, it puts the coordinates up near the title, but for the minority of us using different skins, it just puts the co-ordinate in place. You may only have seen three sets of co-ordinates because two of them overwrote each other. I saw all four, with two immediately following each other and in the same paragraph as a third. You might like to change your skin under preferences to "classic" to see the difference.


 * It also is not necessary to refer explicitly to Google Earth. There are many programs which can turn co-ordinates into maps, and clicking on the co-ordinates allows me to select from a large range of them.


 * I take your point that some of the readers of this article will be children who may need an easier interface, and the current paragraph may confuse some that the co-ordinates refer to the cathedral rather than the school. You are welcome to change the paragraph to make it clearer, and to change the template to "coor title d", so some of us will see the coordinates in place and others in the title bar.- gadfium 18:38, 11 December 2006 (UTC)