User talk:Agozalo


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Walford Anglican School for Girls
G'day. I've gone over your edits to the Walford article, linked above, and removed or revised a substantial amount of the content you provided and returned the Controversies section. The article needs more references to non-self-published sources. I'm going to deal with these three points separately below.

Please be aware that Wikipedia has to maintain a neutral tone in it's articles. A lot of the content that you added was weighted heavily towards the positive in regards to Walford. This content had to be removed or toned down substantially. Wikipedia is not a vehicle that can be used for advertisement purposes, and is not a particularly effective means of advertising anyway.

There are many relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines that relate to this, many of which are noted above in the welcome template message. I'm going to pick out a couple that are really important though: WP:NPOV, WP:PEACOCK and WP:NOT. You should also be aware of the article guidelines at WP:WPSCH/AG.

I've restored the Controversies section as there is no compelling reason to remove a well referenced section from the article, even if it reflects badly on the school. I strongly suggest that, if you want the information removed, you should start a discussion at Talk:Walford Anglican School for Girls, and possibly at WT:EIA and/or WT:WPSCH and wait for a consensus to form.

The article needs more reliable and verifiable sources, per WP:RS and WP:VERIFY. The alumni list is in particular need, as most of the names you add are "red links" without articles to back the suggestion that the individuals named attended the school. If the school maintains a list of alumni, or if any of those people mention the school in their CV's, then those could be a good spot to look for references.

Without making any assumptions at all, I'm going to suggest that you take a read of the policy at WP:COI in regards to editing for or on behalf of an employer or someone/thing with whom you have a close connection. Be very very very careful in regards to your work and in regards to this policy. To use myself as an example, I never add content (although I will combat vandalism) to the article of the school at which I'm currently employed, nor the schools that I attended.

I really appreciate that you're trying to improve the article. Further, I really appreciate the work that you put into writing up your content for the article (because it took me so bloody long to edit/remove a lot of it!). Take a look at ("Good Articles") and  for examples of articles that are comprehensively detailed and align closely to wikipedia policies.

Of course, I'm happy to help as well. You might want to consider creating a draft in your userspace per the instructions at WP:DRAFT. If you have any questions, feel free to reply (I have your talk page watched), click "talk to me" in my signature, or use as suggested in the welcome message. Take it easy. - danjel  (talk to me) 10:06, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Validity
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The sources you selected didn't seem to suggest that those individuals went to Walford. I get that they exist, that's not the question here, but you have to find references that say that they went to Walford.

The one that looked potentially good was the self published Walford book. That needs to be cited properly with. - danjel  (talk to me) 12:07, 19 July 2011 (UTC)