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October 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Northfield High School, Adelaide, South Australia has been reverted. Your edit here to Northfield High School, Adelaide, South Australia was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.facebook.com/groups/14051244524/?bookmark_t=group) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 10:34, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Hello, I'm XLinkBot. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page Northfield High School, Adelaide, South Australia, because it seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Your edit here to Northfield High School, Adelaide, South Australia was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.facebook.com/groups/14051244524/?bookmark_t=group) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 20:14, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Northfield High School, Adelaide
Thanks for message. Your article had already been tagged as having multiple problems. It did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Normally schools are exempt from speedy deletion just on notability grounds, but a bigger problem was the unencyclopaedic and promotional tone. Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: prestigious and highly regarded... a reputation for academic excellence... widely respected but demanded by parents and consistently given as a key reason for enrolling their child... proved increasingly popular... well regarded and enviable reputation for academic and teaching excellence... phenomenal growth in the student population... and much more in the same vein. It's a eulogy, not an encyclopaedia article.

The article was created without wikilinks or references, and looks as if was copied from an unknown and possibly copyrighted source. I didn't check because the highly pov tone meant that it was eligible for deletion anyway. I'll put the deleted text here shortly for you to work on. If you decide to do so, remember that you will need a neutral tone and proper references. The article must be in your own words. Let me know if you need help  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  06:50, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Incidentally, the Norwood Morialta article, for all its faults, had references, wikilinks, and a much less promotional tone  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  06:55, 31 October 2012 (UTC)


 * One thing to bear in mind is that the school's own publications are unlikely to be objective. They are fine for purely factual stuff, but any opinions expressed need to be referenced to independent sources, such as newspapers, and backed up with facts if possible. The fire, at least, presumably can be references to an outside source. On a style thing, note that headings follow normal capitalisation, shouldn't be all-capped. Let me know if you get stuck with formatting or other issues, it's not easy at the start  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  07:31, 31 October 2012 (UTC)