User talk:Ken Ord

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Hello, Ken Ord, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Rob (talk) 11:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
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Wisbech Grammar School
Hello Ken, welcome to Wikipedia! I expect that you, like me are a WGS alumnus, and it's great to see your expansion to the page. The only thing I would say is that your edit isn't quite written in the "house style" of Wikipedia, which is slightly less "promotional", and also requires that all facts should be cited to a book, website, magazine, etc. For ideas of how a schools page can look, you could try looking at our page about The Judd School, which is a "featured article" about a grammar school in Kent. Anyway, I've changed it back to the older revision for the moment, and put your edit at User:Ken Ord/Wisbech Grammar School, where you can work on it. I'm always around if you need any assistance with referencing, etc. Any questions, just ask on my talk page. Thanks! Rob (talk) 11:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Forgive me but as I'm new to Wikipedia, I don't know how to contact you hopefully you'll read this. On I’m not an alumnus, I am the network manager for WGS and the changes I made to WGS were agreed by the Headmaster N Hammond. This was a very similar format that went to the School publication. It was also put this way as one of the teachers (our Media person) was on a course and told to use Wikipedia to sell the school as best a possible, if this is incorrect than please inform me. As said above I’m new to Wikipedia and any pointer you wish to give me I would be most grateful for. Is it just a case that we need to give some reference to the information supplied? I have looked at The Judd School and to me a lot of the reference are mean else to me, and to probably a lot of other people and therefore not required. --Ken Ord (talk) 12:23, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi Ken, thanks for the quick reply. Most of your edit is good, but Wikipedia does ideally have to be verifiable. As you've said, some of the information is provided by, for example, the school prospectus or the website, so that should be a sufficient reference. References can be added by using something this code for books/publications:

or websites something like:

which will come out like this. or

The other thing is that technically Wikipedia can't be used as an advert, but on the other hand if the school has a well-written Wikipedia article, then it looks good for any prospective pupils or parents. I might be able to help out here if you need a hand - I used to write a few things for Riverline back in the day - is the "media person" Mr King, per chance?! I could even pop in one day if you like?

In the meantime, I'll have a look over your edit and see if I can turn it into "wikispeak"! Thanks. Rob (talk) 19:25, 1 October 2010 (UTC)