User talk:Leedstim

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Diss High School
Hey, welcome to Wikipedia and all that. I appreciate entirely that you're clearly keen to represent the situation at Diss HS just now. I appreciate that Dr Hunt may be back in post and so on. That's great if she is. The trouble is that we need to show this to be so - all the sources I can find in the localish media point towards her suspension and Crowley's appointment. If she's back today then fine - but I think we can leave the article as it is for a day or so until we can get some kind of citation to support that - in which case the paragraph can become shorter and can show that any suspension was temporary. At some point it may be that it can be removed - we'll wait that out for a bit in my view though.

I appreciate that that may be frustrating, as may be the requirement for sources, but that's how we can make this place better and more reliable. It might be useful to read up on some of the conventions like these. Watch WP:COI and WP:ORIGINAL as well, just in case it becomes an issue - I avoid writing about the school's I'm linked to for precisely these reasons. Blue Square Thing (talk) 21:20, 1 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Look, you need to read the stuff here about WP:COI and WP:ORIGINAL. I'm sorry, but there are ways we need to do stuff - ringing the school and checking with them is a clear breach of WP:ORIGINAL. It'll need reliable third party sources - I know this is procedural, but it's important. Use the article talk page and let's deal with it there or through an independent review if necessary - but until then I suggest very strongly that the page be left in it's original form (more or less) - anything else, particularly given WP:COI will cause you more problems than anything else.


 * I would argue very strongly that it is both encyclopedic (although feel free to improve it), demonstrates NPOV (although feel free to improve that aspect) is very clearly notable through press coverage (see WP:NOTE and WP:NOT, although in time that may be a fair reason for removing it) and is referenced through reliable third party sources (although feel free to add more). That makes it fair game I'm afraid. Blue Square Thing (talk) 23:34, 1 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I have left a comment on the article talk page. Please read it and respond via talk. Blue Square Thing (talk) 19:21, 2 December 2010 (UTC)