User talk:InstantReplay

Regarding edits to Los Angeles Film School
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 * Give up the vandalism to the LAFS article &mdash; they will be reverted almost as quickly as you put them up and no one will see them. Obviously you have a complaint about the school. Justified or not, there are other, more effective, ways to pursue your dissatisfaction. Step back from Wikipedia for a bit and cool off. Feel free to experiment and vent in a Sandbox instead. Jim Dunning | talk  20:45, 20 June 2007 (UTC)


 * After reviewing your edits further, let me suggest that you should find another forum for your dissatisfaction with LAFS. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with lots of editors who will revert your personal views within hours if not minutes of their posting. WP is not a message board or a forum, so your opinions will receive no audience here. If you are serious about your complaints, find a message board or forum about film schools and voice them there. Jim Dunning | talk  20:56, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Some suggestions and an invitation

I understand you are someone with a strong, apparently negative, criticism of the school. That's fine, but Wikipedia is not a message board or forum to air grievances or make suggestions for improving the school. That is why I have removed the "Alumni comments" section. Feel free to check other school-related articles and you'll see that none has an analogous section.

Since you feel the article content is lacking or unbalanced you are not only free to contribute to it, but encouraged to, adding appropriate material that is verifiable. This means you need to provide information from a reliable source and it cannot include any original research. Unfortunately for what appear to be your purposes, your opinions and claims about LAFS are considered to be "original research". If, however, you can find a reliable third-party source that supports your views and allegations, then feel free to include that information in the article; it will be welcome.

So, please do not take offense when the "Alumni comments" section is "simply removed": it is not personal, it is Wikipedia policy. Also, another official Wikipedia policy that may be initially frustrating for you is verifiabilty: "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth." So I am not disputing your veracity, just asking you to provide reliable sources for your statements (and that you add them to the article in an encyclopedic format).

You're right, this article reads too much like PR copy and I flagged it as such. It needs some additional, objective content. So please add it. I will be glad to work with you on it. Feel free to contact me on my Talk page or here on this Talk page. If, however, you're only interested in airing grievances and school-related (not article-related) suggestions, then try The MySpace LAFS forum or this DVInfo discussion. Jim Dunning | talk  05:37, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

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LAFS article improvement
InstantReplay, I trust you're still around and are interested in expanding and improving the LAFS article. If you can find some published information from reliable sources about the success and/or lack of success of alumni in the industry, please add it to the article. If dissatisfaction is as significant as you say, then there should be something somewhere. Of course, it should be notable relative to similar issues at other schools. Let me know if I can help. Jim Dunning | talk  16:59, 28 June 2007 (UTC)