User talk:Alan Dawson

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Education in Milton Keynes
I've removed your edit to the Milton Keynes article, because I think you have a misunderstanding of what Wikipedia is about. It is not a place for people to write their opinions about things. It simply records what exists, citing the source for that information. There can be no original material. But there are a lot of gaps in the Category:Schools in Milton Keynes and certainly it would be valuable to write a short descriptive article about a school, saying who the Head is and what Ofsted has to say - but it can't include students' personal opinion about the school. To add an article, I suggest start by clicking edit a number of existing school articles (but don't change anything or at least don't save). Use that as a template for your new article. Enter the name of your school in the search box, then create the new article.

If you would like to discuss further, leave a message on my talk page. --Concrete Cowboy 17:06, 26 March 2007 (UTC)


 * :Waht you could do is create List of schools in Milton Keynes (along the lines of List of schools in the South East of England). Then you list all the schools.  Most would start as red links but these could be used as jumping off points to make a new article for each school.  Be careful about your choice of names to avoid ambiguity, you pobably need to use the style Common school name --Concrete Cowboy 12:10, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Own schools
I have added a "" template to the article Own schools, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. 172.144.104.18 17:48, 26 March 2007 (UTC)